reabc/Thought Bombs 23 - Anthony Rayson/Thought Bombs 23

THOUGHT BOMBS
#23

Artwork by Kenw Lamlb-
INTRODUCTION

Greetings! It has been several months since the publication
of the last issue of 7hought Bombs, back in March, 2004. It’s
already October. 1 try to put out three per year, but it looks like
only two this year. Anyway, I'm still plugging away, none-the-
less!

In April, after a series of several meetings, the B-PAC
Convention took place in Harvey. Idid a presentation for that,
tabled a bunch of literature and screened an interview with
Anarchist political prisoner, Ojore Nuru Lutalo, a BLA prisoner
of war/political prisoner, severely oppressed in a supermax
dungeon in New Jersey.

Ever since August of *03, I had been trying to organize what
became known as the “Prison Abolition Conference” here in
Chicago, which took place August 13-15. This was a very
difficult and time-consuming endeavor. Also, ever since
February of *03, my wife and I had decided we were going to
move from our home, which we have lived in since 1990.

T rented a farmhouse building on the property of the farmer T
did the first of three No Airport crop circles. [ began storing the
dozens of boxes of papers, zines, books, fumiture and other
things o begin to get a handle on this massive project. We
started looking at other houses and so on.

During June, my wife, Leslie, asked me to do an innocuous
chore, that being, transplanting a couple of rose bushes. Like
something out of a fairy tale where the wicked witch pricks the
princess, [ was pricked by a rose thom. Soon enough, my hand
began to swell up and the middle finger on my right hand was
particularly inflamed. My doctor prescribed strong antibiotics
and even gave me a shot in the butt, but the problem just became
worse. I insisted on seeing a disease specialist and she figured
out that it was a rare fungal infection, commonly called “rose
gardener’s disease” that sees only 200-250 cases per year, here in
the U.S.

(thisis confinued on inside back flap - page 59 )
Table of Contents

1. Chicago ABC Report
2. Anthony Rayson infroduces Himself

3. The Incarceration Holocaust (B-PAC Convention)
4. Don't Become a Trained U. S. Killer &/or Casualty

PRISON ABOLITION CONFERENCE
5. Purpose of the Conference
6. Anarchist Black Cross 3¢ Prison Aboiition Conference
7. Conferencia Para La ABOLICION De Las Carceles
8. Address at Cook County Jail, August 13, 2004
9. Infroductory Statement - “Fight Crimel”
10. Drop the Charges Against the Haksted 31
11. Stop the FRAME UP of Aaron Patterson
12. Six Reasons fo Question the Idea of “Mental liness”
13. Conference Exposes Crimes of Prison System

14. Marcus Garvey Famm Festival

HAYMARKET UNVEILNG
15. DID WE TRULY DIE IN VAIN2
16. AN URGENT REQUEST - Some Chicago Anarchists
17. HAYMARKET ANARCHISTS MURDERED
FOR ADVOCATING REVOLUTION!
18. Letter fo Nathan Mason
19. Revisionist History, Anyone?
20. Wording of the Four Haymarket Plaques
21. Haymarket Observations
22. Unheard Scaffold Address

23, Pre-Employment Questionnaire
For Justice System Personnel
24. Report from Chicagoland

Published on October 16, 2004
Edited by Anthony Rayson / free fo prisoners
(otherwise $21n the “free” world )
Chicago ABC Report ¢

Since the publication of the last Anarchist Black Cross Network newslefter
in mid-January. Chicago ABC has been involved in several projects and
actions. Although pursued and participated in for fheir own sake, there's
been a confinuous effort o promote and organize for the upcoming prison
abolifion conference, scheduled for August 13-15, here in Chicago. This
includes atfendance of numerous meefings of other prisoner support groups,
anfi-war organizng meefings, fablings and readings at various Citywide
events and so forth. Add fo ihi, the dally support work, such s lefter witing,
‘phone cals. making copies for legal challenges. the sending of ree zines fo
prsoners. As well several new zines have been formatted o just added fo
the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro in 2004,

On January 16, an arficte in the Chicago Reader, @ free weekly with o
it run over 100,000, printed a story about a monument being
commissioned through the Public Arfs Program of the Department of Cultural
Affairs of the city of Cicago. Essentialy, hey willhave a ceremony on Labor
Doy fo unvel this sculpture, whichis of a speaker's wagon on the site of the
Hoymarket (poice) rit. The interesting thing about this i, they claim fo have
goften "everyone involved" - commurity groups, labar and the police - but
no anarchists. They want fo “foke Haymarket way from the anarchists and
fumitinto a free speech issue.” They even mocked anarchists - “Who would
they have represent them?*

For Anarchists especially, thisis an infolerable stuation, 5o | wrote alefter
that the Reader printed, biasfing the Gity for this nonsense. | confacted
Nathan Mason. who i the point man on Ihis project and am in negafiations
with him. | have volunteered myssif o speak for the anarchist posifion about
allof this - the history of Hoymarket, the fact that condifions are basically the
5ame foday, war, repression, Coercion, demonizafion and targefing of
‘anarchists confinues, efc. and | am craffing a sort of realfty check address
that | wil give at Haymarket on that day. whether | am allowed f0 speak ot
he official podium or nof.

A related situation i the naming of G one biock park of asphalt fo be
renamed "Lucy Parson'’s Park” for the woman dubbed “more
than a thousand riotersi” The authorifies are looking for brownie points and
50 want o add more nofable Chicago women to the names of their parks.
In daing his. they are rying fo furn her nfo a non-revolutionary. They're
5aying she can't be blamed for the activity of her husband (marlyred Albert
Parsons. Like ot Haymarket, they want 10 fum our beloved and frue
‘anarchist mentors info “reformers.” At one point, they ikened her fo Ronaid
Reagan, who was also unsalisfied with govemment. Of course, there s o
difference. Reagan wanted to make it more corporalist (fascist) whereas
Lucy was o bonafide anarchist who fought to abolsh all govemments!

They 're complete opposites!

Jane Doe (iucyparsonsBhotmail.com) s on the case in ths onel

On January 23+, I went to a conference af the University of linois in
Urbana fo participate and table ot a conference conceming the ciose,
conveyor belt ype relafionship between schools and prisons. This wos
hosted by the nofed abolfionist professor, David Roediger and his
colleagues. Later that nigh, | gave o lengthy fakk at Anacrotan House, an
ancrcrst ivig space. Much Herature was distbuted fis day, mostly S
pisoner zines and ABCN Newsletters. The infoshop in Champaign was visted
and the post-conference parly were both heavly saturated with znes.

On February 19%. an arficle in the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the
Chicago Polce had infifrated and spied upon five acivist groups in the
Chicago area in 2002. These included the American Friends Services
Commitiee. Chicago Direct Action Network. the Autonomous Zone, Not In
Gur Name and Chicago Anarchist Black Cross. The five groups mef and
decided to stage a joint press conference rightin front of police
~headquarters - 35 and Michigan Avenue on February 25%. | was able fo
biing Fred Hampton, J. o speck of where this fype of activity can lead - the
outight assassination of his father and Mark Clark, In 1969, This was wel-
covered by the press and pars of Anthony's statements were shown on
television and he newspapers. Gale, aka Jane Dos, also gave a strong
‘address at this press conference.

‘Obviousl. the spying has not stopped. The cops sid they were
‘concemed only with thwarting terrorism and protecting the citzens of
Cricago. If this were hue, they'd march down fo cify hal and amest Mayor
Daley ~ the biggest temroristin Chicago. He was the ane who bulldozed
Meigs Fieid inlo permanent disiepair and has orchestrated fhe dynomifing of
ozens of high dise apartment buildings, throwing thousands of citizens into
the sireets. The poice, of course, did not prevent hese assaults, but rafher,
stood guard duing them. Also, Mayor Daley was Caok County State’s
‘Aftomey when many of Ihese deathvow ralroadings were going downin fhe
seventies and eighties. Just a couple of days ago, the eighteenth deathrow
pisoner was released after decades of wrongful incarceration. There are
‘more innocent people on deathrow all across the Country. Hundreds of
thousands of pfsoners are innocent of the charges they were convicted of or
are “guilty” of “crimes" hat have no victims.

Seing actively horassed by the police spy units demonstrates that our work
is having some posifive effect. For the st thing they want is for people fo
nave access fo the unbidied ruthl Also, from the heavy news accounts of
this and the strongly worded sound bifes people got a rare oppartuniy fo
seein pint, helps legifimize our group s serously and articuiately oppOsed fo
the lies and bulying of iy govemment. People respect and appreciate it
‘whenever reguiar people chalenge the stael

During this fime (Jonuary thru March) a lot of energy was being gathered
and shared by G group called B-PAC (Black Poiical Action Committee,)
Some of their weekly meetings drew over a hundred people. Thisis
spearheaded by Southside and South suburban community organizers.
preachers, famiy members of the incarcerated and regular cifizens, who are
totaly fed up with the Jackson/Rainbow PUSH domineering of the biack
Chicagolond polifical londscape. If's needed new energyl

A convention was held at Chicago Metro Hotel in suburban Harvey from
Apil 2- 4. Anthony gave a lengthy presentafion/workshop a this
convention. Much iterature was made avaliable and hous of serious
discussion ook place. A video of an Inferview with anarchist prisoner Ojore.
N. Lutalo, was aiso screened. Serious ABC work s definitely welcomed n the
block communityl This s what he Cops don't want to seel

On May Day, many actiities were occuring all over the cify, county and
word. Personaily. | ended up in Jolet to help the Joliet ARA (Anti-Racist
Action) and ASAP Anarchist Skins and Punks) chalienge o demonstration by
the Kian and Nazis, who were rallying for the fallen Fushrer, Matthew Hole.
He's the guy who does fhe Church of the Creator out of Aurora, lindis, One
of his dupes went on a shoofing spree and murdered Rickey Byrd, the fommer
basketball coach at Northwestem and another (indian) man outside a
church in Indiana. He aiso wounded several peopie i front of @ synagogue
in Skokie, before being Comered by the caps and kiling himselt. 4

S0, Hale, who was recently framed by the Feds for conspling fo kil
female judge, s foathed by many. as are his unchuous followers. We had
maybe fity people fo thek twenty. It was an unusual spectacie for the
people in the area, with the naz flags Counterpoised against anfiacist
anarchists. Many people coming out of the stores and restaurants, joined our
ranks ond shouted their own epifhets! The cops were there in force, but
‘Couldn't stop fhe expression of opinion. | handed out al he fterature |
Grought, a whole satchel ful, mostl of ABCN Newsletters. It got fo be a
tanse situation. later at the home of the local na, as the demonsirators
followed them there. The next day, this house was shot at by somebody.

The media also came and | managed fo give several stafements that
made the rightly news. it was ihe front page story n the next day's Joliet
daily. My main point was that these nazs are America’s biggest
cheereaders. who love fhe foct we are murdering dozens of iradis daily and
hold milions of black people, and ofhers of calor, in gulags fhroughout the
county.

A new coaifion of anarchists began maeting, converiently enough, af
UICI Chicago ABC joined this group, first called CAAAC (Chicago Anarchist
and Anfi-Authodtarian Coaiifion.) The name has since been shortened fo
CAN (Chicagoland Anarchist Network. 1's a sort of clearinghouse for
Citywide anarchist projects. such s demonsiration planning, ant-wor
arficulating and distibuting, support for stiking hotel workers, - many, many
projacts, including organizin for our Prison Aboliion Conference.

'm aiso delighted fo announce Ihe creation of a new, Books fo Prsoners
Program, here in Chicagol

Midwest Books fo Prisoners, Chicago 2004
We are a newly formed colleciive that sends much needed reading
materiais fo prisoners in staes of the Midwest (we don'treject anyone.) We.

would ke you fo notify your Incarcerated confacts that we cre eager fo
send them reading materils. Plecse ask them fo send a letter with iheir
request(s) and mairoom stipulations fo:
Midwest Books o Prisoners
1573 North Miwaukee Ave PM8 #460
‘Chicago, linois. 60622
Thank you.
Midwest Books fo Prisoners Crew
Feel free fo contact us: mwbip@seun.nat
i/ w701 = id=

‘We're now meefing weekly, forming commiftees fo cover the myriad tasks
that lay ahead. Students for Social Jusfice, located at UIC, (Universiy of
linols at Chicago) is procuring the lecture rooms and audiforiums we wil
require for this conference. UIC is located just west and south of Chicago's
Loop, easiy accessiole by publc fransporiation. Awebsite has been 7
esiablshed by Chicago ABC which wil provide more detalied information -
directions, confact persons. scheduling, worksops, speakers ond ofher
acivifies, such as the shout-out support raly and march on Friday the 13+ of
‘August ait Cook Counly Jai (3 fo 5 pm) meals, lectures. shows and so forth.

You can email us as wel ot Ch imailcom

You Gan wilte us o P.O. Box 721, Homewood, IL 60430 or at

HACO [Human Action Commurity Organization) Eraina Dunn

16028 5. Haisted. Harvey, L 40426 (708) - 339 - 7902

My numbers (708) - 534 - 1334 Anthony Rayson

Thewebstes: Chicagoabc.org.

The conferenceis il being planned at this stage. Some workshops have
een prefty much set. but there s il an opportunity 10 add input and get
time and space fo present information dung this fime. Also, we want fo
achively encourage sefous tapling of information. AK Prass s coming. os wil
several other disributoss. 1'l give a brief rundown about the conference.

