A New Reality: Revolutionary and Scientific

My name is Mwalimu Siri Shakur and growing up in the inner city of Los Angeles, I was taught criminal survival skills that landed me in prison. Once behind the walls, like other unconscious New Afrikans my eyes were opened to a new reality.

There were Elders who had been incarcerated for a long time who had come from the same inner city where criminal activity had happened daily, but had transformed their minds, and taught me about our Afrikan history and the prison struggle, and with this, I also learned about a revolutionary way of life.

This also taught me what I have been suffering from. Someone whose awareness, and conscious to the identification with the conditions and interests of one's specific economic class in relation to the productive system in a capitalist society would call this "colonial psychosis".

Colonial psychosis is the psychological ramifications of the colonial experience which manifest itself in colonial subjects as inferiority complexes, which produces self-hatred, and an identification of the colonial power as the height of socio-political aspiration (whether consciously or unconsciously).

We who come from the inner city are in fact, colonized subjects as we are trapped in ghettos and barrios, which causes us to survive with an inferior mindset. Our economy is usually drug selling, burglary, robbery, or other forms of criminal behavior that will eventually lead us to prison where we learn this new reality.

This new reality is a revolutionary transformation of one's social, cultural, economic, political and ideological one way one relates to others. You learn how to eradicate backwards, unprogressive or incompatible ideas or activities, while providing what's correct or what works. You learn how to eliminate all that you were taught in a capitalist society that exploited you and labeled you underclass subjects.

Once awakened, the ideological expression of global revolutionary scientific socialism in service to the oppressed underclass can begin, but the first stage is to educate the masses to what their true purpose is. We New Afrikans call this revolutionary internationalism, which is the ideological vanguard of global liberation and source of theoretical development in coordinating disparate national revolutions.

The immediate aim of revolutionary internationalism is the transformation of underclass and nationally oppressed people into powerful liberation movements focused on the overthrow of colonialism, imperialism, and neo-colonialism, with the ultimate end being the seizure of world [REDACTED BY THE STATE] power by the globally oppressed underclass of all racial groups. This transformation is scientific and the result of studying and applying theory to practice.

This application existed in Afrika with our ancestors long before they reached these shores, and we conscious New Afrikans will continue to educate until we transform these prison slave kamps, and turn them into schools of liberation. It is our service to the people.

In struggle,

Mwalimu Siri Shakur
One Love, One Movement

For dialogue and discussion
Mwalimu S. Shakur
slave name Terrance E White
#AG8738
CSP Corcoran SHU 4A-4L-24
PO Box 3476
Corcoran, CA 93212

FUCKWEASELS RYAN APPLEGATE, RYAN DOLAN, AND ANTONIO LEE CONTINUE TO TERRORIZE ANARCHIST PRISONER SEAN SWAIN'S MAIL

by Sean Swain 

It just never ends.
On February 16, Mailroom fart-goblin Ryan Applegate-- whose personal war against all anarchist literature made him globally famous --sent me another notice of withholding. This notice indicated that what was being withheld is a CD.
The notice does not indicate who sent the CD, or where it came from, or what is on it, or why it was sent. It also does not indicate any criteria for withholding which is required on the form.
The notice was signed by Ryan Applegate, the same guy who has made it his full-time job to fuck with my mail.
As of the writing of that notice, 60% of the withheld mail at WCI, from 31 October to the present, belongs to me. In a prison of 1500 captives, 60% of withheld mail belongs to one of them... ever since the prison found out I got 'Last Act of the Circus Animals' published.
Vengeance of small-minded, shitty people who cannot read a book, let alone write one.
Having received the notice, I sent kites to Fart-Goblin Applegate in an effort to find out some information about the CD. It is not possible for me to decide what to do-- either send it out or challenge the withholding --unless I know what the CD is and where it came from. So, I sent kites to the fart goblin to find out.
No answer.
Keep in mind, there is a 15-day limit before the CD gets tossed in the trash. It says so right on the form.
As the 15-day deadline got closer and I received no answers from the fart goblins in the mailroom, I sent the form in a kite to Institutional Inspector Cynthia "Notorious" Hill. As the prisoners' chief advocate, she is supposed to be able to get me answers.
She sent the form back without any answers at all, simply stating that ODRC Central Office ordered the withholding of the CD.
That still does not tell me anything. I still have no idea what is on the CD. For all I know, it was sent by prior counsel and my whole case file is on there. Or, it was sent from the parole board in answer to my public records request, and it has the photos of my apartment door and door frame that police had withheld-- photos that prove there was a break-in and that I acted in self defense.
Could be the greatest hits of the Go-Gos.
No way for me to know. All I know is that the ODRC's obsession with my mail continues for the sixth straight year and their absolute lack of regard for their own laws and rules also continues.
 
