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e Pever Sleep Newsletter of the Anarchist Prisoners’ Legal Aid Network November 2002 - Vol. 3 No. 1 Anarchist Prisoners’ Legal Aid Network 818 SW 3™ Ave PMB #354 / Portland, OR / 97204 / USA weneversleep®ziplip.com
IMPRISONED CoOMRAVE TARGETED Felitical prisoner Craiq “Critter“Marshal is currently experiencing Serious harassment The Jojnt Terrorism Task Force paid him a vieit, using cliched tactics, such as ofi‘ew’ng 1o set lim free in exchange for information, then alternafel reatening federal time. Criffer’s mail is being withheld +or anywhere from (0 4521 days. Urder +he conditions of interrogation ard harassment, Critter hils remained strong. I+ is imperative Hrat we Show him our suflwl’f Write to critter ’fvdaly, o ol 2 3 ] ra & B = b 2 3 S| 13 H) VINYWOA A€ d3ns NIAG 05T ’s| 23.LL 122 BOUT ANAf [CONTACT APLAN 818 SW 3RDAVE. PMB 354, PORTLAND,OR 93204 1d sdNNJ D NIANIS N) 431533 LN) i “LaLno ANS INabNT Y 1315AS) You ust include a-full “hame® and a “retwrn address" on font of the emvelpfe. ua’:" Viarshall #1319%602 7% Stanton Blvd., Ontario, OR-43914- oR. MORE. [NFO 15313 WIH 3L1iM ISV Cover art by Rashid Kevin (Rashid) Johnson #185492 Wallen Prison
“We Never Sleep was the name of a zine put out by former prisoner Paul-X, who worked to bring news from prison to the commnity before taking his own e when the pessures outide prison became unbearabl. The name reflect our nature and resolve s anarchists.™ Notes from Portland ‘We Never Slecp is back! Our prolonged hisus in publication eflcts a period of regrouping on the outside, o lay a solid foundation fo thisproject’s ontinuance. We now hope o resume regular publicaion, and look forward to receiving your coniributions for the next newsleter. With regular censorship o this and other anarchist pubicaions by the Oregon Department of Corrctions,those wh efuse 0 give in o the petiness of ODOC’s mail rooms ar fghting back. Sec our back cover for news about Brian McCarvill’s urrent legal chalenge. Those of us in Portland were planning toltigate on th issue of this publication’ denial in several Orcgon prisons,but unfortunately los our lawyer ‘when he letprivate practice. Money raised for this lawsauit has beensplit between Brian and Craig “Criter” Marshal, or help with ther legal effrts. We still ee that a legal challenge originating fom the outside would be of great belp, secing s those held captve in Oregon seem t have no rights tha the ODOC bureaucracy seems bound o respect. ‘We are curently loking foran Oregon Tawyer willng o help us with this cfor, Please get n touch if you have any suggestions Friends on the outsde, please note our new emailaddres: ‘weneversleep@ziplip.com Revolutionary Ex-Political Prisoners Visit Portland Rita (Bo) Brown and Chiis Plummer held a forum in Portland this past July focusing on politcal prisoners, stae repression and the | necessity of revolutionary resistance to patriarchy, capialism, racism and the state. Bo spoke of her history of underground, anti-mperialstactions and eventual amest n 1977 for bank robbery. After serving eight years in prison, she e formed Out of Control, prison support sroup out o the Bay Area which provides much-needed assisance to women prisoners. Bo siressed the lack of sy ‘women receive compared to men, noling thatth visting rooms in women’s prisons are nearly empty. Bo spoke with passion and ‘wisdom as a powerful voice for incarcerated ‘women. Much can be learned from her experience and conviction. (Chris Plumimer, a longtime anarchist,anti-acist and founder of the United Anarchist Front was recently released from prson aftr serving over eight ‘years. Chiis Plummer remained very active during his pison sentence, including strting (Cell One, a lending libeary for prisoners that distributed radialliterature by and sbout Blacks, Chicanos, Native Americans, Asians ‘and working class whites Chris spoke with ferocity and righteous rage. He presented a passionate. ‘and aticulate argument for the anarchist ‘movement t become more active and effective n s prisoner support eforts, Chrisis currently active inthe Anarchist Black Cross Network. Many thanks to Bo ‘and Chris for sharing their inspiration and experiences. Former poliical prisoner Claude Marks presented the film “David Gilbert: A Lifetime of Sruggle” in Portand. David Gilbertis curently serving a lfe sentence forhisrole in support of Black Liberation siruggles. In th film David frankly discusses the sirengths and erors of the movement as a whole and of the Weather Underground Organizaton in partiular. We recommend this fim. (To order *A Lifetime of Struggle”,send check or money order for 520 US/ 525 in Canada t: The Freedom ‘Archives / 522 Valencia Street / San Francisco, CA 94110)
Rob los Ricos Enterprises “Over the past 3 years of my prison experience, friends, supporters, well-wishers and comrades have been generous o me, Sending donations, books, zines, cards and Jeters. Thank you all very much for hinking of me, itmeans lot. “The Oregon Department of Correctons makes it iffcult 10 send Jiterature and monetry donations prisoners, o a frend offered to start a bank Sccount for me in Eugene. The only way this seems to work fo allparties involved s to tart business accoun in my naime, 50 that’s what we’ve done. Having one address for people 0 send donations my way seems like the casest way for me to manage my personal affais, so that I have one place and person o contact when I want o order a book, subscribe to a magazine,order new glasses, teplace my womn out running shoes, send money to my daughter’s mother of send her 3 gift. (Her brthday is coming up s00n.) n’the futur, this business account may come in handy for helping me produce publicatons and otherwise conduct business withthe outside world. Of course, ll t ya’ll know when such developmens aise. “Thanks again for your support. s made areally homible stuation somewhat more bearable.” Send donations o Rob los Ricos/ PO Box 50634 Eugene OR 97405 (USA) In Revol Rob Thaston # 12112716/ OSP/ 2605 State St/ Salem, OR 97310 (USA) Romania Enterprises Files Lawsuit Against Free & Critter On February 25, Romania Enteprses fled a lawsuit inthe Lane County Circut Court This st s an atempt t gain monetary compensation fo vehiles bumed at Romania Chevolet n n ecoefense action of May 200, for which both Fee and Criter were convicted. The lawsuit secs 528,213 from both men for damage to three pickups. Supportof Free and Crite in the face of these further atacks s both necessary and welcome. Update on Rodney Wade idaho prisoner Rodney Wade was interogated by special aget Joseph W. Hess Jr. regarding his letes witng in protet o animal cructy. Rodrney was Questioned for over an hour about the ELF, ’ALF, specific acivists and teir acivtes. Rodney tld Agent Hes that he should ask those actviststhemselves and hat he would Dot give him any information on people or roups. Agent Hess proceeded o el Rodney tha he would no be charged, but that his writngsare considered 10 be & form of intimidation, which s terorism. To this Rodney responded “Not I speak th trith, and I el people what you won’t tell them, and as long as have the righ o specch, I’m gonna keep writing and speaking outagainst people and things [ don’t ike.” Rodaey has o been batling an ongoing and potentially dangerous medical condition. For the past I
thrce months Rodney has been denied six individual medical requests, pain medication and a medicaly required liquid dit Rodney went on hunger srike for three weeks and losttwelve pounds before he finally received a referal o see 2 surgeon. After these months of struggle for basic medical atention, b was finally offered an ‘experimenta] reatment for his condition; it is unlikely to be adequate. He i in need of ‘support for both his political persecution and s lack of medical care. Write him letter expressing your solidaity, and please contact the Warden of IMSI and demand proper medical attntion for Rodney Wade. Rodney Wade £38.058/ IMSI/ A1-31 B/ POB 51 Boise, ID 83707/ USA Warden Greg Fisher /IMSI/ POB 51 Boise, ID §3707 / USA Portland OR, Activists Detained For Arson ‘Two eco-actvists, Jacob Sherman and Jeremy Rosenbloom, were arrsted this ‘August on suspicion of arson against logging trucks at Eagle Creek lat year. The policealso announced they were seeking two other activists, Angela Marie Cesario and Michael Scarpi, on the same charges Following the inital arests, news of ‘Angela’ arest s00n followed. Jacob, Jeremy and Angela have now all been charged with four counts relating o the arsons and bailed pending tial. However, Michael, who isalso known as Tre Artow, s not been located by the poice and he is claimed to be "on the run." This November an additional indictment against Tre and Jacob was added. It presens four counts each for using *frebombs” to damage four Ross siand Sand and Gravel Co. rucks. The action ook place on April 15 2001 North American ALF Press Office Raided On July 30°te Royl Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) raidd th home and offce of David Barbarash. Ms. Barbarash has been the spokesperson fo he North American Animal Libeation Front ress Offce (NAALFPO) since July of 1989 During he rid isfront door waskicked in and the cops seized computers,compiter disks, hundreds of videos, miscelancous photos,paper fes, and four US postal mail bags in adition t documens and fies sezed (and peviously retumed) dring prior raid. "It anoutrag thatthe type of invasion and harassment T’ve been subjct 1o can ake place aganst a spokesperson whose rol s slely as a media lison”saes Barbarash. “The RCMP used newly formed anierorst eam INSET (ntegrated NationalSecuity Enforcement Team) 1o raid Babaras’ home. INSET willbe using he premise o “natiomal security” o invade and disrupt the livesof indivicuals perceived s thrat tothe powers tht b, egardles of rimes commid o not.
From an RCMP press release of June 18 “INSET will help insure caly detection and prevention of any potential threats to ional securiy. The importance of greater of resources and intelligence has been heightened by the realit of terorism since the tragic events of September 117, 200" Barbarash remains clear “This is not ‘about animal ightsissues or actions. It was ‘about how we have losta large chunk of basic civilliberties and human rights. We really do liv ina police state where those: ‘who speak ther minds and who oppose. oppression risk police aids, possible arest and lengthy jil terms.” North American - A.L.F. Press Office / PO Box 3673/ Courtenay, BC VON 71/ Canada Phone: 250-703-6312 What Does Man’s Death Mean for MOVE? By Walidah Imarisha Ina tragic twist 10 n ongoing MOVE custody batle, John Gilbride, former MOVE ‘supporter and father of sx-year-old Zachary Africa, was found shot 10 death in his car in front of his home the morning of September 7. Gilbride had been involved in a four year long custody battle with the adical naturalst organization MOVE over the child e had with MOVE member Alberta Afrca. MOVE says he issues began when Gilbride deserted his family when Zachary was two, disappearing without waring for six months. When he resurfaced, he demanded custody, which Alberta denied him, claiming he had a history of buse and instabilty. She offered supervised viits whenever he wanted, which Gilbride refused. A recent court ruling gave Gilbride partial custody, including unsupervised weekend vists with the child. His first scheduled visit was 10 begin September 20, buthe was in Las Vegas Police say Gilbride was found in his parked car in front of his Maple Shade, NJ apartment complex, ca till unning, seatbel still attached. Time of deathis estimated at 11:30 pm Thursday night They feel he was killed exccution-style. Neighbors report hearing nothing at all. The body was found when a neighbor ‘complained to polic that headlights had e shining nto her spartment or over 30 minutes. ‘Maple Shade police say they have o leads as of yet but re “pursuing all possibiltes.” These possibilites include the ’MOVE organization, and police have said they will bring Albera n for questioning. ‘The organiztion was aleady on high slrt because of the custody ruling, ‘which they had defied, efusing to hand over the child. Theis 4504 Kingsessing home was fortifed a couple of weeks ago, which ‘wooden slats placed over the windows, and food stockpiled n the house. MOVE is continuing these precautions, because they say tis will be used as another excuse 1o attack MOVE. “They use whatever they can to come at s, jus 0 implicate u. We’re very peaceful organization, we’re non violent organization but we do believe in selfdefense. People know that nd they ‘want 1 play on the media atacks on us, says Tiffany Robbins, MOVE supportr. In a statement issued Friday, the ‘group denied any involvement n the death. “MOVE is committd toprotecting our children, but we’re not killrs o murderers.” It goes on to say that te group is “deeply saddened and hurt by the blow we received this morning of the news tha John i gone.” Police also announced September 29 that they had contacted the FBI 10 aid with the investigation. MOVE feels his i just another tactic o haras the organization. “I don’t put anything past this government or their agents, whatever form thir agents come, whetherit bethe court or the police or the FBL They wanted to hurt MOVE with this,and they did, they hurtus bad with this. John was someone we were really familar with,” Robbins explains. But Inspesctor Willam Colarulo, Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson, says this case does not ‘currently involve his police department.
“This is being handied by the Maple Shade police. As far as Lkmow, it docsn’t involve MOVE, because the deceased was not a MOVE member, and there i nothing, currently o implicate them.” ‘Ata press release held the day Gilbride’s body was discovered, the organization invitd the press inside their barricaded home, into a comfortable lving room, where Alberta Afrca sat n a plush arm chair, obviously distraught, ‘She sated that she and MOVE had nothing 1 do with Gilbride’s death, and instead pointed the finger at the government, referencing the horrific history MOVE has withcity administration which culminated in Philly police dropping a bomb on MOVE’s house in May 13, 1985, killng 1 people including five children, and seting. fire to an entie ity block. “T’ve experienced lotof pain at the hands of this government, and Tbelieve this governmentis behind this,” Alberta stted. She poined -+ 8 othe professional ’ e nature of the murder, EAY saying it sounded, Y like government agents or miliary Special Forces. “That may sound far feiched 10 you people, but any government that ‘would drop a bomb on babiesis capable of anything.” Far from wanting Gilbride’s death, Alberta says they were beginning to mend their differences, and find peace. "l never ‘Wanted anything to happen to John because 25 long as he was alive, there was hope. We. still loved cach other very much,” she said, then broke off, crying. MOVE says Gilbride was murdered because if he and Alberta mended their elationship, the government would los s ‘xcuse of the custody bt to persecute MOVE. “They knew that John Gilbride had thepotenial 0 come back to MOVE, which ook away theirjustificaton o coninue this court barle. So hey upped theant,”sid satement by MOVE supportes. The press eleas ended b sayin, “We a supporters are ot going 0 sit by and llow tissystem 1o creat anaber May 13, 1985. We ar not soing 0 alow this sysem o get away with murder.” The MOVE Organization PO Bos 19709 / Philadelphia PA 19143 USA’ Send il 0: ramovla@al com Harassment of Women at Cambridge Springs “This s an updat on what is happening to th female prisonersat the Pennsyivania State Comectional Insttue at Cambridge Springs This issue s curently affecting all women imprisoned in Pennsyivania, and was brought o our attention by the MOVE 9 women: Janet, Janine & Debbie. The sination that we are dealing with has beenin place at other women’s prisons in Pennsylvania for some tme and has just recently been implemented at Cambridge Springs. “On August Sth, 2002 3 new rule went int effctat Cambridge Springs prison, llowing the male salf to “pat search” he female inmats. n a routine *search the officers run thei hands across the shoulders, down the ams, down the entire back, between and under th breasts, down th sides ofthe torso, round the ‘waist, down he bttocks, down the inside and outside of the thighs and legs startng at the crotch. To have men scarching women Tke this i & violation against us 2s women.
‘They are saying that these men ae at liberty o feel on us ke this any time they want to. ‘And that’s just what some of these men are going 1 be doing-using this as an opportunity to feel on women. There have already been stuations ofsexual misconduct by employees and inmates, by consent and force. In August 1997, ths prison was under investgation by state representatives for ‘misuse and abuse of authority, and sexual misconduct. At the time four oficers had een brought up on sexual charges, found guilty, and fred. Some quitbefore they were fired. Despite these hearings the sexval harassment continues.” Statement from the women of the MOVE 9 ~Janet Africa, Janine Africa, Debbie Affica I the prison rulebook policy DC- ’ADM 008 on sexual harassment / abuse against inmates by safl members it says sexual harassment is: “th intentional touching, either direcly o through clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breat, inner thighs,or buttocks of any offender, conversation or correspondence that demonstrates or suggests a romanic or intimate relationship.* This description its exactly to whatthe prison calls a*pat scarch. During this so-caled search the guard must actually touch the vagina of the prisoner. That is not sexual harassment itis rape. These scarches are unwanted and unnecessary (here are hundreds of female officers and supervisors working at SCI ‘Cambridge Springs). This is "intentional touching” labeled a “pat search” and forced on the women at Cambridge Springs. Our positionis that no woman should be subjected t0this treatment. MOVE prisoners will not allow male guards o so-called “pat scarch® them. This policy amounts to nothing less than sexual assault. Clearly if this precedent is allowed soon the male guards will be molesting and raping female. prisoners. Please contact Secretary Beard of the Central Offce for Pennsylvanis Prisor’s and demand tht this policy be repealed suatewide. 7179754859 ‘Also contact Warden Brooks (who is herself a woman) at Cambridge Springs 814-398-5400 and explain that i this policy g0es into efect she will be seen as endorsing violence against women Update from Mumia Legal Support We are sl waiting fo a respose nthe US Courtof Appels o bothsdes appeals of federal Judge William Yolis December 2001 uing in which h et aside Murniss deth sentence-though be gave th steof Pennsylvania the option ofconducing s new hearing at which Mumia coud be setenced 10 death again. I ht hesringis ot hedy and Yoho’s decision s upheld then Muria Wwould serve e i prison withoutparole. Mumia’sstaus i unchanged given these appels. Contray o popular pinion,he remains on Death Row,loked p 23 hors aday s before,with Pleglas baiers between i and il visitors, and withall he other deadlyresictions inflctedon Death Row inmate. The Court of Appeals can respond in umerous ways o te sppeals by both sides,angin fom overtuming Yohn and reimposin the orginaldeath senence 10 pholding Yohn and iavin the queston of new semencing harin up o he s, 1o seingasice the ity verdit in Mumi’s origna i, Internatonal Concerned Famiy & Friends of Mamia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMA)/ 4601 Marke Sret Phidephis PA/ USA 194768812
Mark Barnsley Update Mark Bamsley was released from ‘Whitemoor prison on Monday, June 24", 2002, Mark has been released after srving. two thirds ofhis 12 year sentence, bu has et toclear his name and have his wrongful convicion overtumed. Prior o his elease, Mark efused o sig his lcense on the priniple that he is an nnocent man and his reedomis his ight. Mark says since my release I’ve been taking things one day at & time.” The Mark Barsley Release Fund s sill aceepting donaions or legal supportof his case. Mark Barasley Release Fund / Sumac. Centre, Box CC/73 Beech Avenue Nottingham / NG7 7LR / UK Richard Williams in Solitary Confinement Anti-imperalist poliicalprisoner Richard ‘Williams has been held in Administrative: Segregation since April 30", He writes “T’ve labeled the Administrative Segregation “solitary” becase hey have made it so while denying it.” He reportsthatseven of the 150 people in the prison’s Ad. Seg. Unit arc being held in double cells but are not allowed cellmates. Those who ae being held in double cells are Richard, three men being investigated for serious asaults, and three Arab men who have been in consant ock up since September 11°. They are not allowed contact with other prisoners and recreate alone. Richard himself was in put in Adminisraive Segregation on September 11% under the preext of federal investigation of that day’s action. He was released five months latr, on February 111, ‘The day following his relcase from investgation, he suffered a heart attack. Two and a half monthslaer, he was again put in Administrative Segregation. He has been awaiting transfr t a higher securiy prison, but has so far remained in soltary and not been transferred. Richard wrote o Regional Director Robert M. Haro asking o be retumed to general population, and not t be transferred. lly April 29, 1986, you were ‘convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Offense orto Defraud the United States. The warden has determined that your overal offense. ‘behavior presents a significant threat o the sccurity and orderly running of the intiution. [...] Your request for Regional Administrative Remedy Appeal s denied™ Haro presents Richard’s 1986 charges and some vague words from the warden, a rationale for sending, Richard to soltary, and for his eventual transfer 0 a higher securiy level prison. Thisignores that Richard has neither threatened noracted vioinily towards anyone in theten years he s been at USP Lompo. The actions against Richard are pure repression. Richard s currently receiving. reatment for Atral Fibeilation, but reports that the authorities were slow 1 respond fo his needs once he gotout of hospita. He periodicaly tll has episodes relaing to this condition, and again the authorities ae slow 10 respond. Richard wites of is prior involvement and his charges: I went underground o jon the armed clandestine movement in 1981 and was captured in Cleveland on November th, 1984, my 37th birthday. I was convicted forfive of the United Freedom Front (UFF) bombings in 1986 io Brookiyn Federal Cour. In 1987 1 g0t hung jury at the Somerville, N.J.tial i the death of a state rooper during @ shoot- out with Tom Manning. Next I went through 2 two-year long tia in Springficld, Mass., along with Pat and Ray Levasseur, n 1988 and 1989 for seditious conspiracy and RICO. The jury refused to convit us. In December 1991, was convicted of killing state trooper Lomonco in 1981 afer my second trial on these charges in Somervill, N.J Tam t0 serve 45 years for the UFF. actions when I finish serving my N.J. sentence of 35 years o life. As with all dedicated revolutionaries the goverment
has caught they have tried to bury my body away in prison, while being unable o crush my spirit” ‘Writ to Richard Williams: Richard Williams #10377-106/ 3901 Klein Bivd / Lompoc CA 93436/ USA Phoenix Anarchist Coalition PO Box 3315/ Tempe AZ 85280-3315 / UsA Tom Manning moved to Leavenworth US. politca prisoner Tom Manning was forcbly tranferred back to the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, KS a few weeks ago. Asa resul of past brutal plice beatings, Tom was i the Medical Center for Federal Prisonersin Springfield, MO for hip, knee and shoulder surgery. Despte his continued need for post-surgery trestment and therapy, he was moved out! “Tom says in a telephone conversation, "Last Wednesday they “kidnapped” me right out of the yard. No property - no warning st Ipm. By 4:30pm | was in Kansas again. Sleeping like a stray dog in someane elses cell, bumming coffee, shampoo, etc.” Tom is desperately in need of donations o help. him purchase clothing (sweat suit), ood, ‘and sundries lost during this forced relocation. Please send postal money order checks made: out 0 Thomas W. Manning #10373-016 to the address below: Thomas W. Manaing 10373016 / US Penitntiary / PO Box 1000 / Leavenworth KS 66048 / USA We hope that you ind it in your heart to help this freedom fighter. Thank you for your continued support and solidarity! For more information on Thomas Manning and the prisoners of the United Freedom Fron, contact the December 16th Commitee: declih@hotmsil om Help Needed for Herman Wallace ‘Afterover thirty years in soltary ‘confinement, Herman Wallace has been thrown in the dungeon at Louisians State Penitentiary in Angola. The prison says he had racist lterature in is cell (Black Panther historical information),but has fled o charge againsthim. As the ACLU civil suit and the criminal post-convicton flings wind their way through the courts, th prison administration has stepped up the harassment against Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace of the Angola Three “Throwing 61-year-old Wallace in isolation where he is under 24-hour camera. surveillance i clearly retaliation for Wallace’s continued rsistance o th racst, illegal reatment of prisoners in Angola. The prison hastried for hiry years o break these men by keeping them in slitry and now theyre stepping up the activiy. Excerps from Wallace’s leters: “There is a man n this dungeon the security s eally messing with -l talk to the lawyers about it when [ have a chance. “The man has been on his back in 4 point restraints since 10/13 (date ofletter- 10721). ‘When a man goes on 4-point they let him up the next day, but hey are keeping this man Tike this without a shower or feeding him. 1 have been sending him my food when I can. He urinates and defecats on himself and they leave him like tha. His mther came all the way from Shreveport o visit him and see how he was doing and because they have. him in 4-point,they 1ol her she could not see him." “He i i the cell next to me and there is nothing I can do or him or any of the other guys here, s | can hardly do for myself” Demand that Herman Wallace be released from the dungeon and apply pressure o have both Wallace and Albert Woodfox placed in general population while avaiting retril by calling, faxing or writing Warden Burl Caln. Louisians State P 70712/USA Phone (225) 655- 2002 iary Angola LA
Fax (225) 6552319 Assistant Warden Dupont Phone (225) 6552024 Fax (225) 6552319 Assistant Warden Coody Phone (225) 6552441 Fax (225) 6552814 Chris Plummer Arrested on Bunk Charges Huntsville: The Texas Department of (Criminal Justice (TDCJ) held what was supposed to be public forum for families Of Texas prisoners to address concerns wi TDCI policy. A reporte for Indymedis, lomgtime anarchist and ani-fascistactivist, and former politca prisoner, Chris Plummer was arested outide the campus buikding for asking a simple question regarding TDCJ policy. Many activists in Texas and clscwhere fee thisis not only a. Violation of his free speech rights, butalso an example of the repression and intimidation that TDC) offcals use to eliminate any real concemns tht familis and supporters of prisoners have. Chrs Plummer i on parole and this bunk arestcould land him beck in prison. Chris has been meeting with anattorey to discuss how to defeat the charges that have been made agains him. Given the absurdity ofthis incident, the chances of Chiis beating these charges are great, but regardless of whether the charges sick or no,the inancial and emotional sress placed on Chri by legal troubles is going 0 be costly. In the course of the past few months, Chrs has been harassed by the police, and the authorties recently blocked. him from traveling to Denver, Calorado to partiipate in the peaceful demonstrations against Denver’s annual Columbus Day celebration organized by the American Indian Movement. Chrs needs our financial and emotional support now more than ever. For more information on how you can help, call s Plummer at #512-497-5975 or email him at tuaf@yahoo.com Anti-Racist 28 Cleared Almost ll charges were dropped against antiracist actvists who demonstrated against neo-Nazis aiving in town t attend aracist rally at the US Capitl on August 24, The actvists were charged with attacking the racists whie they were parked at the Baimore Travel Center inside thir chartered bus, and were facing a combined total of 1,177 years behind bars. According to James Rhodes, attomey for the "Anti- Racist 28, the case was incredibly weak, ‘much of it relying on a video which could ot identify any of the assailants because of the rain and the bus door which blocked. much of the scene. “There was no way in determining whatrole if any the defendants played (inthe assaul).” Rhodes said. Two charges sl tand, but Rhodes says he ‘expects those also 10 be thrown out before: the scheduled Oct. 31 courtdate. ‘The attack, which was on a bus of neo-Nazi skinheads reportedly from Michigan, leta number of them injured and their bus,in the words of one "demalished,” “The 28 defendants, who included a lawyer
