THOUGHT BOMBS #23 Artwork by Kenw Lamlb- INTRODUCTION Greetings! It has been several months since the publication of the last issue of 7hought Bombs, back in March, 2004. It’s already October. 1 try to put out three per year, but it looks like only two this year. Anyway, I'm still plugging away, none-the- less! In April, after a series of several meetings, the B-PAC Convention took place in Harvey. Idid a presentation for that, tabled a bunch of literature and screened an interview with Anarchist political prisoner, Ojore Nuru Lutalo, a BLA prisoner of war/political prisoner, severely oppressed in a supermax dungeon in New Jersey. Ever since August of *03, I had been trying to organize what became known as the “Prison Abolition Conference” here in Chicago, which took place August 13-15. This was a very difficult and time-consuming endeavor. Also, ever since February of *03, my wife and I had decided we were going to move from our home, which we have lived in since 1990. T rented a farmhouse building on the property of the farmer T did the first of three No Airport crop circles. [ began storing the dozens of boxes of papers, zines, books, fumiture and other things o begin to get a handle on this massive project. We started looking at other houses and so on. During June, my wife, Leslie, asked me to do an innocuous chore, that being, transplanting a couple of rose bushes. Like something out of a fairy tale where the wicked witch pricks the princess, [ was pricked by a rose thom. Soon enough, my hand began to swell up and the middle finger on my right hand was particularly inflamed. My doctor prescribed strong antibiotics and even gave me a shot in the butt, but the problem just became worse. I insisted on seeing a disease specialist and she figured out that it was a rare fungal infection, commonly called “rose gardener’s disease” that sees only 200-250 cases per year, here in the U.S. (thisis confinued on inside back flap - page 59 ) Table of Contents 1. Chicago ABC Report 2. Anthony Rayson infroduces Himself 3. The Incarceration Holocaust (B-PAC Convention) 4. Don't Become a Trained U. S. Killer &/or Casualty PRISON ABOLITION CONFERENCE 5. Purpose of the Conference 6. Anarchist Black Cross 3¢ Prison Aboiition Conference 7. Conferencia Para La ABOLICION De Las Carceles 8. Address at Cook County Jail, August 13, 2004 9. Infroductory Statement - “Fight Crimel” 10. Drop the Charges Against the Haksted 31 11. Stop the FRAME UP of Aaron Patterson 12. Six Reasons fo Question the Idea of “Mental liness” 13. Conference Exposes Crimes of Prison System 14. Marcus Garvey Famm Festival HAYMARKET UNVEILNG 15. DID WE TRULY DIE IN VAIN2 16. AN URGENT REQUEST - Some Chicago Anarchists 17. HAYMARKET ANARCHISTS MURDERED FOR ADVOCATING REVOLUTION! 18. Letter fo Nathan Mason 19. Revisionist History, Anyone? 20. Wording of the Four Haymarket Plaques 21. Haymarket Observations 22. Unheard Scaffold Address 23, Pre-Employment Questionnaire For Justice System Personnel 24. Report from Chicagoland Published on October 16, 2004 Edited by Anthony Rayson / free fo prisoners (otherwise $21n the “free” world ) Chicago ABC Report ¢ Since the publication of the last Anarchist Black Cross Network newslefter in mid-January. Chicago ABC has been involved in several projects and actions. Although pursued and participated in for fheir own sake, there's been a confinuous effort o promote and organize for the upcoming prison abolifion conference, scheduled for August 13-15, here in Chicago. This includes atfendance of numerous meefings of other prisoner support groups, anfi-war organizng meefings, fablings and readings at various Citywide events and so forth. Add fo ihi, the dally support work, such s lefter witing, ‘phone cals. making copies for legal challenges. the sending of ree zines fo prsoners. As well several new zines have been formatted o just added fo the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro in 2004, On January 16, an arficte in the Chicago Reader, @ free weekly with o it run over 100,000, printed a story about a monument being commissioned through the Public Arfs Program of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the city of Cicago. Essentialy, hey willhave a ceremony on Labor Doy fo unvel this sculpture, whichis of a speaker's wagon on the site of the Hoymarket (poice) rit. The interesting thing about this i, they claim fo have goften "everyone involved" - commurity groups, labar and the police - but no anarchists. They want fo “foke Haymarket way from the anarchists and fumitinto a free speech issue.” They even mocked anarchists - “Who would they have represent them?* For Anarchists especially, thisis an infolerable stuation, 5o | wrote alefter that the Reader printed, biasfing the Gity for this nonsense. | confacted Nathan Mason. who i the point man on Ihis project and am in negafiations with him. | have volunteered myssif o speak for the anarchist posifion about allof this - the history of Hoymarket, the fact that condifions are basically the 5ame foday, war, repression, Coercion, demonizafion and targefing of ‘anarchists confinues, efc. and | am craffing a sort of realfty check address that | wil give at Haymarket on that day. whether | am allowed f0 speak ot he official podium or nof. A related situation i the naming of G one biock park of asphalt fo be renamed "Lucy Parson'’s Park” for the woman dubbed “more than a thousand riotersi” The authorifies are looking for brownie points and 50 want o add more nofable Chicago women to the names of their parks. In daing his. they are rying fo furn her nfo a non-revolutionary. They're 5aying she can't be blamed for the activity of her husband (marlyred Albert Parsons. Like ot Haymarket, they want 10 fum our beloved and frue ‘anarchist mentors info “reformers.” At one point, they ikened her fo Ronaid Reagan, who was also unsalisfied with govemment. Of course, there s o difference. Reagan wanted to make it more corporalist (fascist) whereas Lucy was o bonafide anarchist who fought to abolsh all govemments! They 're complete opposites! Jane Doe (iucyparsonsBhotmail.com) s on the case in ths onel On January 23+, I went to a conference af the University of linois in Urbana fo participate and table ot a conference conceming the ciose, conveyor belt ype relafionship between schools and prisons. This wos hosted by the nofed abolfionist professor, David Roediger and his colleagues. Later that nigh, | gave o lengthy fakk at Anacrotan House, an ancrcrst ivig space. Much Herature was distbuted fis day, mostly S pisoner zines and ABCN Newsletters. The infoshop in Champaign was visted and the post-conference parly were both heavly saturated with znes. On February 19%. an arficle in the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the Chicago Polce had infifrated and spied upon five acivist groups in the Chicago area in 2002. These included the American Friends Services Commitiee. Chicago Direct Action Network. the Autonomous Zone, Not In Gur Name and Chicago Anarchist Black Cross. The five groups mef and decided to stage a joint press conference rightin front of police ~headquarters - 35 and Michigan Avenue on February 25%. | was able fo biing Fred Hampton, J. o speck of where this fype of activity can lead - the outight assassination of his father and Mark Clark, In 1969, This was wel- covered by the press and pars of