A CRITICAL DISCUSSION WITH TEKKK$AS PRISON ACTIVIST "MONSOUR GOD OWOLABI" @iPor those who're unaware tell us who you are. MGO:Monsour God Owolabi.i can be your comrade brother, son, father,or cousin.Becalse i ket e of the police state like many New Afrigans and othar cifizens of the internal semi-colomies of amerikka.I am a Vbw Afrikan revolutionary inter- nationalist,and maoist,prison activist,peer educatod and mentor,prisoner of social-war, the var on the pod and oppressed semi-colony of New Afrika,confined unjustly-for the duration of life without possibili¥ of parole in tekkkSas- G:What does the term "New Afrikan“mean to you? MGO:You know a peer recently asked me that same thing.From a hystorical context a New Afrikan is a black persyn,primarily in amerikkka,but sometimes else where.This persyn is the Gescendent of continethe Afrikans who vere kidnapped and sometimes sold into slavery.These hfrikans came from many afrikan nations.Each nation with its own distinct hystory, lanauage ,culture, economy and overall identity-which w3s all tied to their most precious possesion,the land.Each nation had its own iand. Tne advent of the maafa altered the course of hyst for these peogle.When they landed on turtle island ware enslaved,e-humynized, then eventually(une 19th, 1865)vere made "freed men,only to be re-enslaved by tying thea to the land through share croppina. black codes,convict leasing,in addition to the 13th and 14th amendments.During all these social changes, tie once multi-faceted,multi-national collective of kidnapped afrikans became one new nation.A New Afrilm nation. Tis identity is key to our liberation,it articulaths that an individual and a collective are new,as in not 0ld, colanized slaves but a new de-colonized persyn vith a national identity that (must)be recognized(or else) - 5o he/she is an afrikan.Unlike the cultural Mationalists a new afrikan isn't all aboutback to Afrixa-teachings The nev afrikan acknovledges the uhole history- By:monsour god owolabi e know whers ve came from,wnat ve've been through Blxea vien Eicst notion biosa, sngierer. ceanch or e R R S in anyvay. Bec .‘1“ is hystorical fact that such things as Bixing and beaching isa part of s Neo ALriins Seuildy o Ry story. e ark s nes typernes 1angeage foperial ivm: It is capitalist-imperialism that breeds racism, classism,slavery etc.That is why the revolutionary focuses their offensive at bhe root of our and out ancestors problem.Eradicating the current status QU0 is a new afrikans mission.A New Afrikan is by virtue a revolutionary nationalist,snd many see 8130 80Ci ali st , anAImBIn 2 wa 1L S R dneven s \MUIBESEitle and psyche-The New Afrikan is the un: happy camper determined snc organizing a new world. $i53n you tell us about your revolutionary development How lomg have you been a part of the 1ibsratior struggle? Where dis this transformation occur and what caused f¢? think militants and rebels are born. : Over a duration of int eracting with social contradictions in O yeeicty Lpfely vere undeserving of my suborcinatings TYaelf to them-Hy baba is yoruba thes iv's alvays 03d,2n 2cUte avareness of my afrikan-ness.This analo. Diosanas merely a sead which overtime vas vatered and Pagssomed.ty re-education and subsequent evelussen D03 taken place within the razor wire plantetioner Specifically during two seperate stints in {soiaped onpinement-Ad-seg,restrictive housing,control weies, high security,the snemy has m tortura chambers.l began really predicanent in 2014.1 vas tuen and serving 1ife.Ultra-militant Lot of pondering.I vas lantation,known amo; 3 hecRApta pon knovn amonget Boused on tdcj's allrea prisoners as a1 -1 saw the unprovoked prisoner assaults.Oftsn the pigs physseally artacked and verbally antagonized mentally 111 prisoms Refusing to feed them for davs and sometimes weeks at a time often they and many others were rafust) out of dell time-Once I observed a handful of pigs cun in a brothers cell while he slept,spray tear gas in his face kick and punch him repeatedly.Then hightail it out of the call and lsave him in there without ever seeing medical- 4 At the time their was a crew of self-ascribed klu-klux klaosman who harrased and vindictively targeted black Kikaptives.Their were many beat downs /bogus cases,and unheard of psychological torture,which caused many suicides and suicide attemgts.The nepotism vas ripa. One of the key persyns in this then ongoing antagonism was a white mationalist-then local magistrate judge and captain pig on all-red-neck unit.This pig vas sventually convicted on mis-appropration of goverment funds chargea.Capt bowles he wes an intricate pact bepyee he vas a disciplinary captain.He systematicallf copressed all rebels,yet let his good ol'boy klan buddies wreck havoc on prisoners primarily black prisoners. It vas during these times I was confronted by every day,all day,non-stop,in your face racism and national oppression.It vas also the first time I observed or Vas apart of a large body of blackmen who vere Supposedely "rivala”,band together against racism and national oppression.It was the beginning of my uhveiles. See the inner city geng banging the lifestyle had instilled in my psyche a certain brand of tribalism The obstacles the brothas and I faced on the plantation though,shoved and proved how thin that veil of self-hate/tribalism