that was legal observer fo the demonstrators,reportedly did no amive on the sene untl e he assaul No one knows who was responsible. Over th past month, support forthe Anti-Racist 28 vas Widespread, September 23rd being declared an ntermational Day of Solidarity for them. ‘Meanwhile the Nazis compiled the defendants’ adessesthey obained from police records and spread them throughout the ntemet. Amorg hem was the Libertarian Sociaist News, un by Bil ‘Whit, & person lose tothe Na Aliance (NA), the white supremacist group who sponsored th racist rallyoutsde the Capitol. Inapost eportedlysiged by him on the DC Indymedia website, he said hat a5 s00n a3 the NA got th addresses of the ant-acists ey would all be dead. On Sept. 1, here werereports of neo-Ncis visiting. Some homes, butno incidents of vilence werereportd, despite White’s reporting that Some ant-acist in Pisburgh were beaten. “The benefts and fundraising efforts hat e cither planned o underway r sill ‘going shead 10 help offet legal fees. For more information, e v AntiRacis 2 org or hup/vewse oncpeoplesproect com Call for an International Support Campaign for the Long Beach / Southern California Anarchist Movement Recently 1 visited Los Angeles for 3 speaking tour, and learned of the harassment ‘and frame-ups of Anarchists in Long Beach/Los Angeles County, Califomia. It ‘seems that repressive police And FBI terrorism is being used to crush the Anarchist movement there. During May Day protests against capitalism held in Long. Beach, police without provocation attacked a street demonsration with brutal violence, aresting about 100 persons, and physically injuing several others. People were shot ‘with rubber bullet, beaten with baton, and sprayed with Chemical Mace. One of those amested, Robert Middaugh, was laer rairoaded to prison with athee year senence for“assaulting® the one ofpolice offces tacking the protstrs. He i now in prson as ‘Anarchst political prison ofthe. goverment ata California peniintiary. Police justified the police riot by claiming protsters threw rocks, botes, and ather projectiles, and even fces at them, which has been proven t0 be atotal i These atacks were unprovoked, andjust designed 10 break up the demonstration and stfle the organizing of the Anarchist movement. They were poliical repression. Since those protestslast year, several other Anarchists have been arested on bogus charges, and others have rceived numerous theats and harasment from the police inclucing constat visits o the Anarchist info-shop. A goon squad of cops have followed them at demonsirations, and tried 1 goad them o vioence. Yet,through it allthey have continued to protest pig/state repression. And they are: now being supportd by the Black community, especialy folks who have ‘witnessed or beenthe victms of police brutality. The Black community in notonly Long Beach, but throughout L A. County, has been subjeced to police racist violence and police racial profilng. ’Add tothis the continuing FBI spying and the January st of Sherman A, founder of the adical websie, RaisetheFistcom, then ane can clearly see that the American govermentspolice forces have singld out the Long Beach arca a3 test for how to cush the Anarchist movement in this period. ‘As has happened inth past, ‘whenever Anarhism became a dangerous and potent poliicalfrce, te government then engages in a policy ofsystematic poltical repression. Ths s simila o the FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign against the 1960’s Black Panther Party and New Left. “They framed acivss, et groups against each other to prevent ot support, and used massiv violence t put down protsts. We must suppor tese Anarchiss, o thy. ‘il be coming afer s next. Today its Long Beach and L A, omorrow i will be those of
usin New York, Chicago, Boson, Alant, Detrotor wherever Anarchists are onganized. The ew "atiemorst” laws ive the government a song hand o put down oliical disent, but olidarityis our ‘major weapon. We must support cach ther, and not allow government s and misinformation e us 0 inaction. Lam calling o the intemational Anarchist Black Cross movement, and Anarchists all over the world 10 suppert the Long Beach Anarchists, Sherman A., Rober Middaugh,and others caught up in he sovernment’s dragnet We camnot et this repression go unchecked, and injory o one isan injury o ll. WHAT CAN YOU DO? 1. Send donation for legal defenseof these Anarchists o: Long Beach Infoshop, 684 Redondo Avenue, Long Beach, CA. 90814 1453, 2. Send leters of complain o Long Beach cityand L A. County oficials demanding. thatthey drop these prosccutions and end the harassment of Anarchists: Mayor Bevrly ONeil, 333 West Ocean Beach Bivd, Long Beach, CA. 90802. E-mal Mavor@cilong-beach ca us; Tom Reaves, City Prosecutor also ecds o hea from you: prosccutor@c long beach.ca for bringing the misdemeanorcharges, asdocs Seve Cooley, L A. County Distric Atiomey, who isbringing on the flony char Isda@eo 3. Send letrsofsuppor or the victms of ihese frame-ups o this repression t: Los Angeles AnarchistBlack Cros, P.0. Box 3671, Anaheim, CA. 982033671 Email LA blackcross@hotmail com - Spread the word on the case of he Long. Beach Anarchiss, and when he time comes for a mass soldarty proest (Day of Action) and rbunalon plicecrimes, be eady 10 come thee (dtes {0 be announced). For more information on he Long Beach sruggle,or o seepictus o the May 2001 police it please see the *Siop Long Beach Reprssion website at: s stop By Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, August, 2002 Further Repression in Long Beach On January 24th, 2002, Sherman Austin became one of the first victms of he new USA Patriot Act when 25 heaviy armed FBI agents and secret service surounded and rided his home in Los Angeles because ofis anarhist website hipy/vww risethfistcom. All computer equipment and political liteature were scized. Austin went o court on Monday, ‘Sept 30th 0 plead guily 01 felony reated 10 information on the aisethefist website contining dircctions on how to make explosives. The plea bargain was 0 give ‘Austina felony conviction with | monih in jil, months in a hal-way home and 3 years superviscd rlease. The Judge ejecied the plea, attempted to make Austin out 353 termoistand argued that Ausin should serve mor than twelve monihs in ail even though thesentencing s between 6-12 months for Austn’s crimial history category. I going, 1o wial, Austin faces 3 years n prison if convicied of both felonies, the addiional charge being i positon of an unregisered firearn. Mathew Lamont (AKA Rampage), Long Beach anarchist who has been highly involved with man local groups, has been i jail since April 20th, 2002. ‘On April 20uh, Mathew Lamont was followed from the Long Beach Infoshoppe (REACH Center) by Long Beach Detectives where he was then pulled over in the city of L Habra and arested. He s being held n the Santa Ana. Facilityin Santa Ana, CA.and i being charged with 4 felony charges of possession of adestrucive device, transporting of a destructive device, the use of a destructive device, and the possession of materials instructions to make 8 destructive device. Marcs bail has been placed at 100,000 dollas, and prosecutors have stated tha they want 0 give him a minimum of 2 years f@&%{
Anarchist Black Cross Network Conference “The first Anarchist Black Cross conference. in North America since 1994 was held on the weekend of July 26.28, 2002, in Austin, Texas. The event, hosted by the autonomous Austin ABC collecive and former politcal prisoner and Texas anarchist Chris Plummer, comes on the heels of the release of A New Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network which advocated the creation of a new network of anarchist ani- prison groups. The ABC-Netwark is now in existence and is a promising development in the generally weak and dismal North ‘American actvist mlieu. Report on the conference have been written by longtime anarchis activists Lorenzo Kom’Boa Ervin nd Emesto Aguilar and others. These. reports, and other info regarding the ABC Network and prisoner-support ativties, can be found a the impressive Anarchist Black Cross Network website: v amrchistblackeross or Ways to Support Jeff “Free” Luers Weite (0 the Governor of Oregon Urge the Govemor to commute Free’s absurdly long 225 year sentence. Point out the punishment does not it the ‘crime’ and thatthe Tyree oil conviction was based on circumstantal evidence. Sample leters o available from Free’s Defense Network, Howl for Freedom, POB 0263, Eugene, OR 97405, howl_for_freedom@yahoo.com Contribute to Free’s Legal Defense Free is appealing his 225 year sentence on numerous grounds. I wil ke a few years before it gets before the court and wil take lots of funds. This is the largest expense in defending oneself rom state charges. Make all checks and money orders o "How for Freedom" and send to the address listed below. Write Free Prison is an extremely lonely place and sending leters to Free asking how you can help, sharing sorie, eling him about what s going on in the world i a great way fo help. Free responds tohisleters and isa great corespondent. Al leters can be sent to: Jeffrey Luers, #13797671, Oregon Satc Prison, 2605 Suate Steet, Salem, OR 97310, Take care not 0 write anything on the envelope except addresses and to avoid wriing the words *Anarchy" or “Anarchisn” Contribute to Free’s College Education Free s currenly aking classes in prison toward a college degree. Obviously, this will take time and lot of money. All checks and money orders can be made out 0 "Howl for Freedom" and send t their address listed below. Send him a book or zine. Prisoners in Oregon State Prisons must receive new books and they must be sent direcly from the publisher. Best bets for getting books to Free are: Amazon.com No, they arent anarchists bu they have. everything and get books into prisons often “There website is: ww.amazon.com For more information about Free, contact: How for Feedom, POB 50263, Eugene, OR 97405, howl_for_recdom(@yahoo com Websites: o freefresnow.org. ‘v cugene indymedia org/features/prisone index bl s breskshechains net International Updates Natalia Kexiopoulou Nataia Kexiopoulouis a 19-year-old student who came with her sep-family rom ‘Abhazia, region of the former Soviet Union. From the ime she was 14 years old, her fher had been rapin hes regulrly, ihreatening 0 send her back to Abhazia (3 plce that she remembers mainly for the Horrorsof the conllictther) i she aid anything, On March 11, be wried o rape her sgain inhis office. She pulled out a knie 0 defend hersell and he fther was faaly wounded. It should b oted tht her fther Wwas & man of some power, being a member of thesecurity service of Vladimir Putn, Russian head ofstat. Her court date was set for March 15%, we have been unable o fnd
and the outcome of her case or futher updates. We call for soldarity with this courageous young woman, and all women who take direct ation against patriarchy. Antifascist prisoner Wayne Heaton Wayne Heaton; was sentenced to 18 months in prison for “violent disorder” during the Burnley riots last summer. Wayne, who grew up in Burnley, was none 100 happy secing the growth of support for the racst British Nationalist Party (BNP) in his home town. So when the police defended the BNP, ‘Wayne like many locals stood up and fought. He’d love leters of support: Wayne Heaton, GK 7292, Wing G18, HM. Prison, 2 Ribblestone Lane, Preston PRI SAB, UK Repression In Greeee Yannis Serifis, 63 year old ant authortarian syndicalst, has been imprisoned and charged as being a member of the anmed struggle group "November 17° and forthe murder of CIA chiefin Greece, Richard Welch in 1975 (ate the fall of the: dictatorship). (This group has been active for 27 years in Greece and 17 people have been imprisoned -prio to Yanis’ arest- since late June as being members. It should be pointed outthat when first arested some chose to collaborae with the police and. gave names of other members when first charged. Since then, claims have been made. by some of these prisoners of forced andlor fabricated confessions by police). The authoritesonly "evidence’- the confessions of 3 of those charged (it should be pointed out hat these 3 men have since changed their statements and now say Yannis was never involved in the group and isactions) ‘After 2 hours of questioning by the Courtof ‘Appeal, Yannis’ imprisonment was announced. Over 100 people- anarchists, antisuthoritarians, evolutionary lefists-who had gathered outsid, ried t preven the police jeep (with Yannis inside) from departing. One person was aested. The riot police attacked the demonstrators who threw stones in defense, Tear gas was used 10 disperse the crowd. Thisis pat of an ongoing campaign by the Greek and American authoritis o imprison ‘Yannis. 25 years ago, Yannis was charged with the death of milltant Christos Kassimis 1t was later revealed to be the work of two security agent. He was imprisoned for 1S ‘months before the court announced the frame-up. He had th solidrity of many ‘eople just as he has now. Yannis has always made it clear that he has opposed the tacticsof armed struggle. For over 40 years a5 an industrial worker and member ofthe group "Class Unity” at his workplace (publc ransport), he has prefered to be open (in speech and practic) about hs involvemen. in the mass workers movement and class struggle. The authorities have no concrete evidence against him (i. his DNA, fingerprnts were not found in th hideouts) ‘and his imprisonment is part of a broader ‘campaign o criminalize the revolutiona lef/anarchistantiauthoriarian movement and create a culture of reression, cutail free speech and destroy independent syndicalism.
25 Prisoners Die from Smoke in Dominican Republic La Vega: Atleast 25 prisoners died of smoke inhalation on September 20 at an overpopulated and badly ventiated siste prison n the Dominican Republic’s central Province of La Vega, north of Santo. Domingo. At least 50 other prisoners were injured, some seriously. Offcials say a ‘group of prisoners at the Concepeidn jilset mattresses on fire ater baricading. themselves in thei cels 10 protest asurprise inspection for weapons, drugs and contraband. As of September 21, national ‘guard roops were posted outsid the prison o keep back hundreds of angry family members chanting, “Bring them out!” The family members want o se the surviving. prisoners so they can be sure they are unharmed. The Concepeidn prison was built 1o house no more than 200 prisoners, but was hokling nearly 600 at th time of the fre Prison Hunger Strikes in Turkey Claim ‘Another Life Gulnibal Yilmaz, an active member of Turkey’s underground lefst movemert, died on hunger strike. She joined the prison hunger-trke known as the “Death Fast” on June 18,2001 in Kutahya Prison. She is the 95th "martyr” o the Death Fast. In the month of August alone four prisoners died on this hunger-stike. Gulnibal Yilmaz was ot an anarchist, she was a socialist While we do not support the politial objectives of the socialist movement, here o in Turkey or anywhere lse, we do feel inclned to honor her death. The entir corporate press, many. parties which call themselves lef-wing and ‘many NGO (non-govemmental organizations) are ignoring her death. They ‘would like us to beieve that rsistance does ot involve death and suffring. They would Tike for usin the First World to continue to play games masked as “actvism", whining ‘about “privilege” while we do nothing and the restof the world fights and dies because of the ativitiesof our culture. For these reasons and others, we honor Gulnial Yilmaz -95th “marty” of the Turkish siruggle against capitalst brutaliy. Anarchists Acquitted! Usak: The tial of five Turkish anarchists from Usak has just ended and all of them have been acquitted! The court started i the moming with paticipation of 30 anarchists (for soldariy) and ended within * approximately one hour. For background info on ths stuation, contact the group. “Anarsist Kara Ay” (Anarchist Black Crescent) a: Ankaraabeankara@yahoo com Tet’s Get Free! Let’s Get Free-a new, 24 page ‘pamphlet of writings for, by and about anarchist & Earth liberation prisoner Jeff Free’ Luersis available: fora donation of §5. Proceeds of the sale of this pamphiet will after paying copy costs) go to Jeff Luers directly. This 24 page, 8 11 inch, well produced new pamphiet contains the following and many more writngs: Words from Free, Who is Jeff Luers?, Earth First! Journal Interview with Free, Free’s Sentencing Statement, Rob and Free at OSP, Free’s Statement on the 2nd Romania Arson, Never Cry Wolf by Killing King Abacus, Letirs (0 the Eugene Weekly in defense of Free plus original artwork, poetry, Oregon state mailing regulations for sending Free mail, ways to support Free and ‘more! To order this pamphiet, send $5 or more t: Break the Chains, PO Box 11331, Eugene, OR 97440 or Free’s Defense Network, POB 50263, Eugene, OR 97405, Checks need 10 be made out 10 “Howl for Freedom.” Well concealed cash and checks only, please.
Prisoner Notes note s ari From Lee Max Barnmett: Thanks for the summary o the PATRIOT Act. I’ve spent 50 much time working on my death penalty appeals that | baven’t paid much atenion to the act. “The dangerousnessof the legilation is signaled in s tile: the PATRIOT Act. Such s have been used before o get dangerous legislaton “shoved through” the ongress and senate without much oppositon, .. the Anitrrorism and Effectve Death Penalkty Act which fllowed. the Oklahoma City bombing. What legisators would dare o oppose abill with such a itk ~ “Antiterorism” What legislators would dare 10 oppose the PATRIOT Actafer /117 Suchttles should alertall pople that ther reedoms will be stolen and sbused by the legilation. The e indicates the wriers o not want any srutiny or challenges tothe bill. These Republicansare outrageously dangerous to freedom. They are the true American Taliban. While the Atorey General and ‘media have dubbed John Walker-Linc tis, itis Ashcrof himself who s, by his acions, the real American Taliban. During the 19305 the Work Project Administration worked on many projects. One was some beauiful tatues in Washingion, DC. These have been o0 public display since the 1930s. Recently, Ashroft dcided that S8000 in taxpayers” funds should bespent to cover up bare reastson female statues. Thee s o doubt about it~ Asherof i the real American ’Duc 0 space and other considerations, we are curently unable 10 print everything we receive for ‘We Never Sieep. We intend to build the newsleter s a legal resource, publishing legal information, queries and advice. We also prioritize prison news and updates, s well s tems relating o anarchistorganizing and to the pisoner network. 1f we do not printan tem, we will ! in the “aiso eceived" section and make copies available upon request. As we wish 10 get this newsletter 1o those who need it,we may not publish items likely t cause ‘mail rejection. We also prefe i disputes between network members are discussed directly between the relevant partes. Comment s always welcome on editorial decisions. Views printed in the Prisoner Notes section are those of the individual contributor and not necessarly those of the network as a whole (o of the outside support collective). Please clearly mark “For We Never Sleep” on everything intended for publicationin the bullti. - Ouiside Support Collective itutonal “Tallban! And be Is very dangerous o civil liberies — all of them. Lee Max Barnett/ PO Box E-03100/ San ‘Quentin Stte Prison/ CA 94974 From Thomas Helms: 7 Ireget o have totell you thatal that at least two offcers commitied a sexual assault againstme. 1 told the warden and he conducted an investgation. During the whole investigation, every officer had something to say against me. Well, | thought “What about me,the victim?” Every time, in every cas like this one, who ar they going o believe? The officer, of course. Now that the investigationis over, | am going 1o receive a writen offensé repor and be sent 104 seg. unit. I have writen the prosecutor’s office, but they refuse to answer, If anyone out there could help me with funds for an attorney, would appreciat it. 1 have no family that can help me. All L have s you, my brothers and sisers. You can send ‘money orders 1o my address here. | thank you for all your help wit this issue ‘Also, John Two-Names, Lam S0y 1o hear about your mother, Tell her to stay strong. The spiits willsee er trough and she wil be okay. As for the queston: 1) What s the position of APLAN to prisoners charged with rape,sexual assault and other such crimes? - fel as an individual that we cannotsupport these people, because if we.
do, who would we feel about ourselves? What do we represent? 2) Does this apply 1o those who claim nnocence orrehabilitation? -1 feeltht if they are innocent et the law prove they are ‘As forrehabiltation,if they did t once, they ‘willalways have that impulse o do t 3gan. Ihave to go, 5o everyone take. care, and please help i you can. Thomas Helms #41892 / 1SC1 /PO Box 14 /Boise, Idaho 83707 (USA) From Jason Letzner Dear frends and comrades of APLAN — Tam a politically-conscious prisoner sending out a desperate callfor soldarity and ‘assisance. As oflate the prisoncrats that Yours for te revolution — Jason Letzner #165857 / PO Bax 492/ 1728 Bluewater Highway / Tonia, MI 48846 (UsA) Work in th property room here have been =" ¢ repeatedly rejecting al of my radical books, catalogs, zines and most iteratue (i. Snarchist, commnist and environmental) hile some of the material conains only Slight hints of a politcal sant. All materal is being rejected with no specific reasons as o wh the material being sent to me is objectionable - no specfic easons, 00 ‘explanation and no right to have a hearing. Everything is labeled a “security threat”regardless o the acual content. For ‘example, last week a package of books that | ordered from AK Press was denied. This ek the books Camival of Chaos and Chronic!Riot!Spasm (an at book) were sent 1o me from Slug and Lettuce Book Distribution and consequently were also denied. Lam fling grievance on the offices for denying me the right to have hearing, and also for them not specifcally addressing what i a “secarity threat”,but feel this to be an ongoing problern for me. that needs some serious sgitation from comrades on theother sde of these wall, Please feel free to write Warden Prelesnik to your outrage over the censorship that ot ‘ol me, but many feethinkers on the inside are forced to endure Warden Prelesnik / PO Box 492/ 1728 Bluewater Highway / lonia, M1 48846 (UsA) From William Martinez: Greetings my comrades - Lam writing n agreement with what comrade Free (Jef Luers) made mention of {n We Never Sieep Vol. 2,No. 8. As those. who get it know, APLAN’s We Never Slecp. Jets anybody incarcerated hav involvement, ut what if an agent of epression (AKA facist Nazi pece of shi) wants o sabotage work? Let me explain - 1doa book study i the dorm with anybody that wanis to leam about Anarchist hisory, and everybody Knows that ’m a practicing Anarchist peace: punk, 5o 1 talk o people on an ndividual basis also. Now I have gotien in confrontations with racists injails, predominantly BOWS, which sands for Brotherhood of White Strength. There are about three of those asshales running around my dorm, as wellas undercover ones. ‘A kid confroted me one day tlling me he used o be a racist and wanted o learn about Anarchism. At first I was ‘doubiful but saw his actions and opened the door L embraced him with Anarchist history
and even gave him some contacts with people in Connecticut wiling o help on the outside. He is home now; well the fuckin’ d stabbed me in the back by nuking A~ head websites, and tricking other A-heads on the outside. This isn’sth firs time it has happencd; I have had other experiences on the outide with fascists making claims to be Anarchiss for sabotage reasons. Now | am aware of who i i the book studics, i ‘zines Ishare have addresses etc... am toially paranoid. We as a collecive can embrace people but need to know who we are embracing, a it could be detrimental. | don’t want 10 sound hierarchical, but where do we draw the lne? I believe that we should have stronger guidelines for our collctive. We should have someone on the outside 10 confim that we ruly are what we state. Then you ask “What about prisoners that saw the light and chose the crcle A lifestyle? t s hard for me 1o say - we need 1o decide collecively - but one thing for sure,there i someone that is lurking that ‘could b fascist,and of there is we willfind ou. Well comrades, | would fove to hear yourtake or if you have had sitations like mine. I you want to write me do it through APLAN as | can’t write ditecly to prsoners. [..] Tend withthis quote from Mikhail Bakunin: “Every enslavement of men i at the same time a limit on my own (reedom, | ma fice man so far as | ecognize the umanity and lierty of all men around me.”. Martinez #259840 / PO Box 1400 /Enfield, CT 06083 (USA) OR¥r@ From Thomas Meyer Falk: Apologies to Thomas fo the delay in hing this. 4 the US sate prepares or er n Irag, we consider the poinis Caisedin this arice 1o be as relevant as US Terror or Legitimate Self-Defense? On Sunday, October 7* (2001],the US army strted bombing Afghanisan, ogether with the formerly biggest colonial power, Great Britain. This implies the extra-lega kiling of people, usually called murder. The US. ‘overnment and thei lle, the slf- appointed generals Bush, Blir,and of ‘course the German government representatives Schroder, Scharping and Fischer, however, call it leitimate self- defense. Clearly, the UN Charter does not justify the atack on Afghanistan Independent experts on intemational law who are ot nfluenced by western ‘govemmenis comespondingly confirm and prove his llgitimacy. Each and every law student is taught n the frst semeste tht el-defense implis a direct and present attack against life and well-being. In this case, with the attack on the mischievous US-imperilism being almost four weeks i the past, one. cannot alk of a direct and present danger: ‘Wit rhetorical tricks and a clever manipulation o the masses, western govemments crete the impression tha the west was jus before extinction by fantical Islamists.In order to enforce this impression peaple from Arabic countries are deliberately confronied with a general ban, and spied out by secre service methods. “The tre intention behind these measures isto make use of the events of September 11 in Washingion and New York in order t increase the area and power O US influence,thereby forcing also those states and their people under the inhuman control of capitalism, which were, p to now, able 0 avoid this conirol. George Bush cleverly states “Those who are not with us are with the terrorists!” thus creating, considerable psychological pressure People in the US, but also in Europe, who tried to maintaina critcal view onthe atacks on the Pentagon and the WIC, instead of participating i the collective mass hystera, were and are sill ot only the target ofstae repression; futhermore,ther i also censorship of
thought,speech and publishing within the lef-wing scene. “This shows how strongly and effectively the manipulations of the sate offices forrepression work. 1S or 20 years ‘g0 radical left-wing activists celebrated the miltant sction of their - mostly lsamic - fellow activistsin Palestine orin other countrics of the Middle East Today people Wwho mention the sorrow of the Palestinians are immediately confronted with the reproach of being anti-Semitic May the activists of September 11 have been guided by the wrong ressons - everybody who does not immediately expressthe greatest disgust a th attacks on the Pentagon and the WTC is placed in the fascist comer because the deed was “basically fascist”, s somebody wrote in an Indymedia forum. Wht happened to the often- praised “assumption of nnocence™? Until oday there have only been unsubstantiated claims of - partly obscure - ‘govemment sources, sating that Osama Bin Laden was the responsible person in the background. ‘As an anarchistorientated person eligions ae strange to me, and so ncither Christianiy nor Isam tell me much. But | ‘wonder if fundamental rights, which the westem regimes allegedly grant 0 all people, are o leftaside now, s the Christan crusades against slam are being continued?! Under the name of an - alleged - ‘Struggle against terorism”! Where s the. proof for the alleged it of Osama Bin Laden? s it lready forgotien that in 1991the US govermment deliberately spread the wrong information that “diabolical Irgis” were klling babis in hospials in Kuwait, in order to justify the US itervention before their own people? Is it forgotten how, with substantal help from the German secre srvice and govemment (including the pseudo-pacifist Green Party) in 1999 it was alleged there were concentration camps in Serbia, and there was 2 “Hufeisenplan” (*horse shoe plan)? What s particulaly dissppointing and rightening s that lso and especially among the politicl lef there seems to be something ke a fundamental Christian belif,leading o a sitation which was unthinkable about 15 or 20 years ago - that leftwing actvists express solidariy with the USA. The point is notfavoring a - pimitive - ant-Americanism; the pont i the eopalitica (in a widespread sense of ecology, miltary, and ecology) power of the US administration and US econom! | agree fully with people who express soldarity with the working slaves that were killed in Washington and New Yori on September 112 But | cannot and do not want 0 express solidarity with the US soldiers that were. Kiled in the Pentagon, who put people from life to death (e inthe former Yugoslavia orin Iraq). Was it an act of “self-defense” to il Chinese in Belgrade in their embassy in 19992 I it “slf-defense” when the US bomb “millary argets” in Iraq on a weekly basis? Was it “self-defense” when the US has been causing the deatks of ters of thousands of children since 1991 by means of the economic sanctions againt Iraq? Accordingly today in Afghanistan itis not a matter of “self-defense”. While international law is consciously and deliberately ignored, people are being bombed and killed, who have no chance to defend themselves in a court case. Instead of actng against his, representativs of the German government cannot wait (0 partcipate actively; well, the present goverment made their irst experiences ‘with attacks no n line with international Taww in 1999, tha seems to have aroused their appetite. There it is back again, the ‘German drive for power, feard especially by France, Noto Christan crusades by the USA and Germany! No to attacks on innocent people against intemational aw! ‘Thomas Meyer-Falk o JVA-Z 3117/ ‘Schoenbomstr. 32 76646 Bruchsal | Germany
A From Sam Policar Lam no leader, organizer, motivational speaker or anything of the ot nor do | wish o be. In this struggle from allthings oppressive [ consider myselfsimply a soldier willingto stand side by side with anyone willng to make a sand. One of the many frustrations | have about incarceration is the lack of organizational support from the strets. There is some but not cnough here in Oregon and some of the so-called groups are simply a hoax. One group whose leadership has hopefully changed hands claimed t0 b there to make positive changes for prisoners was headed by an individual ‘whose family member s locked up so this person was very cautious (to0 cautious) in aising issues against ODOC and standing. firm until ODOC made changes because they were n fear of etlition by COs on their family member for their actons. My opinion i if you’re not willing to sand all the way up keep your ass in your seat ‘Currently Lam housed in the IMU at Oregon State Penitentary. I i called a “program” by administrators and is curently undergoing some changes 1 give them the abilty to keep us in this deprivation ‘archouse fo aslong as they wish, when they wish, without tlling us anything. Basically what other states’ ock-up units have been doing for years, but it s new in Oregon and necds to b battled right from the start. This IMU offers nothing but dead time and isoltion. No schoo! if you have 3 ‘GED or diploma and those who don’t very rarely getany help education-wise even though i you have no diploma or GED part Of your program is to obtsin one. Books are ‘vilable on an exchange basis three times Per week. However, the books are old and mosly all are missing pages, ot to mention hold no real educationa or lteary value. There are 49 people per pod with EPproximately 60 books on the book cart for ‘Sach pod, and carts are rarely rotated among pois. ime g TP main reason [ have aken the lime 9 writc however is because of ODOC’s rule development procedures Prisoners may comment on pending rules but that isa joke. However, individuals and roups on th steets have & say in rule development by requesting a public hearing. The only catch s there must be at leas ten people requesting a hearing i order o get one. We in hre need a voice out there that we can utlze for the purpose of isputing. these off the wal rules that they make on a regular basis. I there anybody (10 people) out there willing to end some time? | am willing to step up and get ths thing organized and rolling, 5o if anybody out there i interested, has suggestions or ideas thatcan help, please contact me. I will respond to anyone ruly interested,jus keep in mind that sometimes mail moves slowly in and outof the insttution for some odd reason, 0 if you write and s response is slow in inding you, b patient or repeatedly send lttrs s ifthey are holding my mail they’ll see not everyone gives up easly and accepts their games, Sam A. Policar #10275241 / OSP /2605 State Srcet/ Salem, OR 97310 (USA) From Michael Spradlin: First, thank you for the Dec. 01 /Jan. ‘02 issuc of We Never Sleep.[.] I found d issue t0 contain much heartening materal ‘which helps to bolster sometimes sagging spirts. Because of the activism | pursue