Anthony's statements were shown on television and he newspapers. Gale, aka Jane Dos, also gave a strong ‘address at this press conference. ‘Obviousl. the spying has not stopped. The cops sid they were ‘concemed only with thwarting terrorism and protecting the citzens of Cricago. If this were hue, they'd march down fo cify hal and amest Mayor Daley ~ the biggest temroristin Chicago. He was the ane who bulldozed Meigs Fieid inlo permanent disiepair and has orchestrated fhe dynomifing of ozens of high dise apartment buildings, throwing thousands of citizens into the sireets. The poice, of course, did not prevent hese assaults, but rafher, stood guard duing them. Also, Mayor Daley was Caok County State’s ‘Aftomey when many of Ihese deathvow ralroadings were going downin fhe seventies and eighties. Just a couple of days ago, the eighteenth deathrow pisoner was released after decades of wrongful incarceration. There are ‘more innocent people on deathrow all across the Country. Hundreds of thousands of pfsoners are innocent of the charges they were convicted of or are “guilty” of “crimes" hat have no victims. Seing actively horassed by the police spy units demonstrates that our work is having some posifive effect. For the st thing they want is for people fo nave access fo the unbidied ruthl Also, from the heavy news accounts of this and the strongly worded sound bifes people got a rare oppartuniy fo seein pint, helps legifimize our group s serously and articuiately oppOsed fo the lies and bulying of iy govemment. People respect and appreciate it ‘whenever reguiar people chalenge the stael During this fime (Jonuary thru March) a lot of energy was being gathered and shared by G group called B-PAC (Black Poiical Action Committee,) Some of their weekly meetings drew over a hundred people. Thisis spearheaded by Southside and South suburban community organizers. preachers, famiy members of the incarcerated and regular cifizens, who are totaly fed up with the Jackson/Rainbow PUSH domineering of the biack Chicagolond polifical londscape. If's needed new energyl A convention was held at Chicago Metro Hotel in suburban Harvey from Apil 2- 4. Anthony gave a lengthy presentafion/workshop a this convention. Much iterature was made avaliable and hous of serious discussion ook place. A video of an Inferview with anarchist prisoner Ojore. N. Lutalo, was aiso screened. Serious ABC work s definitely welcomed n the block communityl This s what he Cops don't want to seel On May Day, many actiities were occuring all over the cify, county and word. Personaily. | ended up in Jolet to help the Joliet ARA (Anti-Racist Action) and ASAP Anarchist Skins and Punks) chalienge o demonstration by the Kian and Nazis, who were rallying for the fallen Fushrer, Matthew Hole. He's the guy who does fhe Church of the Creator out of Aurora, lindis, One of his dupes went on a shoofing spree and murdered Rickey Byrd, the fommer basketball coach at Northwestem and another (indian) man outside a church in Indiana. He aiso wounded several peopie i front of @ synagogue in Skokie, before being Comered by the caps and kiling himselt. 4 S0, Hale, who was recently framed by the Feds for conspling fo kil female judge, s foathed by many. as are his unchuous followers. We had maybe fity people fo thek twenty. It was an unusual spectacie for the people in the area, with the naz flags Counterpoised against anfiacist anarchists. Many people coming out of the stores and restaurants, joined our ranks ond shouted their own epifhets! The cops were there in force, but ‘Couldn't stop fhe expression of opinion. | handed out al he fterature | Grought, a whole satchel ful, mostl of ABCN Newsletters. It got fo be a tanse situation. later at the home of the local na, as the demonsirators followed them there. The next day, this house was shot at by somebody. The media also came and | managed fo give several stafements that made the rightly news. it was ihe front page story n the next day's Joliet daily. My main point was that these nazs are America’s biggest cheereaders. who love fhe foct we are murdering dozens of iradis daily and hold milions of black people, and ofhers of calor, in gulags fhroughout the county. A new coaifion of anarchists began maeting, converiently enough, af UICI Chicago ABC joined this group, first called CAAAC (Chicago Anarchist and Anfi-Authodtarian Coaiifion.) The name has since been shortened fo CAN (Chicagoland Anarchist Network. 1's a sort of clearinghouse for Citywide anarchist projects. such s demonsiration planning, ant-wor arficulating and distibuting, support for stiking hotel workers, - many, many projacts, including organizin for our Prison Aboliion Conference. 'm aiso delighted fo announce Ihe creation of a new, Books fo Prsoners Program, here in Chicagol Midwest Books fo Prisoners, Chicago 2004 We are a newly formed colleciive that sends much needed reading materiais fo prisoners in staes of the Midwest (we don'treject anyone.) We. would ke you fo notify your Incarcerated confacts that we cre eager fo send them reading materils. Plecse ask them fo send a letter with iheir request(s) and mairoom stipulations fo: Midwest Books o Prisoners 1573 North Miwaukee Ave PM8 #460 ‘Chicago, linois. 60622 Thank you. Midwest Books fo Prisoners Crew Feel free fo contact us: mwbip@seun.nat i/ w701 = id= ‘We're now meefing weekly, forming commiftees fo cover the myriad tasks that lay ahead. Students for Social Jusfice, located at UIC, (Universiy of linols at Chicago) is procuring the lecture rooms and audiforiums we wil require for this conference. UIC is located just west and south of Chicago's Loop, easiy accessiole by publc fransporiation. Awebsite has been 7 esiablshed by Chicago ABC which wil provide more detalied information - directions, confact persons. scheduling, worksops, speakers ond ofher acivifies, such as the shout-out support raly and march on Friday the 13+ of ‘August ait Cook Counly Jai (3 fo 5 pm) meals, lectures. shows and so forth. You can email us as wel ot Ch imailcom You Gan wilte us o P.O. Box 721, Homewood, IL 60430 or at HACO [Human Action Commurity Organization) Eraina Dunn 16028 5. Haisted. Harvey, L 40426 (708) - 339 - 7902 My numbers (708) - 534 - 1334 Anthony Rayson Thewebstes: Chicagoabc.org. The conferenceis il being planned at this stage. Some workshops have een prefty much set. but there s il an opportunity 10 add input and get time and space fo present information dung this fime. Also, we want fo achively encourage sefous tapling of information. AK Prass s coming. os wil several other disributoss. 