MIM(Prisons) is a cell of revolutionaries serving the oppressed masses inside U.$. prisons, guided by the communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
www.prisoncensorship.info is a media institution run by the Maoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons. Here we collect and publicize reports of conditions behind the bars in U.$. prisons. Information about these incidents rarely makes it out of the prison, and when it does it is extremely rare that the reports are taken seriously and published. This historical record is important for documenting patterns of abuse, and also for informing people on the streets about what goes on behind the bars.
I am in the Tier 2 program here in Georgia, and it’s probably the worst
time that anyone could do. First, I did not get into any kind of trouble
or receive a disciplinary report (DR). I got put on the program simply
because the unit manager wanted to fill the empty beds.
The pigs do not allow us to clean our rooms. We get hardly any
recreation time, even though the standard operating procedure (SOP)
states that we should get at least five hours a week. And anybody who is
a part of the Atlanta street gang Goodfellas (GF) is on lock down and is
not allowed back on compound.
Georgia is slowly taking away our rights and slowly taking away our
food. Little by little they are starving us. Before Tier 2 I weighted
220 lbs and i’m 6’6”. Now I might weigh 180 lbs. And these pigs don’t
care.
It’s been a blessing to learn and grow from each comrade that have
engaged in a solidarity demonstration with the movement, Abolitionists
From Within (AFW). As we came together for all the lost comrade and
those that continue to struggle and united to break the chain of
injustice.
We fast Sept 8 to Sept 9 in a show of solidarity. Also we study
together reading books, with study questions, like Claiming Earth:
Race, Rage, Rape, Redemption by Haki R. Madhubuti.
We study from the charter: “Missing Movement, Missing Fathers: Black
male responsibility in the lives of children.”
Also read material from Under Lock & Key #45 and the
“September 9th Day of Struggle Study Pack.”
After reading, we came up with questions from the material and off we
went back to our cell. We also share the word with anybody who was
willing to listen. Back in our cell i heard the cormades feeling like
freedom revolutionary fighters and that’s what’s up! We stand in
solidarity with the comrades who fought and died in the uprising at
Attica. Continue to struggle with peace on our tongue.
Hear on “D yard” there was nothing but peace today in solidarity with
the movement (AFW) and with the Attica Freedom Fighters.
One point in the charter from the book was Black Movement provided young
African Americans a context for discovering identity and purpose, and it
also provided them serious proposals for the future. The movement
prevented many young men from being swallowed by the prison culture and
that how I feel about the Under Lock & Key (MIM) movement
in help us comrades who wanted change so I say stay struggling and think
for your continued struggle with us prisoners.
Revolutionary Greetings!
UPDATE October 2015: As a soldier and politically conscious
prisoner and the head member of the Abolitionists from Within (AFW) I
foresaw this inviable self-destruction and prisoner-on-prisoner
violence. It hurt because two of our members were struggling to end
hostilities among “northerners” but it’s not easy when you are
surrounded by ignorance.
On 12 October 2015, Columbus Day, all hell broke out on D-yard upper and
lower, including about a 100 prisoners. Prior to this a proxy war broke
out on the upper yard. Members of the groups tried to end the
hostilities but there were no compromising due to administrative
stool-pidgeon that led to a racial riot between Black and “Northern”,
and as of today we are on lock-down. As I struggle with peace on my
tongue to end hostilities.
Well, I didn’t receive a pack on Attica history, however, what I did for
September 9 was I attempted to raise the level of consciousness here
amongst the inmates here on a few issues:
I spoke on comrade George L. Jackson’s untimely death at San
Quentin. And his particular struggle at that time and what he went
through. His transforming the colonial and criminal mind into a
revolutionary mentality.
And how he vied to unify the blacks and other groups. But, the
reactionary system wasn’t having it one bit. So as a result of his
struggles in prison he was assassinated.
