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The imperialist capitalist
World super-power; Amerikkka must fall
This bourgeois country don’t deserve
2 stand tall
Not when it was established on slavery
And built on the dressed up lie of equality
Somethan’ it can not live up 2 today
In the face of mass modern-day inequality
And mass incarceration
Which is nothan’ more than modern-day slavery
Come on my people wake-up
Wake up my people
And I’m not just talkin’ about Black people
No
I’m talkin’ about the common man and woman
All of humanity
Don’t you see that We are destroyin’ the planet
On top of that
We are bein’ exploited by the global elite
Got-damn-it
The proletariat of this imperialist
Capitalist world superpower-Amerikkka
Are you and me
The poverty-stricken common man and woman
On our backs stand this unjust country
Just as all things that goes up
It 2 must
Shall fall
Just watch and see
The empire is fallin’
The empire is fallin’
No
The empire has fallen
I’m a fan of literal and biblical hell
But I’m not a fan of people getting tortured to tell
Is it because I’m a Moslem that they feed me the wrong foods
Or can I say in Jesus’ name to make Jehovah say I do
She speaks better English than me yet she’s not an Amerikkkan
Maybe because the only citizens are the Ku Klux Klan
How can a European call home this land on the Northern shores
When the first inhabitants were the Natives and the Moors
Columbus didn’t really find this land empty
And George Washington didn’t really chop down a cherry tree
Columbo found this land full of “savages” he say
And that cherry tree was the flag of the Moors of today
I wonder will this be said amongst the People
And when will the New Afrikan be considered equal
I sit here contemplating hour by hour
And when I “Rage” against the system I yell Black Power
In the United Snakes of Amerikkka there is an eerie silence
surrounding the most grotesque reality of today within the borders of
this imperialist settler colonial nation. A silence similar to the one
on that cold night in Germany on the 9th of November, 1938, known as
Kristallnacht. This silence is different however because unlike that
night otherwise known as the “night of broken glass,” this silence
encompasses both day and night seamlessly and seemingly endlessly. This
silence protects the interests of a select few in power. It protects
them from having to answer for the chaos they created outside these
arbitrary borders against the survivors of Amerikkkan imperialism by
separating the families in custody of the criminal Amerikkkan state. I’m
talking about the children in cages.
We’re talking about traumatizing the youth of colonized nations in
modern day concentration camps. Like in the concentration camps for
“amerikkkan citizens” there is no shred of dignity provided. No
recognition of humanity. The magnitude of crimes actually perpetrated by
these agents of fascism is unknown. Occasionally a whistleblower will
receive a small slot on the evening news to highlight a particular
abuse. Hollow promises of change from the settler government followed by
silence from the settler masses are soon to come with a distraction here
or there to qualm concerns of the still inquisitive.
The European settler seeks to soothe the colonized revolutionary
demands in order to settle for reform. So it’s no surprise then when
fundamentally nothing changes in the system which perpetuates these
horrors. Many who are conscious of said horrors and who claim to be
serving the “best interests” of the people are quick to co-opt anything
that sounds remotely revolutionary. Democrats or Republicans, Coke or
Pepsi, both are toxic formulas made by the colonizers to extract profit
from the oppressed colonized people while simultaneously killing them
slowly.
Even amongst those who call themselves “the radical left” there’s
barely a shred of concern sustained outside of a shareable post on
social media. When hysteria breaks out over a single incident millions
are quick to interject with an opinion. When over 2.3 million people are
incarcerated and enslaved it’s just business as usual. When over 70,000
children are jailed it’s justified to “protect the borders” from Raza
fleeing chaos started by those in power within these same borders.
We are all prisoners of war, some of us are politicized prisoners but
we all remain at war whether we wish to be or not. Whether we are
surrounded by concrete towers, riflemen overhead, or kept in line by
terrorists with badges in the barrio. Make no mistake the poor and
colonized are at war. They will justify incarnating the “Gangster” or
the “Cholo.” They will say that we had “opportunities” but simply made
the wrong choices. They will have us believing that we are the problem.
Just like they told our ancestors as they burnt our sacred texts and
destroyed our highly developed societies. They will teach us of
salvation in white Jesus. They will teach us that we may face peril here
on earth as slaves to the colonizer but in reality we should be grateful
because those same colonizers brought us european religion that will
give us everlasting life and a kingdom of riches in the afterlife!
I have a cousin named Jesus but he is brown and I can tell you I have
never met a white Jesus. I’m even less concerned with riches in an
afterlife when we all are subjected to poverty here in this one. The
fact is that we are not the problem. We only had opportunities to betray
our nation and class. We were taken from the womb to the tomb. Our
sentence was handed out before we even opened our eyes to see the
devastation that Amerikkka has brought to the world.
They can fabricate lies about us, but when it comes obtaining a
respiratory infection in ICE custody, this is the greatness United
Snakes of Amerikkka aims to return to. The “great” genocide of all the
poor Brown and Black people unfortunate enough to be “discovered.”
