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![Drugs piay a huge role in this too, because many drugs have a strong_effect on our thinking and behavior. Heroin was brought in Fron the Marseilles Wafia in the wake of the massive bloodletting of WWIL, Air America was the world’s largest airline during the Vietnam genocide and they routinely brought a F1oad of heroin into the States, sometimes inside the bodies of dead CLIs! L renember seeing pictures of junkies spraxfed on stairwells, when a particularly pure dose was brought in. Cocaine and crack were brought in to the inner cities, once again, at the direction of the U.S. government, to destroy the environment of the Black community. ; Tt takes SO0 times as much powdered cocaine (white) as crack (black) to get the same mandatory sentence. Crack is a very strong debilitating drug that ruins commumity. Making it so hyper-iiieqal, makes" it Very ‘sasy’to"round-up Whoever the police are ordered to round-up, in that community, in particlar, | Tt’s che epitome Gf the term “racist drig law.” With no other real "legal” form of comnerce, dealing drugs are forced to be a major part of the economic 1ife in the -hood. Even though most of cthe drugs are sold to white peaple, 1t is black people who are imprisoned and murdered because of them. Black women are now torrenting into prisons, leaving their young children without mothers, in a slave-1ike acceleration of the punishaent industry. An’environment without love or hope is a doomed environment. Add the fact that these communities also suffer the 1ion’s share of industrial waste dumps and inferior everything, and you have a systematically degraded environment. Fundanenta] to the “war on drugs” is the v.s. goverpment’s attitude towards marijuana, This plant is the moSt complex chemically, in_the world, is the most useful, and quite possibly, 1s also the most vilified and i1legalized: Hundreds of thousands of people are rotting in prisons because of it, depriving their comnities of thei ehergy’and Good wil1. | 1t’s denonized because 1t doesn’t debilitate the mind and can’t be controlled by the government. People can grow it anywhere, Inside o out. It de-connects people from the madness of eality” each other restraints. " W The potential positive uses of marijuana are not allowed to be seriously (legally) pursued. These inciude clothing more durable ‘than cotton, food, fuei, a cornucopia of medicinal applications and last and’most frowned upon, recreational uses. By makin? this wonder drug so wildly illegal and denying it to be usefully applied, we are stuck with a horrible alternative, Extremely poisonous fossil fuels that are non-renewable, are our main sources of energy. A genocidal military occupation, world- wide really, is choking Tife to comandeer these sources preferred by the o1l-based industries. i Most ubiquitous are the legal drugs. Huge industries push dope on people for every dreant up malady imaginable. New “diseases” are being conjured up a11 the time and powerfyl, expensive drugs are being churned out of the labs o deal with them. * Basically what these drugs do is turn the user into a heart beating control unit. School kids on Ritalin, moms of yaltum, Teroubled teens” o haldol - you nase 1t pécpTe-are on u drugs for it. 0ld people carry around whole bags of pills they can’barely choke down every few Mours. o 4 d thus, is dangerous, as people talk and relate to ‘outside the box” of psychological and legal](Thought Bombs 24 - Anthony Rayson 7.png)
![g And_like everything else, the prisons are the centers where contro] and eppression are supreme. = Prisoners are strapped dom To be Torcibly drugged, out on torture chamber units, where the intent is to literally drive them insane! ’Mnmflwnnn are strapped down while they are delivering their jes! Yet, iTlegal drug use - marijuana, cocaine, heroin - in prison, could very well be more rampant thin outside of prison. Prisons aren’t about “crime control” they’re about for-profit repression and are, in fact, a huge, government-run, criminal enterprise, wildly g;vfiubh and completely paid for by the ripped-off Think about these prison environments for a moment. People screaming day and night, rape and the spread of serious diseases, such as AIDS, hepatitis, venereal diseases and everythidg else is ep‘fi:l‘ic{ as ;f deliberately cultured 4n a etry dish. Violence, . bitterness, essness, self- Jeathing are Coupled with the Schooling of criminality. useful mg:fl. ul\d!l“ thmnl‘i“’me envi rwlll-\:, have been Mt_mw. o real re on, no_re-entry prograns. are left to Tive or die in this minimalist nr!hom siwifin:{ Then, after often many years consuming the prime of their Tives, they”are Tucky and spit out of their dungeon, they are shoved into the glare of day, withaut any clothes, housing, job or money with a vast array of laws and stipulations pretty much Quaranteeing they will shortly return for some parole violation or new “crime. That 15 2 never ending poisoning of the environment of ‘these communities. First you snatch the young, dynamic men and alarmingly women, force them thi this horrible prison hell and dump them back into the community, shell shocked, embittered 26t Dack Further from being a positive asset to the commumity. In Amerika, they torture and try to kill the spirit of people, whereas in’El Salvador, the U.S.-trained authorities were allowed to go all the way - torture and kill and leave the mutilated bodies for the vultures to pick over at the dump sites - just Tike the U.S. perfected in the Phoenix Program in vietnam. For, a community cannot Tive without spirit - without hope of genuine humanity. Todly 15 March 6. ’In yesterday’s Chicago Tribune, a spokesnan for the Chinése government was quoted Country should exclude 1 as ights deve L e a7t 3o the incarmation of i Jopment process or view itself as incarnation of human rights ‘that can reign over other countries to the others.” It was also stated that the U.S. commits wanton slaughters during external invasions and military. ” This would seen pretty obvious, but it was presented as outrageous talk, o brainwashed and beaten down have made most all Amerjcans. How can a sustaiming environment be achieved under such conditions? s . We know that capitalist industry is 1ike a heroin addict in that to continue on, it mist expand, a3 its whole, modus operandi is driven by the guést for profits and not what the world actually needs. Mountains of non bio-degradable garbage, plastics, metal, radio-active material, etc., etc. continue to SccumuTate, wasting our dwindling natural résources. Wars and w@lk of sofe wars are quickly looming. It’s an across the board ecological and social tsunami in the making. How can we at least begin to stop this death ship from hel17 1 contend that yes, we ai \ar, or rather being attacked by the U.S. government mainly and the worldwide systen](Thought Bombs 24 - Anthony Rayson 8.png)
![of exploitation in general. I also find a lot of truth in the maxim, “the first victim of war is the truth and the second is the children.” ‘where do we find these victims - the truth and the children? where does the government take the greatest pains 0 keep us from accessing? It’s the prisons, folks! Many of the most articulate and courageous thinkers and § doers are the most locked down and kept from us. Once they faise their voice, they can expect severe, reprezsion - beatings, transfers to control units and supermax clinical torture chambers, forced druflw“n‘ sshackling, and other unique to the U.s., techmiques. As well, a huge percentage of the young men from the most oppressed communities - Blacks, Latinos and Native Aerican men, and increasingly women, have béen ensnared in big city round-ups and_throughout the country, really. In Feservations, rural comunities, along the U.S.-Mexican border, suburbs - anywhere, people are Continuously being fed into the maws of Mammgn for their for-profit punishment industry. So, really, the vibrancy of these communities, even though separated sexually, exists in the prisons of America, today. Everything is concentrated from the violence and cruélty, to the Tove and insight. Meanwhile, the Comnunity they came from is Teft without direction, fearful, subjected to low-level occupation, surveillance, econowic hardship, constant braimwash, desperation and ignorance. Grassroots groups have a terrible time trying to get off the ground to do winely useful comunity support work. For, the young Tions and the wise elders that they so vitally need are in prison! The captives’ {Ill‘ es hfvl a difficult, daily struggle just to keep on ying on P Rat is_why those of us who have battled through this Tifetine of 1ies and have regained our ability to think, overcome our fear and are thus capable of contributing our unigue’talents and interests for what people - (and all gther soctal animals have always done) - naturally feel compe]led to do, volunteer their services for the community, should focus on the prisons. This is where the kevin (Rashid) Johnsons and the Jeffrey Leurs are atl To rebuild our communities and develop serious resistance reguires that we collaborate closely with ‘these brave and brilliant prisoners. N ‘another debi1itating 1ie the government constantly hammers into us is that gnsnnlr! are our worst enemies, when in fact they are culled from our own families and communities. wMostly, they comprise poor people of calor convicted of non-violent often victimless "crines.” Yet, every night on the news, the big headline story is about the latest gruesome murder. ’But, of course, you never get the same treatment of the innumerable victims of the government killing machines, the industrial accidents or what happens in the prisons, where people die Tike flies behind the razor wire, We believe and worl r the man, just_like the slaves did - in between revolts| Incarceration itself is a vast crime -?flnst humanity and of nature! No other animal does this to itself or others. "It’s anti-1ife and meant only to oppress, instill fear and keep a monstrous regime in power. To su(czssfu“‘ overcome this horrible reality will require a reversal of this brainwashing process. we must break out of our atomized existence and learn to be real people again. A1l the struggles in the world are connected and it takes effort to seek out those who are knowledgeable about them and sow connections. Solidarity, a basic anarchist tenet, is_extremely important. There’s power in numbers and that’s it it will](Thought Bombs 24 - Anthony Rayson 9.png)
![take to umask this shan government for what it truly is = o criminal beyond comparison 5 government s incréasingly targeting activists and organizers, such as Ward Churchi 11, Anarchist Slack Cross, and others, more and more of these people will become prisoners. For truth is powerful and is considered Tike water to a wicked witch. | S0, 90 to the prisons for the real truth and assume whatever girbage you see and hear fron governmental mouthpieces are 1ies, because, almost invariably, they are. Prisoners have experience with deprivation, lack of resources, repression and so forth, and these coercive tactics will increasingly be forced upon those of us on the "outs.” Prisoners have adapted to their situation in ways that we need Io learn fros. How do you cook food on a heater? How do you barter coffee, stamps, food, and various services to get | you_need? How do you’adapt’to such a restrictive situation and 5ti11 keep your sanity and sense of self? How can such a_ repressive environment be tolerated and how can contributions to our brothers and sisters still be made? We need to know how to do these things! . £l one thing that really frustrates me is the obliviousness of outside people to the powerful education that prisoners are capable of. I focus a lot of my attention helping get the word GUE of the gulags (and back in-3 ~They know what the deal s and they are grateful when they come across this vital, empovering information. They start study groups and read zinés unti the pigs confiscate then and then they write their own, Peaple on the outs seem to care only about how “professional” a zine looks and not what the ideas ‘are screaming about! whg 1s really in prison here, mentally? Every day, life on the “outs” is a poisoned pen of sheep, who don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. without the humanity, freedom and counsel from conscious prisoners, I’d be in a constant state of dread and despair, personally. . The Tabs where monkeys (and mice and all kinds of animals - dogs, you name it,) are forced to have gruesome experiments done on them which will destroy their 1ife, is, was and always has been, duplicated by people, on prisonérsi’ Mengele learned his techniques from his august mentors and colleagues - from places Tike Indiana and california, who cane to Germany to teach him their techniques. After the massive slaughter of animals, (most gruesonely humans,) the victors of World War II (the U.S.3 snatched up the bést and the brightest Gernan "scientists” to Jearn the latest ‘techmiques in everything From developiny hydrogen bombs to the latest in sensory deprivation in the clinica] prisons and madhouses. Restraint technigues, subduing people”in crowds, - many of these evil police tactics we’re seeing more of today - high-frequency concussive blasts into crowds, tazers, mass pens of "pre-emptive” arrestees, etc., are developed after experimentation on prisoners! who better o Tearn from than the initial victims themselves? The modern technology of sadism, brainwash, control, atomization and sbfuscation is an evér-expanding and a1 enconpassing field of "research.” The shock and awe ghastliness of this government knows no bounds and the tens of millions of nurdered human bodies vaporized in various Nagasakis or left to be eaten by starving dogs in Fallujah, bear grim testament to this constancly bejng reinforced factl The U.s. Js fascistic, or if you prefer, “democratic” which only means militarized corporatism. sham elections don’t affect that.](Thought Bombs 24 - Anthony Rayson 10.png)
![along. Take away a third of our young black men in their Tnenties ~"in Same areas the percentage kidnapped is well over SOK1 - and then warehouse them in countless prisons, and your “environment” - the ’hood - has been effectively decimated. cami Iy menpers have no brothers, sons or husbands to deal with he virtual occupation and forced immiseration of their ‘expendable” communities of people. 12 "*“Increasingly, it’s the young women, mostly mothers of young children, who are wrenched from the embrace of their families and forcéd to Tanguish in a cagel. The governaent {3 a menace to ife itsel - 8lack folks face the extreme, but all of us are likewise _ being menaced and targeted; < this systen devours everything in its path. So, we need to fook to the most oppressed in this nation (Blacks, natives, women, undesirables of every stripe) and assimilate their analyses of their experiences, So we can thoroughly build a conscious counterforce of life, love, Tiberation and giving humanityl 3 Where is the Panther-1ike strength going to come from, if a1 our young black men ars targeted as Toangstast” what ire their children going to do7?? what more can the grandmoth do? It’s Warsaw Ghetto treatment in the U "Jobs” ioke, as these Insatiably greedy bastard mega-corporations have ipped tom, o Mexico and now on to China for Super axploitation. State of the art factories are now sophisticated sweats| But, the horrendous working conditions are often “anina ¥ Alienation is ct These stalags are everywhere nowadays, particularly in rural areas, the really Expansive ones, and affect everybody! They idnap"their young bounty usually’in urban argas, 2 opporzumities for round-ups for a million and one “vidlations® of their pro-slavery laws, abound. Rural areas have been besieged by corporate farmis and the government pretty much has people where they want them - atomized, television-watching Worker bees, to afraid to even know their neighbors much. Prisond cone and the gioving promises turn nto mightmares. Abrother we were able to help parole (a real rarity) in Alabana, was telling me about a struggle they were to try o prevent to erection of a prison. He said at first, the prison builders claimed they were constructing a strip malll The politicians, gutless wonders as ever, never fail to crow for this greased wheel deal, of a prison as 4 means of “economic development” in rural communities. The whoring-out of these hyenas gets shriller and ever moré hoarse, so naturally, we mist all acquiesce, as our conservative press tries to - disdainfull 2 explain to Us. put your "bi em home” ribbons on the bacl of your Suv ‘and don’t cirink anything of it - Condoleezza Kice, George W. Bush and Paul Wolfowitz wil] “take care of things.” Kissinger is always there for "advice” thank G-0-0! A prison is the kiss of death to a comunity. They bully the whole councry (and Tess convincingly, the world) with an unhealthy, deliberately ruinous, waste oblivious and punishing mindset. They also pollute pitifessly and “egally” cut local deals so they can maraud over all areas, economically and culturally. I’m talking about all the industries, factories, prisons, animal farms, military centers - all of itl’ Our hard work is exploited for profits, then taxes, 5o industry and government can ruin our communities, force us into being their 3ailors and soldiers and wreak devastation on our brothers and sisters all across the globe. Democracy in bloodthirsty action!](Thought Bombs 24 - Anthony Rayson 12.png)
Thought Bombs #24
CoverArt by Todd Taylor
Greetings! Here's an Introduction
I already early June. Since last October,as usual, Ive put together
several zines, mostly as an editor and organized &vr just participated in
several actions,as usual. On Martin Luther King s actual birhdlay, January
15%, we picketed the Land Acquisition office in Marteson, IL. Two days
Jater, on the ofical Monday holiday, our union SEIU local #73, picketed the.
“Taj Mahal" - the imposing corporate-style edifice o the Tollway. Both days
were one-twoas the coldest days of the winter! The Tollway had been
called the ‘worst employer’ for the second time in five years - rather
impressive in a huge megalopolis! As for the Land Acquisition Office, new
pressure had been put on the footprint” esidents by [DOT and the various
circling hyenas yapping fora piece of the speculative action, down here in
Peotone. Everybody should know these folks aren't going to cave in to this.
On Lincoln's Birthday, February 12*, we picketed the Rainbow PUSH.
