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Brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers
of ULK, we have to take a stand against the oppressors. Not by rioting,
physically fighting, or boycotting but by means of communication. The
same way the officers banned together we should put our differences to
the side and unite as one!
I have 17 years in the special housing unit (SHU) mostly for fighting
the oppressors physically and with my pen’s ink. I’ve caught two new
bids for going at it with the oppressors. One bid was a 2.5 to 5 years
and the second bid was a 7 year flat 5 year post.
What I did is not important, but why I did it is, I did it because too
many comrades were being violated. We have the right to be free of cruel
and unusual punishment.
Also I don’t know about the rules in the Texas DOCS, but here in New
York state when we’re locked down (which I am right now) we’re given 1
hour out of cell recreation everyday of the week. So what should happen
is whether everybody gets along or not, whoever is in this “close
custody” should grieve the issue. The oppressor might fuck with five of
those grievances but they won’t fuck with everybody’s grievance. It will
be too suspicious.
Every ULK I get the mailroom got something to say about it.
With ULK 20 they said the articles on pages 3, 10, and 13 (continued
from 3) posed a threat to the safety and security of the facility. Those
articles were entitled
“Light
of Liberation” and
“NJ
Avalon Crip signs on to UF Statement.” So once again they’ve taken
our right of freedom of speech, the 1st Amendment and swept it under the
“security risk” rug, just like the other comrade stated. So let’s stand
together as one and “take” our rights back.
So remember comrades, yes we’re imprisoned but we still have rights!
MIM(Prisons) adds: Unity in the fight against oppression is a key
element of this fight. As this comrade says, we need to put aside our
differences to join forces against a common enemy. Filing grievances is
a good way to get this fight going, and we have initiated a
grievance
campaign to help prisoners fight grievance denials. Write to us for
a copy of the letter and petition.
“Amerika the beautiful.” This is the image of the perfect killing
machine that is instilled in Us from youth, even as the Amerikans
oppress, exploit and super-exploit our people in the Third World. This
is what we’re taught. It’s bad enough that we have to deal with great
Amerikan chauvinism coming straight from the oppressors but now we have
to deal with it from within the oppressed as well.
Just the other day as the Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat squared off
for supremacy in the basketball world and the “national anthem” took
center stage, blood-boiling hoops and hollers of “that’s right!” and
“U$A baby!” could be heard throughout the building. And I’m sitting here
thinking, really?! That’s right what?! “That’s right” that these fucken
pigs got us locked up? Or “that’s right” that these motherfuckers are
out there reeking oppression, death, destruction and exploitation
throughout the Third World? Cause that’s all I can think of whenever I
hear that oppressive and repulsive war-mongering song.
Actually, I also think of how our anti-imperialist comrades in the
Islamic Third World put it down on these sorry ass pigs showing them
that, no, Amerika isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For if that were true
then these sorry ass pigs wouldn’t be getting their asses blown to
smithereens on a daily basis.
Serio, these fools in here really got shit twisted, but I suppose it’s
no surprise that the bourgeoisified lumpen picks up and holds tight to
the ideology of the parasitic coupon-clippers, as they themselves clip
coupons. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the lumpen tend to cheerlead
when the oppressor’s military trots the globe seeking to extend its
sphere of influence. They are better defenders of the Amerikan way of
life than the Amerikans themselves, and surprisingly reactionary.
Instead of cheerleading for these punk-ass Amerikans, wishing, wanting
and thinking that we are Amerikkkans too, we should start recognizing
the fact that these Amerikkkans want us locked in their prisons for life
while slowly fading out of existence. Instead we should realize the
devastating toll which our being imprisoned takes on our collective
nations.
Instead of doing the oppressor’s bidding the world over, we need to
realize the crucial role which we in the barrios/ghettos in the internal
semi-colonies can play in bringing down U.$. imperialism from within. We
need to start recognizing the fact that we too are the hope of the
oppressed.
So until all that happens, the only time you’ll ever get a “that’s
right!” from me will be when I see that Amerikan death toll count rise
in the middle east.
