ARM THE SPIRIT "Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revo• lution. Pass on the torch. Join us, give up your life for the people."-George Jackson, prison organizer/revolutionary, assassinated by San Quentin guards August 21, 1971. HAIGHT-ASHBURY ARTS WORKSHOP NUMBER 4 AUGUST, 1979 50<

Honor Fallen Black FrQQdom Fighters BUILD BLACK AUGUST MONTH Message from S.Q. Adjustment Center

Comrades:

The month of August has a special meaning within the hearts of all freedom fighters who have lived the era of Revolutionary strain in Cali• fornia prisons of the last decade. We came from that point in time where the consciousness of our people got its first "push, and our scorn for the enemy order led its inevitable course and delivered us to the prison gates. Since that time the strain and de• vastation to Revolutionary maturity has been great and priceless if we lonathan Jackson, William Christmas, James McClain — Marin County Courthouse, August 7,1970 are totally conscious of its histor• ical value to us as freedom fighters. Black Cultural Development and Revolutionary Growth It has afforded us the necessary tem• weekly, and yearly, and yet priceless pering to advance in our determined Greetings Comrades: if we are totally conscious of its liberation. "A new unitarian and progressive historical value to us as African current has sprung up in the move• August 7, 1970; the manchild Jona• Freedom Fighters and professional ment centering on political prison• than Jackson took courage and carbine revolutionaries. It has afforded us ers. (African prisoners in general in hand and delivered Black conscious• the necessary tempering to advance and P.O.W.'s in particular) How can ness to its next practical level. to the next stage in Nation building, this unitarian conduct be developed in our National Liberation struggle/ August 21, 1971; Comrade George further in the face of determined Black Liberation movement, and in the Jackson reared the head of the fire resistance from the establishment? Worldwide Socialist Revolution. breathing Dragon and showed by su• How can it be used to isolate reac- Traditionally, within the move• preme Revolutionary example his re• tionary>elements??... Unitary con• ment, the month of August has lentless, selfless, devout love for duct implies a 'search,' for those brought to mind in particular, the the people. elements in our present situation exemplary selfless and relentless which can become the basis for joint August 1, 1978; Comrade Supreme examples of George Jackson, assassi• action." (Comrade George, "Toward A Khatari who carried the ideals of re- nated August 21, 1971 at San Quentin United Front") and Jonathan Peter Jackson, Comrade See AC MESSAGE, p. 16 The month of August has a special George's brother and comrade, set meaning within the hearts and minds up and murdered in front of the-Ma• of all African Freedom Fighters in rin Courthouse on August 7, 1970, particular and progressive people of when he attempted to free three com• various persuasions in general, be rades of v;hich only one 'Ruchell Ma- they outside in the larger prison or gee' remains the sole survivor. captured behind the walls of concen• More recently in California in tration camps, from San Quentin and particular, and the west coast in Folsom prisons in California to Pon- general, comrades inside and beyond tiac, Trenton, Statesville and Attica. the walls pay special tribute to the For sisters as well as brothers who fallen Comrade Jeffrey "Khatari" have doggedly survived the oppress• Gawlden who was victimized by the ive/repressive era of revolutionary ^blatant assassination of capitalist strain of the last decade in particu• corporate medical politics, on Aug• lar. Sisters and brothers who walked ust 1, 1978. Comrade Khatari the path of suppression and the most was the stern believer of retaining unhuman brutal aggression and yet the image of the 'Black Communist come out whole. Many of us came Guerilla' to the highest without from this point in time in which we compromise. Also in recent years received our first "Great Leap For• there have been August 21st Coali• ward" in the development of Black tions and committees organized spec• awareness and revolutionary conscious• ifically around the month of August ness. and the comrade/soldiers that were Since that time, the strain and murdered during this historical devastation of revolutionary matur• month. ity has been surging forward daily. See BLACK DEVELOPMENT, p. 16 Folsom by a group of racist white prisoners armed with knives, (see page 5.) MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS To commemorate the lives of George and Jonathan Jackson, Black prisoners at San Quentin have set aside the August 7th and 21st will mark the known as the San Quentin Six, were month of August as a month of Blaik 9th anniversaries of the deaths of charged with an assortment of crimes, cultural and revolutionary develop• Black revolutionaries Jonathan and including murder. Throughout their ment. Through educational and other George Jackson. year-long trial much evidence was activities, efforts will be directed Jonathan, who was 17 years old at produced to show that the state plan• toward transforming the Black "crim• the time of his murder, was gunned ned and executed the assassination of inal mentality" into a revolutionary down in a hail of police bullets out• George Jackson. The most damaging mentality, to making the popular pri• side a Marin County, California court• evidence came from the direct testi• son masses conscious of their social, house on August 7, 1970 in an armed mony of police agent Louis Tackwood political, economic, and racial op• attempt to liberate three imprisoned when he testified that he had been pression, and to elevating the al• Black liberation fighters, two of instructed by high ranking police ready existing revolutionary consci• whom were on trial for their lives officials in Los Angeles to help ousness. that day. The two, James McClain and smuggle an inoperative gun into San Just before press time over 50 William Christmas, were killed along Quentin and set up George Jackson. Blacks in Max. B (a.k.a. the Manage• with Jonathan when an army of San His last assignment for the Los ment Control Unit) had signed up to Quentin guards and Marin police reck• Angeles Police Department was, he participate in one or more of the lessly and sadistically opened fire stated in response to defense ques• planned activities, such as poetry with automatic rifles on the van in tioning, "the assassination of reading, lectures, readings from which the revolutionaries and their George Jackson". Nevertheless, the George, current and historical events, hostages had taken refuge. The third American judicial system proved it organizing to speak on prison strug• prisoner, Ruchell Magee, who is cur• works in the interest of the ruling gles, etc. Committees have been es• rently held at Folsom Prison where he class, and the six were convicted of tablished to provide food for the is constantly harassed by racist one or more of the charges, some many who will stay away from the pri• guards, was wounded in the assault. lesser than others. son mess hall during the month of George Jackson, Jonathan's elder As a result of intense struggles August. And much more participation brother, mentor and close comrade was and support from outside, four of the including a massive demonstration out• murdered by guards during a Black six were finally released from prison. side the walls on August 25th, is ex• prisoner rebellion at San Quentin on But the remaining two brothers, Hugo pected. August 21, 1971. Three guards and Pinell and Johnnie Spain, are still To George and Jonathan Jackson, to two white prisoners were also killed targets of the state's assassination Khatari who also died in August, to that day. attempts. Recently, attempts were Black August and to freedom, we ded• In an unsuccessful effort to cover made on both brothers' lives. Johnnie icate this issue of ARM THE SPIRIT. up the state's pre-planned assassina• Spain was attacked by white racist In struggle. tion of George, prison officials se• prisoners at Tracy. He escaped in• Editorial Collective lected six Black and Latino prisoners jury. Hugo Pinell suffered serious ARM THE SPIRIT to make scapegoats for their racist injuries, however, wlten he and a num• P.O. Box 5548 murderous act. The six, who became ber of other Blacks v;ere attacked at Berkeley CA 94705 i E T DEMONSTRATE AT THE GATES T OF SAN QUENTIN E R SUPPORT THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT S IN THE PRISONS AND ON THE STREET Greetings of Solidarity! Stop Genocide Against Black Prisoners. This is just a note to ask y'all Solidarity with Black August Month — Black August is a month of organizing and would y'all please send a subscrip• education intiated by Black prisoners in honor of fallen Black freedom fighters. tion of ARM THE SPIRIT, I'm sending Honor Fallen Black Freedom Fighters: y'all one (1) dollars. I. hope it George Jackson will help in some way, I know the Jonathan Jackson subscription is free to prison, but khatari Caulden I want to contribute financially in Malcolm X some way! Abolish the Death Penalty! Free the Pontiac Brothers! In struggle. Free Graham and Allen! Free the Reidsviile Brothers! State Correctional Institution, Pittsburg Stop White Supremacist Attacks on Black Prisoners. End California Department of Corrections Collaboration and Support of the Aryan Brotherhood, Nazis and KKK. Editors note; Now this is what we Stop CDC Attempts to Restrict Prisoners'Visits — consider supporting ATS from within Visits, Including Contact Visits, Are a Right Not a Privilege Koncentration Kamps and we would Abolish Slavery in Prison — Repeal the 13th Amendment. like to commend the Brother for ex• No New Prisons. pressing his support in this fash• ' Solidarity with the Liberation Struggles of Puerto Rican, ion . Chicano/Mexicano and Native American Peoples. Free All Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. Peace, My Brothers and Sisters:

By me being a Soldier in the strug• SATURDAY, AUGUST 25,1979 gle for 50^ years, it is My duty to let all You good Brothers and Sisters of our Black Nation on this Planet 12 NOON Earth know that I too would like to have ARM THE SPIRIT newspaper. I am_ Carpools leaving 10:30 a.m. a Brother of 63^ years of age, and SF — Dolores Park, 19th & Dolores E. Bay — Ashby BART station have been through many changes by the Sponsored by Ad Hoc Committee in Solidarity with Black August See LETTERS, p. 15

2 WILLIAM IS FREE! On Monday, May 28, 1979, the within the movement and the people. to pay. Even so, they kept him with• entire world learned that the young They investigated, provoked, out the artifical limbs until the freedom fighter of Puerto Rican in• arrested people, and still they day of his escape. Morales, as a dependence and prisoner of war could not touch the FALN. With each fact, was kept guarded and pressured William Guillermo Morales had es• armed action, the FALN has grown in all the time. His visitors could not caped from prison. To do it he had the imagination of the Puerto Rican speak with him except through a to break through intense surveill• people. The Puerto Rican people now glass window and using a telephone ance 24-hours-a-day, and overcome began to recognize that, not only system which was inevitably inter• physical limitations—the lack of had U.S. government intelligence cepted. After each visit by an two hands. failed, but more, that the U.S. attorney—and even in the two "con• The political repercussions were government was beginning to fear tact" visits allowed him by his wife felt immediately and continue to the intelligence of the Puerto and child—his jailers would search this day. Twelve separate investi• Rican people. Even the most him, even between his toes. gations at the Federal, State and desperate Puerto Rican would now In addition to the bad food and Local municipal governments, have hit a bank claiming to be a member rotten vegetables he was served, been started. A Grand Jury was call• of the FALN, and the cashier would Morales was under constant psycho• ed into session to intimidate Puerto turn over all the money. Never logical pressure. This is why his Rican people into passivity while before had the will of the Puerto escape is so surprising and so ex• they conduct their investigation, Rican people been so respected! traordinary. In the aftermath and into cooperation with the police Finally, they sang victory with of his escape , the Puerto Rican and the F.B.I. Our communities are the arrest of William Guillermo community has shut its doors to the under surveillance by overt and Morales; Puerto Rican, age 29, investigations. Now, the city is covert police. Hundreds of indepen• brown-skinned, and who lost both desperately trying to recruit dence fighters are now under 24- hands in an explosion in a supposed Puerto Rican police to use as a nour surveillance, as well as their secret-FALN center. They arrested front line against their own people. allies in North America. and tortured him for three days by Once more they seek to divide the At the same time they are trying pounding on his wounded and bleeding Puerto Rican family to destroy the to cover up one of the greatest hand-stumps. The torture and in• newly rediscovered "will" of the scandals of our times- the inability terrogation was conducted by a Puerto Rican people. of police and the various intelli• Puerto Rican-American detective Morales' escape struck the Puerto gence agencies of government to named "Valentine." He was moved to Rican community like a "Christmas identify a single member of the Ryker's Island Prison, that Queens Eve." Everywhere one turned; the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacio- jail full of Blacks and Puerto factory, hospitals, the street, the nal (FALN). They are trying to Ricans, which has an evil reputa• home—our people smiled in the face cover the great defeat that Morales tion because of the ill treatment of of police incredulity. The smiles and the Puerto Rican people have prisoners and the frequent "suicide^'. became laughter as police confusion inflicted on the U.S. government. The popularity of his case immedi• ran riot. Silently our people prayed MORALES IS FREE, HIS DETRACTORS AND ately forced his jailers to treat Morales would not be located, that JAILERS HAVE BEEN DEFEATED! To this him somewhat better. A struggle was the people would hide him, that hour no one knows how the escape begun to obtain adequate medical someone would give him food and was managed, because no one is say• treatment, and he was transferred to clothing. Today, William Guillermo ing and the police don't know. Did Bellevue Hospital's prison ward Morales has become a hero of our he escape with the help of someone where they operated on an eye to people and an intelligent and with access to him? Was it a guard extract a metal fragment. The cost admirable human being to many North who helped him? Was it Morales, who of the operation was paid by the Americans. The escape of William without hands, broke the bars many small donations from the Guillermo Morales is the escape of between him and freedom? Did he Puerto Rican people. Growing nation• every Puerto Rican and oppressed climb out the window, or did he walk al and international pressure forced person from the claws of those who out the front doors? Did he climb the U.S. government to keep him at would enslave us. out the window using an ACE bandage, the hospital prison to fit him with Were he here today, companero using a ladder, or did he jump? artificial hands, and for which the Morales would say: "Hasta La Vic• Did he use the elevators, the stairs Puerto Rican community was willing toria Siempre!!" or did he fly out like Superman? The truth is that neither we nor the Reprinted from LIBERTAD, Vol. 1, No. 1, June, 1979 police know. But, yes! Morales is Box 83, 161 East Houston Street, New York, New York 10002 free! And despite the hundreds of agents who are conducting "search and destroy" operations, they can• not find him. And what does this all mean? From the very first encounter between North Americans and Puerto Ricans during the invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898, the North American has viewed the Puerto Rican as an ignor• ant brute. This is why they can You can imprison crack jokes about Puerto Ricans, exploit us, abuse us at work, deny us housing decent enough for a thousands of us, but human being, and still regard us in• capable of rising against oppression and repression. you cannot hold us In 1974, a clandestine Puerto Rican organization appeared on the scene. Against it the U.S. govern• forever." ment threw all its intelligence agencies, the New York City police, their informants, their agents with• in the movement and their provaca- — William Guillermo Morales teurs. They organized a psycholog• ical counter-offensive against "terrorism" and the FALN. Their agents placed within the indepen• dence organizations organized a systematic attack against the FALN, taking advantage of the secret nature of their clandestine work to generate an unfavorable attitude 3 DEFEAT CDC MOVES TO RESTRICT VISITS

