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510.Real.Dragon.Project s>(ooa ieapiiod Suipuas rpa(OJ«J .7 uoSejQ lean to ai|X Advisory Board Former Political Prisoners: Daniel Berrigan; Rita D. Brown; Rafael Cancel Miranda, Puerto Rican National Hero; Jose Lopez, National Coordinator, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (Puertoriqueno); Liz McAllister, Plowshares; Dr. Imari Obadele, President, Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika; Ricardo Romero, National Coordinator, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (Mexicano); Susan Saxe, anti-Vietnam War resister; Morton Sobell. Rosenbergs' Co-defendant. Community: Ellen Barry, Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children; Professor Noam Chomsky; William Kunstler, Center for Constitutional Rights; Chokwe Lumumba, Chair, New Afrikan People's Organiza tion; Queen Mother Moore, Harlem Community Leader; Professor Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz; Sonia Sanchez, Activist/Poet; Alice Walker, Author; New York Supreme Court judge Bruce McM. Wright Organizations listed for identification only. Left to right: Leonard Peltier, Carol Manning, Carlos Torres, Haydee Torres, Mafundi Lake, AlanBerkman, Judy -*». Clark, Luz Berrios-Berrios, Geronimo C Pratt, Sundiata Acoli. Rafael Cancel Miranda, Puerto Rican National Hero and former Nationalist Prisoner: I know what books mean for the prisoners, because Iknow what they meantto me during my 28 years in US prisons. Books helped me resist what prison tried to do to our minds. Prisons are set up to stop our thinking, to make us dumb. But books help us to stay free somehow." Geronimo Pratt, New Afrikan political prisoner, life sentence: Thank you *I for your active support throughout the years, and for the books and materials that enriches the Conscience, encourages the Spirit, informs the Mind and tempers the soul. In order to transform reality we must first study and understand the laws lMImi which govern it —we are and must be forever students." Helen Woodson, Plowshares/Disarmament prisoner, 18 year sentence: The books so generously provided by the Real Dragon enrich not only ourlives, but through sharing with other prisoners, touch also many others. Our thanks to the Real Dragon Project and all of you whose contributions make this work possible." Would you be surprised to learn that there are well over 100 political prisoners and POWs being held in prisons across the United States? Hugo Pinell Although the US government says there are mo political prisoners in the US, thelong list shown here Father Carl KaBat tells a very different story. )oseph Doherty Since 1983, the Real Dragon Project has sent over 10,000 books, pamphlets, and periodicals to Dylcia Pagan these activists, helpingcreate political mini-libraries in most major US prisons. From Leonard Peltier toGeronimo Pratt, political prisoners aresomeofthe mostprincipled and courageousrepresent )ohnmj \mani Harris ativesoftheirpeople.They are Puerto Rican independentistas, Black/New Afrikans. Native Americans. Carmen Valentin Mexicans. Irish nationalists, white anti-imperialists, anti-nuclear protestors. Grand Jury resisters and sanctuary workers. Kalima Aswad Helen Woodson What do booksmean to theprisoners? Books help peoplesustain theirhuman and political identities in theface ofgovernment attempts tobreak them. Leonard Peltier, leader oftheNative American struggle Oscar Lopez for sovereignty, spent two years in "the boxcar" in Marion - a 6 x 8 foot windowless isolation cage, Sundiata Acoli smaller than aregulation dog kennel. New Afrikan political prisoner Geronimo Pratt, arespected leader of the Black Panthers, was throwninsolitaryforseven years. And Puerto Rican POWs Lucy Rodriguez Filifcerto Ofeda Rios and Haydee Torres were held for a year in a specially-constructed, soundproof sensory deprivation Ann Hansen Control Unit 23 Vi hours a day. given the "choice" ofa half-hour outsideexerciseor a shower per week. Standing Deer The Real Dragon Project sent political books and literature to Lucy and Haydee regularly during this time. Haydee wrote from her cell: Richard DhoruBa Moore "Your books arrived and are greatly appreciated. Were it not for books, literature, and letters, Rita Silfc Nauiti we would be pretty much cut off from the outside world." Susan Rosenberg Books are a tool for continuing theorganizing work the prisonersweredoingbeforetheirincarceration. \vonnc Melendez Carrion One group ofBlack prisoners, for instance, runs adaily study group by shouting cell tocell, turning their Sekou Odinga "Adjustment Unit" into aschool ofliberation. Throughout theprison system, political literature ispassed hand to hand until it literally falls apart! David GilBert The Real Dragon Project also raises community awareness of the existence of political prisoners and Cuillermo Morales POWs inthe United States. By donating booksand literature, scores ofpeople are affirming that wewill RuchellCinque Magee not forget the people who have sacrificed so much, nor will we allow prisoners to be isolated. Geronimo Pratt The whole world understands why a Nelson Mandela or Lolita Lebron became focal points for their Lucy Rodriguez people's struggles. Loved and respected for their firm principles, they became living examples of resistance. Yet in the US, just as in South Africa, political prisoners are portrayed by their jailers as ]udy Clark criminals or terrorists. As repression intensifies in the US. more Mondo Langa good people will go to prison. We need to Dr. Alan Berkman support them Larry Cloud-Morgan all. Richard Mafundi Lake Father Paul KaBat Alejandrina Torres Silvia Baraldini Carol Manning Thomas Manning Carlos Alberto Torres Leonard Peltier Kathy Boudin William Quinn Luz Berrios Berrios Elizam EscoBar Lorry Thomas Ray Levasseur Mark Cook Adolfo Mates Albert Huh Washington [partial listing) D Donate new or used political and quality The Real Dragon Project D Make a Lu* ^iwluillbli donation to books and periodicals. Drop off at Mod P.O. Box 3294 • Berkeley, CA 94703&*f #~ . ern Times Bookstore, 968 Valencia Real Dragon Project. (between 20th and 21st Streets. San "Those who fight injustice are peopleoftrue Pledge D $20 • $10 each month. Francisco) or La Pena Community Room D Volunteer to help with mailings, or write (3107 Shattuck, Berkeley). merit. When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out." to a prisoner. D Circulate this brochure. — Ho Chi Minh.
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