Thousands of recorded cases of little girls being sexually assaulted in
ICE facilities with untold more numbers growing daily are being told
it’s going to be okay because Amerikkka is a Pepsi nation now and Coca
Cola is in retreat. Joe is in office and the orange man is out! If we
are being honest with ourselves and true to the plight of those
traumatized children though. We all know that the shackles which bind us
all together on this sinking ship won’t be unlocked by the same person
who put us in them. As for the impotent left that is silent to our
suffering and the suffering of our children in cages. Break the silence
with the sound of marching feet or be tread upon by the roar of
history’s feet stomping over the indigent rulers of yet another decaying
social order.
Clenched fist salute to all revolutionary New Afrikans! This coming
October 2021, the United Nations(U.N.) will host the 2021 International
Tribunal. At this tribunal many of Our countrymen/wimmin along with
supporters will AGAIN charge the United Snakes government with
committing genocide against Our New Afrikan nation before the world
‘court’ and denouncing them for their treatment of political prisoners
and prisoners of war(PP/POWs).
This action comes on the 70th anniversary of the petition presented
to the U.N. General Assembly in 1951 charging the U.S. with genocide
against Our people. William L. Patterson, one of the original
petitioners, also wrote a book based on the experience entitled, We
Charge Genocide. Subsequently, in 1977, the New Afrikan Prisoner
Organization wrote an essay entitled, “We still Charge Genocide,” to
illustrate, among other things, that the genocide still continues.
We did not choose to scribe this brief piece as a news brief, to
merely inform comrades of what other comrades are up to. Rather, We
scribe this piece to discuss the significance of this tribunal and to
also pinpoint the direction Our nation is going.
Significance: In any and all forms of struggle the
effectiveness and significance of one’s tactics and strategies are
dependent upon the conditions or circumstances therein. The current
direction of the mass front of the ‘Movement for Black Lives’, and
‘Black Lives Matter’ and the like, has the nationalist tendency of Our
people in a very subordinate position. As such it is paramount that a
wide variety of movement media cover and disseminate the Tribunal and
the events and discourse around it. It is extremely significant that
representatives of Our Nation are expounding upon Our national reality
on an international arena, and furthermore, it is important that younger
activists witness a new form or avenue in struggle in this
democratic stage of our liberation movement.
Some, in fact, have not witnessed us as a people claim and expound
upon Our national identity as New Afrikans and the treatment We receive
when captured as political prisoners and prisoners of war, and while
acting in the capacity as politicized prisoners once in captivity. Some
youths haven’t witnessed revolutionary nationalism take a center stage
or act in what many deem as significant capacity, and thus
we’ve been seen by many of the current generation activist as
insignificant. This Tribunal CAN begin to shift those perceptions, as
more of our people begin to view Our struggle in the light of the
colonized nation struggling for its independence, and when those among
us act in accord with the mandate to FREE THE LAND!!! We’re subsequently
treated as any ‘enemy combatant’ of imperialism is around the globe. The
difference being, that this is all hidden from the mass majority of the
public within the empire and abroad.
Direction: As we struggle ahead it is a must that
We, the revolutionary New Afrikans, understand and propagate the just
cause of our liberation struggle in a way that links the genocidal acts
of the empire, which we’ve resisted, fought, and will continue to wage
war against until our goal is met, along with the reality that the
carrying out of genocide is a prerequisite for occupation and
imperialism. By this We mean that imperialism IS genocide!
Many incorrectly picture genocide as a single event; that a genocide
must require a machivallian individual orchestrating the industrial
murders of human beings for a delusional/cynical end goal. Rather,
genocide is a process that evolves and moves and intensifies. Genocide
is like all other social and natural phenomena in this regard. As such,
genocide is one word that encapsulates the many symptoms of OUR national
subjugation under U.S. imperialism. Furthermore, as articulated by the
Spear & Shield Collective, We must COMBAT GENOCIDE! And this slogan
encapsulates the direction we all must take collectively as conscious
New Afrikan nationals.
We can/must combat this genocide in a multi-faceted manner. Creating
community watch squads that can hamper police terrorism is one way of
combating genocide. Building revolutionary base areas within and without
the national territory is combating genocide. Establishing Black
squads within those base areas supplanting the old parasitic lumpen
orgs with them is combating genocide. In terms of Us behind the walls,
mitigating acts of street organization warfare amongst different lumpen
organizations within Our one nation is combating genocide. Practicing
and promoting a New revolutionary way of doing and saying everything, as
to go about breaking the cycle. Educating on health and nutrition
practices is a way to combat genocide. Convert your ‘gang’ into a
revolutionary vehicle.
As u can imagine there are many ways to combat the genocide of our
nations. We are to keep this in mind as we go about our duties, that in
all we do we do it to combat genocide, which is combating imperialism.
CLENCH FIST
The Nevada Department of Corrections, under Director Charles Daniels
and his pet warden, Calvin Johnson, at High Desert State Prison, have,
since their arrival, waged an all out war against Nevada’s prisoners.