James Park, former Associate Warden deep concern how far the CDC is trying security of the institution." This of San Quentin State Prison, now As• to go with its repressive policies. would allow prison officials to arbi• sistant Director of Policy and Plan• Its own employees would have nothing trarily impose restrictions on some ning, for the California Department of to say about their work conditions, visits and deny others based on any• Corrections (CDC), has, along with pay, medical, etc. They would even be thing they deem a "security risk". his buddy Jiro Enomoto, who is cur• be deprived of the right to strike. And certainly radical and progressive rent Director of the CDC, put forth Actually there are 35 such proposed people will be the principal targets the following "proposals" to amend amendments, adoptions, and repeals when these restrictions start coming present visiting regulations: of Title 15, DiV. 3 of the California down. Code, but the above are the most de• The public hearing on this bill 1. Minimum standard for visiting spicable and repressive. will be at the Capitol Building in as a "right" is restricted to at On July 12, 1979 a public hearing, Sacramento at 1:30 p.m. August 20th. least one visit a week from any one which was required by law, was held People should attend and resist. It approved visitor for one hour. The in Sacramento on the proposals. And is obvious what direction the whole "right" to have visits does not in- . over 150 concerned, irate, and out• criminal justice system is taking. elude the right to have physical con• raged people showed up to protest. tact with visitors. Wives, friends, sons and daughters, Yeah, James Park should be uptight. 2., Everything which exceeds min• husbands, mothers and fathers, and Being the warden at San Quentin when imum standards is a "privilege" which ex-prisoners all gave testimony on George Jackson was murdered means may be permitted or denied based on the degrading, inhuman and illegal Park has a lot to answer to, especial• current classification of institution actions already being committed by ly now, as we embrace George's immor• and the individual inmate, and upon prison officials. People told of tal words and put them into action. degree of risk a visit will present infants being strip-searched for "Settle your quarrels, come together, to institutional security and the "contraband", of travelling 3,000 understand the reality of our situa• safety of persons. Comment: Words like miles to visit imprisoned family mem• tion, understand that fascism is "risk, security," and "safety of per• bers only to be turned away at the already here, that people are already sons" are so vaguely, if at all, de• gate, of family visiting forms being dying who could be saved, that genera• fined that they can be used according "lost"; people told of their loved tions more will die or live poor to the administration's whim. ones beipg falsely accused of offen• butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover 3. Denial of visits as punishment ses and kept in the hole for indefin• your humanity and your love in revolu• for misbehavior. Comment: Misbehav• ite periods of time, of denial of med• tion. Pass on the torch. Join us, ior is anything from possession of a ical attention; some told of brutal give up your life for the people." candy bar to oversleeping. Also treatment by guards and of prisoners since it would be a privilege for non- being denied educational opportuni• For more information on the August inmates to visit, those of us outside ties. Others told of their friends 20th hearing contact: The Prisoners will be "punished" for something tot• and family members in prison receiv• Union at (415) 648-2880. ally unrelated to our visits. ing 115 disciplinary chronos for 4. Permitting correctional person• what the officials deemed "false in• nel to conduct unclothed body inspec• formation" in administrative appeals PONTIAC UPDATE tions of inmates of the opposite sex the prisoners had filed. Thirty-one men have been formally in emergencies. Comment: Body For seven long hours people gave searches are used to attempt to emotionally moving accounts of the indicted by the state of Illinois in degrade and intimidate prisoners atrocities comitted by the CDC and the aftermath of the July 22 Rebel• lion at Pontiac Prison. Three guards and their visitors, as well as dis• were killed, three injured, and $4 courage prisoners from going for To protest the CDC's proposed million damage was done to the prison. visits. Having guards of the op• visiting regulations, write to 17 of the Brothers, all Black, are posite sex be permitted to do them the following people. charged with murder and face the is a further intensification of this. 5. Reduction of an inmate's term death penalty. 14 Brothers, 11 Black of imprisonment may be denied for and 3 Latino, are charged with var• Assemblypersons: failure or refusal to perform assign• ious crimes including attempted mur• Paul Bannai Ross Johnson ed, ordered, or directed work or pro• der, infractions of prison regula• Richard Alatorre John Knox gram activities. Comment: This is in• tions, looting, mob action, burglary, Marion Bergeson Mel Levine sane; it totally allows for complete aggravated battery and arson. They Elihu Harris Bill McVittie, abuse of the prisoner by any one of face as long as 60 years each. the sick slobs who orders a prisoner Michael Roos Chairman In June, under pressure to grant a change of venue away from the rac• to do something under the guise of Write Assemblypersons c/o: ist and anti-prisoner climate of "work". Criminal Justice Committee Livingston County (site of Pontiac 6. 30 days loss of participation State Legislature Prison), the trial of the 17 was credit if an inmate does not submit State Capitol moved to Cook County, the only coun• to therapeutic treatment. Comment: Sacramento, CA 95814 99% of the time this involves -the use ty in Illinois with a sizeable Black of behavioral control-type drugs such and Latino population. But the State is intent on divi• as the notorious prolixin, which makes what more will possibly be committed ding the Brothers and their support• a person have an experience of the if these new visiting regulations are ers to assure convictions. The heart stopping and of suffocating to adopted. Few people were silent and trials of the 14 not charged with death. Drug therapy has nothing to no one accepted the lies dished out murder were recently moved to do with aiding a person. Drugs are by Park and gang. The realities of McClain County, 130 miles south of used to keep prisoners pacified so prison life were made vividly clear Cook County. The same racist climate they don't make waves. In light of to all listening. prevails in McClain County as in the fact that prisoners have been re• On August 20th a legislative bill. Livingston County. In fact, many of belling all over the country, the CDC Senate Bill 862, proposed by Attorney the guards from Pontiac live in would want to enforce passive accep• General George Deukmejian and spon• McClain County. tance of prisoners' conditions sored by Senator Alan Robbins of Los Pretrial hearings for the 17 take through drugs. Angeles, to legally restrict prison• place in a virtual armed camp. Armed 7. Confidential information kept ers' visiting rights will be having guards line a specially constructed "from inmates about what they are be• its public hearing. The bill was put bullet-proof wall inside the court• ing disciplined for. Comment: What forth after the courts ruled that it room, intimidating the Brothers and could be so confidential about what was "unnecessarily restrictive" of isolating them from supporters. An a prisoner is being disciplined for the CDC to suspend a prisoner's visit inadequate sound system has made it that he or she has no right to that for a 6-month period. The ruling held virtually impossible for spectators information? This would make it im• that "the CDC may only deprive a pri• to hear any of the proceedings. possible for the prisoner to obtain soner of such rights, including • In Cook County, the court recent• sufficient information in order to visits, that are necessary in order ly denied the 17 Brothers on trial appeal any disciplinary action. to provide for the reasonable security there the right to be represented by 8. Employees and personnel of the of the institution." SB862 would amend out of state Black political lawyers. CDC will not make or participate in this ruling to state that "the in• Lack of funds was the reason given, making any governmental decisions mate has the right to personal visits but the State has spared no amount which may affect their financial in• provided that the department may pro• terest. Comment: It should be of vide reasonable restrictions for the See PONTIAC, p. 6 4 Report from Folsom : DID FOLSOM PRISON OFFICIALS HAVE COMPLICITY IN RACIST ATTACK ON BLACKS?

On May 18, 1979, a physical con• The unhappy inference from these Predictably, on May 19, 1979, the frontation between eleven (11) blacks facts is underlined by an even more retaliation took place, and ten black and sixteen (T6) whites took place upsetting spectre. The inmates of inmates were stabbed. One black pri• in the security housing unit exercise the S.H.U. are individually subject• soner, Jesse Harge, was murdered, yard at Folsom Prison. Officer Hick- ed to the most minute search before either from a stab wound or a gun ey, the guard in the gun tower over• they are let out of the exercise yard shot wound, or a possible combina• looking the exercise yard, fired 13 They are strip searched and body cav• tion of both. shots. He claims five shotgun ities are examined as well. This is "stinger" rounds and eight rifle a known fact. It is difficult to un• Does it take the death of another shots (Mini 14.233 caliber) were derstand how the whites could have black prisoner, the result of an open fired. Altogether, four blacks were gotten any stabbing instruments out attack on black prisoners by a group shot by Officer Hickey during that onto the yard without complicity, of armed white prisoners, to motivate brief incident. All four were shot direct or indirect, by the guards who a genuine investigation of the quest• with the Mini 14.223 caliber rifle. are assigned to search the whites. ion at hand? The concern expressed Larry Justice was shot in the but• Certainly no logical explanation ap• here is to initiate a process that tocks, James Gaulden was shot in the pears. will go to the heart of the racist left wrist, Ted Brown was shot in the A fundamental if not the most fun• problem at Folsom Prison. Our inten• upper right arm, and Jimmy Warr was damental problem in the prison sys• tion is to expose this situation for shot in the right leg. When the con• tem is racism. And it is a problem what it really is and we need the aid frontation was over, seven black in• that is exacerbated and even some• of attorneys and courts, and people mates and one white inmate were in• times initiated by correctional from the news media. People must be jured. Medical staff reports reve• staff. The prison spokesman is Mr. aware of the reality of this existence aled that the white inmate suffered Huel Morphis. He released a state- . to understand that racism already a hand injury that may have been self ment to the news media on May 18, here and people are dying who could inflicted. Of the seven blacks in• 1979, reporting that sixteen blacks be saved. Do what must be done. We jured all were stabbed and/or cut or attacked eleven whites on the S.H.U. don't want to be manipulated any lon• shot, or all three! Larry Justice yard. This was a deliberate mis• ger. The authorities must be held and James Gaulden were both stabbed statement by Morphis (when in fact accountable for their lawless acts. and shot. The question here is whe• he knew that sixteen whites attacked ther Larry Justice and James Gaulden eleven blacks). The result was that were stabbed before they were shot Morphis put black inmates' lives in DARE TO STRUGGLE , or shot before they were stabbed??? jeopardy on the mainline, inmates who Officer R.T. Hickey, needing to jus• were not involved in any way with the tify his obvious onesided display of chaos in 4-A (S.H.U.). DARE TO WIN! target practice, decided he had best attempt to cover for his action. Officer Hickey (upon briefing from his superiors) wrote up a completely false incident report in regard to what actually occurred; and in doing PERSPECTIVE ON EVENTS AT FOLSOM so, he. Officer Hickey, covered up In my desolation, incarcerated the history of the Hebrews. Moses many issues. Blackness I find it unbearably dif• went to Pharaoh and he said, "Let my To give the people an idea of how ficult to write what is in my heart people go." It was not a plead. It absurd Officer Hickey's report read: to you and my beloved brothers and was a command and then Moses said if Hickey stated he saw inmate Pinell sisters. Yet with the dust of the you don't let my people go you will lead the black inmates towards the omnipotent administrators still case suffer the consequences and he went whites who were congregated on the their evil. on to demonstrate that he was not East end of the exercise yard and Many are now aware of the function making an idle threat but meant for that inmate Pinell had a knife in his of these kamps which are only de• real business. hand. Doctor reports here in Folsom signed to force a bro or sis into In taking away our African tongue Hospital indicate that the hand in submission. We are stripped of all he was able to accomplish several question, which Hickey says held the morals, principals, values, pride, things. One was our own definition knife, was so swollen that Pinell love and the right to be treated as of life; who we were and why we were. could not even close his hand. How a human being and we're stripped of When one can no longer communicate on could he grip any stabbing instru• our families and love ones. And any his own terms he becomes dependent form of dependency outside of their ment? Yet Officer Hickey claims he upon another for definition. They administration. Methods are also used saw three white inmates take a knife provided through force our defini• to keep us in conflict with each oth• from Pinell and begin to stab him tions when we began to believe this. er and further divide us. Prisons are with it. Hickey also claims to have When we accepted this definition on designed to kill. Either physically seen Justice making "stabbing mot• the subjective level we began to re• or mentally in most cases. They are ions" at an "unidentified white in• spond in that manner, thus we created successful in prison one can learn to mate" and that he (Hickey) shot Jus• an environment, or rather we help to kill time or one can allow time to tice in order to stop the "violent perpetuate that environment. assault." Yet no weapon was found on him/her... Concerning the chaos and violence Mr. Justice's person nor was one ever When you study the history of op• here at Folsom the prison authority seen or reported to have been in Jus• pressed people you find that at the want the public to believe that tice's possession by any correction• core,of their thinking exist two these incident are racial. This is al officer including Hickey. Fur• lines of thoughts. One is the atti• not the case; its not on a level of thermore, no white inmate on the yard tude and belief in the "absolute pow• Blacks and whites. There's a racist that day sustained injuries of the er", a feeling of deserving of this, element here in 4-A, "the prison type Hickey purportedly obseved Jus• and an attitude of "acceptance". within the prison" and that's the tice then inflicting. Contrariwise Black people have been in bondage staff. This is not the first time longer than any other group of peo• and regrettably. Justice was himself these folks have tried to set-up Yogi ple on earth, and this is not acci• the victim of the violence described and myself,,the most profound thus dental. The question we should be in Hickey's report. far on a detriment, injury level. asking ourselves is "why have we What if the courts or the people The most diabolical was facing the failed to free ourselves? The op• were to question the validity of Of• gas chamber in Marin County in the pression of human being is not a new Gibson and JusAce case and the SQ ficer Hickey's report and his action thing. Nor are Blacks the only group Six case where Hugo represented his of May 18, 1979? An honest review that's ever been oppressed, or is self. If there a race war here in of the facts suggests the need for still being oppressed. What separ• 4-A its one sided. We don't attack an immediate investigation and cor• ates us from other oppressed people whites just because they are white. rective action. Seven black inmates is our thinking. I.e., for example: There was only a few of these Hitler and one white inmate were injured on Take the Vietnamese—have you ever Little Helpers on the main line May May 18. 1979. .All seven black in• heard them pleading for freedom, or mates sustained injuries which make have you ever seen them asking this 19, 1979. So what was done was to it clear that they were in fact the country or any other country for hand hit ten Blacks in the canteen line victims of stabbings. Also they were out? No. We can go as far back as which one Black died of stab wounds. shot by Officer Hickey. See FOLSOM, p. 18 5 RESPONSE TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLES' SOCIALIST PARTY