I also spoke on Pinell, whom too was slain unfortunately during
Black August. And what he stood for in terms of solidarity amongst
progressive people. And that he spent 46 years in the SHU. And that he
and comrade George were comrades in arms for prisoner’s liberation.
And i spoke on Attica’s uprising. Mao said, “one spark can light a
prairie fire.” And it definitely did.
I spoke on how it is vitally important to end all hostilities
amongst all groups of prisoners and beyond. In spite of the fact that
hostilities will be fomented by the reactionary state. We must continue
to vie for peace, harmony and love amongst each other no matter what.
The enemy will stop at nothing to foil our efforts.
However, it’s part of the struggle to continue moving forward until our
goals can be realized, and at that we can set more.
Also, I spoke to them about the importance of maintaining a study group
here even after my departure from prison. And that each and everyone of
them have an inherent obligation to conduct and maintain a study group
amongst themselves. So, that they can continue on raising the social,
and political consciousness of the prison class. It’s essential to do
so.
At any rate, I did what I could to commemorate September 9th. The
discussion was for 2 hours. It turned out pretty well. Most of the
participants didn’t have a clue about these historical events and about
the prison movement in general. And of course, some had questions. It
was about 12 people who attended the group. Also, I did a thousand
burpees myself to commemorate September 9th. It was exhilarating and
refreshing at age 53 years of age. To continue to push forward in my
34th year incarcerated. Pamoja tutashinda uhuru sasa!
It’s been over a week since we got the news on the settlement of
Ashker v. Brown.(1) For a case that is so central to what we do
as an organization we’ve taken our time to respond. We’ve read and
re-read the legal documents and listened to the celebratory news
coverage of the settlement. Yet our reaction remains the same, deep
disappointment.
The settlement is a victory for the California Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation (CDCR), and it knocks out one of the three main legs
of the campaign to shut down the SHU – the courts (the other two being
public opinion and prisoners organized around their own interests). This
case had a lot of the known anti-isolation lawyers and some influential
long-time SHU prisoners behind it. It was an alliance that will be tough
to beat any time soon.
The Maoist Internationalist Movement, along with many other
organizations, has spent decades campaigning for the end to long-term
isolation in U.$. prisons. We have long countered the public who
question us with,
“what
is your proposed alternative?” with the simple answer, “not
torturing people.” Ending long-term isolation in U.$. prisons would be a
simple reform that unites the lowest common denominator of prison
reformers. Almost everyone agrees we should end torture, and that is
reflected in the ongoing movement to do so. It is only the
fascist-leaning cop-lovers and state bureaucrats that oppose the call.
Actually, in many states the state bureaucrats support ending long-term
isolation.
Yet through all the years of struggle here in California, somehow the
CDCR has succeeded in painting the ending of torture as the extreme
option, with the recent settlement as the sensible compromise. But they
are wrong: the extreme option is overthrowing the state and replacing it
with one run by the oppressed, where the real killers and exploiters are
imprisoned and taught how to live collectively with other humyn beings,
not thrown in isolation. Ending torture in prisons is the most basic,
sweeping reform that would actually improve the conditions in U.$.
prisons.
According to the New York Times, prison directors have become
more supportive of reducing the use of solitary confinement after a man
who spent 8 years in isolation was released in 2013 and went to the
house of Colorado’s prison chief, Tom Clements, and shot him dead.(2)
Yet reducing the number of people in long-term isolation only serves to
extend the life of its practice as it affects less people and there is
less outrage. This reduction also suggests that some people still
deserve to be tortured. That is why MIM(Prisons) has never supported
measures to get only certain groups out of long-term isolation.