As best as I can tell, these are the fascist fuckweasels and fart-goblins* responsible for trying to fuck my life right now:

ODRC Chief Inspector Antonio Lee (614) 752-1677
ODRC Counsel Ryan Dolan (614) 752-1765
Mailroom Fart Goblin Ryan Applegate (513) 932-3388,extension 84252

When contacting these assholes, there is no commentary too rude, too inflammatory, or too incendiary for you to express. The aim is to provide the necessary level of discomfort that will make them stop their current, illegal terror campaign so feel free to say whatever it is you think will achieve that level of discomfort for them. The more overwhelming the response, the better my chances of getting these petty idiots to stop fucking with me. For anyone interested, more information on one or all of these fine specimens may also be located at blastblog.noblogs.org.

*Note: For clarification, "fuckweasels" are distinguished from "fart goblins" in that fuckweasels are generally in charge and give the orders, while fart-goblins take the orders and blindly, stupidly carry them out, no matter how mind-numbingly reprehensible. In this instance, both Ryan Dolan and Antonio Lee are fuckweasels, while Ryan Applegate is a mere fart-goblin.

* * *
It looks like Sean's JPay has been suspended in retaliation for sending out this communique.

Please write Sean!

Sean Swain 

A243205

Warren Correctional Institution

5787 Ohio 63, Lebanon, OH 45036

Comrade Malik Speaks: Come out to Support California Prison Focus in Oakland, CA on MARCH 23!!!

Comrade Malik Speaks:  Come Out to Support California Prison Focus at their Community Block Party in Oakland, CA on MARCH 23rd, 2018!!!

Peace and Blessings Sisters and Brothers!!! I have some wonderful news to share with you and I hope you are listening.  The Movement which seeks to End Prison Slavery and Amend the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is growing exponentially.  One of the reasons for that growth is the work and dedication of a "New Generation" of Activists calling themselves the New Abolition Movement.  Nube Brown is one of those "New Abolitionists" and for the past year she has been volunteering with California Prison Focus.  California Prison Focus is a grass-roots organizations working to END SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND OTHER FORMS OF TORTURE AND ABUSE IN CALIFORNIA PRISONS.

On MARCH 23, 2018 California Prison Focus will hold a BLOCK PARTY in front of their office in Oakland, CA.  This event is co-organized and sponsored AMEND THE 13th which is a dynamic and innovative organization led by a California Prisoner named Heshima Denham. As a Prison Abolitionist I can't tell you how very important it is to come out and support CPF and to learn more about the work of Amend the 13th.  Without a doubt, it is: communities of color which only sense that we begging to actively support the individuals and groups who continue to fight on behalf of our Loved Ones trapped inside these modern day Slave Kamps and Gulags operated by the Californial Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).  There is definitely a sharp increase in the participation of women of color in this Abolitionist Movement.  Nube Brown is one of the "rising starts' Of this Movement as well as Krystal Roundtree of IAMWE and Kilaika Shakur of George Jackson University.

I recently heard from our sister in struggle Nube Brown and here is what she had to say about the up-coming Block Party in Oakland: "We are organizing a Community Summit/Street Fair in Oakland on the 23 of March.  We are trying to form a United Front of organizations and community members who are committed to ALL aspects of self determination, self rule, and advocacy and most importantly community cooperation."  Sisters and Brothers I strongly encourage you to come on imperative the WE as a People support those who support us and tell them Comrade Malik sent you!! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN TEXAS PRISON FILES FEDERAL LAWSUIT CITING RETALIATION AND RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION!- Written by: Keith "Malik" Washington

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN TEXAS PRISON FILES FEDERAL LAWSUIT CITING RETALIATION AND RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION!

MEDIA RELEASE

Keith ‘Malik’ Washington is a Human Rights Activist, Environmentalist, Jailhouse Lawyer, and Freedom Fighter currently incarcerated in Texas. (Eastham Unit Ad-Seg located in Lovelady, Texas)
In 2015, Malik was housed at the Pack I Unit, a prison located in Navasota, Texas and the center of a current legal battle which seeks to force the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air conditioning at the facility.