The African Peoples Socialist Par• Muzorewa ilk, being influenced and note is not contained in the "Re• ty (APSP) recently withdrew from the directed by whites (namely. Prairie port") . The Chairman of the Interim S.F. Bay Area after publishing its Fire Organizing Committee-PFOC), it Committee to Build ANPO in San Quen• "REPORT FROM THE MOUNTAIN" document is our duty to set the record straight, tin Management Control Unit made nu• which attempted to shift the blame for even though APSP has withdrawn merous phone calls. None of the ef• for its failure to build ANPO (Afri• its African forces from this area, forts brought results. can National Prison Organization) incorrect politics must be corrected. That is what occurred between our• and its rejection by the Black Com• The truth is that nobody turned selves and APSP concerning the alleged munity in this area from itself on• us against APSP except APSP itself "interventionism". to the backs of others. when it made a unilateral decision After the demonstration a letter African prisoners in San Quentin affecting the composition of the was received from a member of the were publicly attacked in the APSP August 19 demonstration, changing August 21 Coalition stating she, report which implied we are nothing it from multi-national to national along with others, had accepted the but dupes of white groups/women who while we inside had called it and leadership of APSP and would no long• we allowed to create an irreparable planned it months earlier to be a er be able to visit. We interpreted split between ourselves and the APSP. multi-national one. that to mean APSP was attempting to This is nowhere close to the truth The changed composition in and of snatch away groups which had been and we resent the report as it ap• itself was relatively minor, and supportive of us, leaving us with on• plies to us both on the reason for would easily have beeiS resolved had ly one place to turn for outside sup• the breakdown and for the weapons it we been able to meet with APSP. How• port that would be dictated by them. provides the state in implementing ever the larger problem went to the We refused to accept that, particu• •even more of its vicious Cointelpro- heart of whether our relationship larly because we had not been able type tactics against African peoples would be principled or unprincipled, to establish a principled relation• in general and the Black Liberation and to the question of leadership. ship with APSP and because we feared Movement in particular. We objected to the change in the the potential it carried for subject• Previously, we have refrained from demonstration and made strenuous ing ourselves to APSP as a condition going public in our disagreements efforts to get APSP up here to dis• for receiving outside support, and with the APSP with the hope they cuss its decision- making policy of effectively negating any real leader• could be resolved without the need going over our heads and not even ship flowing from within for the for it and because it is our belief giving us the chance to participate prison movement in this area. we spend so much time fighting a- in the decision making process so In our criticism we pointed out mongst ourselves that we don't give contradictions, if any could be work• that APSP was not THE Black Libera• ourselves the opportunity to work to• ed out. tion Movement, but only one force gether in our commonalities as a col• Before and after the demonstration within it and we objected tq being onized, oppressed people trapped took place we wrote letters to APSP placed in a position where we might within U.S. borders. requesting a meeting with them; we have to accept APSP outright without However, in view of APSP's deci• sent word to them through supporters, sion to portray us as buffoons of the African as well as white (a point we See RESPONSE, p. 18 REPRESSION AT HAGERSTOWN

On June 28th, prisoners at the Mar• Due to administrative reaction- prisoners in segregation being able yland Correctional Institution in their lighting irrationality and to get hot meals, regular showers, Kagerstown staged a sit-down strike sweeping irresponsibility-a large and decent medical attention. The in an attenpt to peacefully voice number of prisoners who were unas- prisoners in segregation are housed their grievances in regard to the ra• signed and did not have to work, or two to a cell which, even for a pri• cism and dehumanizing conditions they who were simply off that day, or who soner in the general population, is are daily confronted with. The MCI were legitimately ill, were placed a very psychologically taxing pre• administration's response to this on administrative segregation along dicament. The Maryland Correction peaceful protest was one of subtle with all other prisoners who refused Institution is located in a very re• contempt and indiscriminate harass• to work and were given outrageous mote, isolated area. This no doubt, ment. On the first two days of the charges: "Conspiracy (agreeing with accounts for much of the unchecked strike prison guards came to prison• another person) to violate institu• repression that goes on here. Its ers' cells and individually threat• tional rules or offense, inciting Classification Department is over• ened them with infractions, segrega• creating, participating, committing, burdened with work due to overcrowd• tion, and revocation of M.A.P. con• or being involved in any manner in a ing, and more than 99% of the prison tracts. To their dismay, however, mutinous act, riot, or a disturbance, administration is white, overseeing the majority of the prisoners remain• whether major or minor, and a wide an excess of 88% black population. ed steadfast in not going to work. range of other elaborate charges. At Obviously, there is no question as to the bottom of each infraction a nota• who suffer the most from such an ar• On the night of June 28th, Lester tion was attached: "Some of these of• rangement. To combat these condi• Stoner, the Assistant Superintendent fenses may amount to a violation of tions we are asking members of the of Custody, summoned the entire MCI the Criminal Code and may be prose• community to demand that this insti• Inmate Council before him, blanket- cuted in criminal court in addition tution be investigated. These demands ly accused them of orchestrating the to the disciplinary action taken by can be initiated by writing to Gov. Strike, and subsequently placed them the institution in connection with Harry Hughes, State House, Annapo• all on "administrative segregation". the infraction". lis, Maryland, and to Gordon C. The I.e. as a whole had no active Kama, Secretary of Public Safety and part in the organizing of this As of this writing, all prisoners Correctional Services, 6314 Winder strike; the deplorable conditions of involved, or mistakenly involved, in Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD. 21207 this prison prompted the prisoners to the sit-down strike have received no Build to win!!! act and organize in their own behalf less than four (4) months on segrega• Hagerstown, Md. because they had become tired of the tion. Approximately 85% of all pri• seemingly stale-mated position the soners who went before the Adjustment I.e. had reached with the administra• Team relative to the strike were tion with respect to resolutions to tried far beyond the 96 hour limit PONTIAC from p.4 their grievances. The administration^ mandated by the U.S. District Court specifically the Superintendent and via the decisions of Bundy v. Cannon of money in their drive to convict his cohorts, has long since harbored (Cannon) and Hopkins vs. Collins, the Brothers. a distorted concept of the function and applied to Adjustment procedures Support for the Pontiac Brothers and purpose of an Inmate council. via Wolf vs. McDonald. is crucial at this time. If you There is little doubt that the coun• want more information or wish to cil being placed on segregation was Because there are so many prison• donate money, write: Concerned retaliation against them for not ers now on segregation at this in• Family and Friends, P.O. Box 6020, trying to dissuade prisoners in their stitution, two regular population Chicago, 111., 60680. Subscribe to decision to strike, or for not in• housing sections have been turned the Pontiac Prisoners Support forming the administration of the into segregation units, further Coalition Newsletter, 2955 E. 88 St., strike. decreasing the likelihood of all Chicago, 111., 60617. 6 LEWISBURG MANIFESTO FEDS RESTRICT MAIL The U.S. Bureau of Prisons The following MANIFESTO is being We are prisoners of the amerikan instituted a new federal mail drawn up by prisoners currently in• state, but we are also (and more im• policy which became effective carcerated in the Federal Koncentra• portantly) human beings with rights July 1, 1979. It allows that tion Kamp at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. and dignity. We are to be treated as prisoners can only send 5 free It has become necessary for us to set humans. We demand to be treated as letters a month. In addition, forth a clear exposition of our sit• human beings with feelings. We do prisoners are being threatened uation here as we foresee grave not ask to be "coddled" as some would by officials that if they don't trouble in the near future if steps say, but we submit that all citizens sign papers allowing officials are not taken to alleviate conditions and subjects in a society have inher• to read incoming mail, they in this particular government kamp— ent rights which are to be respected, won't receive any. Along with immediately. whether they are prisoners or not. If Lewisburg, prisoners at Lompoc something in the way of relief is not (California), Leavenworth (Kan• Within the last few months the war• forthcoming in the near future, we sas) , and Atlanta (Georgia) den here, a well known fascist whose will not be held responsible for what have gone on strike protesting reputation for brutality and repres• happens. We have brought these con• this and other increasingly re• sion is widely known, has implement• ditions to you in an effort to gain pressive conditions. People ed a number of administrative meas• assistance, so if those of you on the are being asked by prisoners in ures vhich in no way serve to "reha• outside don't do something, WE WILL!!! the federal prisons to write to bilitate" or "reform" those unfortu• Norman Carlson, Director, US nates who find themselves in the HUMAN BEINGS ARE TO BE TREATED AS Bureau of Prisons, Department "belly of the beast." Besides step- SUCH... of Justice, Washington, D.C. ped-up harassment of prisoners, in July 1979 20534 protesting these new general, the notorious Charley Pen- regulations. ton has:

1 . Instituted policies which FORCE Medical Negligence prisoners to work in the Feder• al Prison Industries sweat shops Kills Pleasanton Prisoner at slave wages; Armida Steele, a Mexican Indian 2. Instituted policies that limit woman imprisoned at Pleasanton Fed• the number of letters that pri• eral Correctional Institute, a wo• soners may send out free of men's prison in Northern California, charge to five (5); also requir• died of a heart attack due to medi• ing that all correspondence'be cal negligence on the part of prison submitted unsealed for inspec• authorities, according to prisoners tion by prison officials before at Pleasanton. being forwarded out of the kamp. These two measures are designed Armida Steele died at the prison to stifle all criticism of the after suffering her third heart administration and to force pri• attack in a number of months. Al• soners to work in the F.P.I, in though she had complained of feeling order to earn the money neces• weak and having dizzy spells, and sary to acquire stamps (NOTE: despite her known medical history of The Postal Service had a 150tr^»*««^'-' previous heart problems, Armida was 000,000 dollar surplus this past told that there was nothing wrong fiscal year); with her. She was finally admitted 3. Instituted policies which" limit to the medical facility at the pri• the number of personal books son although she and other prisoners that prisoners may possess to demanded she be taken to the hospi• six (6), thus effectively mini• tal. Prisoners have charged that mizing the amount of leftist and she was not kept under medical super• progressive material that may be vision. received by progressive and rev^ olutionary prisoners; After Armida's death, many of the 4. Instituted policies that limit women gathered outside the warden's the amount of legal material office to demand an explanation and that prisoners may possess to to protest the general lack of decent what can be stored in a 10"X 11" medical care that led to her death. X 17" box; Guards told them this constituted 5. 'Caused the death of at least two a demonstration, threatened to call (2) prisoners within the past in the military police (Pleasanton few months by encouraging and is surrounded by a military base) engendering racial tension and and dispersed the women. conflict and caused the beatings of at least fifty (50) prisoners The authorities then called in re• by guards since the "Atlanta porters to present their cover-up, bus" incident; showing oxygen equipment and other 6. Consistently disregarded and ig• supplies that aren't usually in the nored court orders and mandates medical office at the prison. Visi• as concerns the running of this tors who have seen the infirmary kamp; describe it as a Rasputin's Village, 7. Caused one (1) prisoner to be a m.ock-up that looks good but doesn't beaten so bad that the said in• have the supplies to provide decent mate had to be taken to a civil• medical care. ian medical facility for treat• ment and caused one (1) prison• Prisoners are urging concerned er to have his eye beaten out of people to write letters of protest his head. to Warden Turnbow, at Pleasanton FCI, Box 1000, Pleasanton, CA 94566; We bring to your attention the fact and to Norman Carlson, Director, US that if Warden Fenton were running a Bureau of Prisons, 101 Indiana Ave., pet shop in the same manner in which Washington, DC 20543. People are he runs this kamp, he would be arres• also urged to write and call Bay ted and fined/jailed. Even dogs and Area Congressional representatives cats have the Society for the Preven• demanding an investigation of medi• tion of Cruelty to Animals—we have cal conditions at Pleasanton and no one and nothing to protect us but the circumstances surrounding Armida ourselves. Steele's death. •