The Ashker settlement has been heralded as “effectively ending
indefinite long-term solitary confinement” and “setting strict limits on
the prolonged isolation of inmates.” Yet in the actual settlement we
read,
“CDCR shall not house any inmate within the SHU at Pelican Bay State
Prison for more than 5 continuous years. Inmates housed in the Pelican
Bay SHU requiring continued SHU placement beyond this limitation will be
transferred from the Pelican Bay SHU to another SHU facility within
CDCR, or to a 180-design facility at Pelican Bay. Inmates who have
previously been housed in the Pelican Bay SHU for 5 continuous years can
only be returned to the Pelican Bay SHU if that return has been
specifically approved by the Departmental Review Board and at least 5
years have passed since the inmate was last transferred out of the
Pelican Bay SHU.”
That’s it! That’s the extent of the “strict” limitations on long-term
isolation in California. So if you’re in another SHU, or Ad-Seg or some
other unnamed long-term isolation situation, which about 14,000 of the
over 15,000 in isolation in California are, there are no limits.(3) If
you’re in Pelican Bay you must move to another SHU after 5 years. Five
years later you can come back. Alternatively, you could spend 4.5 years
in Pelican Bay, 2 months out, then go in for another 4.8 years, and on
like that for the rest of your life. Does this really address the Eighth
Amendment claim by the plaintiffs of cruel and unusual punishment? The
length often cited for having serious mental affects on humyns is in the
range of 15 to 30 days!
Now with the new
Step
Down Program prisoners are supposed to have a way to return to “a
general population setting within three or four years.” So the class of
prisoners being represented in this case, those who have been in the SHU
for ten or more continuous years, are being addressed adequately
according to those who agreed to this settlement. But even moving
forward there are exceptions for Administrative SHU Status, allowing
people to be held as long as CDCR deems necessary.
There is one progressive concession given in the settlement: “CDCR shall
not place inmates into a SHU, Administrative Segregation, or Step Down
Program solely on the basis of their validation status.” Additionally,
“CDCR shall modify its Step Down Program so that it is based on the
individual accountability of each inmate for proven STG [security threat
group] behavior, and not solely on the inmate’s validation status or
level of STG affiliation.” Finally, as a result of an ending to the
indeterminate SHU sentences for prisoners “validated” as members of
prison gangs, in the next year “CDCR shall review the cases of all
validated inmates who are currently in the SHU as a result of… an
indeterminate term that was previously assessed under prior
regulations…”
This addresses the Fourteenth Amendment claim that the CDCR was
violating due process with the validation system and the use of group
punishment, at least somewhat. As we saw a couple years ago, the new STG
policy actually
opened
up STG charges to a wider range of organizations than was covered by
the previous validation system. The supposed upside is that the rules
require actual STG behavior by the individual to justify placing someone
in SHU, not just association. Yet, in the new SHU Term Assessment Chart
we see that “Recruiting inmates to become an STG affiliate” is a SHU
punishable offense.
As mentioned above, this settlement seems to eliminate the judicial
strategy of ending solitary confinement in California for the near
future. But it also strikes a huge blow against the strongest leg we
have to stand on, the collective organizing of prisoners. Turns out,
under the settlement you can expect to spend 12 months in SHU for
“Leading a disturbance, riot or strike”, and 6 months for “participation
in a disturbance, riot or strike” or “Inciting conditions likely to
threaten institution security” (for those not aware, the latter was a
common charge made against those who peacefully refused food in recent
years to protest long-term isolation in California prisons).
They are outlawing peaceful protest, and non-violent, passive resistance
for the prison movement. Amerikans criticize other countries that
torture people for peacefully protesting the government that is abusing
and, well, torturing them. How is it that leaders in the prison movement
have signed on to this?
As we have previously reported, the new STG policies still give
prisoners points for things like
tattoos,
greeting cards and talking to certain individuals. So it is not
really true that you can no longer be punished for affiliation.
Abolishing this practice was part of the 2nd demand of the hunger
strikes.
As a result of reviews (which were mostly underway before this
settlement anyway) we have a number of comrades who are getting out of
the SHU right now, without having to debrief (snitch). This will no
doubt be a positive thing, as we expect many of them will stay
politically active in their new locations where they will have more
opportunities to reach out to others. Yet at the same time we’ve already
seen the
next
generation of prison leaders going to the SHU. It seems that the
youngsters are getting thrown under the bus here.
