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Table of Discontents
Introduction P 2
Starting Up Study Groups p- 4-5

How To Get A Study Group Going p. 5 = 7

Lesson 1 (Coyote) p. 7-13
Comments From Christopher P 14
Lesson 2 (Christopher) p.15 - 18
RESOLVE! (nthony) I 18
Comments From Coyote p.19 - 20

@nticopyright / free to prisoners
Published on June 3%, 2011
Edited by Anthony Rayson
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LETS GET ORGANZED. LETS GET OURSELVES TOGETHERI STAND FOR FREEDOM, B¢ ADOU!
ACTION! BE FOR THE PEOPLE AND KEEP THAT REVOLLITIONARY LOVE 4 YOUR HEAeT

Lesson 1 (Coyote)
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I ths g A you know, 1 5 crucal that we e o inds active whike beng hed a the oy
down envonmes. What's mors, b e o th fac that we re anarche i, We must s

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Jirections: Please copy the following lesson exactly how you see t on a separate plece of papar.
1) Tell ma what each of the underlined words mean to you. 4

Comrade; in my opinion, to be a ‘comvade’ means to be someone who s actively invoived inthe
revolutionary struggle;the struggle for the people; for beratio; ta be free from hierarchy and
ree from oppression. A comrade s someone who wil ahways and orever stand against the
oppressor and stand with and for the peaple, aWways. & comradeis someone who has dedicated
their time, energy and their lf o the srugglefor freedom and to the strugglefor the people
2nd someone who lves this out everyday of his e, even I's just “me against the world" even f
you'te the only one doing I, because in your heart you knaw i’ ight and s what's supposed
{0 done. There are comrades al over the world,on the outs,behind enemy lines, ity to iy,
stateto state and country to country, of alldiferent ethicttie, skih colors and who speak.
Giffrent languages, butn ou hearts the ideasare st the same, and that's why were never
alone. As lon s there i oppression and Injustice i ths world,there will sheays be a “comrade”
inthis work, ready o fght or even die for the beautful idea offreedom that fervently beats
inside his/her mplacable heart. To me, that's wht it means to be 2 comrade.

Study: To study means to realy apply yourself on an intelletual level. t means to use your mind
10 acquire new knowledge, whether ' only ust a small amount of knowlede,or aplethora of
knowledge; one studies to learn something new, i the hopes of being able to apply this
knowledge, somehow, someway.I's more than ust reading a book; s reading and taking notes,
' writing essays or book report, taking tests and being quizzed. I’ an exercise sharpening the
wit and srengthening the mind. s not ik where you just read something here and there, and
then put the book down and In 20 minutes you forgot what you've read, but it's something
you're doing because you're actually rying to retain this knowledge in which you seek to acqure,
Storing It securelyin your mind and adding 1o your ineflectual arsenal. Those who study are
those who tuly know that knowlede s strength. | belleve thatyou don't really know something
unt you know i by hear, and tha's what studying s about, basicalyjust rying to be ble to
know something by heart.

Active: Tobe active Is ke being a “ive” grenade ready to go offl When you g0 off, you penetrate
and affect those round you. You do thi ina postive way of couse. When you'e actve, people
are really feeling your vibe, they resonate with what you're saying and what you're doing with
the energy you're putting out and theyfeelnclned t get involved with what you're involved I,
they want to help and they want o partcpate, because thy'rerealyfeelng you and they really
ke what you're doing. To be an active person means to be someone who i known to cause
actions to happen and who can (and does) ring about changes. s sbout being explosive or
Ifluentil, s knowing that you're abve and being vly. o have an actve mind I 10 have s
dangerous mind to —and what makes you so dangerous, s knowing that you conll

‘Anarcho-guerrllas: An “Anarcho-guerila” i aterm that | myself coined for anarchists who are
trained soldiers who would be wiling and sble to vlunteer themselves In the event of 3
revolution. These are anarchists who are trained inself-defense tactics,such as practical
methods of martial ars (such as krav-maga), weapons raining, vehicle 3nd arerah oparations
{optional), communications, and other actvtes and function that ae in conjunction wh
methods of direct action and guerrla warfare. An anarcho-guerrila is someane who studies snd
practicesthe tactcs of guerrilla warfare, and needies tosay s someane who i wall-versed
the history, applications and methods of guerrills warfare. Anarcho-guerrlls ae also
‘propagandists of anarchist thought and theory. These are comrades who desire peace and
harmony, but who are wiling 10 engage in armed struggle and direct action in order (0 defend
themselves, achieve lberty, and 10 bring foth a revolution - wth the support and approval of
the people,of course. 9

‘Srlvs: The word “strive” s usually used in conjunction with the word “strugge”. “To siruggle
nd stive". o strive means to put your heart into something. f mesns 10 try, to make & hearteit
effort, especlally in the face of adversiy, when the odds seem stacked against you and nothing s
oing your way but you keep pushing forward, you keep going. you keep trying, because You
want things 1o get better. That's what it means t0 strive.

