INTRODUCTION Here's the latest labor of agitational love from my fertile brain. Many, many zines have been published since the last Thought Bombs, which was published last spring. I've reconciled with Ali Khalid Abdullah, who I worked with very closely for a long time. We'll start working up PPWC (Political Prisoners of War Coalition) again, In the face of the stepped up war against conscious prisoners and the truth, in general. ABC Network is growing and new groups are forming. Chicago ABC has a new P.O. Box and fresh energy. You can write them at: chicagoabc@hotmail.com chicagoabe.org Chicago ABC / P. 0. Box 1544 / Chicago, IL 60690 With the FBI specifically targeting prisoners who have "become radicalized while in prison” as a big part of their domestic "War on Terror" what I have been trying to say and do is becoming more apparent to many people. The "War" is one being fought against the truth, for the truth is revolutionary and the authorities do not want their slaves to become educated, and thus empowered and a positive asset to their communities. They'd prefer that we continue to be atomized and lacking in solidarity. For, with insight and knowledge comes courage and resolve. This is bad news for authorities, who wish for us to calmly accept their lies and do nothing, while they steal and kill and make suffer throughout our deteriorating world. Many of the more articulate teachers are being horribly abused, throughout the vast Amerikkkan gulag archipeligo. You can try to ignore it or step up and contribute to the cause. I've made my choice. Have you? Take care! Your Relentless Agitator, Anthony Rayson Rundown of Articulated Outrage 1. Black August Celebration in Indianapolis, August 28, 2005 p. 4-7 2. Dr. Mutulu Shakur p. 89 3. We Want Freedom Any-Way for Munia, by Mutulu Shakur ~ p. 9- 11 4. Obadyah Ben-Yisrael P12 5. Support lusice, Support Zolo Azanial p14-18 6. Our Enamies Speak English! by, Authony Rayson p.19-26 7. Prisons - RHU, SHU, MSU Units - Are Al the Same - Designed to Subjugate, Degrade, Divide & Conquer and to Ty to Psychologically Impair s Prisoners!! by, Paul K Hickman b 27-30 8. Who's The Terrorst? By, Ward Churchill P 32-34 9. Ward ChurchillSprtslnto Chicago - by, Anthony Rayson p. 35-36 10. Notes on Ward's Lecture - by, Mike p. 36-38 1. Interview of Anthony Rayson - by, True aka James E. Scott, Ir. p. 40-45 12 Interview of Anthony Raysan - by, Fashpoint News p. 45-53 13. 4 of luy from a Hawaiian Perspective - by, Poko Laeaui p. 54- 60 Thought Bomby #25 Published on November 5%, 2005 Edited by Anthony Rayson - freeto-prisonery Completely @nticopyright THE TRIBE YAHUDAH RESTNTS RLACK AUGUST CELEBRATION! Selebrate Black August ith the Afrikan Hebrew Yisraelites SUNDAY AUGUST28™ 1INOON-6PM AURANT BLYD. SUPER JUMBOS R MUV OF LAFAVETTE RD. & K MUSIC, POETRY, AND FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY FRROM THE CHIEF JUDGE. OF THE TRIBE OF VAHUDAI SISTRR HADURATE T SPECIAL AESSAG SSFORADULTS FREY FOR CHILDREN BOOTISPACE 25 (A1, NOW TO RFSEIRVE BOOTH SPACE A PRINCE MANGWIRG A SADIRIYISRAEL W Lerprsibeem oot com Black August Address, Indianapolis, 8-28-05 Greetings, Brothers & Sisters. My name is Anthony Rayson and I'm an Abolitionist from Chicago, where Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were martyred. Tiinois is also the home of Elifah P. Lovejoy, who preached anti-slavery in Southern Tllinois. Three times his printing presses were destroyed for calling out the truth. One night, he reduced the townspeople to tears with his eloquence and defiance. The next night, he and his brother fought to the death defending the cause, while attacked by local vigilantes. Other so-called "whites" transcended this racist country, too. William Lioyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips - both souljahs to the core. But the greatest of them all was John Brown, who took this slave country and shook it by the neck! See, there is no such thing s "white people.” There is o Whiteland that we come from! There is no white culture! The only things that are "white" are vile lies, racism and oppression. Whiteness must be abolished - this whole & worldwide system of racist oppression must be ended! 