This includes illegal theft and misappropriation of prisoners’ money
under the guise of Marsy’s law (money which is still unaccounted for),
to the ban on prisoners’ access to visits, chapel, yard, law library, or
tier, under the premise of safety concerns over COVID-19. Meanwhile
prisoners are still required to work in unsafe and crowded warehouses,
kitchens, etc. as if COVID-19 does not target workers.
These same criminals also committed the crime of biological warfare
when they knowingly ordered prisoners to work while 15 of them had
recently tested positive for COVID-19 but were left unaware of their
status. This was used as a way to spread COVID-19 throughout the prison
more quickly. This was, by definition, a criminal act!
And now, while prisoners are fighting to get access to visits,
chapel, yard, law library, and tier (since the only time they are out of
their cell is when working, or their 30 minutes to shower or use of the
kiosk, or phone when permitted) these criminals have taken another
action to attack prisoners’ rights.
Starting 1 February 2021, High Desert State Prison will implement
O.P. 750 mail procedure as outlined in Warden’s Bulletin #21-07. This
revised operational procedure is an unconstitutional attack against our
right to communicate and be informed.
In effect this new operational procedure mandates the following.
All incoming mail must be in a 4” x 9.5” white envelope written in
black or blue ink only. If the mail received is not written in black or
blue ink on the envelope, the mail will be returned to sender.
All letters and correspondence within the envelope must be written
in black or blue ink. Any other colors will be returned to sender.
Any mail or correspondence received that is scented with perfume and
oils will be returned to sender.
Any letter received with drawings and markings that is not from the
letter manufacturer will be returned to sender.
Any letter received that are stained or discolored will be returned
to sender.
Greeting cards will not be accepted. All greeting cards received
will be returned to sender.
Inmates will not receive the original copy of letters and envelopes
being received with the exception of legal mail. All letters and
envelopes received will be scanned and handed out to the appropriate
inmate. Note: the legal mail procedure will remain the same.
If the inmate name is not properly spelled, the inmate
identification number is not noted, the senders name/address is missing,
the mail will be returned to sender.
If there is writing on the back of a photo sent through mail, the
writing must be written in black or blue ink.
After all mail is scanned and distributed to the inmate population,
the mail will be properly disposed of.
All magazines and newspapers received must come from an established
approved publisher.
Pamphlets and anything copied off the internet will be rejected with
the exception of pamphlets received through religious services.
This new operational procedure (O.P.) is the latest in a long line of
attacks against prisoner rights and protections since Director Daniels
and Warden Johnson have taken on their duties. This O.P. is
unconstitutional and deserves challenge.
First, in order to restrict prisoners’ Constitutional rights, the
state must show how the restriction is in furtherance of a compelling
governmental interest. We do not believe that they can. The fact that
prisoners are not receiving the physical letters/envelopes themselves,
any act or restriction that bars or bans letters for scent, markings,
drawings, stains, etc. cannot be in furtherance of a legitimate concern.
Thus, we believe a legitimate argument can be made that these
restrictions are arbitrary and unconstitutional.
Second, both the sender and receiver of mail/publications must be
notified that censorship occurred as well as the reason censorship
occurred. They must also give each party a chance to challenge the
censorship. This is a very clear due process issue.
Third, we believe that a reasonable argument against the disposal of
mail without due process is that the mail itself is the prisoner’s
property, thus protected by due process.
Fourth, denying all pamphlets and internet copies have already been
ruled unconstitutional.
Fifth, restricting all magazines and newspapers to established
approved publishers poses a serious threat as it will ultimately be used
to ban inmates access to materials and publications that the prison does
not wish to enter the facility, such as Turning the Tide,
Revolution, The Abolitionist, Black and Pink,
Prison Legal News, Under Lock and Key, and other such
publications. While “publisher only” restrictions have been upheld,
rules which outright ban or deny publications have been ruled
unconstitutional.
We are fighting this new attack, as we are fighting others. We are
calling on all prisoners within the NDOC to fight for their families and
friends, abolitionists, prisoner rights groups, and others, to stand up
for NDOC prisoners and call for the resignation or firing of Director
Charles Daniels and Warden Calvin Johnson.
Prisoners must utilize the grievance process, friends and families,
or anyone else who wishes to help must call or write Governor Steve
Sisolak or write Director Daniels - 5500 Snyder Rd. Carson City, NV
89702, and or Warden Johnson P.O. Box 1050 Indian Springs, NV 89070.
All Power to the People.
Let your voices be heard.