was- For even if ve didn't wanna admit it,ve vere all the same here.Red/blue young/old,north side/south side, Aidn't matter,by necessity ve bonded together and Efought back- Arownd that time i vas introduced to the teachings Around hat ime i Racioh o asda Rad takeREERY Gay 1 vas discussing the plight of black people oLy’ the tier and o brother shared a book with me called, "Gods, Earths,and BSers' by pen black.I read\ and my interest was piqued. Initially,due in large part to religious and racial- iZed inaoctrination it was laughable to me that a black man could be §ed or even consider such a thimg Soon after I read "kmowlgdge of self® by supreme understanding-A copy of allahs supreme mathmetics and alphabets vere handed to me and I began internalizing volumes of new information.This re-education began with transforming she vay 1 vieved myseld and my pecple. Although at the date of this writing i've evolved beyond the cultural nationalism that is the 5% N.G.E b.u-t I acknovledge that period of my life as essential to my current revolutionary identity.lt was the scientific thinking introduced to me by the gods that took the veil of religious doctrine and positivity avay from me.The culture I-Self-Lord-and master or 1-003 provided me with a positive self-image and direction lastly it gave me confidence in my veice. While beginning the re-education process i vas still “9ang" active.The more i entrenched myself in mew knouledge the more I saw the glaring contradictions and self destructiveness of that 1ifestyle.The more i matured,the more I saw gangsterism as a stage nos 2 lifestyle.Yet and still & had invested alot into that social-identity which led me to prison. I lost homies,close friends to criminality and tribal violence.1 had spilled blood,and shed blood.l often asked myself the question,'did the homies die in vain? Today I realize the homies only die in vain if ve allow them to.They are all testimonials to the ills 3nG pitfalls of this class dictatorship called amerika. It is up to the living to grow and evolve individually 2nd as a collective.This is how ve should strive to homor our 10st homies.our hoods,and our ancestoss in general.Tt took time for me to it this vay. ok {h Ssolation,as my thinking vas being evolutioni 2ed I was able to keep my nose cican long enough to be re-classified and re-housed.I vas sent to medium custody on barry telford unit in east tekkkSa$.1 had been throun into another dimension. Where as all-red-neck unit vas completely locked dovn,strictly policed,contraband-free,telford was ¥ide open.The little bit of cultural mationality I had internalized wasn't strong enobgh for me te’resist the lumpen tendencies that arise in such an enviro- ent.My gang activity vas prominent,my re-education ceased.My illegitiment capitalist ventures were rolliag. Seven-teen months 1 spent on that plantation until once again ultra-militant acts against piga landed me in disciplinary isolation. Lo and behold I would be sent right back to the all- red-neck-unit. Immediately noticed the changes.The cameras that had been placed all around the plantation had forced many of the 01d gaurd white nationalist Pige to either clean up their acts considerably or £ind other -employment.Don't be misled,the abuse is still rempant as evidenced through comrade Jason Renard Walker's(of the New African Black Panther Party)December 2019 expose published in the san fran- cisco ~bayviev newspaper entitled,"conditions, at the allred unit prison are driving some inmates insane, others are homicidal or suicidal!(1)The current abuse is more discreet in comparison. A 1 also noticed the prisoner population's willingness to organize and resist.Where as previously our milHedl Self defense was unorganized and almost exclusi- vely an all black thing.I arrived during a prisoner hunger strike that unified kkkaptives across national 2nd organizational lines.The strike took place x-mas 2017 through early january 2018.Brave kkkaptives, many deemed irredeemable "gangsters® by society and the prisonkrats,banded together to protest injustices. many had endured for decades.Prior to that time on all-red-nack's "high security" building it was normal and routine for prisoners to be alloved out . of cell time once or twice a month.Hind you this is a shu/control unit.No movement. During my previous stint in high security it oftem enrged me that prisoners would not stand up in mass to demand our rights be acknowledged-Therefore the umoja (unity) amongst prisoners I vas witnessing moved me tremendously.For I nderstood the work it ook those men to bond together and demonstrate their frustvations. - -» - Evennore inspiring was the effect that this new found umoja had.The ability to utilize many prisoner outside humyn resources proved effective.News crev stormed the unit.The administration was 1iteraily pleading for this unified action to cease.and af ter nine days it eventvally did.changes were fortheomsng I learned key lassons at that time.A a comrade that so called "aryana” had commenced a hom: ger strike Shortly prior fo the mass omd\bewsebiirn SAES \aATRAONS. | | R0 Barmestilint SR faaadiie tu SRRV $The same is to be aaid of making revolution.Such is not a job for a single nation,party or group. Another lesson I learned,after the concessions the leading prisoners of that strike