While housed at Pack I in June thru September 2015, Mr. Washington (known to his friends as ‘Malik’) discovered the presence of high levels of ARSENIC in the water supply. Malik, who has become an accomplished journalist, began to expose the toxic water.

Malik also witnessed the mistreatment and abuse of elderly and infirm prisoners who were housed at Pack I. The abusers being TDCJ employees. Malik who is also an orthodox sunni muslim witnessed and was personally subjected to horrible acts of religious discrimination.

With the help of a dedicated network of Free-World Activists, Scholars, and Media Correspondents Malik was able to File Grievances while his supporters filed Formal Public Complaints with the TDCJ Ombudsman Office. (All of these actions are well documented.)
    In a blatant act of retaliation for engaging in what the US Supreme Court has described as ‘Protected Conduct’, Malik was Transferred to a Maximum Security Prison with a Gang Problem. The Unit also has the distinction of being the largest prison in the Texas System. It is the HH Coffield Unit located in Tennessee Colony, Texas.

Upon his arrival on the unit in September 2015 Malik was informed by leading members of the Prison Muslim Community at Coffield that TDCJ Employee Chaplain Akbar Shabazz had phone the unit and ORDERED THEM not to allow Malik to speak at any Muslim Services and that Malik was not to be allowed to hold any position in the Muslim Community. It is noteworthy to mention that Malik has been the Muezzin on many Units. The Muezzin is the person who makes the Call to Prayer or Adhan before Salat (prayer). Not only did this TDCJ employee infringe upon Malik’s Religious Practice, he went further by telling the Muslim Inmate Leaders that Malik was an Islamic Extremist and a ‘Troublemaker’ who should be watched very closely. In essence this slanderous activity placed Malik in harm's way.

This was only the beginning of a long history of reprisals against Malik for exercising his Free Speech Rights or attempting to Access the Courts or teach others to do so.

Many Prison Abolitionists know that on September 8th 2016, one day before the largest Prison Work Strike in history, Malik was placed in solitary confinement and charged with a Riot that never materialized. Malik still languises in Ad-Seg locked in a small cage 23 to 24 hours a day!

Recently in the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division: Malik has filed a Civil complaint (Lawsuit) against TDCJ - CID Director Lorie Davis as well as a long list of TDCJ employees which includes Chaplain Akbar Shabazz. In the Lawsuit Malik alleges that TDCJ employees engaged in an elaborate conspiracy to violate his Civil Rights, infringe upon his Religious Practice and Retaliate against him for filing grievances and Federal Lawsuits. The lawsuit also addresses the Toxic Water issues at Eastham:

(https://nationinside.org/campaign/prison-ecology/posts/complaints-launched-over-toxic-conditions-at-texas-eastham-unit-prison-2/)

The Cause# 6:17-cv-00401-RC-KNM. (Eastern District of Texas)

The Case is being supervised by Chief US District Judge Ron Clark and has been assigned to US Magistrate Judge K. Nicole Mitchell. Judge Mitchell will be handling all hearings of Pre-Trial matters and she will be submitting all recommendations for the disposition of Malik’s petition to US District Judge Clark.

At this time, Malik and his Support Network is sending out a plea for Legal Representation. We would like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Center for Constitutional Rights, as well as the Texas Civil Rights Project to review Malik’s allegations against TDCJ as we have seen a pattern of practice in which TDCJ conspires to retaliate against all prisoners who engage in ‘protected conduct’ and attempt to Access the Courts.

Malik is a Jailhouse Lawyer who is well versed in Constitutional Law, but he is no match for the State of Texas Attorney General Office which has employed unscrupulous tactics in the past in order to sabotage Malik’s litigation efforts.

We are reaching out to Civil Rights Lawyers everywhere who will be willing to come to Texas and aid our brother in Struggle.

