10. Julia Chinyere Oparah, Celling Black Bodies: Black Women & the Global Prison Industrial Complex True Leap Press 11. Why Incarcerated Lives Matter to the Black Lives Matter Movement P.O. Box 408197 12. Frank Wilderson, The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal and other writings Chicago IL, 60640

13. Liz Appel, White Supremacy in the Movement to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex www.trueleappress.com 14. Andrea Smith, Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing True Leap Press is a radical publishing collective based in 15. Saidiya Hartman & Frank Wilderson, The Position of Unthought Chicago, Illinois. We support the intellectual struggle and advocate 16. Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution 17. Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, The Progressive Plantation: Racism Inside for the building of mass-based projects for anti-racist, anti- White Social Change Groups capitalist, and anti-patriarchal political education. Our collective 18. Dylan Rodriguez, The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial encourages any-and-all forms of revolt and insurrection against Complex global anti-blackness, white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, 19. bell hooks, Excerpts from is for Everybody and heteropatriarchy. We also aim to facilitate the growth of a 20. Out of the Closet and Into the Libraries: A Collection of Radical Moments progressive political consciousness that is deliberately anti- 21. Eric Stanley & Nat Smith et al. Excerpts from Captive Genders: Trans patriotic and against all forms of U.S. nationalism. Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex In the coming years, we hope to increase our number of 22. George Ciccariello Maher, Every Crook Can Govern: Prison Strikes as a publications, establish infrastructure for printing and distribution, Window to the New World and grow our capacity to work across prison walls. Our current 23. Anthony Rayson, More Effective Prisoner Support print publication is entitled PROPTER NOS. It offers a platform 24. ABC Boston, Attacking Prisons at the Point of Production 25. Safir Chuma Asafo, Anatomy of a Snitch for Black and radical antiracist theoretical and cultural work — 26. How COINTELPRO Helped Destroy the Movements of the 1960s / The such as poetry, short essays, experimental writing, artwork — and and its Annihilation by COINTELPRO will also increasingly serve as a source of commentary and analysis 27. Intelligence Gathering, Dissemination, & Internet Security from imprisoned activists and grassroots abolitionist organizations. 28. Security Culture: a handbook for activists Since April 2017, our publishing collective has distributed over 29. Gay Shame, We Need Direct Action Divas (newspaper-style zine) 30. Black & Pink Newspaper (most current issue) 200 copies of PN I and II to imprisoned comrades across the 31. Solid Black Fist: Newsletter (most current issue) country (at no charge, printed on stock paper, using black toner, in 32. Rust Belt Abolition Radio (Monthly Podcast, transcribed) (most current grayscale). We have ran advertisements and our communiqué in episode) the newsletters of a handful of allied groups, such as Black and 33. Abolition in Action: Bi-Monthly News from Critical Resistance (most Pink: Chicago and in The Abolitionist, published by Critical current issue) Resistance (1904 Franklin St # 504, Oakland, CA 94612). These

ads in turn attract requests for educational materials made by these

At the moment, we only have one member running our inside/outside groups’ incarcerated readership. Feel free to circulate this distribution services, so if your order never is received please feel catalogue amongst your networks. We also have some imprisoned alright to politely nudge him from time to time. He does this work as comrades making photocopies and passing out the literature we a volunteer side-gig, unpaid, and at NO EXPENSE on your end, so send on their own, without any request to do so. This is fantastic your patience is appreciated in advance. news! We encourage more to take up this task. Word is, imprisoned organizers in PA, CA, TX, WA, and IL are Publication description using PROPTER NOS as a prompt for ad hoc study groups. If you know anyone incarcerated who would like a free issue, please print out and get them this catalogue today. If you know of or work for Referring to the collective sense of “We” that inspires the mobilization and identity formation of a People, the Latin phrase “Propter Nos” is a bookstore, info shop, or library who would like to sell or house a the title we chose for our first publication. This is because we believe few hard copies, we are more than happy to split the sale on that one of the central tasks of building consciousness amongst consignment. Just hit us up thru the (e)mails. All funds collected colonized, imprisoned, working class, and poor peoples is to build go toward future printing and distribution. spaces where a core set of political principles can be cultivated amidst the contradictions and antagonisms inherent to revolutionary Finally, we are a group that offers free political education movement building. resources to everyone who requests it in good faith. WE DO NOT True Leap Press believes that establishing a clearinghouse for the GIVE LEGAL ADVICE OR SUPPORT. We do not have the formulation of a vision of mass insurgency among differently situated capacity to offer mutual aid in that way. WE ARE ALSO NOT communities of struggle is a necessary (and urgent) task in the present AN ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION. Sharing intellectual resources moment of white nationalist resurgence and patriotic liberal counterrevolution. We therefore obstinately oppose the mythology of is our collective’s primary objective at the moment, and likely in U.S. exceptionalism and white manifest destiny, and do not presume the foreseeable future. that American liberal democracy is an inherent “good.” Instead, we hope PROPTER NOS will serve as a forum for works that invigorate a different sense of common political consciousness, one rooted in the historical experiences of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Queer 2019/2020 Catalogue movements mobilizing against the white capitalist civilization and nation-building project of the United States.

Published works Propter Nos Vol 2. Iss 1 available for free download on our website Prisoner Zine Distro

Propter Nos Vol 1. Iss 1 1. Sylvia Wynter, Slave Revolts as the First Form of Labor Struggle 2. Sylvia Wynter, We Know Where We Come From: Black Culture from Insurgency/Exhaustion (2017) Myall to Marely

3. , Excerpts from Black Skin White Mask Propter Nos Vol 2. Iss 2 4. , Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle 5. 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance 6. Luana Ross, Excerpts from Inventing the Savage: Construction of Native America Criminality 7. Lorenzo & JoNina Ervin, et al. Building a Community-Based Anti-Fascist Reflections on the Movement “Movement Moment” 8. Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2016) Anti-/Non (2018) 9. Angela Davis & Dylan Rodríguez, The Challenge of Abolition