here, L am ofen singled ot for repressive weatment. 1 am inteligent and lucid, so | never actualy transgress serious policy, Which would enabe officialsto excuse, condone and cover up egregious acts of Violnce against my person or property. However, Lam dalytstd,suffering prmarly capricious slective enforcement of rlesand rbiary ewrimenal interpretation of policy. T’m e all of you understand ‘what I’m talking sbou. One rue in Texas pisons states that conraband i anything. {hat can b usd for gambling purposes. Obviously,tiscouldinlude amyting at ll, and has been interpreted widely through the years. I reminds me of a law in Missori Which read sbout years ago whie enjoying a short vacaton ina rual couny il The possesion of burglay oolslaw was once enforced against a man who had apar of ‘lovesand a ashlghtn histruck However, L refuse to comphain and | cerainly refuse o sumender. We ar at war now. Sur, it i non-violent and undeclared at the present ime. But everythingis i in war, never mind the {alking heads. We ae esponsibe for perpetatingthe sruggle begun millennia 450, The basicrghtnes, the virue of our position makes vicory incvitable, however distat inthe fuure. ) Lam writing to disuss the “Legal Roundiable” mentioned in We Never Slecp. Latend the law lbraryfor two hours daily and study prison case. Therefre, 1 ofer the knowledge | have gained and th cxperience Thave gamered from assstng others o this unit 10 anyone who wishes 1o contct me. Please don’t hesitae o ask. ’m a neophyte, butahard worker. I don’tknow something, ’l g0 to extraondinary lengihs to fndout. Mesnwhile whil studying recently, [ Rave developed.a st o questions ‘Which have been unabl o esolve. I any reader can offer answers, guidance, or asisance with any ofthe ollowing, 1 would be gratehl 1. Ineed als of bookstores o outes which sellusd ordamaged legal books at deep discounts. | desperately need the Prisoner’s 2. Names and adressesof sourcesof other important reerence books at decp discounts for prisoners withashortage of funds. Specificaly, have in mind such works ss Cormecions Yearbook, Directoryof Directorie, Encyclopedia of Associtions, Gale o Ayers Direcory of Publicatons, Bartlet’s Familar Question, nd Guid fo Reference Books, and severalothrs. 3.Inced 2 source ofaddreses o magazines and joumals to whih L would like to write i order o preview an ssue or submit an aticleor essay (. Mothr Jones, Mother Eanth News). 4. Uhave only briefdescription o a few acsand would ke o read the niretext (e Religous Liberty Protection Act of 2000,5 2081, HR 1691). 5.1 would Ik fo find sarch servie or elper who could accessandprnt out and mail o me about 12- 15 of the bsolute mostimportant prison conditions cases. These | would beable o keep in my cellat. alltimes for research Addiionally, 1 woud ke o bear fom others more knowledgesbi than mysef who ‘would suggestthe actual 121 cases most impartantorlandimark inth areas of prison reform. 6. Ineeda ot of insiruction and gidance about the actual mechanics of organizing and iniiting st 10 be grantd class- acionsatus. What are the icps [ musttke o accomplish tis? 7. Lalo have a few Texas specifc questions ifany comrade wishes to wrte me with uidance onthese. ‘Again thark all members of the network who conribute o all our soliderity and support. 1 look forward to my next issue of We Never Secp. lase felfee to contact me at: Michael L. Spradiin #933197 / Allred Unit 72101 FM 369 ./ Towa Park, TX 76367 wsA)
From Harold Thompson: anyo [Regarding Harolds lawsuit over censorship ofhis mail Bad logal news! Her s the sequence of recent events related chronologiclly. 22 March the atomey general’s stalltook my depositon n the 1* amendment lawsuit and it et well 25 March received th defendant’s imerrogatory answers. According to Assstant Commissioner Rosetenof 22,000 ~25,000 inmates statewide receive anarchism, animal rights or environmental Titerature. Rose sated in 1999 there were 150- 175 mal sppeals with 0% of decisionsupholdin rjections. Sverty of hose appeals were mine according 10 the stte’s exibis Several mal rjections were Iabeled “Security Threa: Group material” and th security treat group opic came up inmy dispositon. had asked Rose inan interogatory if “known or self avowed anarchisis” were deemed members of 3 security thratgroup.Hisreply,undergath, was No.” 28 March | mailed 0 th courtmy preiabrefbefore a 5 Aprl deadlne for it At rial Lintended o submit 15 exibit examples of magazines, newspapers and postards sold by the Sparish Anarchist Black Cross but 1 won’t get that opportui fora while. On 12 April | eceived an order from the federajudge granting the defendant’ mation for summary judgrmert and dismissing my lawsui! His order was based on all mamner of dancing around fssues, not addressing issues properly of ‘addressing them wrong, making quantum leaps offaulty inferences and isinterpreting legal precedent. One example of this was in my pretial bref iteda US Supreme Court risoncensorship case, Mille . California, bt he juge summarizeditas acase in fee cidzens’ 1* smendment right! Now Lhave toappea his dismissal o he US Court of Appeas orthe Circuit in incinna;, Ohi. I have fith in on appea in wholeorinpar. Thisis bothsickening and ngeing s he judge ran itright down f th wire with ury rial. date e for 17 Apil then dismises it with an opinion that rcads ke it was composed by a dim bub st semestr law sudent with acrayon i oe s remately famila with prison censorship law precedent. The US appeas cout requirs anather g fe of 5150 which I’m less than leased about underthe circumsances. v spent two years on thiscase and I’ll pend another year Tighiingtis dismissal order on appeal 1o have it overtumed, and invest ot of time and hard work wrting brifs and supplementalbref. I willikely b 2003 efoe this case i decided on appea. I s Vikely that the appeals cout’s apimion will e published i law books when decided and will hopefulyestablish solid legal precedent on prisoners’ 1 amendment ighs n Temnessee and other state. This case will kel end up inthe United States Supreme Court fo final resolusion on down the road several yearsin the futuret Uhave thirty days from 5 April the date the udge signed he order, o i my notice ofappea 0 the federal appeals court. I refuse o capiuat as beleve that is what his dismissal order i sbout, an atiemp 0 discourage me into dropping it When Lknow I’m ight | don’t It mysel become discouraged because live for the fight, the srugge! (] Harold H. Thompson 193992 / Northwest Comectional Complex / Route 1, Box 660/ Tiptonvile, Tennessce 38079 (USA)
-Book ’Em- is 2 100% volunteer non profit organization Lil:m sends boaks to prisoners on request! write us @ please request subjects of interest rather than specific titles and update us on the mailing restrictions of your facility From Thomas Tripp: 22002 Comrades - For Fres: Some of you in Oregon may know me from the past 3% years i the prison system,or may have heard about me o read my wriings. | am currently iishing out the Jastix months of my original sentence for beating 8 man with a bascball bat. | am also avaiting sl on charges stemming from last year’s acton at Two Rivers Correctional prison in Oregon. | am not an anarchist, but o consider myselfto be a revolutonary, and 1 am fully commitied f helping bing. about the destruction of al staies, the elease ofallprisoners,te dissolution of capial and th creation ofa tulyfree society. My effots ae focused against the government ofthis country and s control apperatuses (prison, tlevision,coppers, pop cltre cic.) Talso respect and supportall iy revolutionary actons. was refered 10 APLAN by my good frend (and co-founder of the group “Belligerence”) Monk (Henry Jones)and Lam a part of APLAN becatse | s it s anexcellet forum for connections With ther revolutionary comiades, both inside and outside of prson. "To J-Rok: 1 believe the way we begin to educate the masses i 0 i0p secing them 13 “moronic sheep”. We mustbegin (0 see th itermational proletariats (“proltaiat” used in eference o that portion of society which docs not coirol its ‘own existence —loday this inclues nearly everyone) libeation as bth the object and method of revoluionary sruggle. The fact that we, s revolutionares,are awake 10 the illsof thepresent ocial structure and are commitid o s destrction only makes us awake end committed - it gives s no special monopoly regarding intelligence or individualiy. The radical education of the masses enails our viewing them as capable of being educaed, capableof conrlling their own existence and when we realiz tht the masses arconly shecp. And we ae still sheep as result of the systematic epression of the individual (by television, formal education, pop ulture,prisons and the
injustice system, advertising etc) which capitalism and the tat find necessary for ther survival. Bear in mind, J-Rok, that ths is merely my opinion and is not meant as criticism, butas contribution 0 the dialogue on this subjec. Finally, regarding people who have. ‘committed sex offenses: 2 Mr. Vandersloot said, we should deal with the problem in the same way we would ina free society. | personally would ot associate with sex offendersina free society, and I do not wish 1025 a pat of APLAN. This i merely my opinion. One last thing: the Umatila County DA has gone from offering 42 months to 24 months inprison in exchange for my guilty plea in the Two Rivers case ~ I ejected both offers. In solidarity — Thomas ‘Thomas Tripp: #12032560/ 777 Stanton Bivd./ Ontario, OR 97914, “Afierwards on my case - By Thomas Tripp On Apil 16, 2002, I stood in the Umatila (Oregon) courtroom (s wikd-west style storefont courroom) and pled “no contest” 10 the charges of Riot and Criminal Mischiet 1. For thes charges | was sentenced 10 two fifeen month sentences, un concurrntly. | ‘was also odered o pay $75,454 0 the Sate f Oregon (yea, ight). These sentences are theresult of my partcpation in the February 2001 uprisng at Two Rivers prison, which has been touch on i the pages o Break The Chains (many thanks to NPPSN for tha) Trealize that my decision to ake the dea] and plead “no contest” uns contrary to the *10 compromise” thic of many anarchists (especially my own),so | fettht perhaps it Would be appropriat to xplain my reason for convicting myself: Basically, | convicted mysef because my convicton was - from the beginning - foregone conclusion. As the editor of Break the Chains mentioned to e when I was considering going o tra, have writen faily extensively on the subject fmy partiipationinthis even. I you Sombine the District Atomey’s “evidence”: Yideotape of th evening’sfestiviies; the Supposedly unimpeachable testimony of the "Cops; and my own writings, 1 think 1’ safe 0 say that | would have been convicted on allcharges and sentenced to upwiards of five ‘years at the leas. Instead, | 100k th easy way out. While 1 fel thatthe physical struggle against the state, engaged in from behind these walls i vially important t0 our overal struggle, I also feelthat | can be even ‘more effctive in tha struggle from the ouside wall of prison. Taking a deal is using their weapons to beat them at their own game. Because | am not completely without principles, I did submit a tatement 10 the judge which I fel adequately. expressed my contempt for him and his position a the Representatve of the State. (Letusspit i passing on Judge JefTrey ‘Wallace and Assistant District Attomey Gretchen Lard for theirsuperb handling of this case) ‘The sentence ook was thebest sentence | could have expected (in fac, it ‘was much betterthan | expeced). Bu, unfortunately, th only way to get this sentence was o compromise myself - “No Contest” plea. So, in the end, ook the deal. Texchanged 1S more months in prison for two hoursof reedom in the belly of the beast. A worthy exchange, woulkdn’t you say? The Seatencing Statement of Polical Prisoner Of War Thomas Tripp Today you tink you have won, oday you find me guily oftuming your methods against you andtoday you seal away more of my lfe. ‘Today the sat, rapist of the Eart, thief of years, murderer of innocents, has passed judgment on me -no for being cimirally mischievous, nor forengaging in iotous ehavior - but forbatling agains the tyranny ofthe sat, in s most tyranical seting s prison sysem. Today the sate fancis tself 13 above the people because it is grown fat on the bloodstained dollrsof capitalism. Because the state owsthe prisons, the guns,the fences and walls. Because it hs raped the meadows and murdered the foress and P
[l e T oF e e peoples And | Jou,the represenatives o he sste - Judes, prosectors, plitcians, and cops - soare grown ft onthe bloodsained ollars and have buithe lectric chair and bought the guards o slnce the dissidens and secure yourpositons s he epresntaives o a fls power. Bt do you knowthat a tid s ising.-a e ofiberstion,of which the actions of my Comradesand s only the merest hin - nd hat o gurs, o prisons, o feces or Sl can stem ha e? Do you know tat ihe days of your llsory powerae drawing 1030 end? Yourtwo millon prisonersknow. “The homeles,sandeingthe stees with only hunger i thir bellis know. The i and minds tom apar by your bombs and prsons and guns know . 1 know. “And so0m you udges prosecutors, poiicians and cops will know 0o S5, fortoday, you may think you have won. Buts tide s rising, and someday we willll be fise - maybe even you. Unil hat day, | vemainopenly defant 1o this cour and everyhing it epresent, with proud heart and a clenched fst From Jerome White-Bey: Open et t0the anarchissof Dear Felow Anarhists, Tam proud 0 say 1 am an anarchis, though | am prisoner of the state of Missour and [ have been n here for 24 years, but [ efuse 1o give in o the prisoncrats. Sometime ag0 870up of prisoners and mysel founded the MissourPrisoners® Labor Union and our goals and objectives are to promte social Jusice, human rights, prsoner rights, workers righs an prisoners ight t voe. We secktoestabisha prsoners bill of s, heenforcement ofprisoners abuse laws, workers compensaion fo pisones, the enforcement o Missour nepotism laws, 10 establish prisoners’ miimu wages pay scale, 0 establish impartial ombudsman offc, 1o abolsh the death penaltyand to No Parole laws and t abolishthe 13th Amendment of the US Constitton. Fellow anarchistssince the time we organize ourselves as the MPLU I have been through hell and back, I’ve been harassed beyond ‘one’s belief. We are sufferng from a ack of support in Missouri rom our comrades. Here in Missouri most of you (anarchists) do ‘ot understand or care 0 understand the issues surrounding the prisoners” struggle so you choose to look the ther way when there s astrggle going on right n your back yard. | understand that some of you el safe by doing absolutely nothing. You spend ‘your time arguing and debating over the difference of opinion, in which we don’t have the time or cnergy to waste. ‘Comrades, as anarchists how would you define ou anarchist movement in general, the state of our purpose? We are fighting o obtan our civil and humn rights, and | am nneed of your id inour sruggle here. The aboliton of prisons,the systems oflaws, and the capialst sate i th ultimate objective of every true Anarchist. So fyou are not afraid of a real lve fight with the prisoncrats and ar wiling o join forces and asist usin organizing a prisoners’labor union movement on a ntional level I can be: contacted at: Jerome White-Bey #3747/ JefTerson City ‘Correctional Center / PO Box 900/ Jefferson City MO 65102 (USA) From Ron Young: Dear Comrades, Revolutionary greetings to you. 1 just ‘wanted o inform you that on June 15°, 2002, willbe retuming to the free world after having served my entire ten-year sentence in the Texas gulag. | appreciate the ‘support and soldarity you have shown me during my term of imprisonment and 1 hope 0 remain in contact with you afer release. Please note that ater the sbove date all corespondence should be sent o me at the following address: Ron Young / PO Box 355 / Whiteface, TX 79379 (USA) ‘Thanks again. Onward o th revolution Insolidariy - Ron,
From Joe Zabick: Inresponse to We Never Sleep Sepu0ct 2001 -vol. 2 no. 7: Every day we evaluate people by their interaction with us. Should there b some special critera or pejudged state of mind in dealing withprisoners, convicted criminals? Should they be categorized according 1 their crime? A person who commits a crime, or is accused of doing 5o, is not defined by their crime. Their crime is ot their master stans. “The anarchist community and actvist community supposes 1o, amongst other things, be offring people ideas to unclog mental constipation - many individuals prir to imprisonmen never had a chance 1o asses themselves or the socity. they were immersed n, hey had no exposure to ideas and concepts such ss offered by anarchistsactvist communitis. Many take this time in prison fo e-evaluate themselves and perhaps build themselves ‘with new ideas and concepts. Many may have very well commitied terible acts against their fellow human beings, t one time. This is now — should they in their posible search for meaningful ideas fora way of life be cutoff, ostracized, or lbeled, categorized by the very people who claim to ‘want abolition of ll forms of oppression? 1deal with hearts and minds, with human beings and thisprison i my daily realit. Tell me how the very nature of your Proposal is not bourgeois,reactionary, and Objecifying? Joe Zabick 4668361 /Rt 3 Box 9800/ Dayton, TX 77535/ USA Also Received: Dolen Glen has seat out an ppeal for financialasistance for his education. If you can offer any help, please contact Mr. Gien directly. Dolen Glen # 860216/ PO Box 41/ Michigan City, IN 46361(USA) Uoya Kwazulu sent an article regarding his lawsuit i the U.S. District Cour, in Abilene concerning the Texas Department of Corectionsrejction of books. The. books in question have been rejected based solely ontheir African American content. ‘The magistrate decided that books such as Paradise by Toni Morison where "written solely” to cause prison disruptions. All proceedings in this case ended in January, 2000. A full copy of this article is avai on request rom APLAN. Umoya Kwazulu AKA Richard T. Ayers #468361/ PO Box 4500/ Tennessee Colony, TX 75886/ USA Jason McKenzie submitted an appeal for outide help with typing,editng and putting. together pamphiets for his group, "No Longer a Prisoner of Ignorance”. He may be. contacted a: Jason McKenzie #380655/ 100 GA Highway 147 G2 #24/ Reidsville, GA 30499/ USA John Perots submitied an essay tted “I It Really Worth 2" chronicling the futlty of prisonligation due to liberal organizations ‘and atormeys lack of concer for prisoners realisues. A copy of this aricle is available upon request from APLAN. John Perotti #167712/ 878 Coisville- Hubbard Ra/ Youngstown, Ohio 44505/ UsA Ammon Ra shared and essay comparing. chatte slavery to today’s prison system and itseffecive destruction of the familial bonds of Afican Americans. This excellent essay. is available upon request from APLAN, Ammon Ra (Sumrall) #304127/ 100 GA| Huy 147/ Reidsville, GA 30499/ USA
) sce uponstim, ot i b sn i prisn nd asked i, “Son, wha i it tese peopl ar dong tht ke you o mad al thetme?” The s shok his head b Gidt say S 1h ot e s Question:“Son, what e thse people doia tat make you o Afer a momentofsince, ih so espanded,“Th b question s what e they oin that makes e want o forge alsbou going home”.. - : “Acconing o the Assoiaod Pres,on May 20, 2003, Napolean s, man housed in Georgia St Priso (GSP), fogot ll sout going home. The eportallgesthat Harris oty punched and Kk coretional offcer (CO) James Henderson inacell bock, hih reslod in Henderson ding e being i criica condion o w0 week: e report o s that Hars (AKA “Po-Boy) was serving 15-yer senence for a 1993 amed oghery conicion. Howeer, becaus “an ddiona years hd ben added 0 s etence o stk o the g h ates Hariscoukve gten was 201 nstead of 2008, oo e ave been denid parole. 5008 aad defcly 3011 mayseem ke ages vy, bt sy, bothyears ar ks anyone with b longscom o short-em goal will el ou that 200 d 20 are s around e comer. So wih this understanding,you ssk,why would pisoer“punch, Kk nd atiack” rison gused (o he mainstream medis says)when 1 known tatsuch actonswilreslt n i receving mor e n prson? o aeome this quesion iligeny,w st it adit that lthough prisonersout b comctona o acrosth naton. 1 onetheles aiomali ht corections prsonel. oot viwalty every aspect of prsoncs lve rom sing themclthes, g her and ving hem medial veament o alowing prisoers 0 e th phone, aich TV, ecive il oo and i with fary and rnds. Threfre cannot b disuted tht corectons pesonnc runthe US Prisons. T queston, howeve, it begs o be answere s how can minorty f people (LE., COrs) conto e majrdty (L, prisonery? The most kel answer :the minory ytomatialy s vioence to aiaincontrol. (Remember South Africa? " o o MMl th U. 5. Sapeme Coutdelt with the s of whethr the use ofexessivephysialforce (by COS)aganst prisoner constiutes cruel and unsual ponitmcet It cae i was sablhe that oo Octobe inith, 1983, prisoer Keith Fiodoonhad anargnt with C 0. Jack MeMilan. Lt that day, C.0. MMl et it C.0. Marvin Woods o handeuff and elcate Hdson t he Angola peitatay’s dminisirativglock dova” area wasonty when Hudson was handeue,outumbered, and ut of view and crshot of e peioners fht Mihlln began o punch Hudson n e mouth, ey, ches and siomach, ite oot held the fomate i placeand icked and punched i from bhind* Offcers Woos and MMl supevior Athar Mezo, witesed the ncidet, and rporedl oderd them 1 ot have t00 much fun.” On ay et 198, it boke ot and asted 3 day at he Miack Alford CormectonshCote inSirsgtown, Okaboma. CarD. Michellvasicareried threa the . Tt cablishd tht Michell hd nfhing 0 do it he ot hat (2 conssd white upremaist admited 1o staring the o, at thattwopeison guardsthought o Kighty f Michell it the urgd i to egottethe rlcase of hostages. Marcover, Wasden ames Safflc wenton e recod s having sid tat “Mitchel wis el nontroublemakingprisoc: ichel however, had on foile that the Oklhomaprison officials rowned upon: he was gaor S0 when the polic tookbak cotrl o th prison, Michell was relcatd 1 the Okiahoma Stse Prson slon with those invlved inthe ot o therise decmed trovleakers. "Hudson v. MMillan 112 5.t 995 (1992) * Mitchell v. Maynard 80 F 1433 10" cir. (1996)
Once at the Oklshoma Sat Prison, Mitchel was stipped ofalcloting, includin his prescrpton eyglasss for approximatly bwo month)s then he ws placed in wris,anke, and Belychain. I these restraints,he wasforced o run through s grvel yard where e el only to ave prson gardsKick and stomp him whileyeling “Getup i, get ™ When laced insidea iy cell, itchel was denied matires and bedding desit the ot thtnihttempersurs ranged i the 0’s. The same warden who climed that Mitchel was ‘amodel and non-troublemaking prisoner (L. E. James Saffle), justified these deprivations by againg that“lothing and beding were pivilges” and tht “clothing coud be wrapped around Jlight bulbs to start fires and use to snare and choke guards” (sic) (Mitchell ke Hudson, sued his captors for the things they did to him, as described. above) Some apine thatboth the Mitcheland Hodson ncidents ae isolated because one occurred i Oklahom whi theother happened n Louisians. However, such views overlookthe Tt tha (1) a polic s police no mate where h s, whathis rac s, and what his poltcs are, and2), polce peson guards, ., have national (ad pehaps ntematonal) mandale 0 use Vileacs aganst thos who chalienge o otherwis qeston suthrity. Hidson was bis nth moth for arguing withacop. And Mitchell ws it nth mouh because h filed complaitsagaintcops. Both wereassaulied becaus the police et vilence ‘would make them docileand quie. Ths s how all oppresors prefr the oppressed o bl S0 ‘when police/prison guards/secarity guards use violence to achieve their goals of making their Subjcts docile and complacent ith thei orders, t c neve b said that thei actions are Siolated”, egardles of whether th nciden oocurs i priso, i socety, i Cal i Indiana, or ovenin Georgia. Forsystemti vioence i never lsed! Even though the supposd it Blac presidet (.. Bil Clnton, AKA “a good fiend of Afican Americans”) went o geat enghs o icumseibe prisonr awsuits with i signing of the Prison L igaion Reform Act, civil lgation sl s an vaiabl avenue fo prisones who dekinscompenstionfor wrongs commiiedaganst them by corectionl safl. "t what shout he prisoner who cannot affrd awyer o who does no hve he patcnce, undertanding, and mentalcapacity o il lawsuitpro s nd who, at the i of i Eeing victimised, i ot handeutTed a Hudson and Mitchellwheredurinthei ssaults? What s {his prisone suppose 10 do:accept an as-whipping o ight back? The word around G.SP. s Napolea Haris s theprisone decribed bove,an nder th circumstanes that wer presen, e chose o fight backe So, to finally answer our question of why would a prisoner use violence against an officer When he Knows he cold gt morotime inpison, we shouldconsidr what chif disitjulge Pannersated in the cas o Lemsire v Maxs™ “People whoare abusd and reated with volenc ae thse st ikely o trea thers abushely and vileny. Confiniog people under condions of xreme vilenc, fear, nd bostliy,and rlesin them i socity s ke throwinga tcking time bomb o 8 crowd” AmmonRa July sixth, 2002 Ammon Ra (Sumrall 304127 / 100 GA Hvy 147 / Reidsville, GA 30499 *Lemaire v. Maass 745 F SUPP 623 D. OR (1990)
My Name is Bitch! When 1 stand up for what I believe in, When I stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, When think my own thoughts, and refse 1o accept the brainwashing and conform, When I won’t tolerate oppression, injustice, and bigotry, And take a stand against them They call me “Bitch” Ifbeing a bitch means that I will not compromise my values, it means 1 don’t put myself and my needs at the very botiom of my list of priorities Ifit means 1live my life according to my rules & not those society atiempis to force upon me, Ifit means 1 won’tallow anyone o walk all overme, Ifitmeans 1 have strength and courage 10 be myself, Not what civilzation thinks a woman should be. Ifall this makes me a bitch, T welcome and embrace the ttl with pride. Tam outspoken, opinionated, passionate and relentless. Knock me down, I rise again, Stronger. You will not silence me You will not own me ‘You will not control me You WILL remember me Iam “BITCH" By an anonymous woman prisoner in Oregon
Wpcoming Prisoner Latwsuit Challenges Anarchist Repression anarchit Gieadly prisones withinthe Oregon DeparmntofCorections (0DOC) guiag e being sbjected 1o eadily worsningcrescendoof ccasorship of coming mal 1nd publcuions. This sciic activiy canaot b allowed 1 coniaue unchaienged or it il ot b ongbefre N mterial deemed anachistelted will e censored, with e frioology anarcis rlate”,like “beauty, being n th cyeof e oppressr. Cumetl, buring simpl ineptitde o the par of e suthries,anypice of mail orpublicuion isplaying a ~ircle A" symbol or 1 anachistback cros symbol i bia rejecied wholsale. This as e even where the offcnding ymbol s displayed i nws arcle pofogrph n s lobilly icy alone resls i the rjection of most anarchit oiaied ublictions. fmes ar basd upon, “Secuny Threat Groupcoviat”(anarcistshavebeea cully retaing or iy L ecenly wrot o Mike Beagan, ODOC STG Management“laspecor” i censorship and oran explanation a o whst crtera nd egal mechanism ODOC used 0 brand saarchists e sceuty st growp. Thi i e abaurd Orwelandoublspe | ecivd back " The snarchis movemmen n Oregon b grown o wher t i serious concer 0l enforcement, ad the publi,du ot cresed vilence owardsoers. Assuch e 50 called “icle A” {52 wel known alyag point for those within the movermcat. “The polcyofthe Oregon Deparment of Corrections s e lerance forany STG relsed acivity. Eac publication s cvaluted upon s own mei ndether acepid frejecied "As you can se, hese suthoritarians, with e-4ppoaied pormpous vere, s o discas o consder he nrsion spon mlenable bumaniarin rights. And 1 s bringiag st s e Oegon {ederlcoutystm. 1 will b callenging h classfcaton of anrcism 3 STG, e ove-broadacss of s clasiication,and why thre w0 procedra duc proces vebil i place o challnge, essigaly oreberwise, this s classification. 1 il e hallcaging he rjecions based soely upon he Symbola~ccle A" snd “AnarchistBlack Cross”. | wil b chllogin the deial of substantive du procss hcre mai i ejected or “STG content” withot dentifying hat conlent ad without eifiag why it Content deserves eecion. Lty will e challenging theconversion of my personal propery o he forma of th rejeced mailjpublicatons. "The courtbate i expeced o b drawn out and diffclt. Thos ae the common actic o the Atomey Generl’s offic,the champion of “ie people” At the same e s they are both iating and ‘voidinthe iseuesbefore the courtthe fscsts will tept 10 bran the ssus s rivolous, malicious, wnd ot constiatiag legalcaim upon whih elefcan be granted. Usualy, and | make this satement without iy naive preease, the courtwill fnd for “te people” afe giving much lpsevice o consituionl rght. Just the same,there i grandear i the effr he tuth are seif-viden, and we mustnot fear e path of ruh orth lack ofpeapl walking on it. ‘Anyone caring 10 comment o the couron hes issues ay do 50 by writng the court care of me: Brian MeCarvil #11037967, OSP, 2605 Ste St, Salem, OR 97310. Donatioris desperately needed! “The Oregon Siae Penitentiary consistenty rejcts anarchist pablications.The radical community witin the wals of OSP wishes o ake the Oregon Deparimeat o Corretions o sk i civl ightslawsui. Outside upporters bavebeea uaable t dae o raise funds fo legal represntaton. This wric,anexpericnced ‘prison legal igaor, wil soon i uit witbinth Oregon court. Liigation s expensiv, €ven more 5o for risones without ncomes. Donation, o matie how smal, are urgely requesed 1 can be made by Scoding maney orders o cshies check anly made out o: “The Prson Accountof Brisn McCarvil 11037967 and seat to: Cenral Trust PO Box 14400, Salrn, OR 97305-5077. 17 you can nd do send donaion,plesse writ 0 Brian McCarvill separately at:Bran McCarvill #11037967, OSP, 2605 Sae St Salem, OR 9T310.