7 FREE THE REIDSVILLE 6 FREE GRAHAM AND ALLEN- Brief history: Who are Ernest Gra• were mandatory, and during the entire since 1976, 9 Black prisoners in ham and Eugene Allen? pre-trial and jury selection process Reidsviile have been killed by On November 27, 1973, a white guard the public was not allowed to attend. whites with complicity from white was found dead at D,V.I. at Tracy, Yet because of the contradicting tes• guards. No white prisoner has ever Ca., and brothers Graham and Allen timony of three witnesses (prison• been convicted of killing a Black were immediately seized as the scape• ers promised an early release to tes• prisoner. goats, isolated, intimidated and bru• tify) , and one Black woman on the July 23, 1978, 200 Black prison• talized. Graham and Allen are two jury who boldly refused to be part of ers rebelled demanding an end to young Black men, only now in their the obvious state plot to legally beatings by guards and racist attacks mid-twenties, who have courageously murder these brothers, the first from white prisoners, and for liv• been fighting against this frame-up trial resulted in a mistrial. able physical conditions including since the day seized from main popu• The second trial was moved and held decent food, medical care and a lation in Nov. 27, 1973 and physical• in San Francisco in March, 1976. This' second set of clothes. ly chained ever since. time the prosecution moved in the Guards and state troopers attack• The first trial took place in most overt way to construct and as• ed the prisoners and one guard and Stockton, Ca., approjfimately 15 miles sure a pro-death penalty jury. The 2 white prisoners were killed and from Duel Vocational Institute in prosecution successfully excluded all many Blacks were wounded. Later, 2 Tracy, Ca. The trial took place a- fourteen Black prospective jurors Black prisoners were killed by mongst a virtual armed camp of local during the jury selection process. white prisoners. and C.D.C. pigs proudly displaying It is fair as well as very logical to Six Black men, activists in the their shotguns, 357. magnums, M-16 conclude that there was some obvious prison, were indicted for the deaths and other automatic weapons. Strip collaboration between the judge and of the guard and white prisoners. searches and show of pictured I.D. prosecution for this jury selection The indictments came from the same process to happen as it did. You grand jury which managed not to in• just take one good glance back into dict the 3 white prisoners who had our history, since we were captured killed a Black prisoner sleeping in and taken from the shores of our true his bed July 1, 1978. The state of mother land AFRICA, to the present, Georgia wants the death penalty for look at the results that were pro• the six. Already, one of the six, duced anywhere in these un-United James Andrew Johnson, was convicted States where a Black person was on and sentenced to 3 life sentences. trial wi'th an all white jury, especi• The trial of the other 5 was schedu• ally when the circumstances of the led to resume August 6. case was the death of a white person. For more information contact the And tell me what you find, what the Reidsviile Brothers Defense Committee, results are?? 88 Walton St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30303. I know of no cases where an all white jury has come back with a ver• CLOSE DOWN REIDSVILLE! dict of "not guilty" when the death FREE THE REIDSVILLE BROTHERS! EU6&N£ ALLCM of white person was involved and the END THE DEATH PENALTY! suspect was Black. If any such case ERNEST has escaped my attention it would STOP THE RACIST ATTACKS indeed have to be rare. To bring ON BLACK PRISONERS! you back, following the AmeriKKKan B.LA. UNDER ATTACK Repression against B.L.A. p.o.w.s Case), my cell, mail and person are when viewed in the light that my life continues behind New York state pri• subjected to search at any time and has been threatened on a few occa• son walls. In May, 1979 Richard it is therefore highly risky for me sions. Once i found a letter feigned Dhoruba Moore was assaulted by pri• to carry or try to conceal contra• "KKK", yet the prison administration son guards in Greenhaven prison, then band. The following day i was held nor the Commissioner's office has placed in S.H.U. (Segregated Housing for superintendant proceedings (my never investigated these threats. Unit) for allegedly creating a dis• fourth in two years) and paid a vis• One counselor told me "Try and turbance. Dhoruba was involved in it by the state police, Now i face keep out of trouble." Now a bomb, uniting the prisoners for a "good possible criminal charges as well. and i am charged. time bill", as well as to divert Clinton Correctional Facility is As a B.L.A. p.o.w. i've been'aban• state funds from the security aspect thirty-odd miles from Canada, with doned by the so-called Black Libera• of prison to the creation of meaning• a guard force of over 400. There are tion Movement, yet the enemies of ful programs for prisoners. On June no Blacks (guards) yet Black inmates Black Liberation continue to press 19th Dhoruba was brought to the Clin• make up better than half the popula• their attacks against my comrades ton Correctional Facility without tion. Race baiting is common and and myself. These attacks are not his personal property and placed in physibal and psychological abuse is random but well planned to eliminate S.H.U.; he was then released to G.P. the oil which keeps the machine known any possible resistance from the (General Population). Last year, as Clinton running. Clinton is also armed vanguard. Once that is accom• Jalil Abdul Muntaqim (Tony Bottom) supposed to be for the hardcore in• plished then it's any Black group was locked up in Attica prison be• mates who can't get along in other that might be a possible threat. hind the legal action he was bring• joints, yet, with its reputation, ing to bear against the state's dis• Clinton goes to great lengths to keep Dare to Struggle regard for prisoners' rights, and radicals out of its population. Albert "Nuh" Washington when the charges wouldn't hold up he Nothing destroys a myth faster than B.L.A. P.O.W. was transferred to Auburn State Pri• fact, and Clinton has the reality by Dannemora, New York son. hook or crook. A few weeks ago an On Tuesday, June 26th, a week af• inmate was offered a deal to stay on P.S.- Have just received word that ter Dhoruba arrived in Clinton, i as Acting President of the N.A.A.C.P. N.J. prison officials hastily reacti• was taken from the shower and placed to keep me from getting it. He was vated a hearing to decide if Sundiata in S.H.U. and charged with possession told the administration wouldn't al• Acoli should be fo'rcibly shipped to of contraband, "a weapon". It seems low it- me becoming President. an out of state prison. They refused while i was in the shower a search to reveal the intended out of state In the past five years three bro• of my cell uncovered a pipe with ex• prison, nor let his attorney be pre• thers have been burned to death plosives, under my mattress. It was sent, nor keep a transcript of the while locked in their cells. Two less than 15 minutes before a broth• closed hearings- and are using a six were Muslim, and didn't smoke, so a er came and told me the police had year old pamphlet, "Break de Chains", fire is highly suspicious. The plan• been overheard plotting to set me up. and a tv/o year old copy of "Assata/ ting of an explosive device under my Being a C.M.C. (Central Monitoring Sundiata Bulletin" as evidence against mattress is more than just a set-up Sundiata. 8 \',ry '^iy ! SMASH THE DEATH PENALTY!

tradition of the all white jury and September 17, 1979. Trial date is spiracy, you have to keep in mind court, brothers Graham and Allen set for September 24, 1979. These the existence of a Black Libera• were found guilty and sentenced to brothers are in desperate need of tion Movement surging outside in death. (Graham and Allen face the all the support possible for this the late 60's and early 70's and its death penalty under California Penal third trial for their legal lynch• influential extension behind the Code 4500, which states that a pri• ing. But support for the freedom of walls, usually known by the name soner undergoing a life sentence Graham and Allen goes further than "Prison Movement." Contrary to some who is convicted of assaulting or to save them from execution only. mistaken thoughts, the Prison Move• killing a non-prisoner is automati• Graham and Allen are political pri• ment did not/does not exist indepen• cally subject to death.) soners due to the revolutionary men• dent or separate from the larger In February, 1979, the State Su• tality and philosophy they adopted Black Liberation Movement. The nu• preme Court overturned Graham and since their imprisonment and their merous sfecret pig agencies knew and Allen's death sentence, saying the becoming politically active in edu• recognized this even before some of prosecution blatantly excluded Black cating and mobilizing other prison• us did. jurors so the conviction couldn't ers to understand their surrounding When Hoover, then director of the stand. There will now be a third environment and work toward changing F.B.I., stated in a memo the purpose trial, and a third attempt by the the oppressive and repressive condi• of his new Counter-intelligence Pro• state to legally lynch brothers tions. gram, better knov/n as COINTELPRO, as Graham and Allen. Preliminaries in To have a clearer understanding of being "to expose, disrupt, misdirect court for the new trial will begin why we loudly claim Government con• See GRAHAM & ALLEN, p. 16 W

"It was the conditions of prison life that sparked the rebellion, but it was the socio-political and economic condition of the Black nation that Hlled this prison with Afrikan Colonials."

AFRIKAN PRISONERS AND NATIONAL LIBERATION Fela Shanna — New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

"The relationship existing be• their reasons for denying the dia• taking place outside involving many tween the prison movement and the lectic of motion/change was the old colonized and oppressed nations, and overall struggle in America, the re• familiar, "real direction and con• vice versa. We see, using the Pon• lationship existing between prisons trol can only come from those who tiac Rebellion as a focal point, how and people outside the walls, has are in contact with the people on a the prison movement has indeed in• been and will continue to be a di• day to day basis..." and not being fluenced the whole of the revolution• alectical relationship. This rela• conscious of the dialectical rela• ary movement outside, and how a great tionship has had several rather dis• tionship that exists between the deal of control and direction is tinct phases or levels. What has struggles taking place in prisons, coming from the people inside. It therefore characterized each of these and those taking place outside, they was those conscious elements inside phases or levels is the 'control' sought to confine the prisoners' who seized upon the bedlam that and 'direction' of outside people— participation in the struggle for the arose out of the events of the July even during those phases/levels when destruction of Capitalism/Imperialism 22nd, 1978 Rebellion at Pontiac Pri• the influence was flowing from the to those struggJ.es taking place in• son and organized it. This is where prisons to the outside. side prisons. "In regards to the we see those inside who have made a "We're approaching (have ap• part where you state that a level is conscious committment to destroy the proached) another level, where the being approached where 'direction' imperialist monster take the initi• influence again flows from the inside will be flowing from the inside/out, ative and create from this a mass/ to the outside—only difference being this can ONLY APPLY to the prison community based organization capable that prisoners will be more involved struggle, and then that too is mini• of moving people. All of this being in direction and control. This pre• mal ." the (relative) result of a struggle sent phase/level will best be char• Now with the contradictions a- waged in prison, a struggle spon• acterized by the impetus that pri• rising out of the Pontiac, Illinois taneous in its inception but, none• soners will give to the formation of Prison Rebellion (in which three theless, effective in its implica• a national prisoners movement, a na• guards died) perhaps we can see this tions. tional revolutionary party, and a "dialectical relationship" much And who can deny that the national revolutionary front." clearer. It was the conditions of struggle surrounding the defense of —Atiba Shanna, for The prison life that sparked the rebel• the Pontiac Brothers is being "di• New Afrikan Prisoners Organization, lion, but it was the socio-political rected" and "controlled" by prison• Book One and economic condition of the Black ers themselves? Once we understand Nation that filled this prison with that prisons are instruments of na• Afrikan colonials. It was their sub• tional oppression and that "Afrikans jugation and lack of independence who happen to be in prison have the When it was first suggested- that made the Kamp necessary. It is same 'relationship' to the movement- that the struggles taking place in our view, founded upon a clear the• as do Afrikans everywhere else", and around prisons would greatly in• oretical analysis of New Afrika and then it won't be so hard for us to fluence the course of the struggles other oppressed nations in Amerika, deal with prisoners playing a de• taking place outside, and as a con• that Amerikan prisons/Ka'mps are in• cisive and leading role in the sequence of this influence direction struments of Colonial domination, struggle to free New Afrika. and control would, at a point, come just as the police forces, "crimi• from the inside/out, comrades who put nal justice systems" and their mil• forth the argument received all sorts itary departments are. Therefore the Build to Win/Free the Land! of "theoretical excuses" as to why struggles being waged in prisons are this could/would not happen. Among just an extension of the struggles For PONTIAC UPDATE see page 4

9 CALL TO BUILD A NATIONAL BL

The call to build a National Black and Subcommission on Prevention of this country. Added to this intensi• Human Rights Coalition (NBHRC) comes Discrimination and Protection of Min• fied repression in the Black commun• at a moment in history when Black orities, on Human Rights violations ity are the massive cutbacks in anti- people inside the u.s. are once again in the u.s. The NBHRC is in complete poverty money and essential services, beginning to take to the streets. support of this petition. From this as well as attacks on affirmative ac• This comes after a period (from the view, we get a clear perspective that tion in education and employment. Yet early to mid-70s) of relatively low the issue of Human Rights being raised we find in every instance of worsening and oftentimes nonexistent mass by Black people is an integral part conditions in the Black community that struggle by our people. The reason of our struggle. we are told by political and govern• for this re-emergence of mass strug• ment officials that we are, in fact, gle can be seen as Black people, The Human Rights violations of part of the cause of the economic cri• once again, are taking the only Black people have run the gamut: from sis, inflation and high taxes. So course that is open to us in or• the outrageous dehumanization of sla• once again, as the u.s. economic sys• der to get total liberation from op• very, where the u.s. government still tem deteriorates. Black, Third World pression and the historical genocide has not yet been held accountable in and all poor people in general are of our people. Simply put, repression the form of the payment of repara• directly or indirectly being made the breeds resistance, more repression tions for its crimes, as is our right scapegoat. breeds more resistance, and so on... by international law; to the past and present social, economic and politi• The oppression of Black people in There may be many people who ask cal degradation of Black communities this country has always been an ac- the question, "Why are you raising the issue of Human Rights?" The forces I 44 who have come together to build the NSHRC see that our whole history of over three-and-a-half centuries of struggle in this country has been a struggle for human rights; rights that are basic and fundamental to all human beings wherever they may be found on earth.

For many people who live in the U.S., what constitutes a Human Rights violation may be vague. Particularly in this period, when the present white house administration {jimmy car• ter and CO.) are attempting to dis• tort, here and in the world, exact• ly what are Human Rights violations. However, if we look at how the pro• gressive world has defined Human Rights (see U.N. Declaration on Human Rights), we will certainly be• come Clear on what is a Human Rights violation.

The NBHRC has adopted as one of its Principles of Unity upholding the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights, which the u.s. government, as a mem• ber of the U.N., has not signed up to this very day.

