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Military Prison Project<br><br>
WHAT IS IT?<br><br>
This project will be a combination of research, analysis and personal
accounts of life inside the military prison. It will result in a pamphlet
or zine of some sort that will be available for distribution in Winter
2005.<br><br>
There is research, activism, and organizing around the Prison Industrial
Complex (PIC), and also the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) in
terms of recruitment, corporate interests, and racism and sexual violence
within the military and in its praxis around the world. However, very
little research, activism and organizing exists to expose the prison
system within the military. Since the Abu-Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal
came to public attention in the summer of 2004, international attention
has been brought to the treatment of people held as prisoners of war by
the US, but there was no analysis of the US military justice system as a
whole, and how it imprisons those within it! s own ranks. This project
will help to fill that void by looking at the following issues:<br><br>
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1. Who is in military prison?<br><br>
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2. What offenses are people serving for, and what are their
sentences?<br><br>
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3. What is the racial breakdown, and sentence disparities among race,
class and gender?<br><br>
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4. What are the conditions of confinement and treatment of folks in
military prisons?<br><br>
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5. How does the military justice system reproduce ideologies about
certain communities being criminal, pathological and violent that are
common in the "civilian" world?<br><br>
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6. Does the military justice system and how it works change the situation
of young, poor black women and men who enter the military as a means of
escaping poverty, gaining status as a "respectable citizen" and
to evade their likelihood of being incarcerated in the PIC, or does it
replicate this situation within the military?<br><br>
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This publication will assist family members of military prisoners, former
military prisoners, activists, organizers, and educators who are doing
work around prison issues, military recruitment, and racial, sexual and
economic justice.<br><br>
INTERESTED IN SUBMITTING TO OR WORKING ON THIS PROJECT?<br><br>
Are you a veteran who has served time in a military prison and has a
story to tell (you may remain ANONYMOUS)? Are you a family member or
friend of someone who was or is currently in a military prison? Are
you a concerned activist interested in doing research and analysis? Do
you have access to some resources we should know about in pursuing this
endeavor? Email:militaryprisonproject@yahoo.com<br><br>
***BEHIND THE PROJECT***<br><br>
ABOUT THE EDITOR: Kenyon Farrow is a 30 year old Black Gay man, writing
and organizing in Brooklyn, NY. He recently served as the Southern
Regional Coordinator for Critical Resistance, a prison abolition
organization, and continues to work in the New York City chapter. He has
also served as an adult ally for FIERCE!, a queer youth of color
community organizing project in New York City. Kenyon has written several
articles and essays, the most widely circulated of which have been
"Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black?", and "Connecting the Dots:
Michael Moore, White Nationalism and the Multi-racial Left" with
writer Kil Ja Kim. Kenyon has also appeared on radio, given many public
lect! ures and served on many panels dealing with race and prison issues,
and race and queer issues as well, including at Temple University,
University of Wisconsin/Madison, and The University of New Orleans. He is
currently co-editing his first book project entitled "Letters from
Young Activists" with Dan Berger and Chesa Boudin, due out in Fall
2005 with Nation Books.<br><br>
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OTHER GROUPS BEHIND THE PROJECT: This project is sponsored by the Central
Committee for Conscientious Objectors
(<a href="http://www.objector.org/" eudora="autourl">www.objector.org</a>)
and the National Youth and Militarism Program of the AFSC
(<a href="http://www.afsc.org/youthmil/Default.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.afsc.org/youthmil/Default.htm</a>)
as part of a multimedia project entitled "Everywhere is War,
Everywhere is Resistance."<br>
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