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Station; irvChicago: It wasMarch OF ‘7%, I wastwenty.
List of Offerings
1. Rip Van Winkle Wakes Up
2. Visionary Derision & other poems
3. Why Am I Doing This?
4. Gila Monsters, by Stanton
5. Some Thoughts on Literature
6. NO COVER
7. No Airport Hayfield
8. Casket Foreign Policy
9. The Fear Line
10. The Siren
11. Minimal Security to Super Max
12. Campaign to Expand PPWC
13. PPWC Benefit Show in Chicago
14. Angela Davis Visits Chicago 9/9/99
15. The Time To Speak Out Is Now!
16. October 22nd w/ the Angola 3
Move 9 & Ali Khalid Abdullah
11-22-99
THOUGHT BOMBS #11 - $2.00 / free to-prisonery
South Chicago ABC Zine Distro / PUBLISHER % DISTRIBVIOR
P.0. Box 721 HOMEWOOD, ILLINOIS 60430
Rip Van Winkle Wakes Up
I started trying to get the Abolitionist (Race
Traitor) message out to the zine underground. It
seemed these insightful ideas were too connected to
acadenia and were not being made available to working
class youth, adequately. Their journal is very good,
but it costs five dollars. It's tough to get peopls
Off of even one dollar for reading material. I thought
it was worth it, but...
T was also writing essays of my own, as well as
other writings, such as poems, rants, letters, list
etc. I sent these along with copies of Race Traitor to
prominent reviewers, unsolicited, at my expense. I did
this as a public service, figuring people would be
energized by a higher awareness into social activism,
ndeed, I had become.
T encountered a lot of resistance, but it seemed
folks kinda warmed to my material.
This was all a new world to me and I had to learn
the ropes and players quickly. I'd retreated into a
private life, long since disillusioned by this cold,
cruel world and the evaporation of protest on a mass
scale, in the mid-seventies. As the threat of being
sent to Vietnam and ruined, ended, my generation seemed
0 be willing to pawn off their hopes and yearnings for
a better world for the sheer idiacy of isco.
In 1974, I wrote a wild, lehgthy, stream-of-
consciousness revolt-minded zine, calied “Peoples’
Polar Express.” It was greeted with the cachophony of
incomprehension and the blank stare of indifference.
Frankly, the reaction sent me spiralling into a deep,
catatonic depression.
1’d been hitchhiking around the country for two
years having dropped out of college, in the middle of
my second semester, the day Nixon invaded Cambodia
(again!) in the spring of ‘72. I suffered through an
alienating bourgeois upbringing. ALl I ever wanted to
"be” was a “freethinker.” I was determined to lead a
working-class life. I would become an “intentional
peasant,” for my own self-respect. I would live a
fotally D.I.Y. life. I wasa't-about to sacrifice my
Sensitivity, nor my ideals to chase after the illusion
of the almighty dollar, like I saw hagpening all around
me.
Friends began dying - mostly from overdoses,
suicides, neglect... It was the poverty of the spirit
that allowed them to sink into abject hopelessness. I
was close to being there myself - many times. The only
thing that saved me I think, was my stubborn
determination to cup that flickering ember, above all
else.
I was “Lone Wolf McQuade” all the way. I
retreated to the most inner sanctum of myself and
barricaded myself with a vengeance. I would enjoy my
own company and wouldn’t let anybody or anything spoil
my outlook. I was very afraid of losing myself to the
maelstrom of mainstream society.
I'm a very stubborn and determined person. After
eriously loathing that person, I began to see some
value! I began to like myself - a lot! I loved
myself. I revelled in sharing insight and perception
completely for my own edification. Sure, I was around
a lot of people and they usvally enjoyed me, but they
didn’t seem to ever really “get it.”
I lived and learned and enjoyed snippets of social
freedom with others. I studied and read with unique
doggedness. I wrote on and off, mostly letters.
I got married. I got divorced. I got married
again -"to a real wife! There was love. We had
children. There is LIFE! Life is magic* I went back
to school and became valedictorian. I can still think
and express myself quite nicely, I telearned.
I saw Noel Ignatiev striving to craft and present
bold, new ideas - believing in the concept of a real
future. Dammit! I'm gonna do that, too! I‘1l tell
the world what I know and what I think. It's for the
children. They deserve a tomorrow. Let’s go!
I shed my fear and went to work. I ordered every
activist, anarchist, atheist, feminist, punk
publication I could lay my hands on. I got perzines,
travel zines, analytical zines, theoretical zines.
technical zines, foreign zines, illegible zines,
despairing zines, music zines, art zines, review zines,
racist zines (unsolicited,) anti-racist ine:
progressive mags, mainstream rags - you name it!
S0, I decided to write my own zine, which I named
“Thought Bombs.” I’'ve written ten of these, which are
all still available for $2.00/each - free(o-prisoners.
I've also written other zines, newsletters, min-zines,
etc. T edit others, contribute to some and distro
dozens of others, as well. When I find a really good
zine, I try to add it to my distro. I help a lot of
conscious prisoners format their work into zines, often
from just a thick wad of handwritten papers.
Anyway, this is a poetry zine (some of it,
anyway.) Many of these poems were written in that
manic year of 1974, when it seemed like everything I
said was in thyme. I've changed some of my views since
then. I no longer believe in any type of mysticism or
religion. I have the benefit of experience and years
of practice to draw from now. But, I think much of
what T
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offers a unigue and vivid outlook. It’s a
£o the past of how things sesmd to & young man
twenty five years ago. Enjoy!
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T noticed a nolse, inaide my
I looked inalde and saws
Eyes with hangry law (zul)
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“You have yet, to ba borni®
Yesi The fetal friemd could barely swim.
Yat,there ar £ood things to be sald of hia.
My leerie, eerie, dearte, apostle!”
I uant vou'to get out of societal hagalel"
Zere’s ay plan, I know it works.
Felo the peopls destroy these Jerks.
ucation is what 1t was.
Tt's the only real butz.
He sa1d to mer “Hy sont Ky son
I need your help, Enis must be donel
Capitallstic Tavagines are Killing your Earth,
Yourfriends and loved ones of your birthi®
“Yes, Help mel Help sel I'm so busmed
Got Umated last nits, coked and russed!
Fitchniking don't pay, anyway
F1Eht now, I'm a lout and lonely stray.
411 this bullshit makes so numb.
Hr. Wizard! You have cusaed!”
INow, isten hete, my 1ittle sonl
Socitties and bullshit ain't no jokal
Go Anead and have your fani
Drink and treathe and think and tokel
Fut, 1isten now, hamburser bant
You'nust help the comson folkl
Pansls have been on tha run,
Quite's long time: quite a chokel”
o1 think T see your renson, now.
“Got torather=, then, but how?
AL1 the people. are A11 burned-out.
In their oun Lrips, Without a doubt.
Whet? Exactly, mast I do?
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ALL this staff, appears so new!
1 think, Iwili no longer musa,
Amd foin the spacey, jat-ame orew!
Thank Youl Thank Youl Fetal friend!
T'11 stick with you, 't111 the endl
Just bitch at me, ' little. OX7
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W4 0 Hare 10 mane Jo
say this to your sult overy morning
£ HATE 10 PAINT D DECORATE
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RIDING IN A PAINT TRUCK
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‘White Kid ‘”
A car ran over my bicycle
But ] jumped off in time
My knee still hurts me every day
And Iam only nine
T hate the tall ones and
fear the fat ones
1 wish I had a bunch of guns
So I could punch you in the nose
‘The kids tease me and my teacher screams
Atnight I get these scary dreams
I'm gonna go t0 the mountains when I'm thirteen
“Cuz | can't stand this “grown-up” scene
1983
BLACK DAY
The Greensboro Five
Should Still Be Alive
Shot Dead in the Streets
Human Monsters / White Sheets
Mean Hate Kill Exterminate
Cancered Minds Obliterate
The Flowers of this Ugly State
Those Dead Were Ahead & Great
They All Deserved A Better Fate
From Their Graves They Shout To US
Organize! & Fight this Scourge!!
12
Why Am | Doing This? 1974
(Or, Who Is This Egofistical Wind-Bag?)
