Anarchy Live!

I’m not trying to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I can only take the information that I have and can only conclude that the state is experimenting on prisoners’ bodies and minds. Of course, we’ve long put forth the premise that the u.s. government was using low intensity warfare-counterinsurgency against prisoners through behavior modification techniques and programs such as placing prisoners in long-term solitary confinement, sensory deprivation with the objective of using its findings against the public to better control society. A former warden at Marion Federal Penitentiary, one of the first control units, stated that Marion was for “the control of revolutionary attitudes in prison as well as those in society.” I don’t think it can be made any clearer than that.

In the last few years a large number of prisoners, people I’ve known for 20 years or more, have been diagnosed with cancer and have passed away. I ask myself, why such an upsurge in cancer-related deaths? In every one of these cases, the prisoner died within 4 to 5 months of being diagnosed. One prisoner even speculated that he believes he was given cancer by the ADOC (the State) through the water we consume. He told me that the guards here at Holman was instructed not to drink the water here but to bring their own supply of drinking water to work with them. I investigated these allegations by simply asking a number of guards if it was true that they are told not the drink the water here, and every one of them have confirmed that it is true that they are instructed not to drink the water and to bring their own supply of water to work with them. Wow!

Now, the question begs, why would they be instructed not to drink the water here if nothing is wrong with it!? So, it wouldn’t be hard for one to come to the conclusion that something is seriously wrong here and that it’s quite possible that prisoners are being use as experimental subjects by the state. Especially in light of the fact that prisoners/civilians have long been used as experimental subjects by government agencies and private corporations, and in most cases, without their knowledge or consent. In fact, the cosmetics company Max Factor has been known to have experimented on prisoners by testing their products on prisoners before going to market with them.

From the 1940s until the 1970s, federal agencies are known to have conducted heinous radiation exposure experiments on hundreds of human beings throughout the u.s. The House Energy and Commerce sub-committee released a report on October 24, 1986, in which it documented how the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and its successor, the Energy Research and Development Authority, bankrolled studies involving researchers from government laboratories and the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York, and the University of California at Berkeley. The experiments were to expose humans to radiation to determine its effect on fertility and other biological functions, and to study how the human body absorbed and retained radioactive contaminants. One experiment at the Washington State Prison and the Oregon State Prison consisted of the exposure of large doses of radiation to 131 prisoners’ testicles. In Richmond, Washington, 14 human subjects were immersed in tritium, a radioactive form of water, or given the material to drink or inhale, to measure retention and excretion. Other studies consisted of progesterone, a hormone found in women, was “labeled” with small amounts of radiation and injected into three patients, one of whom was ten weeks pregnant. In 1970, Otis Clay was a federal prisoner who participated in a program of drug experimentation conducted by the Public Health Service, the Addicted Research Center, a laboratory of the National Institute of Mental Health in Lexington, Kentucky. He was injected with Naltrexone, a drug thought to prevent narcotics from exerting euphoric and dependency effects; this drug was known by the supervising doctor to be dangerous. Clay consented to this experiment because the doctor assured him that the dosage involved would be too small to cause harm. But as a result of the injection, Clay suffered a serious heart attack.

In February, 1946, Janet Stadt was admitted to the University of Rochester Hospital. Stadt was told that she was being treated for scleroderma, 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 was constantly being tested and monitored until 1972, without being told that she was part of an experiment to evaluate the effects of plutonium on her body. Stadt suffered intense pain caused by severe bone degeneration and laryngeal cancer. Stadt passed away in 1975.

In the mid 1990s, then President Bill Clinton apologized to the survivors and families of those who were subjects of the government-sponsored radiation experiments. In 1996, the federal government agreed to pay $4.8 million to settle the claims for 12 of the victims who filed suit. Conspiracy theory? I don’t think so. The evidence presented in this writing proves that the u.s. government and private corporations, educational and medical institutions have, and continue to, experiment on prisoners and private “citizens” alike. Now, why would one want to support a government and society that practices and allows monstrous nazi-style experiments against its own citizens? There has been many more experiments not mentioned in this writing such as the Tuskegee experiment, the Tobacco company experiments, and the CIA experiments with mind altering drugs where one subject jumped out of a 12^th floor window. I remember just a couple of years ago people were all irate and passionate with destroying the career of Michael Vick for dogfighting to a degree where PETA and others launched a campaign that sent him to prison. How can one be so incensed about that, but not about 2.3 million of its own species being abused and mistreated who are held captive in these muthafucking cages called prison?