made were rolled back,is that ome must attakk the root camse of the problem instead of seeking short sighted conc We should organize now and in the future for the abolition of*fong’tern Jolstary deniores foneimtment o, 31 Kind.Furthernore e s Mkkaptives ot hre™ " . Perin njustice ayaten shomia sone rge SRment o 0T o S 5% S £ in' the aboli constructed. Aftervards,when the social thinking patterns. “that ghts are purged ine crime and criminal thou from our society we can eradicate confinement altogether: Thusly,seeking to merely be let outside to play a little more often will not cure thewsickness. The third lesson I learned from that demonstration fter hearing from ions. was the enemy's tactic of divide and conguer.In con- rade maroon's "liberation of gangsterisnt: Freedon or slavery" he wrote that the “strategic teicks-used against past comrades vere and remsin: 17Coropt ion 7 2.Glamorization of gangsterism 3.seperation from the most agvanced(politically revol- utionary)elements 4.Indoctrination of rel 5.Rau fear. T wouldn't read maroon's work until sometime later, but I observed these strategies keenly impldmented by the pigs.The two most glaring were the glamorisatisn of gangsterism and the seperation from the most advanced elements.Por I noticed that although the prisoners presented a unified,united front,their was 2 €notWae of black prisoners involved.The ones there weren't gang active.The consensus among the black majority vas that a hunger strike wasn't "gangater” or*tough* . . most were unwilling to SACRIFICE ,which is an ugly indivualistic trait of gangsterism.for a "gangster” is a parasite to their community.They take not give. iance on passive approaches The pigs seperated the most advanced elements,in this case chican@ lumpen organizers of upstanding character by immediately re-housing them on other plantations across the state.The leadership vacum vas powerful.The admin began to gosback to their old ways.The current was caling someone,nota group of somebodies,to step up-Who would it be?l resigned myself to be among that * number . Q:When you spoke on self-defense against the pigs,uhat caused or provoked these attacks?Why vere prisoners forcad ro fight back physically? MGO:At the time there were no cameras.Therefors pigs felt more comfort vith the as sumption that they vere above lew and powerful.This lack of transperancy exasperated the ever present kkkapter/kkkaptive relations and made those in assumed authority feel invincible. Furthermore, tekkksa$ prison's grievence systes is_ broken, corruption and nepotism permeate it statewide making just results for prisoners non-existent.A step one and step tvo grievence is only good for a paper trail. ) This is public knowledgeIt is why houston's district 139 representative jarvis johnson drafted a bill in 2019 to "establish an independent ombudsman agency who will be responsible for investigating,evaluating /and securing the rights of inmates."(2) The state legislators never even looked at this bill. In contrast the atate poly-tricksters leave prisoners and our families to suffer at the hands of their corruption.They show prison lives dont matter to them. So why 41 ve have to physicaily defend ourselves? ¥ Because when you give one, one hundced percent control Gvor amother they abuse that control.Thase who're ontrolled utilive the systes in place to raport abum SEIeVintest Hovever they Find no relief becauss the the grievence investigators are buddies,or wives or otheruise romantic iaterests to prison Gaurds thus T lding their baddies husbands or £riends PeiERabgL, o10ing vhen a pig is informed of a grievence written on them, they're angered and seek to retaliate.This is when the majority of abuse takes place.The pigs also have counter-productive psychological tricks they play on other prisoners which disable their senses,or sympath. ies for the prisoner an officer or group of pigs wish to abuse. Usually, pigs labels the prisoner who vrote the grievance or any form of complaint,as a "snitch” a homosexual Br 2 coward/catch out.Thess labels are strategically utilized to nuetralize the other prisoners from defending their class-brethren when the pigs attack. If the prisoner is a "jail house lawyer”,activist,or any form of politikal prisoner the pigs use these tactics for reactionary counter-revolutionary suppress- ion. Often other kkkaptives became culprits in the prisomers abuse. Encouraging pigs to starve or physically hazm the "snitch”. the “sissy”,or "catch out*.Somet imes, these pigs-inmates on the bidding of their kkkaptors by xilling or injuring the author of the complaint. They're used as a tool and also a slave.Lo and behold the truth is usually their was no snitch,the perayn was simply sticking up for their rights. 