MIM(Prisons) responds: Those who cheer for the U.$. military are
a small minority in this world. The oppressed nations in this country,
who have historically been the subjects of Amerikan violence, would be
smart to return to (or stay on, as the case may be) the winning side of
history. It is alienating to live in a country that celebrates
domination and exploitation through violence. But as the Third World
unites in cheering for the armed defenders of Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq,
Palestine, India and elsewhere, we become closer to the end of
imperialist oppression, a time when unnecessary deaths of all peoples
can be prevented.
Pull the fucking pistol out of your mouth and pick up a
book turn off that damn bourgeois television and take a
look shit’s getting hectic, brother, sure But a bullet in the
brain, amigo, isn’t the cure It’s too late for you, man, but what
about your son What about his generation who’s been taught to
run to stomp and tantrum and tattle-tale suck the plastic flea
market and dodge bourgeois “hell” imperialist sons medicated for
depression A hybrid oppressor slash enemy nation I’ll sell you
this for a gallon of that Then starve the world and die of heart
attack fat It isn’t the way it was meant All these senseless
suicides ain’t some static event the reasons exists - the “whys”
right here Your casket costs thousands - payment plan three
years sucking the fucking juice out of life - capitalism then
profiting off of your death - straight sadism Rent the church to
grieve you in Buy the hole they bury you in Pay the petty priest
to say some words Then scribble on some gray marble how much it
hurts Picking the pocket of the family that weeps Dying’s
expensive while living is cheap Business in death and death in
business What’s the price, father, the price to miss us
I sit doing ten years for a gram of dope Witnessing Johannes
Mehserle get probation for murder I sit watching men starve to
death Witnessing guards who can’t even alight a flight of
stairs Because they’re too fucking fat I sit in a country that
told me to stay in school and educate yourself In a cell where
they won’t give me a book I was told in my youth to just say no to
drugs And now that I refuse their psychotropics they refuse me
parole They told me to love thy neighbor like you love
yourself and now I watch my country men shoot Mexicans swimming
the border I sit in the land of the free rattling my
chains waiting I see the hypocrisy and the bitter twisted
lies Do you? I sit alone 7.4 million strong knowing nothing
more than to carry on nothing more than my country’s wrong knowing
nothing - nothing’s at all wrong Do you?
United front organizing is never easy, but once established it is
the most effective way for various, weaker, sometimes opposing factions
to come together and make their weight felt to defeat a stronger, common
enemy. The television show “V,” which airs Tuesday nights on the ABC
network, portrays a somewhat good example of a united front. Of course
not everything portrayed within this show is according to the Maoist
strategy of United Front, but it does a decent enough job of introducing
those who are unfamiliar with the concept to warrant checking out.
The show centers on a seemingly friendly encounter with space aliens who
visit planet Earth. The space aliens first arrive bearing gifts of
advanced medicine, superior technology and their trademark logo of “we
come in peace.” The show also focuses on a small, infant underground
movement of humyns committed to unmasking the seemingly friendly space
aliens for what they really are: hostile space invaders or intergalactic
imperialists who have in all reality begun an undercover invasion of
planet Earth, which most humyns either don’t realize is taking place or
are too busy being bought off to admit.
The united front portrayed in this show was started by an FBI agent
assigned to the anti-terrorist unit; a liaison to the space alien
delegation; a rogue priest; a space alien who’s committed species
suicide by coming over to the side of the humyns; and a so called
“terrorist” who’s wanted by the “international community” for supplying
Third World liberation movements with weapons and guerrilla warfare
training.
As a matter of fact, FBI agent Erica Evans was first tasked with
capturing the wanted “terrorist.” However, once she finds out what the
space aliens are really up to by spying on underground anti-space-alien
organizations with methods straight out of COINTELPRO, combined with her
own near-death experience with the intergalactic imperialists, she
decides that it’s time to form an opposition to the invaders. So along
with the alien species traitor Ryan Nichols and the rogue priest, they
begin to seek out and court the wanted “terrorist.” Despite the FBI
agent’s hate for this “terrorist” she knows that if this
anti-space-imperialist movement is gonna be for real, then the humyn
species is gonna need all the tactical assistance it can get, even if
that means hooking up with her enemies.
This rag-tag band of individuals eventually unites to re-establish the
then-defunct Fifth Column, an anti-space-imperialist movement originally
founded by empathetic space aliens who committed species suicide in
order to protect the prior oppressed species whom the parasitic space
imperialists enslaved and wiped out.