If we’re serious about destroying oppression in its many forms, prisons are the starting point, especially since the many forms are more concentrated in prison than anywhere else in society, and prisoners are the most defenseless targets of these oppressions, one could argue. Many people try to separate prison struggles from the overall struggle for freedom and call it “The Prison Movement.” I’ve been guilty of this myself at times, but we can’t divorce it from the overall struggle. As anarchists we attack all forms of oppression simultaneously. We try to understand the nexus of the many forms of oppression so we can overcome them, as well as a way to practice freedom NOW, rather than relegating it to some distant future.

Prison has swallowed up millions of people. Those who have been lucky to survive them have problems with housing, jobs, and education, among many other problems stemming from being held captive by the state. Once one has been digested by the state into their prisons, they are forever more targeted for discrimination and further oppression by society. Prisons must be abolished and the only way to end prisons is to destroy the state. Reform is the only outcome of “Prison Movements.” We have to up the ante. We have to make this muthafucka ungovernable.

“They call us criminals and indeed we are criminals when we act outside of laws made by the state. We are free only when we act outside of laws made by the state.”

[French translation]

The recent rioting in Ferguson, MO after Mike Brown, an 18 year old black teenager was murdered by a white cop, and its aftermath brings to mind another riot. In April 2001, Cincinnati erupted into rioting after Timothy Thomas, a 19 year old black teenager was similarly murdered by a white cop.

From afar (prison), I see that the trajectory of tensions in Ferguson is spiraling towards recuperation and cooptation. This is the same old maneuver and actors we see time after time. I’m specifically speaking of actions of so-called black leaders and black organizations, namely, the Nation of Islam (NOI) and the New Black Panther Party (NBPP). These organizations and so-called black leaders into maintaining the status quo so they can continue to profit off of the misery of the excluded financially and by gaining acceptance into the ranks of the state, and to be seen as the go-to folks when any disturbance happens in the black community. They must be challenged. Their working with the state to quell and control the rage of the excluded, and to protect property puts them in the camp of the exploiters and oppressor (the state), and no compromise with them is possible. Anyone who puts themselves between the cops and those that rebel is a collaborator of the state.

In Cincinnati at Timothy Thomas’s funeral, black political officials spoke of “restoring civil peace.” Rev. Damon Lynch III, a member of Cincinnati’s Black United Front (BUF) chapter called on several city officials to be fired, adding, “there’s enough violence in our city right now without us adding to it.” Kweisi Mfume of the NAACP called for change in the city’s power structure but urged the youth to “remain calm.” Jalil Muhammad of the NOI said, “Don’t get angry and tear up your neighborhood. Get angry and register to vote.” How pathetic. As if black youth registering to vote, change a few faces in city government, fire a murderous cop, and remain calm is going to change anything. “They are in this for four things only: reputation, power, politics, and money,” stated one black youth in Cincinnati. The same sentiments were expressed in Ferguson as well. These neo-kolonial puppets have attempted to reframe the narrative by making those that rebel into the perpetrators of violence when in reality it is the state that are the (legal) monopolizers of violence. The state (cops) are systematically executing black folks.

Also, in Ferguson, the NOI and NBPP called for women to go home. This is an attempt to erase black women from the history of militant struggle by associating militancy with black males, essentially perpetuating the patriarchal notion of women as defenseless nurturers and non-stakeholders in their communities and refusing black female agency. It should be obvious to anyone who can think that these people are tools of the state.

This attempt at recuperation and cooptation is not only relegated to the outside. The same goes on in the prisons. Any time there’s resistance on a collective level, out of the woodwork comes the recuperators and apologists attempting to talk down those that are rebelling. And it’s always those that hold some amount of prestige in the prison and have friendly relations with prison officials, whether it be religious group leaders, drug dealers, or gang members. They must be confronted as well by those of us on the inside.

The point is that we must come up with methods to neutralize these agents of the state. They are the main roadblocks in transforming riot into insurrection and revolution. All I know is that in order to destroy this civilization, we must confront these challenges boldly. We must also remember that these groups are homophobic, conservative, and unrepentant capitalists. There is no way around it: they are the enemy. They are statists.

[Unfortunately, this did not reach us in time to be read at the bookfair, so we’ll put it out there for everyone to see.]

Rebel Greetings,

My name is Michael Kimble. I am a black, gay anarchist being held captive in the State of Alabama and serving a life sentence for the murder of a racist homophobe, and three years for assault on a pig guard while incarcerated. I’ve served 29 years to date. Thank you all for giving me the opportunity to address this event. I won’t take up too much of your time.