1'11 give you another scenario,during the epoch I a discussing all-red-neck unit had two female grievence investigators.mrs toft and mrs-cook,both anglo-amerikkan both married to ranking officers who also vorked at ‘all-red neck unit.A blind eye can see the conflict of interest,the mepotism is right om the surface for anyone to see.Add to this that ms.cook became embittersd and extremely hateful tovards prisoners after har then husband was involved in sexual relations with a trans prisoner. The prisoner reported to medical and deposited a mouth ful of her ex-husbands semen.A fter appacrently giving him oral sex.The prisoner reported tht this arrangement had been going on for an extended period of time. Aijer that incident, mrs.cook vas a lady on mission. Jla brinoners becase her encmy.She and mre.tar vere olationeason abuses continued on all-redonedh ware t2opation-ad-seg building.The two of them reixacy o process complaints. Fanally as @ reSult of the afore mentioned prisoned hunger atcike,ms lack of integrity vas high- 1iohited and she vas forced to resign.yet The conflict Of interest remains,as mra.cook ia still dn peniiiict i ahe glamorization of gangsterism is prominent in Tag New Atrikan Colony.May you enlighten s en wiet 220 you like many others into a lifestyle of erjrs 3nng3,0rugs and inevitably mass-enslavement of pesson. M-G-O:Well, for starters the glamorization of gangstets L5,an amerikixan problem,which is why it Lo oyee 3,0roplen of the internal semi-colonies.Alse leto oo use the term "gang”.Tha conotations of th thelr attacks at this populace the vorking clags either Shbs idly by until it's too late,or actively joins tnein® cuppresdion of these elements,often ignering their humyn rights. e Saw the Black Panther Party portrayed by the amerikkkan media machine as gangsters: for this $xact reason.The Black Riders Liberation party of sodey has been attacked insimiliar fashion.Therefore Seenust firSt realize uhat/who "gangster® is.A rgang- rer” is a capitilist-imperialist,a monoply-capitisist or fascist,or one who imitates and promotes mech "value-Their exists burgeois gangsters.petit bourgeds gangsters,labor aristorcrat gangsters and of course lumoen gangsters, Thejcommon characteristic in these *gangsters- are helr parasitic nature.A *gangater® in a wers in s Fai2site, who sucks the life blood out of the prelocar. iat-vorking class. or more importantly dossn't teach us.leaves hol the humytity of individuals in every corner of the country and these people fill these psychological and social deficiencies with. a substitute. 10 These pyschological and social substitutes are what drive one to criminality and by virtue,youth survival groups (ysg)and lumpen organizations (L.0)Quoting talib y.rasheed, "criminality is the ego centric expression of unhealthy and unproductive pyscho-social conditions within the personality.”(3) The fascist enemy state has systematically and relent- lessly promoted gangster: to the youth of oppreseed nations.The winds of social change usually start to move through vibrant and militant youth,who refuse to accept the treatment from the ruling class as their parents did.Theyepoch which produced national libecatioh and anti-colonial vars in afrika,asia,south amers- ka,and the anti-imperialist struggles in amerikkka is proof of this.In fact,it is after the scare which the BPP,Republic Of NewAfrika,Black Liberation Army A-I.M,Young lords,Brown Berets and othecs gave the 0.5 establishmentthat we see the empire vage all our waz/pyschological,cheical, and physicallon youth from the international colonies.Our youth are raised in ghettos,barrios,and reservations the worker in a monoply-capitilist country is often too busy with work and funding the family to actually RALSS and NOURISH the family or themselves. - The individualistic,marcissistic,mindset of citizens 2lienates them from each other.In contrast in the mare communal societies of the past.The village raised the children,this sort of 1ifestyle taught children the essentials of identity, self-worth, responsibilit, self-csteen,self-acceptence and self-confidence. Selfi- shness and gresd veren't promoted, they were shunned Tradition played a vital role in the life of the community as vell. Umoja, kujichagulia, uiima,Ujanas, Nia, Kuunba, and Tmani nguzo saba of kvanzaa and young advita who these prin “ciples are not instilled in,whom go sesking or makes substitutes for such principlea,vhon end up members of ¥SG-(local cligues,kive,damu etc)and L.0.C prison groups or other-more organized groups) It io the effects of capitalism which creates the individualisn and alienation of the masses.Thus our youth seck umoja-unity and assume they find it in ysg 170 the globilization of capital has sffectively made the working class mindless slaves.We're taught at every age that "success" is defined by being good in chool,graduat ing, obtaining a "good” Job and raising 3 family that strives to repeat the cycle.You're realfl guccessful” if you maintain this job for decades yntil retirement or own your own business.Their is no individual destiny.One is simply plugging into the patrix and there by furthering the domination of monoply-capital over the majority of the world s peophk 1 Thus our youth seek kujichagulia-self determination. However this brand of aelf-determination is corrupted due to the negative,counter-revolutionary,and self destructive images and nbaions our youth have been fed-Thus this youth's rebelious spirits is directed towards parasitic behavior and groupings. The (YSG) and (1.0) become attractive because they seemingly offér unity,and a (self) determination and an image of ones self which they themselves have detefmined, at least in their own mind.They often do not realize they are imitating,on a lesser level,the mentality,values,lifestyle of their encmy. U3ima-collective woek/casponsibility is also seemingly provided by