1 work with consclous prisoners. We want to get the truth out of the gulags and empowerment back in. We have 2 saying: "Turn the Tron Houses of Oppression Into Schools of Libération!” For, slavery has never ended. The 13" Amendnent which purportedly "ended" slavery, specifically targets prisoners for endless human slavery! One-third of all young black men In thelr twenties are ensnaried In the prison system. In some citles, the figure is well over 50%. There is a frenzy to Incarcerate the black community. There 1s 2 helocaust going on in the black community. The prisons must be abolished and our brothers and sisters set freel The most brilliant and perceptive thinkers, the strongest writers. and the most talented artists are locked-down in the supermax hellholes of a vast Amerikkkan gulag archipelligo. These are the George Jackson's and Malcolm X's of today! These folks are the revolutionaries I have the privilege to work closely with, Rashid, Khaifani, Tallb, Zolo, Abdul, Ramona - these names should beedme s familiar to you as your own child, to everyone who dreams of genuine freedon in the here and now. If you want the truth, you go to the most oppressed - the slaves of today, our prisoners! ‘A man or woman's ultimate worth Is two-fold. How well they treated those closely around them and how hard they fought for truth, justice, freedom and equality. It has nothing to do with how much shiny metal you possess! You See, 1 may not have much protective melanin in my skin, but 1 still got a black soull 1 have my self-respect and I know who the enemy s - the racist government and all the elaborate systems that support It - the legal system of Kidnapping and warehousing, the military who terrorize the world, the economic system, based on wage-slavery - all of it! Tt has to be crashed by those who are living amidst t! The U.S. only has 4.5% of the world's population, yet usurps 30% of her natural resources. That mearis % of the people of Earth (1.5 billior) are left to starve to death. Even with all this obscene wealth, tens of millions of Americans live In destitution, poverty, without adequate health care or education, or live In a box on the street. 2.2 million live In government cages, often far from their loved ones! So, I've come down here today with ane of my homies to bring forth this powerful information from the prisons that everyone needs to know - especially black folks, who are the main target of these bloodthirsty judges and prosecutors. We must arm ourselves with the truth to help guide us in our struggle. For, the truth is revolutionary and the more you know, the stronger you become and the more useful to others. Those bravely fighting behind the razor wire are looking to us to shed our apathy, ignorance and lethargy and organize our communities in self-sustaining, positive ways. Working together we can figure this out and slay the beast that is menacing a//of the multi-colored children of Africa. For, Africa is Grandmother to us all! Thank you. Anthony Rayson, prison abolition anarchist South Chicago ABC Zine Distro P.0. Box 721, Homewaod, IL 60430 DR.MUTULUSHAKUR © Date of Birth: August 8, 1950 Nationaity: New Afrikan Incarcerated at: Atianta, GA — gy Mot with your fiend Dr. Mutulu Shakur 1 war against Black people nthe United Saesthat spans ver our it and for many. emertions. few will e asfronline seklerson behalf of the oppressed. Insuch an enduring Strugge. B e saminsand foude o gh and remain commitd.Even (ot il have the ot i the spiit ofthe stav revoles-he Nat Tomersand he Gabril Prossrs. and the Harrict B bmane.new men and women risc, aking lifc and acton. . Mutul Sk, ifelong actvst nthe New Afikan (Black Indepeeie Movement and 2 D Kacr, s ane of hosepeape. Because of i dedication ‘Black liberation D vt for uman ightyhe s curntly being held prisoncr b “he USS. government at hasan, edera prison ocated in Marion, linois. otoros forth violtion ofcivil and humarights ofinmatcs, Marion bas recently been declared Inhumane hy Amnesty Intermational 1 1087, Shakur was sestnced o 60 years imprisonment for analeged conspiracy by the Black e e Alrkan Fresdom Fighers against the US. governmen, Sectrte ‘of his poltica L N o mavhed criminal andaesed. inc hat e, e s 158 Immeasurable D aeied upon Shakur from behindpriso walls sminessed by the public eye. And sl he s ot broken. s fearkess ativstfor Black Liberation, Shakur was cofounder of the Republic of New Alfika (1905). i ow at th foreftont of efforts o expos the FII' egal COINTELPRO (Counter Inclligence Program) campaign of domesic repression. As an acupunturist, Dr. Shikur cofounded the Black, Acupunceure Advisory Assosation of America and was onc of he pioncers in using acupuncire i the ocatment of substance abuse. He i a dedicated member of the New Afrkan People's Organization. utitis o casy srugge. Because of is consstent actvism, cven from wihia the prison sysie, be i persecuted. There ae no ewards fo his work. Instcad,thereis only crue and unusual punishet. Dr. Dl Shakur helped found the Islamic Young Men's Movement, b youlh prisoner organization, and as 