‘headaquarters on the southside, s Jesse Jackson, Jr. scolded Mayor Daley
about cormuption and pushed the Peotone Airport. This building was buil:
tolook like theJustice Department, in Washingzon. On the front is an
sctual dollarsign (5) giving one and alla good idea of what the Jackson's are:
realy all bout. Jesse Jackson, J's ‘mentor’as far as congressional politics
are concemed, i the unctuous, longtime reactionary, Henry Hydel
“The cops wouldn't e us assemble across the street, but pushed us about
ablock away. The reason was an obscure ordinance’ satinga picket line
could not be formed within 2 lock ofa ‘service® and a half hour before and
aferit. What Jesse Junior was doing (preening, mainly) was considered a
“ervice.” Ughi Also, we couldn't use our half-mile howler’ according to
another obscure ‘ordinance that the cops said they never enforced, bu that
PUSH asked them to, oday.
Pretty sorry comedown from Martin Luther King, Jr. days,chis Jesse:
Jackson, Jr. display of policical gutlessness - hiding behind the cops and a
bunch of fre speech squashing ‘orcinances!” We had middle-aged people
and afew quite elderly people forced to wait around quite a while i the.
snow and slush, but we didn't go away, like they were hoping, There was a
scrong media presence covering Junior, o i kinda worked out perfect. | had
astrong statement read as they were coming out and they filmed and
interviewed us, It made a eality check counterpoint to the sripted
showboating of Junior. It pathetic that he claims to be a ‘progressive” yet
his main endeavor is being the main shllfor this pointless airport out i
Peotone. The same could be said for thatfraud of a ‘progressive” poscer boy,
Barack Obama. They've whored themselves out to the establishment!
In March, my homey and [ went to Cincinnati for the Solidarity
Conference. Tha was cool! We had two complete large tables to spread
zines out with, as did the Cincinnati Books 4 Prisoners Crew.[n Apri, four
ofus were invited to Beloit College to partcipate in a forum on the prisons.
Besides myself was JoNina Abron, longtime activist and former editor of the
Black Panther paper, Jack Slowsiver o the Books to Women Prisaners
project, in Chicago and Randy Ryder, executive director of Fresh Start,
transitional housing for recently released prisoners. He broughta recently
frecd, longrime inmate, who s incredibly talented as a rapper. His words
were 5o powerful, the tears would role down your cheeks!
= FSY
Tableaux of Contentions
1. Greetings & Introduction 2559
2. Slaughterhouses and Prisons for All the Animals 4-14
3. Illinois Tollroad Workers & SEIU v. the Authority 16-19
4. PUSH & Predatory Politicians vs. Family Farmers
SCOFF / Principle Pushers / Progressive Politics &
The Plundering of Peotone 20-25
5. Beloit College Forum / Truth is Revolutionary 26-29
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Empowering Prisoners 32-37
7. Interview by/with Anthony Rayson 38-41
8. Education Without A Lesson Equals Educationless
by Talib Y. Rasheed 42-45
9. Joining the Military is Hazardous - Northside A's 46-50
10. Draft Joint Resolution on Prisoners’ Rights by the
Red Heart Warrior Society & Black Brigade 52-54
11. Greetings from the Turtle Clan 55
12. Friends, Comrades, Customers & Assorted Others:
Rundown of Ward Churchill's work, from AK Press 56-57
13. ABC Network Contact Addresses 58
Oriicopyright Published on June 14*, 2005
Edited by Anthory Rayson freetoprisoners
anthonyrayson@hotmail.com
The latest issue of Off The Hook, newsletter of the MPLU
(Missouri Prison Labor Union) May 2005, is now available.
Back issues, many other prisomer publications and strong
political zines are available through So. Chicago Distro.
slaughterhouses and Prisons For A1l The Animals
capitalisn can only provide the “freedon” of the
charnel pit and the “democricy” of the mass grave. Driven by
slavery of all sorts - prison, chattel, contract, wage, sexual -
you nane 1t, the “market” is vicious and fights over the meat.
Animals are treated ghastly, Mengele-esque. Or more accurately,
Tike on. Their species are altered genetically and in
general, 3" grussone 11fe of many kinds of suffering are punished
Upon these innocent victims. They're crammed into tiny cages,
(unstanߴ i for breeding purposes and have their offspring
|{le15! Forcibly fattened, confined, drugged and hurried up for
slaughter. .
‘The only check on this monstrous behavior at this st: of
resistance i3 retribution, because anything goes in capitalism
and you can literally choke the life out of your prey and sell
then to be devoured or have their skins be swarmily worn as
adornments, in_the never-endi st_to maximum profits. It's
the "miracle of the 'free’ market.” The laws “regulate” this
holocaust of fi)r-gwf“ suffering and butchery. “Animal
crueity” only applies if you abuse a pet. rwise, you can
have a mountain of carcasses as a by-product of your'enterprise.
of course, it doesn't stop at the torturing and murdering
of four-Tegged aninals. people are animals too, subjected to
the horrors of forced inprisoment, slavery, starvation, all
samner of umecessary suffering, eiperigentition, R
commodi fication - as are all rest of Tife - plants, fungi,
bacteria and vi ru: It's really an amazing reality that thé
people of the present Earth must deal with. It's very complex
and the technology of braimwash and behavior modification are
highly refined. "It thus takes a response of equal int ty_and
clarity, bubbled up from the underground up! For, Tife itself -
3 very drgiastic panorama of options, is based on'mial aid"
not the "survival of the fittest” like we've been lyingly led to
bogusly believe. Evolution couldn’t happen without cooperation.
8ut, extinction - especially nowadays in the age of the neutron
bomb, which kills people but leaves buildi intact - is a
fli!t‘ndxfisibi“ty. as a lying, dying murdering system goes
through, their disqusting death throes.
we're all grivflx threatened by the otherworldly murderous
intent and “"star wars" capabilities of the U.S. system of neo-
con warlord wannabes. These evil entities are most notably, the
state - politicians, Tamyers, judges, cops, prosecutors
tali
wardens, jailers, capitaliststring pullers and so, sickening
on. Every Tast one of then is 3 Tascist enemy! “Lirge
Corporations predorinate and set their agenda in their mahogany
boardrooms for their sycophantic media and the other means:they
use to instill compliance and acceptance. Academia, even
“radical” nests are centers for the inteilectualization
genocidal policyl vulgarity of reality is supposed to be
calmly, unthinkingly accepted by those watching their family
members die in front of their faces, because or this. After
al1, we have the "freedon” to inteliectualize about it. ugh!
They develop the "research” that enables worldide “efficient”
capitalism. Let's not forget. NAFTA and the World Bank are
there to “Solve” the problens of third world "poverty.”, Witler,
0 wonder you were so damned jealous. Your dream of a "Master
Race” has realized. zeig Halliburton!
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Al aspects of coercive social life, such as the schools,
the military, - even culturally, such as at sports evengs, o
the radio, movies, etc. show us the constant, repletion-
hamnered, nforcement of the " ess" of their lied about
Gause, - ihe washington,run, global Tnternationalterrorist
canpai pillage, theft, exte on s, Those
alTomad o b Tefe alive, Should wear our Meporsia's Soasce and
bleat when prompted, as ipecified. We get the -privilege’ to
dig our own graves, while we Tive a regulated life in service to
our oppressors’ addiction to wealth accumulation.
course, the authorities call their hunhs,tzifl!, guns
and factories “counter-terrorism.” Don't forget’ that we're
wedded to_this fren? this ust for murder, by being forced
into “feeting” the riendly fire. We're supposed to-be 5o proud
when dead bodies Of U.S GI's trickle back to the states, (under
orders not to be n(?grwh!d{ as the severely injured melt into
the shadows of suffering. Talk about "animal abuse!® And just
think of the "cradle of Civilization" - modern day, Iraq.
Bombed and poisoned and forced with infanticide, more invasion,
occupation, “degradation and constant bloodshed and suffering -
yet they Tive on. Al the animals there no doubt are suffering
Terribly, too, unless under the care of normal people,
shole sySten Gf for-profit torture must end! 1t's madern day,
worldwide slavery - believe or not. How can we not resolve &6
join the struggle???.
Hugo L. A. Pinell is a sti11 alive conrade-in-arms of the
legendary Gearge Jackson. Here’s what he has. to say about how
this system devastates our society. This 15 taken From a
foreword he wrote for a new publication, entitled “George
Jackson Lives!” which I'm presently editing.
“0ur oppression and dehumanization and our Tiving
conditions worldvide, are worse than ever because we are dealing
with the most vicious, malicious and inhumane forces in history.
They control just about every aspect of our physical and social
Tives, and that is a reality we can’t deny or ignore. 8ut as
agonizingly painful as this reality is, the biggest damage these
Sonster criwinals have Infiicted upon our humanity is the one
done to our mental faculties, through a systematical and
dogmatic process, generation’ to generation. "
Fron_this psychological imprisonment flow all the
degradations we must 1ive through. Ecocide is the result of a
world economic system based on predation, which stems from the
fact that the natural social and psychological relations that
insure a normal, sustaining environment, where people, animals,
land, water, etc. are in synergy, have been conquered’and
coditied nto 1 . N
8efore the “wite man” came to_this hemjsphere, native
peoples Tived, to'a large degree, as natural anarchists. They
ad basic respect for the land, never even considered “owning
it and had reverence for the land, water, plants and animals.
In fact, the example of the “noblé sav served as the font of
inspiration for the great Eurapean thinkers, (anarchists)
articulating an alternative to the emerging slave-based,
capitalist systems slowly choking the natural, organic cultural,
social and economic life out of Europe and now, the world.
Prisons began as factories and police forces ware created to
capture slaves and suppress workers. This is still their
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function today. They still basically take their orders from the
corporations, who orchestrate the goings on in Washington, state
capitols and’counties.
Subjugation can't function amidst a society of thinking,
feeTing people who haven't had thetr humamity Tobotomized.
Education, knowledge, truth and the brave people who make them
their Tife have been made “illegal” in a way. “Gangs"
“anarchists” terrorists” are all buzzwords that people almost
autosatically accede to not involve themselves with whoever the
government i3 targeting. ir naci
It was against the law to educate slaves. Their mative
culture was beaten out of them and servility, Christianity and
hopelessness was hammered into thes. The same goes today in a
much more sophisticated, all-encompassing manner.
Fron the minute a child is born, he ‘is deluged with never-
ending television and social suffocation. wormal human activity
is filtered through a buy and sell daily life, and an
intellectual torpor and vapidity that passes for social Tife.
Eyen families aren't reaily families, 35 the parents are busy
slaving in_ the rat race, the kids aré being taught nonsense and
order-obeying in school$ and cheir “free” tine s’ gobbied up by
the idiot box, movies, and games that truapet the fascist cry of
“long Tive deathl” It's de facto illegal to actually 1ive your
1ife and reach your potertial, because the minute you start’to
Tiberate yourself, you'11 comé to realize that necessarily, your
energies must now'be focused on resistance to this global
monstrosity.
50, we Tive in a society of androids - people oblivious to
thedr véry'om best interests. T read a'story Sbout 2 gung-ho
goron in a murder gang of the government, who reveled in the
“opportunity” to mass murder people In Fallujan. Like many
soldiers, he was a deadbeat, lost soul, a step ahead of the
state kidnappers. Wis fayorite thing was Tupac Shakur. Tupac
railed against the U.S. slave government, not for it But that
was Tost on hin. e was_killing men, wonen and children in Iraq
and being told he was a "hero.” The German Nazis made a science
of the “8ig Lie" and advanced the "science” of mass brainwash.
one of the prioritized moves the U.S. made after murdering so
many people in the forties, was to snatch these groundbreaking
manipulators up and put thém at the head of their nascent CIA
and other oppressive and propaganda systess. They competed with
Russia, who had the same idea - a country-wide, 1ie-based,
systen'of capitalisn, militarily aggressive towards others and
Fepressive at home. 'Russia had Stalin, Italy had Mussolini and
the U.S. had John Foster Dulles.
ATl aspects of our Tives are targeted, with the goal of
no-think sheepish acquiesce to the wilting of our own Tives and
the Time Machine-like response to any and all sirens, when the
System wants us to do something, whether it be to cheerlead for
nass murder, working obediently’in factories, allowing ourselves
to become their killers, jailers and kidnappers, or whatever.
Treating people in this manner, the stewards of a sustainable
future for all 1ife forns, s just the husan reflection of the
treatment accorded the rest of the ecology of Earth. Species
extinction, mamnoth amounts of pollution and radiation
poisoning, ‘slash and burn, strip mine mentality towards
Fesources, the decimation’of our lungs, the Amazon, and so forth
are causes and effects of the oppression placed upon people.
It's at the crux of our whole problen.
Drugs piay a huge role in this too, because many drugs have
a strong_effect on our thinking and behavior. Heroin was
brought in Fron the Marseilles Wafia in the wake of the massive
bloodletting of WWIL, Air America was the world’s largest
airline during the Vietnam genocide and they routinely brought a
F1oad of heroin into the States, sometimes inside the bodies of
dead CLIs! L renember seeing pictures of junkies spraxfed on
stairwells, when a particularly pure dose was brought in.
Cocaine and crack were brought in to the inner cities, once
again, at the direction of the U.S. government, to destroy the
environment of the Black community. ;
Tt takes SO0 times as much powdered cocaine (white) as
crack (black) to get the same mandatory sentence. Crack is a
very strong debilitating drug that ruins commumity. Making it
so hyper-iiieqal, makes" it Very ‘sasy'to"round-up Whoever the
police are ordered to round-up, in that community, in
particlar, | Tt's che epitome Gf the term “racist drig law.”
With no other real "legal” form of comnerce, dealing drugs are
forced to be a major part of the economic 1ife in the -hood.
Even though most of cthe drugs are sold to white peaple, 1t is
black people who are imprisoned and murdered because of them.
Black women are now torrenting into prisons, leaving their young
children without mothers, in a slave-1ike acceleration of the
punishaent industry. An'environment without love or hope is a
doomed environment. Add the fact that these communities also
suffer the 1ion's share of industrial waste dumps and inferior
everything, and you have a systematically degraded environment.
Fundanenta] to the “war on drugs” is the v.s. goverpment’s
attitude towards marijuana, This plant is the moSt complex
chemically, in_the world, is the most useful, and quite
possibly, 1s also the most vilified and i1legalized: Hundreds
of thousands of people are rotting in prisons because of it,
depriving their comnities of thei ehergy'and Good wil1. | 1t's
denonized because 1t doesn't debilitate the mind and can’t be
controlled by the government. People can grow it anywhere,
Inside o out. It de-connects people from the madness of
eality”
each other
restraints. " W
The potential positive uses of marijuana are not allowed to
be seriously (legally) pursued. These inciude clothing more
durable ‘than cotton, food, fuei, a cornucopia of medicinal
applications and last and'most frowned upon, recreational uses.
By makin? this wonder drug so wildly illegal and denying it to
be usefully applied, we are stuck with a horrible alternative,
Extremely poisonous fossil fuels that are non-renewable, are our
main sources of energy. A genocidal military occupation, world-
wide really, is choking Tife to comandeer these sources
preferred by the o1l-based industries. i
Most ubiquitous are the legal drugs. Huge industries push
dope on people for every dreant up malady imaginable. New
“diseases” are being conjured up a11 the time and powerfyl,
expensive drugs are being churned out of the labs o deal with
them. * Basically what these drugs do is turn the user into a
heart beating control unit. School kids on Ritalin, moms of
yaltum, Teroubled teens” o haldol - you nase 1t pécpTe-are on
u
drugs for it. 0ld people carry around whole bags of pills
they can'barely choke down every few Mours. o 4
d thus, is dangerous, as people talk and relate to
‘outside the box” of psychological and legal
g
And_like everything else, the prisons are the centers where
contro] and eppression are supreme. = Prisoners are strapped dom
To be Torcibly drugged, out on torture chamber units, where the
intent is to literally drive them insane! 'Mnmflwnnn
are strapped down while they are delivering their jes! Yet,
iTlegal drug use - marijuana, cocaine, heroin - in prison, could
very well be more rampant thin outside of prison. Prisons
aren’t about “crime control” they’re about for-profit repression
and are, in fact, a huge, government-run, criminal enterprise,
wildly g;vfiubh and completely paid for by the ripped-off
Think about these prison environments for a moment. People
screaming day and night, rape and the spread of serious
diseases, such as AIDS, hepatitis, venereal diseases and
everythidg else is ep‘fi:l‘ic{ as ;f deliberately cultured 4n a
etry dish. Violence, . bitterness, essness, self-
Jeathing are Coupled with the Schooling of criminality. useful
mg:fl. ul\d!l“ thmnl‘i“'me envi rwlll-\:, have been Mt_mw.
o real re on, no_re-entry prograns. are
left to Tive or die in this minimalist nr!hom siwifin:{
Then, after often many years consuming the prime of their Tives,
they”are Tucky and spit out of their dungeon, they are shoved
into the glare of day, withaut any clothes, housing, job or
money with a vast array of laws and stipulations pretty much
Quaranteeing they will shortly return for some parole violation
or new “crime.