‘Aoply: Someone once asked me if | had any appllances in my cal 10ld him: when you apply
Yoursef you don't need any appliances.

A couple of years Lter, someone else asked what appllances | had in my celland I 10ld hum
“Books”t

o apply means to be able t0 put 1o use what you actually know. Knowiedge s useless when 1's
e, s o 8ood. What's the point oflearming something new I you're not going 10 0o anything
‘useful with the things you've learned?

Also, we can apply ourselves, make ourselves useful, help out, participate in §00d causes that
bring about meaningful changes. t means to devote yoursell o your efforts.

Enemy: For some the word “enemy” means “0pposiion”, meaning someone who 0poses YOu,
‘opposes your ways, deas, beliefs, ei., but for me the enemy Isnt someone who opposes, but
Who oppresses. The State, the system, capitalism, dictatorship, herarchy, authoritanism, fascism
‘canformity. All enemies of freedom are enemies of mine.

Knowiedas: Some peoplesay “knowedg s power’,bu 2y “knowledge i trengt,because
oo leamed torespec strength and 0 despise power (ecause sbaolte power crTupts
sbaoluel Knowledge, to me, s understanding, When we have an understanding of e, e,
athers (especially loved ones), the word, we have gidance. When you know,you don't need o
be told, you don’t need to be instructed, because when you “know” you “do”. S0, to me,
knowngis doing. Thr'swhere the trength comes n Knowiedge gives s the trength 10 0
‘what we know. When you'r able to do whatyou know then you s srang,Srong people - he
real srong people - are thos that ryta help and upli those tht are ot trong,

With knowledge we are liberated. When we know better, we o better. When we know what tHe:
problem s, we strive to fix it. When we know who the enemy is, we strive to efiminate the
enermy. Wit knowledge,we're srmed snd dangerous.

Conguer: 1 don't ke the word “conquer”, ust as | don't ke those who wish to conguer. The
divided are conquered by the powerful, and the powasful never have the best interests of the
people at heart.

A conqueror is an oppressor. When one group of people conquers another group of people, it is
usuallyto enforce a level of mastery over that people.

‘When | look up the word “conquer” in my Thesaurus, i tells me to go look up the synonyms for
the word “triumph". These synonyms are:
To get the better of,best, conquer, master, overcome, prevai (over or against), surmount, worst,
defeat, exutt.

50, you see why | don't ke the word conquer? It s an impositon of force. | would never wish to
‘conquer anyone’s heart r mind. d want people to love me because they wani to love me, and
because they ve chosen to love on their own accord. People should be able to think and fesl
whatever they like. Sure, I's okay to try t influence people to do better, I okay to influence.
people i they re wiling to be influcnced, and as ong as s beneflcia to them, then | dontsee
70 problem with . But to conquer, now that's something completely different, ' not with that
ves, indeed IYs necessary for us to propagate our ideas so that people can got a true
understanding of what anarchism s, and 50 thatthey can see that anarchism would serve the
bestinterests of althe people. But we can't make them embrace anarchism a5 their own
politicaltheory, we can't make them become anarchists. That's adecision that they would
ultimately have to make on their own, there's absolutely no “conquering” t t. We will zheays be.
for the peaple, whether they're with us or o, and the day we have the people with us, then we
€anall come together and conquer the conquerors, 50 that we can do away with conquering
once andfor al

‘Battle ground: Depending on what context you're using thisin, 3 bttle ground can be many
different things. I you're using 1t n a metaphorical context, wel then you can say that, In 3 sense,
e s  battle, or that we face many diferent battis in ife, and the battiefeld s where these.
batles are fought,“the battiefield ofife".

People battle with cancer, people battie with addiction, people battle with obesity, people battie
with “morality”, there are many different types of batlesin (e, but | think our biggest battles
are the battles with ourselves.