3 key organizer in the historc gang truce between the Bloods and the Crips at Lompos Peailertary. He b recognizcd in the intcrnational medis s an American poliical prisoner and frecdom fightr. The sovemment, bowener, fearful of bis postive influcnce over massive numbers of young, Black minds, rything to disempower him. q AU400 3. on the morming of March 4, 1994, Dr. Mutulu Shakur was abruptly aken from bis cell ot {he Federal Corection Facility at Lewisburg, PA, and transfered to Marion. There was o 7-hout 0ol ‘indhe was not allowed 10 take any of his personal belongings. Since his incarceration at Lowisburg. Dr. Slhakur has ot becn charged with & crime, nor s there any indicaton that his clssification has changed. Mis sudden transfe is notsepsrat from the reasons that led (0 bis airest. Dr. Shakur has been and Sains an onganizes commiied 1 changing the living reality of Affcans bor in the United Sttcs “We arc ctablishing continuum of esistance of the oppression of New Afrkan People against b oppression of 400 years of slavery and genocide,” Dr. Shakur afims. "Many of us engaged i the oniie,targees f the conflict and victims of the confict ind oursclves i jil or cemelcrics o fnd urselves sullcring mentalsress snd Post-Traumaic Stress Syndrome. Without he recogniion tht a onflie exists, the martyrs and patriots o our srugge il continuc o be labeied crmiaals in the annaly Phistory. 1 i a significant politca sruggle for our movement and allis of our movement o create he Tecognition tht there exists and il continue o exist political prisoners and prisoners of war i Americn” ‘While former South African poliical prisoner Nelson Mandela has been liberated from incarceration and continies to work on bebalfof his people, politca prisoner Dr. Mutulu Shakur,right bere in ‘America. is sentenced o ife behind bars because he beieves in and struggles for basic buman rights. Butsil, e is not broken. R 1 f We Want Freedom Any-Way For Mumia by Mutulu Shakur So you say, at last this period has passed, they lost ‘We must kill him, He must pay ‘The words he spoke taught 00 much Shed the light, Exposed the truth WE WANT HIS FREEDOM ANY-WAY Jo Of course the power remains the same Contradictions, Are we to ignore? Victory? There are many objectives Fighting within the void of unpredictably WE WANT HIS FREEDOM ANY-WAY Shame! of what? Truth will raise the light he illuminated Move | Oh yea, that's the way Reality! Fearless, Tears are no answer Just fuel WE WANT HIS FREEDOM ANY-WAY We wouldn' t then, And we won' t now Condone the killings of our future Fearlessly we march, sign and draw To DAMN with the consequences WE WANT HIS FREEDOM ANY-WAY We want our freedom any-way Here comes the light - yes, And the wind too Oh, It's not the light but the breath of it's glow Oh yea, The wind must blow WE WANT HIS FREEDOM ANY-WAY Il take my chances to join the fight We must! We have no choice For victory is in the fight The results are the reward In the star chambers of death You mix the Confused, Bad and Deviant ‘With the Just and Righteous Oh, Know we're not confused What must be said is that there is a difference ‘We are the victims We know it's never changed Release the DREAD - Repent the abuse of power WE WANT HIS FREEDOM ANY-WAY ‘The gas, The chair, The needle You won't cleanse your hypocrisy that way The batlefield of HUMANITY challenges your genocide We beg not Our spirit calls out to a higher Authority We are not ashamed It's been our companion against all odds. The passion and justice of our conviction cleanses our concern WE WANT HIS FREEDOM ANY-WAY We've come 100 far 1o submit Patty Rollers - Whippings - Hangings too DAMN THOSE SHIPS Hold fast my BROTHER, We can see your light Of course the light will be it again WE WANT YOUR FREEDOM ANY-WAY YOUR FREEDOM IS OUR FREEDOM ANY-WAY e prisonscivitorg/ps tpows mutahshaku matul sl Obadyah Ben-Yisrayl Stalom Aleichem, My e s sty B Yoyl €k, Croper e, Hoew el and s N A oo R Dok o o o i, g wilh pgioans oty on o e e a0 . 28, 199 o i s o i 1o Prior to my amest news papers, the clectric media, and the composites provided by eye-witness accounts, o e s st i s s i by e e it d . T Eaty A ko have e oot vy o . 