That 15 2 never ending poisoning of the environment of
‘these communities. First you snatch the young, dynamic men and
alarmingly women, force them thi this horrible prison hell
and dump them back into the community, shell shocked, embittered
26t Dack Further from being a positive asset to the commumity.
In Amerika, they torture and try to kill the spirit of people,
whereas in'El Salvador, the U.S.-trained authorities were
allowed to go all the way - torture and kill and leave the
mutilated bodies for the vultures to pick over at the dump sites
- just Tike the U.S. perfected in the Phoenix Program in
vietnam. For, a community cannot Tive without spirit - without
hope of genuine humanity.
Todly 15 March 6. 'In yesterday's Chicago Tribune, a
spokesnan for the Chinése government was quoted
Country should exclude 1
as
ights deve L e a7t 3o the incarmation of
i Jopment process or view itself as incarnation of
human rights ‘that can reign over other countries
to the others.” It was also stated that the U.S.
commits wanton slaughters during external invasions and
military. ” This would seen pretty obvious, but it was presented
as outrageous talk, o brainwashed and beaten down have
made most all Amerjcans. How can a sustaiming environment be
achieved under such conditions? s .
We know that capitalist industry is 1ike a heroin addict in
that to continue on, it mist expand, a3 its whole, modus operandi
is driven by the guést for profits and not what the world
actually needs. Mountains of non bio-degradable garbage,
plastics, metal, radio-active material, etc., etc. continue to
SccumuTate, wasting our dwindling natural résources. Wars and
w@lk of sofe wars are quickly looming. It's an across the board
ecological and social tsunami in the making.
How can we at least begin to stop this death ship from
hel17 1 contend that yes, we ai \ar, or rather being
attacked by the U.S. government mainly and the worldwide systen
of exploitation in general. I also find a lot of truth in the
maxim, “the first victim of war is the truth and the second is
the children.” ‘where do we find these victims - the truth and
the children? where does the government take the greatest pains
0 keep us from accessing? It's the prisons, folks!
Many of the most articulate and courageous thinkers and §
doers are the most locked down and kept from us. Once they
faise their voice, they can expect severe, reprezsion - beatings,
transfers to control units and supermax clinical torture
chambers, forced druflw“n‘ sshackling, and other unique to the
U.s., techmiques. As well, a huge percentage of the young men
from the most oppressed communities - Blacks, Latinos and Native
Aerican men, and increasingly women, have béen ensnared in big
city round-ups and_throughout the country, really. In
Feservations, rural comunities, along the U.S.-Mexican border,
suburbs - anywhere, people are Continuously being fed into the
maws of Mammgn for their for-profit punishment industry.
So, really, the vibrancy of these communities, even though
separated sexually, exists in the prisons of America, today.
Everything is concentrated from the violence and cruélty, to the
Tove and insight. Meanwhile, the Comnunity they came from is
Teft without direction, fearful, subjected to low-level
occupation, surveillance, econowic hardship, constant braimwash,
desperation and ignorance. Grassroots groups have a terrible
time trying to get off the ground to do winely useful
comunity support work. For, the young Tions and the wise
elders that they so vitally need are in prison! The captives’
{Ill‘ es hfvl a difficult, daily struggle just to keep on
ying on
P Rat is_why those of us who have battled through this
Tifetine of 1ies and have regained our ability to think,
overcome our fear and are thus capable of contributing our
unigue’talents and interests for what people - (and all gther
soctal animals have always done) - naturally feel compe]led to
do, volunteer their services for the community, should focus on
the prisons. This is where the kevin (Rashid) Johnsons and the
Jeffrey Leurs are atl To rebuild our communities and develop
serious resistance reguires that we collaborate closely with
‘these brave and brilliant prisoners. N
‘another debi1itating 1ie the government constantly hammers
into us is that gnsnnlr! are our worst enemies, when in fact
they are culled from our own families and communities. wMostly,
they comprise poor people of calor convicted of non-violent
often victimless "crines.” Yet, every night on the news, the
big headline story is about the latest gruesome murder. 'But, of
course, you never get the same treatment of the innumerable
victims of the government killing machines, the industrial
accidents or what happens in the prisons, where people die Tike
flies behind the razor wire, We believe and worl r the man,
just_like the slaves did - in between revolts| Incarceration
itself is a vast crime -?flnst humanity and of nature! No other
animal does this to itself or others. "It's anti-1ife and meant
only to oppress, instill fear and keep a monstrous regime in
power.
To su(czssfu“‘ overcome this horrible reality will require
a reversal of this brainwashing process. we must break out of
our atomized existence and learn to be real people again. A1l
the struggles in the world are connected and it takes effort to
seek out those who are knowledgeable about them and sow
connections. Solidarity, a basic anarchist tenet, is_extremely
important. There’s power in numbers and that’s it it will
take to umask this shan government for what it truly is = o
criminal beyond comparison
5 government s incréasingly targeting activists and
organizers, such as Ward Churchi 11, Anarchist Slack Cross, and
others, more and more of these people will become prisoners.
For truth is powerful and is considered Tike water to a wicked
witch. | S0, 90 to the prisons for the real truth and assume
whatever girbage you see and hear fron governmental mouthpieces
are 1ies, because, almost invariably, they are.
Prisoners have experience with deprivation, lack of
resources, repression and so forth, and these coercive tactics
will increasingly be forced upon those of us on the "outs.”
Prisoners have adapted to their situation in ways that we need
Io learn fros. How do you cook food on a heater? How do you
barter coffee, stamps, food, and various services to get |
you_need? How do you'adapt'to such a restrictive situation and
5ti11 keep your sanity and sense of self? How can such a_
repressive environment be tolerated and how can contributions to
our brothers and sisters still be made? We need to know how to
do these things! . £l
one thing that really frustrates me is the obliviousness of
outside people to the powerful education that prisoners are
capable of. I focus a lot of my attention helping get the word
GUE of the gulags (and back in-3 ~They know what the deal s and
they are grateful when they come across this vital, empovering
information. They start study groups and read zinés unti the
pigs confiscate then and then they write their own, Peaple on
the outs seem to care only about how “professional” a zine looks
and not what the ideas ‘are screaming about! whg 1s really in
prison here, mentally? Every day, life on the “outs” is a
poisoned pen of sheep, who don’t know their ass from a hole in
the ground. without the humanity, freedom and counsel from
conscious prisoners, I'd be in a constant state of dread and
despair, personally. .
The Tabs where monkeys (and mice and all kinds of animals -
dogs, you name it,) are forced to have gruesome experiments done
on them which will destroy their 1ife, is, was and always has
been, duplicated by people, on prisonérsi’ Mengele learned his
techniques from his august mentors and colleagues - from places
Tike Indiana and california, who cane to Germany to teach him
their techniques. After the massive slaughter of animals, (most
gruesonely humans,) the victors of World War II (the U.S.3
snatched up the bést and the brightest Gernan "scientists” to
Jearn the latest ‘techmiques in everything From developiny
hydrogen bombs to the latest in sensory deprivation in the
clinica] prisons and madhouses. Restraint technigues, subduing
people”in crowds, - many of these evil police tactics we're
seeing more of today - high-frequency concussive blasts into
crowds, tazers, mass pens of "pre-emptive” arrestees, etc., are
developed after experimentation on prisoners! who better o
Tearn from than the initial victims themselves?
The modern technology of sadism, brainwash, control,
atomization and sbfuscation is an evér-expanding and a1
enconpassing field of "research.” The shock and awe ghastliness
of this government knows no bounds and the tens of millions of
nurdered human bodies vaporized in various Nagasakis or left to
be eaten by starving dogs in Fallujah, bear grim testament to
this constancly bejng reinforced factl The U.s. Js fascistic,
or if you prefer, “democratic” which only means militarized
corporatism. sham elections don't affect that.
Like everybody else, I feel the pressure and bear witness
50,the carnage and suffering experienced throughout our wor1d,
because of this extreme aggressor nation. personally, T
gravintgd to dealing almost exclusively with the prisons, ||
ecause it becane more and more Clear to me, that this was
round zero” o the assault on Americans by the system. It's
che Black hole” of society, and the government gives Tor
itself, constitutionally sanctioned sfavery - to this day - so
anythifg goes in these dungeons! Court cases brought forth by
grisoners ‘enslaved at their gulags have been dismissed by no
ess than the U.S. Supreme Court citing this clause in the
Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution that sanctifies human
slavery for prisoners. %
50, if you make basically any anti-capitalist activity
“illegal" (and many ones that are capitalist but not under a
government-sanctioned *legality") youive an unlimited source (or
potential source) of slaves to work with. Then, top it Off with
‘the knowledge that there is no accountability, hor economic
responsibility for this slave industry (human incarceration.)
For, all expenses have been, are and will be paid, for by the
Tongtime governmental extortion racket, known as "taxes:" Just
Tike evolution, or technological advances bring forth stronger
animals or faster cars, so too does repression evolve and
Streanline itself.
The folks with the brightest minds and who therefore are
the most giving to their communities' citizens are often singled
out for particular torment, as physical prisoners,
Tortyre and murder animals - torture and murder humans,
after you've slaved them to death. It's an abomination upon the
very soul of humanity! If you want to abolish slavery, torture
and murder of animals, you want to abolish thy nation's
dungeons. Down with the lock down of our bodies and minds!
These are serious tines and we are greatly in'need of
careful, Tucid, well-written, deliberately crafted to be
empomering, “instruction and guidance, which is most clearly
articulated by the warriors suffering in these guiags. We can
rise above our fears, develop effective working habits and
operate with a driven determination. Wumans mist learn and sort
O irain thelr brain' to usefully apply their energies to the
greater good of their community. 'Amimals do this instinctively.
People need to learn how to be. themselves (anarchists.)
Animals, if Teft unnolested, always are already. People would
be too, if given half a chance and allowed to be themselves as
individuals, who are naturally interested in mutually &
supportive, ‘non-coercive community. Being forced to function as
Tie-bred order-obeyers and soylent green fed consumers 15 the
opposite of genuine freedom and real l1ife. i
The marvelous brainpower human animais possess gives us the
possibility to transcend this predatory social environment. But
‘the baser instincts of power and greed which drive the smail few
who orchestrate this worldwide death march are holding our minds
and bodies hostage, just 1ike the animals they exploit. we must
cross ‘the fear 1ine and develop ourselves. Work your brain and
decide where your greatest talents and interests Jie and weave
your gifts into the social struggle. Mutual aid will see us all
through, but it only works if you seriously apply yourseif!
Itls all part of she struggle for Iiberation *’be it hunan,
aninal or Earth herself. Ppeople, wrenched from poor, often
black neighborhoods, aré a' fundasentally necessary part of that
slaughterhouse environment this system requires to keep creaking
along. Take away a third of our young black men in their
Tnenties ~"in Same areas the percentage kidnapped is well over
SOK1 - and then warehouse them in countless prisons, and your
“environment” - the 'hood - has been effectively decimated.
cami Iy menpers have no brothers, sons or husbands to deal with
he virtual occupation and forced immiseration of their
‘expendable” communities of people. 12
"*“Increasingly, it's the young women, mostly mothers of young
children, who are wrenched from the embrace of their families
and forcéd to Tanguish in a cagel. The governaent {3 a menace to
ife itsel
- 8lack folks face the extreme, but all of us are likewise _
being menaced and targeted; < this systen devours everything in
its path. So, we need to fook to the most oppressed in this
nation (Blacks, natives, women, undesirables of every stripe)
and assimilate their analyses of their experiences, So we can
thoroughly build a conscious counterforce of life, love,
Tiberation and giving humanityl 3
Where is the Panther-1ike strength going to come from, if
a1 our young black men ars targeted as Toangstast” what ire
their children going to do7?? what more can the grandmoth
do? It's Warsaw Ghetto treatment in the U "Jobs”
ioke, as these Insatiably greedy bastard mega-corporations have
ipped tom, o Mexico and now on to China for Super
axploitation. State of the art factories are now sophisticated
sweats| But, the horrendous working conditions are often
“anina ¥ Alienation is
ct
These stalags are everywhere nowadays, particularly in
rural areas, the really Expansive ones, and affect everybody!
They idnap"their young bounty usually'in urban argas, 2
opporzumities for round-ups for a million and one “vidlations®
of their pro-slavery laws, abound. Rural areas have been
besieged by corporate farmis and the government pretty much has
people where they want them - atomized, television-watching
Worker bees, to afraid to even know their neighbors much.
Prisond cone and the gioving promises turn nto mightmares.
Abrother we were able to help parole (a real rarity) in
Alabana, was telling me about a struggle they were to try
o prevent to erection of a prison. He said at first, the
prison builders claimed they were constructing a strip malll
The politicians, gutless wonders as ever, never fail to crow for
this greased wheel deal, of a prison as 4 means of “economic
development” in rural communities. The whoring-out of these
hyenas gets shriller and ever moré hoarse, so naturally, we mist
all acquiesce, as our conservative press tries to - disdainfull
2 explain to Us. put your "bi em home” ribbons on the bacl
of your Suv ‘and don’t cirink anything of it - Condoleezza Kice,
George W. Bush and Paul Wolfowitz wil] “take care of things.”
Kissinger is always there for "advice” thank G-0-0! A prison is
the kiss of death to a comunity.
They bully the whole councry (and Tess convincingly, the
world) with an unhealthy, deliberately ruinous, waste
oblivious and punishing mindset. They also pollute pitifessly
and “egally” cut local deals so they can maraud over all areas,
economically and culturally. I'm talking about all the
industries, factories, prisons, animal farms, military centers -
all of itl’ Our hard work is exploited for profits, then taxes,
5o industry and government can ruin our communities, force us
into being their 3ailors and soldiers and wreak devastation on
our brothers and sisters all across the globe. Democracy in
bloodthirsty action!
we're forced to participate with the time of our Tives ana
our 1aborin our own 6cocide and castration of our children's
future at gur int and parrot how much we like it. TIt's kind of
Tike how Stalin got is erstwhile comrades to crow about how
great he vas and how criminal they were, before he sumarily 3
murdered then. |
Recently, the state of TTlinois was going fo grace 3 poor
black farming’ comnunity in Kankakee County, with a women's
prison.” This was in Hopkins Park. They thought that they could
use this to balm over centuries of slavery and institutional
racism by bestowing a beautiful prison in their face. well
guess what! The cltizens. responded with some serjously miH tant
and conscious direct action! They formed a group cailed P.A.T.
- Pembroke Advocates_ for Truth. _pembroke is the township they
Tive in. "“their newsletter, Insigne, was the joyous raricy fn
activisn - funny as hell and right onl They didn't cotton
to the idea that th:z should welcome a prison, so that they
couTd 1ive next to their city (of Chicago, mainly) sisters,
forced to live in cages, away from their children and other
family members. They saw it, rightfully so, as monstrous and
another example of the oppressive nature of this settler,
cracker Empire!
00 in $2.525 the paisoning of the thinking of so.
called "mtz‘;ml!' ‘that 11}'1"!'“ dg(ms-lmg fe jation for
the accepeability of not Justracism and slavery (even of
themselves) but even species extinction and the accelerating
suffocation of our planet? check the facts.