MS1 and MS26 - Revolutionary Front - NV
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Lindell v. Frank 377 F.3d 655 659-60 (7th Cir 2004) Allen v. Coughlin 64
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1997) Procunier v. Martinez 416 U.S.396. 94 S.Ct 1800 Krug v. Lutz 329
F.3d 692.696-97. (9th cir 2003) Thornburgh v. Abbott 490 U.S. 401,
414-19 (1989) Juchlovich vs Simmons 392 F.3d 420 (10th Cir 2004)
Montcalm Publ’g Corp. v. Beck, 80 F.3d 105, 109-110 (4th Cir 1996)
Murphy v. Missourri Dep’t of Corr. 372 F.3d 979, 986 (8th Cir 2004)
Clement v. California Dep’t of Corrections 364 F.3d 1148 (9th Cir 2004)
Prison Legal News v. Lehman 397 F.3d 692. 699-700 (9th Cir 2005) Green
v. Ferrell 801 F.2d 765, 772 (5th Cir 1986) Mann v. Smith 796 F.2d 79
82-83 (5th Cir 1986) Van Cleave v. U.S. 854 F.2d 82, 84 (5th cir
1988)
Weeks into the Derek Chauvin trial, protests in Brooklyn City,
Minnesota were set off by the shooting of 20-year-old New Afrikan Daunte
Wright during a traffic stop. The pig who shot him claims she thought
she had pulled her taser. People braved the snow and freezing
temperatures night after night, resisting the curfew that was put in
place by the fascist pigs. They chanted “fuck the police!” and “fuck
your curfew!” as cops shot tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowds
of hundreds to thousands of people.
As we go to press, the pig who killed George Floyd has been charged
with 2nd degree murder. Derek Chauvin assassinated Floyd on 25 May 2020
by kneeling on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
This verdict doesn’t change the fact that over 1,100 people were
killed by pigs outside of prison in 2020, and that that is consistent
with previous years. Of those, 121 were pulled over for mere traffic
violations like Daunte Wright. New Afrikans were 28% of those killed in
2020, despite being only 13% of the population. In cities like Chicago
and Minneapolis, New Afrikans were killed by cops at over 20 times the
rate of whites for 2013-2020. In that same period, no cops were charged
in 98.3% of killings.(1) While this data may be incomplete, behind
prison walls this information is even more hidden. United Struggle from
Within reminds our readers that Prisoners’ Lives Matter too, despite
being excluded from these statistics on murders by so-called “peace”
officers.
In May 2020, George Floyd’s murder righteously struck a nerve in many
people both in the United $tates and internationally. This lead to a
great awakening in international consciousness and exposed some heavy
contradictions concerning capitalism-imperialism and its facade of
democracy and human rights. We were shown that it is a dictatorship, and
just like all other political systems, its state representatives are
only there to uphold and enforce its class interests.
One of the most inspiring consequences of the killing of George Floyd
is how this is so relatable to so much of the world’s oppressed
communities and how so many of them not only showed their support for
New Afrikans in North America but used this as a catalyst to confront
their own bourgeois dictatorships. Just last month, Victoria Salazar of
El Salvador was killed by Mexican police by a knee pressing her neck
into the ground similar to George Floyd. In response, wimmin across the
country took to the streets, marching, performing street theatre and
sometimes clashing with police. Feminists protested both the rate of
femicide in the region as well as the militarized border patrols and
policing that create the conditions for killings like Salazar’s; tracing
it back to U.$. imperialism.
Even the bourgeoisie in China criticized how the United $tates
polices its Black population, saying, “Many people within the United
States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United
States.”(2)
Despite these connections, the death of Mr. Floyd had little chance
of galvanizing itself to confront the U.$. bourgeois dictatorship or
threaten its rule. A few officers were scapegoated. One will be doing
prison time. And all Democrats and Republicans unanimously joined to
denounce the officer’s actions. Western imperialism was quick to send
out its talking heads and the Democratic Party to corral the people back
into bourgeois confines and to let the system administer the appropriate
“justice” through its judicial process. Then $27 million was given to
the family in a very public and biased way which could be a sign and
another way to placate the people. Sadly, Biden and the Democrats have
largely won over much of the “allies” of the oppressed and New Afrikans
in particular. A recent poll said that immediately after the uprising
60% said at least one pig “murdered” George, now it’s only 36%, which is
just a sign of how fickle and amorphous even “talk” of discontent for
how capitalism-imperialism treats the “other,” and how quick much of
Amerikkka wants to get back to business, ie. back to normal.(3)
The trial of Derek Chauvin was captivating. Many people, from many
backgrounds actually cared and tried to help George Floyd. Sadly, even
in the rare occasion when they are given prison time, none of the pigs
will be reformed. We know this because our own comrades who do want to
serve the people are not given any resources to reform in the current
prison system. This should only add to the list of reasons why
capitalism-imperialism must go not why we need to give it yet one more
chance, or worst still “push Biden further to the left.”
All comrades should be using their voice to build the
anti-imperialist united front and demanding class suicide from all
oppressed communities and justice-loving people in this country. It is
real in the field, fascism is no longer a misnomer. There are very large
swaths of the country who would love nothing more. The kid who murdered
the two protestors in Kenosha received $2 million in donations, which
just shows you what Amerikkkans think of the cries of its oppressed
citizens, and also what it thinks of its right-wing vigilantes.
