mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchA Maoist org supporting education and organizing in u.s. prisons.
We have begun a fundraising initiative for our Re-Lease on Life program, to support USW leaders coming out of prison to meet their daily needs and stay politically active during their transition.
See https://www.prisoncensorship.info/fight for how to donate and include a note that it's to fund Re-Lease on Life.
Our postcard campaign to stop Arkansas book ban is ending as the ARDOC indicated they have permanently moved away from the rule.
**HOWEVER** ARDOC is now trying to sneak in an unofficial Approved Vendors List that is stopping free books to prisoners programs like ours from getting lit in. An AR prisoner as drafted up new protest letters and we are asking you to contact various officials with your own emails and letters here: https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/oppose-the-approved-vendor-list-being-used-to-censor-us-in-arkansas-prisons/
After months of letters and calls, ARDOC has already begun returning books sent by MIM Distributors. We’re calling on supporters to use the postcard below to gather more support and spread the word.
* download PDF from our website: https://www.prisoncensorship.info/campaigns/AR/stop-the-ban-of-physical-mail-in-arkansas-prisons/
* print 2-sided on cardstock
* cut into 4
* add $0.56 stamp (or more)
* go to event or public space and ask people to sign their name, city and state
* hand them a flyer or Under Lock & Key
* email us a report on your work and how people respond to it
* ask for a donation to pay for postage & printing
* drop postcards in mail box (don’t mail them all at once we want a consistent stream of cards coming in)
#BooksNotBans #Arkansas #ArkansasDOC #BannedBooks #MIM #PrisonCensorship #prison #Bookstodon
*Under Lock & Key 91* is out in print and online!
ICE Resistance in SF, Feds in DC, Prison Banned Books Week - Vendor Rules, Venezuela, Assata, Charlie Kirk, One Battle After Another, Bad Bunny
Check out our new What's Your Line in the 2020s? page, featuring the final version of our long-promised post-mortem of the RCP-led Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.
https://www.prisoncensorship.info/wyl/
#MIM #Maoism #RevolutionaryInternationalistMovement #SmashRevisionism
Thanks to everyone who helped pack ULKs at last night's Prison Banned Books Week Event! This helps us cut costs and get more newsletters out faster.
Lots of information shared, good conversations had and connections made.
California in censoring "unapproved vendors" for first time in a decade. Newsom fights with Trump online, but in practice is following the play book of the fascist state.
read more: https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/california-prisons-following-the-new-regime/
#PrisonBannedBooksWeek #CDCR #California #MIM #PrisonCensorship
Vendor restrictions in prisons ban small publishers and free books to prisoners programs, while limiting what prisoners can purchase to big corporations and religious organizations.
read more: https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/book-bans-only-crony-vendors-allowed/
#PrisonBannedBooksWeek #MIM #PrisonCensorship #Kansas #CountyJails #Virginia
There are no bilingual law librarians to assist the Spanish-speaking comrades here in Pennsylvania.
This is a big issue. Can you please! Please give the administration a call here in SCI Dallas and bring it to their attention that there is not any Spanish speaking law librarians to help these men with their appeals and fight deportation.
SCI Dallas can be contacted at:
570-675-1101
or contact the PADOC Secretary at:
ra-crpadocsecretary@pa.gov
To request that bilingual prisoners be allowed to assist Spanish-speakers in the law library at SCI-Dallas.
more info: https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/no-legal-help-for-spanish-speakers-in-pennsylvania/
#MIM #Pennsylvania #JailhouseLawyers #Espanol #LegalRights #DeportationHearing
Spanish-language Law Librarians Needed
Letter to the PADOC secretary
TO: ra-crpadocsecretary@pa.gov
I'm writing you on behalf of prisoners at SCI Dallas and across the PADOC system. With a growing number of migrant detentions across the country, it is more important than ever that Spanish-language legal services be made available in prisons. At SCI Dallas a bilingual prisoner was denied the ability to be a law librarian. As a result many prisoners have not been able to effectively use the law library, depriving them of their right to do so.
As an organization that provides educational and legal materials to prisoners we ask that you look into this matter. Specifically we are asking that you ensure there is Spanish-language assistance by someone knowledgeable in the law provided in PADOC law libraries. These people are facing deportation hearings and time is of the essence to get them the legal access that they need.
Sincerely,
To Support: email the Secretary or call SCI-Dallas directly at 570 675 1101
#Pennsylvania #ICEdetention #Spanish #PADOC #MIM #LegalAcces #LawLibraries
Stop the Ban on Physical Mail in Arkansas Prisons!
Write the Arkansas Board of Corrections Today!
See our example letter for ideas on what to say or write: https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/arkansas-doc-reverse-the-ban-on-physical-mail/
For contact info, see previous post below or our website campaign page.
#Arkansas #PrisonCensorship #PrisonTablets #BooksNotBans #MIM #FreeBooksToPrisoners
Phone blast for care for Chican@ Political Prisoner Xinachtli
#PoliticalPrisoners #PhoneBlast #Xinachtli #TDCJ #Texas #Prisons
STOP ARKANSAS BOOK BAN
The AR DOC is attempting to implement the most restrictive ban on physical publications in any state prison under the lie of safety. (see https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/arkansas-attempts-ban-on-all-publications/)
Contact the Director and the Board of Corrections to express the importance of newspapers, magazines and books in prisons; that group punishment for a few incidents is a violation of the UN minimum standard for the treatment of prisoners; and that no staff have been harmed by substances on mail.
Dexter Payne
Director of Division of Correction
(870) 2676200
Dexter.Payne@arkansas.gov
Lindsay Wallace
Secretary of the Dept of Corrections
Corrections.Secretary@doc.arkansas.gov
**Board of Corrections**
P.O. Box 20550
White Hall, AR 71612
(870) 2676754
Dr. Dubs Byers
dubsbyers@protonmail.com
Jamie Barker
Jamie.Barker@doc.arkansas.gov
Nathan Lee
Nathan.Lee@doc.arkansas.gov
Boyce Hamlet
Boyce.Hamlet@doc.arkansas.gov
Grant Hodges
Grant.Hodges@doc.arkansas.gov
Lee Watson
Lee.Watson@doc.arkansas.gov
Pastor Alonza Jiles
Alonza.jiles@doc.arkansas.gov
Tool to automatically message officials: https://win.newmode.net/arkansasjusticereformcoalition/stopprisonbookban
#MIM #PrisonCensorship #Arkansas #BookBans #PrisonBannedBooks
Sorry our clearnet site was down for a day. Remember you can always try our onionsite via Tor: http://almhvxlkr4wwj7ah564vd4rwqk7bfcjiupyf7rs6ppcg5d7bgavbscad.onion/
Partial Reforms to Security Risk Group Policies in NC Following Collective Struggle
#MIM #NorthCarolina #GangValidation #gangs #SecurityRiskGroups
Privatized & Digitized: Prison Mail and the Drug Trafficking Mythology
Wed, October 21 @ 7PM @ Oakstop 1721 Broadway, Oakland
Wed, November 4, @ 7PM @ Abolition Archive 2520 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
#PrisonBannedBooksWeek #BooksNotBans #Prisons #MIM #AntiImperialistPrisonerSupport #Oakland