1 think it's important for me, for you and anybody dlive
sfil. 'm that egofistical and eager enough to feel too
frustrated fo NOT shout out my feelings. I've had enuf & I'm
not gonna take it, anymore. In other words, after years of
struggle and blundering o gain mysel - sense of
confidence, with the unbelievably stark truth, an unusually
sensifive awareness, and the experience of a highly
questioning innocent, | say screw it. Let the chips fall where
they may and I'm going to exhale all my feelings. This is my
dream. | wanna be a part of our spirit and dammit, let's do.
itl I'm sick of hearing about how shitty and hurting Chicago
is and how vacant the "burbs” are. BULLSHITI We are the
heart of this whole confinent. We are BIG SHOULDERS &
GREAT HEADS. We keep the faith for the country and we do
itright. It's fime we said our piece.
What is music for? The celebration & joyful expression of
human insight, culled from experience, crafted through an
amazing array of instruments and now, electronic:
exponential possibiliies of translation of ones expressive
ideas. The most incredible of these instruments, is of course,
the human voice and that's only because of the nearty
fotally untapped powers of human brains. These brains
don't just create timelss art musically, or physically, (printing,
architecture, efc.) but the most worked-on and important is
language - words and symbols. This allows for the building
up of all other art forms.
The most powertul achievements of people are their
thoughts and wrifings. Ideas, revolufionary, advanced,
progressive ideas the futures' (youngin') take those ideas
and start from there and run with it, jump steps, and realize
and adjust those great ideas for a more improved, wiser
world.
1'spoze that's yer highest achievement. Back fo Einstein
or Marx or Darwin or the Beatles. They affected teir world
and gave fimeless revelation, fruth and oy as their fruit.
i3
(Rules) Rules #1 - Money is supposedly your goa. Firstly,
fo eat & live. 2nd, o enjoy life on a manageable, liveable,
respeciable level (something most people have not, due to
unequal & criminal distribution of wealth and payment for
individual huamn worth.) BUL, if you've leamed fo survive
“decently” you've spent yer fime plugged into the terrible
system & yer off fime fryin’ to forget it and relox & get
sucked info their whole other gamut of innocuous mind-
numbing barrages of worlhless facts and nonsense. I's
intended fi kill peoples' fime. It's @ media-wide valium. You
search for something decent fo do, foo, but usually $
determines how much you can let loose and recoup when
you need to.
It's an underground paper, hatched with a Chicago
embrace to Abbie Hoffman for bein’ excellently right-on. all
along, over the ground!
Let's celebrate our achievements and pass on good tips
for eachother fo help us all live more freely, free of
inundations of bad .v., bad newspapers and shitty radio.
Sports is gonna cost soon, 100 (1o walch at home!)
Everything is an escape but it's miserably banal and
boring. This paper, or how ‘bout monthly flyer? is gonna
manintain dedication to true good, close to home. News
about music, hope, life, you know... a bunch of culs of
different good heads, put down on paper, albums.
I'm sick of missing good things because | didn't know
enuf to be there tossin' my 44 cents worth. I'm sure you're
sick of @ stupid intro, 5o I'l stop. Thanks for your foleration.
Chienasler 5O @
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There is No Justice Chi-Town 10/26/80
In this fand,.. of paradox "
There is no justice, only shocks
Life is cruel & death is easy
Damacles mocks & we feel queasy
And yet (my sweet lte friends’)
There are ways that we can gain
Ignore the mundane! Fightyour paint
Stare atthe insane,! ignore nothing!
This EARTH is fife-threatening
..Aired male peaple cause this
But, my dear ones,
There is truh, inspiration, strength & beauty
Best of all - there is love, growih
{And faith in continuum™*)
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He thinks he's irying fo eat something or other.
Visiting Rabbittand is happy and great!
1 miss it so much, | just can't vait,
We'l show 1t o Mom, and look in her face
She'l shower us ith love,
in our own special place*
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Stanton Rayson
The Gila Monsteris the largest lizard in the United
States. It is also the only poisonous izard in the U. S. One of
the only two poisonous lizards in the world are found in the
deserts of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and The
northwest areas of Mexico. The other one, the Beaded
Lizard, is found in Mexico and Guatemala.
The Gila monsters are heavily built, walking on four
short legs at a slow pace. The tailis thick, short, and blunt.
The monster stores it's fat in there, and it is capable of living
on this for months.
The adult Gila is eighteen to twenty-four inches long,
and has a very vibrantly colorful body. It's body is black
with numerous fubercles, things that look like bumps.
colored pink, orange, yeliow, or white. The head is black
and has pink bumps on if. The tongue is forked, broad, and
flat.
The Gila monster eats rodents, small or young birds.
and birds and lizard sggs. In captivity. they enjoy hen’s
eggs and dead white mice.
The female lays about a dozen brown, leathery eggs
about the size of a hen's in a wide hole in moist sand. Then
she covers the hole with more sand and grass. Then the
mother abandons the eggs. The young hatch in a month.
When the monster bites, it hangs on fo the victim
strongly. Then the venom, used mostly for defense. is
secreted from glands in the lower jaws, and flows out
through grooves in the teeth and enters the wound. Though
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NO COVER
I've got no cover. My kids tease me about it,
especially young Stephen. He likes to take off all his
clothes and play with his. He pulls it WQ-a-a-y over
the rest of his penis and snickers. He also likes fo ask
me what happened to my cover. | always tell him,
“The doctor cut mine off, when | was allittle bitty
baby. But we wouldn't let *em cut off your cover.
Now | don't have a cover!" He feels real good about
his cover.*
When Stanton was born in 1988, he almost got his
foreskin severed from his penis. If they didn't come
by with the clipboard chart form for us to sign (and
pay $50.00!) we wouldn't have known what they
were conspiring to do. We said, “NO! Don't do it!
Absolutely notl! Do not touch him! We refuse fo'
allow you fo do this! Do you understand22z We say
NOI Please bring him to us, right now!" Leslie was
aghast. “How could they think to'do that to my
baby? How gruesome! It's sickl™ “I'l say!" So,
Stanton got to remain whole and pain free.* When
Stephen was born in 1994, we knew to impress upon
them that we wanted them fo leave him alone.
It's really a hideous and excruciating process.
They think nothing of it and do it fo millions of baby
boys around the world, every week! “Let's forture the
newborn!" | can't even begin to fathom the
depravity they inflict upon baby girls!
It's bad not having it - a cover. Your pinkish-purply
dickhead profrudes nakedly. It's prone and
vulnerable to pain. It's horible when it gets zipped
up. It's too damn sensitive! It ejaculates at the snap
of your fingers. How can that thing be “attractive?”
It's cause for uneasiness, | feel. | want my cover
back, dammit!
When Stanton was around three or four, his penis
got “stuck” a couple of fimes. It was kinda weird. 2/
The doctor suggested we let him cut off Stanton's
cover. Another doctor said there was nothing wrong.
We believed the second guy, not the knee-jerk sadist.
Stanton was fine. He's had zero problems since. The
boys never had “infections” or any of that bulishit. It's
all lies that you should have it done. It's just ritualized
child abuse, pure and simple.
It'slike all the other lies they feed you. “You must
do thisl You can'tdo that!" They're all lies, which
invariably hurt you, haunt you or deaden you. Don't
do anything, anybody ever says about anything,
anywhere, anyhow - no way!
Just say no to obedience of any kind and think up
your own solutions fo your own problems.
Dear Mom & Dadk Thanks a helluva lot for being
so oblivious. Now, I've got no cover! | never even
had a chance! That hurtsl Yeah, | know. “Everyone
was doin’ it." Well, we sure as hell wouldn't let it
happen to our sons!! What were you thinking? Yeah,
1 know... you weren't!
ax NEW NATIONAL SYMBOL *
23
NO AIRPORT HAYFIELD
1 flipped through the STAND phone book. Yep, sure enough, he was
in there. Bruce Twietmeyer was on our mailing list, so 1 called him up.
“I understand you want to cut a ‘No Airport” symbol in one of your
fields.™ “Yeah. What do you think? When do you want to do it? I have
asix foot tractor.” “Well, let's sec... | have Sunday & Monday off...
‘What's good for you?” “I’m real busy, but I might be able to squeeze it
in carly Monday moming...” “OK, good. See you then.”
Saturday, I got stuck at work and had to work two shifts. Luckily,
that morming | grabbed a couple of sheets of graph paper from my
“study” in the atic.
Earlier, [ had called around. A couple of weeks before, there was a
story in the paper about some field art done in Salem, IL. 1 called the
At Institute of Chicago, which was mentioned in the article. He
referred me o some art studio downstate, who in tu, referred me to a
guy, a farmer & a pilot, who lived in Salem, IL which s twenty-five
‘miles southwest of Rockford. He's the one who suggested the graph
paper, after talking at length about CAD (computer aided design.) He
also said that the Rockford Airport should be the “third” airport. “747's
take-off and land there, everyday. UPS has it's international hub there,
to0!” Hmmm, made sease to me! [ talked up the advantages of the
Gary/Chicago Airport as a viable airport. We both thought ruining farms
dowa in Peotone was the height of stupidity. He wished e good ol’ boy
uck.