In real life, the historical Fifth Column were Nazi infiltrators in
several European states such as Poland, France and even the USSR,
leading up to and during WWII. Their main objective was to sabotage and
wreck government and military institutions for the purpose of softening
the ground in preparation for Nazi attacks. The real Fifth Column was
most notably brought to light by the Soviet Union’s purge trials of
1937-38 which Stalin ordered to smash the fascist traitors. The Fifth
Column depicted in the TV series is an anti-space-imperialists movement
instead of pro-Nazi.
In the most recent episode the insurgent rogue priest known as Father
Jack has become conflicted by the humyn death and collateral damage, so
much so that he begins to endanger the movement by refusing to adhere to
the Fifth Column’s version of democratic centralism when it comes to the
group’s mission. Instead of kicking him out of the movement, they
subject him to a sorry excuse of party criticism and then keep him
around based on his laurels.
In countless other episodes the importance of the individual and the
individual’s needs are stressed to the point that it leaves the
impression that if any one of the Fifth Column leaders doesn’t get his
or her way then the movement will suffer irreparable damage to the point
that its very existence will be put in peril. While leaders are
certainly important to any movement this show takes the meaning and
importance of a leader to a whole different level.
In recent episodes they’ve also shown how the Fifth Column’s small-scale
focoist adventures have now inspired many other humyns across the globe
to band together and form a larger mass organization of the same name to
launch spectacular focoist attacks on the space-imperialists. Little by
little however the Fifth Column has begun to land serious blows to the
space invaders proving that a united front, though an uneasy and still
developing one, does work. While we don’t encourage the focoist approach
of armed struggle without consideration of the imperialists’ strength,
the humyns on the show are at a tipping point where the space
imperialists’ sinister plans would have severe dire consequences if not
immediately stopped.
In the original “V” series of the 80s, “V” stood for victory and the
mass of humynity eventually came together to launch a protracted
guerrilla struggle against the oppressor space imperialists. When that
series ended the viewer was left doubting whether the humyns prevailed.
Who knows how this updated version of the series will turn out. In a
realistic approach the humyns need to first get their shit right, and
instead of launching their spectacular focoist attacks, they need to
begin the long arduous task of building public opinion against the
invaders to bring the bulk of humynity together for when the real
battles begin.
Why are you deeply sorry for hurting/disappointing In a country
built on genocide/institutionalizing In any way - your mother, sister
or grandmother Hurt in degrees - hurt like no other The pain is
here - present - in my chest But I’ve learned it from you - who knows
it best Hypocrisy and hate and national oppression Imperialism and
capitalism and poor peoples’ depression We can’t see past all the
senseless suicides Friends’ corpses beside us - swinging above
us inside us Suicide wholesale - please forgive us Sensory
deprivations or bought off TV stations What’s worse - alone talking
to yourself or commercials repeatedly preaching consumer
masturbation? Two for one on a half off sale I for one prefer
sensory deprivation hell My pen, my thoughts - memories get me
through I am the one feeling sorry for you Bitter cynicism on a
Bob Barker mattress Verses ignorant masses on PC Macintoshes It’s
not hate I feel for you - but awe Goose stepping, concentration
kamping, new generation What’s that - what’s this - we never
saw Boxcars, traincars - jehovah witness triangles Vans, buses -
poor man and non-white shackles Business as usual - neo-fascist
neo-nazi A “criminal” boogeyman preaching - how dare he
[MIM(Prisons) has long defended a line that combats the divisions that
the California Department of “Corrections” has tried to institutionalize
by separating large numbers of people from the General Population (GP)
into Sensitive Needs Yards (SNY). In a
previous
letter this comrade joined us in calling for SNY and GP alike to
contribute to the struggle, while not hiding h lack of regard for SNY
prisoners. Today h story serves to demonstrate why allowing the pigs to
tell us who is our friend and who is our enemy is a backwards way of
discovering the truth.]
I’m in the hole (Administrative Segregation Unit) once again, the
material you sent found me when I needed it the most. This time around
I’m found under an ISU/IGI investigation which will most likely result
in me being sent to the other side (SNY). Surprising? Not really, I saw
it coming since the day I committed myself to the United Struggle from
Within (USW), in the form of either validation as a guerrilla
revolutionary or the assassination of my character behind these walls
through the SNY program that leaves a lot of brothers and sisters
credibility out and in the cold away from the warmth of prisoner
society’s acceptance.
