4JA mind 8 Yeah You: RECALCITRANT! I rox ware I uros - reond) | LoST IN THE SHUFFLE [ ENCOURAGE YOURSELF [ LETTING GO Bl BREAKING THE CHAINS E Mr. Officer Part TI: The Dream [l @ Golgotha w/ Joe Joe B cautrornIA ON BLAST n NOTICE OF DEATH B THE BIG SLEEP Bl "revolution® I Stand A Dead Career Move [ THE Wisbom oF AGE nMHAT'S GANGSTA JUST vISIONS ) ©LEFT 2014 “The New Political Prisuner D. Howard For the first time in Califorma state history, A New Generation of inner-city youth housed on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison are taking mtters into their v lands with an inspiring movement geared (o educate the public, specifically e “next generation” of their youth, portraying ruinous patterus of social and wconomic gain for corrupt law-enforcement and justice system officials alike. redefining the words, "Political Prisone”. Despite ltle journalistic acelaim and even fewer resources, this crusade emerged from a vision had by a wise young nan who chose to assemble a creative wril group comprised primarily of candemned youth, dubbed Papyrus Collecti (PAPCO) Understood for generations, the term "political prisoner” has been predomisantly (and respectully) tied to revolutionary and freedom fighters everywhere. PAPCO has begun publishing their o magazine (ZINE) now knowu “Write or Die”. Their underground guerrilla-like periodical is fast becoming an innovative outlet to exhibit poetry, columns, essays, artwork, photos, and unedited shoptalk between themselves from inside Death Row in & popular section called "@Golgotha”, made available both online at wwiw betweenthebars.org and in print, directed to the streets of America’s inner cites, giving rise 10 the fight for true freedom while preventing illegal captures of our next generation, lterally. With www deathrowinmate.org (DRL) graciously hosting the workshop cfforts, PAPCO thrives online as a platform for society to consume relevant and valuable. information slated to impart "reality” upon today’s youth, before they (lke us) fall vietin to the deathtrap which anxiously awaits them. PAPCO's uiany voices aim t0 unmask the face of the new political prisoner behind the nation's every detention facility and penitentiary, compounds that warehouse generationhfter seneration of men and women serving unjustified sentences for "Street Level” offenses. Death Row is no longer a place for the so-called serial killr, child molester, or media-born foreign bomber type. Read unending stories, solution-based ideas, and challenging calls for self-leadership amongst our youth — forward motion without breaks. Join hands with PAPCO in our mission t0 keep the next gencration inforued and out of prison, stand obliged 1 alert communities that funer-city youth are indee, "a-risk”. We challenge the public,specifcally our local youth leaders, to make inquiries as to the many undisclosed benefits given 40 those who determine the fate of tomorrow’s political prisoner — our hildren. W ite Or Die: Zine Project The_peeson you'ce seeins in illustration fe a man nemed TEWTL, T 1ot e R8s ta have invented writing. You' Il Find this serile i Wieronlyphic inages and wall sculptore with o papvevs roed and styius, on Siten Nolding in his 1efe hand an ANKH (peonounced: ANGK), an nhjec hoped Tike @ cross for sternal 1ifs in ancient Fayt, and the source nl a Den’ name P-ANKH-E (Piankhi) T'Coneider this ancient scribe the fconic representation of our writis colleckive. The introduction of weiting to the world hrousht about Fevolutionary change in a truly Fundamental way. The influence of writin fnd recorded history have carried With it, eniightenment and reflection | Ways that transcend the Limitations of neopraphy and time. Tho fnopieetin 5f age-nld stories of those uho endured oppression and rribuiation of o) Kinds befora us, and those who've found reluge and redemption in exprecsin Uhemeelves throvgh uritten word - the pure velght of what thay vere abl to mrticulate and convey had proven o he a force mors just and pocertu Ehan the ‘suthoritics who condemned them. ot only that, but for the vast majority of those in prison, writing i the only’ Consistent. source of communication with the world hevond the ver contines of . cells. My years of rending and writing while in so)itar Confincment have 8lso become of profound importance in chanaing the vay perceive the world around me. Simply writing letters to family mnd (riend Fiad becone an Introspective exercise in comprehending complex enotions. an articulating complex thoughts. As ) developed a peactice of ceading, an Then, procersing that information through notes and articles T've writte var the years, the process of digestine thesa words gave me prrspert iv nd helped ‘1o detarmine my divection and interactinne