Anarchy Live!

“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something. Never, ever, be afraid to make some noise and get in good, necessary trouble.” – John Lewis

One of the weapons/tools that we use in showing solidarity with prisoners who are active in destroying the Prison Industrial Slave Complex (PISC) is letter campaigns, faxes, phone zaps, and email messaging. We use these weapons/tools in response to the repression and abuse taking place in the prisons. These tools/weapons have proven to be effective in many instances in aiding prisoners in being released from solitary confinement, stopping the prisoncrats from tampering with prisoners’ mail, medical help, transfers, etc.

Remember, you are out there in the so-called free-world. Don’t allow fear of authority to paralyze you into inaction. They are already oppressing us in here. The only thing that will stop that repression, oppression and persecution is your ability to act, express your righteous indignation and bringing light to their bullshit. If you are unable to put your fear of authority to the side, kill the police in your head, you may as well join in the oppression, persecution, and repression.

Because you are not doing anything in helping us in the prisons, but in reality aiding the PISC through your silence.

Make some noise!

In 1945, as part of the US government’s effort to develop nuclear weapons, a number of medical officers working in conjunction with the Army Corp. of Engineers engaged in research concerning the effects exposure to radioactive substances had on the human body. As part of this study, Dr. Stafford L. Warren, the Chief Medical Officer of the US Army Corp. of Engineer’s “Manhattan Engineer District,” and Dr. Hymer L. Fridell, Warren’s deputy, ordered that human subjects be injected with plutonium so that the effects of the radiation on them could be evaluated.

As part of this study, Janet Stadt, who was 41 years of age at the time, was admitted to the University of Rochester Hospital in Feb. of 1946. Stadt was told that she was being treated for schleroderma, a serious, but not life threatening disease. On March 9, 1946, after spending approximately 20 days in the hospital, Stadt was injected with 6.5 micrograms of plutonium and studied for 65 days thereafter while remaining as a patient in the hospital. Stadt never gave her doctors permission to inject her with plutonium. Stadt suffered intense pain caused by severe bone degeneration and laryngeal cancer.

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In recent years we’ve seen the explosion of what is termed the Prison Movement.

We’ve seen unprecedented and massive rebellions in the form of workstrikes, hunger strikes, riots, sabotage, and other kinds of revolt. We saw unprecedented allies on the outside getting involved. We’ve seen the trajectory go from simply better conditions to abolition. Then came the calls for a national prison organization (centralization, hierarchy) to coordinate (control) these rebellions from the specialists in revolution. In spite of all of this, we are overlooking the contradictions in the prisons among the prisoners themselves and I think we will be fools to continue to look past these contradictions.

If the spontaneous self-organizing and actions have caused unprecedented chaos to the Prison Industrial Slave Complex (PISC) we see today (they are hurting), why would you try to gain control of it? These are just my thoughts and opinions, but if we do organize a national prison organization with a constitution, by-laws, etc. we will be setting up for failure and not abolition, but reform.

First, are we for abolition or reform? Most prisoners are not for the abolition of the PISC. They believe in the system. They just want better treatment/conditions. They instruct the system on how it can be better. Most prisoners are authoritarian and can’t see or imagine a world without police, authority, or prisons. Most prisoners who are fighting to change this current system do not question authority, only who wields that authority.

I can easily sit back, do what these pigs say (conform), not complain about anything, but that will do violence to my soul.

I can easily sit back, mind my own business, but most likely another prisoner will not allow me to do that.

There’s a real possibility that I can lose my life in this prison by the hands of these pigs, but most likely it will be lost by the hands of another prisoner.

Look at how we living in these prisons.

We constantly complain about how these pigs are mistreating us inside of these prisons, but let’s look at how we are treating each other in these prisons.

Here in Alabama the US Dept. of Justice released a two-part report on its investigation into Alabama’s men’s prisons. Their findings was just horrific. Rampant gang violence, prisoner on prisoner deaths, stabbings, assaults, extortion, rape, etc. This shit is crazy, because it’s all true. And we prisoners think this something to brag about just like guys be bragging about what city has the highest murder rate.

THE GANGSTA ERA

Do Prison Lives Matter? We treat each other worse than the pigs do. We beat, kill, extort, rape, etc. each other and call it gangsta (meaning cool). We have 60+ year old men sleeping on floors because someone bigger, younger, stronger, or connected want a bottom bunk or a bunk by the window. It’s true, some have sold their bunks for drugs. Then you have guys intentionally staying in prison, refusing work release and parole just to make money. It’s sad and crazy at the same time.

And we talking about building a national prisoner organization. We need to be building new relationships among each other. Simply being in prison does not make one a revolutionary.

Until we force new, healthy relationships based on respect – not fear; love – not hate; based not on where one is geographically from, what gang we claim, what ethnic group we belong to, what religion or sect, nothing is going to change for the better, and abolition is definitely not going to happen.