We are planning on bringing such notabies as Pom and Ramona Affico,
Tom Big Warior and Robert King, among ofhers. Throughout Chicagoland
and the Midwes! ore several support Gioups that are interested in daing
presentafions Gbout various subjects. They will be posted on our webse os
thay become more in focus. There's st fime 10 propose o workshopl

These include workihops about women prisoners, Books fo Prisoners
Programs, transgendered, goy and lesbian prisoners, Nafive American
prsoners, New Affkan prisaners, Hispanic pdsoners, drug war pisoners,
innocent prisoners, the fight to abolish deathrow and iocal poifical prsoners,
such as Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Widemess, Khaitani Malik Khaidun, Z0io
Agona Azania. among ofhers. The connection between the war in faq and
the war at home wil be dissected. I'm doing G workshop entrely created by
pisoners. AIDS, tape, hepatls C. forture, neglect, abuse and cruelty in many
respects, wil be delved info. Many local activist and support groups will be
‘given an opporturiy fo explain their work. Family members of prisoners wil
have a strong voice. It's an educational and networking opportunity that we
are making @ point fo be inclusive about. After all, our work is about the
Ppeople and the families being menaced by the state - poor and “nom-white”
mainly. The sirength of anarchism i in organic community work.

Thisis the third such anarchist-organized prison aboition Conference
whose purpose also includes specific collaboration and discussions with ABC
Network chapters (and sister groups o sirengthen our network and increase
our effectveness. We want fo help spawn new ABC chapfers and increase
he levels of support for the prsoners we work with. S0, ABC peopié need fo
make a point fo come fo Chicago this August and parficipate. Send n your
ideas. Tak fo us. Become proactive with us.

In the next 75 days, we will particlpate in many meefings, actions, fablings,
shows and Countiess ciscussions with he goal of making fhis a productive
‘and accommodating conferance. [t will not be easy fo match he incrediole.
work done by last year's Breck the Chains coliective and he one previous.
warked~up by the Collectives in Texas, but we shall ryl Come fo Chicagoll

B-P.C. of llinois 4

Black Politcal Convention of linols
10736 5. Michigan Av. Chieago, IL. 60628
OfficeTT3. MST891 FaxT73. 448, 8142

Anthony Rayson Infroduces Himself
I've been invited fo wrte a column, which | consder both an honor and an
opportunity. Fest of,let me Infroduce myself and give you some background.

I grew up I Tinley Park back when it was a small, ailwhife fown, surounded
by com fiekds. In the seventies and eighties, | ived in Hazel Crest and since 1990,
my fomily and |, have ived In rural Monee, n the Peotone airport “footprint.”

I was very lucky in my upbinging. for my father, Leland H. Rayson was an
unusually prncipled progressive pofficion. He frekked down South fo defend
the Freedom Fighters in the mid sidies. He marched with Dr. King through
Cicero and Father Gropp. up In Miwaukee. Allthe while, he took his chidren,
ol seven of us, with him. He was a delegate fo the 63 Democratic Convenfion.
yet was teargassed in the streets with the demonstrators

I've co-founded several grassoofs groups. such as STAND (Shut This Arport
Nightmare Down) which is now @ 2.500 household member citizens' group,
based in Eastem Wil County. | aiso heiped start the Southside Cifizens'
Coalifion, South Chicago Ant-Racist Action, Chicago ABC (a serous prson
abolifion group) ond | run the South Chicago ABC Zine Disiro, which has
publshed over 250 pamphiets on history and polifcs. with an emphasis on pison
issues, featuring a lot of sirong input from conscious prsoner writers and artists.

So.in the coming weeks, | would ke fo explore the issues that fruly concem
the south suburbs and acqueint you with the real champions of our
communiies. I'l describe the labor of love siruggles they are involved with, in
their communifies - whether itis stopping an unwanted women's prson in
hardscrabble Hopkin's Park, down in Kankakee County or an unneeded
boondoggle irportin the farm fields around Peotane. .

The major forces in confention are the same - Corporate-dorninated poliical
and economic expansionism versus the genuine needs of cifizens, our
neighborhoods and our communities. Many people can't see beyond working
through the system, usually in a futile attempt fo get pollicians fo see reason
and “do the fight thing." Many more are disgusted and want nothing fo do
‘with *polifics.” | befleve we must begin fhe fask of educating and empowesing
ourseives and creating the vehicies ihat wil diive our own liberation outside the.
confines of a comupted and unresponsive system. We need People Power

‘Who's at the forefront of the work of arficulating fhe issues of the Block
community during these perlous fimes of massive incarcerafion. stepped up.
police repression and economic depression? Come to the fhree-day 8-PAC
(Black Pofiical Action Committee) sponsored convention Apdi 2, 3 & 4, 2004, in
Harvey, at the Chicago Park Hotel, 17040 S. Halsted. Cal (773) - 445 - 7891
Thanks for hearing me out. | can be reached af:

P.0. Box 721, Homewood, IL 60430 emalt. anthonyrayson@hotmall.com
The Incarceration Holocaust

First, let me introduce myself. My name is Anthony
Rayson and 'the reason why I am here ‘really, is because I
derest injustice and love freedom. I'm a jucky man. My
father, Leland Rayson, was a bona-fide social justice
Crusader back in the Gay and taught me well.

ut, I've taken it a few steps further. I'm not
a1, that ngerested in gecting 3 corrupt, rigged systen
%o “reform,” Tt's time for fundamental change! some
people call me an alarmist. Good! Because the times
Gre alarming and 1t's our duty to answer the calll I
don’t advocate violence. That is the method of
government. The reality is very stark, but must be
tnderstood for what it really is, We Can't begin to
effectively deal with the situation until we are willing
To stare it square in the face and learn the “why” of
how this prison system works.

1 consider myself an Abolitionist. I don’t believe
in slaveryl Slavery did not end with the Emancipation
proclamation nor was Tt abolished by the snacting of the
13™ Amendment. It was merely modified a bit. Blatant
chattel Slavery was switched to prison slavery. Wage
Slavery continued on. Read the 13 Amendment very
carefully. Slavery is still very “legal” and
“Constitutional!" Legal decisions by judges are based
on the clause allowing hunan slavery for the convicted!

Today, we’re in the maelstrom Of what even the
jory tower academic experts are calling the
ncarceration frenzy." 2.2 million men & women, boys &
girls are encaged in. U.S. prisons and this doesn't even
nciude those being heid in local and county Tock-ups,
court buildings and 5o on. That's more prisoners than
Russfa.” X8 ore than China and, they have Five times
as many people as we dol With 4.5% of the world’s
population, America holds 25% of all the world's

risoners. This doesn’t even include prisoners we are
olding 1f other countries. ' Add the milTions on parole,
probation or waiting to be, sentenced themselves for any
one of millions of "crimes” and you have a huge chunk of
aur people having been taken out’of the 1ife of our
Ccommunities. This helps lead to the destitution,
degeneration and the pervasive degradation, we ail see.

1t certainly has no real positive effect on the so-

called “crime rate.” The “drug war” is a
alright, but ir's‘m;nt a war on drugs. It's 3
people - our people! Don't get me wrong! Many people
§0°%he prisons on both sides of the cages are fot
angels. | BUE not a one of them was born to be 3
crimina
_The rate of incarceration among young black males
and increasingly, young black females, is truly
It more than doubles that of South
heid at jts worstl
Snatchers of the state are very well-
trained and seriously indoctrinated into belief and
defense of this lie-based, almi: dollar, slave
system. They work diligently and have vast taxpayer
paid for resources and technology to work with. These
Fesources are also enormously supplemented by the

confiscation (outright theft) of their victim's
possessions and money. Yet, we spend our time blaming
BheYoung victins 17 we aven Think about this vase,
open, social sore at alll /o

It's a deep, dark mark of oppression that we
readily accept this! Logic and strength have given way
to demtal and hopelessnessl But we can and shall
overcome! “Just a couple of months ago the peasants of
8011via Flooded into their capital and the corrupt, pro-
Anerican business interests president, had to flee - to
where al] the other overthrown dictators go to - Miami!

Let's not delude ourselves any further as to who
our real enemies actually are. It's not some CIA-
groomed dictator hiding in a cave somewherel It's the
Same system that came to our country from Europe,
decinated the Native American Nations and evil
wrenched mi11ions of people from the heart of Africa and
forced into slavery. These slaves and other wage-siaves
basically built everything up To what we see today.

It's all been slave labor and still is! The people of
Iraq hate us because they are under a murderous military
occupation. Yet, we have mice things to say about the
U.5. government, ‘even though they have stolen the 1ives
of our very ancestors, and own, our own children! We
Rust transcend this sélf-enslaving mentalityl We must
develop clarity and purposefulness. It's our solemn
duty, Brothers and sisters .

T say 4t right now. It's going to take 3
massive, sustained social upheaval of heretofore unseen
proportions, with many comrades falling along the
wayside, before we see a glimpse of a genuine “promised
Vand!” 'xt'11 take courage and heavy work!

Look what 1t took to stop the mass slaughtering in
Southeast Asial Willions of Vietnamese, fians,
Laotians and others, perished for their liberation!
Anerica left them in a poisoned wasteland. Look at all
the civil rights struggles that took plact, just In
order to change a few words in a few law books. ~These
have since been vastly superceded by racist drug lams
racial profiling, three strike laws, “mandatory minimim"
type sentencing, jobless ghetto existence, prison.
tracking in the’schools, demonizing of yoing people as
So-called "gang members and the virtual military
occupation of cur ‘hoods. We've acwally /ost 3 Tot of

rou
9" focus my attentjon and concentration on the
prisons because it is “ground zero” in the global
Strugole, here at hege. " It's the ultimate expression of
This extreme capitalist system. what is really going on
in there and what the articulate and courageous among
the prisoners say about it all, is the last thing the
ernment wants you to know about! For, as Malcolm X
s said: “Don’t be surprised that I was in prison.
weive ali baen in prison. That's what America means -
rison
PrSO thout prisons, Anerica could not get away with
a1 of the depleted dranium boabing, the forced
it
d

Smpoverishment, AIDS epidemic, ruthiess death squad
puppet regimes, the envirommental devastation,
Starvation and sweatshop misery that it so callously

forces upon the rest of the world. we've a uniquely il
Ioportant mission in the belly of the beast. A Tot
dehends:on'how.hard and:snart we are gaing o vork!
it tades don't cuc T¢I We've got to roll up-our
sleeves and begin survival programs in the hardest hit
S154%° The Tel'Roint progran of the Black panther
Party, stands up amazingly well as a blueprint for what
nacty’ to be understogd and done in the Black community.
That's the truth, folksi !
without prisons, there would be no “criminalization
of 2 generatitn, **racist drug war, Bassive round-uzs
Gespair, hopelessness. Imaginel We'd have no need for
Saapny Tawyers, Nazi judges and lizard-1ike prosecutors.
No prisons would mean we have finally won and slavery
Y287 woud.be-abolished! Tt would mean the arch-
criminals, those lavished with praise millionaires, who
<o arrogantly and heartiessly orchestrate the murder and
torture of many poor people in this world, have finally
been brought to justicel It would mean an end to state

predation.

To'get to this goal of genuine equality, we must
seriously educate ourselves in careful detail, so we can
<mpower ourseives and dedicate ourselves fully and most
effectively to the strugole and genuinely becone Red
Heart Warriors that others will feel compelled to
enulate and struggle with. We must serfously
denonstrate our righteousness consistently and bravely.

To do that, we need two things. We aust learn from
our elders, who have proven their worth in the crucible
of struggie, and we must open ourselves to the energy
passion, yearning and desires of our youth. For, it is
Their futire that is now a life or death issuel 'In
their hands rests the fate of Mother Earth herself.

They must save the world for their children!

Out of the hall that is prison, are forged some of
our bravest, most insightful soldiers. We must learn
fron the maicolm x's, Geerge Jackson's and Lucy Parsons
of today - who haven't already been killed off in their
Sleep or in their cells, beat down or drugged into
Submission. These are our warriorsi

These young black men were not born to be
criminals| >But, they Aave been criminalizedi They're
10 Tonger needed For’ el slave labor oreven wage
STave Tabor. But, as prisoners, they are worth $30,000
%0 540,000 per man or woman, per year, to an exploding
punishaent ‘industry] Their'prison slave labor, although
fncreasing, 'is but icing on the cakel This "growth
fndustry” 1s all funded by tax dollars that the
government takes from us - not to improve our
Somunities - buc to massively incarcerate ust Think
about it

For these and many more reasons, we are organizing
a prison abolition conference this August 13 - 15, at
UxE; “angela oavis s perhaps the most well-known prison
aboiitionist. We'll have electrifying guest speakers
from all over the country, such as Pam and Ramona Africa
of MOVE, Bonnie Kerness of the American Friends Services
Committae, Robert King of the Angola 3, Fred Hampton,
3r., Aaroh patterson and many others. It's time to Up
the'strugale and get real frankl

saying all that, 1'd appreciate your attention, so
e can learn from this unique interview with ojore '~ )
Lutalo of the Black Liberation Army. Despite being -
intensively tortured in one of America’s Dante-esque
super-max dungeons, he remains strong, true, focused and
totally human. T have pamphlets of his work, along with
many other brilliant prisoners. T encourage you to
contact these people and the various prisoner support
groups, The movement can only grow from the ground up!

Thank you.

~ Anthony Rayson

* The space at UIC was rescinded by their gutless
administration. We moved to Truman College and the
Electrical Worker's Union Wall. Bonnie Kerness and Tom
Big Warrior were unable to attend due to health reasons.
Aaron Patterson was set-up and arrested days before the
Prison Abolition Conference. —Kathy Kelly, Lorenzo
komboa Ervin, Randy Ryder and others, did’speak.