within and bevand Confinenent . Those who write know that thoughtful and vell-uritte words can have an effect on thess reading them, and o Gven mora profound effect on the writer, s the wrilin process 1tielf is often tramsformative. The practice o xercizing ones' mind in A potitive waw imvites ne oanibilities to ourselves as well as to others -~ 4 ans ¥nvaluable long“term Tife lesson. The late Kelsan Mandela yrote that "prison was o kin of crucible that tested man's character. Some men, unde the “pressure of incarceration, showed true mettis, uher others tovenled themtclves to he loss than what they b appeored to ba." T like that, for me "trua mattle’ ha come theoush the introspection 'and dovelopment o perspective that is inherent in any writing process. 1 Ras brovided me with an understanding of myiell, and more inpoctantly, my “place” in the world that transcends physical confinesent. And, AT At veadt as if I'm romanticizing, it'e just that atfect 1% Pasting onto you through my words The Tast Uaapon In a peisonec’s arsenal, s hie/her pon - that vhich only a fres mind can wield to an effect: This den't just my story thoush. nor ix it one amvwhere near it caonclusion. This 15 the story of Urite Or Die. Papco@Distro % SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON CALIPATRIA AUGUST 2014 WRITE 08 DIE 1] Interviews South Chicago ABC Zine Distro Box 121, Homewood, IL 60430 Yeah You: Spoken word piece in honor of our @risk youth ‘What to think waiting is not easy to do psychologically unmastered these emotions resend to the ailses of my mind, about you yeah you, young life source. my force of nature heart skip, panic attack you, yeah you The conclusion to what I need, but this aint about me what about you? yeah you. how do I provide whatever it is that you need inside to keep you alive and high, high on this eternal vibe we call lfe, yeah you why is my heart racing? brain erasing memories I aint even thought of yet for what? lack of sleep and rest? thinking about you you, hell yeah, you, just made me admit to worry. T'd wish I can do more, but wishing is for people that believe it Idon't do hope either, because hope is for people that need it all I need is you, yeah you, so, what about you? yeah. you by XLYZST betweenthehars or/posts 6108 new-generation rising ~a RECALCITRANT! Flashing back on ie's ourney - rom the past tothe present, rellectin on each path aken, and every oot sep eft - most bring a smile. et ew 1 do regret] At the 10p ofthe st sl hefa ime tht fve spent. Such an ugly existenceL....yet more than half of my e has been confined 0. cllwithin the system! “Held Captvel” | ive on a concrete plantaion; “where Fm considered CONDEMNEDIII. Property of a nation that professes o be civlzed and fair. A symbolfor usice and Freedom, he preaches o the word,expectin all o adherel The heavy hand of aporession s abways there 2 constant reminder orthe timidl But for those who see clear - Racsm & Inequalfty are st ver oresent. Standingstrong without fea has beer too for resisting and ebaling, which s what rve done since seeing my Pops get murdered when | was seven Trauma Inflctd by pernicious ircumstances. Povertysticken! To gt rch was the man abjective Ambitous! It was imperatve, n order 10 uplift my famiy from homile conditons. Every might Mo Praved for ourlves o become different -y every morning 1 would awake 10 an empty belly and il feliog tricken! Farytales i the ghetto are something that rarey happens! | never sawa hapoy ending) 87€w Up in the slums; dope houses; 1 spent most of my time chasing money vidy - Someting | fearmed from this avarice Capitalst System! - Don' e me -you can'trelate 10 my trugges uiess ¥0u've actuallyIved this: Rosches and atstaking over your Kitchen...Ho ol buring onthe stove, in case the pis enterl inevery ghetto; on thestret, avenue, boulevard o block. There . story with simila wist-Back, Whie, Vellow, Brown... were all up agains ] Ther s shuays crooked pigs ot 0 61701 That's what comes withbeing RECALCITRANT; and bucking agins their systemil Ever since 1 wasan infant. had o ather to keep me n check. He was Killed by racist pig - 20 bulets 1016010 is el | witnesse i bied inth streets, a he took i fn breath. | even saw his soul Jeave hs body (ke smoke)..through the hles et in ischest] A normsl chidhood? Yeah, | wish! The ool thing normal about k was amother block fomily being victimized by thevery system that took an oath 0 serve and protect them! Now You know my tory which s not much diffecent from ot ofothers who had o v . 50, am | eing pretentious ( beleve someane outsid’ thesystem might actually havefsened and hove enuinely cared 3bout what v boen through? 0o | tillave you atention? 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