Now, f you're taking about » battle ground i the actual, physicalsense, well then Fd say that a
battle ground is the place where wars are fought, where blood is shed and where people die..
¥im not 3t war with the peopl, per se, 'm more at war with the ideologies that keep the people
enslaved. oppressed and at war with themselves. I i not untl | encounter those people who try
0 impose their oppressive orfascist ideologies on the res of the people that | am at war. And.
‘when that happens,the battie ground can take many different shapes snd forms; t can bea
bate ground where we engage in verbal combat, a5 we debate our opposing philosophies o it
€an be the type of batle ground where we engage in physical combat. t ll depends on the.
opponent and the circumstances.

feel thatallwe can do s try to find ways where we can propagate our ideas effectively and try
10 enlighten peaple, but | don't see this 253 war, butjust a5 work that needs t0 be done.

Solidarty: A, my favorke word! An example of soiarity would b ke, 52y, when you have &
r0up of people all oing through  similrstuaton,and everybody in that gr0up tie to come.
together o help make sure everybody puls through . s when people come together, and
‘work together, and help each other out. | might even come across some people who are going
through a particular hardshipor stuation i fe that might ot even directly affect me, but yet,
“cuz 1 see those people struggling and ' a poston to offer my support, 4o . That's
soldaiy. Soldarty I  ype of unty o bond between people who share » common beflel
common inerests,or common struggies.Salidary i thebest thing going

Give a definition to each of the following words and then write two sentences, using each
‘word, pertaining to anarchism.

‘Anarchism (defintion: without coercve authorty, without goverment or hierarchy.
(AT: o me,the word anarchismi. ot ke the word atrism, becayse,in 2 wor, s ke hving
a0 unselfish interest of the welfre o othr pedpts o inthissense, s more than just Iing

‘without coercive authorty, but s aio about being for the people, especially the downtrodden,
‘poor and oppressed peoples.

(B): Anarchism i way of e, an outlook on e and Just a way 10 see 3nd be In the world, and
there are many diferent strains of anarchism, but for myself, what | do 5 an anarchist defines
‘what anarchism meas to me; this makes me 2 “selfdefined anarchist”

Awareness: Awareness s knowing; s having knowledge or consciousness of things.

(A): Raising awareness is one of my main objectives as 2 member of the AnarchistBlack Crons.
because when people see what's happening, they know what's happening, and when you've.
'become aware that the things that are happening shouldn't be happening; then, unless you'
paralyzed by cowardice, you become someone who takes direct action against these occurrences
that you know shoulde't be occurring.

(B): f knowedge is strength, then why wouldn't we want to heighten the awareness of the.
Deople, why would we want people to stay blind, ignorant, weak, powerles: and obedient?

‘Cooperation: t means to be able to work in unison and In soldarity with others; mutusl sk,
{A): Without the aid, support and cooperation of the people, the struggle for iberation s mited
‘and basically ineffective. We need the people 3nd the people need us; that's why cooperation i
50 important when it comes to attaining lberty.

{81: Anarchism means cooperation; & means figuring out ways to cooperate and work together
to meet our individual needs, I’ 3 way for us to work with each other rather than working “for”
‘each other, o even against each other. We can't do this without cooperation, and when 1 say
cooperation, | mean “voluntary cooperation”, not coercion.

Dedication: Means to have your heartset on applying anarchist princples to your everyday ife,
devoted to being free, Iving with no gods, no masters.

(A): Comrade, | am very Impressed with your dedication to passing out terature and tines, and
‘with your efforts to crete new Iterature, ll I the attempt o raisa the evel of consciousness in
the hearts and minds of our fellow prisomers.

(81: As an anarchist  feel that my dedication s to the people and to the struggle for Bberty and
‘equalty, this i why Fm 50 intent on aising awareness and thi is why my soldarity to the
oppressed s s strong.

Loyahty: 1t means 10 stand by your comrades side, even in the face of adversiy, and not to snitch,
o betray you friends.

(A): My loyahy s to humanity a5 2 whole, o the people, the community — especially the
‘anarchist community, and to the strugglefor iberty.

(B): Comrade, | can't even begin o tell you how much your loyatty means to me in this struggle,

and 1l can assure you my loyahy to you s just a5 strong, but my actions should aiready speak for
themselves,

Love: Love Is compassion. To be compassionate means to be able to acknowledge the sufferings
‘o thers (whether they express tor not), and not only acknowiedge 1t but aso to mske.
attempts o ease thei suffeings, regardiess of whether there's personsl rewards for these
‘attempts, or not. We don't do f for the rewards, but we do t because of the love we have inside.
us. Love s revolutionaryl