Don’t Become a Trained U.S. Killer &/or Casualty 3

1. Itis not like a regular job. Once you join, you can’t quit. If you do (g0
AWOL) you're a bunted fugitive and will ikely be prosecuted and
imprisoned, if they recapture you. Either kill people or be jailed!

2. Even if you join the National Guard, you'll be sent to Iraq (or
Afghanistan, Haiti, etc.) and have your stay extended, at the whim of the
Nazis in Washington, many of whom avoided service during Vietnam.

3. You'll be shipped to “thind worid" (meaning severely exploited by the
U.S.) countries to suppress and murder poar people of color - rarely to a

4. 1fyou are injured ar traumatized (Gulf War Syndrome, post-traumatic
immunizations, effects from depleded uranium poisoning, et the
‘govemment sbandons you, denies your disabiliies and refuses treatment.

S. Dueto advances in battlefield life-saving techniques, many hundreds of
U.S. soldiers are still “alive” ~ but barely. Their injuries are so severe (and
painful) that they might as well be dead. It's a “life” of etenal suffering.

6. The lraq War was based on lies, deoeit, imperial conquest, violates
Intemational Law and is condemmed by the vast majority of the world's
poople. It's a fascist occupation of another couniry, not “liberation.”

7. This vile conflagration i growing into a global war of U.S. subjugation
over all others, ‘especially those of color and other religions. So, basically,
you're fighting the rich, “Wwhite,” corporate war against your own peoplel

8. There are other ways o fund your education and start in lifs — student
force you to murder other people, (including women and childreat)
9. Thisk of your family. What would they do if you are klled or severely

wounded? What will you do with suicidal depression, permanent disability,
constant pain, the knowledge that you've murdered innocent people, ¢ic.?
10. Don'tjoin the U.S. militry! Don’t ruin your ife, just s it s beginning
1o lowsr. Vour life is yours, not the property of the bloodthirsty U.S,
sovemment! Fight for buman liberation, not corporate fascisml
PRISON ABOLITION CONFERENCE
BLACK AUGUST, 2004 CHICAGO
Purpose of the Conference /s

Last August in Eugene, Oregon ol the Break the Chains Conference,
Chivago Anarchist Black Cross agreed to host the next (3") such conference.
The first occurred in 2002 down in Austin, Texas and from that the ABC
Network was created of ABC's that are unaffiliated with ABCF.

‘Obviously, we want to further the work of ABCN and build on our ties
with other serious prisoner support groups around the city, country and the
st of our besieged world. After all, solidariy is one of the main principles
of Anarchism! Prison s the epicenter of the oppression, here at home!

Most importantly, we want to give voice to our entombed Brothers &
Sisters, their families, friends and other supporters. For, they are the most
ariculate, insightful and dedicated Freedom Fighters in this demented
soviety! We must leam and draw strength from them and vice versa. It
frehooves us 10 be there for them, as they are there for us!

Down with Gulag America!

Chicago ABC Collective

‘Workshops will deal with such subjects as: 1) how the schools
funnel kids Into prisons, 2) Mothers who are prisoners, 3) who the
Midwest politcal prisoners are, 2s well as other political Captives and
what they have to say, 4) a workshop specifically conceptuallzed by
prisoners, 5) torture of prisoners, diseases, medical neglect, rampant
Fape and beatings, etc. 6) hunger strikes, prisaner labor unions and
other inside actions, 7) the increasing targeting and abuse of politcal
activists, 8) what to o f you are arrested, 9) Control unit, death row
and the differences of the various levels, how the coercion works, 10)
he correlation of war and abuse abroad and here at home.

Many other subjects shall be explored. Statements from such
politcal prisoners as Mumia Abu Jamal and Chicago’s Kathy Kelly will
be heard. Plan to participate. Contact us:

708-534-1334 (Anthony) 708-339-7902 (Eraina) chicagoabe.org
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we’re gathered at Ground Zero, Chicago in the
Uis” aimhorteice ey sur sons.and daughtars ofF o
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standard.. But how

rward, 1ike the people in Iraq
are doing to this mnstrously evil, international
predator! Mns along with lfes has-got
not rely on gulag torture
chanmbers, police state 11 at any and all
litical and social gatherings and

ng of other countries.: That's called
which the whole world 1s against. People all
around the world are ing on our_homeg
resistance to start having some positive effect in
stopping this Wurder, Incorporated brutality.

This urban concentration camp is overflowing
with our young Black, Latino and other men and
women. The incarceration rate for black men
is double that of South African apartheid at jts
worst. It’s called by the experts, a “frenzy” to
incarcerate! In some cities, the rate of
ensnariment into the punishment industry for black
men in their twenties is well over 50XI we’
talking Warsaw Ghetto treatment! It’s worse than
Russia, worse than China. It's the worst of alll

3t not the physicil ectermination Najaf is
being made to suffer through this very day; it's a
slow death. It's a stealing of one’s 1ife and

being forced to Tive as a targeted zoo animal. 17
Crine and punishment is a total farcel Punishment
is crime, when done by criminalsl

The major criminals of this world are the ones
orchestrating this vast, criminal charade! They
are of course, beyond prosecution, much 1ike their
Jnternational genocide campaign cohorts.

Took at Mayor Daleyl 'We's the town's biggest
terrorist. He destroyed Meigs Field, dynamite
dozens of high-rise apartment buildings and threw
thousands of citizens into the strests. The cops
didn't arrest himl They watched point out for him!

only the poor get convicted of one of a
miTlion laws, written by and for lawyers to profit
Trom. "“The cops, Judges, politicians and profiteers
also gorge on this wildly profitable punishment
Sndustry, paid for in full by the cowed and coerced

yers. It’s a huge criminal enterprise, whose
only product is human misery. It's an abomination
upon the very soul of our humanityl

It's a slave system and always has been! The
13™ Amendment didn’t "abolish” slavery. It merely
moved it into _the prisons. Now the slave-pri
system is in full production.

We’re abolitionists| That means we are
against slavery. We’re against murder, genocide,
Facism, sexism - capitalism. For, capitalism is a
slave System of economics. Like the Abolitionists
of the 19 Century, we must fight this monstrous,
Slave system with a1l of our energy and fervor!

Thank youl

Anthony Rayson, Prison Abolitionist
RESTAURANT ~—x

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PRISON ABOUTION
CONFERENCE

AuquA 13-15. Truman College |
1145 W. Wilson (Sat/Aug. 14% 8-4) /|
Infroductory Statement 20
“Fight Crime!"

First, | want to dedicate this conference to the life, spirit and
loving work of May Molina Orfiz, whose life was snuffed out,
while in police custody a few weeks ago. Her memory wil
finger in our hearts foreverl | also want fo thank everyone here
today for coming. You could have gone fo the Bud Billiin Day
Parade, where 1,000,000 people are marching through
Chicago's south side. It's the largest parade in the countryl

Some of you have fraveled from far away. such as Houston,
Texas, Portiand, Oregon, Lawrence, Kansas, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Boston, Massachusetts, New Orleans, Louisiana ~
all over the countryl Some have spent months, years and even
decades in the horrible prisons of America, or have loved ones
penned up, as | speak. Some have lost loved ones in prison, or
on the streets, either kiled by police o caught up in social
violence, which this extreme capitalist and vinently racist,
sexist society, breeds as if in a Petri dish. There are a lot of killers
loose in America today, most all of them frained and employed
by the govemment.

For the obscene wedlth of the chosen few relies on the
unjust laws that only apply to the poor, heavily weighted as fo
race. Couple this with he colossal fie that oppression equals
“freedom" and you have a seriously demented, immoral
society. It is organized crime gone wild, unchecked and
beyond prosecution.

In place of genuine, mutually supporiive communily, free
will, environmental sustainabiity, unmolested autonomy and so
forth, we have a cowed couniry of order takers, relentiessly
badgered by fascist cheerdeaders. We're supposed fobe -
safisfied with a bought and sold escapist culture and Big
8rother somnambuiization, where the worth of our ives is
measured in the level of the accumulation of plasfic products,
we don't even need. For this mockery of real social life, a
monstrous edifice of oppression functions.

With 4.5% of the world's population, the U.S. usurps 30% of
the world's resources! Yet here at home, tens of millions live in
squalor, destitution, despair, anguish, hopelessness,
homelessness and imprisonment. Hundreds of milions of
people throughout the world suffer on the brink of starvafion in
sprawling shantytowns, refugee camps &/or under the heel of
death-squad fype dictatorships, mostly trained, armed and 2. |
ordered about from Washington. Chicago’s own Kathy Kelly,
who is our next speaker, just recently got out of prison, for the
“ciime" of stepping on the sacred ground at Fort Benning,
Georgia, where the “School of Assassins” is based.

The United States has a nuclear gun fo the head of every
fman, woman, chid, plant and animal on Earth. The US. militory
has aiready demonsirated countless fimes, that mass
incineration of tens of thousands of people at a fime o the
forced starvation of hundreds of thousands of children are
merely options they can, have and will use in response to any
presumed threat. They are truly pifiless and genocidal.

| think fnere are two basic assumptions you can either
accept, reject or attempt fo ignore. One is that genocide and
massive imprisonment are acceptable in support of the
American empire or they are not. The other is that the lives of
so-called “white people” are more important than those of
people of color and that to maintain this abomination of “white
skin privilege” all forms of ins! nal ciime are acceplable,
either actually fought for, as a member of the military, police or
imprisonment regiments, or acquiesced fo. Or, if you don't
have much profective melanin in your skin and pass as “white”
you can become a “race fraitor” and become a legifimate
member of the human family.

Of course, fo be @ moral, self-respecting humanist individual,
these cannot be agreed fo, which can only lead fo an
abolifionist, revolutionary perspective and conduct. Reform
may lead fo an isolated lessening of suffering and that's
important. But as a philosophy, it is a surendering to the
criminality of Empire.

Of course. everybody here pretty much knows all of this.
But, many many do not. so relentless and pervasive is the
Orwelian brainwashing, here in Amerikkka. Thisis backed up
by the quite legifimate fear of reprisals. Look at the set-up of
‘Aaron Patterson, just last week, fwo days affer a judge ordered
Jon Burge from his vacation nest in Florida fo begin fo answer
for his forfuring of suspects. At least Aaron s sfll alive, uniike
May Molin Orfiz

But overcome our fear we must. It's high fime to reclaim our
birthright and dignity, which is that of a highly inteligent and
adaptive, caring, mutually supporiive and spiritual social
animal. Social harmony cannot be coerced!

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So, why are we here? We're here fo bring out the brutal
truth concerning ol aspects of America’s most sickening secret
here af home - fhe vast punishment industry. Slavery never
ended! Check the 13n Amendment of the U.S. Constitution!
Prisoners are legally considered siaves. Lawsuits brought forth
by prisoners challenging their ensiavement by the prisons, have
been dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court, cifing this clause of
the Consfitution. It's the ulfimate in cynicism and hypocrisy fo
claim this as a beacon of rights and freedom, when in fact, it
has always been a slaver's document!

The economy is also siave-based and always has been in
Americal Corporations are fascist organizations, which fhe
polifical and legal insfitufions cater to. Tens of millions foilin
slave-fike working conditions and millions more are locked out
of even that, fipe as raw material for the prison slave system.

Amazingly, Martha Stewart got five months. Every now and
then, they go after one of their own, for the wrist siap
reatment, aithough the Tyco guy was just acquitted. Enron
can devastate fhe futures of fens of thousands of workers
without any real consequences. Meanwhile, a black kid on the
cormer with altfle crack rock in his pocket, will almost
automafically receive a fen year sentence, without so much os
ablink of the eye from a judge. This fype of “justice” happens
tens of thousands of fimes every day in the assembly fines of
injustice - the courls.

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Murder, idnapping, forture, extorfion, rape - these are
serious crimes! They're also the definition of what America does
fo people, here and abroad. The real crimes and the real
criminals, whether perpetrated by the policies of govemment
orindushry are never even thought of as up for consideration as
criminal behaviorl

S0, you have a situation where America sent 57,000
Ameiicans fo their deaths in Vietnam, killed 3 millon plus, and
ruined a whole sub-confinent. Yet, one of the arch-criminal
masterminds of this decades-ong genocide, Henry Kissinger,
can blithely state: “We should have never been there, but
that's *historyl"" During the mic-late seventies, most of the
prisoners in the states were Vielnam veterans! “Welcome
home" from ihe govemment that put you through this helll

Meanwhile, several hundred thousand young people today,
are having the best years of their lives nightmarishly destroyed
by being held caplive by the state in one of their hideous
qulags for the “crime” of the possession of a medicinal plant
that grows wild! This may very well be utterly insane, but it i the
reaiity that we are forced to deal with.

Tens of thousands of ofhers are innocent of the charges they
were convicted on, sentenced by nebulous “conspiracy” kaws.
convicted of “crimes" without vicfims, or guilty of criminal
behavior that is dealt with by the systematic crime of for-profit
punishment by a slave-based regime. This incarceration
industry, whose sole product is human misery. is wildly profitable
because itis primarily funded by working stiffs, who, affer their
companies rip off their labor for profit, fhe govemment steps in
and ips them off again in taxes. For this, we:re expected fo be
ever so grateful and willing fo offer up our sons and daughters
to become frained killers in their imperialist wars and also fo
help suppress their fellow cifizens, here at home! IF's called
“democracy!"