the(¥sG)and(1.0). ’ery one seems -qually impersanc anc valnable mis {a'the pposit of the alienation the youth feif previousiy.Sheses fecls that they nov have a role to play.even if this rele is as part of a sub-culture of seciety. In addition Ujamaa-co-operative economics.The ¥sG provides a capitilistic version of co-operative . economica.It doesn't live up to the term -co-operation’ uholly.For (YSG) and (1.0) geperally have no pelif- ikal education-Thus they incorparate the parasitic characteristics they've adopted from oapiralist bourgeois. into their dealings, this is even true in their dealings with each other,for they've been bred in individualism. "The colonialist bourgeoisie hammered into the coloniz- €3 mind the notion of a society of individuals whers each is locked in his subjectivity...(4) “Brother or sister,comrade are words outlaved by the gcolonialist bourgeoisie beceuse in their thinking my brother is my vallet and my comrade.my scheming. (S} Thia contradiction of a community,nation,society,or group,of individuals.manifests itself in the (¥s6) and (L.0) culture.These groups became class dictator- R S i et el 198,878 158 PavEons in AiEe ib sevorin bha fous] LTI it detiil et e Loyalty” - ndividua personality takes an even more sevpre downvard spiral.This spiral deepens as long as ane's purpose of identity is tied to the counter-productive self-defeating culture of the (YSG/L.0).Thus long term members lack the intestinal fortitude to leave that lifestyle and forge an ident- ity independent from it.They think of themselves in terms such as,"im a blood"Iima crip""IM EME".This is backward thinking,those are labels.The individual makes the labels,mot the other way around. Kuokba-creativity is seen and found for the new recruit in this lifestyle via the originality of each groups culture and hystory This captivates youth who are generally impressionable.One Sees the “"crip work®,hears the ‘gangster® vernacular,and one immediately identify such as "cool”-This is an attra. ction. Lastly,ve have Imani-faith generally these groups Ppropagate a form of rhetoric,which is termed "knowkw” 3 .Sometimes it is woven into factual hystory- Usually prior to one actually being "down" they've internalized scme of this! 'knouledge" and they put faith in it.Faith in the sense of devoting onesself to their groups cause.An impressionable youth doesn't realize or ask themselves,’exactly what is the misgion?""what is the purpose”?They simply faithfulld devotetheir lives to a cause-less cau Nou we knou the nguzo siba's purpose is to reinterate “community values*.Therefore I propose that the pysch-social benefits of community life is what the (¥5G 1.-0)segment of our population seck-The communitf builda onet character.Many of these lumpen suffer from conrade Talib Y Rasheed calls, "poverty of charaget fle says,"what is meant here is that the characks of an individual lacks the basic fulfillment of hamyn peychic needs,he/she may lack unconditional Self-acceptenceself-satesn and self confidence Couple this uith economic poverty and you have an increased potiental for vulnerability th criminal orientation,eapecially in the latter years of teen hood whre material possesions and money have taken on the perceived pover fo give or take avay ones Social prestige or social-esteem,two things that have an exaggerated value and disproportionate valu Unen genvine self-esteen ia absent from ones charac Ay Por me persynally i believe this discription best EoEvesa the Guestion of why i toox up the ideaiogy na"Sitesty1a of crininality and (YSG L.)culture. Comrade Taiis ¥ Rashoed also lists, *psyého pathology CoE grecar 25 *the four major conditions of influetws \ovards criminal sctivity." I strongly recommend his zine entitled,"Reedivism, .the compulsive criminal-mentality and america‘s needed - eolubfon: (maybe you'll really understand this time.)"to anyone who has passed the guestion,*why am I a eriminal®zor"why is their crime?® 73 Q:ve'll pose the mext guestion in case the enemy state attempts to falsely label you persynally in the future-Are you a "Youthful survival groupor rgang member? M.G.0:At the date of this writing im proud to declare that i am not a member of any YSG,L.0,or a.ng-1 am no longer a parasite.l am a productive contributor to the global liberation struggle from imperialism and neo-colonial domination. In the past I had been an active die-hard,do or ai crip-As I gained a measure of consciousness I 1iveq my life as a commited Revolutionary in prison (crip) striving to raise the socio-politikal consciousnosy of my. then homeboys and ultimatley politicize the entire orientation of the group.Through trial amg errori've come to the realization that I am ot the guy for such a task,essentially, the gap.betw on socio-politikal comsed that of my peers created too strong of a contradiction. Ergo.1 had to valk outside of that label entirely. 1 began walking the shared partof some of my esteemed comrades and ancestoraimen I intend te honmr fhe e of vith my revolutionacy practice Men 1ike Bonoim carter,George jackson,AJamu Niamke Kimara, B4 Tonilh « williams/E1-Ha3) malik e1-shabass .conrade. hasa Syts and many others from the lumpen sector thar b otioy the tomb {prison) into a womb, for the rebirth of a new maniA New Atrikan: I still direct my focus to the YSG/ the role of politikal educator and ve removed the labels "gang member";"Gangster “"parasite”, "nigger”,from my identity.In eSchangé for the labels of *activist”,productiwe humyn®,servant of the people*,"God". Transform the criminal mentality into a re: mentality".