Because I am gay and black, because I will not tolerate racism or homophobia, because I have a burning hatred for authority, because I love freedom and believe in self-determination, I became an anarchist.

For a while there’s been a lot of focus and interest in things that relate to prisons and the conditions on the inside. And one of the reasons I think this is true is because more and more people are realizing that it could be them behind the fence at any time. As long as governments exist everyone will be living under the threat of imprisonment. Outside of the prisons, people are subjected to widespread surveillance, kop patrols, and investigations. These are all methods used for the authoritarian management and monitoring of bodies through the threat of violent kidnapping and captivity. Prisoners are examples shown so that people know what happens when they step out of line. Prisoners on the inside face a similar, but intensified, situation. In the prisoner’s case, the example is made out of the “more imprisoned” – meaning those who have lived in segregation for months, years, or decades.

We live in dangerous times. The rapacious quest for profits for the few is destroying human life and the environment on an unprecedented scale. The only answer to the ravages of governments is militant social war.

We must decide the road we shall travel. Either we permit the oppressive system to endure or we get rid of it ourselves. We must continue steadfast to survive and fight with a profound love and great desire for a world without governments.

Let us join as accomplices in the grand conspiracy to bring this muthafucka to its knees.

ATTACK!

Police across the US are accumulating an arsenal of military-grade equipment (weapons) such as assault rifles, armored vehicles, grenade launchers, and even military aircraft. Congress created a grant program through the Department of Homeland Security that has issued out more than $7 billion to cities throughout the US that is fueling the militarization of police forces. Congress also authorized the Pentagon to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars of military equipment from the imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the so-called 1033 program.

Increasingly, police forces are using this military equipment in urban settings right here in the good ol’ US of A. The recent rioting in Ferguson, Missouri after pigs executed 18 year old Mike Brown, and where people expressed their outrage and discontent by taking to the streets is a case in point. In response, the state not only deployed hundreds of pigs, but also military-grade equipment (weapons) to put down the rioting.

From my view from prison it’s obvious that no one had an answer (defense) to the armored vehicles deployed.

The militarization of the kops is nothing new; in 1985 we saw tanks deployed in New York against the December 12th Movement radicals; in the 90s against the Branch Davidians and more recently, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina we saw tanks patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Still, we have not devised ways to defend against these armored vehicles.

This writing is meant to share information that can be helpful in defense against armored vehicles and also to push rebels into devising other ways to defend against the military-grade equipment being used by the kops, and against protesters.

So, I go from here to there. Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) are often used by dictators in so-called 3rd World countries to coerce their populations into obedience. APCs are attractive because they are cheap, easy to transport, and effective. However, a few quick, relatively easy methods of dispatching APCs, playing on their weaknesses, have been discovered by oppressed people who have fought back. APCs are generally deployed as a more secure way of transporting infantry. APCs cannot jump wide ditches, climb walls, or bully their way through fences like tanks. But they can swim rivers. Older model US M113s, of which some 45,000 were made in various configurations, were completely amphibious. Major US APCs such as the Bradley and M113 have always run on tracks. Tired vehicles are more immune to land mines. A few US purely reconnaissance vehicles, offered by Cadillac Gage, have been tire mounted. Military folks feel that tires are easier to ignite with molotovs or thermite grenades. APCs generally carry machine guns, large and small, which are mounted on them. But the weapons used against protesters are usually reconfigured to use rubber bullets, tear gas, and/or water cannons. Part of their sting is the ability to deploy troops quickly.

More up to date Bradleys carry a 25mm (one-inch) chain gun capable of shooting the track off an Abrams tank at 1,500 meters. Bradleys are a very tough machine for fighters to defeat. Large molotovs and shaped jelled flame chargers could theoretically overcome onboard fire suppression systems. But getting up on a fast and nimble Bradley to deploy a molotov would be tough if the crew were at all alert. Yet, Bradleys suffer from many of the same syndromes as other main battle tanks. They are uncomfortable and sight limited for the driver to ride in buttoned up, giving skilled sniper teams a good chance. Snipers can be effective against Bradleys when they routinely move up the road or when the crew stops to stretch their weary legs. Like regular tanks, continued extensive maintenance must be pulled on Bradleys. Bradleys cannot be holed by anything less than a 20mm cannon. M113s, on the other hand, are made of aluminum plate through which a Barrett light .50 type round fired at modest ranges will penetrate. However, their armor will successfully turn all .30 caliber rounds, armor piercing or otherwise. But the relatively-new 5.56 armor-piercing rounds should penetrate. All APCs are very terrain-sensitive. They like roads to run on and will not quickly tear them up as do tanks. Wise defenders should always consider luring them into disadvantageous terrain where they can be trapped and burned out. M113s are easy to burn. Jelled gasoline fire, sprayed or splashed onto the machines, will be sucked up into the engine’s air intake, stalling it. Clever defenders might entice these beasts into deep gullies or even pits constructed as traps.