Meanwhile Florida just passed a fascist bill that allows felony charges
for protestors for “rioting,” including up to 15 years for those who
damage or desecrate an historical monument. Meanwhile it protects
Amerikans who assault or kill protestors with a deadly weapon (an
automobile), a form of fascist vigilantism that has grown in recent
years. Then you have the recent voting rights bills, such as in Georgia,
to stop people from voting. This is a real crisis within the bourgeois
empire itself on how to rule; whether oppressed nations are allowed to
vote, or even to exist.
Mao said the basic law of dialectical-materialism is the unity of
opposites. The primary contradiction in imperialism is the oppressed
nations against the oppressor nations. Mao also said two cannot combine
into one. Only revolution and a seizure of the state apparatus by the
oppressed will ultimately transform this contradiction, yet we can and
should be working to transform all aspects of the contradiction short of
revolution we can in preparation for that time.
Amerikkka, or any First World nation, has no right to deny anyone a
share of its ill-gotten spoils. We should not get caught up in the
“lock-him-up” hysteria of this trial and instead demand and support a
true united front against this system and expose it as an utter failure.
We should be supporting the First Nations call of welcome to their
cousins from South and Central America and those from the global south.
The imperialists should not have undermined their governments and
resources. We should be uniting with the Asian and Pacific Islander
peoples’ struggles against national oppression, especially now, and
welcoming them to the table (we’ve sure missed them and need them).
Studying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, applying dialectical materialism
and historical materialism, building a new culture using the method of
analysis and synthesis to critique and transform this gangster culture
and “bourgeois” criminal mentality into a revolutionary one, building
independent institutions to protect ourselves and avoid state repression
and even exposure as much as possible and effecting both the quality and
quantity of these contradictions amongst the people and the enemy.
There is nothing in the world but matter in motion and our current
social contradictions must be exploited by real materialists. We are
living through an historic moment, things are certainly in motion, and
we must affect the direction they move in. If we dare recognize our
collective enemy and transform our petty bourgeois “wanna-be” gangsta
mentality into one that is at least sympathetic to the revolutionary
process we can really change and exploit these contradictions so they
are more favorable to us.
On 29 March 2021 around 3:00AM, a 13-year-old lumpen Mexican youth
named Adam Toledo was murdered by the pigs of the Chicago Police
Department. Before the murder, around 2:30 AM, the Chicago Police
Department’s ShotSpotter technology - a privately owned surveillance
system which monitors gunshots primarily in oppressed nation lumpen
areas of Chicago(1) – detected a number of gunshots on the West Side of
Chicago. Specifically, the shots were said to have come from the
predominantly Chicano/Mexican migrant neighborhood of “Little
Village.”(2) Alongside the crime scene was Toledo’s associate Roman
Ruben, and an Amerikan Chicago pig named Eric Stillman who pulled the
trigger at 13 year old Adam.(3) After Adam unarmed himself, the pig
immediately shot Adam in the chest – killing him instantly.
The mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, and other bureaucrats of the
city government, have played a massive role in covering up this
extrajudicial killing of an oppressed nation youth. The recent uprisings
in regards to the murder of George Floyd and other murders of New
Afrikans by Amerikan pigs seemed to have made quite an impression on the
imperialists and the comprador bourgeoisie of the oppressed nations.
With the lead up to the release of the body cam footage, every pig in
Chicago has had its days off cancelled. The pigs of the CPD has claimed
this has been for the “public safety” of Chicago. Us Maoists know that
what they really want is security, not “public safety.” It will be the
oppressed nation lumpen who will have to take on the responsibilities of
creating safety and most importantly, peace among the masses. The New
Afrikan comprador Mayor Lightfoot has also stated: “Let us not forget
that a mother’s child is dead. Siblings are without their brother. And
this community is again grieving.”(4) It’s ironic how the comprador
reminds the masses that the masses are grieving! The mayor seems to be
saying that political criticisms of oppression and brutality are
inappropriate during times of profound tragedies. With regards to this
attitude, we tell our readers that tragedies don’t exist isolated from
their surroundings, and there are material political-economic reasons as
to why these murders of oppressed nation youth by pigs happen in our
society.
The Pig’s POV and the
Reactionary Apologia
After the deployment of all Chicago pigs – and the cynical concern of
comprador Mayor Lightfoot – the body cam video has been released on
April 15th after calls to release the footage by the Mexican/Chicano
community and the parents of Adam Toledo. The footage shows the pig
running towards Adam yelling at him to stop and to show him his hands.
As Adam raised his hands, the cop immediately fired his weapon and the
bullet hit his chest. Adam drops to the ground and the pigs call for
medical back up stating that shots have been fired by police. (5)
The usual discourse and apologia surrounding cop killings started to
roll in amongst the Amerikans and their reactionary lapdogs: “the cop
was most likely scared”; “the 13 year old had a gun”; and “it’s sad what
happened, but the 21-year-old Roman Ruben who manipulated Adam is the
real villain.”