Anyway, so Saturday I had this graph paper. I got 226 0z. coffee can
and traced it. Then I sketched the No Airport symbol - a simple plane
surrounded by a circle with a diagonal slash through it. [revised it a few
times until | was relatively satisfied with the design. Then I flipped it
over and retraced the version I wanted. You see, I also fabricate the No
YES FARMLAND
NO AIRPORT
Airport yard signs painted onto plywood. They range from 1 1/2 x 1 1/2
feet 04 x4, 50 [ was quite familiar with the design. | made notations on
the graph paper at the points we would need to extrapolate the 24
dimensions from. L used simple, high school geomery to calculate with.
T would merely transfer the graph paper design onto a ten-acre hayfield.
Each litle square on the graph paper would become 100 square feet in
the field. At first, | wanted to have the outer circle measure from 680
feet 10 720 feet neter. But that proved to be larger than the ten-
acre field could handle, so we cut the diameter in half. It would still
measure 360 feet in diameter - the length of a football field (with
endzones!)
Sunday, I spent all day at organizing meetings in the city. 1was
tabling at the October 22nd organizing meeting at Hothouse. This was.
for the national day of protest against police brutality that takes place
every October 22nd. This ran from 12 t0 almost 6 pm. Then I hita
coffeeshop and got the liquid paper out to clean up a master of my latest
zine collaboration, In the trenches , while my coffee cooled. Ali
Khalid Abdullah & I do this zine, which has recently been picked up by
AK Press. Issue #3.5 is also out. IU's a split zine with Sean Lambert
and Behind These Walls # 3. This split is 84 full-sized pages!!!
Anyway, back on point.
Afier the coffee shop, I schiepped up to the News & Letters office to
sit in on one of their meetings. These people are Manist Humanists. It
certainly beats the altemative - Marxist Inhumanists! They do lot of
prisoner support and believe in solidarity, too. [ passed outmore 25
prisoner zines and talked about the prisoner support work I'm involved
with. I thought it was a productive, if exhausting, day. 1 got home late,
made a sandwich and hit the deck.
‘The next morning, Bruce called me at seven. “You sound good for
this early!” “[usually get up at 5:20.” That's sill being lazy to a
farmer. “What do ya think? Should we doit?” “Yeah!” “Its ‘spoze to
rain, today.” “Oh well.” “Maybe we should wait... 1 suppose it would
be 100 late to do it in September, huh?” “NO! We have to doit, today.
1 my only day off and the Will County Fair opens Wednesday.” “It's
not a pretty sight, tramping around in a wet field.” “We'll wash up,
later.™ “OK. 1 gotta take a truck to Beecher. I'll meet ya over there at
nine.” “OK, bye.”
So, 1 hopped out of bed and fired up the coffee. Then I went outside.
It was a sweet day, August 23rd. I got a ball of twinc out of my car. It
was 420" and cost me $1.77. 1 took a yard stick and measured out ten
feetand cutit. Then, I used that piece to measure another picce of
twenly fect and another one of forty feet, I found a piece of metal
conduit pipe about seven feet long. I duck taped two wads of paper near
one end of it, about an inch apart. This would be our center stake. [ had
some rusty old 6-7 feet metal bars lying around the yard, maybe seven o
cight o them. 1 threw ‘em in my trunk, along with a mallet.
Tmosied over there at precisely 9 am. 1t was only a mile from my
house. Bruce and Jon Lisota arrived right when I did. We're prompt!
We got the stuff and went into the field. The hay was about two feet
high. We guestimated a center point, but it was too close 1o the barn, so
we moved it over another hundred feet or so and pounded in our center
stake.
‘We took the forty foot picce of twine and measurcd out 160 feet.
Bruce went and got his tactor. We tied the twine to the on inch gap on
the pipe. Jon then walked around the circle, holding the twine taut
while Bruce followed carefully, close behind in his tractor. It reminded
‘me of someone leading a horse around in parade. The first cut made the
inner circle.
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“The land that people waste 24
will leave the people wasted."
George Washington Carver
Meanwhile, [ was in the middle. [ eyeballed the placing of four
stakes, fifteen feet from the center stake, north, south, east and west.
Then, after Bruce had made maybe five or six passes around the circle to
give a twenty foot depth, we did the diagonal slash. Jon and I held a
long (maybe 330°) length of twine taut across the west and south stakes,
past the circle. Bruce carefully mowed along this ine. We did the same
for the north and east stakes. Then, Bruce cut out the insides. This
made for a perfect diagonal slash. Next, came the body of the planc.
We used the north and south stakes this time to demarcate the center line
of the body of the plane. Then Bruce cut the body out, making sure to
aper the ends,like a huge cigar. Next, we figured out where to put the
stakes and hold the twine for the wings, according (o the calculations
extrapolated from the graph paper drawing. At the body of the plane,
each wing was fifty feet wide, maybe 140 feet long and thirty feet at the
end.
Then, we did the same for the tail fin. Bruce then went and got a
smaller tractor to clean up the ends and corners and go over the whole
outline of the circle, slash and plane, for good measure and clarity.
“The whole job only took 2 1/2 hours, in field. When I walked off that
field, had a knowing feeling, that we'd just done some magnificent
work that would hit like a plane crash!
‘When I got home, I called Art Golab, who is the transportation writer
for the Chicago Sun-Times. 1 told him that | had an “exclusive™ for him.
He said he had to check with his higher-ups. Then I called all kinds of
other reporters, radio shows, etc. They responded with thorazine-like
obliviousness. “Well. 1 did my job.” | thought. Then for good measure,
I went over 1o a grainery store and picked up several fifty pound bags of
lime to help outline the plane, but the four hundred pounds of lime were
unnoticeable. Even the cut hay was still 4 - 6 inches high and the ground
was clumpy. Oh well, nice try.
‘Then, I started getting ready for the Will County Fair, which
STAND would be tabling at. 1t started in two days, August 25th and
ran for five grueling days. Needless o say, [ was the main organizer for
this effort, also.
On Thursday morning, as | arrived for work (1 had to work Tuesday
through Sunday this week, too!) one of my co-workers was waving a
copy of the Sun-Times and shouted, “We know who did this!” 1 said,
“Lemme see.”
Bang! Sure enough, Art got his exclusive. They had rented a plane
and flew out and snapped a picture of our litle feld art handiwork and
stuck it on the front page - in color! The caption read, “No Fly Zone 27
Over Peotone.” On page twelve was an article that tried to explain what
happened, how we did it and quoted Bruce, who said stff ike, “Why
don’t they just call a dead horse a dead horse?” Of course, they screwed
up the facts and got Jon's name wrong (John) but all-in-all it wasn’t bad
for mainstream reporting.
‘The picture itsclf was striking. This huge image, 360" in diameter,
dwarfed the nearby bam and farmhouse. They looked like toys. It
caused a sensation. Everybody was talking about it all over
Chicagoland, on the radio etc. Bruce Twietmeyer became a local hero of
sorts and reporters were interviewing him. [ made posters of i,
laminated them and stuck them prominently on our literature table at the
People were very enthusiastic and gave more freely than they
otherwise would have. It restored a sense of community throughout this.
threatened area and brought farmers closer to STAND. Many had kept
atarms length, feeling us to be “too radical.”
A week later, the Chicago Tribune also ran it on the front page of
their Metro section. Their take was sort of snide, insinuating that
celebrity had gone to Bruce’s head. They just didn’t like being scooped.
1 called the Tribune guy, a real hardboiled Chicago reporter (or so he
thought) and chewed him out. I'd just gotten a traffic ticket for making a
u-tum in a construction zone, by a goddam motorcycle cop, so f was ot
in the mood to not go off on the slightest provocation. So, I buned his
ear pretty good. Later, I called him back and apologized for going off on
him and told him about the cop. He said, “Alright, Rayson.”
AP had picked up on the image, 00. Papers all across the country
were camying it. Strike one up for the lttle guy, instead of the sons-a-
bitches from state government and their construction company buddies
and land speculator cronies!