Keith 'Malik' Washington is a humyn rights activist currently incarcerated in Texas. He is a co-founder and chief spokespersyn for the End Prison Slavery in Texas Movement. Malik is a proud member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and he is the Deputy Chairman of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter). Malik has been instrumental in calling for the abolition of legalized slavery in Amerika and is very active in the Fight Toxic Prisons campaign. You can view his work at comrademalik.com or write him directly at:

Keith 'Comrade Malik' Washington

TDC #1487958

Eastham Unit

2665 Prison Rd. #1

Lovelady, Texas 75851

Message from Greg Curry! (3/20/18)

Dear Comrades, Supporters, Warriors Against Injustice,

In April of 2018 it will be 25 years ago that in Lucasville, Ohio, a deadly and prolonged prison riot broke out, killing 10, and in the aftermath, during unjust court cases, falsely accused, punished by using snitch testimony against them, 5 men were wrongfully given the death penalty, and 4 others received life sentences, and others also long sentences. 

I support the quest for justice by all those involved, in particular Greg Curry, who received a life sentence. 

Greg and others have been locked up - for 20 years in the Supermax Prison now, a total of 25 years since they were accused of being in the Prison Riot at Lucasville, (which started on April 11th 1993).

The prison disturbance lasted for 11 days and cost 10 men their lives. 

The men who were indicted after the disturbance, even though they had not murdered anyone, who are in the Ohio State Penitentiary (or supermax) have recently won the Right to do Interviews in person, so that the harsh conditions and at times brutal treatment they have had to undergo before the riot and ever since, while not being allowed to speak with journalists, can now be exposed, and this includes speaking about what lead to such an infamous & deadly Prison Riot.

Those still at the Ohio State Penitentiary are:

- Greg Curry (#213-159)
- Siddique Hasan (Carlos Sanders #130-559)
- Keith Lamar (Bomani Shakur) (#317-117)
- Jason Robb (#308-919)

You can reach any of them by sending them a Jpay (via Jpay.com) or write a letter to one of them (or all).

Address:

[prisoner’s name and #]
OSP
878 Coitsville-Hubbard Road,
Youngstown, OH 44505

An interview conducted five years ago at the 20th commemoration can be read here:

http://sfbayview.com/2013/04/greg-curry-on-lucasville-uprising-and-20th-anniversary-hunger-strike-demanding-media-access/

Kunta Kenyatta interviews Greg Curry: https://gregcurry.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/injustice-continues-23-years-after-the-lucasville-prison-uprising-april-11-22nd-1993-interview-with-greg-curry-about-the-aftermath/

Here a win by the ACLU of Ohio on behalf of prisoners at the OH State Penitentiary in Youngstown about the harsh conditions of solitary confinement (2002):

https://www.aclu.org/news/federal-judge-says-ohio-supermax-prison-violates-constitutional-rights

Soon a Fundraiser will be organized to help Greg Curry with his legal funds, so that he too can one day have his case heard in court!

Thank you for any interest.

On behalf of Greg Curry and others,

Annabelle Parker

Gregcurry.org - Our Fight 4 Justice (four men who received life sentences wrongfully after the riot)

freegregcurry@gmail.com

Facebook: Facebook.com/freegregcurry

RELIVING THE PAST: A HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE OF MODERN DAY SLAVE LABOR IN THE LONE STAR STATE

By Jason Renard Walker, Deputy Minister of Labor – NABPP-PC

MODERN DAY SLAVE LABOR IN A VACUUM

            Since the birth of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC), now called the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), Texas has used a not so subtle tool of profit and anti-social control to exploit its captives via unpaid forced labor. This method, both grassroots scholars and many average laymen agree on, is akin to a benign form of slavery – thus to say modern day slave labor.

            In fact Texas’ first form of prison management was on former slave plantations. Some of these prisons are still up and running, like the Huntsville Unit which opened its doors in the mid 19^th century.

            If it wasn’t for the induction of the 13^th amendment which legalized slavery (as long as one was convicted of a crime and sent to prison) It would have been a hard bargain for prisons to profit off of the prisoners.

            This is because any unfair or below minimum wage pay could be challenged in civil courts simply enough. Prisoners could refuse to work in droves, which would send an economical blow to the prison industrial complex (PIC). This dilemma also made in prison labor unions, workstrikes , and organizing to achieve these ends a violation of prisons rules and a frivolous claim in state and federal civil court.

            Texas revolutionized and dominated the art of exploitation and for profit prison management to such an extent that it became the pre and post Cold War poster child for self sufficiency and get rich for cheap schemes. Other state prisons began modeling their system off of this newly discovered scam. Texas was also the first state to operate a private prison.