The history of Black people raising the issue of Human Rights is almost as old as the history of our struggle in the u.s. From David Walker, who in 1829 wrote an Appeal to the Color• ed Citizens of the World; to Marcus Garvey and his Declaration of the Rights of Black People; to William Patterson in the 1950's, who wrote We Charge Genocide, which outlines in a petition to the United Nations the genocidal conditions and forced de- humanization of Black people in the united states of america; to Malcolm Members of Philadelphia's Black United Front March Against Racist Businesses Backing Rizzo! X in the 60s, who in his travels in the late 70s. This increasing de• curate barometer of the right-wing around the world gained support for gradation is manifested in a massive trend of the u.s. This right-wing Black people in america— all began deterioration of housing, where Blacks and conservative push cannot be more to put forward a strategy of taking are forced to live in slum-dwellings, blatantly represented than in the Bak- the struggle from the arena of civil where rents are rising daily, and ke decision; Proposition 13; increased rights to the international arena of where the unemployment rate in the police brutality and murder; inhuman Human Rights. During this time as Black community is higher than it has conditions and brutalization of Black well, many Black political activists been in the last 20 years—so much so prisoners; and in the rise of the kkk, contributed to raising the issue of that an economic depression is spread• nazis, and other right-wing terror Human Rights abroad as well as at ing in the Black community. Black organizations. home. Freedom fighters such as Rich• people are being victimized more and ard Wright, W.E.B. Dubois, Paul Robe• more by racist killer-cops, where It must be from this perspective son; and in the more contemporary Black youth as young as ten years old that we see the strategy, goals, and period, Queen Mother Moore, Ossie are being shot down in cold blood. objective of the NBHRC. As we are Davis, and others have presented pe• The prisons all across this country seeing all across the country— in titions on genocide to the U.N. are being packed with Black and other New York; Philadelphia; Tupelo, Miss.; Most recently in December, 1978, the non-white peoples, where we find our• Memphis, Tenn.; New Orleans, La.; National Conference of Black Lawyers selves in blatantly disproportionate Louisville, Ky.; Los Angeles, Calif.; presented a petition to the United numbers in every local, state and fed• Boston and many more places that have Nations Commission on Human Rights eral jail and penitentiary across not gained national publicity, our

10 HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION people are beginning to take to the ninth anniversary of the Attica up• How can organizations and individu- streets and fight for our basic and rising, as activities that will als participate in building the Nat• fundamental rights. sharpen and clarify the direction of ional Black Human Rights Coalition: our struggle for our people, and thus a. We are asking individuals and .Three things are essentially clear unify the core of progressive fight• organizations, wherever they may be, in these local struggles: they are ers for Black liberation. We also.- to organize local Black Human similar to one another in the issues believe that these activities will Rights Coalitions and/or U.N. Mobi• that are being raised and even in the usher in a new era for our overall lization Committees, allowing organ• method that is being used in organ• national liberation, beginning to izations in local areas already in• izing (e.g. issues around housing, lay the framework for a strategy to volved in wor-k to link up their police brutality and right-wing develop genuine international sup• struggles under the Human Rights attacks); that they are essentially port and solidarity, not simply from umbrella. isolated from one another and thus international bodies such as the in and of themselves are not cap• 'U.N. and the O.A.U., but from all b. If broad-based coalitions al• able of making any major impact; and progressive governments and freedom- ready exist, such as local Black they lack for the most part a nat• loving peoples wherever they may be United Fronts, these broad coalitions ional strategy, which is absolutely found. We also see that these ini• would simply have to develop a hu• essential in order for us to obtain tial activities of the NBHRC will man rights agenda and build the coa• maximum unity, strength and effec• expose the continuous crimes of re• lition through their already exist• tiveness. This national consolida• pression and genocide of Black people ing formations. c. in places where there are only a few organizations and individuals, a U.N. Mobilization Committee can be built, where the sole work of this committee would be to mobilize peo• ple and resources for the national demonstration at the U.N. on Novem• ber 5 th.

d. Individuals and groups can par• ticipate in gathering data and infor• mation from jails, prisons and peni• tentiaries, as well as in their communities, for the National Peti• tion on Genocide that will be worked on through a National Clearinghouse on Repression that is being esta• blished in New York City (see bro• chure on NBHRC).

e. Individuals and organizations can disseminate and distribute a community petition on repression and genocide, where the objective is to get from across the country tens o£ thousands of Black signatures char• ging the U.S. government with viola• tions of our Human Rights, increased repression, and calling for the com• plete and unconditional release of all Black political prisoners.

f. Organizations and individuals can help to expand the base of the NBHRC, which is essential, by dissem• inating basic information on the Coalition, as well as holding forums, seminars, teach-ins, and speaking engagements in their local areas. The NBHRC has organized a national Speakers Bureau that will be avail• able for speaking engagements across the country.

g. Organizations and individuals can and must help raise funds for the work of building the U.N. mobi• Photo: Malcolm Garvey lization, as well as for the ongoing work of the NBHRC itself. We are ask• tion and development of a long-range by the u.s. government, to the world. ing Black people everywhere to con• strategy to reach the broad sectors of Surely the timing of a national march tribute financially to the NBHRC, and Black people (workers, students, and rally at the United Nations de• in doing so contribute to their own churches, welfare recipients, far• manding an end to the Human Rights freedom, justice and human dignity. mers, migrant workers, etc.) is violations of Black people inside clearly the ingredient that has been the U.S. will show the world the National Black Human Rights Coalition left out of the commendable work of deceit and hypocrisy of the present P.O. Box 227 Bronx, NY 10451 ^. ^ Black leaders and activists in the white house administration's world• l'>^'>\ OQi (Ufln Watani Tyehimba past who have fought for the Human wide human rights proclamations. (212)293 8480 P.O. Box 56298 Rights of Black people. Los Angeles, CA 90056 (213)234-5522 Though the U.N. mobilization may 273-8701 The NBHRC has outlined two major only be the first of many to come, activities as part of the initial or we see this mobilization building short-range goals. A mass mobiliza• a national thrust and energy that FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & tion of thousands of Black people at will culminate in a national conven• SELF-DETERMINATION! the U.N. is being called for Novem• tion on Genocide, where the NBHRC is THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT ber 5th, 1979 (Black Solidarity Day); calling for a national platform to IS ALIVE: and the holding of a national Black be developed outlining concrete de- - MARCH FOR HUMAN RIGHTS! convention on Genocide has been mands around our Human and democra• A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION FOR ONE tic rights. called for September 13, 1980, the IS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION FOR ALL!

11 BLACK PRISON GUARDS Among the older Southern farmers, higher price, for unknowingly he or Blacks on the guns rails of prisons it is common knowledge that hitching she has sacrificed racial integrity. which allows them to be more re• a mule and a horse to the same plow Because of the conditions that Black laxed. Some are even Starting to will prove incongruous—that is to people have lived under since coming relate well with Black prisoners but .say that one will always try to out to this country, a "mutant mentality" they have not tried to affect a pull the other. has developed. What is meant by mu• change in the subtle racial injus• Blacks are faced with a like sit• tant mentality is clearly illustrated tices that go on behind the walls. uation when entering the professional by the unnatural acts that Blacks com• In general, police feel no moral job market. All people compete but mit against their hair, a standard of obligation toward their fellow man. Blacks feel a special pressure to beauty. Everyone can easily recall It's a case of good guys and bad prove their worth. Unfortunately, the times when the word "Black" could guys, suppress crime rather than proving one's worth in police work be used like a weapon! This mutant work towards its end. Black law en• means cracking more heads. Finding mentality is very pronounced in Black forcement officers cannot afford this themselves in a unique situation. law enforcement officers. The secret luxury. They are foolish to think Black law enforcement officers use disdain Blacks have for themselves they can dispense impartial justice the "you people get what you deserve" has become the rationale they use to in a partial world. rationale to justify their foolish re• justify doing police work. To have In a capitalist society, the divi• gard for other Blacks. It seems that knowledge of yourself is to know your sion of classes is a natural order, in the case of the Black prison guard brothers and sisters. higher or steady income places one the slave has been given the whip. To survive mentally, the Black apart from the poor. In this system Blacks in all areas of police work are prison guard has severed all ties with it's inevitable. Contem.pt is a nat• in this paradoxical vacuum. They use. the plight of his or her race. Their ural outgrowth of this class divi• a rationale that sweeps the truth un• secret disdain has' flowered into re• sion. It's accepted without ques• der the rug. It's good that Blacks sentment toward other Blacks, exem• tion. Blacks advancing to the mid• are converging on all areas of profes• plifying their self-hatred. A Black dle class often view the people of sional work—I only wish to communi• prison guard does not like being re• the ghetto in the light of that old, cate the dire need to take an in-depth garded as brother—he or she seems to worn out cliche, crabs in a barrel. look at the mental attitude of prison have forgotten it was the poor ghetto'* True enough, the ghetto breeds ghetto guards, but which also affects Blacks people who burned and screamed to get mentality and I have nothing but in other jobs. them there. They believe it was by praise for those strong enough to All people appreciate being in an their independent merits that they got pull out from the situation Blacks authoritative position and Blacks are where they are. They believe objec• have been forced to live in through no exception. For Blacks, however, tivity would best serve them in the their history in this country. Rath• the price to rise to these positions performance of their duty. This would er than see the reality of what's can cost a little more. The uncon• be good if justice in this country was happening, most Black prison guards scious Black prison guard pays a much impartial. Now we see more and more see their Black counterparts as lazy, good-for-nothing niggers that give all Blacks a bad name! Most of SLAVE WAGE LABOR IN FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES the people living in the world can Many prisoners are forced to work these industries are sold to other never hope to be greater than those under dangerous conditions for slave government agencies: Dept. of Agricul• around them. The strong among us who wages in federal prison industries. ture, Dept. of Commerce, Dept. of In• have gathered the power to go out Many prisoners breathe poisonous terior, Dept. of Labor, U.S. Postal into the white world are weak when fumes in paint shops and dust parti• Service, Veterans Administration, it comes to facing who we are. It is cles in the textile mills. Some pri• Dept. of Justice and the Dept. of De• truly a real and mature person that soners have developed respiratory fense— which is the biggest purchas• can grow and understand the growth problems from these conditions. Many er. The sales to these agencies was process and not let childish con• prisoners have lost fingers, hands $84,074,010. tempt eat away the ego. and seme have been killed from unsafe I deplore people unwilling to re• old machinery that was not adequately The goods and services produced for late to others because of class sta• equipped with safety guard mechanisms. the Dept. of Defense are: wiring de• tus, and, in the case of Black pri• Prisoners don't receive any disabili• vices of all types, electrical cable son guards, their inability to grasp ty compensation for injuries. assemblies, electronic wiring har• these simple facts makes them a dual nesses, printed circuits, electronic threat to the life of Blacks in Pri• Federal prison industries have saf• systems, support systems, and the re- son. Eighty per cent of the world's ety officers who are supposed to manufacturing of vehicular electron• population can never hope to be check unsafe work conditions and en• ics systems for tanks, and missiles greater than those around them. Take force federal safety standards— dif• etc., military office furniture, for example a child born to a middle ferent from O.S.H.A. standards. But lockers, beds, tools and dies, mil• class family, with both parents in even after injuries occur or compla• itary clothing, canvas goods, shoes, some line of professional work. The ints are made, safety officers ve-ry gloves, life boat repairs and weather odds against this child becoming seldom check or correct unsafe mach• parachutes. greater than those around him are inery. And prisoners don't receive high. Only a small percentage of the safety talks, but they have to sign Prison industries has a five member middle class will, on their own pow• safety forms that state that they were board of directors. One of the board er, reach the upper class. Our given weekly safety talks. This members is George Meany, the reaction• strong Blacks able to break the fraudulent act covers the government ary labor head, his position on the binding chains of the ghetto assi• from any liability for job injuries. board is labor representative. Other milate the attitudes of whites in Prisoners who refuse to sign the saf• members of the board are: President regard to their race. This is why ety forms are usually removed from John M. Barley representing the Sec• the Black prison guard not only fears the job to a non-paying job. retary of Defense; Vice President the Black prisoner, but also will William Morgan representing Agricul• readily kill him as would a bigoted Prisoners have to work under these ture; Peter B. Bensinger representing white guard. Because they have like conditions for a slave wage of 32 to . the Attorney General. fears, the Black guards see the same 80 cents an hour. The majority of as the white guard. In a Black and workers only make 32-60 cents an hour George Meany, the so-called "labor white altercation, regardless of who -while their families (who are mostly representative", has not only ignor• the aggressor may be, the Black pri• unemployed or have low paying jobs) ed the slavish and hazardous work soner is always first in the gun have to choose between food, rent, conditions that prisoners are sub• sights. utilities and medical care in order jected to, but he (in collusion Being an ex-con, I have walked un• to subsist. with other board of directors, the der many a gun tower, and have seen Federal prison industries is a government and the reactionary Sen• a beautiful Black sister smiling large governmental corporation that ate) has supported the slavish pri• down at me, sometimes even giving a has its factories and shops and em• son conditions and the Supreme Court courteous hello, knowing full well ploys about 6,300 prisoners. There ruling against prisoners' right to if I go too close to the fence she are six main divisions of prison in• unionize. will empty her semi-automatic rifle dustries: Data/graphics, electron• The racist, slavish and barbarous into my back. I look up at her and ics, metals, shoe and brush, tex• prison conditions display the under• wonder how she would justify killing tiles, wood and plastics. lying fascist character and policies me, a Black man, a Black man who of the corporate imperialist U.S. Most of the goods and services from government. Richard Picariello See BLACK GUARDS, p,18