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Newsletter of the Anarchist Prisoners’ Legal Aid Network
November 2002 - Vol. 3 No. 1

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“We Never Sleep was the name of a zine put out by former prisoner Paul-X, who worked to
bring news from prison to the commnity before taking his own e when the pessures outide
prison became unbearabl. The name reflect our nature and resolve s anarchists.™

Notes from Portland
‘We Never Slecp is back! Our prolonged
hisus in publication eflcts a period of
regrouping on the outside, o lay a solid
foundation fo thisproject’s ontinuance.
We now hope o resume regular publicaion,
and look forward to receiving your
coniributions for the next newsleter.

With regular censorship o this and
other anarchist pubicaions by the Oregon
Department of Corrctions,those wh efuse
0 give in o the petiness of ODOC's mail
rooms ar fghting back. Sec our back cover
for news about Brian McCarvill's urrent
legal chalenge. Those of us in Portland
were planning toltigate on th issue of this
publication’ denial in several Orcgon
prisons,but unfortunately los our lawyer
‘when he letprivate practice. Money raised
for this lawsauit has beensplit between Brian
and Craig “Criter” Marshal, or help with
ther legal effrts.

We still ee that a legal challenge
originating fom the outside would be of
great belp, secing s those held captve in
Oregon seem t have no rights tha the
ODOC bureaucracy seems bound o respect.
‘We are curently loking foran Oregon
Tawyer willng o help us with this cfor,
Please get n touch if you have any
suggestions

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Revolutionary Ex-Political

Prisoners Visit Portland
Rita (Bo) Brown and Chiis Plummer held a
forum in Portland this past July focusing on
politcal prisoners, stae repression and the
| necessity of revolutionary resistance to

patriarchy, capialism, racism and the state.