It’s crazy how it happened all so fast. I blinked and at the drop of a
dime my whole life turned upside down. It started October 16, officially
with an unjustified unclothed cavity/cell search that I refused to
submit to because the officer first claimed that they were hitting my
cell randomly, then later said because me and my cellmate were
exhibiting suspicious behavior when I was on the toilet taking a shit
and my cellmate was on the assigned bunk asleep. I understood the nature
of the situation that the corruption officers were creating. Someone
dropped a dime on me, so I looked to get a paper trail.
By searching my cell they were committing a constitutional violation
against search-and-seizure safeguards granted to prisoners such as
notification of cell searching party (corruption officers involved),
confiscation of personal property, and the right to appeal without
retaliatory actions being taken against one. I made the choice to get
the incident documented to bring to the attention of the administration
here at Killer Kern, and I paid for it in the worst way possible. But
still I stand revolutionary minded putting USW theory into practice
outside of the study group’s environment. Refusing to let the dragon
win, I fight them with my pen and continue to force them to show their
brutality on paper and physically.
After refusing to submit to their commands I was placed in wrist
restraints and escorted to the facility program office cage where I
spent the next few hours resisting the Sergeant and Lieutenant’s request
for me to submit to an unclothed body search. At this time the
corruptions officers searching party (the Kern Valley A yard jump out
boys) were back at the cell, searching, confiscating, and disposing of
my property and attempting to pay me back for my resistance. They came
across a kite [prison letter] that I had hidden inside a medicine bottle
waiting to be delivered to it’s destination. I will say that I slipped
up! Cause I did.
The kite was in regards to a business arrangement that I had going on
and gave details about involved individuals who were to participate. The
kite was supposed to be delivered that same morning, but due to the
unexpected visitors it wasn’t and I thus forgot about it in the
commotion of three COs at my door with their cans out ready to spray me
while on the toilet for nothing.
I knew what was up, but didn’t act quick enough and therefore allowed
intel into the hands of law enforcement. And they had a ball with it
immediately reading the kite loud enough for my neighbors, who were
members of my LO, hoping to create the confusion that they did.
I spent three days in a small holding cell, cold, cuffed and shackled,
taped in a dirty jumpsuit, with no linen, and a mattress that I was
allowed only to lay on from 10 p.m. - 6 a.m. with no covering on it.
Sleep-deprived with lights on all night attempting to sleep with
restraints, I was deprived medical care, and denied high blood pressure
medication. I was smelling like shit without a shower, and forced to eat
cold meals without any eating utensils or a cup to drink from. I felt
the firsthand experience of torture at the hands of the department of
correction (corruption) until I had three bowel movements to prove that
I didn’t have anything concealed in my ass.
Once my bowel movements showed negative results for contraband (not an
explosive device or a gun, or a knife, but simple contraband) they
released me back to the yard, and to the cell I went.
Not even three hours after my arrival I received a kite about the matter
of the disclosure of intel in the confiscated kite. It wasn’t “Cuz how
you holding up? Can we assist you any way?” or none of that. But with
everything falling the way it did, I understand. Because a week prior to
the incident, individuals of various groups were getting popped with
phones. And all were cats who were making the dead presidents, but
removed from the front lines. There was a leak and Investigative
Services Unit (ISU) was getting more fat than a fat guy in an all you
could eat buffet.
I was brought up on charges of being that leak. And if the shoe was on
another person’s foot, I would’ve really pushed for an old school
lynching. Treason is a no no, but here it is in the accused, getting
kites now from OGs on the bricks, and weeks later I find myself up
against the wall with those who I’ve actually shed blood for, explaining
that I ain’t no fucking rat and did not intentionally drop intel into
the hands of law enforcement. Time drew on with me and those that be,
doing just as the pigs planned us to, as we were on lockdown due to a
war with the Blacks and the “southern Mexicans,” over a drug debt, a
phone, and miscommunication that caused an eight-on-twelve melee between
Blacks and Browns, and one Black to be stabbed eleven times.
The option came around to me after the verdict came in that I was guilty
of loose lips. I could either clean up some green (guards), get cleaned
up, or handle the individual who would clean me up. For those who can’t
read between the lines clean up in this situation means to stab
something up good enough that the message (whatever it may be) be sent
clearly.