12 A BRIEF HISTORY ON THE FORMATION OF ZANLA reprinted from Zimbabwe News Lesson One ZANU was formed in 1963 to wage the Though death befalls all people of self, was shown in their bound• Armed Struggle. PreCeeding National• alike, it may be weightier than the less sense of responsibiltity in ist Organizations had sought libera• Chimanimani mountains or lighter than their work and their boundless warm• tion through constitutional means and a feather. To die for the people is heartedness towards all Comrades and mass meetings. ZANU moved away from weightier than Chimanimani mountains, the people. With their spirit every• this policy. In the words of ZANU but to work for the white colonial• one can be very useful to the people. Central Committee: "We have turned ists and die for the exploiters and All our cadres, whatever their away from reformist politics. We now oppressors is lighter than a feather. rank, are servants of the people and enter the era of takeover politics, If we have shortcomings, we are not whatever we do must be in the ser• we are our own liberators by direct afraid to have them pointed out and vice of the people. ZANU military confrontation." criticized, because we serve the cadres seek the maximum participa• people. Anyone, no matter who, may Immediately with the formation of tion and involvement of the masses point out our shortcomings. If he is ZANU and the acceptance by the people of our people in every phase of right, we will correct them. If what of the policy of direct confronta• "Chimurenga". Their role is to guide he proposes will benefit the people, tion, the Party, ZANU, was faced and encourage, to be true friends we persist in doing what is right with the task of building a People's of the people. The freedom fighter and correct what is wrong, the peo• Army, ZANLA, to work under the di• ple's army will surely thrive. must go in and out of every village rective of the Party in the execution with ease in the knowledge that he of the armed struggle. ZANLA, there• In times of difficulty, the Peo• is among Comrades-in-arms with the fore, became the organ of the Party, ple's Army must not lose sight of self confidence of a man whose ac• ZANU for thG attainment of the de• its achievements, must see the tions speak louder than his words. clared objective, the total libera• bright future and must pluck up its tion of Zimbabwe from the white mi• courage. The people of Zimbabwe are See ZANLA, p. 14 nority, through waging armed strug• suffering, it is our duty to save gle. them and we must exert ourselves in REMEMBER struggle. Wherever there is strug• The Party, ZANU, is the vanguard of gle, there is sacrifice, and death SOLOMON the Zimbabwe revolution. It is the is a common occurance. But our Peo• machinery through which the revolu• ple's Army has the interests of the MAHLANGU tion has to be planned, waged and people and the suffering of the Greetings: prosecuted and finally consolidated. great majority at heart, and when we The international terror by repres• Its military organ ZANLA, remains un• die for the people, it is a worthy sive government under the guise of der the Party and must carry out the death. Nevertheless, we should do 'law and order' has taken from us the Par-ty's every decision and objective our best to avoid unnecessary sacri• young life of Solomon Mahlangu, a in its execution of the armed strug• fices. Our cadres must show concern nationalist freedom fighter who sim• gle. The Party remains the Supreme for every soldier, and all people in ply would not compromise with the a- Authority, for it is the Party which the revolutionary ranks must care partheid state of South Africa. commands the gun, 'and the gun must for each other, must love and help never be allowed to command the Party. each other. Solomon Mahlangu's unmarked grave The Purpose of Building The People's Army should be modest is one of many, thejce will be msny^ the People's Army — ZANLA and prudent, guard against arrogance more; their blood serves to purify and harshness, and serve the people and intensify our revolutionary stru• The sole purpose of building a of Zimbabwe heart and soul. Our ggle. People's Army is to stand firmly with point of departure is to serve the the people and serve them whole-heart• people wholeheartedly and never for In South Africa, Israel and the U- edly. Without an army standing on a moment divorce ourselves from the nited States the judicial branch of the people's side, it is impossible masses, to proceed in all cases from the existing repressive state draws for the People of Zimbabwe to win the interests of the people and not near itself gallows, electric chairs freedom and unification, establish a from the interests of a small group, and its other tools onto the fore• People's democratic government, thor• and to identify our responsibility front attempting to instill terror oughly defeat the white minority re• to the leading organs of the Party. and systematically murdering our gime, and build a new socialist Zim• youth. babwe . The People's Army must learn the spirit of absolute selflessness as Our army is wholly dedicated to the exemplified by Comrade Herbert Chite- It is not surprising the stand of liberation of the people and works po, our late Chairman, and Comrade the U$A. It is.the main prop of bar• entirely in the people's interests. Leopold Takawira, our late first barism internationally. Tomorrow it All people must eventually die, but Vice President. Their utter devo• will recognize the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian death can vary in its significance. tion to others without any thought puppet government of Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa whose "Black" reactionary army will be armed by the U.$. to take on the Revolutionary Patriotic Front.

Nevertheless historical necessity and the will of the oppressed people will force these bankrupt regimes and their counter-revolutionary plans into the dustbin of history. We affirm today that the fruit of our endeavor belongs to the toilers of the earth and for each Solomon Mahlangu that falls 1000 will arise.

Remember Solomon Mahlangu Remember George Jackson Thank you for ARM THE SPIRIT.

Veneeremos Greenhaven, New York

Note: Solomon Mahlangu, a leader of the Black Consciousness Move• ment, was executed this spring by South African Authorities.

credit: Zimbabwe News RESPONSE FROM RAHWAY

This communique is in re• Five (5) hour contact visits on more racist, more fascist, more sad• sponse to the "constructive Saturdays and Sundays, two(2) hour- istic. The pigs are prone to kill criticism" the "PONTIAC REV• night visits on Tuesdays and Thurs• quicker. Prisoners are not allowed OLUTIONARY FRONT" put forth days during the summer months. On to wear their own clothing in-Trenton. in the #3 May, 1979 issue Fridays during the summer months Record players, cassette playersj of ARM THE SPIRIT criticiz• three times a year, "Family Days" stereo systems are not allowed within ing the Lifer's Group and are conducted in the outside visit• the walls of Trenton. If a prisoner the erstwhile Boxing Assoc• ing area. Banquets are also conduc• is caught at Trenton State Prison iation here at Rahway State ted for the various prison organi• with "four or five joints", he will Prison. zations within the prison year round.-. be punished accordingly. Visiting is allowed. If the administration in Trenton Revolutionary Greetings Sisters and Also we are allowed televisions, suspects a prisoner of plotting some• Brothers: radios, record players, cassette pla• thing or being a revolutionary, the yers, stereo systems. We are allowed prisoner(s) can be placed in the MCU The ninety (90) prisoners who con• to wear our own personal clothing without receiving a institutional stitute the Lifer's Group here at from the street, three piece suits infraction. Here at Rahway, the ad• Rahway State Prison, and the "elite included. Prisoners are into living ministration supresses all forms of clique" within the Lifer's Group are for the weekend. organized resistance toward the admir^- consciously aware of the fact{s) that istration from its inception by trana- they are being super-exploited and The administration allows drugs to ferririg prisoners who are directly in• manipulatQd by the administration flow freely. The administration en• volved, and those prisoners who they' here at Rahway, CBS, NBC, ABC; as well courages the use of marijuana. If a suspect of being involved directly to as various right-wing law enforcement prisoner is caught with "four or five" the Management Control Unit (MCU) agencies to advance their own reac• (joints), he's no longer placed in at Trenton State Prison. tionary schemes. isolation on the spot. The admini• stration no longer sentences prison• Stool pigeons are numerous here at However, the prisoners who compose ers who are caught with marijuana to Rahway. The various prison organiza• the Lifer's Group here at Rahway are one year in adminristrative segrega• tions here at Rahway are pro-admini• pro-administration and opportunist in tion, fifteen days in isolation, a stration and opportunist in nature. • nature. These prisoners have wild year lost of commutation time and re• The so-calLed Prisoner's Representa• hopes and dreams of making money, get• ferral to the prosecutor's office. tive Committee, the Form Project, the ting some form of clemency, parole, Lifer's Group, the Dome Newspaper, the time reductions, or have people in The administration don't enforce Penal Reform Organization, as well as positions with power and influence the no contact rules in the contact the other four or five prison organi• write favorable letters to the chair• visiting areas, so prisoners are able zations within the walls of Rahway, man o£ the parole board and the pri• to have sex with their female visi• don't do or say anything in opposition son administration. Their interest tors if they choose to. The ultimate toward the administration. They also is individual self-interest. If giv• threat, the ultimate form of behavior are into making and receiving personal en the chance, the "elite clique" »j[iOdLiliiri1bt"i''^ '° Trar.<-<-.n fit-at-ft prison telephone calls on the phones they within the Lifer's SVoup would "ex^^^^ population and the Management Control have in their offices. r---t and manipulate the other mem• Unit within the walls of Trenton State bers Of the group for their own self• Prison. Prisoners fear Trenton State In light of all that's been said, ish ends or for the administration. Prison population and the Management and what must be done, as the only Control Unit (MCU). POW here at this concentration camp, The "elite clique" within the "Box• the struggle continues ing Association" here at Rahway are Conditions are more repressive at pro-administration and opportunist Trenton State Prison. The pigs are Rahway, Nev7 Jersey in nature. The non-members of the "elite clique" compose the rest of the Boxing Association. They are people and quite rightly, but this somewhat pro-administration. Not• ZANLA from p. 13 easily leads to conceit. If we be• withstanding, they are all oppor• come conceited, if we are not modest tunist in nature. As a whole, the The relationship between the army and cease to exert ourselves, and if "erstwhile" Boxing Association are and the people is that of fish and we do not respect others, do not re• consciously aware of the fact(s) water. If the fish is removed from spect the cadres and the masses, then that they are being manipulated by water then it ceases to live. The we will cease to be Heroes and models. the administration and the various fish is the army and the water are There has been such people in the television networks. the masses, without the water the past, and we should not follow their fish is certainly bound to flounder examples. The whole composition of the Boxing and hence lose its existence. The Association has wild dream.s and hopes people, therefore, are a great ocean Many of our heroes have laid down of boxing their way out o£ prison, in which to drown the enemy. their lives for the people; let us making some money, or whatever their hold their banner high and march a- schemes are. The Lifer's Group don't head along the path crimson with The People's Army should be filled subscribe to, nor do they read the their blood. Our People's Army with revolutionary heroism, our army numerous underground newspapers that should be a model of the whole Zimba• should have an indomitable spirit are published. They are too busy bwe nation, the backbone of the vic• and should be determined to vanquish "Scaring people Straight", making and torious advance of the People's cause all enemies and never to yield. No receiving personal telephone calls in all spheres, pillars of support to matter what the difficulties and on their four (4) phones they have in the people's democratic Party and hardships, so long as a single man their office. Very few prisoners bridge linking the people's democra• remains, he must fight on. Our Army nere at this concentration camp sub• tic Party with the great masses. should give full play to our style of scribe to or read revolutionary publi• fighting courage in battle, no fear cations. of sacrifice, no fear of fatigue and We_, the People's Army have the continuous fighting (that is, fight• spirit to fight the enemy to the last The political consciousness among ing successive battles in a short drop of our blood, the determination the prison population here at Rahway time without rest). to recover our invaded country by out- ie at a very low ebb. There are "one own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of na• thousand and some odd number of pri• Our army has many good qualities tions. • soners within the walls of Rahway." and has rendered great service, but The administration maintain control we must always remember not to be• O rde r Zi mbabwe News from: through various mild forms of beha• come conceited. The ZANLA forces ZANU vior modification tactics such as within their Vanguard Party, ZANU, en• 612SteinerSt. San Francisco, CA 94117 the following joy the abundant support of our