What Amerikans and their lapdogs forget to remember is this: Amerika
waged war against the oppressed nations. This war might have not been
stated by the president as the war against New Afrikans, Chican@s, and
the oppressed nations in word verbatim but a war has been waged
nevertheless. The thin masking of this war by calling it a war against
“drugs” or war against “crime” is not the issue. So with that being
cleared up, we respond to these apologias with a question: did you
expect your enemies of war to fight with sticks and stones? Of course
the people you waged war against will have a gun. The assumption that
pig Eric Stillman was feeling scared contradicts the claims made against
Adam and Roman as criminals deserving of punishment. Adam probably felt
scared as well running away from one of the most dangerous pig forces in
the United $tates. Adam and Roman surely felt scared growing up in the
West Side of Chicago being of oppressed nation origins. Should every
wrong doing of Adam and Roman be just swept away then? Us Maoists say
that with politicization and rehabilitation, people like Adam and Roman
(oppressed nation lumpen youth) are some of the best positioned to
become revolutionary and overthrow this system that arises violence and
crime in the first place. What historical duties do cops like Eric
Hillman serve? To defend and serve the security of imperialism and
capitalism.
The ALKQN Strikes
Back: Fact or Propaganda?
In the midst of all this, Adam’s affiliation with the Lumpen
Organization (L.O.) the Almighty Latin King/Queen Nation(ALKQN) has
surfaced. Sources from ALKQN associates and other L.O. affiliates’
social media posts have referred to him as “Bvby Diablo” and “Lil
Homicide.”(6) The ALKQN has a long history of revolutionary political
organizing, and even working with Maoists.(7) While transforming the
entire ALKQN to a revolutionary vanguard has been unsuccessful and
ultimately a failure, new projects and dedicated comrades have arose
from the campaign of Latin Kings work with MIM such as the Noble Young
Lords Party.(8)
Days after Adam was killed, the pigs in Chicago issued an “officer
safety alert.” The CPD’s narcotics unit have heard that factions within
the ALKQN on the Southwest side of Chicago have issued an order to their
members to shoot at unmarked Chicago police vehicles.(9) This has raised
another discourse of whether violence is justified, and sparked as ammo
for the reactionaries’ justifying pig Eric Stillman’s crime.
This author believes that the ALKQN is completely capable of making
these threats, and also completely capable of shooting at unmarked
police vehicles. If these threats were made, and the actions carried
out, we only condemn the act of making military offenses at the enemy
while not being able to defend the masses from retaliation by the pigs.
As we stated before, the masses will pay for the adventurist errors of
leaders.(10) What we also want to highlight, however, is that it is just
as much a possibility this information has been disseminated by the pigs
to cause provocation amongst the Chican@/Mexican L.O.s of Chicago. We
advise our readers with a call for discipline during these times when
contradictions heighten. Romantic attacks towards the enemy can only do
so much, and the consequences of raids and military occupation are not
worth the lumpen romance.
I was watching TMZ on the tell-a-lie-vision before chow time and they
was speaking on how publishers will cease publishing six of Dr. Seuss’s
books for racist depictions of lumpen and Third World peoples. Charles
and Harvey were speaking on how the culture has changed from fifteen
years ago where these books were acceptable in the public opinion, but
now in this “Cancel Culture” where everyone has a “high sensitivity of
social consciousness” and is on the assault on anything offensive to
race or gender, etc. Charles and Harvey pose the question of where we’ll
be fifteen years from now? But what I have to ask is, are we just
getting into the age of ‘Cancel Culture’ or have we always been
here?
Now this ‘Cancel Culture’ is what we been viewing for the past four
years at least. Where celebrities, directors and individuals in the U.$.
political arena end up getting their whole careers and lives stopped for
acts like sexual harassment, racist statements or acts (old or new
photos and videos) being exposed to the public and the public being in a
state of outrage. But the lumpen and Third World proletariat have always
been in a “Cancel Culture” and the reason is only because the
imperialist/capitalists would rather live in luxury off the labor of the
Third World proletariat, instead of living to make it equal for all
peoples and folks to meet their needs which will be a state of
socialism.
Now in this “Cancel Culture” season or era, is imperialism/capitalism
or the RAPE of the lumpen and Third World proletariat going to end? How
it looks like to me, we still have a long way to go. It amazes me that
individuals are shocked about the Royal family tripping out on how dark
the skin tone of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son would be, or how
the royal family wasn’t going to give Archie the title of prince or a
security force surrounding him. Oh, you thought that the Mother of
Imperialism and Capitalism, the main country that colonized the world
and titled their territories the “Commonwealth,” would be as
‘reformative’ or ‘progressive’ as her daughter Amerikkka is? We’ll see
how that’ll turn out without us changing the powers that be. DON’T GET
CAUGHT UP IN THE HYPE!