So this is a wake up call to those not yet in the SHU. In July 2013,
30,000 prisoners stood up against long-term isolation, recognizing their
common interests in this demand, even though most of them were not
housed in isolation themselves. This was an amazing demonstration that
epitomizes the progress made over the last 5 years or so to consolidate
the prison movement in California. This continues to be celebrated in
the form of the Agreement to End Hostilities and the countless
commemorations taking place today,
September
9th, in the spirit of peace and solidarity in commemoration of the
Attica uprising.
As this settlement was released, public statements from CDCR celebrated
it as a continuation of their plan to reform the system after the SHU
successfully broke the prison gangs that had taken over. Yeah right.
These prison gangs were encouraged by the state who teamed up with white
nationalist prisoners to oppress New Afrikans, and later enforced the
north/south divide on the Chican@ nation. The continuation of and
expansion of united action around the Agreement to End Hostilities is
crucial to preventing the CDCR from returning to that status quo.
Leading up to the recent settlement we had one comrade building for a
new wave of hunger strikes. As this settlement does not address the most
important of the
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Core Demands, ending conditions of isolation for all prisoners, this
call remains valid. And while we’ve always warned comrades to build
outside support for such actions, one lesson we can take from California
is that such actions must be organized on the inside. Even California
Prison Focus, who has been visiting prisoners in the SHU for decades,
and who has lawyers with privileged access to their clients, was in the
dark during the hunger strikes until the CDCR decided to pull in outside
mediators. As always, MIM(Prisons) is committed to supporting the
organization of prisoners and fighting to defend the First Amendment
rights of prisoners (and ourselves) of speech and association. The
ending of a policy that allows the state to torture people for belonging
to certain organizations was a blow against the excessively repressive
policies of the CDCR in relation to the First Amendment. With this
settlement we find California in a similar situation to most of the rest
of the country, where torture continues to be the method of choice for
population control of the oppressed who do not walk in step with the
oppressor.
And so, the struggle continues. Until solitary confinement is abolished,
shutting down control units will be a central campaign for MIM(Prisons)
and United Struggle from Within.
8/15/2/2015 For Sept. 9 this year my comrades and I are organizing a
hunger strike to make the pigs start cleaning our unit. We live in a
controlled unit that doesn’t allow porters, leaving the lceaning up to
the pigs or custodians. But they never do it so we are forced to live in
filth.
9/10/2015 update: Update on my Sept. 9 hunger strike. The pigs
conceded and cleaned the unit.
On top of that I had 15 copies made of the grievance campaign petition
and had two comrades join me in flooding thelisted offices with them. I
provided the postage for them all since they are stingy with the
indigent envelopes here. I also led a small group in which we went over
the history and importance of September 9 and enlightened a few who were
unaware of the struggle. I broke my fast at midnight a few minutes ago
so now I’m going to spend some time in contemplation and get some zzz’s.
On 19 July 2015, “B” Facility Captain P. Sullivan and agents under him
unlawfully confined the whole population to a cell for a Crips, Hoover
Melee for 10 days, without no disciplinary action of due process
pursuant to CCR, Title 15 & 3312 (3). Instead they stepped out of
their scope of duty as a peace officer, to subject “B” Facility’s whole
population to corporal punishment, which is a violation of CCR, Title
155 & 3281, and a known terrorist act.
On 3 August 2015, “B” Facility Captain P. Sullivan and agents under him
unlawfully confine “B” Facility whole population to a cell
again for Crips/Hoover melee, without no disciplinary action or
due process pursuant to CCR, Title 15 & 3312 (3). Instead they
stepped out of their scope of duty as a peace officer again to
subject “B” Facility’s whole population to more “corporal punishment,”
which is a violation of CCR, Title 15 & 3281, 3322(a)(c),
3330(a)(e), and 3331(h), and a known “terrorist act.”