Bo spoke of her history of

underground, anti-mperialstactions and
eventual amest n 1977 for bank robbery.
After serving eight years in prison, she

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formed Out of Control, prison support
sroup out o the Bay Area which provides
much-needed assisance to women
prisoners. Bo siressed the lack of sy
‘women receive compared to men, noling
thatth visting rooms in women's prisons
are nearly empty. Bo spoke with passion and
‘wisdom as a powerful voice for incarcerated
‘women. Much can be learned from her
experience and conviction.

(Chris Plumimer, a longtime
anarchist,anti-acist and founder of the
United Anarchist Front was recently
released from prson aftr serving over eight
‘years. Chiis Plummer remained very active
during his pison sentence, including strting
(Cell One, a lending libeary for prisoners that
distributed radialliterature by and sbout
Blacks, Chicanos, Native Americans, Asians
‘and working class whites

Chris spoke with ferocity and
righteous rage. He presented a passionate.
‘and aticulate argument for the anarchist
‘movement t become more active and
effective n s prisoner support eforts,
Chrisis currently active inthe Anarchist
Black Cross Network. Many thanks to Bo
‘and Chris for sharing their inspiration and
experiences.

Former poliical prisoner Claude
Marks presented the film “David Gilbert: A
Lifetime of Sruggle” in Portand. David
Gilbertis curently serving a lfe sentence
forhisrole in support of Black Liberation
siruggles. In th film David frankly
discusses the sirengths and erors of the
movement as a whole and of the Weather
Underground Organizaton in partiular. We
recommend this fim. (To order *A Lifetime
of Struggle”,send check or money order for
520 US/ 525 in Canada t: The Freedom
‘Archives / 522 Valencia Street / San
Francisco, CA 94110)

Rob los Ricos Enterprises
“Over the past 3 years of my prison
experience, friends, supporters, well-wishers
and comrades have been generous o me,
Sending donations, books, zines, cards and
Jeters. Thank you all very much for hinking
of me, itmeans lot.

“The Oregon Department of
Correctons makes it iffcult 10 send
Jiterature and monetry donations
prisoners, o a frend offered to start a bank
Sccount for me in Eugene. The only way this
seems to work fo allparties involved s to
tart business accoun in my naime, 50
that's what we've done.

Having one address for people 0
send donations my way seems like the
casest way for me to manage my personal
affais, so that I have one place and person
o contact when I want o order a book,
subscribe to a magazine,order new glasses,
teplace my womn out running shoes, send
money to my daughter’s mother of send her
3 gift. (Her brthday is coming up s00n.)

n'the futur, this business account
may come in handy for helping me produce
publicatons and otherwise conduct business
withthe outside world. Of course, ll t
ya'll know when such developmens aise.

“Thanks again for your support. s
made areally homible stuation somewhat
more bearable.”

Send donations o
Rob los Ricos/ PO Box 50634 Eugene OR
97405 (USA)

In Revol
Rob Thaston # 12112716/ OSP/ 2605
State St/ Salem, OR 97310 (USA)

Romania Enterprises Files

Lawsuit Against Free & Critter
On February 25, Romania Enteprses fled a
lawsuit inthe Lane County Circut Court
This st s an atempt t gain monetary
compensation fo vehiles bumed at
Romania Chevolet n n ecoefense action
of May 200, for which both Fee and
Criter were convicted. The lawsuit secs
528,213 from both men for damage to three
pickups.

Supportof Free and Crite in the
face of these further atacks s both
necessary and welcome.

Update on Rodney Wade
idaho prisoner Rodney Wade was
interogated by special aget Joseph W.
Hess Jr. regarding his letes witng in
protet o animal cructy. Rodrney was
Questioned for over an hour about the ELF,
'ALF, specific acivists and teir acivtes.
Rodney tld Agent Hes that he should ask
those actviststhemselves and hat he would
Dot give him any information on people or
roups. Agent Hess proceeded o el
Rodney tha he would no be charged, but
that his writngsare considered 10 be & form
of intimidation, which s terorism. To this
Rodney responded “Not I speak th trith,
and I el people what you won't tell them,
and as long as have the righ o specch, I'm
gonna keep writing and speaking outagainst
people and things [ don't ike.” Rodaey has
o been batling an ongoing and potentially
dangerous medical condition. For the past

I
thrce months Rodney has been denied six
individual medical requests, pain medication
and a medicaly required liquid dit

Rodney went on hunger srike for three
weeks and losttwelve pounds before he
finally received a referal o see 2 surgeon.
After these months of struggle for basic
medical atention, b was finally offered an
‘experimenta] reatment for his condition; it
is unlikely to be adequate. He i in need of
‘support for both his political persecution and
s lack of medical care. Write him letter
expressing your solidaity, and please
contact the Warden of IMSI and demand
proper medical attntion for Rodney Wade.
Rodney Wade £38.058/ IMSI/ A1-31 B/
POB 51 Boise, ID 83707/ USA

Warden Greg Fisher /IMSI/ POB 51
Boise, ID §3707 / USA

Portland OR, Activists Detained

For Arson
‘Two eco-actvists, Jacob Sherman and
Jeremy Rosenbloom, were arrsted this
‘August on suspicion of arson against
logging trucks at Eagle Creek lat year. The
policealso announced they were seeking
two other activists, Angela Marie Cesario
and Michael Scarpi, on the same charges
Following the inital arests, news of
‘Angela' arest s00n followed. Jacob,
Jeremy and Angela have now all been
charged with four counts relating o the
arsons and bailed pending tial. However,
Michael, who isalso known as Tre Artow,
s not been located by the poice and he is
claimed to be "on the run." This November
an additional indictment against Tre and
Jacob was added. It presens four counts
each for using *frebombs” to damage four
Ross siand Sand and Gravel Co. rucks. The
action ook place on April 15 2001

North American ALF Press
Office Raided
On July 30°te Royl Canadian Mounted
Police (RCMP) raidd th home and offce
of David Barbarash. Ms. Barbarash has
been the spokesperson fo he North
American Animal Libeation Front ress
Offce (NAALFPO) since July of 1989
During he rid isfront door waskicked in
and the cops seized computers,compiter
disks, hundreds of videos, miscelancous
photos,paper fes, and four US postal mail
bags in adition t documens and fies
sezed (and peviously retumed) dring prior
raid. "It anoutrag thatthe type of
invasion and harassment T've been subjct 1o
can ake place aganst a spokesperson whose
rol s slely as a media lison”saes
Barbarash.

“The RCMP used newly formed
anierorst eam INSET (ntegrated
NationalSecuity Enforcement Team) 1o
raid Babaras’ home. INSET willbe
using he premise o “natiomal security” o
invade and disrupt the livesof indivicuals
perceived s thrat tothe powers tht b,
egardles of rimes commid o not.

From an RCMP press release of June 18
“INSET will help insure caly detection and
prevention of any potential threats to

ional securiy. The importance of greater
of resources and intelligence has
been heightened by the realit of terorism
since the tragic events of September 117,
200"

Barbarash remains clear “This is not
‘about animal ightsissues or actions. It was
‘about how we have losta large chunk of
basic civilliberties and human rights. We
really do liv ina police state where those:
‘who speak ther minds and who oppose.
oppression risk police aids, possible arest
and lengthy jil terms.”

North American - A.L.F. Press Office /
PO Box 3673/ Courtenay, BC VON 71/
Canada

Phone: 250-703-6312

What Does Man’s Death Mean

for MOVE?
By Walidah Imarisha
Ina tragic twist 10 n ongoing MOVE
custody batle, John Gilbride, former MOVE
‘supporter and father of sx-year-old Zachary
Africa, was found shot 10 death in his car in
front of his home the morning of September
7.

Gilbride had been involved in a four
year long custody battle with the adical
naturalst organization MOVE over the child
e had with MOVE member Alberta Afrca.
MOVE says he issues began when Gilbride
deserted his family when Zachary was two,
disappearing without waring for six
months. When he resurfaced, he demanded
custody, which Alberta denied him,
claiming he had a history of buse and
instabilty. She offered supervised viits
whenever he wanted, which Gilbride
refused. A recent court ruling gave Gilbride
partial custody, including unsupervised
weekend vists with the child. His first
scheduled visit was 10 begin September 20,
buthe was in Las Vegas

Police say Gilbride was found in his
parked car in front of his Maple Shade, NJ
apartment complex, ca till unning,

seatbel still attached. Time of deathis
estimated at 11:30 pm Thursday night They
feel he was killed exccution-style.
Neighbors report hearing nothing at all. The
body was found when a neighbor
‘complained to polic that headlights had
e shining nto her spartment or over 30
minutes.

‘Maple Shade police say they have
o leads as of yet but re “pursuing all
possibiltes.” These possibilites include the
'MOVE organization, and police have said
they will bring Albera n for questioning.

‘The organiztion was aleady on
high slrt because of the custody ruling,
‘which they had defied, efusing to hand over
the child. Theis 4504 Kingsessing home was
fortifed a couple of weeks ago, which
‘wooden slats placed over the windows, and
food stockpiled n the house. MOVE is
continuing these precautions, because they
say tis will be used as another excuse 1o
attack MOVE. “They use whatever they can
to come at s, jus 0 implicate u. We're
very peaceful organization, we're non
violent organization but we do believe in
selfdefense. People know that nd they
‘want 1 play on the media atacks on us,
says Tiffany Robbins, MOVE supportr.

In a statement issued Friday, the
‘group denied any involvement n the death.
“MOVE is committd toprotecting our
children, but we're not killrs o murderers.”
It goes on to say that te group is “deeply
saddened and hurt by the blow we received
this morning of the news tha John i gone.”

Police also announced September 29
that they had contacted the FBI 10 aid with
the investigation. MOVE feels his i just
another tactic o haras the organization. “I
don't put anything past this government or
their agents, whatever form thir agents
come, whetherit bethe court or the police
or the FBL They wanted to hurt MOVE with
this,and they did, they hurtus bad with this.
John was someone we were really familar
with,” Robbins explains.

But Inspesctor Willam Colarulo,
Philadelphia Police Department
spokesperson, says this case does not
‘currently involve his police department.

“This is being handied by the Maple Shade
police. As far as Lkmow, it docsn’t involve
MOVE, because the deceased was not a
MOVE member, and there i nothing,
currently o implicate them.”

‘Ata press release held the day
Gilbride's body was discovered, the
organization invitd the press inside their
barricaded home, into a comfortable lving
room, where Alberta Afrca sat n a plush
arm chair, obviously distraught,

‘She sated that she and MOVE had
nothing 1 do with Gilbride's death, and
instead pointed the finger at the government,
referencing the horrific history MOVE has
withcity administration which culminated in
Philly police dropping a bomb on MOVE's
house in May 13,
1985, killng 1
people including five
children, and seting.
fire to an entie ity
block. “T've
experienced lotof
pain at the hands of
this government, and
Tbelieve this
governmentis
behind this,” Alberta
stted. She poined -+ 8
othe professional ' e
nature of the murder, EAY
saying it sounded, Y
like government
agents or miliary
Special Forces. “That may sound far feiched
10 you people, but any government that
‘would drop a bomb on babiesis capable of
anything.”

Far from wanting Gilbride's death,
Alberta says they were beginning to mend
their differences, and find peace. "l never
‘Wanted anything to happen to John because
25 long as he was alive, there was hope. We.
still loved cach other very much,” she said,
then broke off, crying.

MOVE says Gilbride was murdered
because if he and Alberta mended their
elationship, the government would los s
‘xcuse of the custody bt to persecute
MOVE. “They knew that John Gilbride had

thepotenial 0 come back to MOVE, which
ook away theirjustificaton o coninue this
court barle. So hey upped theant,”sid
satement by MOVE supportes. The press
eleas ended b sayin, “We a supporters
are ot going 0 sit by and llow tissystem
1o creat anaber May 13, 1985. We ar not
soing 0 alow this sysem o get away with
murder.”

The MOVE Organization PO Bos 19709
/ Philadelphia PA 19143 USA'

Send il 0: ramovla@al com

Harassment of Women at

Cambridge Springs
“This s an updat on what is happening to
th female prisonersat the Pennsyivania

State Comectional
Insttue at
Cambridge Springs
This issue s
curently affecting
all women
imprisoned in
Pennsyivania, and
was brought o our
attention by the
MOVE 9 women:
Janet, Janine &
Debbie. The
sination that we are
dealing with has
beenin place at
other women's
prisons in
Pennsylvania for some tme and has just
recently been implemented at Cambridge
Springs.

“On August Sth, 2002 3 new rule
went int effctat Cambridge Springs
prison, llowing the male salf to “pat
search” he female inmats. n a routine
*search the officers run thei hands across
the shoulders, down the ams, down the
entire back, between and under th breasts,
down th sides ofthe torso, round the
‘waist, down he bttocks, down the inside
and outside of the thighs and legs startng at
the crotch. To have men scarching women
Tke this i & violation against us 2s women.

‘They are saying that these men ae at liberty
o feel on us ke this any time they want to.
‘And that’s just what some of these men are
going 1 be doing-using this as an
opportunity to feel on women. There have
already been stuations ofsexual misconduct
by employees and inmates, by consent and
force. In August 1997, ths prison was under
investgation by state representatives for
‘misuse and abuse of authority, and sexual
misconduct. At the time four oficers had
een brought up on sexual charges, found
guilty, and fred. Some quitbefore they were
fired. Despite these hearings the sexval
harassment continues.”

Statement from the women of the MOVE 9

~Janet Africa, Janine Africa, Debbie Affica

I the prison rulebook policy DC-

'ADM 008 on sexual harassment / abuse
against inmates by safl members it says
sexual harassment is: “th intentional
touching, either direcly o through clothing,
of the genitalia, anus, groin, breat, inner
thighs,or buttocks of any offender,
conversation or correspondence that
demonstrates or suggests a romanic or
intimate relationship.* This description its
exactly to whatthe prison calls a*pat
scarch. During this so-caled search the
guard must actually touch the vagina of the
prisoner. That is not sexual harassment itis
rape. These scarches are unwanted and
unnecessary (here are hundreds of female
officers and supervisors working at SCI
‘Cambridge Springs). This is "intentional
touching” labeled a “pat search” and forced
on the women at Cambridge Springs. Our
positionis that no woman should be
subjected t0this treatment. MOVE prisoners
will not allow male guards o so-called “pat
scarch® them. This policy amounts to
nothing less than sexual assault. Clearly if
this precedent is allowed soon the male

guards will be molesting and raping female.
prisoners.

Please contact Secretary Beard of
the Central Offce for Pennsylvanis Prisor's
and demand tht this policy be repealed
suatewide.

7179754859

‘Also contact Warden Brooks (who
is herself a woman) at Cambridge Springs
814-398-5400 and explain that i this policy
g0es into efect she will be seen as
endorsing violence against women

Update from Mumia Legal

Support
We are sl waiting fo a respose nthe US
Courtof Appels o bothsdes appeals of
federal Judge William Yolis December
2001 uing in which h et aside Murniss
deth sentence-though be gave th steof
Pennsylvania the option ofconducing s new
hearing at which Mumia coud be setenced
10 death again. I ht hesringis ot hedy
and Yoho's decision s upheld then Muria
Wwould serve e i prison withoutparole.
Mumia'sstaus i unchanged given these
appels. Contray o popular pinion,he
remains on Death Row,loked p 23 hors
aday s before,with Pleglas baiers
between i and il visitors, and withall he
other deadlyresictions inflctedon Death
Row inmate. The Court of Appeals can
respond in umerous ways o te sppeals by
both sides,angin fom overtuming Yohn
and reimposin the orginaldeath senence
10 pholding Yohn and iavin the queston
of new semencing harin up o he s,
1o seingasice the ity verdit in Mumi's
origna i,

Internatonal Concerned Famiy &
Friends of Mamia Abu-Jamal
(ICFFMA)/ 4601 Marke Sret
Phidephis PA/ USA

194768812

Mark Barnsley Update
Mark Bamsley was released from
‘Whitemoor prison on Monday, June 24",
2002, Mark has been released after srving.
two thirds ofhis 12 year sentence, bu has
et toclear his name and have his wrongful
convicion overtumed. Prior o his elease,
Mark efused o sig his lcense on the
priniple that he is an nnocent

man and his reedomis his

ight. Mark says since my release

I've been taking things one day at &

time.” The Mark Barsley Release

Fund s sill aceepting donaions or

legal supportof his case.

Mark Barasley Release Fund / Sumac.
Centre, Box CC/73 Beech Avenue
Nottingham / NG7 7LR / UK

Richard Williams in Solitary
Confinement

Anti-imperalist poliicalprisoner Richard
‘Williams has been held in Administrative:

Segregation since April 30", He writes “T've

labeled the Administrative Segregation
“solitary” becase hey have made it so
while denying it.” He reportsthatseven of
the 150 people in the prison’s Ad. Seg. Unit
arc being held in double cells but are not
allowed cellmates. Those who ae being
held in double cells are Richard, three men
being investigated for serious asaults, and
three Arab men who have been in consant
ock up since September 11°. They are not
allowed contact with other prisoners and
recreate alone. Richard himself was in
put in Adminisraive Segregation on
September 11% under the preext of federal
investigation of that day's action. He was
released five months latr, on February 111,
‘The day following his relcase from
investgation, he suffered a heart attack.
Two and a half monthslaer, he was again
put in Administrative Segregation. He has
been awaiting transfr t a higher securiy
prison, but has so far remained in soltary
and not been transferred.

Richard wrote o Regional Director
Robert M. Haro asking o be retumed to
general population, and not t be transferred.

lly

April 29, 1986, you were
‘convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Offense
orto Defraud the United States. The warden
has determined that your overal offense.
‘behavior presents a significant threat o the
sccurity and orderly running of the
intiution. [...] Your request for Regional
Administrative Remedy Appeal
s denied™
Haro presents Richard's 1986
charges and some vague words from
the warden, a rationale for sending,
Richard to soltary, and for his
eventual transfer 0 a higher securiy level
prison. Thisignores that Richard has neither
threatened noracted vioinily towards
anyone in theten years he s been at USP
Lompo. The actions against Richard are
pure repression.

Richard s currently receiving.
reatment for Atral Fibeilation, but reports
that the authorities were slow 1 respond fo
his needs once he gotout of hospita. He
periodicaly tll has episodes relaing to this
condition, and again the authorities ae slow
10 respond.

Richard wites of is prior
involvement and his charges:

I went underground o jon the
armed clandestine movement in 1981 and
was captured in Cleveland on November
th, 1984, my 37th birthday.

I was convicted forfive of the
United Freedom Front (UFF) bombings in
1986 io Brookiyn Federal Cour. In 1987 1
g0t hung jury at the Somerville, N.J.tial
i the death of a state rooper during @ shoot-
out with Tom Manning. Next I went through
2 two-year long tia in Springficld, Mass.,
along with Pat and Ray Levasseur, n 1988
and 1989 for seditious conspiracy and
RICO. The jury refused to convit us. In
December 1991, was convicted of killing
state trooper Lomonco in 1981 afer my
second trial on these charges in Somervill,
N.J Tam t0 serve 45 years for the UFF.
actions when I finish serving my N.J.
sentence of 35 years o life. As with all
dedicated revolutionaries the goverment

has caught they have tried to bury my body
away in prison, while being unable o crush
my spirit”

‘Writ to Richard Williams:
Richard Williams #10377-106/ 3901 Klein
Bivd / Lompoc CA 93436/ USA
Phoenix Anarchist Coalition
PO Box 3315/ Tempe AZ 85280-3315 /
UsA

Tom Manning moved to

Leavenworth
US. politca prisoner Tom Manning was
forcbly tranferred back to the U.S.
Penitentiary in Leavenworth, KS a few
weeks ago. Asa resul of past brutal plice
beatings, Tom was i the Medical Center for
Federal Prisonersin Springfield, MO for
hip, knee and shoulder surgery. Despte his
continued need for post-surgery trestment
and therapy, he was moved out!
“Tom says in a telephone conversation, "Last
Wednesday they “kidnapped” me right out
of the yard. No property - no warning st
Ipm. By 4:30pm | was in Kansas again.
Sleeping like a stray dog in someane elses
cell, bumming coffee, shampoo, etc.” Tom
is desperately in need of donations o help.
him purchase clothing (sweat suit), ood,
‘and sundries lost during this forced
relocation.
Please send postal money order checks made:
out 0 Thomas W. Manning #10373-016 to
the address below:
Thomas W. Manaing 10373016 / US
Penitntiary / PO Box 1000 /
Leavenworth KS 66048 / USA
We hope that you ind it in your heart to
help this freedom fighter. Thank you for
your continued support and solidarity!
For more information on Thomas Manning
and the prisoners of the United Freedom
Fron, contact the December 16th

Commitee: declih@hotmsil om

Help Needed for Herman
Wallace
‘Afterover thirty years in soltary
‘confinement, Herman Wallace has been
thrown in the dungeon at Louisians State
Penitentiary in Angola. The prison says he
had racist lterature in is cell (Black
Panther historical information),but has fled
o charge againsthim. As the ACLU civil
suit and the criminal post-convicton flings
wind their way through the courts, th prison
administration has stepped up the
harassment against Albert Woodfox and
Herman Wallace of the Angola Three

“Throwing 61-year-old Wallace in
isolation where he is under 24-hour camera.
surveillance i clearly retaliation for
Wallace's continued rsistance o th racst,
illegal reatment of prisoners in Angola. The
prison hastried for hiry years o break
these men by keeping them in slitry and
now theyre stepping up the activiy.