We're here fo network our asses off! We must get fo know.
‘each other - replace animosity and suspicion with respect.
Let's nof cointelpro ourselvesl We canleam from each ofher,
listen fo those who've been there, done that and had their
loved ones wrenched from their embrace. We need fo
embolden each ofher, gain resolve and receive valuable
instruction from those chained in the dungeons of America,
today. We have to pool our resources and support each
other's projects. Solidarity is the only way to increase the

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pressure on the authoriies fo help ourincarcerated Brothers
and Sisters gain some relief.

Of course, our big goalis fo free the slaves and get the
governmental monkeys off of our backs, alfogetherl We're
Abolitionists which means we are against slavery.

Mostly, we want real freedom, genuine justice — fotal
iberafion. We want an end to coercive authority. an end fo
oppression. People are fully capable of fiving harmoniously
without the Paul Wolfowitz's of this world and their trained
goons unleashing human camage all of the fime! We want our
prisoners set freel We want this monstrous, criminal system
abolished. We are against crime and the system that breeds i
S0, the mass murderers running the show have fo be stopped.
We need successful revolufion!

To get o there from here will require our utmost efforts. We:
must jock up our agitational and educational efforts, several
notches. We can't tippy toe, with hat in hand in the face of
this Murder, Inc. system. We must demonstrate some courage,
dedication and consistency to the communities suffering the
worst from this incarceration frenzy - fhis holocaust in the Block
community.

We are the steward's of our children's futures. Many young
people today see fheir future s one of three fhings - an early
arave, gang-pressed info a murderer's amy or forced info o
prison cell. Malcolm said it best: “By any means necessary.”

Thankyou. Anthony Rayson / Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

WE NEED YOUR BOOKS!!!

Our project depends on donated books to survive. We receive donations from
‘publishers, bookstores and individuals. We

will gladly accept new or used paperback books. We do not accept hardcover or
spiral-bound books because most prisons do

not allow them. The mst requested topics include drug and alcohol recovery
issues, English and Spanish language

dictionaries, fiction and non-fiction by people of color, queer fction and non-
fiction, abuse issues, health, arts and crafts,

mystery/harror novels, and romance novels, both queer and straight

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AGAINST THE HALSTED 3!

Robert Bernstein, Jeremy Hammond, and Neal Rysdahl

The Halsted 3 are facing false felony charges T
rosuling from a polica riot that occurred at the 11
Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade of 2004. A verbal
confrontation ensued between anligay extremists
and the queer anarchist contingnt, organized by
the Queer and Trans Caucus of the Chicagoland
Anarchist Network and invited (o the parads by
Equal Marriage Now.

The CPD ‘intervened' and
arrested the pro-queer
actiists instead of the rlot-
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'STOP THE VIOLENCE - DROP THE CHARGES!

Help is needed 1o ensure that these communlly
aclivists avoid felony convictions. See reverse
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Chicago to face questioning relative to the reign of terror and torture of
Aaron Patterson and more than 60 Black men. On this same day, Aaron
Patterson, Ike Kitchen, and Mark Mannie - the Chicago 3 ~ were kidnapped
by the feds and charged with varying counts of ntent to sell andor
distibute guns and drugs.

+Patterson announces run for State Representative. One day later, former
‘Governor Ryan (who in 2003 pardoned Patterson and others on death row)
is indicted by the feds with varying charges of conspiracy and fraud.

+The state claims that as a result of a 5 month investigation, Patterson/the
Chicago 3, conspired to purchase, sell, andjor distribute guns and drugs.
However, none of the alleged guns or drugs were in the possession of the

3 accused when arrested.

Patterson and Kitchen, deemed a flight risk and threat to the community
according to the state, have been denied bond. As stated by one of
Patterson’ attoneys in court..Patterson has produced 3 credible:
witnesses with positive stature in the community who have testified on s
behalf, stating emphatically Patterson is no danger to community and has
deep roots in the community.” The state, on the other hand which has the
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SIX REASONS TO QUESTION THE IDEA OF
“MENTAL ILLNESS” fed

U Ther's o legiimate that anythi lly caled mental ilnes—the
ondiions e clrtal dpteson, S coryie S s o
schizophrenia, atention-defict disorder, bulimia, alcoholism, etc.—i cased by a “genetic
defect” or “chemical imbalance. All the research claiming these are “brain disorders* & done.
by those with a financial and/or politcal stake in convincing people that emotional problems.
are linesses that need medical treaument.

2 Medical teatments for “mental ilinesses” are much les effective and much more
dangerous than we'e told by doctors and drug companies. Peychitric drugs don't “coect”
anything —they “work” through placebo efiec and by suppressing normal brain funciin.

nd extrema ithdrawal sympuoms. Hecioshock ganerally cases severs memery o, People
should be able 1o choose use drugs—with real informed consent—but o one necds these
reatmens. Safe, non-medical atematives ae possile, and should be emphasized.

%) Though doctors caim “mental flines s like any other illnes,” poychiary s the only
branch of medicine based on force and coercion, seeking out *patients” and treating them
whether they ik it or not, *or their own good and for “public sfety,” bocause ‘the mentally
1" may be “a danger to themselves or others. But peychiatrists can't predict dangerousness,
and self-destructive people arent helped through incarceration in institutions, secksion and
estrzint, forced drugging and shock. And since people under 18 have very fow rights, all
peychiatrically labeled youth are involuntary patients by defiiton.

9 The concept of “mental iiness" s a form of social control over people who haven't
broken laws, a way to label, isolate, and punish those whose emotional sufeing, creativiy,
‘pirtality, sexualy, or poltcal beliefs annoy or disturb others. Poychiatists function a a sort.
f emation police and what's defined as “mental lness” and “menta health” & influenced by
urrent socieal biass, not science.

3) Lk all types of eugenics, biogsychiatry is used to cover up socil injustices by
‘ocating problems in indvidual people who need o be “fxed.” Its the ultimate form of
Slaming the victim—peopl react to sociey's oppression and alisnation by becoming sd or
azy, then are eated as infeior. Why pay atention to powedwealth imbalances in the world
f youthink you've got imbalances in your head?

3 The mental health system claims that calling emotional problems medical ilnesses
il “reduce stigna® and people wil take these problems seriusly. But it does just the
spposte, convincing physically normal but troubled people that they're defective and should
2 treated diflrently for the rest of ther ives. 1 says theie pain has o meaning—is jus the
mpom of an ilines, that they can't do anything to help themselves but must ely on doctors
wd drugs indefinitely, that they cant wim 10 friends and family when theyre hurting but must
‘e experts instead. The medical model of “mental ilness” can keep s isolated fom each
ther and afaid to change the world

By Katherine Hodges (hoydenish@aol.com) 2000
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Conference Exposes Crimes of Prison System
By Lou Paulsen, Chicago.

Activiss, including former prisoners, gathered
in Chicago on Aug. 13-15 0 expose the crimes
of the US. prison-indusral complex. The third
oational PrisonAbolion Conference,
organized by Chicago Anarchist Black Cross,
featured a demonstraion at Cook County Jil,
workshops, and s impressive lineup of
speakers.

Aaron Patirson, an Affcan-American activist
andcxoneruted death row inmate, was
scheduled 10 be featured speaker—but was
being held i soltary confinement in a federal
lockup. Patierson was arested on Aug. 5 on
drug and gun charges.

Supporters say that his arest s racist frame-
u intended o demil his damage lawsuit
against the Chicago police for torturing him
and framing him for the murders of an elderly
couple in 1986,

Despite _testimony from _ ministers and
‘communiy activists that Pattrson has been an
“asset 10 the community” since Gov. George
Ryan_ pardoned him in’ January 2003, Judge
Morton Dealow, relying entiely on_the
sovernment’ asertions, has ordered him held
without bail.

Pam Afics and Ramona Afica,of the MOVE
organization and the International Concermed
Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal,
called on paricipans 1 work to free Patterson
and all the victims of Chicago Police Lt Jon
Burge. Burge has sen as many a5 100 African-
American men o prison by toruring false
confessions ou o then.

“When Aaron got out, be didn' just say, Tm
out thats cool” sid Pam Afica. “He
understood that the DA and the cops must be
cosed. We must have massive

demonsiaions at the prison aad the homes of
the judge and the DA, in the neighborhoods
where they'e scen as acceptable.”

‘She also called for unity in demanding Mumia
AbuJumal's freedom from Pennsyhvanis's
death row. And Afica people 10
organize for the Million Worker March oa
Washingion, st for Oct. 17.

Kathy Kelly of Voies i the Wildemess spake
moviagly of the women prisoncrs she bad met
‘while serving a throe-month fodral senence in
Pekin, I, for_paricipating in an - var

years, mosty fo fssttime nonsviolent offenses.

“Why are these women kept there, away from
ther_children?” she asked. "They arent
dangerous; the only fence there s around.the
vistors' area”

“The women are used as a labor force for the
adjoining male high-securty peison, where the
‘median sentence is 27 years and the prisoncrs
are locked up almost continuously. Products of
the prison industrics nclude parts for mli
personncl carriers an cages used for deportng
immigranss.

Robert King" Wilkerson of the Angola Three:
descrbed how he joined the Black Panther
Party in the Louisiana prisons in 1971, was
framed for murder and held for 29 yeirs in
soliury confinement. _ Wilkerson was.
‘exoneated in 2001, but Albert Woodfox and
Herman Wallace are sl in the Angola. Lo
peniteniary, afe being conviced i the kilng.
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DID WE TRULY DIE IN VAIN? 26

Tris i the ulimats insu! The very state against which we siruggled, the very
state that murdered us or our anarchist deals, that very state s now o b guardian
of our monument? That s beyond rony. Itis a mockery! i a dishonor to our
memory.

Remember, we are anarchists, first and foramost. Wo havo auays boen
revoutionary enarchists. We weren' “labor leaders’or ‘actvsts for Socil reform’
Most of us even rejectod the E-hour movemert. Remember our words in Albert
Parsons' Tho Alarm _in Decomber 1885: “Let us take what we can get. say our
eigh-hour friends, eise by asking too much we may get nothing. We answer:
Because we wil not compromise. Either our position that capitalss have no right to
exclusive ownership of the means o fe is.a true one, or itis not. f we aro correct,
han to acceds the paint that capitaists have the rght o eight hours of our labor, |
more than a compromiss, t s a virual concession that the wage-sysiem s ight

How can you forget ou riaf? The siats made it clear that anaichy was on rial.

Wo waro sont o the galows for our anarchist beliels. W used the trial as our forum,
7ail a5 we did againstall govemment, you obscure our words with mre cals to
govermment, wih more pasans to social democracy, wih more speaches by
eformist historians. Piease reect thar lies.

Remember Adolph Fischer's words at our sentencing. “If a centralized power-—-
government-is ruilng the mass o the people(no matior whether this government

epresents the wil o the majory of the people’or notit s ensiaving them, and a
roct violation of the laws of naure.”

Please siop defiing this monument to our cries for fieadom, ou cries for anarchy
Keep the state's boody hands off our memry. Keep the revisonist istorians and
heir commamration speeches from making our ears bleed anew. How fnal can we
make our piea? We can oy repeat ou final words from the gallows-—

“HURRAH FOR ANARCHYI"

LUCY PARSONS

Lucy Parsons, the Black woman Anarchist miltant,
fought for the nghts of workers, Blacks and women in the
UsA.

In hor speech to the founding conference of the revo-
Iutionary union - the Industrial Workers of the World
1905, Lucy Parsons paid close attention 10 the oppres-
sion of working class women. She noted how that
oppression was used by the bosses to reduce the wages
of the aniire working class: "We, the women of this coun-
ry, have no ballot even if we wished 1o use ... but we
have our labour.. Whenever wages are o be reduced,
the capiaist class uses women to reduce them.”

AL a time when the left tended to ignore the plight of
prosiitutes, Lucy Parsons told the conference that
sne also spoke for “my sisters whom | can e in
the night when | go out in Chicago”.

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THE

37
'ixngONs The Liteatare of Liberaton for Over 20 Years”
[CENTER

3 Contral Squars, Cambridge, MA 02130 ST

Lon Live Anarchy!
New Address: 259 Elm Steet, Somervlle MA 02144 B

A =
Autonomous Zone ) Jon Bekken, member
2012 West Chicago Avenue = Lucy Parsons Collective:
Chcago. 11 0063
7 sy 1998
Fetow Workers,

Momeat. 1 am wiling 10 urge you 1o withdraw this inviton, and o let Adelman know in no
ncetai trm thatyou il ot Stand dly by whilebe parades s sanders and ies against our martyrs.

Bill Adelman is notorious the whole workd over for bis fforts to paint the Haymarket Martyr as
Sellrsonian Dermoerats, lag waving Americans,eic. In ki our guide on Haymarket and in his alks be
i nover e it that the ey wee el tionarysmrcist, dicated o tearing down s

roicn captalis sysem, Instead, he ica i sea the egacy of Our movement and our Tor he
b Takers who bater bis bread. When Adelman was wandering th city beck in
Hemess the Haymarket o the Democric Pary, his goons atacked Fred Majer

emand i o Do o i 91 spcches. (Frrtly Gght Sl §000 Mer o match (o
B et sy e .

Just wo months ago Adelman and company hijacked the Haymarket Monument - buil with
Comtrbutions from anarchist workers, many of them ving i the most desperale of ircumstances - for
iaionl Pk Soics cremony naling b menment o the overents sty of s e
Adeiman and company arranged 1o have & sky pilot desecrat our Maryr' graves with pious ravings, o
Eorus and brase band sing “America the Beavtful," and 3 endless parades oflabor fakirs and
Duveaucrats and pliicians 1 sbuse thelr memory. Anarchists wheo aiended o tell th truth about the
Fiymarket Martyrs were asaslted and (realcned with ares.

can notundersand how an anarhist organization coud invite s despicable sandere of our dead 1o
Speak from 15 platform. 1 urge you t reconside thi bizane decsion.