It's madness beyond belief. It's like 1984 twenty years
later. But, we're gnly supposed to "go along® with Trich
“S«gfiort our trou?s" as they occ%. rutalize and murder a
whole country full of people. After all, they need "democracy”
genacided into them. Iran has 55 m111i0h people < over oo
times that of Iraq. pakistan has hundreds of millians of
people, as does Indonesia,
These religious cultist crusaders (1'm talking about the
Christians!) are embarking on a homo sapien sapien species
gxtinction. campaign! And"like the Junges of Southeast Asia,
fflmer"rhnflid )y the U.S. or the Danube River or (hrwahw(
Iraq, (which were nuked,) ‘ail other species of aninals. an
plants are also facing an ongoing, ever more deadly holocaust,
as well. It's ad‘{f: and Mt;.s{fllg:':&h % " he
‘Anyways, 1'd Tike to ck to Hopkins Park, Despite
fact ThEC thse folks vehesently Fejoctan this. arajecs ;oor
though they continue to be, it was started amyway. Initially,
it was planned to n_directly across from an organic far,
Due to agitation, it known that this piece of land - the
first plece actually sold to a state government. for a prison by
any state in decades (all other land had been “gratefu’ 1y" ceded
by municipalities) - was actually a sweetheart land deal between
the crooked Governor, George Ryan and bi11ionaire Kankakes
developer, Tony perry.
're waist deep in the mega-spraw) project of the
jheotone Airport” as well. These two projects were linked, both
in the principles pushing for it and the collaboration of those
fighting against one or the other, or both! Both were assaults
on the environment, the flora and’fauna and commumities of
citizens. They're'all connected in the ultra capitalism
practiced in the U.S. They literally "get away with murder” -
mass murder and never get called to account. The animal
breeding farms and torture centers and slaughterhouses are run
"y
witn the approval ana reguiation of the government. oney is
what they care about, not lives.
with the poor soil these biack farmers were shunted off to,
as_they are surrounded by farms - white farms - with better
s0il, they developed a feel for organic farms, sort of like what
Cuba'was necessarily forced to learn how to do, as the never-
ending embargo dried up supplies of fertilizer and equipment.
In fact, they've hosted farm groups from Cuba. They have a
Caribbean-style consciousness and host a wonderful event every
summer called “Marcus Garvey Farm Festival.”
A prison always has its glaring 1ights on twenty fours
hours a day Most have guard towers, with shotgun toting
quards. s would ruin the natural lifecycle of these
organically grown vegetables. Plus, the dumping of sewage,
added to the excessive pollution caused by this dreadful
economic system of mass incarceration, and your area will become
flooded with problems, not "solutions! " vour "prison town"
environment has been degraded in the most depressing of ways.
Your area will henceforth be known for human suffering and
misery for the "cause" of profits instead of whatever vibrancy
T°Onte possessed or the human potentisl that 15 forever
squelched h{ this demented society. i
Natural habitats of animals are also forever being menaced
by this unrelenting paving of farmland and the introduction of
diesel and gas-spewing vehicles into beforehand peaceful,
pastoral productive farmland. Everything, alive or dead'- even
inorganic - has a price on it and is subject to the danger the
systen clunsily and wantonly causes! ST
Any way you look at it, it's a horrific abomination and
never-ending Crisis situation. 5o, I would suggest that people
take this huge inter-connected subject of the viability of our
Earth very seriously, think of your children and all the other
k105" ruch Tess the’ hext. seven Jenerations - 11ke the Indians
take into consideration.) Don't be afraid to develop your
Toving contributions and good-heartedness to yourselves, your
fanilies and all the other creatures on this good, blue, green,
yellow and brown earth! Long live 7ife and growth! In other
words, live ir Tife as you deserve!
Those who have gained useful knowledge must become the
serious educators for others. Free skools must be a fundamental
part of all activist activity, in my big-nouthed opinfon. "The
nowledge is accessible, through websites, zines, distros,
tapes, etc. We should Seize the media and adapt what is useful
to the situation at hand, as we continually, “raise some fucking
issues” as Lorenzo Komboa Ervin puts it.
I guess I call it “agitation-education.” oOur fellow humans
are all being treated 1ike minks on a farm, in one form or
another. To liberate them means to be supportive of them and
ReTh them rekindie: their sense of Self. A person who overcones
his sgar[of the state, is an amimal finally freed and capable of
ything
~ Anthony Rayson ~ Prison Abolition Anarchist ~
P .0. Box 721, Homewood, TL 60430
anthonyraysonehotmail.con ~CiricagoAsC..org
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SEIU Local 73 MLK DAY XI
Our 11th year of protest against an unjust employ
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2005
4:30 — 5:30 PM 7
CONTRACT RALLY AT THE
ILLINOIS STATE TOLL
HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
Are Fighting for Their Jobs!
The Tollway is threatening our members with big layoffs as they convert to
open road tolling. We're bargaining a new contract, and management is
refusing to include the allimportant clause that guarantees our jobs will not
be eliminated because of the introduction of electronic equipment.
OUR MEMBERS NEED OUR HELP TO WIN JOB SECURITY.
Warm Up at Our MLK Celebration
LocAL "\’v After the Demonstration
Holiday Inn in Glen Ellyn
1250 Roosevelt Road
:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Complimentary pizza and beverages.
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January 17, 2005 — MLK Day XI 14
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OCAL 73 VERSUS MANAGEMENT
Big Issues Stand in the Way of a Truly Fair Con
TFYOURE NOT WORKING FOR THEM AT 3:30 PR ON MONDAY, JANUARY 17,
THEN COME OUT & WORK FOR YOURSELY.
ATTEND THE MLK DAY PROTEST AT TOLLWAY
HEADQUARTERS
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2005 — 4:30 TO 5:30 PM
b 2700 Ogden Ave., Downers Grove
THE DNION Your Local 73 sisters & brothers will be there to support yout
We'e Hitting the Picket Line Because They're Putting Our Jobs On The Linel
STRIKE The Illinols Toll Authority! 19
Fellow Collectors, Lane Walkers, Money Room Workers
and all tollway workers - we should reject this contract and
strike! We have a unique opportunity to address the whole
nation! If we did strike, the over-the-road commerce grid of
this nation would come to a halt! It would create chaos, for
the managers would be swept away as if a U. S. of A.
tsunami - and the truckers and lunch bucket Jane & Joe's
would support us! Those responsible for this rip-off,
dangerous and intolerable situation must be "outed!”
Governor Blagoyevich has tried to make a name for
himself by declaring war on state workers. The Tollway
wasn't called the "worst employer” by the union (for the
second time In five years) for nothing! Tolls have doubled,
tripled - even almost quadrupled for certain classes of
vehicles. Danger has increase dramatically, as has stress
and the never-ending harassment from the oblivious
management. Al of a sudden, we're supposed to be pleased
as the union abandons their principles?? Our new brothers
8 sisters from every plaza are being forced from their jobs!
Are we to accept being bought off like cheap whores (after
paying into our pension?)
We have'an obligation to stand and fight - to be real men
and women and challenge the Wal-Martization of labor, in
general. If this contact Is approved, we'll still have the same
vicious, ignorant "management team"” in placel Who's to
say, they won't continue their practice of degradation,
intimidation and threats? What about the Safety
Department? Are we supposed to forget they ever existed,
like something out of Stalin's Russia? What about the
truth?! With a new gag order, negotiated by the shameless
union and the Authority, we won't be able to tell our story.
How about barf bags for when the union & Authority
nauseate us with their congratulations of themselves and
each other? And, of course, the hyenas In the press will
bark their company-loving approval. Soon enough, the
union will jack up our dues, so they can build up a big pile of
cash to throw at Blagoyevich - the same creep menacing us,
other state workers and all other Illinois taxpayers. This nut
thinks he's presidential timber! Let's whistle blow this fraud!
We have our dignity & self-respect. Let's strike now!
INTRODUCING SCOFF zo
“This e thumboail sketch has been brought 0 you by a new group,called SCOFF
(Supporting Citizeos Of Family Farmers. The STAND (Shus This Airport Nightmare
Dowa) folks are helping those personally targsted by the stats, couty and township
‘goverament, the folks fghting O Haro expansion end the Jacksons. They u being.
‘compelled to cicl their wagoas and deal it the poteatilly impeading forced
confiscation of their farms and bames. We think i s very imporkans that other citizens
‘ot so dircctly menaced by this social predatiag, this long:standing politca) disease.
‘come outin suppat of thess people and the lang the hevo boen adrirable siewaiss f,
for these many years. We woa't allow our neighbors and friends t be s0 asssulted! -
Many so-cllod “eavironmentalists” o 00 gess to b pealy against tho Pooions
Airport, even though they know,t 1o bo an eavimnmenta disssice m-t\w.hiu-
boondoggle westo end so forth.. mmmmuu
‘camp. We feel their advocacy has been completaly compromised by such cowardtics!
They doa't want 0 b infered as “agaiost grogress” and “racist,” Thi,even though this
projet i the brainchild f ight-wing sate Republicans, sach as Hecry Hyde, Gerad.
Welle, Aldo DeAngelis, Goorge Ryaa, “Pate? Philip and others, who clevesy spookered,
e
enacting in
‘warchousing of 8 phenomenal perceatage of young bisck men, and increasngly, young
black womenito s massive glag archipelagar UsS. stlel- George Bush bashis
‘Condoleerza Rice i frons of his resctionsry agends and these e hava Jockson!
Since Jesse Junior gt hooked oo this projct, it has become his obsesion. F's.
elevated i into a social justios crusade, which wil solve & myviad ofprobloms n the
south suburbs, and (socording 0 him) will bring up 0 250,000, well payiag, benefit laden
jobs 1 the chranically under and unemployed. This nonsense bas boea swallowed whole
by a sycophantic media, driven by the Southland crowd, heavily.fisded through IDOT
gant moscy. Of the $100 milion already spen on the projest, wder 1% has gone o
black comractor. Geaing projocts to belp detituts commifgs ro non-existent!
SCOFF is not affliated with any poltical prty or candidate We soe both parties s
eing interchangesbl. They both have the seme, bsicaly pro-corparation, ant-citzen
agenda. We are genuins graseoots organizes and activists, 00 bebolen i axy grant
‘money source, “spoasoc” of any kind, or 8 sell-ous orgapizutiog liks Rainbow-PUSH.
We aro maivased toaction by genuinely morlity aad concern for o fellgw citigeas and
he sate of our increasingly theatened eavirooment, ot on how much tx money of land
ve can seal We don’ hide behind the polioo d wse the coercive powess of the stat.
Therefore, we are e in obedicaoe a 1 what i right and have o fea of how we are
serceived. As long as we keep telling th truth, we know other citizzns will respect us.
e also want th itizens dirctly mensced by tis sbomination 0 know that there are
some peopl ocher than themselves, who realize this i & massive, sae crme being
perpetrated against themn, and ealy,all of us. We will ight the lars, thieves and
‘owards by sound logc as well as by our physical presence. When the marshals are:
ordered 1 foroe fumlies outof thei homes, we will be there, ool
Down with disgusting, wasieful and immoral sprawl eojecs dresed up as social
Sustcs crusades! Down with llthe goveramental paasites and thei sickening.
Cheerladers! Up withthe ruth, eavironmeatal sustinability, unmolested communities
o real people with the courege to challenge these bloodsuckers and socil hyenss!
Aniccay Rayson, Spokesman for SCOFF (708)-534- 1334
2.0.80x 721, Homewood, [L 60430 aathonymyson@hotmail com
Principal Pushers of Peotone 2/
1. Aldo DeAngelis ~ Deceased Godfuther of Peotone. Former Republican State Senator
from Olympia Fields, who was heavily involved in land desl inthe south suburbs.
2. George Ryan — Former Governor and Secretary of State, now under indictment for a
‘wide-ranging array of corruption, while in office. He pushed laadbanking through,
during the Hlinois irst pork barel extravaganza. 1t was hiddea ($75 million) inthe ll or
oothing muli-billon dollar deal Buddies with biliosaire land developer, Tony Perry.
4. Jesse Jackson,Jr. - Silver-spooned Congressman from Chicago, obsessed with
Peotose, cver since mesting it rigki-wingers, George Ryen, Jim Edgar, Henry Hyde,
“Pate” Phillp and others to be cut in oa the carcass of Peotane. Has no otber real
o deal withseious souhside ssues. Fe's nowthe Doberman o ths. Delusional.
5. Rick Bryant — Employee of Jesso J., serving as “Executive Directar” of the group of
‘Cook County Mayor, pushing fora “privatized"” Peotone Airpot funded by the DuPage
County mayors” groups in Bensenville and Elk Grove Village (who ae looking to avoid
O'Hare expansion.) He's gota ltle storefromt office in University Park.
6. Christine Cochrane — She-devil of Mones Township, incommpetent, et lavishly paid
10 front forthis poject locally, who was demoted in favor of...
7. Bad — Appoisted by former Govemor Ryzn to overse this who,
s g, 1% i Ryt i
8. The Southland Development, In. / Southland Mayors & Managers, tc. - Business
ront group, with nteockig irecorssof bosrd f detos. Funied iy
through IDOT grant oy, which allegedly gives predation, a “grassroots™ legitimacy.
9. Will County Board — Fronted by new President, Larry Walsh, they ao also looking to
join in the feeding frenzy in Exstern Will County. Walsh used o oppose the airport.
10. Govemor Rod Blagoyevich — “Little Boy on the second floor” taking his marching
‘orders from Jesse Jackson, Jr. Meoacing state workers, cutting jobs, pushing Peotone.
1L Jesse Jackson, Sr. - “Environmentalist & master extorionist Race cand shark, with
a haughty, dismissiv atitude towards poople, who has managed 1o amass mllions,
purportediy much of it iavested in farmland. A sordid come down fom Dr. King!
12. St Senator Debbie Halvorson - nitall cleted opposing Peotone, defeating Aldo
o amielin Oneein Springield sh wichd herallegace. Cris crocdle ers e
i the area, butis the pinv-cp gil when mongst the pro-irportcrowd. Her daughter -
Tecenty hired by e icois DNR, whieseveral dogen were aid ot Debbi s sleazy!
Progressive Politics and the Plundering of Pectone 22
Peotone is (and always has been) a decidedly land-based
offensive, cooked up by conservative state business and
political operatives, such as the late Sen. Aldo DeAngelis,
Henry Hyde, (to blunt efforts at O'Hare expansion) George
Ryan, Pate Philip, and others. They wanted to create a
Tollway-like fiefdom in the south suburbs - a cash cow,
which they jealously think O'Hare is for Daley.
Logic (or any accountability) never entered into it. You
just keep taking Ilinols taxpayer money and using it for
such things as cooked up studies, paid mouthpieces,
constant promotion and Indoctrination Into the need for this,
how many hundreds of thousands of jobs it will magically
create and how it will spearhead the solving of our social,
economic and transportation problems. Try the "Big Liel"
Congressman Jackson was cleverly brought into this
circle and has since made It his personal crusade. Now, this
sprawl agenda becomes a social justice cause and anybody
against it must be some sort of racist or something else
must be wrong with them! "Haven't you gotten with the
program? Don't try to embarrass Rainbow-PUSH! They're
progressive and do a lot of things for the community.” T
applaud them for what good they do, but you can't be
legitimately considered a progressive, and an
environmentalist and not only "be for" the aggressive
confiscation of farmland around Peotone - award-winning
farmiand at that - but also be leading the charge to destroy
this land! It's viciously hypocritical and sodially predatory.
‘The Jacksons have taken It much further than mere
support for Peotone. They are the Dobermans on this,
barking for the state authorities to hurry up and confiscate
our homes and farms - even before the FAA finishes their
study on the feasibility of this turf battle disguised as a
must-have "economic engine.” They've gotten Governor
Blagoyevich to make It the centerplece of his State agenda,
just as George Ryan did, a few short, corrupt years ago. We
all saw the recent photograph of the Jesse Jackson's
standing demonstratively in the front ranks at the State-of-
the-State Address. That's what I call a "bully pulpiti
It was total bull and the other legislators down there, need
to seek out the real ramifications of this and put a stop to it!