            In short it is here in Texas where it was first realized that (despite the methods and work conditions that killed prisoners) it is more fruitful to run a state prison system strictly through the means of being self reliant and at the cost of forced unpaid labor. This in fact occurred after a 1902 investigation revealed that prisoners were being rented out to farmers in exchange for currency. Farmers gave kickbacks if allowed to work the men harder (convict leasing).

            In Don Umphrey’s The Meanest Man in Texas, he laid out a very good description on how rough Texas prisoners had it before and after the conclusion of the 1902 investigation: “Twice in the twentieth century there had been investigations into the TDC that had focused on cruelty and inhumane conditions under which prisoners were forced to work. Prisoners had substituted on skimpy diets; many had been beaten or worked to death. The cause of death for those who died at the hand of an overzealous guard was usually listed as natural cause.”

            As I noted in an earlier exposé on forced labor in Texas, every function of the prison is run by or operated via prison labor – that is everything short of running the cellblocks.

            But even this type of guard work was done by prisoners at one point. An example is noted in the ruling of Ruiz v Estelle that was filed by David Ruiz in 1972. His plan was to expose the grim nature of guard on prison and (guard provoked) prisoner-on-prisoner violence.

            There was an act of state wide corruption by prison guards and their promoting the use of “inmate politicians” and “building tenders” to run the prisoner and control the prisoners in an unbounded fashion. Besides terrorizing the prisoners they were the ones who opened and closed the cell doors and other doors prisoners had to pass through.

            The favorable results from the Ruiz ruling weren’t permanent and eventually forgotten about by the court system. But it did cause a shallow overhaul of how the prison was run, a benign change of policies and most notably a reform of the disciplinary procedures and process; which prevented the accusing office from being on the jury panel and punishment board, which ultimately always resulted in the prisoner being found guilty of an offense. And given maximum punishment.

            While most of the prisons aren’t as violet as they were pre 90s, the work expectations and the work conditions are pretty much the same. This is just a fraction of the topic of slave labor.

CAPT FISHER AND HER PIG PROXY ON THE HIGH HORSE

            Besides field labor, kitchen work is another daunting task that requires maximum strength and effort. Not surprising I was thrown in the kitchen with the task of working the pot room.

            This particular prison is among the top five biggest in the state. With that comes a big kitchen. And big responsibilities.

            As I stepped through the entrance door the first thing I noticed was a pickett like office in the center of the kitchen. It stood close to six feet off the ground, so that those inside stood above and looked down on the laborers. Often laughing and pointing at mistake prone workers.

            With Hitler-like tyranny, Capt Fisher and her all so faithful pig proxy stood in the window glaring at the workers. I took this as her attempt to insure nothing was stolen or eaten. And the proxies attempt to exercise his privilege; while eating a plate full of bbs ribs, scallop potatoes and what looked like a marinara sauce.

            After about a ten minute wait the proxy stepped out and handed me, what seemed to be, safety training forms. “Sign your initials in the highlighted areas” he said then went back inside with Fisher, who’d grabbed a plate of ribs for herself.

            I noticed the forms stated that by signing my initials I agreed that I was properly trained. Due to any injury I suffer while at work being a disciplinary case, for unsafe work habits, I made the ultimate mistake of entering the pickett, to ask for training.

            “Hey you get out of here, can’t you read” I was told. The door was slammed shut in my face and the food service manager, Mr. Briscoe, pointed to a sign taped on the door which stated that any problem we have we need to speak to one of the floor officers first before we try to contact the Captain. This is so that she’s not disturbed while gossiping, etc.

            After Fisher left I was allowed to go in the pickett to ask my question. “Oh man you gone make me train you” Briscoe said who looked like he been in the kitchen 300 lb too long. To satisfy his laziness I signed my initials and was sent back to the pod.

THE WORK OF THREE MEN

            My first week of work told the tale about how the pot room has been operating for quite some time – overworking prisoners. Once prisoner said they’d been complaining about this for months. Others quit when it was exposed that the lack of help was deliberate.

            For this particular position we are suppose to have a total of eleven workers, but instead there is usually three or four of us. This results in each one of us doing the work of three men. This is a problem that Fisher and her ilk are aware of but like she stated “I know we working the shit out of yall but you’ll get used to it.” I note that our assigned work hours are from 4am to 12pm.

            The food is served out of cafeteria style inserts which we have to load on a cart from the four chow halls. We dump out the excess food; wash them and their lids; then put them on the racks to be re-used, large pots and cornbread pans are also picked up.