Everybody is being punished again for Crips/Hover problem. Also, we are
being denied yard, service, canteen, dayroom, packages, and phone calls
(see attached program status reports).
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Salinas Valley
State Prison, Warden W.L. Muniz and agents under him are fostering the
code of silence to mock their own policy and procedures, CCR, Title 15
& 3001, 3004(a)(c), 3291(a), 3322(a)(c), 3330(a), 3331(h), 3391(a),
and 3413(a)(2); in order to commit terrorist acts of torture.
A Colorado Springs city council will vote to approve a city ordinance
that will fine $2500 to all homeless who are found laying or sitting in
front of a business. Many who support this claim that it provides better
safety for the community and will increase the property values of stores
and restaurants in the area.
A few days prior to this the town of Monument, Colorado successfully
blocked the building of a methadone clinic in the area, arguing that it
would cause a “decrease” in property values and bring a new “wave of
crime.”
For me, I see this in two ways. Number one, as the richest country on
earth, we all still see that basic human needs, such as food, housing
and clothing are privileges and one has to choose to engage in the
so-called free market to attain these things. The very contradiction in
this not withstanding, when one isn’t able to have a job, is homeless,
begs for food and maybe on drugs, the number one solution is to enforce
their way out of it. Place the homeless in jail, that’s smart. Let’s not
develop independent programs that view these homeless as humans that
need healing to be a strong part of society.
The methadone clinic run off is a disgrace. Methadone is to help people
get off heroine, the fact that a higher crime notion can be spoken of
here is a joke. People act like when methadone clinics, or homeless
shelters arrive in their communities that a wave of crime will suddenly
appear. Why is it easier to jail us, rather than to have compassion and
tolerance? Well in a capitalistic based class society, homelessness and
addicts are contradictions in the system. Of course they can say that
we’re lazy, or choose to be this way, but according to economics, we are
not choosing anything.
Lastly, social sicknesses can’t be blamed upon individuals, and using
jails or fines to remove a section of the population will only force
that population to move elsewhere. One day these cities in Colorado will
have to deal with the homeless as humans, with human and civil rights,
until then the class struggle will continue.
MIM(Prisons) adds: This comrade is correct that homelessness and
drug addiction are problems of capitalism. Opium (which heroin is made
from) addiction was a widespread problem in China before the revolution.
The Chinese Communist Party attacked this problem by eliminating the
supply and offering people engaged in distribution alternative
employment. This approach attacked the problem at its root. And by
giving people employment and health care they had both the resources and
the incentive to stop using drugs. This communist approach values all
humans and sees the potential contribution everyone can make to society,
rather than writing off some as the dregs who have no hope for anything
better in life.
by a Connecticut prisoner September 2015 permalink
It’s been a while since I have reached out, the delay was due to me
acquiring a class A disciplinary report which regressed me from Phase 4
(a month from finishing) to Phase 1 (15 months to completion). Why, you
may ask? Due to the fact that I was participating in a MIM study group
and happened to spell Afrika (with a k) and Amerikkka (with a k)
differently, which was deemed disrespectful to the security risk group
(SRG) designation “Crips.” After losing trial on the disciplinary report
I was given 60 days loss of mail and 60 days loss of commissary as well
as 10 days punitive segregation. Also it led to anything MIM-related
being confiscated as well as banned in Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional
Center and MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution. I have appealed
their findings and also included a copy. The copies with this scribe
will furthermore prove censorship here in the state of Connecticut. I
have also exhausted all administrative remedies and I’m currently in
process of filing a lawsuit against Corrigan CI for violation of my
First Amendment rights. If you have any case laws that may help my
pursuit of justice it will be greatly appreciated. I’m also trying to
recover ULK issues #28, 30, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38 and some MIM
Theory magazines titled #4, #5, and #14. I will continue to
contribute through any means I’m able to.