1'l give a brief rundown about the conference. We are planning on bringing such notabies as Pom and Ramona Affico, Tom Big Warior and Robert King, among ofhers. Throughout Chicagoland and the Midwes! ore several support Gioups that are interested in daing presentafions Gbout various subjects. They will be posted on our webse os thay become more in focus. There's st fime 10 propose o workshopl These include workihops about women prisoners, Books fo Prisoners Programs, transgendered, goy and lesbian prisoners, Nafive American prsoners, New Affkan prisaners, Hispanic pdsoners, drug war pisoners, innocent prisoners, the fight to abolish deathrow and iocal poifical prsoners, such as Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Widemess, Khaitani Malik Khaidun, Z0io Agona Azania. among ofhers. The connection between the war in faq and the war at home wil be dissected. I'm doing G workshop entrely created by pisoners. AIDS, tape, hepatls C. forture, neglect, abuse and cruelty in many respects, wil be delved info. Many local activist and support groups will be ‘given an opporturiy fo explain their work. Family members of prisoners wil have a strong voice. It's an educational and networking opportunity that we are making @ point fo be inclusive about. After all, our work is about the Ppeople and the families being menaced by the state - poor and “nom-white” mainly. The sirength of anarchism i in organic community work. Thisis the third such anarchist-organized prison aboition Conference whose purpose also includes specific collaboration and discussions with ABC Network chapters (and sister groups o sirengthen our network and increase our effectveness. We want fo help spawn new ABC chapfers and increase he levels of support for the prsoners we work with. S0, ABC peopié need fo make a point fo come fo Chicago this August and parficipate. Send n your ideas. Tak fo us. Become proactive with us. In the next 75 days, we will particlpate in many meefings, actions, fablings, shows and Countiess ciscussions with he goal of making fhis a productive ‘and accommodating conferance. [t will not be easy fo match he incrediole. work done by last year's Breck the Chains coliective and he one previous. warked~up by the Collectives in Texas, but we shall ryl Come fo Chicagoll B-P.C. of llinois 4 Black Politcal Convention of linols 10736 5. Michigan Av. Chieago, IL. 60628 OfficeTT3. MST891 FaxT73. 448, 8142 Anthony Rayson Infroduces Himself I've been invited fo wrte a column, which | consder both an honor and an opportunity. Fest of,let me Infroduce myself and give you some background. I grew up I Tinley Park back when it was a small, ailwhife fown, surounded by com fiekds. In the seventies and eighties, | ived in Hazel Crest and since 1990, my fomily and |, have ived In rural Monee, n the Peotone airport “footprint.” I was very lucky in my upbinging. for my father, Leland H. Rayson was an unusually prncipled progressive pofficion. He frekked down South fo defend the Freedom Fighters in the mid sidies. He marched with Dr. King through Cicero and Father Gropp. up In Miwaukee. Allthe while, he took his chidren, ol seven of us, with him. He was a delegate fo the 63 Democratic Convenfion. yet was teargassed in the streets with the demonstrators I've co-founded several grassoofs groups. such as STAND (Shut This Arport Nightmare Down) which is now @ 2.500 household member citizens' group, based in Eastem Wil County. | aiso heiped start the Southside Cifizens' Coalifion, South Chicago Ant-Racist Action, Chicago ABC (a serous prson abolifion group) ond | run the South Chicago ABC Zine Disiro, which has publshed over 250 pamphiets on history and polifcs. with an emphasis on pison issues, featuring a lot of sirong input from conscious prsoner writers and artists. So.in the coming weeks, | would ke fo explore the issues that fruly concem the south suburbs and acqueint you with the real champions of our communiies. I'l describe the labor of love siruggles they are involved with, in their communifies - whether itis stopping an unwanted women's prson in hardscrabble Hopkin's Park, down in Kankakee County or an unneeded boondoggle irportin the farm fields around Peotane. . The major forces in confention are the same - Corporate-dorninated poliical and economic expansionism versus the genuine needs of cifizens, our neighborhoods and our communities. Many people can't see beyond working through the system, usually in a futile attempt fo get pollicians fo see reason and “do the fight thing." Many more are disgusted and want nothing fo do ‘with *polifics.” | befleve we must begin fhe fask of educating and empowesing ourseives and creating the vehicies ihat wil diive our own liberation outside the. confines of a comupted and unresponsive system. We need People Power ‘Who's at the forefront of the work of arficulating fhe issues of the Block community during these perlous fimes of massive incarcerafion. stepped up. police repression and economic depression? Come to the fhree-day 8-PAC (Black Pofiical Action Committee) sponsored convention Apdi 2, 3 & 4, 2004, in Harvey, at the Chicago Park Hotel, 17040 S. Halsted. Cal (773) - 445 - 7891 Thanks for hearing me out. | can be reached af: P.0. Box 721, Homewood, IL 60430 emalt. anthonyrayson@hotmall.com The Incarceration Holocaust First, let me introduce myself. My name is Anthony Rayson and 'the reason why I am here ‘really, is because I derest injustice and love freedom. I'm a jucky man. My father, Leland Rayson, was a bona-fide social justice Crusader back in the Gay and taught me well. ut, I've taken it a few steps further. I'm not a1, that ngerested in gecting 3 corrupt, rigged systen %o “reform,” Tt's time for fundamental change! some people call me an alarmist. Good! Because the times Gre alarming and 1t's our duty to answer the calll I don’t advocate violence. That is the method of government. The reality is very stark, but must be tnderstood for what it really is, We Can't begin to effectively deal with the situation until we are willing To stare it square in the face and learn the “why” of how this prison system works. 1 consider myself an Abolitionist. I don’t believe in slaveryl Slavery did not end with the Emancipation proclamation nor was Tt abolished by the snacting of the 13™ Amendment. It was merely modified a bit. Blatant chattel Slavery was switched to prison slavery. Wage Slavery continued on. Read the 13 Amendment very carefully. Slavery is still very “legal” and “Constitutional!" Legal decisions by judges are based on the clause allowing hunan slavery for the convicted! Today, we’re in the maelstrom Of what even the jory tower academic experts are calling the ncarceration frenzy." 2.2 million men & women, boys & girls are encaged in. U.S. prisons and this doesn't even nciude those being heid in local and county Tock-ups, court buildings and 5o on. That's more prisoners than Russfa.” X8 ore than China and, they have Five times as many people as we dol With 4.5% of the world’s population, America holds 25% of all the world's risoners. This doesn’t even include prisoners we are olding 1f other countries. ' Add the milTions on parole, probation or waiting to be, sentenced themselves for any one of millions of "crimes” and you have a huge chunk of aur people having been taken out’of the 1ife of our Ccommunities. This helps lead to the destitution, degeneration and the pervasive degradation, we ail see. 1t certainly has no real positive effect on the so- called “crime rate.” The “drug war” is a alright, but ir's‘m;nt a war on drugs. It's 3 people - our people! Don't get me wrong! Many people §0°%he prisons on both sides of the cages are fot angels. | BUE not a one of them was born to be 3 crimina _The rate of incarceration among young black males and increasingly, young black females, is truly It more than doubles that of South heid at jts worstl Snatchers of the state are very well- trained and seriously indoctrinated into belief and defense of this lie-based, almi: dollar, slave system. They work diligently and have vast taxpayer paid for resources and technology to work with. These Fesources are also enormously supplemented