End the Amerikkkan Lockdown month

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

September 9 - October 15

MAOIST INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT (MIM)

PO Box 3576
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-3576
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext

In 1999 MIM is initiating an annual month of protest against the Amerikan criminal injustice system that will continue into the new millenium. This call for protests against the Amerikan Lockdown is joined by the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League and United Struggle from Within, an anti-imperialist organization of prisoners led by MIM.

We chose these dates because of their historical significance. September 9 is the day prisoners heighten the struggle for livable prison conditions by organizing the Attica rebellion. October 15 is the anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, the revolutionary Maoist vanguard of the Black nation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Appropriately, encompassed in this month is October 11, the day the so-called western hemisphere was invaded by Columbus, initiating over 500 years of genocide against indigenous people. It is in this tradition of genocide that the u.$. has grown into the number one country in the world for imprisonment per capita. Imprisoning over 1.8 million people, the u.$. has a higher proportion of Black men in prison held by the u.$.-backed apartheid regime in South Africa.

Throughout these weeks of protests we will be holding educational events about the criminal injustice system. We are organizing protests to focus demands for change of conditions under the Amerikan Lockdown. We will be on the streets educating and organizing, offering progressives small and large tasks to contribute to the struggle.

The month will be highlighted by two days of action to End the Amerikan Lockdown, October 1st and 2nd. Join in these days of action if you oppose a system that:

gives Black men a better chance at ending up in prison than college
tortures prisoners while pretending to offer rehabilitation
offers no educational programs to prisoners yet censors books being sent in to educate them
allows legal slavery in prison
uses its prisons as a tool of social control against its internal colonies and all who dare to fight against it.

GET INVOLVED

To participate in this month of action to End the Amerikan Lockdown contact MIM. We can help you host video showings, lectures and roundtable discussions and provide you with posters to expose the criminal injustice system, hook you up with literature explaining the use of prisons as a tool of social control, and work with you to coordinate protests across the country.

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