As we were finishing up in the ficld, a plane flew overhead. Jon said,
“Look! He's going to Springfield!” Then he shouted at the plane, “Take
that to the Governor and tell him to shove it up his ass!” We laughed. It
was funny. 1t felt good to tell the govemor, all of his stooges, and
everybody else just exactly how we felt about being menaced by this -
abomination for all these years.
It was simple, direct, done on a large canvas and totally DLLY. The
‘whole thing cost us $1.77, plus gas for Bruce's tractors. I would say that
well over 4,000,000 images of this No Airport Hayfield were printed and
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it was seen by maybe, 10,000,000 people across the country.
‘When [ got home, Stanton asked, “How much of it were you able to
finish?” “All of t!” 1 said, “It's donel” “Cooll™
Yes, it was done and it was very cool. A few days later, Bruce went
upina small plane. There’s a tiny airport nearby, Sanger Airport, which
is family-owned. They use a barn for a hangar. They're cool. They
hate the airport, too! Bruce took pictures. He's also a professional
photographer, in addition to being a farme:
‘We had the best photograph blown up into a couple of posters. 1 got
one and STAND popped for 2 beautiful 28” x 41" print of this image
for Bruce to present to his disabled mother, Pearl, for Christmas. She'll
putit on hr living room val. She livs a mile sway in another
farmhouse, in the “footprint.”
On October 3rd, Pearl Twietmeyer hosted a “No Airport Harvest
Party,” which is a whole ‘nuther story. Today is Tuesday, November
16th. Tomorrow is the maiden voyage of Pan Am’s flight from Gary to
Orlando, Florida. I've been invited to take this flight, but think 'l just
£010 the pre-light breakfast and schmooze. [ want to get them to agree
to let my whole family go, (gratis) the next day and spend a few days
visiting my parents, who live a couple of hours from there. I'll see if
they will agree to my plan, tomorrow. My dad’s had more cancer
surgery and his alzheimer's is getting bad. I gotta go see them - soon!
If they don’t give me four roundrip freebies, I have another plan for
Thursday. A longtime Mone resident and pilot out of Sanger wants to
take me for a ride through this whole area to get a real good overview of
the area. We'll stop at Kankakee Airport (which has a runway as big as
the one at Midway) and I'll learn lot about flight around here.
Governor Ryan doesn’t want the Kankakee Airport to become the
“third™ airport because it is his private fiefdom. Him and his dogs use it
10 hop to Springfield in half an hour. He's from Skankakee. Two days
ago Kankakee was voted t0 be the worstcity to live in - in the eatire
North American continent! Nice job, George - you nb good crook!
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The Fear Line
There's a look in the eye and a feeling inside. It knows better
than to accept assurances. A knock on the door at 3 am. A
gang of thugs waiting to kill. The drone of planes slowly getting
louder to drop humanitarian cluster bombs on your hamlet.
“It's ademocracy, blah, blah. You can do and say what you
want, blah, blah. Everybody has a chance to participate in the
“American Dream,” yada, yada."
‘Black helicopters, secret tunnels, nuclear headquarters,
sophisticated listening complexes picking up on everybody's
every word and thought? Plainclothes detectives, undercover
this, covert that, police lurking everywhere. The military busy
snatching bodies out the high schools. Instructors training
other militaries in the fine art of totalitarian terror of their own
citizens - slicing and dicing and raping.
There's a fear line - a gulf - a huge divide. To cross it and
become free, you have to let go of the illusion of safety. You
must accept that we are not free, or safe. We are fish in an
agquarium, but we can have free will. Qur minds do not have to
be self-shackled, even though our society is a sanatorium. You
have 1o accept that you will become the object of fear. People
Jear fearlessness. You must assume the authorities will come for
You. So, in the meantime you have some time. We all have
“some time.” How much, no one really knows. Real time is
rare. Most people try to kill their time, so hurtfu is even
thinking about it much less using it purposefully.
Once you bound over this divide - this unsaid feeling of fear -
you become an active student in the most fascinating school of
all - the genuine development of your true talents and become in
tune with the song of yourself. You live a life instead of die a
life. It’s a commitment to yourself, first and foremost. It’s also
achallenge to the world. It's dangerous, as is walking down the
Street.
Soon, you gain some confidence. Natural , mutua aid kicks
in and the desire to share, love and show solidarity with others,
blossoms. You start learning how best to adapt your natural
(and now developing) talents in such a way that will create !
interest from others.
You see a baby crying, you want to help that baby. You see
humanity suffering, you want to put a stop to it! You become
active and work on projects. You constantly think of creative
new ideas. You develop fascinating relationships with dear,
sweet, intelligent, committed people. Your emotions run wild
and sharpen - like when you and your mate had a baby.
Discordancy arises. Some people who think quite similarly,
can not get along. That's a shocker, but it's the way it is. You
must try to be a decent person and re-evaluate your own
behavior. 1t's one or both or no one’s fault. Sometimes you
can't stop being angry. We're human. You keep trying,
anyway. Maybe you'll have to avoid those people and accept
that a conflict will never be resolved. It's funny because other
people may like you both. Just don’t try to be mean, hurtfl,
spitefu, etc. Make amends when you are and move on. Work
with people who feel comfortable with you. Don't let despair,
apathy and frustration dead end your work. The world needs
your effort, more than anything else you can do with your life.
Children look up to you and stretch their arms toward your
embrace. They feel the fear, too. They're scared. You must
give them the strength to grow. You must cross the fear line.
You must act upon your yearnings for freedom.
The Siren 35
It comes in many forms. Ear piercing, terror-indusing wails of anti-
aircraft warnings, the shill squeal of a charging ambulance or the foud
bass blast of a tugboat. The naziesque do-DOO! do-DOO! and then
schizophrenic spasm of a police car o the almost friendly sound of
some trains. Otfers rush by wiih a menacing, sound-ispiacing howi.
The peep of a referees whistle or the blare of a moron sitting on his car
horn.
The alarm clock goes off and workers drag themselves off to work.
Some men, not driving pick-ups, put on a suit & tie, tuck their shirt in &
fiter towards their jobs. Off to the trains to commute to the office.
They walk in these outfits that scream “I'm 2 human robot!” Women
put on prettier clothes, that none-the-less conform to money-making
inanity and the vast security that it entails. The occasional joggers, jog.
The birds flit out of the way of cars and dogs observe from off the
road. What must they be thinking as the dew s lifing? *Dangerous,
crazy humans are coming out again. They must hear the siren.” The
time machine churns on, everyday.
They turn their radios on & suffer through daylong auditory abuse,
but think nothing of it. Later, they go home and stare at an obnoxious
box which spews forth lies and commercials. For dinner? Soylent
greens.
Some don't make it back home. They die off during the day - at
factories, on the streets, or maybe shot to death. Others go to jail
Almost every day they get up and go back out there.
Some quit. Some live. Most slowly die. Their hopes and dreams
are slowly replaced by the bittemess of product. Before long, they
parrot their master's deceit. They're now goners, who live o hear the
siren to beckon them for death.
~
WORLD “%k
T TowN
Minimal Security to Super Max 3
This society has all of us in shackles and
chains. You may have wealth and comfort, but
you're not free. You may exploit labor, yet
remain a victim. Your mind has been stolen.
You cannot think. Your life has been wasted.
But you deserve your fate!
Most of us have some sense of freedom. We
know of our slavery, to some extent. We’re
wage-slaves at work and suffer through the
obligatory, daily staring at Big Brother visual
units.
Our lives are long, boring pointless wastes
of time. Our food makes us tired, bloated and
feel greasy. Relationships are an endless
source of pain and vulnerability. We are
watched by police, mounted security cameras and
endure constant censorship and lack of truth and
beauty.
Social life is reduced to the utmost
triteness and headachey fear of “crime.” Life
comes in a cellophane wrapper, with tax - and a
receipt.
Schools teach children how to becoms
bitter, alienated and exploitative. It's child
abuse and the message is “obey!”
Everywhere, authorities impose, mocking us
to enjoy our “liberty.” The threat of violence
by the uniformed and heavily armed state gangs,
is omnipresent.
Citizens are murdered every day. Many more
are kidnapped. Those unfortunates may be
beaten, threatened, interrogated, whisked away
and held at some fascist fortress, often without
understanding why.
“Laws” by the millions are the excuse to
brutalize and forever ruin lives. They don’t
apply to the agents of the state. To the
contrary, they use them to profit from.
Corrupt, incompetent lawyers, prosecutors,
judges, police, jailers, wardens, officers and
sadists of all stripes live off of the steady
bookings, trials, sentencings and long-term
incarceration of workers &/or minorities.