Daley backs plan to name park after anarchist

Do i,

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Moror Dnley an Tusdsy v nioes Ly d Ark e it s Rethe 1 b ol s

raced the Chicy Pack Dot s “marker of diincion” t 508 e 3 By, Densh i

Nl mame & Kot S Mokaek, Shon e o pm— e S oo T
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i dm pto G midt o pls oo Combaing A7

AN URGENT REQUEST 23

We have recently learned that the A Zone collective has tnvited Bill
Adclman to speak at one of their cvents. We urgently request that this
invitation be rescinded in the name of anarchist solidarity and n the epirit of
the Haymarket martyrs. Picase do not perpetuate what we have come (0 view
s the “sccond Haymarket tragedy”

At the recent small, but vocal, demonstration against the statist
commemoration ceremony at the Haymarke monument, we were encouraged
by the presence of an A Zone contingent. We had vistons of, perhaps, a closer
relationship with the A Zone collective. Or were these merely {ilusions?
Iuviting Adelman tn to speak would dash any hopea of futuire solldarity.

We would not presume to decide matters for the A Zone. Your actions are
clearly up to you. We are asking you to reconsider your decision for the health
of the local movement. Passions are running high over this fssue. While we
acknowledge your right to lavite Mr. Adelman to speak and, certainly, his right
10 speak, we also fee] that the event could attract a very hostile audience which
could express its unwillingness 10 tolerate Mr. Adelman's scalpels-to-history
butchery of the anarchist legacy. The anarchist martyrs themacives would cry
out a the injustice.

You may, perhaps, be answering that uninviting Mr. Adelman would be
2n authoritarian ploy denying the open exchange of diverse points of view. Do
not be decetved! It 15 Mr. Adelman who is the spokesman, the apologist for
authority. *He has not innocently misinterpreted history. He will not be
persuaded by the gentle arguments of appreciative -anti-authoritarians",
‘Adelman, the llitnols Labor History Society. the labor politicians who spoke
the government plaquing of the Haymarke! monument, their priest, and their
brass bands, have an agenda. That is Social Democracyl Social democracy has
never been a friend o the people or to the anarchist movement. It is but one
cloak from the costume closet of the state, Mass graves of comrades from the
Urals o the Andes attest to this. These people are the enemies of freedom, the
enemies of anarchy!

The Haymarket martyrs were social revolutionarics. They lved and died
for their ideals. They made it clear at every turn, In their editorials, in their
specches, in thelr (rial testimony, on the gallows! We cannot allow the
Adelman erasure (o continue. He alrcady has his forum. He has his
politicians, his business agents, his friends In the local papers. We beseech
you not to give him yet another forum for his whitewash. Let us prescrve our
anarchist history and rescue It from the footnotes of a statist rewrite.

“Hurreh for anarchyl®

In Hopeful Solidarity,

Steve Cratg
Some Chicago Anarchists

Albert R. Parsons

Anarchisis propose to “crop off the head"” of the private-
property beast. . - . It is more than probable, however, that
n the effort to slay this “monster” it will be necessary to
“crop off” the heads of a large number of its progeny (capi-
talists), who will stoutly defend the life of their parent.
IS IT NOT COMPLETE HYPOCRISY TO LOVE
THE MARTYRS AND HATE THEIR ANARCHISM ?

LOUIE LINGG. LEAGUE €/0 5 C A
Box 163 1340 W Trving P Chicago, i1l. 60613

Hurrah for anarchy!

: “This is the happiest moment of my life!
Chicago anarchists, just before being hanged for
“conspiracy” in the Haymarket bombing,
November 11, 1887

1l you faskly ad opealy, L am for force. 1 bave lready told
Capain Schanck, i thy uso cannoss agaist u, we shall use
dynamite aainst thea.”

1 cpeat it L the ey of e “onder” of today, and 1 repest
that, with all my powers, 0 long a3 brcath remains in me, 1 shall
combat i, | eclae agan, rankly and opealy, tha L am i v
of using force. [ have 01d Captain Schasck. and 1 stand by i, it
700 cannonade w, we shal dynamite you. You lsgh! Pehage you
{hink, “you'll o 20 mor borbs " but et me sssure you | die
Happy on the gallows, 50 cofident am 1 that the husdreds and
housands o whom I have spoken will remember my words: and
when you shal have hanged usthn—mark my vords—they wil
o the bombihrowing! I tis hope do ! say 0 you: 1 dspise you.
e o et ot ows, s e propped bty Home. TOTE. LINGG

me &

Anarchy” is Greek and means, verbatim, without il
ship: ot being ruled. According o oue vocabulary, anarchy
is 2 state uf soccty in which the only government i reason.

Micuazt. Scitwas, courtzuom speech aler being sentenced
o hang for Haymarked bormbin (ater commuted), 1846

Hroever proscriben o e
of action for anther Lo (hey
is a tycant. usirper and eny
of Uitarty. Thla T precice iy
Vit cvery statute o, - -
In other vorda, a statuie 1
the oclence of ramatity, or
e Lov of wrpation.
‘Albact Pacsons

i dos ot s Mooibet doss
o mean wbbery, son, e These mon
i s, on he comewy e e
et fatars of copealiom. Ararchie
s peace and gl 1 2 Amee
s, orscilsn, means e reoranize.
8 ey upon el ol
e ki of Cates which produc vice:
0 crime. Caplalian s prohces these
il a0 s oo o o hen
o it Bvucy groat cottmcy shat
N, i v Cana e dictly impicsied s vz perpetented upon »
e i e a1
oG Gl o, e s the v bt s August Spi e by i

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o o bk the v of Vi, 1 i bar b i s
Out martys broke oo ol lew. Jodge Gy cold fod 00l
i bk which hy hadbroea,hnd b sald . The ey
5 ot o e 0 eak ay vty coukd ot afond 0
‘i o ht. The e oca were carying 0 sch o i
{ion s v b o beor o snce. They b o hm
ot e s s ot hey wer s siopod, B whele
Couy woukd b made sware ofthels scaiien. Tore o g
Tt fo 1ot e clubs (equened by the Duinsinea o
Chicago were dscssng th ssrchis. Th nevapapers were ll
ofthem; the churches lrguendy reered 1 them. 1 may ot be
Suscptbie of posive proof hat e sct lh which they were
Chared ws e oucome o the eliberaionof the s s busiss
organzations, the procaring,of the ombibrowing 1 e lying
of the blame upoa he pestfeous gialrs, herey soppng Ui

Samuel FIelden o of e ies who were sove sl ciders the ospiecs of

(€ you ace a mesber of
o propectied ciasa, you
can Cravi out of amyining
ou van. ta, for lav ia for

e that i o sy, vho-
Gvor can parchase th Lawyers,
itock the jury, and bribo

U cours can vin, There fs
cnly o 1aw for e poor,
o vits oay tha kich

Albart Pacoons

s et words cried out rom he s
il were: Tt o At s 4 e

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1 ot sgnt oy Seingsnenced o den
LEE P comemind n e | s
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coment 2 he ros Eared. Cerain s Gt ieligent con-
o o e s e i, omlrsn o
accion with the conditions prevling previouly 1ad s e e
ot . s, ht i comclusion would b fur more easonble
i drswn by h .

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Ansrchsm 3 s arc 3 och
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s hve shandonsd the way of ersng
humanity which socaists oud e 036
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Autobiography of Adoiph Fischer

4o

WAR IS TERRORISM
NNathan Mason May 30, 2004
Public Art Program

Deprtment of Cultural Affsirs 41
78 E. Washinglon

Chicago, IL 60602

Dear Nathan - Greetings! This letter is in regards to the upcoming even,
which [ believe will be held on Labor Day, 2004. I'm refefring & the
unveiling of the sculpture commissioned by the city at the Haymarket site.
Now, we've talked about this somewhat, 50 you know what I'm referring to.
Briefly, an event taking place at a seminal place in snarchist history, does
not have any ectual anarchist voices. To rectify this anomaly, [ volunteer
myself 1o articulate the anarchist position as o the real history of
Haymarket, this event and how it relates o free speech, political repression
‘nd the demonization of anerchists (among others.)

1 would like the opportunity 1o speak freely for ten minutes from the
podium of this eveat. 1 assure you it will not include any profanity or
personal attacks, aithough it wil certainly be a “reality check” type of
address. [ believe in speaking the unbridled poitical ruth!

1 have written a rough draft of this talk and plan on delivering it during
this cvent, whether I'm allowed to speak ke the other speakers or if I have
0 speak from a bullhiom, o whatever. So, these anarchist ideas and the
analysis | will bring this day will be heard and the text of this address will be
widely dissemminated. Ideas cannot be suppressed, nor imprisoned!

Ubelieve | have legitimate credentials o speak on behalf of the anarchist
position. lmmmmmdﬁn.mﬂ’pﬂiu 1
‘was valedictorian at Prairie State in 1995. [ have co-founded several
‘grassroots groups, such as STAND (Shut This Airport Nightmare Down.)
Southside ARA (Anti-Racist Action,) Chicago ABC (Anarchist Black
Cross,) ABCN (Anarchist Black Cross Network,) Southside Citizen’s
Coalition and am involved in other groups, such as B-PAC (Black Political
Action Committee,) Chicagoland Anarchist Network (CAN) and others.

I've written, edited, published and distributed hundreds of zines (self-
published booklets) and have served as the main distributor for several
Journals and newsletters, mostly working with conscious and often briliant
conferences, sehools, shows, gatherings of all sorts and continue to do so.

You may have heard how our Chicago ABC collective has been spied
upon and infiltrated by the Chicago police, along with four other activist
&roups, here in Chicago. This was in 2002. I is now 2004 (twenty years
post 19841) so you can imagine how the spyis has increased, iall
(ill\\:lh:y'veunhkndnnﬂwvilmw:‘lmi pecielly

So, I can elate 0 how the Haymarket martyrs were set up by this ciy. [
know ['m being closely watched and monitored, even though [ have never
advocated the harming of ane hair on anybody's head! [t s stll very much a
“war of words.” For, make no mistake, we arc at war, home and abroad.
With 2.1 million prisoners and daily round-ups occurring throughout the
<ountry - mostly of peopl of color, but now increasingly activists - this is a
Very serious situation. So, a person like me, with the talent and courage to
spesk genuinely frely about poitcs i essentiol especially in this ¢,
demented, McCarthy-like atmosphere we find ourselves in today.

The ideas of anarchism are growing by leaps and bounds, as they are so
in contrast (0 the lies and coercive tactis of the state and their agents.
Naturally, they try to paint us as wild, violent, dangerous, “gang-like™

wist, etc. Nothing could be further from the truth and this venue will
offer us an opportunity 1o demonstrate to one and all that we are in fact
dedicuted citizens interested in the welfare of people and the future of our
children. We don't feel obligated to live under a regime bent on war abroad
and repression at home and will not stand meekly by and allow it 10 happen!

{ realize you are under restraints yourself. Afer all, you work for the city
of Chicago! | also realize the decision to allow me o pasticipate this day is
10t your decision alone to make. But, you asked that | write a leter, 5o here
itis. Does the name Noam Chomsky ring a bell? He's recognized us the
wost brilliant political analyst and has becn for decades. He's an anarchist!
S0 was Proudhon, Peter Kropotkia, Emma Goldman, and many of the
\world’s most selfless and brilliant thinkers

1 dou't really expect much to come of this. The people you work with
have un agenda 10 “take Haymarket uway from the anarchists und make it &

fre specch issuc” however disingenuous this wuly is. | don’t speak for
anybody but myself, including other Chicago anacchists. But, | am a serious
Chicaugoland anrchist, who considers himselfa dedicated student of the
Haymarket mariyrs. L driven by a thirst for justice, peace und freedornt

te

e fiest vietins of war are the children. The second is the truth.*
Tuke care!
Anthony Rayson

hony cay son ¢ hotmail.com

fomewood, 1L 60430

.0, Box 721

warch

Revisionist History, Anyone? 43

Again this year, on September 11, many folks around the country will
‘put on ceremonies to mark the attack three yers ago. Mostly, they'll be
flag-waving affairs meant to “support our tro0ps” — our sons and daughters
tumed into trained killes and forced into partcipating in a ghastly invasion
‘and brutal occupation in Irag. Support “our” bloodihirsty, imperial agenda,
‘based on lied and greed - drunk on power!

‘Which brings me to Haymarket... For, also in this momentous moming,
the City of Chicago will host a ceremony at the site of the Haymarket
“tragedy.” Indeed, it is always a tragedy when the city sends its cops to
suppress and kill citizens.

‘The time of the ceremony, which will feature the uaveiling of a of a
sculpture of a “bomb proof” wagon, s sometime in the moming, depending
on when or if Mayor Daley shows up. Now there’s a “freedom fighter” for
‘you! He's been fighting against freedom since the day he was born!

Being sensitve to the wishes of the Haymarket Martyrs, they arc hoping
ﬁhﬁﬂﬂymwh"ﬂ!\vﬂ!iﬂehmﬂmm
increased tourism. As well, they're looking to “take Haymarket away from
the Anarchists and make it a ‘free speech” issuc” by denying Anarchists the
opportunty to speak freely.

1984 was twenty years ago, so most folks are comfortable with the idea
that war i peace end freedom is slavery. The police will get a chance fo
speak, luckily enough. They lostseveral men tha day, 100, We can console
‘ourselves, knowing they were at least felled from “friendly fire.”