14 MARION PRISONERS ATTEMPT ESCAPE LETTERS from p. 2 June 10th was a windy Sunday even• not rush to their cages like scared ing at the United States Penitentiary dogs, but instead remained on the yard Tyrants, everywhere but up against in Marion, Illinois. The sun was just and demanded that the captured pri• the wall. I almost bit the dust in getting ready to set for the day and soners receive immediate medical at• 1974, but the Vipers missed me, and yard recall about to be announced over tention. At that point no one knew gave me a living Hell of Life and the institution's speaker system. how many of the men were hit by gun• 25 years. But the Gods have smiled Small groups of prisoners slowly fire or how serious their wounds were. upon me. After having done My home walked the half mile circular track A chief of the guards came to the area work in 5 years here in this Planta• surrounding the yard, trying to catch of the ball diamond where the bulk of tion, I am about ready to get another the last ray of sunshine and fresh air concerned prisoners were and demanded shot at the Devils. This is^ only by before returning to the stuffy cell- them to go inside. Some prisoners me being a Legal Researcher and be• houses. This was more or less the started throwing rocks at him and he coming profound in Law of every Era. scene when two pairs of walkers, one and his group of guards retreated to I do not intend to bore you. My Bro• pair of them near each of the two gun the main body of guards located near thers and Sisters. I just had to give towers on the north side of the yard, the fence where the injured prisoners you a taste of My background, letting suddenly stopped in their tracks,drew were. Out of a group of about 25 pri• you know, just because I am 63, I am pistols from their belts and opened soners near the ball diamond, approx• not going to give up. All I want to fire on their respective gun towers. imately half of them started moving do is fight to the bone, and everyday At the same time two prisoners hit toward the fence in an effort to check of the year, until the breath the fences in an area between the two on the welfare of their brothers. goes out of My body. Yes, I am a towers and started to climb for free• This was done under the threat of gun• Soldier, My Brothers and Sisters, re• dom. It was at this point that one fire and in disobedience of the com• fuse to be anything else, but. You of the gun towers on the south side mands of guards. The small group do not have to worry—it is a must of the yard opened fire on the men traveled the hundred yards to the that I will contribute to our cause trying to climb the fence. The four fence and, once there, ascertained for very much, soon as I show on the set. prisoners doing the shooting dropped themselves the general extent of the This is a promise. My Brothers and their empty weapons and started over damage done to their fellow prisoners. Sisters, because if any Brother or the fence themselves. But by this Only after each of the six captured Sister is really dedicated, then this time the guards in the north towers prisoners stated or indicated that will be a breeze to get it all to• had recovered from the shock of being they were in satisfactory condition, gether, once and for all. You Bro• fired upon by prisoners and were and a medical assistant was on the thers and Sisters must know, that shooting at the six men on the fences. scene, did the concerned prisoners the time is on the turn for all of Before they were able to work their slowly and reluctantly return to their we Brothers and Sisters to make our way over the eight strands of razor living areas. move in the right direction, to ob• wire on top of each of the fences and We respect the spirit and ingenui• tain all our Freedom, Justice, and the heavy concentration of concertina ty of those who made the attempt and equality once and for all. Sometime wire between them, the guards in the promise them our small but slowly in the future. You will get a letter three towers were able to concentrate growing support. At the same time we from me, really expressing all the enough firepower to stop all six pri• admire the brotherhood and solidarity Struggle, and how far I have come, soners. When the shooting stopped of the men on the yard who risked and My Intentions, soon as I am back the smell of gun powder was heavy in their limited freedom to ensure the on the set, and what I intend to do the air. Two prisoners made it over safety of those who made the attempt. in My Community to get the Bros to• the first fence, one fence short of The course of history*is on the side gether. This seems to be the missing what they needed to be in a space that of oppressed peoples—WE WILL WIN! factors, for all our Communities— would allow them to run for cover. One No (Leadership), and we must have prisoner suffered a minor head wound Note: The weapons recovered, accord• thts^T«-order for us to survive, and the others were badly cut by the ing to news reports (which is what before the Oppressor crush us all. razor wire. this release is based on) , were eight My Brothers and Sisters... Within moments the goon squad was homemade single shot zip guns. The running from the main complex to the captured men are: Don Richardson, Not much have I said, but I have fences where the downed prisoners Don Morgan, Roger Black, William New• been through a Monster, in My 63 were. The speaker system was demand• man, Peter Muchlin, Larry Lucas. The years on this Planet Earth, without ing that all remaining prisoners on prison was locked down for one day question, My Brothers and Sisters. the yard immediately return to their while guards conducted an unsuccess• quarters. The men on the yard did ful search for more weapons. • Atlanta, Georgia • • • Dear Editor, CLOSE MARION CONTROL UNIT! Why do we oppose the U.S. Bureau of these eight were suicides, the A few days before our current of Prisons policy at Marion, 111.? other a heart attack after 6 years in lockdown here at Washington State Because of the behavior control unit, the control unit. Penitentiary, I saw your first pub• an indefinite solitary confinement In 1972 the Brothers brought a pre• lication in our club area, so deci• unit where men are held in 9x12 cells cedent setting suit (Bono vs. Saxbe) ded to bring it to my cell. Unfor• 23^ hours a_ day, for 2^, 3^ and 4_ years. to close the control unit. The suit tunately (or fortunately) a few days These behavior control units are was tried in 1975 in federal court. later we were put on lockdown due to spreading throughout the nation's The couft delayed until 1978 and the fatal stabbing of a prison guard, prison system. Behavior control means ruled in favor of the Bureau of Pris• so with plenty of cell time, I began using drugs, solitary confinement, ons. The court allowed the unit to reading the various literature that sensory deprivation and psuedo-scien- stay open on the basis o£ the old and I usually keep for my free time. I tific therapy techniques to break dangerous doctrine of preventive picked up your paper with mixed prisoners mentally and physically so detention. thoughts, but as I read the various more and more of them can be packed Preventive detention at Marion letters and articles, I knew I just into the same space. The Long-Term means you can be put in solitary con• had to appeal to you for a free sub• Control Unit at the Marion, 111. Fed• finement for: scription (I am presently lacking eral Prison—the replacement for Al- Ti Insolence toward a staff member. the finances to contribute) because catraz as the maximum-security prison 2. Participating in an unauthorized your paper is one that I can identi• in the U.S.—opened in 1972 to break meeting. fy with and feel a way of informing a work stoppage and has become 3. Unauthorized contacts with the "prison inside £ prison." the public of the conaitlons (not public. Prisoners from all over the U.S. to mention the mind trips) of Uncle 4. Refusing to obey any staff mem• and from U.S. protectorates such as Sam's prisons. ber 's order. the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico 5. Attempting to commit any of these are sent to the control unit. Toge• I am with you in your cause and offenses, aiding another person ther with their lawyers and support• will continue to do so in and out of to commit any of these offenses, ers these prisoners, the Marion Bro• prison .• and planning to commit any of thers, have carried on a five year these offenses shall be consid• struggle to close the control unit With a clenched fist ered the same as a commission of and insure that no other control units in struggle and unity, the offense itself. are opened in any other prisons. Nine A prisoner CONTACT: National Committee to Sup• men have died either in the unit or Walla Walla State Prison port the Marion Brothers (533-2234) soon after release from the unit and See LETTERS p. 19 4556A Oakland, St. Louis, Mo. 15 Malcolm X had already been murdered Gibson, and Jeffery Khatari Gaulden GRAHAM & ALLEN from p. 9 in 1965, the Panther Party was under (murdered August 1st). heavy military attack with Fred Hamp• All the above brief history I've and otherwise neutralize the activi• ton and Mark Clark being gunned down mentioned purposely to show the con• ties of Black Nationalist hate-type in their drugged sleep in 1969. . . nection of events of the past and organizations and groupings, their Three days after brothers Miller, Ed• present inside and out and to show leadership, spokesmen, membership ward and Nolen were murdered the that the case of Graham and Allen and supporters," this program didn't courts ruled it justifiable homicide. isn't an isolated one. It seems limit itself to the streets. As this Shortly following the announcement rather clear now that the killing of murderous program moved to accomplish of this court decision, a white guard the guard in Tracy and accusing of its purpose on the outside, it sim• was killed in Soledad and George Graham and Allen of it was an at• ultaneously moved in the same fash• Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clu- tempt by the state to complete the ion inside the prison, though tac• chette were locked up, brutalized and destruction of what was left of the tics may have differed due to circum• accused of the killing. It is/was prison movement. Duel Vocational stance, against the revolutionary already known that George Jackson Institute (D.V.I.) is a prison for prisoners' movement, against Prison• was highly and purposefully influen• basically youth, and in previous ers of War, and Political Prisoners tial in the prison movement. The years it had been known as the gla• in particular. Behind the walls to climate being too hot for another po• diator school, a breeding spot for be political meant big trouble, it litical kill so soon it seems the revolutionary mentality amongst the meant being labelled cop killer, rev• administration and its outside col• young breed. Graham was a politi• olutionary, gang members, management laborators decided to neutralize him cally active and influential person problem or security threat, either by killing the young guard and fram• within this setting. It follows one or all. This is basically done ing him with it, putting him and the right along with COINTELPRO actions. to isolate, make examples o£, and entire prison movement on the defen• In Hoover's memo he stated, "A convince the public you deserve only sive by creating a situation of final goal should be to prevent the the worst and to make difficult any statewide retaliation. Comrade long-range growth of militant Black support. Labelling also makes it George managed somehow to turn the Nationalist organizations—espe• easier for a prisoner to be set up negative into the positive and re• cially among the youth." for the kill. gained the offensive until his ulti• Graham and Allen are political, By the late 60's and early 70's mate political assasination on August are Prisoners of War, African Free• the word was out that the administra• 21, 1971. Drumgo and Cluchette were dom Fighters struggling for a just tion was out to destroy the influen• both acquitted of the murder charges cause, for a better tomorrow, for tial prison movement, they claimed after his assasination, but of course self determination for their people the prison movement was a threat to the state hasn't filed charges and other colonized people here and the penal system. In January 1970 against itself for the murder of the abroad. To speak of and support three Black prisoners were shot down guard. From here the San Quentin 6 Graham and Allen is to support Sun• on an exercise yard after a fist history begins, which everyone is diata Acoli, Assata Shakur, Dhoruba fight erupted. Miller, Edwards and familiar with. From that point on Moore, Tony Bottoms, Pontiac Broth• W.L. Nolen were the targets of mur• there has been a barrage of charges ers, and thousands of other name• der that day. W.L. Nolen was a very filed against Black political pris• less brothers and sistas in influential participant of the prison oners for killing guards and attemp• struggle. movement as well as close friend of ted murder though less publicized, For more information call: George Jackson. On the outside Larry Justice, Hugo Pinell^Earl (415) 561-9179

camps. And just as Comrades at the There are already efforts being made DEVELOPMENT from p. 1 people's work must be supported and to organize a Black August (B.A.) ,-i-'__ji^a outside, t^^SgUS^S»miiiiiSimmm> Committee in the Bay Area of Califor• —it lb yuf LOfLh that from this for the Comrades behind tfife~walls and nia. Brothers.and sisters interested point on the historical taonth of bars inside who face even more bla• in joining this effort, in need of August be called and recognized as tant repression and less control of more information, and that have crit• Black August. It is further put their lives. icism on methods to organize Black. forth that Black August be a non- "The activity surrounding the pro• August, should write to the follow• sectarian effort on a mass level with tection and liberation of people who ing address: emphasis on gaining a popular and fight for us is an important aspect broad support and active participa• of struggle. But it is important tion of Black people. Black August only if it provides new initiatives Black August should and will become a progressive that redirect and advance the revo• c/o Heshimu vehicle to contribute in the building lution under new progressive methods." P.O. Box 21573 of revolutionary struggle and culture (Comrade George) San Jose, CA 95116 for the Black Liberation Movement in general and Revolutionary Prison Movement particularly here on the west coast, California in particular. AC MESSAGE from p. 1 "Black August". B.A. will be a time We trust that if/when organs such as of building Revolutionary strength the New Afrikan Prison Organization and culture. Soldiers will wear and others embrace this effort and taining the image of the true Black black armbands on the left arm. Each it gains wider sponsership a nation• Communist Guerilla to the highest, comrade will show Revolutionary ini• al strategy and principles of unity was victimized by the blatant assas• tiative and creativity in all fields can be developed to put it even more sination of corporate medical poli• of practice. Going among the people in tune with the general strategy tics. Khatari in his short time had and inviting them to join us. Work• for our National Liberation struggle. seen it all from the desperate per• ing in the interest of the people spective of the doomed man in the totally. All studies will be of The Revolutionary Prison Movement oppressor nation. He saw the con• revolution, with stong emphasis on is again gaining momentum behind the tribution o£ all comrades who gave Comrade George. bars from California to Florida, as us Revolutionary growth and stimula• National Liberation surges forward There will be no affiliation with tion, and then he saw the efforts of outside on every level. It is under• the enemy culture meaning radio and the enemy to destroy that growth. stood that the Prison Movement is not television. Comrades will eat one But he remained like a bridge over a separate and isolated development meal a day aftdr sunset, and no wa• turbulent waters to deliver us to the outside the over-all struggle for ter until sunset. The emphasis is other side. self-determination and independence, placed on sacrifice, fortitude and on the contrary it is an integral rigid discipline. Study groups will Within this brief presentation we part of it and they influence each meet daily. No loud or boastful attempted to give to you our decade other as one front effect the other. behavior. There will be no stimu• of struggle and a few outside stand• lation of the enemies economy. ing examples of those who gave their During the 60's and early 70's, Meaning no canteen or pacKages. The all. Needless to say there are many when what was then called the Black needs o£ the people will be met by more, for we have always been a her• Power Movement, when the movement the people. Absolutely no drugs or oic people today and tomorrow. But reached a high point in our struggle, alcoholic beverages. Brief exer• in recognizing our past, as Revolu• and when the government was virtually cise periods will take place in the tionaries we must likewise take def• defeated ideologically and politi• mornings, collectively as a show of inite steps to give it the highest cally it moved on our leaders and unity. possible credibility. soldiers militarily and all of us that were not murdered in some form The month of August will become a See AC MESSAGE, p. 18 were sent to prison or concentration Revolutionary cultural month called 16 LETTER FROM THE WALLA WALLA THREE In a society based upon class ine• the right to rebel in prison. So far We send love to all our Brothers quality and suffused with commercial our "arraignment" has been held in• and Sisters in struggle in these values, it just doesn't make sense side this prison and they are talk• camps. We send love to all those who to the ruling class to waste money ing about having our trial here too. support all of us in these camps. on social uses or anything that can• Games are being played with our Unity is mandatory for we are only as not be quantified in dollars and mail, visists, phone calls, and law• powerful as we are together. Remem• cents. Legislators are drawn almost yers. We are trying to get our trial ber the words of our late but ever exclusively from the middle and up• in Seattle, Washington. Support is lasting Brother George Jackson- "Come per classes and cannot bring them• imperative for us to survive much together," for Justice can never be selves to forget that which is sacred less make it to court. begged. to the private economy. It is logi• On June 12, 1979 a prisoner was cal to them to invest money in things killed here and on June 15, 1979 a Love and rage. that run the lowest risk and show the guard was killed. Since June 15th The Walla Walla Three the highest and most immediate re• the entire prison has been locked Carl L. Harp turns. Prison is one of the examples down and under a massive reactionary Robert S. Green Jr. of this mentality even when they at• attack from the guards who apparently Robert C. Washburn tempt to serve the common good. Mon• run things here now. We have no idea P.O. Box 520 ' . ey to change treatment and conditions when this lock-down will end. It is walla walla, Wash. 99362 in any realistic fashion will not also an attempt to put a lid on pri• come because it takes too long for soners' attempts to expose and change NEWS UPDATE: July 20: On Saturday, and many returns carries too risks. the conditions and treatment here July 7, prisoners in the maximum se• A step up in security they think has which is the problem and which caused curity unit at Walla Walla rose up immediate results and costs less, but the two deaths. Under the guise of in righteous fury demanding showers in the final analysis it costs more security, repression is the order of during a prison tour by three wardens on all levels. the day with cell stripping, beat• appointed to do an "impartial, inde• On May 9, 1979 T, Robert S. Green ings, and the "Concrete Plan"; i.e., pendent" investigation of walla wal• Jr., and Robert C. Washburn took by they are concreting the entire pri• la. The prisoners had been on a 23 force the Classification and Parole son so no more grass or dirt is vi• day lock down in 30-100 degree heat Building herQ in the Washington sible. and only had two showers in that state Penitentiary and held ten The only reason we are being tried time. The lockdown was on because a persons hostage for twelve hours for a crime (Hostage Taking) is to guard was killed. while we carried the conditions and strike fear into the hearts and minds 230 prisoners were moved into the treatment here via the media to the of other prisoners so that they do yard, stripped and left there for public. Our action was for all in• not rebel against injustice and de• several nights. tents and purposes non-violent. Over mand their Human Rights. Our trial Then the weekend of July 16, Carl 200 prisoners refused to lock-up and is an attempt to force prisoners into Harp and three other prisoners were were gassed and beat because they silence and submission to injustice. raped and severely beaten loy guards. refused to allow an attack on us. We're trying to get a little Just• Since these beatings, the entire . Since May 10, 1979 we have been ice that the system can't afford to prison population went on a hunger in "Big Red", the hole, after we give because if it did the truth strike and vowed not to come out of surrendered peacefully. We are un• might lead to the collapse of the their cells when the lockdown ends. der threat of death and repression whole system. Help us people in any They say they won't come out until facing a major political trial on way possible. Warden James Spaulding is removed.B