Jesse Jackson, Jr. has gotten some Cook County mayors
to circle overhead with him, funded by the mayors over in
DuPage County - Bensenville and Elk Grove Village - who are
fighting O'Hare expansion, by trying to drag us down with
them, while claiming to be doing us a low-interest favor!
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The Will County Board smells blood too, and wants in on the
feeding frenzy. Nowhere In any of this are the basic needs
of citizens In Peotone or anywhere in this huge south side
area, being seriously addressed. Cuts are made, instead!
Even the airiine industry is forced to be on the outside
looking in, because they also want nothing to do with
Peotone! The detalls get more galling and appalling, but not
uniike many other aggressive, land offensives waged against
citizens throughout the world, under the mantra of
“democracy” and "progress.” Soclal consciousness has
really deteriorated when a land grab is looked upon as a
positive development - when hurting your neighbor doesn't
matter, and those In the cross hairs are looked upon with
dismissive annoyance. Who would Martin be with, today?
You can't bulld up your community, by destroying a
sister community! Your efforts would then have no basis in
‘morality, and likely (as in this case) in reality. $100 Million
of taxpayer money has already been spent on this
boondoggle, yet we're to believe, It will be done "privately”
with no cost to the taxpayer?! Must you insult our ability to
reason? Are we so completely cowed and easy to mislead?
It's 5o like Bush and Company forcing this war on us!
Push and push and push until you get what you want -
somebody else's already.existing community - a campaign
driven by the expansionist greed of well-connected
corporations, dictating the politics and using the coercive
machinery of the state to force thelr policy through. Bush
has Condoleeza Rice fronting for his expansionist
govemment and the pro-Peotone crowd has Jesse Jr. Hiding
a wolf In sheep's clothing is fundamentally dishonesti
‘There are many, many reasons that this farmland airport
Is a terrible project. It s highly wasteful, unneeded and
ecologically catastrophic. It's a major sprawl offensive that
will affect many people and cause heavy tax burdens. The
airlines will only use it at gunpoint, like in Denver. Mostly, it
will be a huge money pit, but the real prize will already have
been "bagged.” They will have rustled the land and begun
explolting it for their own phantasmagoric purposes.
Since there Is no accountabllity, it will increasingly suck
Iin more scarce tax resources, which the state generally
wastes as compared to genuinely benefiting citizens,
anyway! Contracts, pay-offs - the whole bit - will substitute
for school lunches, bus service, health care, and so forth.
Like the Iraq war, only the rich, who are politically and
economically (corporately) connected, will benefit. Land
speculators, which PUSH may very well be involved in, look
to make a "killing” In Peotone and are hankering for their
cut. The asphalt and concrete people, who heavily finance
both parties, are idling thelr “weapons of mass 24
construction.” I's a sickening prospect for all of us!
To “dress up" the cause of Peotone as a campaign of
social liberation, also hearkens to the constant harping by
the Bush Administration and sycophantic mainstream press,
that Iraq has been "liberated" and so thrilled with what
we're doing (harshly and militarily occupying their whole
country!) Elections at gunpoint - evictions at gunpoint!
An airport in Peotone Isn't going to do anybody any
good, except those who bulld It! Has even 1% of the
$100,000,000 already spent, gone to black-owned
businesses? It's an extremely high-cost way to "create
jobs." I'd have to call it, "the arrogance of power.”
What needs to happen s a re-dedication by communities
of citizens. We are the solvers of our own problems!
Relying on the government, or PUSH, who has aligned itself
with government, is detrimental to our soclal, economic and
political health. Programs in our communities to re-vitalize
them, must be initiated and Implemented by young people,
striving for a higher consciousness - a spirit of service which
will be reciprocated, all grounded In studied awareness. We
must overcome our fear, take the Initiative and work with
each other - with as littie Interference from the thieves and
liars of government as possible! We need "People Power!"
Genuine, grassroots movements are constantly being
born and renewed. Older groups, like PUSH, can bog down
into a corporate structure and take on that lording, money-
hungry mentality. It's all about the money and the bottom
line, not people. Disinformation and a refined haughtiness
define their modus operandi. Pro-airport meetings are not
open and they have many connections and ties that color
their agenda - outside the community. These are their
business and political connections. Look how they have
Blagoyevich and Obama crowing about Peotonel Yet Gary is
already right therel It's about control and money, not need!
So, real citizens must come forward and call an Injustice
what It Is - an injusticel We want o invite Barack Obama
down to Peotone to meet with the citizens - something very,
very rarely done down here! The important arguments
surrounding Peotone and even the people In this area are
avoided like a soclal disease by the powers that be. It's a
very complex situation that the crafters of the through-the-
roof job projections (and "minimal” cost!) claims of the
Peotone backers, assiduously seek to avold! Land, water,
air, Infrastructure, the massive upheaval from bulldozing,
displacement of people and animals, the gobbling up prime
farmland, in short, the "liberation” of Peotone is really it's
evisceration! Shut This Airport Nightmare Down! z5
As Bush prepares to gut Amtrak and the airlines are
flotsam and jetsam in their own industrial tsunami, Peotone
is the /ast thing to be considered! But logic has left the
building and those who know it are afraid to deal with it -
partly due to the intimidation of the Jackson forces. They
are masters at this type of psychological pressure, but
bullies are proven to be cowards when you stand up to
them! Peotone is not your cash cow. You can't have it!
THINK OF 1T,
ELLEN - A
So, we're here today on Lincoln's Birthday, to stand up to
this nonsense and stress the point that the assault on
Peotone is a predatory, corporate, hostile take-over, right
here in our w-a-y back yard - Eastern Will County. We are
under attack because this sacred land, this well taken care
of land we live on, is the last piece of pristine farmland
within an hour of the loop that hasn't been "Naperville-ized"
and they can't wait to give us the Atlanta treatment -
accelerated sprawl! Instead of solving problems it will
generate more serious ones - just like you know where!
Anthony Rayson - "Footprint” resident and co-founder of
STAND ~ Monee, Iilinois 60449
(Shut Thus Airport Nightmare Down) 708-534-1334
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Prison Activism in Focus
A panel discussion about issues in prisons
will be held on Fridey, Aprl 22, at 4 p.m.,
in Richardson Audftorium, in Morse-
Ingersoll Hall. The panel will incude sever-
al prison Issues acthvists, inoluding two for-
‘mer inmates of prisons. A reception will
follow in the Fireplacs Lounge.
Truth is Revolutionary
Thisking people choose o guide their political awareness and activity by oae of
two basic assumptions: coercion, force, slavery and oppression are acceptable or
they are not. Human society is either driven by mutual sid or some form of
predation. Examples of both abound throughout history and among personal
relationships. One s sustainable and beneficial and facilitates the floweriag of all
things good and the other drags our world towards demise, destroying life and
‘making it miserable instead of joyous and creative.
Amerika or Empire or Predator o whatever you want 10 call i, is the
quintessential enslaver of this Earth. I¢’s Hitler's dream come truc. A whitc, ultra
capitalist/Christian power dominates and acts as Naziesque enforcer. To some, this
i a good thing and they develop elaborate systems 1o justify it and obfuscate the
truth. To them, slavery is frecdom and war is peace. Every sccond of all of our
lives is bomberded with their propagand, mixed with threats and countless
cxamples of what can happen to you, if you doa't go along with the program. The
world gets bombs and we get bars. Their object is to kill hope of a better world,
‘while reveling in obscene wealth and the “thill” of oppressing humanity. I'm
{alking abou the men behind the curtains — the policymakers. They may even have
bought into the propaganda that they are doing the opposite — helping humanity.
Paul Wolfowitz, recently sppointed to the U.S. dominsted World Bank, claims this
group i interesied in “ending povesty” when in fact, it does the opposite.
“This makes for a decply pothological society. The murder of tens of thousands,
even millions of people is ouside judicial prosecution, as committed under the aegis.
of the State, as i the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars by them and their
corporate sponsors. Street crime, on the other hand, s viciously prosccuicd to the
point where we now have 25% of the world's prisoner population -2.2 million souls
- warchoused in dreadful torture chambers, where rape, violence and discase are
pandemic. It's domestic oppression of the highest order. Abu Ghraib and Cook
‘County Jail have similar objectives and tactics. They're meant to kecp the poor
people down! The punishment industry is ground zero i the war, hero in the States.
“The most oppressed are also the most knowledgeable and insightful and that’s why
‘work closely with them. 1 want to learn and disseminate the truth — t do my parl
Prisoners are classified as slaves, sanctioned by the 13* Amendment to the
‘Consttuion, which we've boen told was meant to balish savery) This i the %/
implementation of policy 1o neutcalzs the threat from the oppressed communities.
‘Young Blacks have had their very existence criminalized. Ope third of all Black
‘men in their tweatics are cither incarceraed, 0n probation o on parole. In some
itis, thi figure is well over 50%. Even the staid incarceration expertsin the
universtiescall it a “frenzy 0 incarcerste.™ 1t's a holocaust situation and most non-
Black poople don't even know or care. That's dempated. A similar situation is
forced upon others who aren’t willing to be brainwashed and phugged obediently
o the system, such as Native Americans, Spenish speaking peopie and young
people. But,there is no such thing as “white people™ and we t0o are human beings
‘who should demand o own self-respect and not whore ourscives out to such
hideous bullies, We're oppressed too, a3 wago-slaves, tzxpayers and droncs. A
‘vacuous, hedonistic, materiaist culture s a shameful price to pay for soquiescence.
Amest, prosecation and incarceration are specifically very abitrary, yet as
policy, very effective in “maintaining order.” With a million laws on the books,
every single law-abiding persan breeks many laws every singic day and could be
encaged bocause of them for the st of their live, if the authoriies 3o decide 10
target them. The laws are also heavily weighted as to class and raoe. Poor people.
can't afford a lawyer, so they g0 to prison. Rich people “pull strings” or hire aslick
lawyer to argus or buy their way out. If convicted, these fow rich people receive.
light sentences and they serve them in miniosum secarity prisons. The laws are
specifically and virulently racist, a8 well. Crack cocsine, which the govemment
flooded the Black communities with, e it did heroin earler, is not only extremely
debilitating, but is prosecuted 100 times more harshly then the powder cocais,
affiuent whites prefer. Five grams of crack gamers the same mandatory sentence a5
500 grems of powder.
S0, even though there aro five times as many white, illegal drug users
Blacks, five times as many Blacks ead up in prison because of them. Thet’
twenty-five times conviction rate, depending on the color of your skin. A similar
situntion exists for other “crimes.” Malcolm X once said: “Show me a capitalist snd
Tl show you a bloodsucker™ Well,the bloodsuckers have moved their factories
from the U.S. first to Mexico and now on o places like Chine for super sweatshop
exploitation, i their never-ending drive to maximize profits, gut unioas, reduce
‘wages and benefits, and 50 forth. As Clinton implemented Reaganomics by gutting
‘lfr, loznching NAFTA s doubling (b picn popultions (i Resy oot
Bush Sr. quadrupled them) llegal drugs became a fimdsmentsl source of ncome for
those left in the ‘hood. “Lawlessness” is rampant, not unlike the prohibition era of
the twenties. Drug dragrets and survsllamces focus on the Black community, not
nfipummmmmmn—wymm
‘oocupation, in their destitution. You can see it even in traffc courts, where the vast
majority of the defendants are Black or Brown. They're “guilty” of DWB — driving
‘while black! Prisons and war ere about the only “growth industries™ let!
Around the world, the U.S. continuously unleashes unrelenting tyranny and
‘gemocide upon the people, plamts and nimsls of our planet. Tens of millions of
people bave beeo murdered throughout Asia, Burope, Africa and the Americas these
Tast several decades by the U.S. military or their trained and supplied local 2.y
underlings. Billions of our fellow humans suffer at the brink of starvation, while
vast amounts of food are fed to cows and otherwise wasted. They even have laws
against etrieving thrown away food and providing it to those who need it i this
country! With a mere 4 %% of the world’s population, the U.S. nonetheless usurps
30% of the world's resources. Yet, tens of millions of people are impoverished here
in the U.S. and live in destitution, without medical insurance, decent housing, and so
forth, while the few mega-capitalsts graduate from millionaires to billionaires. 1t's
the “profanity of reality.” Recently, Bechtel, one of the primary corporations
pushing ths war in Iraq tred to corner the market on water in the destitute couniry
of Bolivia and only left when the whole country rose in outrage. That's sick!
Genine, empowering, life-affirming education is all but non-existent, even to
those who can afford it or know how to access it cheaply. People don’t want to have
o open up Pandora’s Box and fsce reality square in the face. Dealing with the
unavoidable conclusions is too scary. Fear, like during Stalin’s tyranny, is almost
physically palpsble. The militarization of policing, surveillance, the often
‘mandatory heavy sentencing for minor infractions, preventive detention, the massive
police presence at demonstrations, the infltration of activist groups, etc., makes a
serious commitment to social justice work dangerous. They isolate activists from
citizens and lump all their enemies together as “terrorists” or worse, “anarchists.”
‘They say the first victims of war are the children and the truth. Recently, it was
reported that since the latest U.S. invasion of Iraq (2003), twice as many children
there are dying of starvation and preventable discases. Brutal occupation s now
“liberation.” The phony reason of “weapons of mass destruction” has been twisted
10 mean a benevolent project to bring “Democracy” to these people treated as
political children. Yet, Iraq is the cradle of civilization, not post WW IT America.
“This latest “shock and awe” war comes afte a devastating, otherworldly, fisin-a-
barel, infrastructure destroying war in 1991 and twelve years of monstrous
sanctions that snuffed out the lives out of several hundred thousand Iraqi children —
6,000 per month, which to the now celcbrated former Secretary of State, Madelaine
Albright, was “worth it Think of that, a high administration official endorsing
massive, decade-long infanticide! 1di Amin has nothing on these mass killers!
“The whole world fears and loathes the U.S. with very good reason. They can see
the polar ice caps melting and the Amazon “ungs of the Earth” being asphyxiated.
‘They’ve seen the U.S. unleash nuclear war on Japan, Iraq and Serbia, without a hint
of remorse. They've seen the many US.-trained death squad regimes ply their
gruesome trade in East Timor, El Salvador, Vietnam, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Haiti,
the Middle East, throughout Africa etc., etc. They’ve seen brutal dictatorships in the
Philippines, Indonesia, throughout South America and everywhere else, propped up,
trained and protected by the U.S. ~as long as slave labor and cheap goods torrent
‘back to the U.S., not to benefit the American people, but to be plugged into the rip-
off, slave system of U.S. capitalism. These realites scream for world revolution!
‘The rest of the world can’t do it by themselves, as long as we keep aiding and
abetting the Bushes and Cheney's of this world. For, even though Vietnam was able
to force the US. to withdraw in ignominious defeat, the economic system of U.S.-
‘based world capitalism survived, regrouped and expanded. We have a fundamentnl
responsibility as world citizens and it's only fair that we hold up our end. 29
Cowardice in the face of such cataclysmic danger is the lowest form of life.
The war on the world has indeed come home. September 11" was st
its shocking effectivencss juxtaposed against a uniquely politially ot
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fow retaliatory actions taken against the U.S. who has generated such suffering and
isery in this world. Trillons of dollars speat on “defense” and the U.S. could do
nothing for the hour and o half while these spectacular events were unfolding on live
4v.? Yer, they knew everything about these guys in the next day's newspapers. By
sheer coincidence, | suppose, the Patriot Act and plans for the invasion of Irag, were
all prepped and ready to go. Mass psychology and manipulation have been raised to
a science by these aggressors and we e being asked to pay for their
bloodthirstiness, offer our sons and daughters as their cannon fodder and rat out
£hose around us who arc not white enough or who have the courage of genuine
‘morality and attempt 10 resist the government in some form or other. Even just a
free skool type educator like myself, has been under surveillance. 1 have had some
of my group's meeings infiltraied. Anarchist education is a no-1o.