-George L Jackson L0 sector.T play 291 tator ,only now oluts onary In prison their exists a backvards and counter productive notion amongst the masees of prisoners surrounding being a former or "ex® YSG of Lo member. It is often assumed that an individual who desires to leave that lifestyle behind or gradually mature out of it,is somehow inferior or insincere. The notion is that such an individual is an agent provocateur, a coward,pedophile, or one seeming to Puraue sexual experimentation,which is generally shunned in YSG/LO circles.Often times such notions aren't without merit.However,such thought and the often violent acts uhich accompany them discourages those who merely desire to elevate themselves and in the process shed themsalves of criminality and thus ¥SG/L.0 ways and loyalties, from ever reaching their full potential,in life.In this vay ones supposed “homiea® act as destructive hinderance. 14 The revolutionary ranks miss out on alot of would be comrades due to this counter revolutionary ideology. It is a thinking which depreciates change and evolution.It is a thinking which has unconsiously Qeemed as true,the colonial povers,and prisoncrats crhetoric that we,oppressed nations amd people are irredeemable monsters and thugs.The revolutionary in prison must conguer such demonic thinking.Such debilitating thinking didn't originate inside prison walls,neither are prisoners the only promoters of it.Often times prisoner's closest family and friends ascribe to the myth of "once a criminal always a criminal® or ‘once a junkie always a junkie”. This lack of faith and confidence exhibited by outside Toved ones discourages brisoners as vell.Pucther more it reiterates longheld motions of inferiority Of New Afrikan,Chicano,and poor people-Thualy it promotes the enemy's mych that such people are deser- Ving of punishment, arehousingenslsvement,cruelty 2na indi fference.This thinking pattern 4idn't materi- alize out of thin sir.It has been purposely indoctri- nated info the psyche of colonized and enslaved people for hundreds of years- At the root of this counter-productive thinking is fear/suspicion and distrust.I'll quote here from the infamous *willie lynch letter and the making of a slave" "I have a full proof method for controlling your black slaves.1 guarantee everyone of you that,if installed correctly,it will control the slaves for at least 300 years.My method is simple.Any member of your family or your overseer can use it-I have out- lined a number of differences and make them bigger, T use fear,distrust,and envy for control purposes ) We must understand that as a nation we still carry much of the affects of chattel slavery in our collective pysche.The quote continues. *1f used intensely for one year,the slaves themselves Vi1l remain Berpetually alstrusteul- Wy willie 1ynch is speaking of enhancing the fear of chan differences,and also the distrust and emvy of laces,and things which represent chan or difference in regards to our norm or atats guero® This vas a security tactic used during the epoch’ of ion slavery,to insure the soci#l norms, (slevedy Facion, Clasaianiang atatus us(copt 11k thot ittt : Jvent unchallenged, It is unconseicusly utilised today by the masses of society against each othdr to the same effect. Rt For when penalizelour fellow humyns for being "aiffer. gnt*.for charging,we act discriminatory towards them. Piscrimination bornes full fledged oppression.Whan sih dppression occurs,the people become a reflectibn ©f their oun enemy.We can not fight national chabwanibe vif ue ourselves are chauvinist.We can mot work touard a classleas society if we ourseives adhers fo thinking that doesn't deem EVERYONE EQUALLY HUMYN: Q:In terms of the prisoners huiiyn rights and prison abolition movemerits what are €he current key issues? MGO:First and fovemost is to build favorable public opinion to remove the slavery clause from the 13th amendment.We have to make sure the general public 'Knows and undexistands that slavery has NEVER ended. Skesery has only been redefined and expanded,uhes a8 it was once’ confined to the southern states,it is now nation wide.Where as from the 1700's omward it + was all afrikan/nev afrikan institution.it has becoms (again) a multi-national,institution,vith poor and oppreseed people as commoditi. In tekkk$asithe place ‘enslavé where the supposed énd or ment is celebrated with the holiday known “jume teehth®,the PACT is that blavery has (8ill " contiried without cease.This year as' @ Mew Afrikans and 30 called “Afrikan american: ‘glebrate jupe; jteenth,they forget cthe millfons Forced to pexfsim fres labor for the profit ef Of their Kkkabtors and kidnappers.ls that not slavery?In tekkk$a$ whers not ome- kkkaptive is 4 for any’ form of labor,ve have communities “Bf black people gelebrating a false notion.Their sheuldn't be One barbeque,not one park plenic ‘Aot one get together,or public event in'homor PE_the “anding Gf slavery watil all slaves ace ‘tfuly freet Geronlmo " 1947-2011 POy T didnt join the movement fo sign aidessask o AT b s 3 o 13 % £ H H o 0 fekkk$as,where ve have the second largest prisen jystem in the kkkountry,and thusly the oee largest ‘slave population,we can not and oh Dk continue to celebrate a lie and ignore CrathiLet Jjuneteenth betome a rallying day. Saines % dedst one day whers a1l texkksans whotee rld people but also includes whites dispossed of land or dropped out of class. 