Now it may seem like nothing, but I’m not new to this shit, I’m true to
it. I ain’t no crash dummy, I’ve got a close release date, and a lot of
life to live. I ain’t stabbin’ no pig without no chance of getting away,
and I damn sho’ ain’t about to be a pin cushion. So I got the hell out
of dodge, and didn’t blink doing it. I’m an SNY, I recognize that some
will understand, but most won’t and I am no longer who they seen me as.
But my time was limited as any real active revolutionary is on the line
abroad the people who are and love the same exact thing that they claim
to hate. Straight up!
Politicizing amongst the LOs is a difficult task when the same ones you
advocate for are advocating against your existence for individualist
purposes. I bump heads with the big dawgz about policy even when certain
radz advised against it because of my youth and their popularity, and I
got exactly what they said it would get me. An early death in the prison
game.
I sit in ASU now on my third month for investigation into my security
concerns that I raised truthfully on a 602 appeal form. The ISU/IGI
agents attempt to sell protection like they are some type of “Green
Wall” protection agency. I’m told the more you cooperate and inform us
into the details of drugs, cellphones, crooked cops, and criminal
activity, the more we can help you. Since when does the lion help the
lamb?
I attempted radio silence with MIM(Prisons) until I could get my §1983
lawsuit put in, because my mail is being highly monitored, censored,
withheld and returned.
But it seems that faith will have us together married until death do us
part. So I’m back like Jesus from the dead, not really back at all,
reborn into the characteristic of a USW on the other side of the fence.
MIM(Prisons) responds: This letter is one more example of our
point that not everyone on
SNY
yards is a snitch or rat as the pigs would like us to think. A
bourgeois approach to security allows the bourgeoisie to win out. By
bourgeois, we mean an individualist, rather than a group approach. We
oppose studying “persynalities” instead of politics. And we oppose
thinking that violence against individuals builds a strong movement.
There are plenty of enemies on mainline and there are friends to be
found in SNY. How we associate and how we build allows us to determine
which are which, not rumors or labels given out by the enemy.
On March 19 2011, the United $tates, playing the role as leader of the
united nations forces, began bombing areas in Libya. What we know from
the imperialist media is that small pockets of opposition to the Libyan
government are attempting to rebel and attack the current government.
While we observe these developments in the Middle East in general, but
more particularly in Libya, we must first understand the history as well
as the current relations of production in these governments to really
grasp the conditions and contradictions on the ground. It’s good to
understand the world and pay attention but it’s better to know the truth
and be able to sort through the BS that blurs reality and works to shape
ideas to the imperialist program.
Libya, like much of the Middle East, has long been eyed by Amerika
because of its vast oil reserves. Libya was colonized up until after
World War II when it then became a semi-colony that was under U.$. and
British influence with a monarchy under King Idris.
In the 1960s the Middle East, like much of the world, felt a whirlwind
of revolution and liberation struggles that swept the globe. Libya also
caught this upsurge of anti-colonial fever, and King Idris was
overthrown by military officers in 1969. Moammar Gadhafi was the leader
of this coup.
Although Libya changed its name to the “Great Socialist People’s Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya” it is not currently a socialist country. There are
revolutionaries within Libya but for the most part they do not lead any
of the struggles we see in U.$. media. The incantation of imperialist
propaganda is that the Libyan people are going to overthrow Gadhafi and
that the majority want him out, but this is false.
Just as the U.$. used the south Vietnamese to massacre Vietnamese
freedom fighters, just as the U.$. used the contras to massacre their
country men the Sandinistas, and the Afghan against Afghan, Iraqi on
Iraqi, so too are they now using Libyan to destroy Libyan. I wonder when
the masses of the world will ever unite to take on the true oppressor?
Let’s be clear Gadhafi did not come to power through a socialist
revolution, although he did make some concessions and reforms,
particularly with tribal alliances. For the most part what is practiced
in Libya is a form of state capitalism where revenue from oil fuels the
economy. Nonetheless they should not be met with imperialist
intervention nor should the united nations be used to dictate their air
space as another Iraq under Sadaam Hussein.