‘Why take the risk to challenge this seemingly all-powerful Statc? I'd answer
because 10 do so i the ultimate expression of our humanity, based on truth and.
gustice. Like all other animals, we're social creatures, who for survival, must band
“ogether to fight off predaors. I’s empowering t0 overcome our fear and join others
doing the same. 1t's an incredible education and very life-affirming. It needs to be.
done. The whole world is relying on the American people to come out of their
‘stupor and lethargy to throw off these monsters catspulting all of us lowards
exinction. America has shown it is vulnerable 10 such a commitment
consciousncss and ecion, 23 Shown by the upheavals of the sixties and early
‘seventics. Outside counirics, such as Korea, Vietnam and others have even fought
Zhe USS. to.8 draw or defeated them, on the batlefield. Al previous predatory
empires have gone down, especially when the home front people refuse to be their
illers and jailoss. Our children and their children demand that we act!
Understanding and resistance to the Bush regime is increasing. Young people are
fess likely 1o be suckered into signing their lives away to the military, as they see 50
many being killed, maimed &/or otherwise ruined by signing up. As the
‘government steps up their coercive, lic-based offensive against Americans, more
oo il e it Lomn o ‘As people like Ward Churchill are Leing
70's a crucial time in history where the fate of the Earth literally hangs in the balance.
‘Depending on our resolve and level of effectiveness to rid humanity of these arch-
criminals, rest the fate of i, itself. The truth s revolutionary.
Anthouy Rayson, prison abolition anarchist
Statement at Beloit College Forum, April 22, 2005
South Chicago ABC Zine Disto
P.0.Box 7121
‘Homewood, 11. 60430
Empowering Prisoners
Amidst the suffering and oppression, prisons are schools and the
most important teachers of rebellion are prisoners. Most of these
instructors didn't get convicted of acts against the government, driven
by their political consciousness. But, all prisoners are political, as
Incarceration is a major component of the state. Concomitantly, many
prisoners thirst for a re-energizing awareness of self and society. It's
a two-way street. We must leam from them and help teach those
looking to learn. To do this, we must collaborate closely with
revolutionary prisoners regardiess of when they acquired their
insightfulness and support them in their struggles against their
captors.
Oppressed people have a natural awareness and desire to combat
their oppressors, whether they belong to a political grouping or not.
Look at Iraq. A major component driving the insurgency there, are
the former prisoners of Saddam Hussein. Revolutions require fearless
muscle!
With 2.2 million prisoners, there's a huge pool of potential
revolutionaries, drawn from the prisons, in this country. So, it's no
wonder that censorship is so heavy and political activity by prisoners is
dealt with so harshly by the gulag authorities. It used to be ilegal to
educate slaves because of the fear that their knowledge would lead
them to rebellion. The same holds true today.
“The few incarcerated in this country specifically for their politics
deserve our respect, attention and support, of course. But o do all
the other prisoners, especially those putting themselves in harms way
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to fight the system, educate and assist their fellow prisoners and
attempt to work with those of us on the "outs.” Malcolm X and George
Jackson didn't go to prison as political prisoners. Their crimes were
being young, male and black. But they sure as hell becarme "poliitical,”
while in prisont
As serious anarchists focusing on prisons, it behooves us to extend
support to all prisoners, regardless of their poiitical development, work
closely with the educators and spread the truth far and wide, inside
and out. Perhaps more importantly on a personal level is to absorb
these teachings ourselves and have this heightened awareness drive
our activities. For, the truth is revolutionary, empowering and
motivating. 1 keep saying it, but it needs constant repeating. We
must overcome our fear, just like the prisoners calling to us have, in
the very teeth of oppression.
We all know how dire the situation Is, that it will get worse and how
heavily the American people are sedated with brainwash, druas and a
vacuous consumerist culture, saturated by the omnipotent brain melt
of television. What better way to get through to these people than the
ultimate reality check of America - the prisons? And who is better
equipped to articulate these truths than the brothers and sisters wrung
from the ghettos, barrios, reservations and working-class
neighborhoods and forced to deal with this constant nightmare? As
Malcolm said: "America means prison." Well then, let's get to the
meaning of Americal
We've a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. We're fond of
looking back to the Spanish revolution to see a blazing blast of 3¢
lightning of the potential of genuine anarchy. But that took decades of
painstaking, nose-to-the-grindstone work, constant, comimunity-based
organizing and education, rebellions, insurrections - everything! What
better way s there to connect to the communities in America today
than through the loved ones that the state has kidnapped from them
for thelr particular, sadistic punishment? You go where the need s the
greatest!
To gain the respect of these consclous prisoners Is very Important
and legitimizes our poltics. But it only occurs through dedicated,
constant, consistent and rellable work. It also must be unqualified. In
other words, prisoners must have complete freedom to express
themselves without political coloring from us. It must be authentic.
After all, solidarity Is a major principle of anarchism. It's solidarity in
action. ‘This doesn't mean we can't offer our own opinions, analysis
and everything else. People deserve to have their say, without being
interrupted. Let the readers decide In their own minds what they
derive insight from and how they want to approach revolution. By
taking this tack, I feel anarchy stands strong. Non-anarchist
revolutionartes will gain respect for us as well, If we call out the cry of
revolt!
Peaple gain revolutionary consciousness via various avenues,
depending on their experiences and education. Squabbling amongst
‘ourselves solves pretty much nothing. It's demoralizing and
anarchists are particularly known for their endless arguments. The
way I see It, we've got to give each other plenty of siack and get over
the small stuff. If you don't like someone, find someone eise to work
with. We're all on the same side of the barricades and we need all
hands on deck to challenge this powerful monstrosity. If and when we
sueceed, we can deal with our differences then. Save your venom for
the real enemy - the U.S. government! The warid deserves to have
Abolitionists in America put an end to this bloodthirsty predator, but
soont
I run an open-ended distro of revolution and education. 1 want to
acknowledge an important mentor in my development. His name Is
‘Sean Lambert and he's a bi-sexual anarchist prison abolitionist out of
New York. He opened my eyes to the incredible world inside the
barbed wire and I'll be forever grateful to him for that. Sean, I love
you, man! I stil distro several of your zines, Brother!
Prisoners have been there for me in my darkest moments - often,
‘even more so than my own family. When I need rejuvenation, I go
inside and ask for some love to strengthen my resolve. So naturally, I
retumn the favor, which brings me enormous satisfaction as well. It's a
real community and we rely on each other, a lot!
Prisoners excel in all facets of knowledge and culture. The most
powerful writers, artists, psychologists, researchers, poets, letter-
writers and so forth, I have found to be prisoners. Being an anarchist,
the strongest anarchists whom I feel the closest with, are aiso often
prisoners! 1t's thriling to help a prisoner develop a genuine anarchist
Understanding and watch that person "tum on." Seeing their gratitude
and brave determination to seriously challenge their dreadful 3 5~
imprisonment and the torment this evil government forces upon the’
whole world of people, is powerful stuff. It can be among the main
building blocks of sprouting cells of thinking and doing resolve, so
needed to help organize the strategy and tactics, historical analysis,
vibrant culture and talent - the yearning for freedom! Inside and out,
we're all prisoners in countless ways and we're all in this together! It's
just what Is and we have to deal with t. I's people helping each other
Self-educate. It's giving your comrade a hand and vice versa. It's
very important.
It's the black hole of society. I's the opening of Pandora's box!
Prisons are the concentrated essence of this state, In the country
called America, which is just south of here. You know, Its the place
where runaway slaves and draft dodgers come from. I suppose their
present-day crystalline image of the dominant state on Earth, is Abu
Ghraib and the obliteration of Fallujah. It's not a pretty sight - the
reality of this world that is - and its often very dangerous, even
tortuous psychologically, to attempt to grapple with it. 700 bad
because people are fighting and dying struggling against the United
States government and we should be, too! The stakes are the same
for all of us.
But, it shouldn't be intimidating. You'llfind a whole world of
humanity, once you start to write to prisoners, connect with them on
various levels and develop into a person with a serious reality-check
type grasp on what we are all confronted with. Mutual aid is helluva
thing!
Thankyou.
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Now that I'm done ranting, Il outline the work of some important
prisoners and their initiatives. First, I would say, many deserving
writers, poets, artists and/or revolutionaries that I've been lucky
enough to have received work from, aren't fairly represented. I just
‘am overwhelmed with manuscripts and sheaves of material, and am
pressed for time. I'm looking at ways to increase my time to do this
type of serious work and of doing it with more alacrity!
First, I would speak of Kevin (Rashid) Johnson, locked down in a
super max hellhole in Virginia, home of Harper's Ferry. He's the
strongest and most talented polltical artist in the world, a seriously
important thinker/tactician and an uncommonly insightful historical
analyst. His work is a must and the vicious repression he and his
brothers have faced over at Red Onion (like at so many other prisons
throughout the archipelago) is monstrous and must be challenged.
Secondly, is Clarence Anthony (Talib Y. Rasheed) Taylor,
incarcerated in Indiana. He's a real educator and he focuses on the
psychology of criminalization, of oppression, racism, lovelessness - the
day to day coping, while living in a pathological environment. He's a
sensitive humanist dealing with brutal reality in such a way as to
comfort and assuage you as your Insights increase by the reading and
thinking about his beautifully written, yet concentrated social analysis
and how people can best adapt his course of study with what we all
are dealing with, all the time, in our own lives. It's incredibly
important work! See for yourself - free of charge!
Down in Michigan, on June 187, in the capital, Lansing, a prisoner
support march will take place. Here's a newsletter from Women For
Freedom, a chapter of Lifers of America, Inc. Also involved is the 3
Battered Women's Clemency Project. Anarchist Black Cross will have
welcome presence on this day, at least to those who aren't fascists
and support our prisoners, because they know of the work that we do,
with them and others. Push the issues with solidarity!
Don't be squeamish about taking zines, newsletters, brochures, art
work, whatever. Take what you'll find useful or interesting and give
‘what you can - somehow / someday.
Khalfani X. Khaldun Is a determined fighter in Indiana. He was
framed for killing a guard, so they try to make sport of him, but he
challenges them with a remarkable spirit. Several of his works are
avallable, as are a lot of others I won't have time to mention. Don't
hesitate to write to these people. They're totally dedicated to the
cause!
‘The anarchist-driven Missourl Prison Labor Union deserves special
recognition. Jerome White-Bey, Shelk Mark Moore E1, Bruce (Yero)
Cummings and the others involved, have been Iiterally, under siege.
constantly over this, since day one, which was several years ago.
Almost invariably in the hole for fabricated "violations," these guys
have "stayed strong!" Now, a chapter in Michigan has started and
we're trying to get something going in the Texas dungeans. Legall
the U.S. government doesn't hide their Intentions, for prisoners are
iterally siaves - according to their alleged "document of freedom” the
(slavers’) U. S. Constitution.
There are many small prisoner groups, support groups, study
circles, politically consclous religious groups, vegans, and everything
else you can think of. I've several zines of their work and projects.
Addresses are In each booklet. I try to save for reprinting and
distributing the most compelling and pointedy political lessons. But,
we all gotta lighten up here and there (or you'll go nuts/) - so some of
this out there stuffis funny as helll Thanks for your time and
attention. Come to Chicago, sometime! Cuz, 7even do!
p.s. T'm glad that I'm not In Amerlkkka, right now!
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Interview by/with Anthony Rayson 3% 4
Greetings!
Hello.
First off; why the hell are you doing this - interviewing
yourself1?
1just decided it was a good way to bring out ideas, posed
as questions. What's the difference, if they're good questions?
OK. Here's a question. How do so-called “white people” or
“Buro-Americans" get connected to the revolution?
‘Well, being thrust in the middle of this country, "whites”
have a fandamental interest to see a livable future for our
children and world. We deserve, like-everybody else, to know
the truth, live unenslaved physically and mentally, and act
real in a genuine community, which none of us now have.
Anarchism is perfect, in my opinion, to help young white
people jackhammer through a lifetime of lies, they've been fed,
overcome their fear and begin to actualize their potential and
pursue their interests, all the while helping others, being
helped and loved by them and positively affecting their
surroundings. This, of course, is the last thing allowed in this
genocidal, slavery-based monstrosity called America. It is
uniquely psychotic with the endless barbarity mixed with
pious hypocrisy. Forcing people to have political amnesia
affects all their thinking and has paved the way for their for-
profit enslavement. "Whites" aren't free human beings, who
live their own lives; they're wage-slave consumerists living
stultified, t. v. - watching quasi-existences. They need
liberation in countless ways, tool “Take back the night" and
take back the living of your own life, tool Unshackle thy mind!
Also, "whites" are asked to be the brute force for these
power-drunk, mass-murdering kejillionaires. They join the
army, police, prison personnel, and so forth. They're
brainwashed into devoting their lives into hurting others
defending an evil, centuries-long, empire. This diminishes
their lives, like the German soldiers - several million in World
War II - laying dead all over the Eastern Hemisphere! What
good was the living of their lives, killing and dying for Hitler?
Yeah, on a personal level they may have been great guys, but
they never got past their brainwash and fear of challenging the
shit they were dealing with. Their lives were wasted, fighting
for, instead of against, fascism. Literally, used to death! 3!
‘People must learn the details of reality. Use their brains
learn and think and push themselves to work on the details of
liberation. A connection to those really, pbysically, suffering
and dying is very important. Their lives mean as much as
ours or anybody else's! That, we must understand to our soul
and this genuine feeling of connectedness should drive us to
live our lives accordingly. War is being waged on us, as welll
We will become our true selves, when we finally feel a part of
the rest of the people of the world. We've been cocooned and
held hostage psychically for hundreds of years, here! To get
connected means to challenge the U.S. government, right from
our catbird seat, in "white” America - the schools, suburbs,
farms, little towns, cities, prisons - all over!
Whew! Now I know why nobody will interview you. You
talk too much. Here's another question. How come you rant so
much? It's this "in your face" stuff we don't want to deal with.
1 don't pretend to be a researcher or whatever. Iam an
anarchist propagandist, an alarmist. It's an alarming
situation, so I think it needs to be brought to peoples’
attention, like a fire truck going by. A stark contrast to the
‘mush being foisted on us all constantly is very important.
For, there are two basic “schools” of politics - the truth and the
liars, who also murder, steal, destroy, etc. We must overcome
our intimidation to speak the unexpurgated truth, at all times.
The literature of resistance must get more intensely political
and articulate in a reality-check explosion of popular opinion.
T'm an older gentleman, 51, so I've lived through decades of
this stuff and have somehow survived. Now, I'd like to impart
‘my observations to one and all, as I've made a life of thinking
and writing, because early on, that's what I decided to do.
Like everything else, what you like to do and practice doing,
you get good at. I tried to get a handle on things and express
‘my opinion in a concentrated, invective-laden mind blow -
because things are so dreadful and folks are so catatonic.
1 have a style, I suppose, reflective of my blunt, south side
of Chicago, outlook. 1like it, but I guess it's not everybody's
cup of tea. For those who hate me or whatever, at last I also
edit and publish a ton of stuff from other people and offer all
of it ree to prisoners, especially, but to anyone, really. People
can read anything they want. I just thought people should
have a place where writers don't walk on eggshells with their
‘words. We're a "no bones about it” bunch of agitation! Yo
What's it supposed to accomplish, all these inflammatory
publications? You could rite boring crap and get paid!
They are educational and empowering. They fortify people,
get them unleashing their own ideas and picking up the pen,
themselves. Study circles are formed, connections made
inside and out, and ideas are presented. Conditions in prison
are changing rapidly, as they are on the "outs" and those
attuned to what is really happening and what to do about it,
are often prisoners. We need to help "turn the iron houses of
oppression into schools of liberation.” It's where it's at.
‘White people can connect with oppressed communities,
including the underbelly of the white working class, as
‘hundreds of thousands of prisoners are so-called "whites" too.
They should hook up with prisoner support groups, like us,
and write to prisoners. A whole world opens up and proving
oneself to prisoners and their families, legitimizes ones' actions
in these oppressed communities, where often, every single
person has a direct family member entombed. White
abolitionists who “walk the walk and talk the talk” are much
beloved and necessary, given this settler, "white skin privilege”
society. Denouncing “Whiteness" is to become a real human,
Social movements have revolutionary voices driving the
thinking. Under such heavy brainwash as is meted out in
Amerika, these rare voices are all the more essential. It's no
coincidence that it was illegal to teach slaves how to read.