Excerps from Wallace's leters:

“There is a man n this dungeon the
security s eally messing with -l talk to
the lawyers about it when [ have a chance.
“The man has been on his back in 4 point
restraints since 10/13 (date ofletter- 10721).
‘When a man goes on 4-point they let him up
the next day, but hey are keeping this man
Tike this without a shower or feeding him. 1
have been sending him my food when I can.
He urinates and defecats on himself and
they leave him like tha. His mther came all
the way from Shreveport o visit him and see
how he was doing and because they have.
him in 4-point,they 1ol her she could not
see him." “He i i the cell next to me and
there is nothing I can do or him or any of
the other guys here, s | can hardly do for
myself”

Demand that Herman Wallace be
released from the dungeon and apply
pressure o have both Wallace and Albert
Woodfox placed in general population while
avaiting retril by calling, faxing or writing
Warden Burl Caln.

Louisians State P
70712/USA
Phone (225) 655- 2002

iary Angola LA

Fax (225) 6552319
Assistant Warden Dupont
Phone (225) 6552024

Fax (225) 6552319

Assistant Warden Coody
Phone (225) 6552441

Fax (225) 6552814

Chris Plummer Arrested on

Bunk Charges
Huntsville: The Texas Department of
(Criminal Justice (TDCJ) held what was
supposed to be public forum for families
Of Texas prisoners to address concerns wi
TDCI policy. A reporte for Indymedis,
lomgtime anarchist and ani-fascistactivist,
and former politca prisoner, Chris
Plummer was arested outide the campus
buikding for asking a simple question
regarding TDCJ policy. Many activists in
Texas and clscwhere fee thisis not only a.
Violation of his free speech rights, butalso
an example of the repression and
intimidation that TDC) offcals use to

eliminate any real concemns tht familis and
supporters of prisoners have. Chrs Plummer
i on parole and this bunk arestcould land
him beck in prison. Chris has been meeting
with anattorey to discuss how to defeat the
charges that have been made agains him.
Given the absurdity ofthis incident, the
chances of Chiis beating these charges are
great, but regardless of whether the charges
sick or no,the inancial and emotional
sress placed on Chri by legal troubles is
going 0 be costly. In the course of the past
few months, Chrs has been harassed by the
police, and the authorties recently blocked.
him from traveling to Denver, Calorado to
partiipate in the peaceful demonstrations
against Denver's annual Columbus Day
celebration organized by the American
Indian Movement. Chrs needs our financial
and emotional support now more than ever.
For more information on how you can help,
call s Plummer at #512-497-5975 or
email him at tuaf@yahoo.com

Anti-Racist 28 Cleared
Almost ll charges were dropped against
antiracist actvists who demonstrated
against neo-Nazis aiving in town t attend
aracist rally at the US Capitl on August 24,
The actvists were charged with attacking
the racists whie they were parked at the
Baimore Travel Center inside thir
chartered bus, and were facing a combined
total of 1,177 years behind bars. According
to James Rhodes, attomey for the "Anti-
Racist 28, the case was incredibly weak,
‘much of it relying on a video which could
ot identify any of the assailants because of
the rain and the bus door which blocked.
much of the scene. “There was no way in
determining whatrole if any the defendants
played (inthe assaul).” Rhodes said. Two
charges sl tand, but Rhodes says he
‘expects those also 10 be thrown out before:
the scheduled Oct. 31 courtdate.

‘The attack, which was on a bus of
neo-Nazi skinheads reportedly from
Michigan, leta number of them injured and
their bus,in the words of one "demalished,”
“The 28 defendants, who included a lawyer

that was legal observer fo the
demonstrators,reportedly did no amive on
the sene untl e he assaul No one
knows who was responsible. Over th past
month, support forthe Anti-Racist 28 vas
Widespread, September 23rd being declared
an ntermational Day of Solidarity for them.
‘Meanwhile the Nazis compiled the
defendants’ adessesthey obained from
police records and spread them throughout
the ntemet. Amorg hem was the
Libertarian Sociaist News, un by Bil
‘Whit, & person lose tothe Na
Aliance (NA), the white supremacist group
who sponsored th racist rallyoutsde the
Capitol. Inapost eportedlysiged by him
on the DC Indymedia website, he said hat
a5 s00n a3 the NA got th addresses of the
ant-acists ey would all be dead. On Sept.
1, here werereports of neo-Ncis visiting.
Some homes, butno incidents of vilence
werereportd, despite White's reporting that
Some ant-acist in Pisburgh were beaten.

“The benefts and fundraising efforts
hat e cither planned o underway r sill
‘going shead 10 help offet legal fees. For
more information, e

v AntiRacis 2 org or

hup/vewse oncpeoplesproect com

Call for an International
Support Campaign for the Long
Beach / Southern California

Anarchist Movement
Recently 1 visited Los Angeles for 3
speaking tour, and learned of the harassment
‘and frame-ups of Anarchists in Long
Beach/Los Angeles County, Califomia. It
‘seems that repressive police And FBI
terrorism is being used to crush the
Anarchist movement there. During May Day
protests against capitalism held in Long.
Beach, police without provocation attacked
a street demonsration with brutal violence,
aresting about 100 persons, and physically
injuing several others. People were shot
‘with rubber bullet, beaten with baton, and
sprayed with Chemical Mace.

One of those amested, Robert
Middaugh, was laer rairoaded to prison

with athee year senence for“assaulting®
the one ofpolice offces tacking the
protstrs. He i now in prson as
‘Anarchst political prison ofthe.
goverment ata California peniintiary.
Police justified the police riot by claiming
protsters threw rocks, botes, and ather
projectiles, and even fces at them, which
has been proven t0 be atotal i These
atacks were unprovoked, andjust designed
10 break up the demonstration and stfle the
organizing of the Anarchist movement. They
were poliical repression.

Since those protestslast year,
several other Anarchists have been arested
on bogus charges, and others have rceived
numerous theats and harasment from the
police inclucing constat visits o the
Anarchist info-shop. A goon squad of cops
have followed them at demonsirations, and
tried 1 goad them o vioence.

Yet,through it allthey have continued to
protest pig/state repression. And they are:
now being supportd by the Black
community, especialy folks who have
‘witnessed or beenthe victms of police
brutality. The Black community in notonly
Long Beach, but throughout L A. County,
has been subjeced to police racist violence
and police racial profilng.

'Add tothis the continuing FBI
spying and the January st of Sherman
A, founder of the adical websie,
RaisetheFistcom, then ane can clearly see
that the American govermentspolice
forces have singld out the Long Beach arca
a3 test for how to cush the Anarchist
movement in this period.

‘As has happened inth past,
‘whenever Anarhism became a dangerous
and potent poliicalfrce, te government
then engages in a policy ofsystematic
poltical repression. Ths s simila o the
FBI's COINTELPRO campaign against the
1960's Black Panther Party and New Left.
“They framed acivss, et groups against
each other to prevent ot support, and used
massiv violence t put down protsts.

We must suppor tese Anarchiss, o thy.
‘il be coming afer s next. Today its Long
Beach and L A, omorrow i will be those of

usin New York, Chicago, Boson, Alant,
Detrotor wherever Anarchists are
onganized. The ew "atiemorst” laws
ive the government a song hand o put
down oliical disent, but olidarityis our
‘major weapon. We must support cach ther,
and not allow government s and
misinformation e us 0 inaction.

Lam calling o the intemational
Anarchist Black Cross movement, and
Anarchists all over the world 10 suppert the
Long Beach Anarchists, Sherman A., Rober
Middaugh,and others caught up in he
sovernment's dragnet We camnot et this
repression go unchecked, and injory o one
isan injury o ll.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

1. Send donation for legal defenseof these
Anarchists o: Long Beach Infoshop, 684
Redondo Avenue, Long Beach, CA. 90814
1453,

2. Send leters of complain o Long Beach
cityand L A. County oficials demanding.
thatthey drop these prosccutions and end
the harassment of Anarchists: Mayor
Bevrly ONeil, 333 West Ocean Beach
Bivd, Long Beach, CA. 90802. E-mal
Mavor@cilong-beach ca us; Tom Reaves,
City Prosecutor also ecds o hea from you:
prosccutor@c long beach.ca for bringing
the misdemeanorcharges, asdocs Seve
Cooley, L A. County Distric Atiomey, who
isbringing on the flony char

Isda@eo
3. Send letrsofsuppor or the victms of
ihese frame-ups o this repression t: Los
Angeles AnarchistBlack Cros, P.0. Box
3671, Anaheim, CA. 982033671 Email
LA blackcross@hotmail com
- Spread the word on the case of he Long.
Beach Anarchiss, and when he time comes
for a mass soldarty proest (Day of Action)
and rbunalon plicecrimes, be eady 10
come thee (dtes {0 be announced).

For more information on he Long Beach
sruggle,or o seepictus o the May 2001
police it please see the *Siop Long Beach
Reprssion website at:
s stop

By Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, August, 2002

Further Repression in Long
Beach

On January 24th, 2002, Sherman Austin
became one of the first victms of he new
USA Patriot Act when 25 heaviy armed
FBI agents and secret service surounded
and rided his home in Los Angeles because
ofis anarhist website
hipy/vww risethfistcom. All computer
equipment and political liteature were
scized. Austin went o court on Monday,
‘Sept 30th 0 plead guily 01 felony reated
10 information on the aisethefist website
contining dircctions on how to make
explosives. The plea bargain was 0 give
‘Austina felony conviction with | monih in
jil, months in a hal-way home and 3
years superviscd rlease. The Judge ejecied
the plea, attempted to make Austin out 353
termoistand argued that Ausin should serve
mor than twelve monihs in ail even though
thesentencing s between 6-12 months for
Austn's crimial history category. I going,
1o wial, Austin faces 3 years n prison if
convicied of both felonies, the addiional
charge being i positon of an unregisered
firearn.

Mathew Lamont (AKA Rampage),
Long Beach anarchist who has been highly
involved with man local groups, has been
i jail since April 20th, 2002.

‘On April 20uh, Mathew Lamont was
followed from the Long Beach Infoshoppe
(REACH Center) by Long Beach Detectives
where he was then pulled over in the city of
L Habra and arested.

He s being held n the Santa Ana.
Facilityin Santa Ana, CA.and i being
charged with 4 felony charges of possession
of adestrucive device, transporting of a
destructive device, the use of a destructive
device, and the possession of materials
instructions to make 8 destructive device.

Marcs bail has been placed at
100,000 dollas, and prosecutors have stated
tha they want 0 give him a minimum of 2
years

f@&%{

Anarchist Black Cross Network

Conference
“The first Anarchist Black Cross conference.
in North America since 1994 was held on
the weekend of July 26.28, 2002, in Austin,
Texas. The event, hosted by the autonomous
Austin ABC collecive and former politcal
prisoner and Texas anarchist Chris
Plummer, comes on the heels of the release
of A New Draft Proposal for an Anarchist
Black Cross Network which advocated the
creation of a new network of anarchist ani-
prison groups. The ABC-Netwark is now in
existence and is a promising development in
the generally weak and dismal North
‘American actvist mlieu. Report on the
conference have been written by longtime
anarchis activists Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin
nd Emesto Aguilar and others. These.
reports, and other info regarding the ABC
Network and prisoner-support ativties, can
be found a the impressive Anarchist Black
Cross Network website:
v amrchistblackeross or

Ways to Support Jeff “Free”
Luers
Weite (0 the Governor of Oregon

Urge the Govemor to commute Free's
absurdly long 225 year sentence. Point out
the punishment does not it the ‘crime’ and
thatthe Tyree oil conviction was based on
circumstantal evidence. Sample leters o
available from Free's Defense Network,
Howl for Freedom, POB 0263, Eugene,
OR 97405, howl_for_freedom@yahoo.com

Contribute to Free's Legal Defense
Free is appealing his 225 year sentence on
numerous grounds. I wil ke a few years
before it gets before the court and wil take
lots of funds. This is the largest expense in
defending oneself rom state charges. Make
all checks and money orders o "How for
Freedom" and send to the address listed
below.

Write Free

Prison is an extremely lonely place and
sending leters to Free asking how you can
help, sharing sorie, eling him about what
s going on in the world i a great way fo

help. Free responds tohisleters and isa
great corespondent. Al leters can be sent
to: Jeffrey Luers, #13797671, Oregon Satc
Prison, 2605 Suate Steet, Salem, OR 97310,
Take care not 0 write anything on the
envelope except addresses and to avoid
wriing the words *Anarchy" or
“Anarchisn”

Contribute to Free's College Education
Free s currenly aking classes in prison
toward a college degree. Obviously, this will
take time and lot of money. All checks and
money orders can be made out 0 "Howl for
Freedom" and send t their address listed
below.

Send him a book or zine.
Prisoners in Oregon State Prisons must
receive new books and they must be sent
direcly from the publisher. Best bets for
getting books to Free are: Amazon.com No,
they arent anarchists bu they have.
everything and get books into prisons often
“There website is: ww.amazon.com
For more information about Free, contact:
How for Feedom, POB 50263, Eugene,
OR 97405, howl_for_recdom(@yahoo com
Websites:

o freefresnow.org.

‘v cugene indymedia org/features/prisone
index bl

s breskshechains net

International Updates
Natalia Kexiopoulou
Nataia Kexiopoulouis a 19-year-old
student who came with her sep-family rom
‘Abhazia, region of the former Soviet
Union. From the ime she was 14 years old,
her fher had been rapin hes regulrly,
ihreatening 0 send her back to Abhazia (3
plce that she remembers mainly for the
Horrorsof the conllictther) i she aid
anything, On March 11, be wried o rape her
sgain inhis office. She pulled out a knie 0
defend hersell and he fther was faaly
wounded. It should b oted tht her fther
Wwas & man of some power, being a member
of thesecurity service of Vladimir Putn,
Russian head ofstat. Her court date was set
for March 15%, we have been unable o fnd

and the outcome of her case or futher
updates. We call for soldarity with this
courageous young woman, and all women
who take direct ation against patriarchy.

Antifascist prisoner Wayne Heaton
Wayne Heaton; was sentenced to 18 months
in prison for “violent disorder” during the
Burnley riots last summer. Wayne, who
grew up in Burnley, was none 100 happy
secing the growth of support for the racst
British Nationalist Party (BNP) in his home
town. So when the police defended the BNP,
‘Wayne like many locals stood up and

fought. He'd love leters of support:

Wayne Heaton, GK 7292, Wing G18, HM.
Prison, 2 Ribblestone Lane, Preston PRI
SAB, UK

Repression In Greeee
Yannis Serifis, 63 year old ant authortarian
syndicalst, has been imprisoned and

charged as being a member of the anmed
struggle group "November 17° and forthe
murder of CIA chiefin Greece, Richard
Welch in 1975 (ate the fall of the:

dictatorship). (This group has been active
for 27 years in Greece and 17 people have
been imprisoned -prio to Yanis' arest-
since late June as being members. It should
be pointed outthat when first arested some
chose to collaborae with the police and.
gave names of other members when first
charged. Since then, claims have been made.
by some of these prisoners of forced andlor
fabricated confessions by police). The
authoritesonly "evidence'- the confessions
of 3 of those charged (it should be pointed
out hat these 3 men have since changed
their statements and now say Yannis was
never involved in the group and isactions)
‘After 2 hours of questioning by the Courtof
‘Appeal, Yannis' imprisonment was
announced. Over 100 people- anarchists,
antisuthoritarians, evolutionary lefists-who
had gathered outsid, ried t preven the
police jeep (with Yannis inside) from
departing. One person was aested. The riot
police attacked the demonstrators who threw
stones in defense, Tear gas was used 10
disperse the crowd.

Thisis pat of an ongoing campaign by the
Greek and American authoritis o imprison
‘Yannis. 25 years ago, Yannis was charged
with the death of milltant Christos Kassimis
1t was later revealed to be the work of two
security agent. He was imprisoned for 1S
‘months before the court announced the
frame-up. He had th solidrity of many
‘eople just as he has now. Yannis has
always made it clear that he has opposed the
tacticsof armed struggle. For over 40 years
a5 an industrial worker and member ofthe
group "Class Unity” at his workplace (publc
ransport), he has prefered to be open (in
speech and practic) about hs involvemen.
in the mass workers movement and class
struggle. The authorities have no concrete
evidence against him (i. his DNA,
fingerprnts were not found in th hideouts)
‘and his imprisonment is part of a broader
‘campaign o criminalize the revolutiona
lef/anarchistantiauthoriarian movement
and create a culture of reression, cutail
free speech and destroy independent
syndicalism.

25 Prisoners Die from Smoke in
Dominican Republic
La Vega: Atleast 25 prisoners died of
smoke inhalation on September 20 at an
overpopulated and badly ventiated siste
prison n the Dominican Republic’s central
Province of La Vega, north of Santo.
Domingo. At least 50 other prisoners were
injured, some seriously. Offcials say a
‘group of prisoners at the Concepeidn jilset
mattresses on fire ater baricading.
themselves in thei cels 10 protest asurprise
inspection for weapons, drugs and
contraband. As of September 21, national
‘guard roops were posted outsid the prison
o keep back hundreds of angry family
members chanting, “Bring them out!” The
family members want o se the surviving.
prisoners so they can be sure they are
unharmed. The Concepeidn prison was built
1o house no more than 200 prisoners, but
was hokling nearly 600 at th time of the
fre

Prison Hunger Strikes in Turkey Claim
‘Another Life
Gulnibal Yilmaz, an active member of
Turkey's underground lefst movemert,
died on hunger strike. She joined the prison
hunger-trke known as the “Death Fast” on
June 18,2001 in Kutahya Prison. She is the
95th "martyr” o the Death Fast. In the
month of August alone four prisoners died
on this hunger-stike. Gulnibal Yilmaz was
ot an anarchist, she was a socialist While
we do not support the politial objectives of
the socialist movement, here o in Turkey or
anywhere lse, we do feel inclned to honor
her death. The entir corporate press, many.
parties which call themselves lef-wing and
‘many NGO (non-govemmental
organizations) are ignoring her death. They
‘would like us to beieve that rsistance does
ot involve death and suffring. They would
Tike for usin the First World to continue to
play games masked as “actvism", whining
‘about “privilege” while we do nothing and
the restof the world fights and dies because
of the ativitiesof our culture. For these
reasons and others, we honor Gulnial

Yilmaz -95th “marty” of the Turkish
siruggle against capitalst brutaliy.

Anarchists Acquitted!
Usak: The tial of five Turkish anarchists
from Usak has just ended and all of them
have been acquitted! The court started i the
moming with paticipation of 30 anarchists
(for soldariy) and ended within

* approximately one hour. For background
info on ths stuation, contact the group.
“Anarsist Kara Ay” (Anarchist Black
Crescent) a: Ankaraabeankara@yahoo com

Tet's Get Free!

Let's Get Free-a new, 24 page
‘pamphlet of writings for, by and
about anarchist & Earth liberation
prisoner Jeff Free' Luersis available:
fora donation of §5. Proceeds of the
sale of this pamphiet will after
paying copy costs) go to Jeff Luers
directly. This 24 page, 8 11 inch,
well produced new pamphiet contains
the following and many more
writngs: Words from Free, Who is
Jeff Luers?, Earth First! Journal
Interview with Free, Free's
Sentencing Statement, Rob and Free
at OSP, Free's Statement on the 2nd
Romania Arson, Never Cry Wolf by
Killing King Abacus, Letirs (0 the
Eugene Weekly in defense of Free
plus original artwork, poetry, Oregon
state mailing regulations for sending
Free mail, ways to support Free and
‘more! To order this pamphiet, send
$5 or more t:

Break the Chains, PO Box 11331,
Eugene, OR 97440 or Free's Defense
Network, POB 50263, Eugene, OR
97405, Checks need 10 be made out 10
“Howl for Freedom.” Well concealed
cash and checks only, please.

Prisoner Notes

note s ari

From Lee Max Barnmett:
Thanks for the summary o the PATRIOT
Act. I've spent 50 much time working on my
death penalty appeals that | baven't paid
much atenion to the act.

“The dangerousnessof the legilation
is signaled in s tile: the PATRIOT Act.
Such s have been used before o get
dangerous legislaton “shoved through” the
ongress and senate without much
oppositon, .. the Anitrrorism and
Effectve Death Penalkty Act which fllowed.
the Oklahoma City bombing. What
legisators would dare o oppose abill with
such a itk ~ “Antiterorism” What
legislators would dare 10 oppose the
PATRIOT Actafer /117 Suchttles should
alertall pople that ther reedoms will be
stolen and sbused by the legilation. The
e indicates the wriers o not want any
srutiny or challenges tothe bill. These
Republicansare outrageously dangerous to
freedom. They are the true American
Taliban. While the Atorey General and
‘media have dubbed John Walker-Linc tis,
itis Ashcrof himself who s, by his acions,
the real American Taliban. During the 19305
the Work Project Administration worked on
many projects. One was some beauiful
tatues in Washingion, DC. These have been
o0 public display since the 1930s. Recently,
Ashroft dcided that S8000 in taxpayers”
funds should bespent to cover up bare
reastson female statues. Thee s o doubt
about it~ Asherof i the real American

'Duc 0 space and other considerations, we are curently unable 10 print everything we receive for
‘We Never Sieep. We intend to build the newsleter s a legal resource, publishing legal
information, queries and advice. We also prioritize prison news and updates, s well s tems
relating o anarchistorganizing and to the pisoner network. 1f we do not printan tem, we will

! in the “aiso eceived" section and make copies available upon request. As we wish
10 get this newsletter 1o those who need it,we may not publish items likely t cause
‘mail rejection. We also prefe i disputes between network members are discussed directly
between the relevant partes. Comment s always welcome on editorial decisions. Views printed
in the Prisoner Notes section are those of the individual contributor and not necessarly those of
the network as a whole (o of the outside support collective). Please clearly mark “For We Never
Sleep” on everything intended for publicationin the bullti. - Ouiside Support Collective

itutonal

“Tallban! And be Is very dangerous o civil
liberies — all of them.