The enclosed disciplinary report states:
“Description of violation: On May 8, 2015 at 6:10 p.m. in accordance
with Administrative Directive 10.7 I, Officer Lorenzen, reviewed an
outgoing letter written by Inmate XX. In this letter Inmate XX shows his
continued affiliation to the Security Risk Group Bloods by using a total
of six five pointed stars which are identifiers used by the Bloods.
Twice in this letter Inmate Patterson replaces the letter ‘C’ with the
letter ‘K.’ This occurs on the bottom of the first page of the letter
where he writes ‘Afrikans.’ The second place this occurs is on the third
page of the letter where he writes ‘Amerika.’ This shows disrespect to
the Security Risk Group Crips and is a behavior clearly associated with
the Security Risk Group Bloods.
“Inmate XX makes the written statement, ‘As of now as the leader of our
study group…’ This statement clearly shows that Inmate XX recognizes
himself as holding a leadership position over other Security Risk Group
Members. In the letter he also states, ‘We meet twice a week during our
recreation period for 15 minutes…’ This statement further shows that he
is recognized as a leader of Security Risk Group Members that have the
same recreation period as him.
“The use of letter replacement, five pointed stars, as well as leading
and organizing Security Risk Group Members are behaviors clearly
associated with a Security Risk Group which is a violation of
Administrative Directive 9.5. For this Inmate XX is being issued a Class
A Disciplinary Report for Security Risk Group Affiliation.”
The prisoner’s appeal was denied.
MIM(Prisons) adds: We will support this comrade in eir righteous
battle to have basic Constitutional rights recognized. Whether you’re
Maoist or Crip, the way you spell can get you punished in the U.$.
injustice system. And organizing others to come together to study, well
that is a very serious offense for the most oppressed in the good ole’
U.$.A.
The grand jury is a mockery, no matter all white or all
black Psychologically conditioned into seeing all pigs as right and
exact Just like a trial jury, the state can never be wrong The
state’s not trying to indict, they’re only playing along, singing a
song To keep the people pacified and from raging against the
machine It’s a police state, a black persyn’s life ain’t worth a
thing They can kill us but we can’t kill them, what kind of justice
is that How can we free the people with all this warring against us
Blacks? “No Egalitarianism, No Peace!” this double standard of law
must stop Calling us extreme for us only responding to them extremely
peeling our caps Leaving it to their mock grand jury like leaving it
to their mock god Til we show them what we’ll do for our blood, we’re
scarred We must do more than just protest, we must boycott We must
organize and educate and revolutionize believe it or not We are the
only people that the constitution don’t protect Shooting us down now
is equivalent to ropes around our necks They’re killing us while
screaming they’re in fear for their lives They pick the fight then go
to crying, telling lies Bullies, that’s all they are, goons for the
rich Take their guns and badges away, they’ll run back to the
sticks 6 conscripted pigs on one Black man, chokehold him to
death And his family is screaming for calm, that’s all we
get “Burn it down!” Michael Brown’s step dad said Look how quick
he was about to face indictment, as a threat Amerikkka fascinates us
but infuriates us more You’re an Amerikkkan if you’re not against
Ms. Justice and her so-called law Having all Black pigs won’t make a
difference either Because their oath is to the anti-egalitarianist
imperialist agenda We are not supposed to fight back or take a
stand Just accept our inferior status, know our place and stand in it
looking grand It’s not angry, extreme or wrong to kill an innocent
black man Criminal background or not, 12 or 90, blam blam Not only
in Amerikkka but in many distant lands Bombing innocent wombmen and
children in Afghanistan But one of theirs get killed they go
Amerikkkan Nam Oppression is oppression here, there and
everywhere Apartheid is apartheid, in Azania, Palestine or
Amerikkka We are occupied by imperialist forces, we can’t afford to
bow The pigs want beef, we gotta bring the whole
cow Egalitarianism now, yes right now
I’m writing to y’all from the Special Management Unit (SMU) in Jackson,
Georgia which is about ten minutes outside Atlanta. This is my second
correspondence to MIM(Prisons) and the type of prison I’m at seems to be
a focus of yours. It is classified as a “Tier 3” SMU, housing the
“worst” 190 captives in the Department of Corrections, which boasts an
insane 70,000 prisoners throughout the whole state.