The opposition that the United $tates seems to cozy up to the most is
the National Front for the Salvation of Libya which is known to be
funded and trained by the CIA. This group, which was founded in 1981,
has been based on the border of Egypt and Libya and seems to be the main
vehicle for propping up a U.$. puppet government in Libya should the
Gadhafi regime fall.
But let’s get to the heart of the matter in this U.$. intervention: the
main reason for this attack on Libya is oil! It’s ironic how the
so-called “united nations” have their hands in this intervention when
within their very own documents, specifically the 1514 Declaration, they
claim to grant self-determination to colonized nations and peoples. Yet
here we are watching them deny self-determination. Not that we expect
these imperialists to act in any way that isn’t exploiting the people,
but it shows those who are unaware of their parasitic aims what they’re
really about.
With the largest oil reserves in Africa it’s no surprise that this
nation is a target of the United $tates. We have seen this played out in
Iraq where the no-fly zone was set up as a prelude for outright war and
occupation. As I write this I’m sure backroom deals are being banged out
between the imperialist countries on who gets what and at what price.
Until these business agreements are worked out we probably won’t see
“troops on the ground” from the United $tates.
We see in the U.$. media accusations of Gadhafi being a “mad dog” but
why was he invited years back to the United $tates? We all remember the
jokes of him pitching a tent on one of Donald Trump’s properties. The
same bad things were said of Sadaam and Bin Laden but we see old
pictures of both of them smiling with U.$. politicians at one time. Just
to be clear, none of them were pushing for a socialist revolution. It is
the pattern of being business partners with the United $tates, and then
when the United $tates can’t exploit these leaders to the extent that
they want those same business partners become “mad dogs” or better yet
“terrorists.”
As Maoists we say no to imperialist intervention! We say no to the
exploitation of the people around the world! We say hands off Libya! We
hope for the masses of Libya to use this situation to create a socialist
revolution to discard all oppression! End the intervention!
MIM(Prisons) adds: Many legitimate wars for liberation start with
“small pockets of opposition” fighters, so it is hard to use numbers to
judge a movement from afar. What we can see is that whether monarchist
forces, CIA-backed “pro-democracy” parties or Islamic fighters, all of
the “rebel” voices in the press are supporting imperialist intervention
in Libya. This is what tells us they do not represent the masses of
Libya. No to U.$. Imperialism! Unity within keeps the imperialists out!
“Democracy” is the culprit yet again in the U.$. empire’s latest
adventurous gamble to spread the money-making concept of the democratic
shell to the middle eastern country of Libya.
Amerika, that great city shining on a hill spread some of that
luminescence to the sovereign skies of Libya over the weekend, as they
lit up the night sky with the glow of over 160 long range missiles in
their effort to supposedly stop the Libyan government from killing of
innocent civilians. Ironically enough, more lives were taken than
“saved” by the amerikans as numbers have already come out of Libya that
at least 70 civilians were killed by the strike.(1)
The Arab League has come out in anger and denounced not just the U$ but
their international lackey bureaucracy (the UN) for authorizing and
initiating the deadly strikes. Even republocrats, Michael Honda and
David Kucinich have criticized and questioned this abominable act.(1)
Some may ask, well, wasn’t the Arab League down with Amerikan
intervention in Libya? And the answer is yes, however, the strength of
anti-imperialist pan-Arabism in the region was reflected as they wavered
when the bombs actually started to drop.
There are two reasons that the U$ is giving for it’s current open
aggression. One is for the firm support and protection of the Libyan
people. The other is their supposed concern that Gadhafi is possibly in
the possession of weapons of mass destruction, i.e. Mustard Gas.(2) Hmm.
Why does this sound so familiar?
Pre$ident Obomber came out over the weekend while on his trip to Brazil,
during his tour of Latin America and said that there will be no ground
forces deployed to Libya, as the U$ does not wish to be at war with a
third Muslim country; lest they be labeled crusaders.(1) Obomber
emphasized many times over that amerika is not at war with Islam, which
might actually be true per se, they just like to go to war with whatever
oppressed nation happens to have something they want (oil).
Curiously enough the social-democratic government of Brazil who has the
habit of paying lip-service to the plight of the oppressed (while
simultaneously oppressing and exploiting it’s own proletariat) had
nothing to say about it’s amerikan guest, nor did they have anything to
say about their abstention from the UN vote to bomb Libya… all of a
sudden!