Lee Max Barnett/ PO Box E-03100/ San
‘Quentin Stte Prison/ CA 94974

From Thomas Helms:
7
Ireget o have totell you thatal that at
least two offcers commitied a sexual assault
againstme. 1 told the warden and he
conducted an investgation. During the
whole investigation, every officer had
something to say against me. Well, | thought
“What about me,the victim?” Every time, in
every cas like this one, who ar they going
o believe? The officer, of course. Now that
the investigationis over, | am going 1o
receive a writen offensé repor and be sent
104 seg. unit. I have writen the prosecutor’s
office, but they refuse to answer, If anyone
out there could help me with funds for an
attorney, would appreciat it. 1 have no
family that can help me. All L have s you,
my brothers and sisers. You can send
‘money orders 1o my address here. | thank
you for all your help wit this issue

‘Also, John Two-Names, Lam
S0y 1o hear about your mother, Tell her to
stay strong. The spiits willsee er trough
and she wil be okay.

As for the queston: 1) What s the
position of APLAN to prisoners charged
with rape,sexual assault and other such
crimes? - fel as an individual that we
cannotsupport these people, because if we.

do, who would we feel about ourselves?
What do we represent?
2) Does this apply 1o those who claim
nnocence orrehabilitation? -1 feeltht if
they are innocent et the law prove they are
‘As forrehabiltation,if they did t once, they
‘willalways have that impulse o do t 3gan.
Ihave to go, 5o everyone take.
care, and please help i you can.
Thomas Helms #41892 / 1SC1 /PO Box 14
/Boise, Idaho 83707 (USA)

From Jason Letzner
Dear frends and comrades of APLAN —
Tam a politically-conscious prisoner sending
out a desperate callfor soldarity and

‘assisance. As oflate the prisoncrats that

Yours for te revolution —

Jason Letzner #165857 / PO Bax 492/
1728 Bluewater Highway / Tonia, MI 48846
(UsA)

Work in th property room here have been =" ¢

repeatedly rejecting al of my radical books,
catalogs, zines and most iteratue (i.
Snarchist, commnist and environmental)
hile some of the material conains only
Slight hints of a politcal sant. All materal
is being rejected with no specific reasons as
o wh the material being sent to me is
objectionable - no specfic easons, 00
‘explanation and no right to have a hearing.

Everything is labeled a “security
threat”regardless o the acual content. For
‘example, last week a package of books that |
ordered from AK Press was denied. This
ek the books Camival of Chaos and
Chronic!Riot!Spasm (an at book) were sent
1o me from Slug and Lettuce Book
Distribution and consequently were also
denied.

Lam fling grievance on the
offices for denying me the right to have
hearing, and also for them not specifcally
addressing what i a “secarity threat”,but
feel this to be an ongoing problern for me.
that needs some serious sgitation from
comrades on theother sde of these wall,
Please feel free to write Warden Prelesnik to
your outrage over the censorship that ot
‘ol me, but many feethinkers on the inside
are forced to endure
Warden Prelesnik / PO Box 492/ 1728
Bluewater Highway / lonia, M1 48846
(UsA)

From William Martinez:

Greetings my comrades -

Lam writing n agreement with what
comrade Free (Jef Luers) made mention of
{n We Never Sieep Vol. 2,No. 8. As those.
who get it know, APLAN's We Never Slecp.
Jets anybody incarcerated hav involvement,
ut what if an agent of epression (AKA
facist Nazi pece of shi) wants o sabotage
work?

Let me explain - 1doa book study
i the dorm with anybody that wanis to leam
about Anarchist hisory, and everybody
Knows that 'm a practicing Anarchist peace:
punk, 5o 1 talk o people on an ndividual
basis also. Now I have gotien in
confrontations with racists injails,
predominantly BOWS, which sands for
Brotherhood of White Strength. There are
about three of those asshales running around
my dorm, as wellas undercover ones.

‘A kid confroted me one day
tlling me he used o be a racist and wanted
o learn about Anarchism. At first I was
‘doubiful but saw his actions and opened the
door L embraced him with Anarchist history
and even gave him some contacts with
people in Connecticut wiling o help on the
outside. He is home now; well the fuckin’

d stabbed me in the back by nuking A~
head websites, and tricking other A-heads
on the outside. This isn'sth firs time it has
happencd; I have had other experiences on
the outide with fascists making claims to be
Anarchiss for sabotage reasons. Now | am
aware of who i i the book studics, i ‘zines
Ishare have addresses etc... am toially
paranoid.

We as a collecive can embrace
people but need to know who we are
embracing, a it could be detrimental. |
don't want 10 sound hierarchical, but where
do we draw the lne? I believe that we
should have stronger guidelines for our
collctive. We should have someone on the
outside 10 confim that we ruly are what we
state. Then you ask “What about prisoners
that saw the light and chose the crcle A
lifestyle? t s hard for me 1o say - we need
1o decide collecively - but one thing for
sure,there i someone that is lurking that
‘could b fascist,and of there is we willfind
ou.

Well comrades, | would fove to
hear yourtake or if you have had sitations
like mine. I you want to write me do it
through APLAN as | can't write ditecly to
prsoners. [..]

Tend withthis quote from Mikhail
Bakunin: “Every enslavement of men i at
the same time a limit on my own (reedom, |
ma fice man so far as | ecognize the

umanity and lierty of all men around me.”.
Martinez #259840 / PO Box 1400
/Enfield, CT 06083 (USA)

OR¥r@

From Thomas Meyer Falk:
Apologies to Thomas fo the delay in
hing this. 4 the US sate prepares or

er n Irag, we consider the poinis
Caisedin this arice 1o be as relevant as

US Terror or Legitimate Self-Defense?
On Sunday, October 7* (2001],the US army
strted bombing Afghanisan, ogether with
the formerly biggest colonial power, Great
Britain. This implies the extra-lega kiling
of people, usually called murder. The US.
‘overnment and thei lle, the slf-
appointed generals Bush, Blir,and of
‘course the German government
representatives Schroder, Scharping and
Fischer, however, call it leitimate self-
defense.

Clearly, the UN Charter does not
justify the atack on Afghanistan
Independent experts on intemational law
who are ot nfluenced by western
‘govemmenis comespondingly confirm and
prove his llgitimacy.

Each and every law student is
taught n the frst semeste tht el-defense
implis a direct and present attack against
life and well-being. In this case, with the
attack on the mischievous US-imperilism
being almost four weeks i the past, one.
cannot alk of a direct and present danger:
‘Wit rhetorical tricks and a clever
manipulation o the masses, western
govemments crete the impression tha the
west was jus before extinction by fantical
Islamists.In order to enforce this impression
peaple from Arabic countries are
deliberately confronied with a general ban,
and spied out by secre service methods.

“The tre intention behind these
measures isto make use of the events of
September 11 in Washingion and New
York in order t increase the area and power
O US influence,thereby forcing also those
states and their people under the inhuman
control of capitalism, which were, p to
now, able 0 avoid this conirol. George Bush
cleverly states “Those who are not with us
are with the terrorists!” thus creating,
considerable psychological pressure

People in the US, but also in
Europe, who tried to maintaina critcal view
onthe atacks on the Pentagon and the
WIC, instead of participating i the
collective mass hystera, were and are sill
ot only the target ofstae repression;
futhermore,ther i also censorship of

thought,speech and publishing within the
lef-wing scene.

“This shows how strongly and
effectively the manipulations of the sate
offices forrepression work. 1S or 20 years
‘g0 radical left-wing activists celebrated the
miltant sction of their - mostly lsamic -
fellow activistsin Palestine orin other
countrics of the Middle East Today people
Wwho mention the sorrow of the Palestinians
are immediately confronted with the
reproach of being anti-Semitic

May the activists of September
11 have been guided by the wrong ressons
- everybody who does not immediately
expressthe greatest disgust a th attacks on
the Pentagon and the WTC is placed in the
fascist comer because the deed was
“basically fascist”, s somebody wrote in an
Indymedia forum.

Wht happened to the often-
praised “assumption of nnocence™?

Until oday there have only been
unsubstantiated claims of - partly obscure -
‘govemment sources, sating that Osama Bin
Laden was the responsible person in the
background.

‘As an anarchistorientated person
eligions ae strange to me, and so ncither
Christianiy nor Isam tell me much. But |
‘wonder if fundamental rights, which the
westem regimes allegedly grant 0 all
people, are o leftaside now, s the
Christan crusades against slam are being
continued?! Under the name of an - alleged -

‘Struggle against terorism”! Where s the.
proof for the alleged it of Osama Bin
Laden? s it lready forgotien that in
1991the US govermment deliberately spread
the wrong information that “diabolical
Irgis” were klling babis in hospials in
Kuwait, in order to justify the US
itervention before their own people? Is it
forgotten how, with substantal help from
the German secre srvice and govemment
(including the pseudo-pacifist Green Party)
in 1999 it was alleged there were
concentration camps in Serbia, and there
was 2 “Hufeisenplan” (*horse shoe plan)?

What s particulaly dissppointing
and rightening s that lso and especially

among the politicl lef there seems to be
something ke a fundamental Christian
belif,leading o a sitation which was
unthinkable about 15 or 20 years ago - that
leftwing actvists express solidariy with the
USA. The point is notfavoring a - pimitive
- ant-Americanism; the pont i the
eopalitica (in a widespread sense of
ecology, miltary, and ecology) power of the
US administration and US econom! | agree
fully with people who express soldarity
with the working slaves that were killed in
Washington and New Yori on September
112 But | cannot and do not want 0 express
solidarity with the US soldiers that were.
Kiled in the Pentagon, who put people from
life to death (e inthe former Yugoslavia
orin Iraq). Was it an act of “self-defense” to
il Chinese in Belgrade in their embassy in
19992 I it “slf-defense” when the US
bomb “millary argets” in Iraq on a weekly
basis?

Was it “self-defense” when the
US has been causing the deatks of ters of
thousands of children since 1991 by means
of the economic sanctions againt Iraq?

Accordingly today in Afghanistan
itis not a matter of “self-defense”. While
international law is consciously and
deliberately ignored, people are being
bombed and killed, who have no chance to
defend themselves in a court case. Instead of
actng against his, representativs of the
German government cannot wait (0
partcipate actively; well, the present
goverment made their irst experiences
‘with attacks no n line with international
Taww in 1999, tha seems to have aroused
their appetite. There it is back again, the
‘German drive for power, feard especially
by France, Noto Christan crusades by the
USA and Germany! No to attacks on
innocent people against intemational aw!
‘Thomas Meyer-Falk o JVA-Z 3117/
‘Schoenbomstr. 32 76646 Bruchsal |
Germany

A

From Sam Policar
Lam no leader, organizer, motivational
speaker or anything of the ot nor do | wish
o be. In this struggle from allthings
oppressive [ consider myselfsimply a
soldier willingto stand side by side with
anyone willng to make a sand. One of the
many frustrations | have about incarceration
is the lack of organizational support from
the strets. There is some but not cnough
here in Oregon and some of the so-called
groups are simply a hoax. One group whose
leadership has hopefully changed hands
claimed t0 b there to make positive changes
for prisoners was headed by an individual
‘whose family member s locked up so this
person was very cautious (to0 cautious) in
aising issues against ODOC and standing.
firm until ODOC made changes because
they were n fear of etlition by COs on
their family member for their actons. My
opinion i if you're not willing to sand all
the way up keep your ass in your seat

‘Currently Lam housed in the IMU at
Oregon State Penitentary. I i called a
“program” by administrators and is curently
undergoing some changes 1 give them the
abilty to keep us in this deprivation
‘archouse fo aslong as they wish, when
they wish, without tlling us anything.
Basically what other states’ ock-up units
have been doing for years, but it s new in
Oregon and necds to b battled right from
the start. This IMU offers nothing but dead
time and isoltion. No schoo! if you have 3
‘GED or diploma and those who don't very
rarely getany help education-wise even
though i you have no diploma or GED part
Of your program is to obtsin one. Books are
‘vilable on an exchange basis three times
Per week. However, the books are old and
mosly all are missing pages, ot to mention
hold no real educationa or lteary value.
There are 49 people per pod with
EPproximately 60 books on the book cart for
‘Sach pod, and carts are rarely rotated among
pois.

ime g TP main reason [ have aken the
lime 9 writc however is because of
ODOC’s rule development procedures

Prisoners may comment on pending rules
but that isa joke. However, individuals and
roups on th steets have & say in rule
development by requesting a public hearing.
The only catch s there must be at leas ten
people requesting a hearing i order o get
one. We in hre need a voice out there that
we can utlze for the purpose of isputing.
these off the wal rules that they make on a
regular basis. I there anybody (10 people)
out there willing to end some time? | am
willing to step up and get ths thing
organized and rolling, 5o if anybody out
there i interested, has suggestions or ideas
thatcan help, please contact me. I will
respond to anyone ruly interested,jus keep
in mind that sometimes mail moves slowly
in and outof the insttution for some odd
reason, 0 if you write and s response is
slow in inding you, b patient or repeatedly
send lttrs s ifthey are holding my mail
they'll see not everyone gives up easly and
accepts their games,

Sam A. Policar #10275241 / OSP /2605
State Srcet/ Salem, OR 97310 (USA)

From Michael Spradlin:
First, thank you for the Dec. 01 /Jan. ‘02
issuc of We Never Sleep.[.] I found d
issue t0 contain much heartening materal
‘which helps to bolster sometimes sagging
spirts. Because of the activism | pursue

here, L am ofen singled ot for repressive
weatment. 1 am inteligent and lucid, so |
never actualy transgress serious policy,
Which would enabe officialsto excuse,
condone and cover up egregious acts of
Violnce against my person or property.
However, Lam dalytstd,suffering
prmarly capricious slective enforcement
of rlesand rbiary ewrimenal
interpretation of policy.

T'm e all of you understand
‘what I'm talking sbou. One rue in Texas
pisons states that conraband i anything.
{hat can b usd for gambling purposes.
Obviously,tiscouldinlude amyting at ll,
and has been interpreted widely through the
years. I reminds me of a law in Missori
Which read sbout years ago whie enjoying
a short vacaton ina rual couny il The
possesion of burglay oolslaw was once
enforced against a man who had apar of
‘lovesand a ashlghtn histruck

However, L refuse to comphain
and | cerainly refuse o sumender. We ar at
war now. Sur, it i non-violent and
undeclared at the present ime. But
everythingis i in war, never mind the
{alking heads. We ae esponsibe for
perpetatingthe sruggle begun millennia
450, The basicrghtnes, the virue of our
position makes vicory incvitable, however
distat inthe fuure. )

Lam writing to disuss the “Legal
Roundiable” mentioned in We Never Slecp.
Latend the law lbraryfor two hours daily
and study prison case. Therefre, 1 ofer the
knowledge | have gained and th cxperience
Thave gamered from assstng others o this
unit 10 anyone who wishes 1o contct me.
Please don't hesitae o ask. 'm a neophyte,
butahard worker. I don'tknow
something, 'l g0 to extraondinary lengihs to
fndout.

Mesnwhile whil studying
recently, [ Rave developed.a st o questions
‘Which have been unabl o esolve. I any
reader can offer answers, guidance, or
asisance with any ofthe ollowing, 1 would
be gratehl
1. Ineed als of bookstores o outes which
sellusd ordamaged legal books at deep

discounts. | desperately need the Prisoner's

2. Names and adressesof sourcesof other
important reerence books at decp discounts
for prisoners withashortage of funds.
Specificaly, have in mind such works ss
Cormecions Yearbook, Directoryof
Directorie, Encyclopedia of Associtions,
Gale o Ayers Direcory of Publicatons,
Bartlet's Familar

Question, nd Guid fo Reference Books,
and severalothrs.

3.Inced 2 source ofaddreses o magazines
and joumals to whih L would like to write
i order o preview an ssue or submit an
aticleor essay (. Mothr Jones, Mother
Eanth News).

4. Uhave only briefdescription o a few
acsand would ke o read the niretext
(e Religous Liberty Protection Act of
2000,5 2081, HR 1691).

5.1 would Ik fo find sarch servie or
elper who could accessandprnt out and
mail o me about 12- 15 of the bsolute
mostimportant prison conditions cases.
These | would beable o keep in my cellat.
alltimes for research

Addiionally, 1 woud ke o bear fom
others more knowledgesbi than mysef who
‘would suggestthe actual 121 cases most
impartantorlandimark inth areas of prison
reform.

6. Ineeda ot of insiruction and gidance
about the actual mechanics of organizing
and iniiting st 10 be grantd class-
acionsatus. What are the icps [ musttke
o accomplish tis?

7. Lalo have a few Texas specifc questions
ifany comrade wishes to wrte me with
uidance onthese.

‘Again thark all members of the
network who conribute o all our soliderity
and support. 1 look forward to my next issue
of We Never Secp. lase felfee to
contact me at:

Michael L. Spradiin #933197 / Allred Unit
72101 FM 369 ./ Towa Park, TX 76367
wsA)

From Harold Thompson:
anyo

[Regarding Harolds lawsuit over censorship
ofhis mail

Bad logal news! Her s the sequence of
recent events related chronologiclly.

22 March the atomey general's
stalltook my depositon n the 1*
amendment lawsuit and it et well 25
March received th defendant’s
imerrogatory answers. According to
Assstant Commissioner Rosetenof 22,000
~25,000 inmates statewide receive
anarchism, animal rights or environmental
Titerature. Rose sated in 1999 there were
150- 175 mal sppeals with 0% of
decisionsupholdin rjections. Sverty of
hose appeals were mine according 10 the
stte’s exibis Several mal rjections were
Iabeled “Security Threa: Group material”
and th security treat group opic came up
inmy dispositon. had asked Rose inan
interogatory if “known or self avowed
anarchisis” were deemed members of 3
security thratgroup.Hisreply,undergath,
was No.”

28 March | mailed 0 th courtmy
preiabrefbefore a 5 Aprl deadlne for it
At rial Lintended o submit 15 exibit
examples of magazines, newspapers and
postards sold by the Sparish Anarchist
Black Cross but 1 won't get that opportui
fora while. On 12 April | eceived an order
from the federajudge granting the
defendant’ mation for summary judgrmert
and dismissing my lawsui! His order was
based on all mamner of dancing around
fssues, not addressing issues properly of
‘addressing them wrong, making quantum
leaps offaulty inferences and
isinterpreting legal precedent. One
example of this was in my pretial bref
iteda US Supreme Court risoncensorship
case, Mille . California, bt he juge
summarizeditas acase in fee cidzens’ 1*
smendment right!

Now Lhave toappea his
dismissal o he US Court of Appeas orthe

Circuit in incinna;, Ohi. I have fith
in on appea in wholeorinpar. Thisis

bothsickening and ngeing s he judge ran
itright down f th wire with ury rial.
date e for 17 Apil then dismises it with
an opinion that rcads ke it was composed
by a dim bub st semestr law sudent with
acrayon i oe s remately famila with
prison censorship law precedent. The US
appeas cout requirs anather g fe of
5150 which I'm less than leased about
underthe circumsances. v spent two
years on thiscase and I'll pend another year
Tighiingtis dismissal order on appeal 1o
have it overtumed, and invest ot of time
and hard work wrting brifs and
supplementalbref. I willikely b 2003
efoe this case i decided on appea. I s
Vikely that the appeals cout's apimion will
e published i law books when decided and
will hopefulyestablish solid legal precedent
on prisoners’ 1 amendment ighs n
Temnessee and other state. This case will
kel end up inthe United States Supreme
Court fo final resolusion on down the road
several yearsin the futuret

Uhave thirty days from 5 April
the date the udge signed he order, o i
my notice ofappea 0 the federal appeals
court. I refuse o capiuat as beleve that
is what his dismissal order i sbout, an
atiemp 0 discourage me into dropping it
When Lknow I'm ight | don't It mysel
become discouraged because live for the
fight, the srugge! (]
Harold H. Thompson 193992 / Northwest
Comectional Complex / Route 1, Box 660/
Tiptonvile, Tennessce 38079 (USA)

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From Thomas Tripp:
22002

Comrades -

For Fres: Some of you in Oregon may know
me from the past 3% years i the prison
system,or may have heard about me o read
my wriings. | am currently iishing out the
Jastix months of my original sentence for
beating 8 man with a bascball bat. | am also
avaiting sl on charges stemming from last
year's acton at Two Rivers Correctional
prison in Oregon. | am not an anarchist, but
o consider myselfto be a revolutonary,
and 1 am fully commitied f helping bing.
about the destruction of al staies, the elease
ofallprisoners,te dissolution of capial
and th creation ofa tulyfree society. My
effots ae focused against the government
ofthis country and s control apperatuses
(prison, tlevision,coppers, pop cltre cic.)
Talso respect and supportall iy
revolutionary actons. was refered 10
APLAN by my good frend (and co-founder
of the group “Belligerence”) Monk (Henry
Jones)and Lam a part of APLAN becatse |
s it s anexcellet forum for connections
With ther revolutionary comiades, both
inside and outside of prson.

"To J-Rok: 1 believe the way we
begin to educate the masses i 0 i0p secing
them 13 “moronic sheep”. We mustbegin (0
see th itermational proletariats
(“proltaiat” used in eference o that
portion of society which docs not coirol its
‘own existence —loday this inclues nearly
everyone) libeation as bth the object and
method of revoluionary sruggle. The fact
that we, s revolutionares,are awake 10 the
illsof thepresent ocial structure and are
commitid o s destrction only makes us
awake end committed - it gives s no
special monopoly regarding intelligence or
individualiy. The radical education of the
masses enails our viewing them as capable
of being educaed, capableof conrlling
their own existence and when we realiz tht
the masses arconly shecp. And we ae still
sheep as result of the systematic epression
of the individual (by television, formal
education, pop ulture,prisons and the

injustice system, advertising etc) which
capitalism and the tat find necessary for
ther survival. Bear in mind, J-Rok, that ths
is merely my opinion and is not meant as
criticism, butas contribution 0 the
dialogue on this subjec.