Once imprisoned, the facade of a “free”
country is abandoned. Special laws kick in 37
which make things crystal clear.
Accarding to the constitution, prisoners
are subject to “legal” slavery. They are
slaves, who must toil at their assigned tasks or
face the consequences and whims of their slave-
masters.
There are two million of US in this openly
enslaved condition. ALl the means of oppression
meted out to chattel slaves prior to 1863, apply
today to these loved ones of ours. Shackling
handcuffs, leg irons, celling, beatings, rape
nurder, bad food, lack of medical care, the
tearing apart of families and denial of visits,
the serious restrictions on education
information (or any communication with the
outside world,) is universal in the U.S. gulag
archipelago. The constant violation of the
individual and their personal belongings
(multiple, daily body cavity strip searches
lockdown searches, routine, unexplained
confiscations, etc.) are continuous. The tota.
intrusion and denial of dignity of self as to
personal hygiene, privacy, etc. is standard
For example, let’s look at the Texas prisons
These workers get absolutely no wages, not even
the 1/5 (or less) of minimum wage that some
prisoners get. Some women prisoners on death
row must endure invasive body cavity, strip
searches, up to EIGHT times a day, even though
they are monitored by guards and cameras twenty-
four hours a day, are locked in cells and can’t
possibly procure any “contraband.” A recent
Tule at one tier inside a supermax male prison
requires these prisoners to kneel, facing the
wall to eat their “meals.” Prisoners beaten to
death, often chained down, exposed and helpless
are reported to have died from an “asthma
attack” or some such lie. Prisoners die like
flies due to systematically criminal and
negligent medical “care.”
LOSE THE PRISO|
Just as the Gatling gun has given way to
the multiple warhead hydrogen bomb and the 33
conventional anti-personnel “bomblets,” so too
has the art of sadism and torture “evolved.”
Special “supermax” prisons, costing
hundreds of millions of dollars which our sick
government even has oblivious, usually
struggling, rural communities vying for, are
being constructed.
Supposedly the “worst of the worst” are
being sent here - the “incorrigible ones” - the
ones who are irredeemable. This, of course, is
another lie given by ther Big Lie network. The
unfortunates, often whisked away in the dead of
night from minimum, medium or maximum security
prisons, are frequently chosen by capricious
whin alone. If the prisoner shows courage,
compassion for the legal cases of others
(jailhouse lawyers) or has the willingness to
articulate the outragecus treatment being
suffered, he or she is a sure candidate for some
supermax hellhole dungeon.
Prisoners are vilified as the “untermensh”
of Amerikkka. They are, in fact, our husbands,
wives, sons, daughters, uncles, aunts and
friends of suffering families and communities.
The “crimes” they commit are dwarfed by the
systematic criminal punishment system holocaust
endured around the clock, every day by our two
million loved ones.
Babies aren’t born to be “criminals!” Like
all animals, people adapt to their environment,
in order to survive. In a sick society, based
on ignorance and greed (legalized theft -
capitalism) this striving for survival is
hideously warped and often leads to acts of
personal desperation and cruelty to self and
others. This cannot be condoned or tolerated,
but must be understood and treated in a
productive mannec. When zoo animals are Forced
to live in an unhealthy, unnatural environment
they develop pathologies, too. Ghettoized life,
in all its despair, hopelessness, police-state
occupation, drug-saturated violence and racist
“out” (that being prison) is NOT anything close
to a human-friendly environment that is
necessary to help foster healthy developement.
Individual acts ot evil are baa, but are
again, dwarfed by the systematic, mass- 39
murdering, starving and immiseration by ALL
governments (military, judicial, economic
systems) throughout the world. The repressive
systems of police, paramilitary, death squads,
etc. are used by governmments to keep a small
number of rich, white males in control of
peoples’ lives and the world’s resources. The
U.$ is by FAR the most guilty in this.
The prisoner is our conscience. Insight,
inspiration, lucid, clear-sighted instruction is
being patiently (and brilliantly) offered to
those of us in minimal security, by those locked
down in supermax torture chambers, who have
found their mental freedom. They demonstrate
incredible personal courage in order to bear
witness to the profanity of reality. We must
listen to them and learn from them and rise
above our own fear, become free and fight for
our lives!
James Baldwin wrote, “If we know, and do
nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired
in out name. If we know, then we must fight for
our life as though it were our own - which it is
- and render impassable with our bodies the
corridor to the gas chamber. For if they take
you in the morning, they will be coming for us
that .night.”
For children to have a livable world
tomorrow, we must stand up today and challenge
the monsters who are destroying our world and
imprisoning/exterminating all life. We owe
ourselves this chance at freedom.
Anthony Rayson, Midwest Coordinator,
Political Prisoners of War Coalition
Politcal Peisaners of War Coallfon
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Greefings! Yo
1have been given the unique opportunity 1o become the
Midwest Coordinator of PPWC (Poiifical Prisoners of War Codlifion.)
Many of you know me as the ediitor of this zine, In the Trenches... or
have conesponded with me &/or received olher publications | am
involved with, such as Thought Bombs.
1 will confinue doing these things and other fypes of support, but
will now also toke a more hands-on activist role in building PPWC
‘and networking with other individuals and groups, in this most basic
anfifoscist, anfi-racist siruggle. We are commitied fo fotal freedom
‘and equaiity for everybody of any and every “race.” sex, gender
preference, age, religion, elc. We are for the aboiifion of all
oppressive and coercive institutions, especially prisons! That, | can
sink my feeth infol
1ama member of the d.iy. (do-t-yourself) Zine underground,
who s known in various aclivist circles, ihroughout the world. From
now on. they will also know me as a fireless advocate for prisoner
fighs and social justice in my role with PPWC. | believe very strongly
in the principles of PPWC and consider myself a conscientious
anarchist - proud to hail from the land of Hoymarket!
The education | have received from the painstakingly crafted
‘handritten lefters and wiitings of prisoners has been astounding.
The insight and clarity of your ideas, is no less incredible. The
accepance and encouragement | have gotfen from you - prisoners
of the U.$. beast - has been much appreciated. If really adds
purpose and forifies me for the long fight. It sustains me through il
The hardships and frustrations ihat are dwarfed by the brutal,
‘everyday prison reaiily. many of you must endure.
Rest assured that all the energy and determination that | put info
‘my advocacy is af your beck and call. | am greatly strengthened by
the trust of such a high-calibre group. | willfight like a figer and y to
give my best efforl al all fimes. | remember fhe martyrs and heroes
‘who fought for freedom throughout the history of this world, which s
capsulized in the awareness of the brave men and womyn
organizing behind bars, foday. |1ake it as the ullimate duty fo live.
‘and work for a genvine future for all of our chidren. LET'S GO!
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PPWC Benefit Show in Chicago, Oclaber 171h, 1999 Yz
After on inferesting session of he ARA (Anfi-Racst Action) Network
‘conference, where fhe Chicago SHARPS [Antiacist Skioheads) decided 1o bring
the issue of closs war lo @ head by Insisfing fhat ARA 0dop! a long-overdue closs
‘onalysis 03 part of their Points of Unity. we haaded over 1o puf on the show. The.
‘conference was breaking up, many folks were headed out of fown and the
Chicago ARA had planned some ofher function of the Aulonomous Zone. We
fiyered the conference, but couldn't expect o soe many of them, later.
Eorer, d 5ot up 0 foble 1ul of prsoner iterature around 11 am, tabling
officolly a3 PPWC. | had coples of our mega spil ne, In the Trenches.../Behind
These Wals. Thi s an 84 fulksize paged frealise Sean Lombert, A Khoid and |
had put fogether, specifically 1o come outin fime for the show. | also had back
issues of n fhe Trenches... Behind These WGl s well o ofher zines by tho fkes
of Khaifani X. Khaldun, Abdul Olugbala Shakir, Zolo Agona Azaria, the great
Texas prisoner zine, Chain Reaction. and severol ofhers. | met severol other
‘aciivits, including folks from he New Jersey ABCF (Neil and ofhers) whom | had
‘cordial ond productive conversafions with. We exchanged materiats, 05 1 did.
with olher tablers. 1 gave away many great zines fo thase conference
ifendees who expressed an Inferestin them.
1 headed over 1o the Fireside Bowl 10 set up the show, accomparied by my
fhend, Ken Wong. Ken b also o wiler/activist who delves deeply info he
psychology of oppression, with an insightful and fun situationist perspeciive.