Annoyingly, Anarchists are stillskulking around Chicago and insist on
their morbid habit of blurting out the unbridied truth — no matter how many
times they are bludgeoned into submmissicn. They simply will not go slong
‘with the brain dead program!

'Worldwide, most peaple harbor similar impudence, no matter how hard
we try to bomb “democracy’” into ther autonomy-loving heads. Maybe we

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Hedlo Antnony,
Hoze 1a the text of the four bronze panels that will appear on the
“layaarket Mesoeial.” It has been the incencicn fros the Start of this
project that additionsl plaques aight be subnitted by differiag groups to bo
Placed on the nesorial as tise goss ca. My and lathan Kasen's main concern.
Vith the developaant of the policy 4a to Aow plagues got aubsitted and
Sccepted ia that there is no editing of voices. The vay I sse it, a3 long as
The Tdenticy of sach statemsnt is Gleacly presented, everyons should ba sble
to"say vhataver they ploase. 1.2. The anacchists of Iilinois cosdomn tha
Pratext of thin mesorisl as o menusent to the lasve of fresdos of spesch. Wo
Uieu this hiscrical svent as a sirderous exaple of.

1911 Lot you know s s00n 23 § know something now o Chis subject. In the
Seantine, T hope that you £ind that the text below does a falr Job, in 2
Tinited space, of desciibisg an overview of the eveat.

Talk agatn seon.
Sincecaly, Mary Brosser

S172 OF HAVOAKE? TRADGEY

00 the evening of Way ith, 1936, tradesy of intecastional sigaificance
Afolded on his ite in Chicage's Haysarket produce Sistrict. As outdoor
Raating had been hAICLLy ofganisad by anscchist aCtiviscs o Protest tho
Uioient deach of Uorkers during & Labor lackost the provious day in aother
464" th city. Spactators gathared in the stroat as speakers addres
EOILceal, sCeidi, "Ing Lanor 1ssuas feca atop 3 vagon that stood at the
Tocation S¢ this sonument. hen approxinacely 173 policenen approached wich
L27SkaeE S0 Clapares the Seetine 5 aynasite oo Las chroun 1ncs chats

The idencity and atfiliacion of the person uho rhrew the bosb have never
boen datermined, but this anonyaous act had aany victiss. Froa the b
BARLc Chat follosed, seven Bolicamen and ¢ least fouc civilian bystanders
Tose thelc 1ivas, but the vicitins of the Lacident voro not linited to those
1o Jied 48 a dicect cesult of the bosblag. Tn the ftarnath, the pecple vho
Srganized na spoie at Che seeting, and others Who held unpopular political

upoincs Uaca accested and UALALFLY LELed, svan thoush hose Could be ties
©o' the ooabisg itself.

acting srganizers Geoege Engel and Adolph Fischer, along with speakers
Auguat Spies and Albart Pacsons Vere put o death by hanging. ACTIVSt Louis
Lingg aied vislently in Jail prist o his schedules sxscution. Nesting
speaker Samuel Fleidon, and activists Oscar Nesbo 4nd Michael Scheab wors
3ntenced o prison, b4t 1ater pardoned 1n 1833 by ilinols Governoe Jona
Peter Rltaels, citing the injustices of cheir trial.

Seer cre yoars, the site of the Haymarket bousing has becose 3 poverfel

Sjubel for A diverse Cross-section of pecple, ideals and moveasns. Its

l0ritilize toictas oa che Lasues of froe spsech, che Tight of public

Assembly, Srganized lator, the EiGhe Eor the eignt hour vork day, Aav
223 the cugnt S evers niman beins €O 7Y

‘ror alls it is a polgrant lasson in the

EeuaEas 10d Sonsagiences isherent L Suck Kin puisuiti

Haymarket Observations s

1 hed a nice, long address for you, but 'm going o spare you tha. If you're
imerested, [ bave writien copies and even a couple or 50 audio tapes of it 'l just
‘mention a few points I'd ke to make. I'll keep the “reality check” short!

1. Haymarket i intermtionally important kistry, ivalving the supresson of a
‘powerfllabor mavemen, ccotered in Chicago, sparheaded by srious anarchist. 1t
‘was never abont “fres spocchi” Their voices were choked by logallynching and the
crminals resposible were neverbrought 1 any ki of “fustice.” They will forever be
known as “froodom fighters” by those who genuinely strugal fo social justic, 5
exemplary, revolutionry Anarcists! That is what “Haymarket” il sways mean and
bt can'tbe tken away flom Anarchiss o those who sympathize with Anarchist idels.

2. Itis notsbout “free speech now, ither! This placeis now a magnet for Big Brother
surveillance cameras snd not place of refuge ot solace. What happened bere in 1886
‘and what it has meat since, transcends uny attenpt t trying o revise it meaning and
tumm it o a tourist trap and gateway o gentrification of the near westloop. You can and
il try, but s lie! Ptemal gratitude and strength are the legacy of these brave men!

3. The money used 0 do al of this was extoried from [linois taxpayers. 1t came by way
of isois First money, which isthe seme pile of corrapt Gearge Ryan pork maney being
‘used t0 foroe citizens out of Eastern Wil County in the Peotone arca for an urwaated,

‘umceded sirport. It could have becn a grassroots effrt, with voluntary contrbutions, but
wasa't! Haymarket will always mean what it truly means — Avarchist ove of bumanity!

4. Anarchists were never considered for paticipaion in the planning of this project and
‘nly got involved once we found out sbout it and approeched the peopie iavolved, which
‘wes after allofthe main decisions had been rade. Although, a fiendship was forged!

5. The condiions o whic th Heyaarket Mty sovely gavetheieives fihting
‘against — ‘slavery, destitution, police brutality, prison slavery, imperialist
boraran doeio of al g of u e sl o of o, .|
Dot caly il it ody, bt now st cvery sl prsoman Earty nd ot 11
forms! These threats to life Aerself, are being launched from this country, onto nur
o

6. The “Chicago 1dea™ School of Anarchisen, which these murdered men were just
eginming to aticulat, is now more important,useful and inspiring - than ever!

7. One last point. As for “eroris” - the U.S. government s the market comered!
Mayor Daleyis Chicago’s bigges “tevorst” He bulldozed Meigs Field under cover of
the otherwarldly bombing of Baghdad u cit even bigger than Chicago) and also blew
‘up dozeas of deasely populaed, (albeit miscrabl) highvrise aparment bildings,
throwing thousands ntothe strees! That i srious, ongoing trrorism - which the cops
‘merely watched point or, making a mockery of their “coocen” for ordinaryciizens ind
ll the crocodil tea piety sbout our “safety!” They truly L about everything! Statc
cime - b it captaing incsceraing, shooting, forcing human beings inlo a miserable
job,sometimes ordering young people to muder (mastly young — cven nfuat) peopie.
ere and abroad (o assault them,cc.) yingincessasty about day by day reality - i 8
‘nevr-ending, consan, global crime against the very soul of Humanity! This, the need
forour seious effont - across the board o deal with these urgent, cataclysmic threats
Hursh for Anarchy! ~ Aathony Raysoa - An *Alleged” “Chicago ldea” Anarchist —

Unheard Scaffold Address 44

Haymarket was organized in response fo the murder the:
night before by cops of striking workers at McCormick Reaper
Works, since renamed Infemational Harvester. Three days
earfer, on May 17, 1886, 80,000 Chicagoans marched down
Michigan Avenue fo spearhead the nafionwide diive for he
sight hour day. People were being forced to work ot least
twelve hours - often every day. This powerful workers'
movement was concentrated in Chicago, organized by serious
Anarchisfs... Meanwhile, the business community, their
polificians and police forces were plotiing a coordinated, Gulf
of Tonkin fype of response. Serious repressionis often preceded
by aset-up, fo make the impending victims appear as the
aggressors. Hitler did the same thing before invading Poland.

o Chcao Amachissof 139 A 1901 egravine
Ihe fateful night of May 4ih, as the several thousand person
Haymarket rally was dwindling fo a handful, Chicago police #7
were sef upon the crowd. A bomb was thrown and shots were
fired. Some eyewitnesses claimed fhe shos preceded the
Lombl One policeman was kiled by fhe bomb and several
were killed by police bulefs. Also several demonsirators were
shot fo death. Scores were injured. Only the police were
«anmed and fired weapons. | liken it to the assault on Attica,
where the assault forces killed ten guards and dozens of
piisoners. Those guards were also felled by “friendly fire."

Suddenly, coordinated police actions and round-ups
captured thousands of Chicago ciizens, supposedly involved
in “criminal behavior" because of their clamoring for simple.
socialjustice. Seven Anarchists were singled out for parficuiar
vilfication and an early. Stalinesque, although uniquely
American, show ricl followed. That's because the state wosn'!
cione. 1fs thirst ond callfor blood and pogromism confinued, s
<lid their hyenas of the mainstream rags and their industrial
overlords. A monstrous frial saw the Anarchists unwavering and
oxemplary in their humanistic oratory. Here were five Johin
srowns - all ot oncel Louis Lingg died the day before, chealing
ine judiciol hangman. There's now a Louis Lingg League!

After the rabid dog press, fed bone-lies by fhe order-givers
ot their vicarious Abu Grhaib focks of, the die was cast. These
now four men must die fo safiate the arch-criminals caling the
shots. August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fisher and George
Engle live forever in our heart of anarchist hearis! The
“Chicago Idea" school of anarchism, which they had just
begun o arficulate, resounds where ever it is known!

What s so astounding and electifying about the Haymarke
“hagedy” is the crystaline awareness and steadfost courage of
Ihese unique men. The statements that somehow weren't
censored, from fhe scaffold, thiil the souls of every single
person who longs for freedom and justice. That is what
immoriaiity means, folks. You don't “die and go to Heaven.”
You live your one and only life, here on Earth as righteously as is
humanly possible - no matter how hard the local Nais fry fo
make your ife miserable - or you die, courageously, frying!

The biunt, clear Chicago-style anarchist fruth these local
heroes called forth reverberates longer and fouder today - like
a political “Big Bang!" than at any time in our untold history!
For, we are facing the Orwellian Mammon, square in the face!
e same fype of monsters who choked their voices, are sl
running Ine charade. They confinue to fie, kill, suppress, and

lord over an anf-human system of greed-based immiseration,
for-profit criminalzation, forced hopelessness and buitin, 4§
recidivistincarceration. All aspects of our lives are now locked

downl Freedom s siavery and war is peacel

We are at the epicenter of the penultimate degenerating
dynasty. murderously creaking along, flaling and fiing their evil
‘weapons menacingly, almost indiscriminately, 1o one and all

Mass murder, the Big Lie - the profanization of everyday lfe,
isa minute by minute realiy, all across this fortured world of
ours, It exists as a function of coerclon and lies and the prestige
‘we, wrongfully, give this hallucinogenic American govemment,
in parficular. The abilfy fo think and act as a genuine human
being has been stolen at psychological gunpointl We are o
nafion on polfical angel dust We know next o nofhingl

Everybody lives nat fo be “found out” and we know more
than anylhing, what not fo say think and do. 1 reminds me of
Sartre, Kafko, Orwel, Chomsky, Churchill but more scarly, it
reminds me of that book describing the daily, forced
dreadfulness of Stanism, descibed in the revelatory Russian
gy - specificaily the middle book, enfiied Fear,

Our “goal" in ffe i fo sidefrack ourselves out of fear, perhaps
performing cute or clever endeavors, while we are busy
abdicating our responsibilty fo our chidren's futures! In ofher
words, do everything in your power o not have to fruly act
upon anything of genuine importancel And all the while, act
asif thisis not even the actual casel | would call that being a
prosifute to one's own lifel Screw signing onto racist Empirel

Wage-siavery is over and done with? Who are we kidding?
The NAFTA globaiizers, who have uprooted fhe south Chicago
fand manufacturing base, replacing it with non-union, minimal
wage jobs at a carcily, have long since fied fo Mexico. A ‘
$1.00 an hour wage (without beneiits) was stil oo much for
these sweatshop siavers to pay. so they've moved again fo
places like China, where siave labor condiifions are similar in
oppression o what the Haymarket movement fought against.
Thisis “communist” China gone capitaist, with a vengeancel
Yet. they stil have far fewer overal prisoners than the Uss. -
even though they have five fimes as many people fo
subjugatel These are ullra-exploited workers, making profits for
U.S. companies, much fike the prson siave laborers, here af
nomel But do Americans even give a damn or know what the
situation really is? Hardiyl That societal reaity - the lack of
‘conce for the human condition and a horczine-ike
ignorance of the fruth,is @ sure sign of generaiized
hopelessness, an unfought sumendering fo having your soul
fipped out of your very chest! Basic, mutual aid and o desie 1o
fight wrongs, mixed with an empathy for ofhers have been 4o
replaced by a tattoo lover-boy idolatry of the aimighty dollor
signin place of day by day moralityl This is absolutely
abominable! Honnoh Arend called it: “the banaiity of evi.”
Amerika is Ihe most ignorant, callous and delusional society
everl The siaughter of thousands, even millions, means nofhing!

What do *hard struck” communifies, such as the Block
communiies, which are under de facto military occupation,
have tolook forward to, in the hunky dory, Unbridled Snakes of
Amnesia? How about a nice prison? If you're lucky and avoid
the dragnets, you could work at Wal-Martl Or maybe, you'd
prefer fo flip burgers at McDonald'sl? Hove it your wayl You're
lovin'ift When wil the seething rage surface and erupt?