They!ll turn into rebels, like Steve Biko, and write about it, tool
T'm into thrilling literature being created now! I sometimes
try my own hand at it, but the most explosively written and
intensely revelatory literature is being written by prisoners.
‘Who is writing about the drug war o the mass dragnets in the
Prisoners are the ones who know all the details and
motives. What happens inside comes out to u, sooner or later,
anyway. We're all under surveillance. We're all looked at as
‘meat or somehow expendable, worthy of exploitation, maybe,
but "collateral damage" if we in any way get in their way.
What about people who say it's just "all talk!” Y)
Well, it is all talk, this particular project. But I do other
things, to0. We need both talk and action, of course. Those
people who complain don't even talk, usuallyl They dis hard
work and do nothing of importance, themselvesl So, who
cares what they say, think or do - not me! Il just find people
willing to do serious work. Prisoners are the most serious!
They deserve to have thei voioes trumpeted loudly, instead of
suppressed by a hideous gulag system of censorship and
coercion, while the crybabies pooh-pooh everything and ignore
this ongoing kidnapping holocaust. Uprisings are
spearheaded by prisoners and former prisoners!
Hmmm. So you think your work is so important. Aren't you
Maybe 50 to some people, but I try not to be, after a
fashion. Look, we all have deficiencies as individuals. Some
people make themselves more pleasant than others. I'm a
likable enough guy, it's just that I fly off the handle pretty
easily - at least verbally. I'm kind of single-minded about this
and yes, I think this stuff is very important. Other people
think so, tool Most of my intensity is poured into work, not
directed negatively to other people. I'm a bit sarcastic.
Just as I thought - you're an idiot! May you roast in hell for
all of this ass-kicking anarchist, prisoner literature!
Thanks! It's obvious we're both sick of doing this interview.
‘Education Without A Lesson' Equals Educationless Hz
Talib Y. Rasheed
Before I earolled in college, 1 was considerably self-educated, so 1 didn't expect
1o encounter a great deal of unfumilar teriory. For years, | had studied hisory, psycology,
sociology, physical fituess, & well a5 taught myself passable English, and how to writc.
WelL.. a5 1 have approsched th ead of my fourth semeste, am still waiing to be educated.
T am stll waitiog to not be forced to study and memorize for test purposes, a bunch of
‘pseudo-scientific theorics that the average eight grader would distniss s “fishy-hogwash'.
‘What s the meaning and purpose of having students waste time and cnerg 10 read, take
notes on, and memorize information that is proven false, and evea absurd; information
Iabelled as thory, yet i reaity i closer to th irmational concepts thatarise from someone’s
grandiose illsions, and » search for glory that has taken & light ffom everyday, obvious
reality?
Last semestr, [ sat ina class of 21 students and asked the question,(relevant to
a question from our textbook) “What is self-esteem?” Seveal tried, but 0o one could
confidently answer the question. This semestr, Spring 2005, and in'a completely unrelaied
class, 8 teacher posed the question: “What is self-esteem?” Once agai, b in differeat
class with different studeats, several ried, but none knew the actual definiion of elf-estoem!
Two classes of college studeats didn't know the meaning of selfesteem. As in the previous
semester, the first answer was: “I's how you feel sbout yoursel£” So, 1 asked, if I feel
disgasted about myself, or hate myself, is that slf-esteem?
T other classe, [ have heard students commeat that being in colloge helps them
“build™ their self-esteem. This, of course, is another revelation of how misunderstood the
‘mesnings of education and selfsteem are. To begin with, geauine education is ot the
repeated act of loading information into the short-term memory for a test then forgetting
cighty-percent of that information right after &n exaum, because you have to reloed the short-
term memory; for the most part, with nformation that bas no value or personal importance o
‘you. True education is essentiaily a discovery and transcendence process by which we, first
‘nd foremost, discover our basic bumanity in common with othes. It is @ process tha gives.
rise to_socisl, psychological, and emotional transccodence, all of which allows us to
humanistically rise above the biases and fettrs of relgion, ideology, so-called race, clture,
and atonalism i reltion o otbers. How is it possible for a racist, an cthaoceatrist, a
reigionis,or nationalist, t call oneself educated? No. Such belief systems correspand with
indoctination, not education. With tradition - not progress.
1 have observed a lot of propagands being taught in classrooms. This doesn't
necessarily accuse any teachers of being knowing propagandist; just tha they teach what
amounts o propaganda, because those who organize and fix the curriculums bave an intea,
unbeknownst to many tzachers, t spread propaganda. That is the system! The information
hat studeats are exposed to must influeace them towatd the condonation or glorificaion of
the staus quo, and not toward poliical dissent. Propagand s in opposition o education.
‘When a student fixes hisher mind on a degree because of the advantage and opportunity it
‘can offer in job tatus and camings over the less~degreed mésses, then the content of learning,
s litte importance, and if the content of what s leared has little imporance, what might
‘we say sbout the qualiy of what s being coaveyed to stadents?
‘What type of education system do you bave when jusior snd senior college
students sctually cannot clerty ana confidenialy give the definition and meaning of self-
esteem? Thatis like them not knowing they need fo drin certain minimum amount of plain
[ry—
water cach day. L person blives it b can buikd o schive self-eteem thougha college
Gassroom, thn, i undersandin, of what eifeseem is i ey defcen. So defcint
it i prctially ul and vid. 93
T trth s tat e stcem i ot something you achiev. I i someting ik
Jou acknoriadge with desp conviction” Slfssem i th belict hat you ae ianiely
Yoy of being valod by yoursclf and olber, That you re a human biog worthy of
Sccepunee, undersanding, love, fiendhip, and respect. Self.csteem tels you that you
v t suceed n lf b secomplbingth gouls and lilig e consrcive desies
it you have, 1 el yo tha you worth and vau arean en wihin theaslves, and in 20
ay dependent upon the idea of th gretr o leser valu of othrs I s caled selfestecm
Becuuse s ssen st within th slf, and is ot rlant upon anyting you do or don't do.
Thi lads e 1 e quesion of why selesicen s 3 unackpowledged i a county lke
Amedca? Well it has & ot (0 do with capilst culre and ideology. To begin Wi,
Gpialis delogy vaues propenty more than human i, We re cosidered o be only 25
“ahable s th cumulied worh of our material posissions, oF our caing power in
comparison to that of others. The spirit of humanism plays hardly any role in how we
peeive the value of other people, Society is plagued by what 1 call pathological
eaterais, .o bl s 5 3 quest o mterial posesions: hat human beings e
‘ameans to this end, and not an end within themselves o be accepted, loved, and valued.
'we 80 nt come out of & two yearof four year collge experince with the
idea of somehow mproving the e of olhc, or making socity btter, thea what i the
purpese of that s0-caed educaion? W s th pupose f sy leaning i we do not lean
Yot shout e ysem and socs,pliicl, nd cconoic frees a govern s? As o
back as the 5* Century B.C, Greek philosophers asked the question: “What do we owe our
Sovemment, ad what do those Who goven owe 7" How many in cssrooms across
Amercs ae asking today, "Wha does the govezmment owe 7" A proposal 10 aise the
i wage was eceily vood dow, 5 it i congress who govem and pss laws
v been recsiving pay inceases cvery yea sine 1985 Obviously these me, ad. fow
o o sy millionies don't fel tatthe govermiment owes us & resonable
Sure iving wage: In 1977 the mimimum vago was o dllrsand niety cnts (52.90,
oy i 1 v dollrs und i sens (55.15), Do th mah. The minimam wage hs ot
oubled in neary thiny yeas. How many studets are edacated eaough to s¢ the pure
Cormupion snd wickedoess n i scheme?
We, ovn today, often har ths ‘we” have the best govemament i he world
This is one of US history's bigget myhs. It is 2 myh based on the ida that the US
sovemment gives us this righ, hat fedor, e Get al Peopl throughou hisory in
‘America had to suffer, die, struggle, and force govemment concessions to be able to exercise.
Cvery gt and privlege ey hive. Noneof thas things were exinded 1 soiey out o
o compasion or humanity of those who govern. It i th goverment tha has the et
TeSpet for the US Constition, and doss 1ot want 1o come anywhere nar auiompiing 10
spproximate the ideals in it Too many of us have the llusion that the government s the
constituion made fle in the world. But, more and more, thy fashion, amend, and interpret
the Constitution 4 though it were weapon (o be used against the people. And it has been
used a5 a dagger many times, depite many of the good ideals in it
‘How many students come out of a four year college program having never read
the Constitation? In fact, not even abl o defne words such as capitalism, socialism, and
something a5 basic as self-esteem? What s education f its_fundamental purpose is
indocirinaton and propaganda, as opposed 10 hunanization? The problem is that the
cducational system can not humanize people and a the same ime cxpect them o condone the
cxisting poltical sysem and cconomie rlations within sociey. Capitalism and humanism
kardlyibe.
uy
“Te Constiation offers us the ight to lfe,liberty, and the pursuitof happiness.
But the political-cconomic sysem deaies the majoriy th abiliy o exerciss these cxpressed
rights. Farmers in America don't have theright to grow as much food asthey want, then give
it tothe poor and hungry. Who among us ha th right to be hired by an employer? Who bas
the rght (0 food, clothing, and sheltr? When you really examine things, you ralize tht the
govermment is against us living witin a society tht guaranees the fulfilment of cven basic
uman necesiies, et alone adessing these pecessies with cnough justice and rspect that
they are experienced as rightsinstead o privileges. How i i, the, that the system survives
with so much incquity? How do so many observe 5o much suffeing in society and tum their
Tcods away from i? It i possible because of pathologicalindividualism, <. he belief that
1" am all that maters, and as long as 1 can ake care of "y needs the world s oky. |
first coined this term in, A Call To Humanity, 1 it seems quite clar that pathological-
individualism and pathological-materiaism go hand in hand, one giving rise to andior
einforcing he ther
Bt the question stll remaiss, what rlaionship should the educational system
have with societyin general? Should it be graduating disciples of indoctrinaion, propaganda,
or pathologicalindividualism? Is the educational system serving the et interet of socicty?
From my personal experence s a college stdent, | would have 10 say no. There are ot
enough questions asked snd thorougly answered about the ype of socialzaion process we
50 trough s citizens of the USA. The prnciple inte of any lgitimate systm of cducation
st be 1o cquip students with the inelectal, maral, and soefal exposures necessary for
{hem o improve the overall human relations of socety. No status quo should be condoned, or
viewsd as an end within telf, a5 long as pervasive inequiies xist n socity, .
{ha can easily be corrected by a government usingis potentia 0 serve the people,
being served by them, which we have too much of in history; people serving the corrupt and
unjust wants and needs of governments who ultimately have no more than the iterest of
hemselves, corpoations, and the uling et atheart.
"My position is not tha the curent education system be trashed, but that it be
alowed o evalve a greater depth, meaning, and purpose in ts overall relationship o
umanity. | enjoy the college expericnce and appreciat th good intcnt of eachers, bt a the
Same time there i & need to look beyond the classroom, and, to perceive the sociological
ffects of i, There is a need fo reform in much of the required curculum. | question why
physica anthropology, deaing with gencs, chromosomes, and DNA, is not basic requisite
o sequire an sssociates degree? Information and knowledge of this subject would dismiss
Several fise andlor pseudo-scextfc deas about sex, race, gender, and evolution that
curreatly fuc biases, prejudices, and socal discriminations across socicty.
1 know that a lo of truth and scientific facis are being suppressed across the
coutry, and world for that matter, because schools and teachers are intimidated by the idea,
or actul attack from, some rligious terorst. Scbools and tcachers fe too threstened (o
expose the truth as much s they themselves are informed about it Even as | writ this, the
jentific factof evolution s under attack by peaple who flsely claim to have evidence of
{nteligent design, and, who claim that inteligent design i scieaifc The fct of the mattc s
that the motion (and i is no more than & notion) of inelligent design is about as scientific a5
the Inquisition was holy.
Educaton and all educational systems should have one primary goal. That
nform and enlghten all sudents about th reliticsof the socieiesand world we ive in. The
oot being, that students become more willing and sble partcipants in human, social
progress and cconomic justce than those who came before them as students and members of
Socicty. Education, once agin, is supposcd o be about the best inerst of socicty and
humanity in genersl. Only in tis way do we become beiter abl (0 transcend the shadow of
history, aad thereby understand the naure of men and women who would deay us the ruth,
and propagate falschoods, 5 weapon against the oppressed and exploited.
4s
T would advise anyone willing and able o attend college 1 do so for higher
learning, but 1 would lso say, “don't equate information and perfunctory learning with
education.” 1f we do ot come out of the classroom with a constructive-humanistic
worldview, rooted in genuine understanding and truth, then we are not truly educated. And,
since the American school system is not designed {0 give us a constructive-humanistic,
intemationalist worldview, it does not ruly educate us, We must therefore supplement and
advise others o supplement. We must weave through propagands, and wade through arcas of
science and fact that are not placed before us. In other ways, we must become perceptive
nough to know when blanks need 1o be filled in. And above all, we must engage ourselves
and question whenever we are urged to by inellect or inuition, of both. Understand that truth
is not always statc, but often dynamic and expansive. It can only grow on us and in us if we.
are searching for a decper understanding and cxpression of it
Rely on your self for the best education. The school system is part of the means
o that end. Do not let it be the end in itself.
Wi the stuleat i ready, the teacher will appear.”
~ A yogic saying.
“Whenever the educational process is accompanied by a dishonest suppression of facts and
ruths, relevant 10 the point at issue, it becomes pure propaganda. But even without such
dishonest intentions there i, in all exchange of ideas, a certain degree of unconscious
uppression of fucts or inabillty to see all th facis. Tha is the very reason the educational
process cannot be trusted o resolve a social controversy.”
~ Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Socicty
46
Students protest academy at Senn
Even a last-minute walkout by hundreds
of Senn High School students Wednesday couldn’t
persuade Chicago School Board members to drop
aplan to put a U.S. Naval Academy program
in the school. PAGE 10
‘What about going to school while you're in? Many GIs report that
military life leaves them too busy and exhausted - and doesn't really
‘make time for them to go to class.
Joining the military is hazardous to your fature.
Joining the military is a dead end. After you've spent a few years in
the military, you're 2 to times more likely to be homeless than your
friends who never joined. And, according o the VA, you'l probably
earn less too. The skills you learn in the military will be geared to
‘military jobs, not civilian careers; when you come out, many
employers will tell you to go back to school and get some real
training. As former Secretary of Defense Cheney declared, "The
reason to have a military is to be prepared to fight and win wars....t's
not a jobs program.”
Before You Enlis
Joining the military is hazardous 10... 7.
“President Bush made
‘comment a week ago, and
he said “bring it on.” Well
they brought it on, and nw
my nephew is dead."
- Mary Kewatt, aunt of a U.S.
soldier killed in Iraq, on
Minnesota Public Radio
You've probably heard the recruiter's sales pitch — travel, training, money
for college. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? All advertising does. But if
military life doesn't live up to the advertising, you can' bring your
enlistment agreement back to the recruiter for a rofund. You're in for eight
years of your life (including inactive reserve duty). You woulda't buy a car
Without looking under the hood. Don' enlist before you check out the
reality of military life that lies behind the glamorous television ads and
glossy brochures. Check it out carcfully.
WARNING: Joining the Military
Is Hazardous To...
Military recruiters tour the country selling a dangerous product with
glamorous ads, just like tobacco companies or drug pushers. The ads
‘promise opportunity and adventure — but don't believe the hype.
Joining the military is hazardous to your education.
‘The military isn't a generous financial aid institution, and it isn't concemed
with helping you pay for school. Two-thirds of all recruits never get any
college funding from the military. Only 15% graduated with a four-year
degree.