More than tanks, APCs of all types are ordered into cities where they could be successfully ambushed at close quarters by defenders with heavy construction equipment. Bradleys now run on diesel fuel, whereas most other APCs, including most M113s, use gasoline and have a reputation for burning easily. Virtually all APCs suffer from a design defect making them relatively easy prey for homemade claymores. Smaller 3.5 pounders do nicely as long as they can be set to cover the top of the vehicle or detonation. APCs, because they are mainly used for reconnaissance and as troop carriers, all mount fairly tall, stout radio antennas. Limited visibility and foul internal conditions encourage users to cruise alone with the hatches open. Claymores set to detonate using a tripwire strung high up out of sight can take out both driver and gunmen. Only about eight pounds of homemade C-4 is required to blow the tracks from an APC. If possible, it may be advisable to use only large land mines deployed for tracked vehicles. Pressure switches on tank and APC runes can be little more than simple, conventional door bell buttons. APC drivers often layer kevlar and ammo cans on their relatively-thin vehicle floors. But additional weight often fatally stresses machine drive lines and transmissions. Small explosive devices packed in the tread tight against the sprocket will do material damage. Backpack, homemade flame-throwers are effective either on packed vehicles or out on operations, if one can get up on the machines. Homemade claymores with their incredible backblast will incapacitate any APC. Thermite grenades carefully placed on the engine, fuel cell, or transmission, will also cause material damage. Ingenuity is what defenders must use if contending with APCs in urban settings to effectively defend against them.

Watching and reading about the events in Ferguson and seeing armored vehicles roaming down the streets prompted me to post this document. Hopefully this document will push rebels into coming up with methods that can be used to deal effectively with armored vehicles and deliver blows to the enemy.

NOTES:
Encyclopedia of Practical Knowledge and Proven Techniques by Ragner Benson (Loompanics Unlimited)

[This text contains information taken from the publicly-available writings listed above and is intended for educational purposes only.]

This is a typical day for me. I have no job since none are available, nor is there any trade school or academic classes.

3:00 am. I’m awakened by the guard in the dorm screaming “get ready for chow!” This is the beginning of my day and I’ll hear screaming guards throughout it. I drag myself from my rack which consists of a 3½ inch mat for a mattress. Other prisoners are also waking up and making their way to the sinks and toilets. I’m in a dorm of 114 prisoners and there’s only six sinks and six toilets to share. There is a line forming for the use of the sinks and toilets. I’m lucky, I immediately get an open sink, brush my teeth, and wash my face. No mirror to look in. I return to my sleeping area which I’m forced to share with another prisoner (due to overcrowding), get dressed (only one person can get dressed at a time in the tiny space) in the all white uniform the Alabama Dept. of Corrections (ADOC) issue to all prisoners. I stand around until the dorm door opens, signaling that breakfast is ready. It’s about 4:00 am. I walk down the hall which has a dreary, creamy and yellow color on the walls and gray bars. Pig guards are posted along the hall. “Put your shirt in, let me see your wrist band, go shave!” is the refrain I constantly hear the pigs say to various prisoners walking back and forth along the hall, as I make my way to the kitchen. I’m now in the serving line. No milk this morning, only watery grits, powder eggs, a teaspoon of jelly and two flat, small biscuits, and powdered orange juice. I’m thinking to myself, “Fuck! I’m tired of the same old shit every day.” I’ve been eating this slop for the last 28 years. My dorm was second to eat, so I’m sitting among one hundred plus prisoners. Some are talking, others are looking at the ceiling. Either for the birds that live in the kitchen skylight, hoping not to get bird shit on them or their food, or watching the light fixtures that is known to drop from the ceiling without warning. I hurry and eat, and march back down the hall to my dorm, speaking to a number of prisoners along the way who are just hanging out on the hall. It’s about 4:30 am and I do not return to bed but go into the TV room and listen to the news (NPR) on the radio until 6:00 am when the shift changes.