by the confiscation (outright theft) of their victim's possessions and money. Yet, we spend our time blaming BheYoung victins 17 we aven Think about this vase, open, social sore at alll /o It's a deep, dark mark of oppression that we readily accept this! Logic and strength have given way to demtal and hopelessnessl But we can and shall overcome! “Just a couple of months ago the peasants of 8011via Flooded into their capital and the corrupt, pro- Anerican business interests president, had to flee - to where al] the other overthrown dictators go to - Miami! Let's not delude ourselves any further as to who our real enemies actually are. It's not some CIA- groomed dictator hiding in a cave somewherel It's the Same system that came to our country from Europe, decinated the Native American Nations and evil wrenched mi11ions of people from the heart of Africa and forced into slavery. These slaves and other wage-siaves basically built everything up To what we see today. It's all been slave labor and still is! The people of Iraq hate us because they are under a murderous military occupation. Yet, we have mice things to say about the U.5. government, ‘even though they have stolen the 1ives of our very ancestors, and own, our own children! We Rust transcend this sélf-enslaving mentalityl We must develop clarity and purposefulness. It's our solemn duty, Brothers and sisters . T say 4t right now. It's going to take 3 massive, sustained social upheaval of heretofore unseen proportions, with many comrades falling along the wayside, before we see a glimpse of a genuine “promised Vand!” 'xt'11 take courage and heavy work! Look what 1t took to stop the mass slaughtering in Southeast Asial Willions of Vietnamese, fians, Laotians and others, perished for their liberation! Anerica left them in a poisoned wasteland. Look at all the civil rights struggles that took plact, just In order to change a few words in a few law books. ~These have since been vastly superceded by racist drug lams racial profiling, three strike laws, “mandatory minimim" type sentencing, jobless ghetto existence, prison. tracking in the’schools, demonizing of yoing people as So-called "gang members and the virtual military occupation of cur ‘hoods. We've acwally /ost 3 Tot of rou 9" focus my attentjon and concentration on the prisons because it is “ground zero” in the global Strugole, here at hege. " It's the ultimate expression of This extreme capitalist system. what is really going on in there and what the articulate and courageous among the prisoners say about it all, is the last thing the ernment wants you to know about! For, as Malcolm X s said: “Don’t be surprised that I was in prison. weive ali baen in prison. That's what America means - rison PrSO thout prisons, Anerica could not get away with a1 of the depleted dranium boabing, the forced it d Smpoverishment, AIDS epidemic, ruthiess death squad puppet regimes, the envirommental devastation, Starvation and sweatshop misery that it so callously forces upon the rest of the world. we've a uniquely il Ioportant mission in the belly of the beast. A Tot dehends:on'how.hard and:snart we are gaing o vork! it tades don't cuc T¢I We've got to roll up-our sleeves and begin survival programs in the hardest hit S154%° The Tel'Roint progran of the Black panther Party, stands up amazingly well as a blueprint for what nacty’ to be understogd and done in the Black community. That's the truth, folksi ! without prisons, there would be no “criminalization of 2 generatitn, **racist drug war, Bassive round-uzs Gespair, hopelessness. Imaginel We'd have no need for Saapny Tawyers, Nazi judges and lizard-1ike prosecutors. No prisons would mean we have finally won and slavery Y287 woud.be-abolished! Tt would mean the arch- criminals, those lavished with praise millionaires, who But, they Aave been criminalizedi They're 10 Tonger needed For’ el slave labor oreven wage STave Tabor. But, as prisoners, they are worth $30,000 %0 540,000 per man or woman, per year, to an exploding punishaent ‘industry] Their'prison slave labor, although fncreasing, 'is but icing on the cakel This "growth fndustry” 1s all funded by tax dollars that the government takes from us - not to improve our Somunities - buc to massively incarcerate ust Think about it For these and many more reasons, we are organizing a prison abolition conference this August 13 - 15, at UxE; “angela oavis s perhaps the most well-known prison aboiitionist. We'll have electrifying guest speakers from all over the country, such as Pam and Ramona Africa of MOVE, Bonnie Kerness of the American Friends Services Committae, Robert King of the Angola 3, Fred Hampton, 3r., Aaroh patterson and many others. It's time to Up the'strugale and get real frankl saying all that, 1'd appreciate your attention, so e can learn from this unique interview with ojore '~ ) Lutalo of the Black Liberation Army. Despite being - intensively tortured in one of America’s Dante-esque super-max dungeons, he remains strong, true, focused and totally human. T have pamphlets of his work, along with many other brilliant prisoners. T encourage you to contact these people and the various prisoner support groups, The movement can only grow from the ground up! Thank you. ~ Anthony Rayson * The space at UIC was rescinded by their gutless administration. We moved to Truman College and the Electrical Worker's Union Wall. Bonnie Kerness and Tom Big Warrior were unable to attend due to health reasons. Aaron Patterson was set-up and arrested days before the Prison Abolition Conference. —Kathy Kelly, Lorenzo komboa Ervin, Randy Ryder and others, did’speak. Don’t Become a Trained U.S. Killer &/or Casualty 3 1. Itis not like a regular job. Once you join, you can’t quit. If you do (g0 AWOL) you're a bunted fugitive and will ikely be prosecuted and imprisoned, if they recapture you. Either kill people or be jailed! 2. Even if you join the National Guard, you'll be sent to Iraq (or Afghanistan, Haiti, etc.) and have your stay extended, at the whim of the Nazis in Washington, many of whom avoided service during Vietnam. 3. You'll be shipped to “thind worid" (meaning severely exploited by the U.S.) countries to suppress and murder poar people of color - rarely to a 4. 1fyou are injured ar traumatized (Gulf War Syndrome, post-traumatic immunizations, effects from depleded uranium poisoning, et the ‘govemment sbandons you, denies your disabiliies and refuses treatment. S. Dueto advances in battlefield life-saving techniques, many hundreds of U.S. soldiers are still “alive” ~ but barely. Their injuries are so severe (and painful) that they might as well be dead. It's a “life” of etenal suffering. 6. The lraq War was based on lies, deoeit, imperial conquest, violates Intemational Law and is condemmed by the vast majority of the world's poople. It's a fascist occupation of another couniry, not “liberation.” 