As revolutionaries, we don’t want reform. We want a cancellation of
Imperialistic/Capitalist power. The end of the rape of the Third World
proletariat and lumpen. Let’s not get caught up in the mainstream
revolutionary popularity contest, stay in the studies of Maoism,
Leninism and Marxism, and the true authentic history of whatever nation
one may be from. Find methods to cancel imperialistic/capitalistic
culture and spread the concepts and ideologies of communism to further
advance the movement in a positive and productive way, and liberate
one’s nation and those who are in the same boat as us. And trust that
comrades will come aid and assist in one’s righteous endeavors of the
freedom from the bondage of imperialism and capitalism! Go through the
stage of socialism where we are always in power over the bourgeoisie to
stop the comeback of capitalism. And proceed into communism, which is
the long-term goal.
CANCEL THE OPPRESSOR AND LIBERATE THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES AND
KENSFOLK!!!
I’ll never speak ill of the dead. However, if by telling their
stories, we can prevent needless suffering, then those stories must be
told. There is both beauty and power within our words. If we are to
progress from erudite to enlightened, then we are obligated to speak
effectively and responsibly. Sometimes, the greatest damage is done by
not speaking up or not speaking out.
When I first saw Ms. Woods, I couldn’t help but ask my neighbor “Wow!
Who is that?” Oh sure, I’ve seen some very attractive guards down here.
But this girl seemed almost too pretty to be working at a prison. My
cellie spoke up and said “Do yourself a favor bro, leave that one alone.
She’s poison candy. Nice shiny wrapper on the outside… but completely
toxic inside.”
I take everything with a grain of salt down here. Surely, this was an
exaggeration. I thought these two were just being cynical. Time in here
has a way of making people jaded. You’re either going to get better or
bitter. Unfortunately, their warnings proved to be both timely and
accurate. From the first moment she opened her mouth, the most venomous
hatred imaginable spewed out.
For the most part, I wouldn’t have to be around her very much. I’d
managed to land a good job at our unit print shop. Four days a week, I’d
be gone for 12 hours a day. Guards here work 4 on 4 off. So that even
further reduced my chances of seeing her. I figured I could handle just
about anything for 3 days. Guess I was wrong.
My very first run-in with her happened on a Saturday. I knew to be at
my cell when they called count time. They came through and did their
thing. Then the lights turned out. I went into the restroom to finish
getting ready for visit. I heard a door pop open moments later, only to
be followed by her screaming “10 bunk!” then a string of profanities.
Talk about getting caught with your pants down. She walks by while I’m
still on the toilet, screaming, “You’re getting a case!”
My neighbor walks over and says “She took your I.D. bro! And your
house is thrashed!” Sure enough, I get back to my cubicle and it’s a
mess. Everything is on the floor. She wasn’t even doing a search. She
simply did it out of spite. By the time I get things almost back in
order, it’s about to be lunch. She’s still got my I.D. card, but now
she’s nowhere to be found. Great. Hopefully, I can track her down before
I get called in for visit.
Sure enough, lunch rolls around and I gotta tell them to punch in my
number. “Ms. Woods took my I.D.” The guard at chow hall looks up and
smiles, “Sucks to be you!” By the time I get back to the wing, they call
me for visit. I leave to find the sergeant to explain that I can’t get
into visitation without it. He tells me, “She probably went on break to
write you up. Don’t worry about the case. I got you. From now on, you’d
better steer clear of that one! Got it?”
The weeks fly by, and I’m fortunate enough to only see her in
passing. Oh sure, she’s definitely pretty to look at, but now I avoid
her like the plague. All I’m trying to do is stay out of their way.
One day my boss at print shop says “Okay, shut it down. They’re
racking up the farm.” We get out to the back gate and they make me sit
down. All these guards go running past us headed for one building.
Two guards are talking between themselves, but we can hear over the
radio chatter that there has been another assault on staff. Now these
guards start to argue, “Look, I don’t care where you put them! But they
gotta be out here so that ambulance can come in!”
By the time we get back to our own building, all hell has broken
loose. We can hear the warden’s voice on another radio screaming, “LOCK
IT DOWN!!” They got one of the halls blocked off. As we walk by to go
back in our wing, we can see all these burgundy pools of coagulated
blood. This is bad.
Soon as we walk in, they ask me, “Did you hear about Officer Woods?
DUDE … he beat the brakes off of her!” I look down at him and ask,
“Who?” his eyes get real big when he says “Smitty! I thought y’all knew.
Man … he just flipped out! Followed her right out the door into deep
space, knocked her out, and then went to WORK on her! After that they
say he just walked up to the desk and turned around so they could put
the cuffs on him.”
After three weeks of lockdown, we were finally able to go back to
work. Then I learned the rest of the story. Seems that while Smitty was
off work on his bereavement, Woods went in and tossed his cell. The
straw that broke the camel’s back was when she took his pictures off his
wall. You see … this poor man had just lost his mother, sister and baby
daughter, all in quick succession within about six weeks of each
other.
Now, of course, I wasn’t there to see it, but everybody says he got
down on his hands and knees to BEG that woman not to take those precious
photos. I’m told that even after he explained their sudden deaths, she
callously laughed in his face and said “Forget your dead family.” Only
she chose to use a different “F” word.