Finally, regarding people who have.
‘committed sex offenses: 2 Mr. Vandersloot
said, we should deal with the problem in the
same way we would ina free society. |
personally would ot associate with sex
offendersina free society, and I do not wish
1025 a pat of APLAN. This i merely my
opinion.

One last thing: the Umatila County
DA has gone from offering 42 months to 24
months inprison in exchange for my guilty
plea in the Two Rivers case ~ I ejected both
offers.

In solidarity — Thomas
‘Thomas Tripp: #12032560/ 777 Stanton
Bivd./ Ontario, OR 97914,

“Afierwards on my case - By Thomas Tripp
On Apil 16, 2002, I stood in the Umatila
(Oregon) courtroom (s wikd-west style
storefont courroom) and pled “no contest”
10 the charges of Riot and Criminal Mischiet
1. For thes charges | was sentenced 10 two
fifeen month sentences, un concurrntly. |
‘was also odered o pay $75,454 0 the Sate
f Oregon (yea, ight). These sentences are
theresult of my partcpation in the February
2001 uprisng at Two Rivers prison, which
has been touch on i the pages o Break The
Chains (many thanks to NPPSN for tha)
Trealize that my decision to ake the dea]
and plead “no contest” uns contrary to the
*10 compromise” thic of many anarchists
(especially my own),so | fettht perhaps it
Would be appropriat to xplain my reason
for convicting myself: Basically, | convicted
mysef because my convicton was - from
the beginning - foregone conclusion. As
the editor of Break the Chains mentioned to
e when I was considering going o tra,
have writen faily extensively on the subject
fmy partiipationinthis even. I you
Sombine the District Atomey's “evidence”:
Yideotape of th evening'sfestiviies; the

Supposedly unimpeachable testimony of the

"Cops; and my own writings, 1 think 1’ safe
0 say that | would have been convicted on
allcharges and sentenced to upwiards of five
‘years at the leas. Instead, | 100k th easy
way out. While 1 fel thatthe physical
struggle against the state, engaged in from
behind these walls i vially important t0 our
overal struggle, I also feelthat | can be even
‘more effctive in tha struggle from the
ouside wall of prison. Taking a deal is
using their weapons to beat them at their
own game.

Because | am not completely
without principles, I did submit a tatement
10 the judge which I fel adequately.
expressed my contempt for him and his
position a the Representatve of the State.
(Letusspit i passing on Judge JefTrey
‘Wallace and Assistant District Attomey
Gretchen Lard for theirsuperb handling of
this case)

‘The sentence ook was thebest
sentence | could have expected (in fac, it
‘was much betterthan | expeced). Bu,
unfortunately, th only way to get this
sentence was o compromise myself - “No
Contest” plea. So, in the end, ook the deal.
Texchanged 1S more months in prison for
two hoursof reedom in the belly of the
beast. A worthy exchange, woulkdn't you
say?

The Seatencing Statement of Polical
Prisoner Of War Thomas Tripp

Today you tink you have won, oday you
find me guily oftuming your methods
against you andtoday you seal away more
of my lfe.

‘Today the sat, rapist of the Eart, thief of
years, murderer of innocents, has passed
judgment on me -no for being cimirally
mischievous, nor forengaging in iotous
ehavior - but forbatling agains the
tyranny ofthe sat, in s most tyranical
seting s prison sysem.

Today the sate fancis tself 13 above the
people because it is grown fat on the
bloodstained dollrsof capitalism. Because
the state owsthe prisons, the guns,the
fences and walls. Because it hs raped the
meadows and murdered the foress and

P

[l e T oF e e peoples And |
Jou,the represenatives o he sste -
Judes, prosectors, plitcians, and cops -
soare grown ft onthe bloodsained
ollars and have buithe lectric chair and
bought the guards o slnce the dissidens
and secure yourpositons s he
epresntaives o a fls power.
Bt do you knowthat a tid s ising.-a e
ofiberstion,of which the actions of my
Comradesand s only the merest hin -
nd hat o gurs, o prisons, o feces or
Sl can stem ha e? Do you know tat
ihe days of your llsory powerae drawing
1030 end? Yourtwo millon prisonersknow.
“The homeles,sandeingthe stees with
only hunger i thir bellis know. The
i and minds tom apar by your bombs
and prsons and guns know . 1 know.
“And so0m you udges prosecutors,
poiicians and cops will know 0o
S5, fortoday, you may think you have won.
Buts tide s rising, and someday we willll
be fise - maybe even you. Unil hat day, |
vemainopenly defant 1o this cour and
everyhing it epresent, with proud heart

and a clenched fst

From Jerome White-Bey:
Open et t0the anarchissof
Dear Felow Anarhists,
Tam proud 0 say 1 am an anarchis, though |
am prisoner of the state of Missour and [
have been n here for 24 years, but [ efuse
1o give in o the prisoncrats. Sometime ag0
870up of prisoners and mysel founded the
MissourPrisoners® Labor Union and our
goals and objectives are to promte social
Jusice, human rights, prsoner rights,
workers righs an prisoners ight t voe.
We secktoestabisha prsoners bill of

s, heenforcement ofprisoners abuse
laws, workers compensaion fo pisones,
the enforcement o Missour nepotism laws,
10 establish prisoners’ miimu wages pay
scale, 0 establish impartial ombudsman
offc, 1o abolsh the death penaltyand to
No Parole laws and t abolishthe 13th
Amendment of the US Constitton.
Fellow anarchistssince the time we organize

ourselves as the MPLU I have been through
hell and back, I've been harassed beyond
‘one’s belief. We are sufferng from a ack of
support in Missouri rom our comrades.
Here in Missouri most of you (anarchists) do
‘ot understand or care 0 understand the
issues surrounding the prisoners” struggle so
you choose to look the ther way when there
s astrggle going on right n your back
yard. | understand that some of you el safe
by doing absolutely nothing. You spend
‘your time arguing and debating over the
difference of opinion, in which we don't
have the time or cnergy to waste.
‘Comrades, as anarchists how would you
define ou anarchist movement in general,
the state of our purpose? We are fighting o
obtan our civil and humn rights, and | am
nneed of your id inour sruggle here. The
aboliton of prisons,the systems oflaws,
and the capialst sate i th ultimate
objective of every true Anarchist. So fyou
are not afraid of a real lve fight with the
prisoncrats and ar wiling o join forces
and asist usin organizing a prisoners'labor
union movement on a ntional level I can be:
contacted at:

Jerome White-Bey #3747/ JefTerson City
‘Correctional Center / PO Box 900/
Jefferson City MO 65102 (USA)

From Ron Young:

Dear Comrades,

Revolutionary greetings to you. 1 just
‘wanted o inform you that on June 15°,
2002, willbe retuming to the free world
after having served my entire ten-year
sentence in the Texas gulag. | appreciate the
‘support and soldarity you have shown me
during my term of imprisonment and 1 hope
0 remain in contact with you afer release.
Please note that ater the sbove date all
corespondence should be sent o me at the
following address:

Ron Young / PO Box 355 / Whiteface, TX
79379 (USA)

‘Thanks again. Onward o th revolution
Insolidariy - Ron,
From Joe Zabick:
Inresponse to We Never Sleep

Sepu0ct 2001 -vol. 2 no. 7:
Every day we evaluate people by their
interaction with us. Should there b some
special critera or pejudged state of mind in
dealing withprisoners, convicted criminals?
Should they be categorized according 1
their crime? A person who commits a crime,
or is accused of doing 5o, is not defined by
their crime. Their crime is ot their master
stans.

“The anarchist community and
actvist community supposes 1o, amongst
other things, be offring people ideas to
unclog mental constipation - many

individuals prir to imprisonmen never had
a chance 1o asses themselves or the socity.
they were immersed n, hey had no
exposure to ideas and concepts such ss
offered by anarchistsactvist communitis.

Many take this time in prison fo e-evaluate
themselves and perhaps build themselves
‘with new ideas and concepts. Many may
have very well commitied terible acts
against their fellow human beings, t one
time. This is now — should they in their
posible search for meaningful ideas fora
way of life be cutoff, ostracized, or lbeled,
categorized by the very people who claim to
‘want abolition of ll forms of oppression?

1deal with hearts and minds, with

human beings and thisprison i my daily
realit. Tell me how the very nature of your
Proposal is not bourgeois,reactionary, and
Objecifying?
Joe Zabick 4668361 /Rt 3 Box 9800/
Dayton, TX 77535/ USA

Also Received:
Dolen Glen has seat out an ppeal for
financialasistance for his education. If you
can offer any help, please contact Mr. Gien
directly.
Dolen Glen # 860216/ PO Box 41/
Michigan City, IN 46361(USA)

Uoya Kwazulu sent an article regarding
his lawsuit i the U.S. District Cour, in
Abilene concerning the Texas Department
of Corectionsrejction of books. The.
books in question have been rejected based
solely ontheir African American content.
‘The magistrate decided that books such as
Paradise by Toni Morison where "written
solely” to cause prison disruptions. All
proceedings in this case ended in January,
2000. A full copy of this article is avai
on request rom APLAN.

Umoya Kwazulu AKA Richard T. Ayers
#468361/ PO Box 4500/ Tennessee Colony,
TX 75886/ USA

Jason McKenzie submitted an appeal for
outide help with typing,editng and putting.
together pamphiets for his group, "No
Longer a Prisoner of Ignorance”. He may be.
contacted a:

Jason McKenzie #380655/ 100 GA
Highway 147 G2 #24/ Reidsville, GA
30499/ USA

John Perots submitied an essay tted “I It
Really Worth 2" chronicling the futlty of
prisonligation due to liberal organizations
‘and atormeys lack of concer for prisoners
realisues. A copy of this aricle is
available upon request from APLAN.

John Perotti #167712/ 878 Coisville-
Hubbard Ra/ Youngstown, Ohio 44505/
UsA

Ammon Ra shared and essay comparing.
chatte slavery to today's prison system and
itseffecive destruction of the familial bonds
of Afican Americans. This excellent essay.
is available upon request from APLAN,
Ammon Ra (Sumrall) #304127/ 100 GA|
Huy 147/ Reidsville, GA 30499/ USA

) sce uponstim, ot i b sn i prisn nd asked i, “Son, wha i it tese
peopl ar dong tht ke you o mad al thetme?” The s shok his head b Gidt say

S 1h ot e s Question:“Son, what e thse people doia tat make you
o Afer a momentofsince, ih so espanded,“Th b question s what e they
oin that makes e want o forge alsbou going home”.. - :

“Acconing o the Assoiaod Pres,on May 20, 2003, Napolean s, man housed in
Georgia St Priso (GSP), fogot ll sout going home. The eportallgesthat Harris
oty punched and Kk coretional offcer (CO) James Henderson inacell bock,
hih reslod in Henderson ding e being i criica condion o w0 week:

e report o s that Hars (AKA “Po-Boy) was serving 15-yer senence for a
1993 amed oghery conicion. Howeer, becaus “an ddiona years hd ben added 0 s
etence o stk o the g h ates Hariscoukve gten was 201 nstead of 2008,
oo e ave been denid parole.

5008 aad defcly 3011 mayseem ke ages vy, bt sy, bothyears ar ks
anyone with b longscom o short-em goal will el ou that 200 d 20 are s around
e comer. So wih this understanding,you ssk,why would pisoer“punch, Kk nd atiack”
rison gused (o he mainstream medis says)when 1 known tatsuch actonswilreslt n
i receving mor e n prson?

o aeome this quesion iligeny,w st it adit that lthough prisonersout
b comctona o acrosth naton. 1 onetheles aiomali ht corections prsonel.
oot viwalty every aspect of prsoncs lve rom sing themclthes, g her and
ving hem medial veament o alowing prisoers 0 e th phone, aich TV, ecive il
oo and i with fary and rnds. Threfre cannot b disuted tht corectons
pesonnc runthe US Prisons.

T queston, howeve, it begs o be answere s how can minorty f people (LE.,
COrs) conto e majrdty (L, prisonery? The most kel answer :the minory
ytomatialy s vioence to aiaincontrol. (Remember South Africa?

" o o MMl th U. 5. Sapeme Coutdelt with the s of whethr the
use ofexessivephysialforce (by COS)aganst prisoner constiutes cruel and unsual
ponitmcet It cae i was sablhe that oo Octobe inith, 1983, prisoer Keith
Fiodoonhad anargnt with C 0. Jack MeMilan. Lt that day, C.0. MMl et
it C.0. Marvin Woods o handeuff and elcate Hdson t he Angola peitatay’s
dminisirativglock dova” area

wasonty when Hudson was handeue,outumbered, and ut of view and crshot of
e peioners fht Mihlln began o punch Hudson n e mouth, ey, ches and siomach,
ite oot held the fomate i placeand icked and punched i from bhind* Offcers
Woos and MMl supevior Athar Mezo, witesed the ncidet, and rporedl oderd
them 1 ot have t00 much fun.”

On ay et 198, it boke ot and asted 3 day at he Miack Alford
CormectonshCote inSirsgtown, Okaboma. CarD. Michellvasicareried threa the
. Tt cablishd tht Michell hd nfhing 0 do it he ot hat (2 conssd white
upremaist admited 1o staring the o, at thattwopeison guardsthought o Kighty f Michell
it the urgd i to egottethe rlcase of hostages. Marcover, Wasden ames Safflc wenton
e recod s having sid tat “Mitchel wis el nontroublemakingprisoc:

ichel however, had on foile that the Oklhomaprison officials rowned upon: he
was gaor S0 when the polic tookbak cotrl o th prison, Michell was relcatd 1 the
Okiahoma Stse Prson slon with those invlved inthe ot o therise decmed trovleakers.

"Hudson v. MMillan 112 5.t 995 (1992)
* Mitchell v. Maynard 80 F 1433 10" cir. (1996)

Once at the Oklshoma Sat Prison, Mitchel was stipped ofalcloting, includin his
prescrpton eyglasss for approximatly bwo month)s then he ws placed in wris,anke, and
Belychain. I these restraints,he wasforced o run through s grvel yard where e el only to
ave prson gardsKick and stomp him whileyeling “Getup i, get ™

When laced insidea iy cell, itchel was denied matires and bedding desit the
ot thtnihttempersurs ranged i the 0's. The same warden who climed that Mitchel was
‘amodel and non-troublemaking prisoner (L. E. James Saffle), justified these deprivations by
againg that“lothing and beding were pivilges” and tht “clothing coud be wrapped around
Jlight bulbs to start fires and use to snare and choke guards” (sic)

(Mitchell ke Hudson, sued his captors for the things they did to him, as described.
above) Some apine thatboth the Mitcheland Hodson ncidents ae isolated because one
occurred i Oklahom whi theother happened n Louisians. However, such views overlookthe
Tt tha (1) a polic s police no mate where h s, whathis rac s, and what his poltcs are,
and2), polce peson guards, ., have national (ad pehaps ntematonal) mandale 0 use
Vileacs aganst thos who chalienge o otherwis qeston suthrity.

Hidson was bis nth moth for arguing withacop. And Mitchell ws it nth mouh
because h filed complaitsagaintcops. Both wereassaulied becaus the police et vilence
‘would make them docileand quie. Ths s how all oppresors prefr the oppressed o bl S0
‘when police/prison guards/secarity guards use violence to achieve their goals of making their
Subjcts docile and complacent ith thei orders, t c neve b said that thei actions are
Siolated”, egardles of whether th nciden oocurs i priso, i socety, i Cal i Indiana, or
ovenin Georgia. Forsystemti vioence i never lsed!

Even though the supposd it Blac presidet (.. Bil Clnton, AKA “a good fiend of
Afican Americans”) went o geat enghs o icumseibe prisonr awsuits with i signing of
the Prison L igaion Reform Act, civil lgation sl s an vaiabl avenue fo prisones who
dekinscompenstionfor wrongs commiiedaganst them by corectionl safl.

"t what shout he prisoner who cannot affrd awyer o who does no hve he
patcnce, undertanding, and mentalcapacity o il lawsuitpro s nd who, at the i of i
Eeing victimised, i ot handeutTed a Hudson and Mitchellwheredurinthei ssaults? What s
{his prisone suppose 10 do:accept an as-whipping o ight back? The word around G.SP. s
Napolea Haris s theprisone decribed bove,an nder th circumstanes that wer presen,
e chose o fight backe

So, to finally answer our question of why would a prisoner use violence against an officer
When he Knows he cold gt morotime inpison, we shouldconsidr what chif disitjulge
Pannersated in the cas o Lemsire v Maxs™

“People whoare abusd and reated with volenc ae thse st ikely o trea thers

abushely and vileny. Confiniog people under condions of xreme vilenc, fear,

nd bostliy,and rlesin them i socity s ke throwinga tcking time bomb o 8

crowd”

AmmonRa July sixth, 2002

Ammon Ra (Sumrall 304127 / 100 GA Hvy 147 / Reidsville, GA 30499

*Lemaire v. Maass 745 F SUPP 623 D. OR (1990)
My Name is Bitch!

When 1 stand up for what I believe in,
When I stand up for those who cannot
stand up for themselves,

When think my own thoughts, and
refse 1o accept the brainwashing and
conform,

When I won't tolerate oppression,
injustice, and bigotry,

And take a stand against them

They call me “Bitch”

Ifbeing a bitch means that I will not
compromise my values,

it means 1 don't put myself and my
needs at the very botiom of my list of
priorities

Ifit means 1live my life according to my
rules & not those society atiempis to
force upon me,

Ifit means 1 won'tallow anyone o walk
all overme,

Ifitmeans 1 have strength and courage
10 be myself,

Not what civilzation thinks a woman
should be.

Ifall this makes me a bitch,

T welcome and embrace the ttl with
pride.

Tam outspoken, opinionated, passionate
and relentless.

Knock me down,

I rise again,

Stronger.

You will not silence me
You will not own me
‘You will not control me
You WILL remember me
Iam “BITCH"

By an anonymous woman prisoner in
Oregon

Wpcoming Prisoner Latwsuit Challenges Anarchist Repression
anarchit Gieadly prisones withinthe Oregon DeparmntofCorections (0DOC) guiag
e being sbjected 1o eadily worsningcrescendoof ccasorship of coming mal 1nd
publcuions. This sciic activiy canaot b allowed 1 coniaue unchaienged or it il ot b ongbefre
N mterial deemed anachistelted will e censored, with e frioology anarcis rlate”,like
“beauty, being n th cyeof e oppressr.

Cumetl, buring simpl ineptitde o the par of e suthries,anypice of mail orpublicuion
isplaying a ~ircle A" symbol or 1 anachistback cros symbol i bia rejecied wholsale. This as
e even where the offcnding ymbol s displayed i nws arcle pofogrph n s lobilly

icy alone resls i the rjection of most anarchit oiaied ublictions.
fmes ar basd upon, “Secuny Threat Groupcoviat”(anarcistshavebeea
cully
retaing or iy

L ecenly wrot o Mike Beagan, ODOC STG Management“laspecor” i
censorship and oran explanation a o whst crtera nd egal mechanism ODOC used 0 brand saarchists
e sceuty st growp. Thi i e abaurd Orwelandoublspe | ecivd back

" The snarchis movemmen n Oregon b grown o wher t i serious concer 0l
enforcement, ad the publi,du ot cresed vilence owardsoers. Assuch e 50 called “icle A”
{52 wel known alyag point for those within the movermcat.

“The polcyofthe Oregon Deparment of Corrections s e lerance forany STG relsed
acivity. Eac publication s cvaluted upon s own mei ndether acepid frejecied

"As you can se, hese suthoritarians, with e-4ppoaied pormpous vere, s o discas o
consder he nrsion spon mlenable bumaniarin rights. And 1 s bringiag st s e Oegon
{ederlcoutystm. 1 will b callenging h classfcaton of anrcism 3 STG, e ove-broadacss of
s clasiication,and why thre w0 procedra duc proces vebil i place o challnge, essigaly
oreberwise, this s classification. 1 il e hallcaging he rjecions based soely upon he
Symbola~ccle A" snd “AnarchistBlack Cross”. | wil b chllogin the deial of substantive du procss
hcre mai i ejected or “STG content” withot dentifying hat conlent ad without eifiag why it
Content deserves eecion. Lty will e challenging theconversion of my personal propery o he forma

of th rejeced mailjpublicatons.
"The courtbate i expeced o b drawn out and diffclt. Thos ae the common actic o the

Atomey Generl’s offic,the champion of “ie people” At the same e s they are both iating and
‘voidinthe iseuesbefore the courtthe fscsts will tept 10 bran the ssus s rivolous, malicious, wnd
ot constiatiag legalcaim upon whih elefcan be granted. Usualy, and | make this satement without
iy naive preease, the courtwill fnd for “te people” afe giving much lpsevice o consituionl rght.
Just the same,there i grandear i the effr he tuth are seif-viden, and we mustnot fear e path of
ruh orth lack ofpeapl walking on it.

‘Anyone caring 10 comment o the couron hes issues ay do 50 by writng the court care of me:
Brian MeCarvil #11037967, OSP, 2605 Ste St, Salem, OR 97310.

Donatioris desperately needed!
“The Oregon Siae Penitentiary consistenty rejcts anarchist pablications.The radical community witin the
wals of OSP wishes o ake the Oregon Deparimeat o Corretions o sk i civl ightslawsui. Outside
upporters bavebeea uaable t dae o raise funds fo legal represntaton. This wric,anexpericnced
‘prison legal igaor, wil soon i uit witbinth Oregon court. Liigation s expensiv, €ven more 5o for
risones without ncomes. Donation, o matie how smal, are urgely requesed 1 can be made by
Scoding maney orders o cshies check anly made out o: “The Prson Accountof Brisn McCarvil
11037967 and seat to: Cenral Trust PO Box 14400, Salrn, OR 97305-5077.
17 you can nd do send donaion,plesse writ 0 Brian McCarvill separately at:Bran McCarvill
#11037967, OSP, 2605 Sae St Salem, OR 9T310.