“Count time!” the new pig that just started his shift screams. “Catch your rack, one to a rack. I return to my rack, three other pigs enter the dorm to count. “On the high, on the low, all of ‘em!” holler prisoners throughout the dorm, sounding the alarm for unaware prisoners who may be on a contraband cell phone, smoking dope, fucking, etc. High is the row with the high numbers and low is the row with the low numbers. I’m on the high row (107). After the guards exit the dorm I return often to the TV room and continue listening to NPR. The TV room is slowly filling up with prisoners who are waiting on work call, weight pile, and/or big yard call, or just waiting on the doors to open so they can stroll outside and dorm to dorm. But it’s rare for the big yard to be open at this hour unless it’s “running out” days. Some have different appointments such as “Stress Management,” “Changing Criminal Thinking,” and other brainwashing classes. Some appointments are for medical. Most are just watching the morning TV shows (Good Morning America, The Today Show) and most will also be sitting in front of the TV all day and night. Constant, continuous, systematic brainwashing. There’s a schedule for the TV, such as what channel the TV is on at particular times through the day and night. We are not allowed to decide what we would like to watch.

“Check out! Industry workers, weightpile!” screams the guard. It’s about 7:15 am. If it’s a “running out” day, he’d announce that. “Running out!” is when the Capt. of guards wants to fuck with us by having everyone vacate the dorms, supposedly for cleaning. But shit, when it’s not “Running out!” days, the forms are still cleaned up. So he just wants to fuck with us. They’ll (pigs) have us standing around, nowhere to sit or use the toilet, no water fountain in working conditions, in the extreme cold or heat for four or five hours. This is one instance of state torture practice. But I go out at this time anyway, so I’m not so worried about it. I just be pissed because I know they (pigs) are just simply fucking with us. Through the years I’ve conditioned my body to be able to withstand cold and heat for long periods of time without discomfort.

This is how I get most of my jogging time. On non “Running Out!” days I’ll stay out till about 9:30 am when it’s count time again. After, I’ll return to my dorm and read or just rest till 11:00 am (lunch time). The same routine is followed as with breakfast. The only difference is the slop they are serving. Maybe we’ll have blackeyed peas and cornbread. I love ‘em. I’m a non-meat eater, so I have to supplement my diet with whatever looks less dangerous. I finish eating and walk outside and kick it with a couple of folks. It’s packed outside because everyone is on break and to get to the kitchen to eat you have to go outside and not down the hall (on their pretty tiles which was paid for with funds from Inmate Welfare Committee), which is the shortest route. But today, as I turn the corner coming from the kitchen I see a verbal confrontation going on between two guys. One of the guys suddenly pulls a knife from his waistband and starts stabbing the other guy. I hurriedly make my way past them. I know them both, one of them real good. The guy without the knife tries to fight back but falls. The other guy straddles him and continues to stab the guy. I eventually make my way through the quickly gathered crowd and go to my dorm. I would have tried to intervene but I myself had a knife on me as I and many other prisoners normally does. The guards have gotten word of the stabbing and two pass me running to the scene. Others are hollering “Lockdown!”

This is the reality I have to, literally, contend with each and every day. Some of us are so damaged by this civilization that we are walking time bombs. We walk around with all kinds of pent up frustrations, anger and other issues. I’m not immune to these emotions but I have learned how to redirect my frustrations and anger into revolt against the true enemy. Anyway, once I’m back in the dorm, which is locked down, I engage in a conversation with a guy named Ralph who insists on debating religion with me. He can’t believe I don’t believe in God. I tell him if his god exists that he’s a tyrant and that I don’t want anything to do with him (God). And why does it have to be a male? Now he wants to fight. But his god is merciful, forgiving and loving.

(Continued later…)

Historically, domestic social movements, no matter their theory, have adopted a practice of the two approaches. For instance, the Black Panther Party – which was a revolutionary nationalist organization with a Marxist, Leninist, Maoist orientation – degenerated into a reform party when it began to participate in state elections, as did most of the organizations of the most revolutionary period in america since the 1800s. Revolution is radical and being radical means getting to the root of things and making changes to bring about REAL liberation. That’s revolution.