            Due to the large number of prisoners, the pans are always backed up while we’re constantly working to keep up.

            No food break for us. The only opportunity we have to eat is whenever an insert comes through that still has scraps left in it. We are actually expected to pick out of the pans as we collect them and have routinely done so just to eat.

            Just imagine hands of filth digging in and eating out of an insert full of bare pig bones in search of some that still may have a little meat on them. That’s us! It’s inhumane but seen as normal. Others from different stations will even stop by, insert chasing.

            Just today, March 7^th 2018, for one reason or another the cart used to pick up the inserts was gone. I believe this was a cynical act by someone since it was cabbage day and I was the one picking up the inserts.

            This caused the work to be extremely difficult as I had to hand carry the inserts to the pot room. Those that contained cabbage were filled with its juice, making them heavy. None of the food service officers had any interest in locating another cart. I was told to “man-up”.

AN UNSANITARY WORK PLACE

            The food that is cooked in the kitchen is not only served to the prisoners. There is an officer dining room (ODR) were officers, nurses, commissary staff, mailroom staff, and other civilians stop by to eat during their break.

            Given that the pot room is lacking in manpower, kitchen officers don’t expect us to actually clean the pans according to policy. Their interest isn’t in exercising sanitary cleaning habits, but merely making everything look as if it’s clean. “Just rinse it off” I was told by the sanitary officer when I pointed out spoiled raw chicken stuck.

            Greasy pans: those with week old chunks of raw chicken stuck to them; roach feces and a lot more that I won’t name are used to reissue food. Since the ODR has eloquently made food out of pork and chicken, I’m surprised none of them have contracted a food borne illness. Cross contamination between raw and cooked meat is common.

            I’ve often had to run off large cockroaches, measuring well over an inch long, away from the pans. I’ve even had to scrape their feces off of the pans. Many pans I simply didn’t have the time to get to.

            These pests are colonized throughout the kitchen and are obviously domesticated and used to human contact. They just stroll along and pay us no mind. As staff pay them no mind.

            Upon someone opening a box containing cans of greens, I saw well over twenty roaches run and hide. I’ve seen many find their way into the inserts that were being sent out. If you’ve ever had a bug in your food this is how they get there.

            I must also remind you that this prison has a hospice wing. One which is for terminally ill prisoners e.g. those with advanced Hep C, AIDS, etc., so these unsanitary feeding habits may have an effect on those with low immune systems.

            I believe there should be a surprise investigation by the health department because Fisher is promoting food service habits that can get prisoners as well as staff sick or possibly killed. Their effort to consolidate prison work is the root to all this.

           

Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win! All Power to the People

Jason Renard Walker #1532092

Michael Unit

2664 FM 2054

Tennessee Colony, TX 75886

THE BATTLE HAS BEGUN by SEAN SWAIN

THE BATTLE HAS BEGUN: WAR OVER MILLIONS IN BLOC GRANT FUNDS THAT KEEP THE PRISON TORTURE COMPLEX OPERATING ARE AT STAKE AS ARMY OF THE 12 MONKEYS SEEKS COURT ORDER IN ACTION FILED AGAINST LAWLESS AND OPPRESSIVE PRISON FUCKWEASELS... AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT THE ARMY OF THE 12 MONKEYS!

