Theme: Prisoner Resistance!
- Letter from the Editors.
- Human Needs Over Profit. With Molly Porzig. An interview with Diana Block (California Coalition for Women Prisoners) and Manuel La Fontaine (All of Us or None) about the Occupy Prisons Movement and the Occupy National Day of Support of Prisoners.
- From N.C.T.T. Corcoran SHU to the Occupy Movement. By New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalism (NARN) Colloners in Corcoran’s Security Housing Unit. A message from prisoner organizers in the Corcoran SHU to the Occupy movement on the outside.
- America is a Prison Industrial Complex. Statement from Jalil Muntaqim read at Occupy’s National Day of Support of Prisoners San Quentin February 20, 2012.
- PFLP Leader Abdel-Alim Da’na Speaks. By Ben Lorber. Interview with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader. (Originally appeared in the Electronic Intifada.)
- How We Get By. By Toshio Meronek with Regina Diamond, Faith Phillips, and Lala. Ex- and current prisoners relate how they made life a little more livable while dealing with extreme gender regulation.
- From the Inside Out. By Kamau Walton. Interviews with Amelia Kirby, Sylvia Ryerson, and John “Mac” Gaskins of WMMT and Juliet Fox of 3CR, who run prison-focused radio programs in the U.S. and Australia.
- Prisoner Led Organizing in São Paulo, Brazil. By Andrea Salinas. A short history of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), a prisoner-led resistance group in Brazil.
- HIV/AIDS Prison Organizing. With Ritika Aggarwal. An interview with Laura Whitehorn, the revolutionary ex-prisoner who speaks about her work on getting HIV/AIDS education and prevention, and treatment into prisons.
- War Behind Walls. By the Red Family, Peoples Press, and friends. Abridged anti-prison industrial complex pamphlet from 1971. (Special thanks to the Freedom Archives.)
- The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. By Justin Piché. What the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons is, and how far it’s come over the past 25 years.
- Resisting the War on Gangs (Inside and Out). By Isaac Ontiveros and Rachel Herzing. On the targeting of gangs by law enforcement, including organizing against gang injunctions, and the work of hunger strikers inside.
Thanks to all our contributors and translators!
Diana Block
Kate Conway
Abdel-Alim Da’ana
Regina Diamond
Susana Draper
Juliet Fox
John “Mac” Gaskins
Rachel Herzing
Amelia Kirby
Manuel La Fontaine
Lala
Ben Lorber
Jalil Muntaqim
Isaac Ontiveros
Faith Phillips
Justin Piché
Sylvia Ryerson
Laura Whitehorn
Luigi Celentano
Susana Draper
Leah Furumo
Aries Jaramillo
Kentaro Kaneko
Alma Munoz
Lynne Purvis
Amy Smith
Gabriel Torres
Alfonso Tovar
Alia Trindle
Benjamin Wood
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is in line with the age of world and manifest brutality and downsizing of price for human rights rights to be in effect all else of usual profiles are suspect to state scrutinity and investigation.. the outside support of prison struggles will feel the consequences of association with the third world underworld of the justly convicted and sentenced to civil as well as human death. All in due coursed thru state organs that traffic in human cargoe and social throwaway surplus populist… oheyo strong medicine moves the struggle of the committed sacrificers with nothing else to lode. the line has drawn itself upon the heart and the hearts of the strugglers carries on in memory of comrades and supporters and loved ones… keep it free within prison bounds and build your commiotted host for you will be sacrificed wiithout notice unless you cry out and build brotherhood of the oppressed who oppresses us all. both min and max. la luta continu and keep strong on the struggle of slave to free himself and his comrades. we are free men untill enslaved by ourselves and others who forgot the spiritual way of son and daughters of one free family. orale
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