Reform, in contrast, only desires and attempts to bring about cosmetic rehabilitation by having the state enact new laws, rules, regulations, statues, etc. “Reform adopts the logic of the political system (government). The political system has definite rules and structures that limit both the ways in which demands are framed, and the solutions to these demands. These demands, because they have to adhere to an abstracted system of rules, become abstracted because they must be defined in terms of the political system. Thus, the demand becomes a political demand, necessitating a political solution. These political solutions must also adhere to the rules of the system, meaning that it cannot subvert the political process (the rule of law). The political system and political process thus preclude solutions outside of its rules and limits. The solution of the demands leaves the political process untouched.” Reform petitions the state to repent and change its ways. It moves off of the premise that the moral rightness of its position would be recognized and convince the state to change for the better.

In essence, these organizations attempt to use the laws of the state (human rights laws) and moral persuasion to bring about better conditions for prisoners and free them in some cases. The tactics of these organizations are within the prescribed limits devised by the state. Instead of destroying the system and hierarchy, they religiously adhere to this way of thinking and practice. Reform only strengthens the state, continues the status quo, causes assimilation and more misery, because in reality nothing really changes. The groups’ sense of social justice is strictly limited to the capitalist laws which are designed to defend the state and prevent any real social change. Anarchist revolution imparts a consciousness so that people can get past the superficial/symbolic and do not ask folks to petition the state to change itself in response to moral rebukes, as reform does, but rather, to build an alternative by fighting the state and all forms of hierarchy and domination. Capitalism, prisons, hierarchy, and all the fucked up shit this present world has to offer will forever exist unless the present mindset of society radically changes. The only outcome activists, abolitionists, prisoners, revolutionaries, etc can look forward to is reform, which translates into more of the same bullshit. Nothing short of destroying this muthafucka is going to bring about radical change. We’ve got to get this in our fucking heads.

Revolution now!
Fuck tha world!
(A)

Rebel greetings,

My name is Michael Kimble and I’m a 49 year old, black, gay anarchist being held kaptive by the state of Alabama. I’ve been active for over 20 years in the struggle for a better world. I’ve suffered and weathered all the hate, brutality, and slander the state has thrown at me. I’ve been in rebellion against the institutions of capitalist patriarchy, racism, and coercion my whole life, but didn’t realize it. My rebellion began with the institution of the family.

From an early age I’ve had a strong distaste for authority, starting with my family, who could not reconcile the fact that I was not the “normal” male child, but a somewhat effeminate child. This distaste only became stronger as I became older and ventured out into the larger world. Everywhere I turned I encountered authority figures who constantly attempted to force me to conform to their notion of what I should be and what I should desire. The same as my family.

As I began to understand the dynamics of patriarchy and capitalism, I started searching for an alternative that spoke to my desires and ideas of what the world should look like. Communism, Marxism I should say, was my first embrace, but anarchism resonated more with my way of thinking. Since becoming an anarchist my fighting spirit has sharpened, which brings me to this. Recently, I helped organize and participated in a work strike here at Holman Maximum Security prison and since that time a number of prisoners who were also instrumental in making the strike happen have been placed in solitary confinement for conspiracy and creating a security threat. I, myself, have been added to the state’s list as a Security Threat Group (STG) and labeled a terrorist, simply because of my work relating to the work strike. I’m not surprised by the state’s actions in this matter. As a matter of fact, I expected it. We can never expect the state and its institutions not to retaliate. The state and its institutions are the enemy of the people, and especially the enemy of those who fight to bring about its demise.

We prisoners, and anarchist prisoners in particular, need all freedom loving folks’ support to combat this ever hungry beast. There isn’t much that I can do from this position but to continue to resist and spread the word that a better world is possible but only if we fight for it. And that anarchism is the only alternative for the survival of humanity, wildlife, and the environment.

At this point, I would like to give a shout out to all the anarchists/anti-authoritarians that have given me support and unrelenting solidarity. And know that you have kept me on point when things were not looking so good for me. And to all the anarchists out there, stay strong and know that one day we will run free.

“Anarchists would do best to reimagine what becoming powerful might feel like. It would benefit us to experience our power intimately embodied in spaces where capitalism is being called into question. This means we would not continue to exist as a mere protest movement but rather as criminals experimenting with ways to survive. We would notice that a similar fabric runs throughout society, connecting us not solely with other predominantly white social movements, but also to many people who survive without compromise in this world on fire. We are not individuals acting on our moral impulses; we are a social force becoming aware of its power. Becoming powerful is a matter of making our story a place to inhabit – making our story material. We dream in the face of nightmares, not as an escape into an alternative reality, but as a weapon to change this one.”

Abolish all prisons!
No compromise!