Oh, but we're beyond worrying about any of these fies.
The U.S. gods have ordained us as the “greatest country in the
world!" Besides, we have a baseball feam in second place
and a new bunch of 1.V. shows coming up! There's a new
scary movie | want fo see, fool Our polifical analysts are ex-
football coaches! This govemment boasts the biggest fiars, with
the most state secrefs, undercover agents, chemical, biological
and nuclear arsenals, which they have used oftent But, none
of the fens of millions of murders count., of course, because
state violence never counts as “ferrorism" - only the desperate
responses of the fargeted Little crime is hammered on and big
ctime is rewarded with the utmost in siavish praise.

The “problem" with anarchists as far as the authorifies are
concemed, is that we refuse to say anything but the truth! They
don’t want this infestation of ideas to spreadi That's why we
are clasified as a “ferrorist gang" by the press, Ihe policians,
other policy-makers and their ungodly goons i the guiags!
Long live lavish fies! Truthis froublel

All governments are organized crimel Taxes are pure
extortion! Laws systemafize predafion! There's no such fhing as
“institutional racism" without coercively enforced "laws!” Court
buildings are headquarters of ongoing criminal behavior,
perpefrated by agents of the stafe. If's a vast, sordid money-
making charade, greased by unctuous lawyers, proseculors
and judges. who daily rairoad young black men and women.
info becoming forfured capfives, affer the police have
rounded them all up. Remember that movie, me The Time
Machine? We are being served up fo the Warlocks! And the
amed menacers of society - fhe police - protect fhese
sickening suit-and- fie scumbags! This whole everyday roufine is

vile beyond beliefi And then - go into the prisons! The more S
horible it gefs, the blacker it gets! It screams for ail-out popular
revoltl Montjuich, Abu Ghraib, Cook County Jall are the same!

Without the morbid, crowded prisons and jails, without the
police, without the lawyers, judges and prosecutors, polificians,
economic fyrants, fhe crusading religious fundamentalists —
without all of that hideousness - you don't have “chaos.” What
you do have lack s of oppression, otherwise known os
freedom! People are basicall reasonable social animo, i left
unmolested. But, we are never left “unmolested” now, are we?

We're pressured info joining the U.S. miitary so we can be
frained how o murder people, who are very much fike us, poor
and disempowered, but they ive In counties that have
resources that Us. corporations want 1o profit from &/or have
impudent govemments, usually inifially frained o be evil by the
USS. but who have demonstrated an independent streak. OF
course, they may very well be deadly to their own people,
being predatory govemments, themselves, taught how o
repress their own people in places fike the “School of Assassins™
down in Georgia. Manuel Noreiga, Osama bin Ladin, even
Saddam Hussein had the CIA seal of approval starting out.

How and why can you give the American genosadists any
credence? How can you sif by through a decade of
infanticide in iraq and still wonder why they now might possibly
“hafe us?" Wouldn't you??? Their “crime” is that they five in
another country that the U.S. govemment is in the process of
demonizing and puiverizing, while fuming ordinary cifizens into
their bloody accomplices! How can we live like this? Where's
the goddom outrage I'd fike fo know?! Where's the courage?

That, to me, is cause for revolt on every levell I'm not wiling
fo five my one and only fife cs a disgusting anfi-human living fie/
order-takerl It's not worth any phony promise of “safety.”

In fact, I'm not willing 1o put up with any of this absurd
nonsense! It's called being responsible fo yourself and ofhers.
If's o pre-requisite of social legifimacy on a personal level. You
must start with yourseltt I figure out a way fo franscend my
fear, my fifefime of force-fed lies and hopelessness! In place of
the fascist's sick cry of - “Long Live Deathi” 1say, “Long live life,
creafivity, human decency and doing what s fightt” Il strike
out on my own and seek fhe company of real people, whether
1have fo live in the Fahrenheit 451 forest, or noft As well, Il
figure out ways to wam and educate many people | meet. For,
its a crisis situation and everything is not “ail bettert”
Tum the T.V. off and smash it with @ hammer or something!
Why do you think they are on 24 hours of every day in all of the
restaurants, loundromats, bars, prisons and psycho wards??? §7

Every last one of us is not just capable of exponentiaizing
the days of our lives. We have the brainpower to basically
figure it all out, ourselves! You don't have to settle for being a
variation of an ROTC cadet, mentallyl You can leam how fo
thinkl If you don't, your brain is just a simpleton's computer, ripe
for manipulation by the professional brainwashers.

The truth is out there and it will set you free and it should
ccompel you fo chain reaction, if you're worth your satt and
‘wiling to deal with itl Otherwise, you're in bed with monsters
and complicit in constant ciminalifyl There's no other way
around it in my, not so humble, opinion.

This latest mess of the Westem Hemisphere occupiers, wil
only get worse. There's no “fixI” Keny's already falking about
putling 100,000 more cops on the sireets and adding another
100,000 soldiers in raq. When Clinfon added 100,000 cops, it
practically doubled the prison population during his regime.
They (Clinfon, Albright, the U.N., efc.) aiso saw fo the “worth it
gruesome foddlercide in Iraq, during the 90's. Rwandaesquel

So what are we supposed to do? After all, we've got the
“freedom" to “protest" cocooned by a thousand Darth Vader
ninja turtles, ammed fo the feeth with the latest crowd
suppressing surprises, as the Nazis in Washington plot their next
evilinvasion of Cuba, North Korea, iran or wherever!

Think about it Negroponte, who is now the Mengele of lraq,
oversaw the beyond hideous death squad debauchery
throughout the eighfies in Guatemala, Honduras, Bl Salvador
and Nicaragua. But, remember also, what Henry Kissinger said
about the decade-long genocide in Southeast Asia - "We
should have never been there, but that's "history!™

So, who cares? Necroponte is mainstream now, iike the
Sabra and Shatilla butcher Ariel Sharon, also is. All that kiling
just doesn't count or impinge on our idolatry of these monsters!
Ahhh... the joys of fiving in a “democracy” where if anything,
we care too much about others! We care enough fo kil, but
not enough to bury, except maybe with bulldozers. We don't
even know or care who it is we actually kil It's just a video
game fo those involved and a ho-hum arficle in the Tribune.

Excuse mel Might ljust say, just go ahead and five the fie,
appreciate the sculpture and this spruced up area. Why worry
about what the Haymarket Martyrs said and how we can apply
it fo today's reality? We can't do anything about anything,
anyway. fight? Just snicker and think of me as some kook who
can't seem fo deal with i. Life is all about a fancy new carl -

How much mass murder, sadism, genocide, ecocide, S%
infanticide, mass incineration and so forth, can you stomach,
America? How much?? When do your dreams become
aitected with the nightmare of revelation?

s for Haymarket on this September 14", where three years
and three days ago, quite a few chickens came home 10 roost,
money exiorted from the llinois taxpayers to pay for this area,
dnsmtmginmmnmanmwammgnmm
Haymarket Martyrs so bravely gave their lives for. We must
sludy and implement their actual words, study their strategies
and work fo build @ modem-day mass anarchist labor
movement, not succumb o the nicey-nice spin given to
govemmental criminaiy that snuffed out their strong voices
and several othersl We can draw strength from their courage
and insightfulness. In fact, we need their ‘example; now more
than everl Where's the clarity and courage today that can
compare fo the scaffold death scene, here in Chicagol?

No matter how hard govemment fries fo hide their crimes or
lies about our history, you can never kill an idea that fighteous
people have died for. This is especially rue if the idea is
anarchismi Anarchism s the philosophy of universal humanity
andifs thoughtful implementation. It's the open-ended,
unrestricted opportunity for all of us fo flower as the best we
can possibly be. It's love. It's truth. it's beauty. It is everythingl

Haymarket was just another sordid episode of social
repression by a capitaist oppressor. I's happened countiess
times before and will continue fo occur throughout the four
«comers of the Earth, until people can finally put an end to if!
Haymarket is uniquely significant because of the sirength and
fervor of the voices of these Chicagoans, directly before their
forced sranguiations. Because of fhis, they remain human
exampies of the highest order. They are forever immortall

Itwon't be possible to fum these awe-inspiring anarchist
revolutionaries info mere “reformers.” Good luck frying. you
racHib fypes! Lucy Parsons wil never be considered akin to the

jerk-puppet, Ronald Reagan, Mister Revisionist historian, Bil
Adelmanl You are fruly a dumb-ass! Lucy Parsons fived her
whole life as an anarchist revolutionary - some 89 years ~ fooll
The people yeaming fo leam more about the real meaning of
Haymarket won't swatiow your labor sell-out lies. They'll know
the fruthl Shame on you, you non-anarchist, apologist/shill!
s3
The same massive injusfice that the Haymarket Martyrs
fought so hard against - wage-stavery, repression, racism,
desfitution, class and race-based incarceration. police brutaiity
- confinues without let-up today. Look at the recent death of
May Molina and the frame-up of Aaron Patterson, not fo
mention the thousands of Chicagoans that are forcibly
funneled through Cook County Jail, every single, dreadful day.
Repression is occuming without let-up every single day in every
single country at an accelerating, doomsday pace. Itis fuly o
never-ending crime against the very soul of humanityl
Nothing has changed, since 1886, as for as systematic
criminalty is concemed. The oppression and mass murder has
been globaiized and bilfions of more people are under the
boos of these demons. The technology of death, brainwash
and forture has gotten much more sophisticated and lethol,
but no real change for the better has ever really occurred.
linois' biggest “mental hospital” is Cook County Jaill The
‘economic salvation of rural communifies, gone fo seed. is
sickening prison! The options for the young, especially those of
color, are seriously stark. Itis either an early grave, a truncated
fife of self-oathing, depression, addiction, obsession with
pointiess diversions &/or prison, impressment info an imperialist
amy or a shitty non-union job at Wak-Mart o McDonalds.
There's your “American Dream" i the nightmare of present-
day rediityl This s the sign of a seriously demented and evi
society that deserved to fall ike all the past decadent empires.
The unbom generations demand that we act with alacrityl
Down with locked down Amerikkka - with their trained
forture-states throughout the worldi Down with the siave
system of laws, capitalist economics, imperial occupations,
vacuous culture and il of their putrid polfficians! For a world of
sanity, equality, freedom, solidarity, mutual aid and wild fiberty!
Anarchy - forever and a day!

~ Anthony Rayson - A Haymarket, Chicago Idea Anarchist
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Because you ate an AMERICAN living in the FREEST nation on the
entite Barch, in'a laod guarencesing ALL EQUAL, JUSTICE FOR ALL,
UNALTENABLE RIGRTS, LIBERTY, ecc.etc., if you were alive at the
Cine, vould you have condemaed the avii, but LEGALLY EMACTED LAVS

that ' permicced:
Yes/to

1. The CRIME AGAINST NIMANTTY slavery to have flourished
for 240 years?

2. Vonen to be Jatled for merely being 'bad wives'into che 190037

3. Young children to vork, and often die, in mines, flelds
and factories uncil 19387

4. Momen to be dented the Tight to vote until 19207

5. Rich and forcile lands co be caken avay from the sative
Asericans that had 1ived on thea for thousands of years?

6. Blacks to be continually dented basic huoan and lesal
Fights nctl the 196087

1f you “no' to any question chen you can accept any
posicion ich laws in America. You belleve laws should
Rever ever be questioned, even in Averics, if legally ensctes

1f you snswered 'yes' to all the questions you're a TRUE AMERICAR
an s0'must Mot be invelved in any way with Anerica's systes of
justice. Sadly, aven today many of America's lavs are moivaced by
ihe samé politics, pover, Breed and racien that cavsed the creation
Of the Tals enumerated above.

Today the most frightening and horcendous example of an usamerican
ayicen of laus doals vith the WAR ON DRUGS. As 4 TRUE AMERICAN you
of course condean any law thar 1s noe universal bucause we are the
FREEST LAND OF EARTH, You uould demand that our drus 1aws at the
very least duplicate che laws in 4 ‘less fres nacion iike Holland
You'would demand that all our lavs at least equal those of 'less
£res’ Finland vhore they imprison about 901 fewer people (per 100,000
citizens) Than are isprisoned in this FREEST, MOST JUST, HOST

ENLI ‘Country on the planet. You would demand immediate
hearings on this davescacing, unwinable and offectively racist
Prohibition. You vould demand no law sxist in America that is not
based on CRIMINAL'SCIENCE, PENAL SCIENCE and che least harshest

Taws 1n exiscance. And, you vould desand chat

in this AMKICA be mocivaced by politics,pover, §

“This 15 a court of laws...uot of Justice" Oliver endell Wolmes

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Report From Chicagoland 55

As | wrte this, it s only two weeks unfi the U.S. election. Here in linois,

aro pretty much already decided. John Kemy will got the nod hers
‘and Barak Obama wil be easil elected as Senator, becoming only the third
Black man (o join this select and powerfu, patrician body of big business
‘sycophants.

His main Democratic primary opponent, Blair Hul, and his post-primary
Republican challenger, Jack Ryan, both had their campaigns blow up in their
faces over past marital abuse and sordidness, respectively. Their views
‘wore within he allowable norms, but their personal lives, fed by the voyeur-
style of newsgathering. sealed their doom. t's tawry, unfunny, “poltis as
usual”

Jack Ryan, @ mulf-milionaire, was forced o qut, pressurad by the finois
Republican estabishment, but none of them had the guts 1o take on the task
of challenging Obama themselves, 5o thesa power-brokers ssttied on the
Rhode Isiand import, the rightwing radio talk show host & marginal
presideniial candidate, Alan Keyos.