25 the imperialist stretch their military thin around the vorld,they bacoms core vumerable ap howe -Propagands and agitation whichis surrounding the interests of third world comrades builds ideolog. ical unity across continents.When the third wor1d comrades rise up in revolt.and the pigs come down on them witn reppression it will be the politikally conscious lumpen of the first world which will® ignite a spark in the urban centers for world sociale ist revolution. o So currently the organization and edu the first world lumpen is of utmost impor tance e must make these sistars and brothers wise iy the ways of the worla.it s the wise whe buily bridges and ths foolish whom builds barri re.In A20r KA Ra PB3E: By 0 105, Prigaps, betueen, chicanos 2, Potueen, chican 358,508, 83P8, becayse. ve share the hyatosy of %ia9ie SEai0Su 800 "3 *F iR o ot £ e, MYgEOEY of WiaVery tion of name of freedom.we struggle-unity within a 2cope.All power to the people: Proletariat internationallst Q:Any final thoughts? 23 MGO:In ‘conclusion i just want to comment on the current pandemic,covid-19,comrade the handling of this virus really lays bare the evils of monoply capitalism and fascism. When corporate-entities are putting profits before humgn “Tife(uhich they alvays de) the messes. o Clearly identify thai this' current syer cutlived its productive useg Admist all the chacs comrades should use this 2s a teaching and organizing tool to win the pecple over to the idea of socialist revolution. When people can mot work,but bills continue to pour in,these people become more opt to see the oppression that has aluays been there.When the New Afrikan understands that they're most vurnerable to catch the virus and die from it due to their national oppression which began in the slave pens on the shores of afrika prior to the boarding of the slave ships,and has yet to end,these New afrikans will know a nev world is needed and it is possible- When people are being denied tests,simply because of economic status,the system of capitilism has failed the people.Yet we're told amerikkka is a democracy,which means “the rule of the people’. Surely, if the people ruled they would permit them selves to be tested for this virus.The face of this plutocracy is ugly and their is a spotlight on its features.This spotlight is the cerona virus Lets get to work fearlessly speaking the truth. exposing lies and corruption.Revolutionary love. hi Books and literature suggested by the author Wrecheted of the earth, frants Tason Black skin vhite mask.Frant fanon Assata:Autobiography,assata shakur Stand up struggle forward,Sanyika shakur B100d in my eye,George.l.jackson Are prisons obselete?.Angela ¥.Davis Liberation or gangateri dom or slavery pt.lam 2-russel maroon shoatz The little red book(Quotes by mao tse-tung) Communist manifesto,karl marx The Willie lynch letter and the making of o slave willie lynch The hassan shakur enrollment handbook New Afrikan black panther party-(prison chapter) 32 Kill yourself or liberate yourself kevin rashid Sonnsons Lihter o a young gangster.uhuru b.rove 29 The making of an 0.9,adisa kamara and ajani kamara I eritreas Jancs £icebeaces stuart. moliand Ao fundamental political line of the maoist internatimn- alist ministry of prisons. san francisco bayview national black news paper suscribe for a mere $2.00 per month Dare to be GREAT dare to be revolutiondry 2 “hich guided the first succesful third world peasent revolution that libera- ted china in 1949 and guided the building of social- fsm in that country until capitiliam vas restored in 1976. Complete revolution fundamental to maoism, this means that all social,cultural,politikal,and economic Telating must be revolutionalized.People will not be liberated by simply breaking the state or smashing capitalism,china's Great proletarian cultura revolution is the best example we have of this atrempt to completely eradicate capitalist influence in a society. Imperialism-defined by the globalization of capital the dominance of finance capital and the division of the world into imperialist and exploited nations. maoist see the latter as the principle contradiction in the world today. Capitalism-capitalism is mode of production and or economic system,where the bourgeoisie or capitalik class ouns the means of production and exploits the labor of the proletariat,because the proltariat ouns nothing they are forced to sell their labor power on the market in exchange for what they need to survive.When they work for the capitalist,the capitalist owns the value that they create and only pays them the portion of this value to su stain themselves-The rest is called surplus value,or the profit exploited from the worker,which is the basic iaw of capitalist economic relations- Socialism-when maoist use the term socialism we are reférring to the transition stage between the capitalist mode of production and commanism.This involves organizing society with the goal of meeting people's needs,not making profit.Hystory shovs that a dictatorship of the proletariat(as opposed to our present dicatatorship of the bourgeosie)is néccesary to make socialism work and maintain democ. in a soacialist society.Class struggle continues under socialism. 