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Further Facts at the police wants to hear to Support Justice, " Support Zolo Azanial Zolo Agona Azania Contents Zollo Agona Azania s one of the many persons of African descent who await execution as 2 Victim of a racially biased criminal justce system. Politcally active at the time of his arrst, Zolo has heen commitie to the sirugle for socia justice fo all peoples since before his imprisonment on death row. For mre than 24 years,sinc 1981, Zalo Agona Azania has been imprisoned on Idiand's death fow and ha been fghting for is e Twice he hasbecn senenced todieund twicethe desth Sentence has been reversed on appeal due {0 suppresson of avorable cvidence by the prosecution,inflectve assistance of counsel, and systematic exclusion of Backs fom th jury ool Zolo did not eceive fi il and has aways maintained his totlimnocence of any Invoivement nthecrime. On May 1, 2008, Indiana Judge Steve David granied Zolo's motion to b the Stte of Indiana from sceking the death penalty for the thid time. As Judge David' decision points ou, it i impossible for Zolo to receive a fai il on the death penalty. one that guarantees he receive the Constitution protections he is enitled to, 24-plus years aer the crime he i accused o committng took place. Vet, Lake County Prosecutor Bemard Carter has decided to appeal that decision and yet again seek the death penaly against Zolo. 1 will probably take several months before the Indiana Supreme Courthears the prosecutors appeal of Judge David's decision. When the oral arguments before the Indiana Supreme Court ke place, we willpack the courtroom and letthe judges know that peaple around the world are demanding: No New Death Penalty for Zol Zolo's supporters have formed the No Death Penalty for Zolo Committee. There are a number of ways you can join us in the struggle o preventa new death sentence for Zolo, Also, vsit www zoloazania.or, for more updtes and information! Whois Zolo Agona Azasia? 15 Zolo Agons Azania i one of the many Black people who await exccution 852 result of Tacialy biased criminal justce system. Politically sctive at the time of his arest, Zolo remain Commied to freedom for Black people end o a just world for all. He has defended bis own "ighs and the righs of ot prisoners during these many years in prson. He bas won the respect of fllow prisoners and jailers aike. Zolois a prolific e and s accomplished rtist whose work hs bosa cxibitedin muny B the couniy.His writing snd isat reflec who he s: A man who ivs bis poliical Pomvions. Zola's polcal commitment dtes back over 25 ycars. n th excly 19805 be was Somubtatiag his i and working his way out of s childhood imprisoned i cxreme poverty snd kivirime environments. Zolo was iavalved i he carmpaig to make Mt Luter King's W\l‘ly-umlhfihyi:l-hmmn-ffl-y,hfi—mhnwmfimhm e e was the valeicioria ofbis CETA fedecaljob triniog clss od received chaarenip t Purdue Univesity jot pior (0 bis aest. Zolospends much of i ime rscarchinthe law and fghting bis case. His ticless s b e it ad it way his cas bas b bald by he i, Zolowill e S0 in December 2004, « Zolo Agona Azania the Writer + Zolo Agona Azania the Artist Time Line of the Case of Zolo Azania August 1981 3 e i ks s disguies 0 the Gary Naiona Bank. An exchange o gunfir cxsues and e oo, a whie Gary police lewanan, i Kild. Police pursue b suspets, esutiag f 3 e ehas. One of the o umpa outof e ca nd lesthe cene.Zolo s pcked up 8 fe . wilking dawn he st near his hom. He is pstl-whipped while being asicd oo with ey misder. Two thes, David Norh and Ralph uson,ar lo arscd, Nher year ofbeng hidden b the prosecutin, & police-admiisiered gunshot esidue tet s \p "inconclusive” 35 to whether Zolo cver sed 8 gun. 1982 Prosccution succeeds in changing place of venue from Lake County 10 Allen County (Fort Wayne) where the Black population is three times smaller. Zolo Azania's trial was a miscarriage of justice o' courappoined attomey s o intimidad by the poice-sale imosphere hat h docs 1ot z;mmunwmmmuwmmmMuNMMum e rial. stead ofproving beyond a reasonable doubt tht Zolo s gilty, prosccuiors intinidatc s oo making fase deatifications, withhold evidence, and keep Blacks off the juy. A i officer s guilty of tampering with witnees when h treatens and inimdates Black consnucion worke, James McGrew. Moments before McGrew testifies the offcr poins 10 Selo and tells McGrew o denifyhim a5 the person b saw putting incriminating s i the oushes, McGrew e tstifies st s pos-convicion hearing tha he had tod prosecutors be could ot make a posiive identfication ad idetifed Zolo only because he “feare for his safety”. Two other Afiican-American witnesses aso recant the estimony, sayin they oo were {hrestened and intimidated. Th prosecution siso suppresses evidene avorabl t Zolos b is convited of murder and sentencedto desth by anall-white jury. m “The prosecation singles out Zolo, focusing theireffort on himy; the othe defendantsroceive sentences of 60 years. 1993 The Indiana Supreme Court vacates (throws ou) Zolos desth sentence, citing “ineffctive assistance of counsel" and "suppression of favorable evidence”. 