{A): My love or the people, my love for iberty and jusice, mylove for solidarty and for equaliy,
15 the only thing that keeps me hanging on, I's this love that dwells deep inside me which
compels me.
(B): Yeah, | hate the system, | hate racism, | hate oppression, | hate the State, | hate caphtalism, |
hate the police, al that'strue; | hate 3 lot of things, ut Fd lke o beieve that wht really drves
me, what really motivates me is not my hate as much as t is my love, because the love | have s
revolutionary, things aren't buik on hate, things are anly destroyed on hate, but things are bulh
‘onlove, love i 2 beautiful foundation. 2

‘Organization: When tike-minds do like-things, you have organization.
(A An anarchist organization s an organization without hierarchicalorder o oercive demand,
an anarchist organization i bulkt on sef-detenmination, free association and voluntarism.

(B): Anarchism i a ibertarian organization, where each indvidual depends not on leadership,
butinstead reles on his/her own strength, and reles on soldariy, individual intiative and is
made up of free-thinking individuals. I is n organization that gves the minority ights in the
process of decision-making.

Struggl: To make strenuous efots agaiast opposition while striving 1o uplift and berate
ourselves and each oher.

(A): As an anarchist, my struggle s the struggle of the people, whatever impositions they're N
sirugging against you can believe Fm ight there srugging with them! '
(B): Th stugglefortberatio, the struggl for equalty, and the struge for autonomy, these
arejust some ofth things I sruggl for, thes are the siugglestha e for and these are the
sirgafes that 'mwiling o diefor, i need be.

3) Answer the following questions.

1) Do you agree with the statement that winning the hearts and minds of the people s the real
battie ground? Please cxplain your answer.

‘Well, it depends on how you mean i, bro. | agree that s necessary o raise consciousness in the
hearis and minds o others, 5o tha they can break the shackies of their minds and begin toleam

ow tothink for themselves rather than leting others ~the majorkt, those i control, etc. o

do the thinking fo them. | elieve that once our minds are iberated, once we've become

effcient at thinking for ourselves, then s ony automatic that we tarttaking Controlof our own
Tives, This is defintely something we can do every day and we can tart by refusing to et others

make our choices for us. Allwe have to do, really i tart making our own chaices, based upon . -
What' ight and wrong 1o us,as indviduals, and reect the “right and wrong’” that's imposed
upon us by those in contol, or by the majoriy, otherwise we're no rasly making choices for
ourseives, but rather we are feting the so-called powerfuldictate our ives, and we all know that
the people in power never have our best terests at heart. The only power anybody has over us
s the power we gve them, but we can take althis power away from them by making our own
choices, ving out our own dreams and refusing to pace our freedom and our lives and our
destinies in the hands of athers. 'm a firm belever that most people are mre confident in
themselves to decide what they should do and should not do, mare than they are confident in
allowing any authoriy to dictate  to them.

It's important that we raise consciousness and propagate anarchist theary, ye. | believe that
‘once peaple reall understand what anarchism really s and what s really abou, that they will
be incined to embrace it on their own accord, whether they want o cal themselves anarchists
ornot, it doesn't really matter. But even f people decide not to lsten, and not to embrace
anarchist thought and theary, it doesn't top us from being anarchists or hing as such,because
we can and will continue to be what we are and do what we do, no matter how imied we are.
So with that said,no, | dont necessariy agree with the statement that winning the hearts and

2)Wha do you belleve to be ur (Anarchits) biggest enemy and why?
e e, Captalam. Dicttorship. Authoy and authotaianisn. ascism, mperisism. The

e ecause these arth hings that aretellingus we must bey o es..*, because under
ey et e have o etherbecome robots o i ouseves ocked u bei ey e
oo 2 the forces that hav asumed complte contro over our e, mpmni i
e s 0 th i tht € s become  phenomencn o thio o e oy

Your comrade,
Copote
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Comments from Christopher 15

Hey Coyote, respects are sent!