Bands and supporters began fo arive. Gale Ahrens orfved in ol her splendor as
her alfer-ego, Jane Doe. Now, Jone Doe s the Voliaiine de Cleyre of prisoner
support here in Chicago. In my opinion. If was her bithday. Sodly, her fafher
passed a couple of days ecrfer and sho Could only stay a short fme, os she hod
fo catch o fight out of Midway 10 St. Lovi fo be with her famiy for the funeralin
the morming.
She's o saint. The fist bond sef up and played. Skullkusher 666 - brtol
‘working class sinhead band from the south of Chicago - my neck of the
Woods* Brutal i mid. These foiks are In fofal war with our profane sociefy, as
‘wellthey shouid be. They're formerly of Deadscene. They wite zines, 100,
Next up was a band called Resinafion. 1 olked with o skishead brother rom
Northern indiona named Lauan. for G long fime duing this sef. LaJuan's @
black skinheod aciivst, wier, showman - and fighter. He spen 18 months in
pison for “shooling @ nad.” He wants fo get fogefher with us and put shows on
inthe Gary. Ingiana orea, have revolufionary filerafure available and keep the
hicks and rednecks o bay - @ sor of racish-free envionment. I'm always looking
for a chance fo foble and spread the word of PPWC. The band conssted ofjust
9 guilor player and o crummer. The guilor player was screarming his ungs ol
‘aboul somelhing, his long blond holr flying and dripping. 00 much.
Between sets. | read stalements ffom Al Knold Abduioh and falked obout
Ihe PPWC. I id this twice - 10 sef the fone for why we were oll here forigh.
Next up wos a band coled he Holy Whores. These are my boys. They're o
brutol hord-Care bond who double as solid mermbers of South Chicago ARA.
‘which [ lounchedin 98 They hod some sweef syncopation In theé discordant,
punk way. Thet "singers” compimented eacholher nicsly. 1don't know how
They perform fike hat wihout having their larynxes come fiying Ot of their
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mouths! Gimme a cough arop from just lookin' ot ‘emi Thonx, dudes! Right
now they're oin' a song abou! the KKK. How swee if in't. Y3
Next s 0 band called Spicolies, fomerly Doctor Murphy. They're another
heart-1ug favorite of mine, seein’ s ihey are also dear comiades from o, Chi.
ARA. One of e fellos s heavy into onimal fights and frequently goes on
actions against the likes of Neiman-Marcus and ofher animol sioughterers. |
‘guess they've given up on people... |fell them I'm also heavly into arimol
fights. | fight the oppression, coging ond forturing of animals - human animals!
Next up come rethia Franklin and fhe ghefto Chilcren. This s o polshed
punk bond - very dedicaled. Through a gillch, they didn't know they were
playing. A couple of thern had come Just out of soidartty. When hey found out
they were piaying, they quickly racked down the ofher fwo members of the
bond. The singer was sick, but you Coulan't fefl. He sang his ass off. Maybe he:
swealed more. They were fun. They borrowed anolher band's crums. I'd
never heard them before. They were good, fun, respectul and more nticate:
than ususal. Well done solidarty work. 1'i moke sure fo load "em up with
pisoner zines. 1'm makin' everybody rad emi Learn fhe latest!
Now we come fo fhe finol band of fhe nigh - Authorty Abuse. These guys
are also dear to my heart, having ployed for me twice previously. Some of
them ployed in Kungfu Rick, another iler purik band. They ore very respeciful
‘and appreciative for the witten materil | provide. They also possess @ unique:
folent, Right now. a fiery Hendibxesque guilar solo segues inio harsh punkdom.
You get the picture, They are quaily band. They all played for nofhing.
THAT'S showing solidarily, my friends. Try finding thot in the mainsireomil
There was a fim crew which came over from he Conference. Thi lady.
‘named Bevedey, had been inying fo frock me down for monihs. She'd been
following ARA and had heard great frings about me from the comrodes in
Columbus, where she i also based, A brofher rom Turkey was olso fhere.
‘Murat hod come from Turkey, via Gemany, 10 the Chicagoland area.The APF
{Anarcho-punk Federafon) fold him fo confoct me i, once In Cricago. |
‘made It worth hs while. He hod a great fime and 1 loaded him up with insghiful
zines. A day or fwo lafer 1 shipped him maybe twenty more. 1 ust gof an emal
from hirn. He's back in Turkey and his comrades ore fhviled wilh the stuff.
They're gaing fo send me some zines in Engiisn} aboui Turkey and also some
Turkish music. This s a special freat that | cid nof expect. Mual, | ove youl
Thave a speciol fondness for ihe Midde Ecsi. 1 ived with an anion nomed
Bahiom Safimi, while In high school. The racist scum called i Sihan Sihan.
This was n the fallof 1968 and Into 1969, A lof was happening - especially
‘around Chicago. King wos murdered by racists and the fown went up in
flomes. Kennedy wos murdered and the Chicago pigs went on an orgy of
Violence as Vielnam confinued 1o sufer, ond bleed and FIGHT* Bahram had 5o
‘much possion for the oppressed, it was unbelievable. | fear that he wos kiled in
he kanian revolulion, There is o much sulfering In this worid and he hauniing
‘walling music of the Middle East springs from the very epths of our sous...
Albin-all, it was a wild show, though somewhat sparcely attended. That's OK.
We're just getting ihé PPWC revved up i fhis City..Let's GOI POWER FORWARD*
Anihony Rayson. Midwest Coordinalor, Pollical Pdsoners of War Codilion
AUTHORITY ABUSE
occurring everyday. ..
Notes on the Angela Davis Visit lo Chicago, vy
September 9th, 1999
There was an overflow crowd at the Carler G. Woodson
Library, located at 9525 5. Halsted SI. 1o see and hear the
legendary Angela Davis. A speaker phone hook-up was set
up 50 Ihose unable 1o enter fhe lecture hall could hear the
remarks of Stan Willis, Susan Esler and Angela Davis. Here
are my nofes.
Stan Wills spoke first. He said, i's been @ "bloody *Hot
Summer.” bul il's been our blood!” The ideological posilion
of the autharities is to get rid of “gangs and drugs.” Itisa
“war" and any lactics are acceplable lo fight fhis war. In
effect, itis a war on the Black and Lalino communilies.
Black female prisoners have increased by 500% in the last 10
to 12 years.
The anlidoitering bill has created a cimale where all
cilizens are suspect. Some suburbs now have these bills.
There are laws in Riverdale and Dollon against clothing,
which supposed "gang members" wear. In Sauk Vilage
Ihe school district policy prohibils gang “hair styles.” This is
criminalizing people. We must slop “talking” revolulion and
do serious work. Tanya Haggerly epilomizes whal we're up
againsl. We must have Copwalch programs and a
Legislalive Watch, which would have slopped the anli-
loitering law. These police are now paramilitary unils in our
communily. We need a special proseculor lo deal with the
police. We must emphasize Ihe youth. They mus! be
energized info ihis struggle.
Nex! came Susan Ester. She founded Mother's Against
Injustice in 1994. Her seventeen year old son was falsely
arested and faken from her home. This experience was
very isolating. Her fiiends and famly stood behind her son.
The communily is being criminalized. You can't go out on
the slree! withou' being harassed, arrested and jailed. The
police, lawyers and judges want promotions. They treat
blacks like animals and don't care if they're jailed and
locked up. Many of our families are going Ihrough this. It
alfects families. Bitly babies have their moms and dads
locked up and can't embrace them. 1l creates
dysfunctional families who can't fouch and be human. d
Police brulalization in Chicago is REAL. We're lired of being
falsely amested, locked-up and jailed.
People need to get involved with police reports, wilness
slalements. We mus| become educaled aboul the system.
We can't fight unless we understand the system. There isa
Jhing called the IR #, which upon arestis permanently
given lo a person, like a fingerprint. They are thus forever
branded. We need 1o know about affidavits. court
stalements, transfer statements, etc. Many police officers
served under Jon Burge. We have 500 letlers explaining
about false arrests, 25 - 30 year sentences, life and death
senlences, efc. Our people are viclims of police brulalily
who force and coerce us. We have bad lawyers who tank
cases. prejudiced, biased judges. We need groups 1o
prepare the books for arrest viclims. We need to use the
Freedom of Information Act.
Why is Ihere so much red lape? It's because many of
Ihe mothers have golten involved. You must stand behind
Ihe brothers and sisters who are in jail. “Open your heart fo
Ihese sisters and brofhers who are locked up.”