7. This vile conflagration i growing into a global war of U.S. subjugation over all others, ‘especially those of color and other religions. So, basically, you're fighting the rich, “Wwhite,” corporate war against your own peoplel 8. There are other ways o fund your education and start in lifs — student force you to murder other people, (including women and childreat) 9. Thisk of your family. What would they do if you are klled or severely wounded? What will you do with suicidal depression, permanent disability, constant pain, the knowledge that you've murdered innocent people, ¢ic.? 10. Don'tjoin the U.S. militry! Don’t ruin your ife, just s it s beginning 1o lowsr. Vour life is yours, not the property of the bloodthirsty U.S, sovemment! Fight for buman liberation, not corporate fascisml PRISON ABOLITION CONFERENCE BLACK AUGUST, 2004 CHICAGO Purpose of the Conference /s Last August in Eugene, Oregon ol the Break the Chains Conference, Chivago Anarchist Black Cross agreed to host the next (3") such conference. The first occurred in 2002 down in Austin, Texas and from that the ABC Network was created of ABC's that are unaffiliated with ABCF. ‘Obviously, we want to further the work of ABCN and build on our ties with other serious prisoner support groups around the city, country and the st of our besieged world. After all, solidariy is one of the main principles of Anarchism! Prison s the epicenter of the oppression, here at home! Most importantly, we want to give voice to our entombed Brothers & Sisters, their families, friends and other supporters. For, they are the most ariculate, insightful and dedicated Freedom Fighters in this demented soviety! We must leam and draw strength from them and vice versa. It frehooves us 10 be there for them, as they are there for us! Down with Gulag America! Chicago ABC Collective ‘Workshops will deal with such subjects as: 1) how the schools funnel kids Into prisons, 2) Mothers who are prisoners, 3) who the Midwest politcal prisoners are, 2s well as other political Captives and what they have to say, 4) a workshop specifically conceptuallzed by prisoners, 5) torture of prisoners, diseases, medical neglect, rampant Fape and beatings, etc. 6) hunger strikes, prisaner labor unions and other inside actions, 7) the increasing targeting and abuse of politcal activists, 8) what to o f you are arrested, 9) Control unit, death row and the differences of the various levels, how the coercion works, 10) he correlation of war and abuse abroad and here at home. Many other subjects shall be explored. Statements from such politcal prisoners as Mumia Abu Jamal and Chicago’s Kathy Kelly will be heard. Plan to participate. Contact us: 708-534-1334 (Anthony) 708-339-7902 (Eraina) chicagoabe.org 17 ‘marcha alas afberas de la carcel del oot e o, e 20 ot 6 pm | Cana Maxicana estllo bufst " 5. prson ol sbserbedhooguupRiom S e edes dcarac. Address at Cook County Jail, August 13, 2004 9 we’re gathered at Ground Zero, Chicago in the Uis” aimhorteice ey sur sons.and daughtars ofF o es our sons: standard.. But how rward, 1ike the people in Iraq are doing to this mnstrously evil, international predator! Mns along with lfes has-got not rely on gulag torture chanmbers, police state 11 at any and all litical and social gatherings and ng of other countries.: That's called which the whole world 1s against. People all around the world are ing on our_homeg resistance to start having some positive effect in stopping this Wurder, Incorporated brutality. This urban concentration camp is overflowing with our young Black, Latino and other men and women. The incarceration rate for black men is double that of South African apartheid at jts worst. It’s called by the experts, a “frenzy” to incarcerate! In some cities, the rate of ensnariment into the punishment industry for black men in their twenties is well over 50XI we’ talking Warsaw Ghetto treatment! It’s worse than Russia, worse than China. It's the worst of alll 3t not the physicil ectermination Najaf is being made to suffer through this very day; it's a slow death. It's a stealing of one’s 1ife and being forced to Tive as a targeted zoo animal. 17 Crine and punishment is a total farcel Punishment is crime, when done by criminalsl The major criminals of this world are the ones orchestrating this vast, criminal charade! They are of course, beyond prosecution, much 1ike their Jnternational genocide campaign cohorts. Took at Mayor Daleyl 'We's the town's biggest terrorist. He destroyed Meigs Field, dynamite dozens of high-rise apartment buildings and threw thousands of citizens into the strests. The cops didn't arrest himl They watched point out for him! only the poor get convicted of one of a miTlion laws, written by and for lawyers to profit Trom. "“The cops, Judges, politicians and profiteers also gorge on this wildly profitable punishment Sndustry, paid for in full by the cowed and coerced yers. It’s a huge criminal enterprise, whose only product is human misery. It's an abomination upon the very soul of our humanityl It's a slave system and always has been! The 13™ Amendment didn’t "abolish” slavery. It merely moved it into _the prisons. Now the slave-pri system is in full production. We’re abolitionists| That means we are against slavery. We’re against murder, genocide, Facism, sexism - capitalism. For, capitalism is a slave System of economics. Like the Abolitionists of the 19 Century, we must fight this monstrous, Slave system with a1l of our energy and fervor! Thank youl Anthony Rayson, Prison Abolitionist RESTAURANT ~—x it A PRISON ABOUTION CONFERENCE AuquA 13-15. Truman College | 1145 W. Wilson (Sat/Aug. 14% 8-4) /| Infroductory Statement 20 “Fight Crime!" First, | want to dedicate this conference to the life, spirit and loving work of May Molina Orfiz, whose life was snuffed out, while in police custody a few weeks ago. Her memory wil finger in our hearts foreverl | also want fo thank everyone here today for coming. You could have gone fo the Bud Billiin Day Parade, where 1,000,000 people are marching through Chicago's south side. It's the largest parade in the countryl Some of you have fraveled from far away. such as Houston, Texas, Portiand, Oregon, Lawrence, Kansas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boston, Massachusetts, New Orleans, Louisiana ~ all over the countryl Some have spent months, years and even decades in the horrible prisons of America, or have loved ones penned up, as | speak. Some have lost loved ones in prison, or on the streets, either kiled by police o caught up in social violence, which this extreme capitalist and vinently racist, sexist society, breeds as if in a Petri dish. There are a lot of killers loose in America today, most all of them frained and employed by the govemment. For the obscene wedlth of the chosen few relies on the unjust laws that only apply to the poor, heavily weighted as fo race. Couple this with he colossal fie that oppression equals “freedom" and you have a seriously demented, immoral society. It is organized crime gone wild, unchecked and beyond prosecution. In place of genuine, mutually supporiive communily, free will, environmental sustainabiity, unmolested autonomy and so forth, we have a cowed couniry of order takers, relentiessly badgered by fascist cheerdeaders. We're supposed fobe - safisfied with a bought and sold escapist culture and Big 8rother somnambuiization, where the worth of our ives is measured in the level of the accumulation of plasfic products, we don't even need. For this mockery of real social life, a monstrous edifice of oppression functions. With 4.5% of the world's population, the U.S. usurps 30% of the world's resources! Yet here at home, tens of millions live in squalor, destitution, despair, anguish, hopelessness, homelessness and imprisonment. Hundreds of milions of people throughout the world