That beating wasn’t what killed her. It was the lifestyle. Reports
say that they saved her life multiple times, both on the way to the
hospital and in the operating room once she got there. There was
extensive reconstructive surgery. Nobody will even know the full extent
of the traumatic brain injury. It’s often those scars on the inside,
that just won’t heal.
After a few months off, she returned to work. Doctors had done an
amazing job, considering the extent of her injuries. Her entire face was
pulverized. Oh, she was still somewhat pretty. But those drop dead
gorgeous, model-quality features, were long gone. Her nose, eyes and
cheekbones weren’t the same. People couldn’t tell if they were dentures
or implants, but that smile would never be the same either.
You see … all along, she’d been manipulated and exploited by the
gangs. For almost her entire tenure, she’d been smuggling in dope and
cell phones. The perverts had simply preyed on her own insecurity. How
could somebody so stunning on the outside be completely devoid of the
true beauty that only comes from within? The only way prison officials
ever found out about her activities was when they busted somebody with
one of those phones.
The photos and videos were as numerous as they were explicit. So was
all that contact information. It was a treasure trove of evidence. She’d
also been prostituting herself. The predators had simply used her, then
discarded her like some piece of garbage. Administration walked her off
the unit in disgrace.
In the end, the prosecution’s job would be easy. She was facing a
long list of criminal charges. I suppose the stress of an impending
court trial, along with everything else, simply proved to be too much
for her. I was SOOOO HOPING that all those rumors weren’t true.
Unfortunately, she really did it. Ms. Woods died of a single gunshot
wound to the head. She put the pistol in her mouth – just to stop the
pain.
We found out about officer Woods’ suicide in 2019. A few months ago,
we found out that Ms. Davis had met a similar fate. We are still unclear
as to whether her death was a suicide or accidental overdose. The
specifics of each of these tragedies is not nearly as important as the
root causes of the problem, which remains the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice. TDCJ does not care about stopping the rampant
corruption and injustice here in Texas. Everyone from the newest
correctional officers to the top administrative officials are complicit
and therefore profits from this malfeasance!
MIM(Prisons) adds: We have seen some interesting things
in the last year or so. Some prison systems have instituted egregious
restrictions on mail claiming it was used to smuggle drugs, and all
prisons locked down completely with no visitors for months due to the
global pandemic. Yet, reports from prison after prison, from state to
state to the feds, have unanimously reported no
change in the availability of contraband during these periods.
The imperialists portray ending crime as a great mystery that can’t
be solved, a timeless problem that we can only respond to with force and
punishment. This is metaphysics, it fails to look at the past, at humyn
societies before classes and poverty, at countries who built socialism
and virtually eliminated drug abuse, prostitution, theft, hunger,
homelessness, etc. These things go hand-in-hand. Our crime-ridden
society is not eternal, it stems from our economic system and is
reinforced by the cultural ideas that come with such a system. Changing
the economic system is hard, it will take determination and sacrifice by
many. But once we do, ending so much needless suffering and conflict
between humyns is not so hard.
This is a response to the article “King
Von’s Passing and Lumpen Hip-Hop Culture.” After reading this
article, it made me think about my own upbringing back in the Midwest
during the beginning of what is now called “Drill music.” A lot of us
younger folks gravitated towards this latest sound of gangsta rap due to
relation of the folks rapping about their own organization, street,
block or side of the city. Both the Gangster Disciples and the Black
Disciples representing themselves, and also dissed each other which led
to the deaths of many, such as Lil Jojo, who was a young G.D. member to
King Von who was a B.D. member. But what would Larry Hoover Sr. and
David Barksdale say about all that’s been going on?
As kensfolks, we grew up with each other (G.D.’s and B.D.’s) most
likely. Went to the same schools, went or still attend the same church
or mosque, live on the same side of town, even lived at each others’
homes at a period of time. We have family members who are members of
both G.D.’s and B.D.’s, like the word KENSFOLKS, we’re all FAMILY and
its time for WE to engage in a family reunion to right all wrongs that’s
been happening in our communities. If you’re a member of the G.D.’s or a
member of the B.D.’s, or the other Disciple subsets, WE all say FOLKS at
the end.
G.D.’s, B.D.’s and the other subsets of Disciples out in the free
society in some communities are already in the commission of the family
reunion, and are growing and developing to be more righteous members of
our society. Being the beacons of light to uplift humanity out of its
fallen state. It’s now time to push it into full effect, show ourselves
and to the world who look at us for the culture, which was stated in the
article, “…The lingo that was used only in certain blocks and
neighborhoods of SOUTHSIDE Chicago can now be heard from all major
cities in the United $tates from Atlanta to Los Angeles…”. So let’s come
and show reconciliation to one another and to be learned in the right
way, so WE can fight in a United Front for the Freedom of our brothers
and sisters of struggle, our leaders, Freedom Fighters and political
prisoners behind these prison walls.
MO FIRE!!! MO FIRE!!!
FREE LARRY HOOVER SR. AND ALL POLITICAL LEADERS!! AND MOE POWER TO
THE KENSFOLKS NATION!!!