Darrel Cannon, Andre, Jerry Guilespie are victims of John
Burge. Artested for “disorderly conduct.” None of us are
exempl from being arresled. II's your duly lo gel involved
when you see a police officer.beating up someone on the
sireel. This s real serious. 95% of the defendants are black.
100% of the lawyers are whilel We have a problem. We
must get involved.
Nex! Angela Davis speaks. She says, “Something's going
onin Chicago. People in Chicago are really thinking
deeply aboul how 1o change things. Young Blacks and
Hispanics have shown inspiring energy, hundreds of them,
when I visited them in prison, here. I've been lalking about
prisoners for 33 years. I've been frying lo encourage inter-
generafional coalifions to sirengthen and energize the
movement. Prisons are devouring not only political prisoners
but also many members of our community.
Prisons play a poiifical role which is devastating in many
respects. 11 is @ primary 100l of racism. In the 1960's. fewer
than 200,000 people were in prison. That's a LOT! Once we
gol past one million, we were in crisis! 1 is a lolalilarian LA
institution and it is becoming the most prominent one on the
social landscape, claiming ever-larger numbers of people.
In 1998, there were 1.9 million prisoners. By January of
2000, there will be well over 2 million! How are we gonna
accept this informalion wilhout expressing rage? I's a
massive PUNISHMENT machine! 5.7 million people are in
prison, on probation or on parole. Six million people are
under fhe DIRECT control of the criminal jusfice system.
The incarceralion rate is 672 per 100,000. Only in Russia is
this rale comparable. This is six 1o ten limes the rate of other
industrialized nalions. There are way too many prisoners in
THOSE counlries!
Who are these two million people? They look like this
gathering. Ten years down the fine, there will be an
enormous increase in women prisoners and women's
pnsons. Itis @ PUNISHMENT INDUSTRY. The punishment has
become an industry.
The stakes have become much higher since the
beginning of the prison abolilion movement. We've lost our
crilical abilifies. We can't use our crifical skills. We MUST
have economic/class criticality! The concentration of
capilal, companies and individuals has crealed more
poverly, more racism. There is systematic gender apatheid,
since the dismantiing of the “welfare system." The
globalization of capital is forcing more and more people fo
immigrale lo the U.S. Corporations go lo their counlries
ONLY because of the cheap labor. “structural Adjustment
Policies” prevent these countries from giving their people
help. It wreaks havoc in peoples’ liv
Capilalism insinuales ilself into ever-larger numbers of
peoples' lives. The safely nels people used to be able to
counl on, have disappeared. People are poor. They have
no access fo resources. More jails and prisons are being
buill. It's all planned that way. There is an assaull on
affirmative action. In California, it is 5 limes more likely that
@ young black male will be in prison than at a university.
Many are in prison because they're poor, have no
resources, nor any hope for a beller future.
What does “crime™ mean? The only thing it means is that
itis "agains! fhe law.” S0, Blacks and Lalinos are criminals,
while olher groups doing Ihe same thing, are nol. More 7
than 1/2 of Ihose in jail are non-violent "violators.” The
menlally illare in prison. There is no slructure 1o help the
poor and uneducated. Women on weliare go fo prison.
immigrants withou! proper papers go fo prison. The INS is
ihe lorges! armed group of federal agenls - even larger
than the FBIl Women surviving domeslic violence, go 1o
prison. The most pervasive epidemic in the world are crimes
against women!
Punishment has become part of our cullure. Children go
1o school fo be punished and no! to leam. They encounter
secuiily guards, metal deleclors, book bag searches, elc.
They are learning how o move on from high school o the
8ig House! Punishment supplants all olher inslilutions!
One oul of fhree young black men are in some parl of
The prison system. One out of eight Latinos, too. Ye.
“racism" is no longer a serious problem!!! These “criminals”
conlain a “lack of ambition" and a "pathology.” They
spend the most important years of their lives in prison.
Poor people seek out drugs - crack, heroin - instead of
the prozac given fo the weailihy. Itis a global
phenomenon. The U.S. is Ihe model. In Auslraiio, 110 2% of
Ihe populalion is aboriginal, yet 30% of the prisoners are
aborignies! So. this is the new model for prisons o come.
What appears o be a family or communily problem s really
a global problem.
The Prison Industrial Complex is real and we need to
understand the connection between the global economy
and Ihe prison induslry. People must learn to talk about
crisis and make connections with whal is happening in our
backyard and around the world.
We need o creale “uniikely coaiifions.” How can we
acknowledge these people as part of our communifies?
Don'l forgel about Leonard Pellier! Think about the effect
on Nalive Americans. The Nalive Boarding Schools were
Ihe first prison experiment, which was started by a military
lieulenant.
We need a new Abolilionism! We must call for a
moralorium on prison construction and create a new era of
radical aclivism. Thankyou.”
Nov. 7th
Greetings Comrade Anthony
Ireceived your missive date 10-29-99 and I was glad to hear
Jfrom the brother. It is some horror story throughout the U.S.A
prison system and as it stands today, the worst is yet to come.
In the Trenches... is a good tool to fight capitalism, racism and
injustice, for we have plans on doing the same here. Coming
into the millenium, we need to raise the level of consciousness of
the struggle, prisoner’s plight in the U.S.A. and together we can
make a change. Sartre said, “Yes... teaching them (black folks)
10 become aware of the potentials they have forbidden
themselves, of the passivity they have paraded in just those
situations in which what is needed s 1o hold oneself, like a
sliver, to the heart of the world, to interrupt if necessary the
rhythm of the world, to upset, if necessary, the chain of
command, but in any case, and most assuredly, to stand up to
the world.” Franz Fanon.
Our time is now 10 stand up lo the world because it has
become a must to interrupt the rhythm and the chain of
command of the world that oppresses and represses the peoples.
So, comrade, enclosed is an article I have written that I want
you to print in In the Trenches..
NTdW
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Hore in the State of Missouri - The Missouri Department of Cortections is
norhing but a modem day vision of Nazism. The very head of the State, Governor
Mel Camakan,is a renow racist. For a person 10 be confined in a prison in
Missouri means he or she s in very big rouble and is subjected 10.all forms of
‘misuse and abuse. Make no mistake about it, Missouriis slave sate and is part of
the south? The Missouri Prisoner Labor Union was founded by sincere prisoncrs
here who seek t0 bring about a chaige in the Missouri prison system, mostly the
working and living conditions. We cxist, regardiess of the threats and attacks that |
‘and many other members are under, atthe hands of racist prison officials,
One of my major concems, here in the Missouri ad-seg units of the DOC over
the past 7 years, has been the housing of seriously mentally illprisoners in the
administrative segregation units, occurring throughout the state. These prisoners
are being confined in long term ad-seg unis, without adequate health care, from
anywhere from tWo 10 up 1o 15 years. The mental health of these prisoners has
deteriorated, causing them 10 act in ways that have violated the DOC rules. Then,
the DOC sanctions them by placing them in the ad-seg units and extending their
length of confinement in the hole. A they remain in the hole, virtually untreated,
their illnesses become aggravated. | have witnessed horrifying conditions of the
‘mentally ll prisoners, here.
‘When the MPLU made t’s presence known o the DOC, [ have not seen the
Jight of day since. | have becn transferred from prison to prison and kept housed in
tota solation from other prisoners. As it stands today, 1 do not even have a
violation charge, but am in the hole. [ am being punished and no one seems to
know the reason why. I have been told by several prison officials that ey would
release me from ad-seg if I shut down the union here and stop promoting the union
altogether. So, T will die i the hole before give one inch to these racist pigs... It is
our plan 10 assist others in setting up such unions in cvery (slave) pison kamp
throughout the USA Prison system. The time for us to unionize yourselves within
and to establish yourselves without is NOW! The MPLU has accomplished this
much.
‘Anyone that wish o contact me, [ can be reached at, (oh | am il in the hole)
In Struggle
Jerome White-Bey #37479
Potosi Corr. Center
RL 2 Box 2222
Mineral Point, MO 63660
Anarchist Prisoner @
October 22nd Sec
Afler he colfee was fired up, | put logether a profest
sign, wilh two messages. One had a piciure of an electric
chair and was abouf saving Mumia. James Baldwin wrole
this quote that was part of it
“If we know and do nothing, we are worse
than the murderers hired in our name. If
we know, fhen we must fight for your ife as
though it were our own - which it s - and
render impassable with our bodiies the corridior
fo the gas chamber. Forif they take you in the
morning, they will be coming for us that night."