So now two questions are begged. Are we currently seeing the sequel to
the invasion of Iraq, which has had disastrous consequences to the Iraqi
people? Doubtful, but you never know with these imperialists. Or are we
seeing a possible test run for a similar style bombing of Iran?
Regardless of what you think of Gadhafi and his regime, Libya is a
nation oppressed by imperialism and currently under attack, it must be
defended. The imperialists need to keep their filthy hooves out of the
mix and let the Libyan people decide their own destiny.
La base de cualquier unidad verdadero viene de un acuerdo en ciertas
ideas principales. Esta declaración no da la autoridad a cualquier
partido sobre cualquier otro partido. Somos mutuamente responsables uno
al otro a cumplir estos puntos para permanecer como participantes
activos en esta Frente Unida.
La Paz: NOSOTROS organizamos para terminar los
conflictos innecesarios y la violencia dentro del ambiente de las
prisiones estadounidenses. Los opresores usan estrategias de división y
conquista para que peleemos entre nosotros en lugar de ellos. Nos
pondremos de pie y nos defenderemos de la opresión.
La Unidad: NOSOTROS nos esforzaremos para unirnos con
ellos quienes se enfrentan a las mismas luchas como nosotros por
nuestros intereses comunes. Para mantener la unidad tenemos que guardar
una línea abierta de redes y comunicación y asegurar que dirigimos
cualquier situación con datos verdaderos. Esto se necesita porque los
puercos utilizan tales tácticos como rumores, ratas y comunicaciones
falsas para dividirnos y mantener la división entre los oprimidos. Los
puercos ven el fin de su control dentro de nuestra unidad.
El Crecimiento: NOSOTROS reconocemos la importancia de
la educación y la libertad de crecer en orden de construir la unidad
verdadera. Apoyamos a los miembros dentro de nuestras organizaciones que
nos dejen para abrazar otros conceptos y organizaciones políticas que
están dentro de la lucha anti-imperialista. Todos deberían unirse donde
se sientan cómodos. Semejantemente reconocemos el derecho de nuestros
camaradas dejar nuestras organizaciones si fracasamos a cumplir con
nuestros principales y propósitos de la Frente Unida por la Paz en
Prisiones.
El Internacionalismo: NOSOTROS luchamos por la
liberación de toda la gente oprimida. Mientras que muchas veces somos
referidos como “minorías” en este país, y muchas veces encontramos a
ellos quienes están en el mismo barco que nosotros en oposición a
nosotros; nuestra confianza en cumplir nuestra misión viene de nuestra
unidad con todas las naciones oprimidas quien representan la vasta
mayoría globalmente. No podemos liberarnos cuando al mismo tiempo
participamos en la opresión de otras naciones.
La Independencia: NOSOTROS construimos nuestra propias
instituciones y programas independiente de los Estados Unidos y todos
sus ramos, aun hasta la policía local, porque este sistema no nos sirve.
En desarrollar el poder independiente por estas instituciones no
necesitamos comprometer nuestras metas.
¿Como se junta a la Frente Unida por Paz en las Prisiones?
Estudie y mantener los cinco principios de la Frente Unida
Envíe el nombre de tu organización y una declaración de la unidad a
MIM(Prisiones). Tu declaración puede explicar qué los principios de la
Frente Unida significa para tu organización, cómo se pertenece a tu
trabajo, porque son importantes, etc.
Desarrolla paz y unidad entre las facciones donde estés tu en la base de
oponer a la opresión de todos los prisioneros y a la gente oprimida en
general.
Mande reportajes de tu progreso a Bajo Clave y Candado (Under Lock &
Key). ¿Desarrollaste un tratado de paz o un protocolo que funciona?
Envíalo a nosotros para que otros lo estudien y posiblemente lo usen.
¿Tu unidad está basada en las acciones? Mandemos reportajes en lo que
estás organizando.
Sigue educando a tus miembros. Lo más educados que estén tus miembros,
la más unidad que puedes desarrollar, y lo más fuerte que tu
organización puede ser. La unidad viene de dentro para afuera. En
unirnos por el interior, podemos unirnos con otros también. Si necesitas
más materiales para educar a tus miembros en la historia, en la política
y la economía, ponte en contacto con el programa de Libros de Política
Gratis para prisioneros de MIM(Prisiones).