30 Communisa-the abolition of pover of people over peopk, This means abolishing all oppression.Whether of nations by nations,classes by classes,women by men or any other division in society.Communism isbased on mutual co-operation,peace and justice -instead of oppression. Long-run goals of communism include abolition of clasks and “organizing society without goverments or or bo.rders. When there are social problems, communists blame those problems on how society is organized. finally communists believe that a communist party-not just ad hoc or individual orgamizing-is necessary to seize state pover from the oppressors. Bourgeoisie-the mmploiter class most characteristic ©of the capitalist system.Their wealth is obtained from the labor of others,in particular the proleatrifh Labor aristocracy-unlike the traditional petty- bourgeoisie,they do not own their own means of production and so must work for others,but unlike the proletariat and semi-proletariat,the labor aristocracy in the first world even mofe than the value of their labor and therefore have interests that fall in the bourgeois camp allying with imperi- alism. In the first world today we define this group as the lover segment of the petty-bourgeoisie vorking for a vage and earning more than the value of their labor but without the means to get a loan to start a small business themselves.They are bought off by imperialists with these supe: profits.In the first world this group is not exploit and 80 not part of the proletariat.on the contrary,their incomes are often higher than those traditionally classified as the petty bourgeois character . ALl the detinitions vhether in whole or i are reprinted from the Abbreviated glo MIN(PRISONS) . ACKNOWLEDGHENTS 70 ALL WhOM FICKED UP THIS ZINE AND READ IT. To those who've redeemed the rarest of humyn spirit§ The one that is unbroken,unyielded, alive,and thrivine In the face of a most devilish enemy.Behind bars andualls;socially isolated -and esireciseg tais rare humyn spiritis still strons s ackmeslonbs by comtades those of the past and orssent: My £acher monsoar.K -Ouoiabl ALl Uho've supported me through my kkkaptivity. O Those who dedicate themselves te. the sboiition of prisons,cladses;and all the counter-prodectisesmm To.raymundo ‘ray ray' gersa;felioe i e p “wictin and actist.Those comrades’ whon died for the Liberation of the oppresses masees sr Lon toria. To New. Afrika.To my queen mother Revolutionary love 'to you all from I,your conrade Monsour God OwolA&i _servant of the pecpler Character is not a product of circusstance,It is the thing that survives despite it. The artwork used for the cover of this zine was created by raymundo garza 3r-To send him some love and 1ight or to network with this talenced artist contact him at the following: Raymundo "Ray Ray” Garza Jr 11668271 Allred unit 2101 fm 369.n Towa park, tx 76367 Lastly,I'll express my appreciation to "New Afrikan Secretarytype setter,initial editor milssnd trans Sister “1il trina® for her sssistenc and dedication to the vision.She 18 3 semeimce of €he achool to prison pipeline,and Juvensin injustice system and ia in - meed of 1ike mimbg comrades, and’ business associates wh ame mencec her in ‘her transition from a child Rkkagiieeoiot Productive trans womyn®Contact her at ey/mcarin Jabbar $2073256/Allred umit 2101.fm. 369.n iowa park, tx 76367 . £ 1BLIOGRAPHY (1)becember 2019 san francisco Bayview,Jason Renard Walker,conditions at the allred unit prison are Griving Some inmates insane,others homicidal or suicidal. (2)From a letter written by jarvis johnson to comrade malik washington,published in san francisco bayview may 2019. (3)Talib y.rasheed,"recidivism the compulsive criminal-mentality and amerikas needed solution: (maybe you'll really understand this time) 4)Frantz fanon,uretched of the earth,translation richard philbox.2014 (5)1bia (6)Talib y rasheed,"recidivism......" (7)The willie lynch letter and the making of a slave. {8)1bia (9)Leading bourgeois china scholar roderick macfarq- uhar says 16.4 million to 29.5 million died origins of the cultural revolution:Great leap forward 1958 60(ny columbia university press,1983)p.330 (10)Myths and maoism,by macist International Movemem last edited nov 1919 updated by MIM prisons 2011 G1Ibia (1)) ¥hem UR¥R “EneusuisdivMAlacgrlaetnReeRSIRECBEDLE blood-debt was heavy"(chairman mao talks to the people.ny pantheon books,1974)p.77,mac also said fever exucutions would be made in future,IBID .78 (13)According to ruth sivard the figure for the whole world is 14,000,000 annually-the vast majority occur in capitalist asian countries.World military and social expenditures 1987-8,p.25 (14)comparing the black and white populations of the same age in the united states.the mortality rate for blacks was 7.8 per 1000 in 1989 p.74)there were 29.223 million blacks in 1986.(IBID) (15)vincente navarro,”historical triumph:Capitalism or socialism?’monthly review november 1989 pp 49-50 (14dgsaptioganon, vretched of the earth,print edition South Chicago ABC ® Zine Distro Q P.O. 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