Monkeys versus fuckweasels in a knock-down, drag-out death-match to beat all death-matches...
The Ohio Department of Retribution and Corruption, in a legal battle with the Army of the 12 Monkeys that it must win at all costs, faces the potential loss of its plantation empire. At stake, inevitably, is the multi-million-dollar federal bloc grant fund that the ODRC uses to keep its prisons open: If the ODRC loses this first battle to the Army of the 12 Monkeys, which is now occurring in Warren County court, this loss opens the door to the Army of the 12 Monkeys challenging the ODRC's collection of bloc grant funds, the use of the Army of the 12 Monkeys' trade name to collect those funds, and the ODRC's "gang" designation of the Army of the 12 Monkeys.
The current action is THE ARMY OF THE 12 MONKEYS VS. WARREN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, Warren County Case No. 17-CV-090529, which is before Judge Tepe. In this action, the Army of the 12 Monkeys is challenging the ODRC's interception of mail to the Authorized Agent of the Army of the 12 Monkeys. Despite the Army of the 12 Monkeys' official registration with the state as an unincorporated association, the ODRC insists that the Army of the 12 Monkeys is a "gang" and that it does not legally exist.
The ODRC has desperately gone to great lengths to even intercept mail from other state agencies that correspond to the Army of the 12 Monkeys' Authorized Agent. It must deny legal existence to the 12 Monkeys and prevent the 12 Monkeys from pursuing further legal action or else the ODRC faces the very real prospect that every group it labels a "gang" will register just like the 12 Monkeys did, and the ODRC will be forced to purge those groups from its "gang" database. Because those "gangs" generate millions of dollars in federal bloc grant funding, and because those millions are used to keep the prisons operating, the current battle that the ODRC wages against the 12 Monkeys' legal existence is really a battle for its own survival.
The importance of this legal battle for anyone who wants to see the prison complex economically implode cannot be overstated.
If, in the currently-pending case, the state court determines that the Army of the 12 Monkeys legally exists and that it has statutory rights under Ohio law as an unincorporated association-- as it should --then the Army of the 12 Monkeys has a right to the mail that the ODRC has intercepted... and, further, the ODRC cannot continue to pretend that the Army of the 12 Monkeys does not legally exist.
So, at stake in this legal battle is whether the Army of the 12 Monkeys legally exists... and if it does legally exist, the existence of the Ohio prison torture complex itself might soon be coming to an abrupt and under-funded halt.
The prison torture complex is so scared of what has developed here that it has even stolen the Warren County court's mail to the Army of the 12 Monkeys. That is, after the 12 Monkeys filed suit against the prison, the prison intercepted all mail from the court to the 12 Monkeys in an effort to obstruct the lawsuit. That means prison fuckweasels are not just silencing the Army of the 12 Monkeys; they are effectively silencing the courts.
In order to avoid the courts ruling against them and forcing them to recognize the legal existence of the Army of the 12 Monkeys, prison fuckweasels have set up a "judicial blockade," preventing court mail from reaching the Army of the 12 Monkeys. As the prisons operate under the executive branch-- under the governor --and as the courts are part of the judicial branch, what the prison fuckweasels are now doing is creating a kind of "constitutional crisis," a violation of the "Separation of Powers," a situation where one branch of government is shutting down the other and preventing it from operating.
All that to preserve the prison torture complex's power to crush the Army of the 12 Monkeys.
Assistant Attorney General George Horvath is defending these fuckweasels and attempting to save the prison torture complex from eventual, multi-million dollar losses. Horvath has done nothing to stop his fascist client while it maintains an illegal "judicial blockade" against the Army of the 12 Monkeys in this case. The judicial blockade benefits Horvath, who can "phone in" a win as long as the 12 Monkeys cannot receive mail from the court and fight the case. Horvath works at 150 East Gay Street on the 16th Floor, where he loves to receive lots of fastfood deliveries ordered by others or have his picture taken with fuckweasel mascots (with giant, exaggerated genitalia) delivering flowers or candy to him. His office phone is (614) 644-7233 and he loves it when you talk as long as possible to prevent him from getting work done. His fax is (866) 578-9963, and he prefers faxes on black paper written in white-out so it burns up his toner cartridges. You can email Horvath at George.Horvath@OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov and fill up his in-box with thousands of irrelevant messages. He loves that.
Let him know what you think about the way he defends the torture complex and its criminal conspiracies to crush the Army of the 12 Monkeys in Warren County Case No. 17 CV 090529, and explain why you think he ought to make his prison fuckweasel clients leave the Army of the 12 Monkeys alone. Call him, fax him, email him, send him flowers and gifts and fast food delivered by strippers and mascots and small-scale flash-mobs.
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Say NO NEW WOMEN's JAIL to Travis County

Please join our friends at Grassroots Leadership and the #DecarcerateATX Coalition in standing against the building of a new Travis County Jail for women. If they build it, they will come - if the jail gets built, greater arrests will follow. We should be investing this money in caring for our community, not arresting them.

You can start by signing the PETITION.

Then, call these key decision makers who can make the difference on the vote:

• Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt (512) 854-9555

Find out who your County Commissioner is HERE:

• Precinct 1 - Jeff Travillion (512) 854-9111
• Precinct 2 - Brigid Shea (512) 854-9222 
• Precinct 3 - Gerald Daugherty  (512) 854-9333 
• Precinct 4 - Margaret Gomez (512) 854-9444 

Join us on Sunday to paint a banner and signs. We’ll make resistance look good.