suffer on the brink of starvafion in sprawling shantytowns, refugee camps &/or under the heel of death-squad fype dictatorships, mostly trained, armed and 2. | ordered about from Washington. Chicago’s own Kathy Kelly, who is our next speaker, just recently got out of prison, for the “ciime" of stepping on the sacred ground at Fort Benning, Georgia, where the “School of Assassins” is based. The United States has a nuclear gun fo the head of every fman, woman, chid, plant and animal on Earth. The US. militory has aiready demonsirated countless fimes, that mass incineration of tens of thousands of people at a fime o the forced starvation of hundreds of thousands of children are merely options they can, have and will use in response to any presumed threat. They are truly pifiless and genocidal. | think fnere are two basic assumptions you can either accept, reject or attempt fo ignore. One is that genocide and massive imprisonment are acceptable in support of the American empire or they are not. The other is that the lives of so-called “white people” are more important than those of people of color and that to maintain this abomination of “white skin privilege” all forms of ins! nal ciime are acceplable, either actually fought for, as a member of the military, police or imprisonment regiments, or acquiesced fo. Or, if you don't have much profective melanin in your skin and pass as “white” you can become a “race fraitor” and become a legifimate member of the human family. Of course, fo be @ moral, self-respecting humanist individual, these cannot be agreed fo, which can only lead fo an abolifionist, revolutionary perspective and conduct. Reform may lead fo an isolated lessening of suffering and that's important. But as a philosophy, it is a surendering to the criminality of Empire. Of course. everybody here pretty much knows all of this. But, many many do not. so relentless and pervasive is the Orwelian brainwashing, here in Amerikkka. Thisis backed up by the quite legifimate fear of reprisals. Look at the set-up of ‘Aaron Patterson, just last week, fwo days affer a judge ordered Jon Burge from his vacation nest in Florida fo begin fo answer for his forfuring of suspects. At least Aaron s sfll alive, uniike May Molin Orfiz But overcome our fear we must. It's high fime to reclaim our birthright and dignity, which is that of a highly inteligent and adaptive, caring, mutually supporiive and spiritual social animal. Social harmony cannot be coerced! 221 So, why are we here? We're here fo bring out the brutal truth concerning ol aspects of America’s most sickening secret here af home - fhe vast punishment industry. Slavery never ended! Check the 13n Amendment of the U.S. Constitution! Prisoners are legally considered siaves. Lawsuits brought forth by prisoners challenging their ensiavement by the prisons, have been dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court, cifing this clause of the Consfitution. It's the ulfimate in cynicism and hypocrisy fo claim this as a beacon of rights and freedom, when in fact, it has always been a slaver's document! The economy is also siave-based and always has been in Americal Corporations are fascist organizations, which fhe polifical and legal insfitufions cater to. Tens of millions foilin slave-fike working conditions and millions more are locked out of even that, fipe as raw material for the prison slave system. Amazingly, Martha Stewart got five months. Every now and then, they go after one of their own, for the wrist siap reatment, aithough the Tyco guy was just acquitted. Enron can devastate fhe futures of fens of thousands of workers without any real consequences. Meanwhile, a black kid on the cormer with altfle crack rock in his pocket, will almost automafically receive a fen year sentence, without so much os ablink of the eye from a judge. This fype of “justice” happens tens of thousands of fimes every day in the assembly fines of injustice - the courls. iz Murder, idnapping, forture, extorfion, rape - these are serious crimes! They're also the definition of what America does fo people, here and abroad. The real crimes and the real criminals, whether perpetrated by the policies of govemment orindushry are never even thought of as up for consideration as criminal behaviorl S0, you have a situation where America sent 57,000 Ameiicans fo their deaths in Vietnam, killed 3 millon plus, and ruined a whole sub-confinent. Yet, one of the arch-criminal masterminds of this decades-ong genocide, Henry Kissinger, can blithely state: “We should have never been there, but that's *historyl"" During the mic-late seventies, most of the prisoners in the states were Vielnam veterans! “Welcome home" from ihe govemment that put you through this helll Meanwhile, several hundred thousand young people today, are having the best years of their lives nightmarishly destroyed by being held caplive by the state in one of their hideous qulags for the “crime” of the possession of a medicinal plant that grows wild! This may very well be utterly insane, but it i the reaiity that we are forced to deal with. Tens of thousands of ofhers are innocent of the charges they were convicted on, sentenced by nebulous “conspiracy” kaws. convicted of “crimes" without vicfims, or guilty of criminal behavior that is dealt with by the systematic crime of for-profit punishment by a slave-based regime. This incarceration industry, whose sole product is human misery. is wildly profitable because itis primarily funded by working stiffs, who, affer their companies rip off their labor for profit, fhe govemment steps in and ips them off again in taxes. For this, we:re expected fo be ever so grateful and willing fo offer up our sons and daughters to become frained killers in their imperialist wars and also fo help suppress their fellow cifizens, here at home! IF's called “democracy!" We're here fo network our asses off! We must get fo know. ‘each other - replace animosity and suspicion with respect. Let's nof cointelpro ourselvesl We canleam from each ofher, listen fo those who've been there, done that and had their loved ones wrenched from their embrace. We need fo embolden each ofher, gain resolve and receive valuable instruction from those chained in the dungeons of America, today. We have to pool our resources and support each other's projects. Solidarity is the only way to increase the ey for Chanae A s S b i bod ot g core i A, Evapin. K et o ot 4 e, armd 4 o Eatan ek 008 . pressure on the authoriies fo help ourincarcerated Brothers and Sisters gain some relief. Of course, our big goalis fo free the slaves and get the governmental monkeys off of our backs, alfogetherl We're Abolitionists which means we are against slavery. Mostly, we want real freedom, genuine justice — fotal iberafion. We want an end to coercive authority. an end fo oppression. People are fully capable of fiving harmoniously without the Paul Wolfowitz's of this world and their trained goons unleashing human camage all of the fime! We want our prisoners set freel We want this monstrous, criminal system abolished. We are against crime and the system that breeds i S0, the mass murderers running the show have fo be stopped. We need successful revolufion! To get o there from here will require our utmost efforts. We: must jock up our agitational and educational efforts, several notches. We can't tippy