A national mobilization is being organized to expose human rights vi• Peoples National Moratorium 1979 olations of Chicano/Mexicano, Puerto Rican, Black and Native American To build a national unity of third world people peoples in the U.S. in the U.S. against violation of human tights. People from all over the nation Chicano/Mexicano • Puerto Rican - Black & Native American Peoples will go to New York on September 7-9 for a National Moratorium against police. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and Immigration and Naturali• zation Service (INS) terrorism of Third World communities. Organizers point out that over 2,000 Third World people were killed last year by the police, INS, and BIA, which is more than have been killed in the war in Northern Ireland. "These criminal REPRESSION actions demand a deeper analysis than just a superficial explanation BREEDS RESISTANCE that they are the examples of po• lice brutality by a few 'rotten ap• ples' in the police force? the pat• March & Rally tern repeats itself too often to be coincidence or regional racism, these actions represent a declara• at the United Nations Plaza tion Of war against our comm.unities," said one o£ the organizers. He continued, "Last year police September 7-8-9,1979* killed more than 150 Chicano/Mexi- canos in the Southwest, yet not a intended to build unity among Third collected on police, INS, BIA crimes single policeman has been jailed. World people based on the principle will be disseminated to interested This is not a dysfunction of the of self-determination. groups. Community 24-hour hotlines police force, it is precisely what "The Chicano/Menicano, Puerto Ri• to report police crimes and a Na• the police are intended to do—in• can, Native American, and Black tional Newsletter have also been timidate and repress." peoples have carried out struggles proposed to be organized after the Moratorium. In addition to launching an in• for liberation since the arrival of formative campaign around the mag• the European, or since their own ar• For more Information contact: nitude of this repression, organi• rival on this Continent," reported (California) Emilio Benavidez, 1836 zers are collecting data on police, a statement by the National Coor• 57th Ave., Oakland, 415/569-0545; BIA, and IMS crimes which will be dinating Committee. (Colorado) Ricardo Romero, FOB 4543, , presented to the United Nations. A long range plan of the National Denver 80204, 303/534-5865; (New This will be coordinated with a Moratorium is to build a.National York) Committee Against Repression rally before the UN on September 9. Alliance of Oppressed Third World c/o Maria Cueto, 37-41 81st St, The National Moratorium is also Peoples. In addition, all the data Apt. B3, Jackson Heights 11372. reprinted from El Tecolote 17 RESPONSE from p. 6 THE THIRD WORLD WAR even having established any form of ALWAYS A CODE WORD FOR HAS ALREADY BEGUN US principled unity. CUBA, KOREA, TANZANIA, ALGERIA, UNDERTHEHEEL We maintained our position on our EL BARRIO, ANGOLA, VIRGIN ISLES, MEXICO, BOUND IN CHAINS NOW right to have access to other support MOZAMBIQUE, PALESTINE, HARLEM, BROKEN & BREAKING groups. We struggled with and even• PARAGUAY, VIET NAM, ZIMBABWE, CHILE, tually won PFOC over to our position. THE BLACK BELT, AZANIA, NAMIBIA, Meanwhile we continued our efforts THE PRISONS, GUINEA-BISSAU, BORICUA, AMERICA, & MORE THE THIRD WORLD WAR to establish a working relationship HAS ALREADY STARTED— with APSP because we wanted strong THE THIRD WORLD HEALING African leadership working to organ• THE THIRD WORLD WAR OF THE WHOLE WORLD. ize and educate our communities. WAS NEVER A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE IT IS A GLORIOUS TIME Finally last fall, we did get a (XCEPT FOR THAT VARIETY TO BE LIVING, OF FAMILY STRUCTURE) visit from two APSP members. Although IF ONE IS LIVING IN THE T-HIRD WORLD no concrete resolution of the contra• —HAKIM (LEAVENWORTH) dictions came out of that particular meeting, we regarded it as at least a beginning. Unfortunately that was the last communication we had from them until this spring despite a num• ber of letters we sent in an effort to continue conmiunication. In May and again in June we heard from them...through a.white person. It was stressed at both meetings our need to talk directly with APSP, that our differences were with them and to discuss them with anyone else, par• ticularly with whites, could not pos• sibly solve the problem. We've neither seen nor heard any• thing from APSP since then. Apparently we've also been removed from the mailing list, because we no longer even receive the Burning Spear since the May edition. Although we are discussed in the "REPORT FROM THE MOUNTAIN," we had to obtain it will adhere to. But the overall through other means, just as v/e had AC MESSAGE from p. 16 planning of Black August activities to learn APSP had withdrav/n from this will be dependent on each cell tak• area. 1979 marks the first year of a new Does that mean ANPO is dead in Black Culture. It has come from the ing into account the particulars of this area? Nol We think it is an ardent struggle of ten years past and surrounding circumstance. excellent idea with many possibili• beyond. We now have the convictions With that in mind we propose the ties, which is why we kept trying to and dedication to show our people and following: open t^,^, lJj3^|||||||||gMjpp«MM«^iig»i^ the rest of humanity our worth. Each collective of freedom fight• Those of usinvolvea in building Black August will become stronger ers elect a Black August commit• A.NPO within the San Quentin Manage- , and stronger as we progress toward tee. Depending on what is avail• •ent Control Unit see the need for "^^i^fc liberation. Give your mind, body able personnel wise. The duties building national organization of and soul to struggle. of the committee is to coordin• African people around the question of Comrades must see the value of this ate and get a consensus of what prisons as genocidal and colonial month in terms of righteous guerrilla would be good to build the Revo• institutions of oppression of our culture. And learn to help one anoth• lutionary spirit of B.A. people. However, the basis for such er to become strong by straining to• Emphasis is on reaching the peo• work must be the building of prin• gether. ple. This is non-sectarian, so cipled working relationships between If a Comrade sees how this idea can all activities should have pop• African forces inside and those wor• be improved upon, bring it forth im• ular support, or developed to• king in the community so that joint mediately. ward broad support. strategies and leadership can be As previously stated there are Comrades worked out to move things forward. mandatory requirements all soldiers S.Q. Adjustment The struggle of African people Center inside and outside of the prisons is one struggle and in order to win lib• eration there must be principled are they? If one has the facts. The unity between us. FOLSOM from p. 5 guard Hickey, the faggot that shot Build to Win Which don't even relate to the inci• me is still in his tower with his K.A. dent in 4-A on the 18th a day before M-14. This fool is a puppet for the the murder on the 19th and the ten CDC; if necessary he will be the stabbings. The whites that did the scapegoat for the CDC. BLACK GUARDS from p.12 stabbing the p.c. move wanted to get To sum this up very briefly: Some people are under the impression that partook in the riots that put pres• caught, so they could get caught, so repression breeds revolutionary con• sure on the system and made it poss• they could be removed from the main• sciousness. That is not the case ible for her to take a few more line. Where their life won't be in all the,time and we must always real• steps toward freedom. How can she jeopardy. Fronting all the rest of ize, it is not the consciousness of feel satisfied sitting there, ready the whites that don't even fuck with the man that determines his exist• to kill when there is a dispropor• this so call racist group.. Is this ence, it's the social condition that tionate number of Blacks in prison manipulation. I think not. It's determine our consciousness!!! Many in proportion to the number of Blacks more so a conspiracy on the authority has let these pacification programs in the country? part to kill Yogi and myself. They hate us. There was another Black overturn their sense of direction. If you put a cardboard wall be• that was also shot by the guard Hick• We cannot let the dog kill the image tween a thousand starving rats and a ey. Jimmy Gaulden, the younger bro• of Comrade G, Malcolm X. How many piece of cheese, they will all work ther of Khatari Gaulden—he was shot other leaders who died trying to together gnawing their way through the in the arm. Let me elaborate on thia save humanity under these dehumaniz• cardboard, driven by the same hunger. In 1970, January 13th three Blacks ing condition. The progressive ele• Once a hole is made, it's every rat was killed at Soledad 0 Wing yard by ments are not going to let the spir• for itself. This situation seems true it of G and Malik die. We are part military rifle. One of the three of middle-class Blacks. The Black of the righteous people and if we brothers that was murdered was W.L. rats that man the gun post in prisons are guilty of anything at all it's Nolen. His older brother is also are now guarding the hole the rats of not driving on these muthufucka here in 4-A. I'm trying to point out helped to make. I pray that one day hard enough. something. As I understand it con• we will have more in common with each spiracy are very hard to prove, or other and less with rats! • War without terms — BLACK JUSTICE 18 money on the outside, so when we all come up with something, I will forth• LETTERS from p. 15 with send it to you. . Dearest Comrades:

Sincerely, Thank you for sending several iss• ues of ARM THE SPIRIT. They are be• Greetings in struggle! In the struggle of our time! ing circulated within the Black com• munity here at Marion. With the next Brothers and sisters: Reidsviile, GA. issue i hope to start a subscription drive that will net you some finan• Dear Comrades: It uplifts my spirit to have been cial support. At present i'm learn• recently made aware of your ARM THE ing the ropes by selling subscrip• Just a small observation: prison• SPIRIT newspaper. Not many newspa• tions to the PRISON LAW MONITOR. We ers are on trial for their lives due pers publish and advocate the pure as prisoners should do everything to prison revolts in Pontiac, Illi• truth of liberation as you most sure• within our power to generate material nois; Reidsviile, Georgia; and Kings• ly do. I recently had the opportun• support for the publications and ton, New York. In Pontiac, 29 Black . ity to.view your #3, May 1979 issue. groups supporting our struggle. Be• prisoners are charged with killing In this issue the "Free the Pontiac sides, doing things like subscription 3 prison guards and wounding 3 others; Brothers" articles prompted me to sales gets us off of our asses and a-t the Georgia State Prison, 6 Black immediately request for your organi• out into the population where the prisoners are charged with killing zation to add me on your mailing list links with the prisoners must be 1 guard and two Klan prisoners on for prisoners. I assure you I'll built. the same day as the Pontiac revolt; share the contents with the true rev• and in New York, 8 Black and Brown olutionaries caged as I. Our inter• Enclosed are Some articles you may prisoners are being framed-up for an nal collective battles daily against find to be of some use in future is• insurrection where hostages were made the hideous oppressor. The People sues of A.T.S. I'll send more as of guards. The slaves are revolting! will win! soon as i can. I want to contribute to ARM. THE SPIRIT in every way possi• Komboa I send these final words. Quote; "A ble, and hope other prisoners will do Leavenworth, Kansas little Knowledge that acts is worth the same. • There is a crying need for infinitely more than much knowledge a prisoner oriented newspaper of na• that is idle." Unquote. Greetings! tional distribution. A.T.S. can fill this need. I await your next issue o£ ARM THE this past week i was fortunate to Toward a national prisoners SPIRIT. read your May issue of ARM THE SPIRIT organization, and i must say that i was truly stim• Ed Mead Yours in Solidarity, ulated and impressed with the very Marion, Illinois informative contents held within that Attica, New York issue. Hence, i ask that you will place my name on your mailing list to receive future issues. Being captive Greetings: in the depths of this prison kkk-kamp your paper will certainly add morale I hope when this letter arrive in in our universal struggle. One other your possession it find you well and point i would like to express; your strong. I will send ARM THE SPIRIT article on the pig-penal-reform tac• newspaper the requested information tics (literally entitled, 'To the about the "Reidsviile Brothers" and Prisoners in Trenton and Rahway Con• our cases—what it is all about; how centration Camps'), i extol for its "Uiid i»hy-it jump off, etc... I fully constructive criticism on those To The ARM THE SPIRIT: understand how difficult it must have 'scared straight' (visa-versa) pro• been—through the racist judicial grams, et al. Can't say i was a part I am sending you this letter in "court of law"—to get the approba• of such mockery on humanity (and regards of the ARM THE SPIRIT. I tion for Black prisoners confined in pleased to say so), however i and have been reading some of the liter• the US concentration camps, to start others have witnessed how some of our ature that has been sent to one of receiving ARM THE SPIRIT newspaper. most talented and creative brothers the inmates at S.C.I. (Sussex Corr• Prison officials (well as the US have been blinded by the tentacles ectional Institution). Since I have Governmental Ruling Class)...opposes of this racist-fascist system.... been reading your literature I have all material from entering the pri• become very interested and hoping sons which are constructive, relevant a luta continua that maybe I can help in some kind and enlightening of the Black revo• of way, or maybe get some people that lutionary struggles against racist Trenton State Prison will help far as sending funds. political killings, oppression, dis• New Jersey crimination, and the arbitrary, pro• Very truly yours, longed detention of Black liberation in the US and abroad. The increas• For future issues of ARM THE SPIRIT Georgetown, Delaware ing self assertiveness of the Black let us know when you submit an ar• man and woman, with the political a- ticle if you want us to sign your Maybe i can write an article that wakening of the two globally makes name. 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