The other was a poster on PPWC (Political Prisoners of
War Coalition) with a drawing of a clenched fist along with
a Kahlil Gibran quote, which read:
You may chain my hands, you may shackie
my feet; you may even fhrow me info a dark
prison; but you shall not ensiave my thinking,
because it free.”
Nexl, | went o CopyMax fo make copies of Janine
Afiica's statement for the noon downtown rally. I'd been
caliecting these siatements from serious U.S. polifical
prisoners in the last few weeks. | had ferific statements from
Herman “Hooks" Wallace and Albert “Cinque" Woodiox of
the Angola 3, as well as from Ali Khalid Abdullah, founder of
the PPWC. | gave the ladies al CopyMax a copy of these
statements and a flyer about the rally. They were very
appreciative, as always. | make a point fo give them lofs of
malerial - usually insightful zines I'm working on, there.
Next, | went to Markham courthouse to deal with a fraffic
violation. I'd made an improper u-tum a couple of months
backin a tangled mess of a construction zone. | didn't see
the make-shift sign and a molorcycle cop, hiding behind a
construction barricade, ficketed me.
First, everyone must go through the degrading frisking
process, emply everything from your pockels and file, S/
according 1o sex, through a phaianx of cops and x-ray
machines. On the way in, | gave a brother a fiyer about the
rally. He was behind me. As | was waiting for my briefcase,
a cop asked himif this now folded up leaflet was his. He
said nothing. The cop violently through the leaflet on the
floor. It seemed very racist to me. Of course, the cop was
“white" and the brother was "black.” It felt like he is
thoroughly programmed o detest the citizenry.
There were notes - commands really, all over the walls.
No talking, no children in the courtroom. No gum chewing.
No reading. No hats. No assasinating. Everything out of
your pockets, what is confiscated is inventoried &
destroyed.
Of course, the vast majority of people filing in were
“blacks.” Others were poor whites, hispanics, greasy
lawyers, etc.
Racism has embraced the “black” authorily figure. The
judge was “black” as were several of the cops. Only the
lawyers and most clerks are "white." My case came up
quickly. The judge was on fime, which is rare. | pled guilly
‘with an explanation and got the fine reduced to $40 from
$95. Good. That frees up $55 | can use to produce anti-
government propaganda.
Right now, 1 m in the basement where all the files are
kept and the fines are paid. When my name gets called, |
get fo give them two twentfies for my driver's license, now
with fresh staple holes in it.
Aiter this, I'll pass out the rest of the rally flyers in the.
parking lot and drive down fo one of the collection points
for the march. Il go to 111h & Stale, the Southside starting
point. 1still don't know if I'l be allowed o speak or if these
statments will even be read at the rally. At least parts of
them definitely should be! After all, these are people who
know the score.
Last month, | attended an organizing meeting for this
October 22nd rally. | told them then that thisis what | could
do for the rally - procure these important statements -
besides just give them money, which | also did.
There were no rally points. Everybody converged on the
Federal Building. The original site of the rally hadbeen §°2
changed. The cily of Chicago would not give a permil fo
rally in front of the Daley Center. Cops were everywhere.
lining the streets, all abreast. Some were on horses, some on
foot, some in cop cars, others in paddy wagons, some with
dogs, all with guns. 1t was most obscene. We were allin
black. Many mothers of murdered children were there. The
pigs murdered their babies, some very recently. We had a
procession, really, with a casket leading the way, with an
honor guard of youth. There were a few hundred of us, at
least as many pigs and a sad gray sea of indifference
cityfolk. How DO you tum off your thinking - your empathy -
your passion and so passively accept real ife profanity? |
just don't understand it.
Several speakers and musiclans spoke, rapped, sang.
Papers were passed all around, inferviews were taking
place and we were frying fo build this thing. The statements
were parfially read, but they promised to “send them onto
New York" for publication. Maybe next year, they wil take
the powerful and inspiring statements of prisoners more
seriously. Some of us will no doubt be behind bars (or shot
dead) by then. This police state is getting worse and worse.
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ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEN! st
1 speak fo you from the swamps of Angola State Penitentiary. I've
been informed that there will be a gathering here discussing police
brutality. Just fo make sure you're not hoodwinked by the limits of
police brutality, I'm here fo take you Inside the walls of ferror.
In December 1996, Heather Wells was sexually attacked by an
agent of the siate of Washington at the Washington Correctional
Center for Women. This left Ms. Wells pregnant and now with a baby
gifl who hs since been placed in a foster home. No charges have
been filed against the agent attacker.
A the Federal Correctional Insfitufe, in Dubiin, CA, Robin Lucus
was sexually attacked several fimes as male prison guards allowed
men o enter her cell. Uniike Wells, who was affacked by one guard,
Lucus was assaulted repeatedly.
While siting in his car and surrounded by armed police, 18 year
old Dontae Dawson, who was unarmed, was shot and killed by one
of the police, who claimed he thought he saw a gun.
We are all familiar with the murder of Sister Tyesha Miller, who fike
Dawson, was murdered by police as she slept In her car.
There have been 25 complaints of sexual abuse at the state's
largest women's prison in Richmond, VA. It s so bad, that Governor
Jim Giimore has ordered an investigafion.
As you can see, my words are not fofally about police brutality,
but rather, about systematic murder. The Amerikkkan system Is
fraining mercenaries on how fo killl
Of course, I'm very lroubled by cops who do the same thing.
Back in the 1970's, I recall when the Kiu Kiux Kian announced a
change in their war plan against Afrikans, Jews and Mexican
Americans. At that fime they decided to focus less aftention on their
sheets and joined the ranks of prison guards and the police. This
should give you some idea as fo why we are having so much abuse
in the nation’s jails and prisons today.
Becoming police, they brutally patrolied the Mexican border, but
rentually forced fo discontinue. They began fo crop up more
in jails and prisons, as guards. Inside e jails and prisons they
humiliate, maim and kill. They kill for the same purpose they killed
atthe fime of the Emancipation Proclamation. The state sanctioned
these murders, by allowing the KKK fo run rampant In the Lafino,
African, Mexican and Jewish communities and especially in the
prison communilies. Down here in the swamps of Loulsiana, we
have o Goveror (Mike Foster) who Is the New Grand Wizard of the
KKK,
Recently, the KKK has been holding the state of Ohio hostage,
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costing the stafe $800,000.00 In ransom for profection, as these 5”7
Klansmen march through your communities! But, at our Youth March
for Peace and Harmony, for all races, displayed at the 1999 Million
Youth March, the police atfacked all of youl You, who pay thelr
salary! They consistentty attacked you, but they will not attack the
KKK or any other right wing group, who help to maim and kill you!
We have fo look beyond police brutality, just as we must look
beyond KKK brutality. We must focus our attention on the court and
legisiative system, here in Amerikkka, because it is here that the
people are being rampled.
The legisiative body and court system give police a badge to
murder you and cover it with jusffiable homicide.
Too much power has been given to the police over our live:
How can we sit back and allow these thugs fo jack dope dealers
and lake Ihe money - dividing It with the judge and district atorney?
This threesome protects eachother, and you are the ones paying
them fo do so.
Here In the swamps, the district attorneys are using drug money
for thelr own luxury. They use it for fravelling, expensive parfies and
to celebrate their success at death penalty convictions!
Police brutallty is all around us. It has become an acceplable
culture In Amerikkka. And I'll fell ya'all, unless you start thinking in
terms of challenging the police, judges, legisiative acts, and district
attomeys, we're going fo find ourselves in the same situation the.
German people found themselves In 1933.
The state will not allow prisoners to possess cameras, but you
guys can film these fascist pigs who abuse our people and publlsh
thelr faces in the people's press, just as they publish our faces in the
bourgeols press.
In closing, let me remind you that it was Pig Miller who murdered
W.L Nolan in Soledad. He walked free. Pigs Murdered George
Jackson in San Quentin. They walked free. Pigs Murdered Fred
Hampton as he slept in his bed. Pigs walked fre Pigs murdered
Mark Clark. Pigs walked free and now, pigs are prepapring fo
murder my brother, Comrade Mumia. But we're not ging fo let that
happen, are we?
The fact of the matter is that we are the only ones doing the
dying. We are burying a loved one practically every day of our lives
as aresult of police brutality, and since this is the reality and you are.
in agreement with me, It Is no more than falr than to conclude that
there be funerals on both sides. AALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
Herman Wallace # 76759 Hooks (Angola 3)
1/Gar3-R-13
Lovisiana State Prison
Angola, LA 70712
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554-0005 or G. Hogan (773) 363-7912. The family prays that
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