toe, with hat in hand in the face of this Murder, Inc. system. We must demonstrate some courage, dedication and consistency to the communities suffering the worst from this incarceration frenzy - fhis holocaust in the Block community. We are the steward's of our children's futures. Many young people today see fheir future s one of three fhings - an early arave, gang-pressed info a murderer's amy or forced info o prison cell. Malcolm said it best: “By any means necessary.” Thankyou. Anthony Rayson / Chicago Anarchist Black Cross WE NEED YOUR BOOKS!!! Our project depends on donated books to survive. We receive donations from ‘publishers, bookstores and individuals. We will gladly accept new or used paperback books. We do not accept hardcover or spiral-bound books because most prisons do not allow them. The mst requested topics include drug and alcohol recovery issues, English and Spanish language dictionaries, fiction and non-fiction by people of color, queer fction and non- fiction, abuse issues, health, arts and crafts, mystery/harror novels, and romance novels, both queer and straight TRADITIONAL UNHTED EASTE 1573 N. Milwaskee PMB #460 LENAPE INAT, Ui Chicago, L 60622 PO Box 4362 Allenfown PA 18105 : =, et T it i ;--“:.."":s-"*“‘{ffi'f" e a0 i TR Check www.chicagoabe.org For into Contact: (20 one tarned away for lack of funds) bt om “HOPx 4150 Lives i OUR HesBT™ Voz en Azteca United Flectrical, Raio and Machine Workers of America UE Local 115 378, As i 2¥ DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST THE HALSTED 3! Robert Bernstein, Jeremy Hammond, and Neal Rysdahl The Halsted 3 are facing false felony charges T rosuling from a polica riot that occurred at the 11 Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade of 2004. A verbal confrontation ensued between anligay extremists and the queer anarchist contingnt, organized by the Queer and Trans Caucus of the Chicagoland Anarchist Network and invited (o the parads by Equal Marriage Now. The CPD ‘intervened' and arrested the pro-queer actiists instead of the rlot- inciting homophobes. 'y 'STOP THE VIOLENCE - DROP THE CHARGES! Help is needed 1o ensure that these communlly aclivists avoid felony convictions. See reverse side for details on supporting the Halsted 3. Joromy Hammond thrown fo ground anct SCapogeaiod for Catoreds. ‘stacx on CPD On Sunday 4 27, o e 35 vy f th Sl Roboion, Chicago’s Gay Prie Parada e st o buge. T i PRl Seti Toesy, Augost 3L, 2008 1105 To rtponyynQpoensicon [rST— Hedlo Antnony, Hoze 1a the text of the four bronze panels that will appear on the “layaarket Mesoeial.” It has been the incencicn fros the Start of this project that additionsl plaques aight be subnitted by differiag groups to bo Placed on the nesorial as tise goss ca. My and lathan Kasen's main concern. Vith the developaant of the policy 4a to Aow plagues got aubsitted and Sccepted ia that there is no editing of voices. The vay I sse it, a3 long as The Tdenticy of sach statemsnt is Gleacly presented, everyons should ba sble to"say vhataver they ploase. 1.2. The anacchists of Iilinois cosdomn tha Pratext of thin mesorisl as o menusent to the lasve of fresdos of spesch. Wo Uieu this hiscrical svent as a sirderous exaple of. 1911 Lot you know s s00n 23 § know something now o Chis subject. In the Seantine, T hope that you £ind that the text below does a falr Job, in 2 Tinited space, of desciibisg an overview of the eveat. Talk agatn seon. Sincecaly, Mary Brosser S172 OF HAVOAKE? TRADGEY 00 the evening of Way ith, 1936, tradesy of intecastional sigaificance Afolded on his ite in Chicage's Haysarket produce Sistrict. As outdoor Raating had been hAICLLy ofganisad by anscchist aCtiviscs o Protest tho Uioient deach of Uorkers during & Labor lackost the provious day in aother 464" th city. Spactators gathared in the stroat as speakers addres EOILceal, sCeidi, "Ing Lanor 1ssuas feca atop 3 vagon that stood at the Tocation S¢ this sonument. hen approxinacely 173 policenen approached wich L27SkaeE S0 Clapares the Seetine 5 aynasite oo Las chroun 1ncs chats The idencity and atfiliacion of the person uho rhrew the bosb have never boen datermined, but this anonyaous act had aany victiss. Froa the b BARLc Chat follosed, seven Bolicamen and ¢ least fouc civilian bystanders Tose thelc 1ivas, but the vicitins of the Lacident voro not linited to those 1o Jied 48 a dicect cesult of the bosblag. Tn the ftarnath, the pecple vho Srganized na spoie at Che seeting, and others Who held unpopular political upoincs Uaca accested and UALALFLY LELed, svan thoush hose Could be ties ©o' the ooabisg itself. acting srganizers Geoege Engel and Adolph Fischer, along with speakers Auguat Spies and Albart Pacsons Vere put o death by hanging. ACTIVSt Louis Lingg aied vislently in Jail prist o his schedules sxscution. Nesting speaker Samuel Fleidon, and activists Oscar Nesbo 4nd Michael Scheab wors 3ntenced o prison, b4t 1ater pardoned 1n 1833 by ilinols Governoe Jona Peter Rltaels, citing the injustices of cheir trial. Seer cre yoars, the site of the Haymarket bousing has becose 3 poverfel Sjubel for A diverse Cross-section of pecple, ideals and moveasns. Its l0ritilize toictas oa che Lasues of froe spsech, che Tight of public Assembly, Srganized lator, the EiGhe Eor the eignt hour vork day, Aav 223 the cugnt S evers niman beins €O 7Y ‘ror alls it is a polgrant lasson in the EeuaEas 10d Sonsagiences isherent L Suck Kin puisuiti Haymarket Observations s 1 hed a nice, long address for you, but 'm going o spare you tha. If you're imerested, [ bave writien copies and even a couple or 50 audio tapes of it 'l just ‘mention a few points I'd ke to make. I'll keep the “reality check” short! 1. Haymarket i intermtionally important kistry, ivalving the supresson of a ‘powerfllabor mavemen, ccotered in Chicago, sparheaded by srious anarchist. 1t ‘was never abont “fres spocchi” Their voices were choked by logallynching and the crminals resposible were neverbrought 1 any ki of “fustice.” They will forever be known as “froodom fighters” by those who genuinely strugal fo social justic, 5 exemplary, revolutionry Anarcists! That is what “Haymarket” il sways mean and bt can'tbe tken away flom Anarchiss o those who sympathize with Anarchist idels. 2. Itis notsbout “free speech now, ither! This placeis now a magnet for Big Brother surveillance cameras snd not place of refuge ot solace. What happened bere in 1886 ‘and what it has meat since, transcends uny attenpt t trying o revise it meaning and tumm it o a tourist trap and gateway o gentrification of the near westloop. You can and il try, but s lie! Ptemal gratitude and strength are the legacy of these brave men! 3. The money used 0 do al of this was extoried from [linois taxpayers. 1t came by way of isois First money, which isthe seme pile of corrapt Gearge Ryan pork maney being ‘used t0 foroe citizens out of Eastern Wil County in the Peotone arca for an urwaated, ‘umceded sirport. It could have becn a grassroots effrt, with voluntary contrbutions, but wasa't! Haymarket will always mean what it truly means — Avarchist ove of bumanity! 4. Anarchists were never considered for paticipaion in the planning of this project and ‘nly got involved once we found out sbout it and approeched the peopie iavolved, which ‘wes after allofthe main decisions had been rade. Although, a fiendship was forged! 