Joining the military is hazardous to people of color. 43
During the Gulf War, over 50 percent of front-line troops were
‘people of color. Overall, over 30 percent of entisted personnel but
only 12 percent of officers are people of color, who are then
disciplined and discharged under other than honorable conditions at
amuch higher rate than whites. When recent studies showed a slight
dip in young African-Americans' (isproportionately high) interest
in the military, the Pentagon reacted with a new ad campaign.
communities of color into a dead-end, deadly occupation.
Joining the military Is hazardous to women.
Sexual harassment and assault are a daily reality for the
overwhelming majority of women in the srmed forces. The VA's
own figures show 90 percent of recent women veterans reporting
harassment - a third of whom were raped. Despite the glossy
brochures that advertise "opportunities for women," the military's
inherent sexism is evident from sergeants shouting "girll” at trainees
who don't "measure up," to the intimidation of women who speak
out about harassment and discrimination - not to mention military
‘men's sexual sbuse of civilian women in base communities.
Joining the military is hazardous to your civil rights.
If you aren't willing to give up your rights, the military isn't for you.
to come and go freely, you're ordered around 24 hours a day, and
you can be punished by your command without tris! or jury. Free
Speech rights are severely limited in the military. You can be
‘punished for being honest about being lesbian, gay or biscxual.
Worst of all even if you hate your job, you can't quit.
Jolning the military is hazardous to your health.
‘The military can't guarantes you'll be alive at the end of your cight-
year commitment: they can't even promise you wan't be desperately
ill from "mystery illnesses” like those of the Vietnam and Persian
Gulf wars. Whether it atomic testing in the 1950, Agent Orange
during the war against Vietnam, or experimental vaccines and toxic
weapons in the Persian Gulf, the military shamelessly destroys the
health of its persommel — and then does its best to downplay and
ignore their suffering. 49
Joining the military is hazardous to the environment.
The U.S. military is the single largest and worst polluter in the
‘world, from toxins at bases to nuclear-tipped missiles to the
destruction of ecosystems from South Vietnam to the Persian Gulf.
And in today's military, the tanks and weapons are coated with
depleted uranium from toxic nuclear wastel
Joining the military is hazardous to our lives.
The *adventure” in the commercials is code for war, the "discipline®
code for violence. The military trains recruits to employ deadly
force, yet recruiters rarely discuss the dehumanizing process of basic
training, the psychological costs of killing, or the horrors of war.
The ads lie because the product is lethal — not just to
you, but to all of us.
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Draft Joint Resolution on Prisoners' Rights by the Red Heart
Warrior Society and the Black Brigade S2
Ifit is true that Creator has endowed us with cerain inalienable rights,
among which are the right to "Life, Liberty and the Parsuit of
Happiness;” then the State is wrong to take these rights away from us.
Capiital Punisbment is wrong. Taking our Voting Rights is wrong, and
restricing our pursuit of education, culture and religion, beyond the
necessities of security, s also wrong.
‘We do not argue tht by transgressing upon the rights of others we have
incurred a Debt to Society, but this debt cannot be paid by mere
incarceration nor by punishment. It can only be paid by Serviee to the
People after reeducation.
‘We accept that The People have the right to make laws to ensure their
security and promote the general welfare of Society and 10 restrict the
Liberty of those who violate these laws to effect their reeducation and
rehabilitation. However, this right is not unlimited. These laws must meet a
Constitutional Standard and must be enforced fairly and impartially
‘without regard to race, sex, creed o class. Cruel and unusual treatment must
not be imposed, nor may people be robbed of their Human Dignity.
‘The Democratic Revolution begun in America in 1776 is still unfinished.
‘The evils of Feudalism and Slavery have yet to be fully uprooted and
abolished. Racism, Sexism, Class Privilege and Class Oppression
continue to plague society and are the root causes of social dysfunction and
crime. Poverty and social inequality are the result of Class Exploitation and
the domination of society by an oligarchy of the rich and powerful.
‘Their dictatorship is concealed behind a facade of "Democracy” that s not
“Government of The People, by the People and for the People.” It is
therefore incumbent upon The People to wage relentless struggle to
continue the Democratic Revolution to achieve Social Justice and Liberty
for all.
To pay our Debt to Society, we must transform ourselves to become
Servants of the People in the waging of this struggle. Therefore, we must
transform the Iron Houses of Oppression into Schools of Liberation to
prepare ourselves for this struggle.
‘This struggle must be waged on both sides of the razor wire. It must be
waged in the Courts of Law and the Court of Public Opinion.
Key to this struggle is the establishment of Universal Suffrage, including
for prisoners and those who have done their time in states that deny voting
rights to those who have been convicted of a felony. We must raise the battle
cry of "NO INCARCERATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!" s3
We must amend the 14th Amendment to end involuntary servitude for all
and put Slavery behind us. No one should be forced to labor against their
‘will nor be paid less than the Minimum Wage. No one should be denied the
protection of occupational health and safety laws.
Prisoners should be accorded the right to form and to join Labor Unions,
and they should not be used in union busting schemes. The unions should be
involved in Voeational Training and in setting up Parole Plans and finding
employment for ex-prisoners upon their release back into society.
Human Rights Watch Organizations should have ful access to the prisons
and be allowed to closely monitor conditions to help identify and end
abuses. Deprivation of Food, Mediciae, Blankets, Clean Clothes or
Personal Hygiene as punishment must be abolished. Beatings and Torture,
or forcing prisoners t fight one another, must not be tolerated.
Administrators and guards who commit crimes upon prisoners must be
Arrested and upon conviction be themselves placed in correctional fucilities
Members of racist, terrorist organizations, such as the KKK, should be
discharged, and screening of guards should be instituted to weed out those
Psychologically Unfit for their vocation. Nepotism must be abolished.
Increases in salary and benefits to atract a higher caliber of correctional
officer should be accompanied by Higher Educational Requirements and
More Extensive Training, Greater emphasis should be placed upon
minority hiring to achieve Ethnic Diversity at ll levels of the correctional
system.
and their methods emulsted. Good conduct, by both goards and prisoners,
should be rewarded and Positive Reinforcement rather than punishment
should be stressed. Respect and Civility should be cultivated. Correctional
officers and inmates should address one another as "Sir" or "Mam." Ethnic
Insults and baiting must be strictly prohibited.
Every effort should be made to accommodate the maintenance of Family
Units. Prisoners should be housed as closely as possible to their families.
Frequent Conjugal Visits should be allowed as well as Telephone Contact
at Reasonable Rates. Besides regular visits in a visitation room, Private
Sessions with Marriage and Family Councilors should be available to
Freedom of Religion is an essential human and democratic right. Every
effort should be made to accommodate the prisoners'right to e
Spiritual Guidance and Instruction from authorized representatives of
their particular faith group and to partcipate flly in the riuals and
celebrations of their tradition. SY
Traditional Native American Spiritual Practitioners should have regular
access to a Sweat Lodge and an Inter-tribal Circle and program guided by
an approved representative of the First Nations. They should be allowed to
possess Medicine Bundles in which to keep their Sacred Items and to wear
long hair, headbands and medicine bags.
Faith Based Initiatives and Culturally Specific Programs aimed at
rehabilitation should be encouraged and subsidized to provide a variety of
approaches to help those with Drug and Alcohol Related Problems, Anger
Management Issues and to promote Non-Violent Conflict Resolution.
Prisoners should be permitted o attend different services and programs to
seek out what will work for them.
Political Education by the full spectrum of parties and organizations should
be permitted, and candidates for political office should be permitted to
campaign inside the prisons. Politieal Literature and periodicals of all
tendencies should be allowed in.
‘The goal must be to promote Good Citizenship and Spiritual,
Psychological, and Emotional Health and Balance. Being a "School of
Liberation" means freeing people from the negative effects of oppression so
that they can reenter society and be positive assets to their communities.
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Things have been pretty busy in the AK warehouse since we last
sent you an
email. As most of you probably know, AK Press author, Ward
Churchill has
been taking some heavy fire as a result of an essay he wrote
about the 9-11
attacks. In 2003, he turned that essay into a book that we're
proud to have
published: On The Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on
the
Consequences of U.S. Tmperial Arrogance and Criminality.
Friends, Comrades, Customers & Assorted Others
Funny thing, though: despite all the media coverage, very little .
of this
debate has focused on the book itself.
the content
of any of Ward's numerous, well-res:
o replace
this logic of sound bites and character
informed
discussion, we offer the following Ward Churchill titles for
your
consideration. Read ‘em and make up your own mind!
ON THE JUSTICE OF ROOSTING CHICKENS: REFLECTIONS ON THE
CONSEQUENCE OF U.S.
IMPERIAL ARROGANCE, Ward Churchill
The "Most Peace-Loving of Nations" has been engaged in brutal
military
canpaigns in every corner of the globe, unce
inception.
Ward Churchill contextualizes U.S. aggression and the most
effective
response to it yet--the attacks of Sept. 1lth--meticulously
chronicling both
U.S. military campaigns--domestic and foreign--from 1776 to the
present _and
U.S. attempts to violate, obstruct and/or subvert International
Law from
1945 to the present. This is a heart-wrenching history of
senseless butchery
and democracy deterred.
ip://akpress.or/ 2003/ tems/onthejusticeofroostingchickens.
KILL THE INDIAN, SAVE THE MAN: THE GENOCTDAL IMPACT OF AMERICAN
NDIAN
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS, Ward Churchill
From roughly 1880-1980, Native American children in the United
states and
Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to
residential
schools. The stated goal of this government program was to "kill
the Indian
to save the man.” Half the children didn't survive the
or, for that matter, on
rched books. In an effort
assination with some
ingly, since its
experience, and those
Wno 6id were left persanently scarred. The resulting alcoholism,
Suicide,
and the transmission of trausa to their own children has led to
asocial
disintagration with results that can only be described as S 7
Bunpished by City Lights
hitp://akpress.ora/2004/items/Kitheindiansavetheman
COINTELPRO PAPERS: DOCUMENTS FROM THE FBI'S SECRET WARS AGAINST
DISSENT IN
THE UNITED STATES, Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
Bn essential document. Reproducing many original FBI memos, the
authors
provide extensive analysis of the agency's treatment of the
left, from the
Communist Party in the 1950s to the Central America solidarity
movement in
the 1980s. Ward Churchill's substantial new preface updates the
cases of
several incarcerated Black Panthe
Ruby Ridge
and Waco, as well as the war on drugs and terrorism. Published
by South End
Press.
hitp://okpress.org/1996/items cointelpropapers
A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDI
AMERICAS, 1492 TO
THE PRESENT, Ward Churchill
Here, with his trademark style of cavalier humor blended with
incisive
analysis, Churchill examines the definition of genocide--in
legal as well as
cultural terms--and demonstrates that holocaust and denial have
a specific
American history that reaches back 500 years and continues into
the present
day. Published by City Lights.
hitp://akpress.org/ 1996 tems ttlemattesofgenocide:
FROM A NATIVE SON: SELECTED ESSAYS ON INDIGENISM 1985-1995, Ward
Churchill
The capstone collection of his most important and unflinching
ays during
this period, exploring the themes of genocide in the Americas,
historical/legal (re)interpretation of the processes of conquest
and
colonization, literary/cinematic criticism, and the positing of
indigenist
alternatives to the status quo, for which he has become
increasingly
well-known. Published by South End Press.
and analyzes the events at
HOLOCAUST AND DENIAL IN THE
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P.0. Box 667233
Houston, TX 77266-7233
Break the Chains
P.0. Box 12122
Eugene, OR 97440
breakthechains02@yahoo. com
women's committee:
breakthechains03@yahoo. com
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Chicago ABC
.0. Box 721
Homewood, IL 60430
chicagoabc@hotmail.com
chicagoabe.org
Ccalifornia Anarchist Prisoner
Solidarity (CAPS)
P.0. Box 22449
Oakland, CA 94609
caps@riseup.net
Red Heart Warrior Society
P.0. Box 4362
Allentown, PA 18105
Midwest Books to Prisoners
c/o Quimby's Bookstore
1573 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
MPLU Support
Leemputstraat 29
2600 Berchen
Belgium
wWw . Bp1U-SUPPOTE . tk
infoémplu-support.tk
Prison Books Program (Boston)
c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore
1306 Hancock Street,
Quincy, MA 02169
617.423.3298 (no collect calls)
www. prisonbookprogran.org
infoeprisonbookprogran.org
Chicago Books to Women Prisoners
Serving prisoners in Illinois, Ohio,
Indiana, Mississippi & Florida.
€/ Beyond Media Education
7013 N. Glenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
nhttp://chicagobwp.org
jackslowrivereyahoo.com
suite 100
Lawrence ABC
P.0. Box 1483
Lawrence, KS 66044
abclawrence@riseup.net
Houston ABC
P.0. Box 667614
Houston, TX 77266-7614
houstonabc@hotmail.com
Minneapolis ABC
P.0. Box 47871
Plymouth, MN 55447
Ryan_abcn@yahoo.com
Ann Arbor ABC
P.0. Box 8297
Ann Arbor, MI 48107
A2abc@riseup.net
Waukesha ABC
Waukeshaabc
@excite.com
Boston ABC
‘www. baamboston.org/abc. htmi
abe-boston@hush.com
PMB 258, 198 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116
My sicuationist buddy, Ken Wong, he of Strange Artractor fame and his
zine, Twilight in Turkey, onganized a sweet gathering, focusing on Black
e e e e
music. [ tabled that, 0o and even gave a beat up card table to the Midwest
Books to Prisoners folks. Finally,we were able to get out of the countzy.
‘We rented a car and motored up to Montreal for the big Anarchist Bookair.
Itabled there and did a 2-hour workshop with the Montreal Anarchist
Black Cross Federation folks. 1was happy about it 2s maybe. e
came,lstened and participated. s oo e e
severaldozen 8 V2.x 11 copies of prisoner artwork up and down the stairwell.
These were mostly the work of Rashid, Todd (Hyung-Rac) Tarselli and.
Richard, Hall Jr. Someane put two giant color enlargements of Rashid's
picce, depicting police pig and a corporate pig being hung
“That was very nice and the Montreal ABCF folks could not have been
more accommodating tous. 1€’ important that serious anarchist prisoner
supporters,such as ABC Network and ABC Federation work togecher and
buld up resistance, inside and out. [t was great o get a breather from the
US. pressure cooker. Those people are slower, nicer and more real.
Last weckend, my old buddy, Mr. D. whoss 2 magician, threw a party. It
w28 sort of reunion thing, so everybody was around fifty. That was nice. |
g0 to talk £0 several folks I had'tseenin decades, including one of my
Closest friends as akid, Paul Stamper. He was always trying to get people to
become blood brothers with him and still was talking about it. Actually, I
think he's the only gay | ama blood brother with!
“The huge ol hike kicked! in January 1¥,yet negotiations were going
nowhere. Us collectors voted 94% o autharize 2 strike, f necd be. Too
soon the union caved in and agreed on lay-offs for the fist ime, everand
other givebacks,for a modest wage increase. 1 was hoping fora stike.
During this massive conseruction season, a strike would have paralyzed the
entire commerce of the Midwest. But so few workers, much less union.
offcials, really had the stomach to go through with . So, we sacrficed the
Jobs of the youngest among us - not a pretty sight.
It's summertime now and everything is green and we go swimming at a
Iake alo. The boys are almost done with school and looking forward to
their freedom. Iam going to Lawrence, Kansasin a few days to share ideas
and work with like-minded, srious prison abolition anarchists, Sure,ics
no the safest way to go, buti has to be among the most rewarding ways to
put your anarchist principles into action! Maybe we'l start a brain workers'
union! Also, some professor out East (Syracuse, | believe) is writing a book
on ELF & ALF and asked me for a submission. That's Slaughterhouses”
“They cdited it somehow, but herein is my full statement, in ll 13 annoying.
fervor and incorrectness. All the while, I elaxed by hanging with my family
and brothers and following the Ilini basketball eam, the Chicago Bulls and
‘ow, the Whilte Sor, although I don't have and won' ever pay fo, cable.
Takecarel Anthony Rayson
Contact PARC / P.O. Box 339 / Berkeley, CA 94701
Ask for their Prison Activist Resource Directory
South Chicago ABC Zine Distro
P. O. Box 721, Homewood, IL 60430