These people are so very corrupt. Just a few hours ago, the pigs, mostly
Black, took the Muslim boy out of the cell next to mine for a “meeting.”
Those meetings go on in a side room somewhere and usually they end in
brutality. When they were bringing him back they were beating him as
they dragged him toward his cell. It’s on camera if the cameras in the
cell house actually record.
When they got him into his cell I could hear him choking and trying to
scream. Also, I could hear what sounded like fists or feet hitting skin.
He was in handcuffs and shackles. I’m Aryan Nation and my loyalty is to
my people, but I’ve got the sense to know that if they’ll do that to my
neighbor they’ll do it to me. My modus operandi (M.O.) is
brutal violence toward police and other convicts. So when I spoke up and
said that if they didn’t stop torturing that man where I could hear it I
would stab or cut every pig that came to my door at every meal, they
stopped beating him. This type of stuff is the norm at Jackson SMU.
I want to emphasize the importance of unity behind these walls. We
divide ourselves by race and gangs and the pigs throw gasoline on the
fire. Just today a Black officer called me a “fake white supremacist”
for sending a Blood (Black guy) some books and magazines.
I’ve picked up on some undertones in MIM literature that targets whites
as the enemy or people responsible for the oppression behind the
injustice system. It’s not just whites anymore; it’s Black, white,
Hispanic, Asian, etc. The prison injustice system is a mindset that
can’t be defined by race. We’ve got to point the finger at the mindset,
not the groups of people that we want to blame.
Every prison I go to I preach unity and people respond, because if the
Aryan Nation is willing to unite then nobody else has any excuse. Race
is the biggest problem in the South; it’s what divides us the most. I’ve
done time in the Midwest and those prisons have overcome racial
division. We may eat at separate tables there, and play sports on
separate courts, but when it’s time to come together for our rights
there are no racial, religious, or gang lines.
I don’t know much about Maoism but I know about the struggle that your
ministry is fighting against; I’ve been living it for almost eight
years. I’ve written to y’all to try to inspire unity amongst everybody,
not just the non-whites. I passed on the only ULK I’ve received
so I don’t remember your mission statement, but I do understand a little
and I support y’all and respect what I do understand. Please continue to
send me ULK. I’ll write after every issue just to put my views
in on the struggle. Also, I’ll be sending in 10-20 stamps as a donation
very soon.
MIM(Prisons) adds: Just as oppressed nation people have
integrated into Amerika economically, they have integrated into the
police and prison staff, as well as other parts of the criminal
injustice system. The United $tates even had a Black president; it’s
obvious that oppressed vs. oppressor is not split on “color” lines.
Still, there is a history and present reality that shows Amerikkka is
vastly a white oppressor nation.
For those who have integrated into the oppressor nation, we no longer
refer to them as New Afrikan; instead they are “African-Amerikkkans.”
Our opposition to oppressors is not limited to just those of European
descent. But we see that national oppression happens with an oppressor
nation on top (the predominantly and historically white Amerikkkan
nation) and others on the bottom (oppressed nations) and so we do make
scientific generalizations about these nations.
We’re with this comrade that our unity also can’t be limited by identity
politics. We don’t exclude potential comrades just because they’re
Amerikan, and we don’t trust potential comrades just because they’re
not. Those who do come from an oppressor nation will need to commit
nation suicide and work against the interests of their nation. Those who
come from oppressed nations need to show that they are not trying to
simply integrate with the oppressors, like the Corrections Officers this
comrade refers to. Those integrators are our enemies just like the
Amerikkkan oppressors are our enemies.