5. The condiions o whic th Heyaarket Mty sovely gavetheieives fihting ‘against — ‘slavery, destitution, police brutality, prison slavery, imperialist boraran doeio of al g of u e sl o of o, .| Dot caly il it ody, bt now st cvery sl prsoman Earty nd ot 11 forms! These threats to life Aerself, are being launched from this country, onto nur o 6. The “Chicago 1dea™ School of Anarchisen, which these murdered men were just eginming to aticulat, is now more important,useful and inspiring - than ever! 7. One last point. As for “eroris” - the U.S. government s the market comered! Mayor Daleyis Chicago’s bigges “tevorst” He bulldozed Meigs Field under cover of the otherwarldly bombing of Baghdad u cit even bigger than Chicago) and also blew ‘up dozeas of deasely populaed, (albeit miscrabl) highvrise aparment bildings, throwing thousands ntothe strees! That i srious, ongoing trrorism - which the cops ‘merely watched point or, making a mockery of their “coocen” for ordinaryciizens ind ll the crocodil tea piety sbout our “safety!” They truly L about everything! Statc cime - b it captaing incsceraing, shooting, forcing human beings inlo a miserable job,sometimes ordering young people to muder (mastly young — cven nfuat) peopie. ere and abroad (o assault them,cc.) yingincessasty about day by day reality - i 8 ‘nevr-ending, consan, global crime against the very soul of Humanity! This, the need forour seious effont - across the board o deal with these urgent, cataclysmic threats Hursh for Anarchy! ~ Aathony Raysoa - An *Alleged” “Chicago ldea” Anarchist — Unheard Scaffold Address 44 Haymarket was organized in response fo the murder the: night before by cops of striking workers at McCormick Reaper Works, since renamed Infemational Harvester. Three days earfer, on May 17, 1886, 80,000 Chicagoans marched down Michigan Avenue fo spearhead the nafionwide diive for he sight hour day. People were being forced to work ot least twelve hours - often every day. This powerful workers' movement was concentrated in Chicago, organized by serious Anarchisfs... Meanwhile, the business community, their polificians and police forces were plotiing a coordinated, Gulf of Tonkin fype of response. Serious repressionis often preceded by aset-up, fo make the impending victims appear as the aggressors. Hitler did the same thing before invading Poland. o Chcao Amachissof 139 A 1901 egravine Ihe fateful night of May 4ih, as the several thousand person Haymarket rally was dwindling fo a handful, Chicago police #7 were sef upon the crowd. A bomb was thrown and shots were fired. Some eyewitnesses claimed fhe shos preceded the Lombl One policeman was kiled by fhe bomb and several were killed by police bulefs. Also several demonsirators were shot fo death. Scores were injured. Only the police were «anmed and fired weapons. | liken it to the assault on Attica, where the assault forces killed ten guards and dozens of piisoners. Those guards were also felled by “friendly fire." Suddenly, coordinated police actions and round-ups captured thousands of Chicago ciizens, supposedly involved in “criminal behavior" because of their clamoring for simple. socialjustice. Seven Anarchists were singled out for parficuiar vilfication and an early. Stalinesque, although uniquely American, show ricl followed. That's because the state wosn'! cione. 1fs thirst ond callfor blood and pogromism confinued, s This wonit happen uniil about 18 more months. Then they'l force homeowners and famners, some who have been farming this land for ‘several generations, into the street. Sowe'll have o be prepared. Recenty, they shaved a couple of thousand acres off of the huge “footprint” and wil sell back some of the parcels of land aiready acquired. ‘This was in response 1o pressure put on the siale by the Gitizens of the Heatherbrook subivision, who have mansions on the edge of the footprint.* We'l argue that all of the land cosroed from ciizens for this project be fetumed 1o the not 50 “open markeL" At least some of this land should be tumed over to Native Americans who were murdered off of this land in the firt place in the 1800's. Free the fand! In the meantime, we'l hold an educational forum in Pectone in the spring of 05. We'il have experts on farming, high speed rail, the airines, environmentalists, land, ar and water speciatsts and activists to analyze the situation from a pro-citizen standpoint. What should_happen, of course, is that cilizens realize that the ‘govemment is nothing more than organized crime, preying on people and dostroying everything in it path to accommodal their capiaiist bosses. As all laws are based on ‘private property” of land ownership, the whole history of American society is an uninterrupted story of thefl, pillage and murder. We must retum to native ways, end this global criminality and retum the land and the bounty it produces 10 the ightful owners — everybody and nobody (in particular) Anthony Rayson - co-founder of STAND ‘Shut This Arport Nightmare Downl 109 90D §0600E CAROSTRN, BUAOE ISLASD 025 PRUBAMMSILOON HTIP/FAOUBAMAT dOLIALENE It was very strange and | had to get these weird pills, which cost $350 per month! Luckily, I have decent mediical insurance and they “only” cost me $35 per month. They say it takes several months to “heal” and may never heal completely. So, I'll have a permanent arthritic-like condition in the middle of my hand. After almost five months, it is better, but I still can’t make a fist and that hand is partially disabled. For the Incas in the mountains of Peru, this condition affects 1 out of a thousand, per vear, This led to my looking more closely at my health in general, setting pills for high cholesterol, getting a stress test and so on But, even at 51, I'm pretty healthy, and I like to think I don'r have “one foot in the grave!” The conference came, we had a rally and march at Cook County Jail on Friday the 13% had a full day of speakers on the 14" at Truman College (moved, as UIC had gutlessly rescinded our agreed upon space there.) We had a cool show at the Peoples’ Church that night, another post-party party on a rooftop. ofa loop office building and more discussions and workshops the next day at the Electrical Union’s hall. We had a lot of excellent tablers, three people videotaped the proceedings and a lot of good things came from it. It was nice to meet and talk with other people, especially anarchists from around the country who do serious prisoner support work. There were problems, too, of course. It was under attended. some workshops were cancelled and there was a nasty situation at the show. The next month, September, saw the unveiling ceremony at the Haymarket site. All during this period. I was in contact with the people organizing this event, to try to get some input from actual anarchists, T did speak at this cvent and maybe thirty anarchists attended this ceremony. So, these things are what this zine talks about I ended the zine with a report about the sordid situation, here in Illinois. about the clection campaign and the ongoing sicge of the peaple living around Peotone, which has been targeted for monstrous airport. [n a couple of days, my brother Jim. my friend Mike (who | started STAND with) and [ will so up to Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin for a fittle time off. s o . TEy B oAk I\ South Chicago ABC Zine Distro hson e Aatpoy Rayson P0.80x 72t Wl o Homemoosi. Cranize o