The one man who did have a legitimate ciaim to face Obama, James
Oberweis, is aiso a mult-millonaire, who came in second to Jack Ryan, in
the heavil paic-for, primary. But, ho was passed over by his party for - get
this, being oo extrmel” His big issuo was a nasly, crude, racist,
xenophobia against non-white immigrants. “Supporting our (roops” as they
‘murder thousands of pecple n Iraq is ine and dandy, but an open display of
racism (which many whie people agree with) is a no-nol They were al
vying for the seat vacated by yet another Republican multhmillonaire, Peter
Fizgerald, who had basically bought his seat.

Barak Obama had been a rather obscure State Senator untl ho won the.
primary. He was then tabbed by the desperate Democrats to give the
keynote address at thei national convertion in Boston. This was an attempt
1o domonsirate them as a “party of inclusion.” _Moanwhio outsido, they
erected a Guanianamo Bay ~ sile open i, “feo speech” protest pen.
under a rairoad viaduct.

In other area news, Scott Fawall, ex-Govemor George Ryan's longlime
tight hand man, akready serving 6 % years in an Arizona federal prison for
extonsive comuption, has finally begun to talk to the Feds sbout his boss,
spured on by his new fiancs and former assistant, the also convicted,
Alexandra *Andrea® Coutretsis. This wil no doubt make George Ryon the
hird ex-Govemor o serve fime since the 70s, following Otio Kemer and
Dan Walker.

“This is_ highly unusual, for pofticians, athough constantly involved in
serious criminal behavior, rarely are prosecuted for & Sometimes, rival
polilians have scores 10 sette, as in Kemer and Walker's cases. They
headed commissions that wrote unusually honost assessments of the 60's
urban rebellons (Kemer) and the poice rits during the 1968 Democratic
‘Convention in Chicago (Walkor)

With George Ryan, though, i has been brazen, across the board, long
term cormgtion, highighted by the grussome buming deaths of the six Wills
children, shorly beforo his fixed election for Govemor, in 1998, As
‘Secretary of State he had sold many truck licenses to unqualfied drivers o
bloat his campaign coffers, leacing directy o this highly publicized tragedy.

In Chicago, the FAA is levying a $33,000 fine for the middi-of-the-night

of Meigs Field, caried out under orders from Mayor Daley, which
he'll make the taxpayers pay for. This was done under cover of the

otherworidly “shock and awe" bombing of Baghdad in March of 2003, He's
also embroiled in the latest city scandal, known as the “Trucks for Hie"
scandal, staring John *Quarters* Boyle and others. Boylo got his moniker
after stealing $3 milion from the Ilinois Tolway @ few years. back. This is
par for the course in HWinos, the home of Al Capone, the legal iynching of the
Haymarket Martyrs and the executions of Fred Hamplon & Mark Clark. S (,

“This brings me (o the Peotane Airport, which is polentialy, the largest
sprawl project in the nation and which could lead 10 the Atlanta-zation of
Chicagoland. This is the project that envisions a monster airport, three times
the size of O'Hare thal the stuggiing airines have never been interesied in,
forty miles south of Chicago, to be erecied in productive famiy famiand,
presenly lacking any type of nfrastructure. This s being pushed despite the
fact several Midway-sized airports aiready ring Chicagoland, clamoring for
more business. Naiuraly, the mainstream press is unrelonting in their
bleating support for this boondoggle project, which has already seen $100
milion in state tax monies, poured down the slice gates of those s
profiably invoived.

Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. is the main bulidog on this project,
which is pretty much his sole agenda. He was snookered inlo this
Republican business sprawl project by the repuisive Congressman Henry
Hyde and then Secretary of State George Ryan among other insiders, s0on
after he first became elected Congressman. This cabal of crooks is hoaviy
connected 1o the mob-un_consiruction industry, who bankroll their
‘campaigns in exchange for state contracts and friendy laws paving the way
for their uncluous, aibel “legal” social predation, which masquerades as.
‘overy day, normal business fe. What Big Business wants, they get.

Jackson Junior gave the word 1o Obamma and Keyes about Peoione and
hence forth, both have been parroting the offcial les conceming Peotone.
in Onwellan America, certain Big Lies must be adhered 10 and smaller anes
(ke Peotone) likewise accspted, to grease the wheeis of ‘legitimacy” for this.
predatory, class society.

Briefly, they ciaim an airport in Peotone will 1) solve the transporiation
‘problem, 2) provide (iving-wage, benefi-laden jobs 1o the unemployed and 3)
revitalize the whole soulh side of Chicago. Like much of the rest of the
country, the industrial base here has been uprooted. with govemmental
connivance, 5o companies could seek highor profits and lower wages in
places fie Mexico, and now for super-exploiation i places ke China,
faciltated by NAFTA, the World Bank, WTO, the U.S. mildary, efc. in order to
satiate the unconscionable greed of industry.

Wha the Peotane Airport will aciually do (f bult) is: 1) waste much
more precious tax resources, denying them for genuinely needed projocts,
2) line the pockets of poliically connected land specaators, poltcians,
developers, other business interosts, lawyers and other leeches, 3) destioy
longime, irreplaceabls, ferte, family farmiand, 4) pollute the environment
and 5) create massive, unhealthy, wasteful sprawl. For sprawl is the real
plan here. Peotone is the last prisiine piece of land within an hour of
Chicago's loop. s ail about trucks, cars, sirip mals, Wak-Marts, cookie-cut
subdivisions, warehouses, oceans of asphalt, concrete, glass and stcel
tombs, McDonald's, gated communites, efc.

This pervasive, predatory scenario exposes the lie that mainsiream
“progressives® ike Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Barak Obama, are, fundamentally
any diffeent from ther reactionary colleagues like Henry Hyde and Alen
Keyes. They are all corporatist politcians, who lie incessantly and push
businass agendas exclusively, 10 the detriment of real citizens. They are
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now also clamoring for miktaized global empie or its sad inevitable need!
Obama is aiready ominously talking about the “need” to bomb Iran and
Pakistan 1o “curb their nuciear threat.* Repubiican or Democrat, iberal or
‘conservative, they are pretty much ail elusionsl madmen, dressed nattly in
suits and ties, Tashionable” though they be ~ but, who aro (obiviously &/0r
maiciously) acceferating the timeline for World War I, the “Big Daddy” of
them ail, that wil se0 al Ife-forms vaporize or choke fo doath, except for 8
hearty species of beaties (or several thousand.) Meamwhile, they must deal
with the Heycrich-ike tasks of “administering* occupational, racisticapitalst.
tentative conquests,inraq, Hat, and beforo long, Iran, Cuba, Korea, etc

“Theis “patriotic” (read: brainwashed into

being Capital's Pinksrtons and cannon fodder) duty, compels them to
Black people and other's of unaccepiable slave mentalty, (the rebelious
kind) who have decided 10 fight They must now massively subjugate,
increasingly incarcerate, impoverish and otherwise bully, while daily lying in
a kalekdoscope of cartol cortrolled media. This defberate foroed mass
poltical confusion s designed to drive Americans to despair, imationaiity
hopelessness, atomization and blind obedience to the murderous vilains
running the show, every single day. We are iving i the time of Big Brother,
o ten, but twonty years after 19841 It so amazing that the mere whif of
ruth is treated as more horible than the daily mass murder caused by this
hidsously aggressive govemmentl

These politicians cannot be substantialy dfferent, for they are the eite
members of the system and since the problems are systemic, they are not
wiling to go anywhere near the oot causes of social problems. For, the
system provides them with power, prestige and privilege. In retum, they
‘have wilingly fofoftod thoi crodibity and legiimacy to the peoplo, g to
us shamelessly, while making deals for business and unieashing economic
and miltary aggression around the worid fo ensure compliance. Whilo they
are pampered in opulence and splendor in the august corridors of power in
Washington. thousands die of starvation and preventable diseases daily
throughout the workd, due o their policy docisions.

At a recent black tie gala at the Conrad Hilton in Chicago, put on by the
Hinois Environmental Counci, Barak Obama was the keynoto speaker. He
‘was praised for having a 100% voting record environmentally, white serving
in Springfield. The IEC has avoided Pectons fike a social disease and
spends_their_coporate grant money funded fime schmoozing_ with
legisiators. They congratulate themselves for their minor role in enaciing
‘meaningless legislation designed fo mask the rampant ecocido being waged
by industry (with govemmental connivance,) with a fow minor industry
checks and regulations, buried in the mountain of pro-corporate laws. These
laws, which logisiaors don't oven read through, allow linos ndustry o rape
the environment and fleece the citizens, in their never-ending quest to
maximize profis. The same happens in every other state, with the most
devastating effects levied on poor and Black commurites, Native American
areas, berios, and particulary, ofher, nonwhite couniries. _Economic
exploiation and ecocide go hand-in-hand, locally, nationally and globally

1 attended this fancy gathering and sat with the table of actual grassroots
environmentaliss, invited at a reduced rate. Thare were four Blacks at our
table and only two others in the whale rest of the packed balroom — besides
Barak Obama, of course!

Aftor this disgusting, near hero worship display, | got a chance 10 speak
with Obama. | said: *| don't want your autograph! Just answer this question
for me. How can you considar yourself an ‘environmentaist'and il be for
the Peotone Airport? I the largest sprawl project n the counry!” | handed
him @ booklet | put together analyzing the complex mess these prodators
have made and what can be logically expected. He repliec: “We'l alk.” S'3

‘As for the status of the people and land around Peolone, llinois offcials
are waiing for a bunch of pre-defermined environmental siudies being
conducted by the FAA, which will pave the way for llinois offiials to get
more aggressive with the acqisition of land in the “footprint” They are
trying a “foot in the door” policy of acquiring 4,200 acres in the heart of the
“footprint,” 50 they can slap down one runway and a smal temninal, before
eventually expanding o a huge 23,000 acre mega site (37 squars miles!)
“This,in the richest soil on Earth!

Personally, | feel, since the domesti aifines can and won't use this
airpor, even if buit without their money, this airport migh eventually be used
by the federal govemment to long range bomb countres in the Middle East
and eisewhere. They are now busy buiding 17 major airports inside raql
So, our famiy fanms wil be transmogrifid into a massive Kiling field from
afart

They have been “lanc-banking” this small section, acquiing_roughly
2,500 acres of i along with other parcels in the larger foolprint.” This has
been done through scare taciics, threats, economic pressure, misinformation
and so forth. Once the Feds give them the green ligh, they wil pursue the
rest of this land more aggressively, using *eminent domain” and if need b,
“quick take.> This wonit happen uniil about 18 more months. Then they'l
force homeowners and famners, some who have been farming this land for
‘several generations, into the street. Sowe'll have o be prepared.

Recenty, they shaved a couple of thousand acres off of the huge
“footprint” and wil sell back some of the parcels of land aiready acquired.
‘This was in response 1o pressure put on the siale by the Gitizens of the
Heatherbrook subivision, who have mansions on the edge of the footprint.*
We'l argue that all of the land cosroed from ciizens for this project be
fetumed 1o the not 50 “open markeL" At least some of this land should be
tumed over to Native Americans who were murdered off of this land in the
firt place in the 1800's. Free the fand!

In the meantime, we'l hold an educational forum in Pectone in the spring
of 05. We'il have experts on farming, high speed rail, the airines,
environmentalists, land, ar and water speciatsts and activists to analyze the
situation from a pro-citizen standpoint.

What should_happen, of course, is that cilizens realize that the
‘govemment is nothing more than organized crime, preying on people and
dostroying everything in it path to accommodal their capiaiist bosses. As
all laws are based on ‘private property” of land ownership, the whole history

of American society is an uninterrupted story of thefl, pillage and murder.
We must retum to native ways, end this global criminality and retum the land
and the bounty it produces 10 the ightful owners — everybody and nobody (in
particular)
Anthony Rayson - co-founder of STAND
‘Shut This Arport Nightmare Downl

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It was very strange and | had to get these weird pills, which
cost $350 per month! Luckily, I have decent mediical insurance
and they “only” cost me $35 per month. They say it takes
several months to “heal” and may never heal completely. So, I'll
have a permanent arthritic-like condition in the middle of my
hand. After almost five months, it is better, but I still can’t make
a fist and that hand is partially disabled. For the Incas in the
mountains of Peru, this condition affects 1 out of a thousand, per
vear,

This led to my looking more closely at my health in general,
setting pills for high cholesterol, getting a stress test and so on
But, even at 51, I'm pretty healthy, and I like to think I don'r
have “one foot in the grave!”

The conference came, we had a rally and march at Cook
County Jail on Friday the 13% had a full day of speakers on the
14" at Truman College (moved, as UIC had gutlessly rescinded
our agreed upon space there.) We had a cool show at the
Peoples’ Church that night, another post-party party on a rooftop.
ofa loop office building and more discussions and workshops
the next day at the Electrical Union’s hall. We had a lot of
excellent tablers, three people videotaped the proceedings and a
lot of good things came from it. It was nice to meet and talk with
other people, especially anarchists from around the country who
do serious prisoner support work.

There were problems, too, of course. It was under attended.
some workshops were cancelled and there was a nasty situation
at the show.

The next month, September, saw the unveiling ceremony at
the Haymarket site. All during this period. I was in contact with
the people organizing this event, to try to get some input from
actual anarchists, T did speak at this cvent and maybe thirty
anarchists attended this ceremony. So, these things are what this
zine talks about

I ended the zine with a report about the sordid situation, here
in Illinois. about the clection campaign and the ongoing sicge of
the peaple living around Peotone, which has been targeted for
monstrous airport. [n a couple of days, my brother Jim. my
friend Mike (who | started STAND with) and [ will so up to Lac
du Flambeau Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin for a
fittle time off.

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