1 really enjoyed reading your answers to this lesson comrade. Your summary
‘was great] The way you opened it by using allthe underiined words in the
lesson wes ingemuous. | was definitely foelin’ your definition of an “snarcho-
‘guennilla” to0. Good shit. And for your snswer to the word “conquer” | coulda't
agree more. 1 was inteested in sesing what you had to say about that and Fm
glad you wrote what you wrote. The anly thing we should wish to conquer is
our own lives. | have o problem with using force to gain my freedomi__.As to
the quote, though, | hear where you're coming from, but  don't believe the
writer of that quote (John Lee Anderson) meent It in the way you've perceived
it His choice to use the word “conquer” instead of simply “win” or “gain’, was.
8 poor one for sure, but here's what I feel he was trying 10 express... s none
100 difficult t0 accumulste arms and then go and use them. This country has
the largest gun owner population in the world and there ks no end o the
targets we have here. Poiticians, judges, DA, polce, etc. So while fighting &
war is most certainly harsh, its resily not hard to start one or jump in the
‘middle of one. But s a itte different whan it comes to winning over the
people. For they (we) have been brainwashed for years beyond yeers, and stil
‘we have the oppressors whispering in our ears trying to further fill cur heads
with poisaned doctrine, 50 i is that when we come slong with the words of
truth, the people automatically struggle with using their common sense, better
judgement, etc. Either out of faer o out of habt or both. So it is not a battle
with the people, but a battie with those who preach to them the sermons of
the state and its laws. The victors of this bettle receive the minds and hearts of
the people for bettar or worse, as the “prize”, And since there is no revolution
‘without the people, 1 feel thet is the one goal to gain their acceptance. That's
‘why i's 50 important for us £ raise aweroness nd CORSCIOUSNESS... anyWaY,
that s just my take on it

Allin ail your work was grand and | wish we had longer to study together. But
we'l probably be around eech other sgain in a couple of months.

Stay up & Stand strong
Craistopher

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‘opportnay o further cacreie mmy brain and | really cjoyed ths sudy scmon. Le's kee thie shit g

1 hope you dig where Fm coming from on ol thi, and | ook forward to nest week's esson.

I solidarty & wath respectn
Vour comrade.

Chriopher
RESOLVE!

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capable of incredible efforts, yet others seem
hamstrung, even though they have good intentions?
The answer is those people, for example Mumia
Abu-Jamal, have developed an unbreakable resolve,
that even the harshest conditions cannot break.

How is this “resolve” acquired? Each one of
us has the innate ability to strengthen and steel
ourselves - by curselves!! Part of “Each One,
Teach One” is the most fundamental component of
all - each one of us teaching curselves to become
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up the way it needs to be built up. We must
©overcome our fear of curselves and our inertia
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eoganporsa>
matter of fact, the PIC is yet just another arm of the same system that kidnapped
Africans and tumed them into slaves ~ Fm against slavery! Of the same system that
‘demonstrated acts of genocide against the Native Americans ~ F'm against genocide!
And of the same system that continues to loot the worid's treasures and who are
perpetrators of some of the mast disturbing crimes of this planet, and yet, these are the.
Same people who try 1o preach about Law and Order, what a joke! These same scum-
bags that gain and get fat from human misery and who deny us — ‘we the people” -
decent housing, health care, education, and 5o much more, want to speak down on us
about morality, and dare to talk about democracy! Shit bro, many of us are rendered
helpless a5 our youth mimic and domesticate within themselves the capitalistic.
avaricious culture of unashamed consumption, practiced by the same people who
oppress us. The same peopie who bring drugs nto this country and distibutes them
iinto the ghetto and inner-urban cities, and then tum around and wage a war on these
poor citizens. and dare to call it the “war on drugs™} Shit, more like the “war on the
poor’,f you ask me. So that's why 'm cool on al this bourgeois ass-shit, as long s
capitalism exist, then [ always gonna be part of the subversive counter-culture. So
yeah, 1 feel you man.

1t's good 1o be able to do these lessons with you. I appreciate you giving me your time
and attention to get on some productive shit with me. | feel that these lessons keep us
sharp and help reinforce what we believe and stand for. Hopefully, soon there will be
more people in here catching on to this radical shit we're putting down, more cats we.
can embrace as comrades. That's what | am strving for, 1 love it when cats are willing to
make true sacrifices by shedding their destructive gangster mentalties, only to
transform these mentalities into that of an Imprisoned Radical Intellectual. I hope to see.
the end of these capitalistc prison gangs that keep us divided and conquered in here, a5
they fight over so-called “power struggles”, and the beginning of radical prison groups,
prison chapters and revolutionary prison movements, slowly but surely, that's what's
coming next!

Thank you for your time, thank you for sharing with me this beautiful pece of your
mind, comrade. I have valued every moment of this lesson, and will continue o value
this lesson as | transcribe it into a zine, 5o that | can always read it anytime | want. My
solidarity goes out to you, bro. Keep your head help up high, with the fire of resistance
forever burning in your rebel soul, and with the joy for lfe and the love for freedom
always going strong in your beautiful, warrior's heart, as it fervently beats to the vibrant
ehythem of revolution and lfe. Stay active, stay dangerous!

Solidarity and Respects,
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