1996 Zolo faces a second sentencing tria and once again is condemned to death; the jury consists of 11 whites and no Blacks. Again, his court-appointed lawyers provide ineffective counsel and present no mitigating evidence abou his lfe and accomplishments. 2002 Indiana Supreme Court overturns Zolo's second death sentenc because Blacks were systematicaly kept offthe jury pool fo the 1996 sentencing tial.In fact,balfof Allen County's Black population had been eliminated from thejury poo for the previous 1S years! Unbelicvably, Allen County cites a "computer gitch” 2 thir explanation fo this incredible. episode of racal bias. ‘When oral arguments on Zolo's case were heard by the Indians Supreme Cout in Indisnapolis on May 2nd, 2002, the courtroom was packed with Zolo's supporters. In the front row were ‘members o the Indiana Legislature's Black Caucus and the Indianspolis City Council. The hearings were widely reported in the local pres, including The Fort Wayno Journal Gazette. There were fwo major editorials i the Indisnapolis Sta calling for 8 new sentencing rial for Zolo comprised of fir jury representative of the community in which the crime for which he ‘was convicted occurred. 2003 Zolas death sentence was vacated in 2003 afte ho sucessully argucd that people of Aftican Goscent had been systematically excludéd from thejury pool. Zolo's supparters were abl (o help. ‘gt his death sentence thrown out by coming t0 courtand showing their solidriy. ‘But,incredibly, the Lake County Distict Atforney's office decided to re-try Zolo on the desth sentence for third time! Zolo's Defense team requested that the sentencing tria be etumed to Lake County because Zolo s a consttutonsl ight to be trie there. Lake County s hom to tree times as many Blacks as Alien Covunty and Zolo would be more likely o receive a fai rialthere. Their equest was deried. 2005 17 On May 1, 2005, Judge Steve David granted Zolo's motion to bar the Staie of Indiana from Seeking the death penalty for th third time. This was an incredible vitory for Zolo and bis Supporters and opponeats of the death peaalty around the world. ‘Yet, Lake County Prosecutor Bemard Carter has decided 1o appeal that decision and yei agein seek the death penalty against Zolo. Updaies an Zolo Azania's ase. Five Reasons to oppose the Death Penalty in Zolo's case and every case We say NO DEATH PENALTY FOR ZOLO because: + THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE US. IS RACIST. « THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE US. PUNISHES THE POOR. - THE DEATH PENALTY CONDEMNS THE INNOCENT TO DIE. « THE DEATH PENALTY IS NOT A DETERRENT TO VIOLENT CRIME. THE DEATH PENALTY IS CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. Yo can help by downloading and distibuting hi fiyer: No Death Penaly for Zolo Azaviat ass 1. The death peaalty Is racist. Did Zolo receive a fai trial in front ofa jury of his peers”? Not A Black person i four times mre likely 1o receive the death penalty than 8 white persun ‘with a similar background and convicted of a similar crime. A Black person who kil a white person i 1 times more likely 10 get the death perally than if th victim were Black of the perpetrator were white. 2. The death peaalty punishes the poor. Zolo's death sentence was thrown ou the fisttime because he received “incflective asistance from counsel"; he had to accept inexperienced court-appointed counsel duc Tack of funds. More than 90% of the defendants charged with cupital crimes are indigent and “incticct assistance of counsel® is usually what they get. In recent years, 20 federally funded ceniers that aided low-income defendants were shut down. 3. The death pealty condemns the ianocent to dic. Zolo mainains his inocence. He has been reated in a prejudicial way and the courts will "o grunt him a re-rial on the acts of the case. Under these circumsiances, how can we accept he guilty verdict he received? Since 1976, more than 100 people who had speat years on deaih row lave becn completely exonerated and released from prison. 4. “The death penalty is not a deterrent to violeat crime. A New York Times survey determined that homicid raies i stacs with capital ‘punishment ae 101% higher than in states without capital punishment. 5. The death penalty s cruel and unususl punishment. e Zolos leading a productivelfe i spite of eing in prison. e writes,pants snd ‘communicais with many people on the outsde. What a horrr it would b totake his ie! “The U.S. isthe only industrialized nation to st bave the death penalty. updates On May 1, 2008, Judge Steve David granted Zolo's motion to bar the State of Indiana from