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Political Prisoners: Still in the Struggle<br>
We are proud to be celebrating our TENTH ANNIVERSARY with 42
gorgeous<br>
colour pages featuring:<br><br>
ART<br>
• Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez<br>
• Leonard Peltier<br>
• Melanie Cervantes<br>
• Dave Ron<br>
• Malaquias Montoya<br>
• Favianna Rodriguez<br>
• Molly Fair<br>
• Herman Wallace<br>
• Kevin "Rashid"
Johnson<br>
• Kara Sievewright<br>
• Santiago Armengod<br>
• Jacobo Silva Nogales<br><br>
WORDS<br>
• Released From Prison, Still
Fighting For Freedom (by Ray Luc Levasseur)<br>
• Medical Treatment and Neglect in
Prison (by Sundiata Acoli)<br>
• Solidarity with Palestine (by David
Gilbert)<br>
• The Struggle Is Everywhere: Women
Prisoners Continue to Organize<br>
Despite Isolation (by Safiya Bukhari)<br>
• From Noose to Needle (by Mumia
Abu-Jamal)<br>
• Communicate to Educate, Educate to
Liberate (by Jaan Laaman)<br>
• The House that |Herman Built: The
Power of Collaboration (by Herman<br>
Wallace and Jackie Sumell)<br>
• Learning From Our Elders: Analyzing
History to Understand the<br>
Present (by Akili Castlin)<br>
• Terror, Prisons and the Time to
Rebuild (by Matt Meyer)<br>
• "Little Guantanamo":
Exposing the CMU (by Daniel McGowan)<br>
• Prisons, Social Control and
Political Prisoners (by Marilyn Buck)<br>
• The Politics of Imprisonment (by
Alvaro Luna Hernandez)<br><br>
Funds raised from the sale of this calendar will be divided between<br>
the New York State Task Force on Political Prisoners, the
Palestinian<br>
NGO Addameer, and the G20 Legal Defense Fund.<br><br>
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In the decade since this calendar was first published, a lot has<br>
changed, and yet so much has stayed the same. At the project’s<br>
inception, the organizers who became the calendar collective were<br>
building relationships with political prisoners Herman Bell, David<br>
Gilbert and Seth Hayes — corresponding, visiting, forming
friendships<br>
and exchanging political ideas. To us, the interconnections were<br>
obvious: political prisoners come out of our movements —
anti-racist,<br>
anti-imperial and anti-war struggles, queer and women’s liberation,<br>
and ecological justice to name a few — and as such we owe them our<br>
solidarity. Besides, many political prisoners continue to organize,<br>
both inside and beyond the prison walls. New organizers have so much<br>
to learn, both from the successes of earlier liberation movements
and<br>
from their errors. And yet, political prisoners were largely
isolated<br>
from the then-emerging movement against globalized capitalism. When<br>
Herman proposed that we produce a calendar, it seemed like the
perfect<br>
way to make our political prisoners more visible, on a daily
basis.<br><br>
In the early years of the calendar, the events of September 11, 2001<br>
transformed the political landscape in ways we were still coming to<br>
understand: new imperialist wars had begun, and here at home the
state<br>
was using the post-9/11 climate as a carte-blanche to step up<br>
repression and retract hard won social gains. As we go to print, in<br>
July 2010, the dust is still settling from the largest mass arrest
in<br>
Canadian history. Over 1000 people were detained or arrested in<br>
connections with the protests against the G20 meeting in Toronto.
Some<br>
are facing charges that potentially carry serious prison time. In<br>
certain cases the charges are based on information gathered by<br>
infiltrators at the very core of their organizations. Now more than<br>
ever, we need the insights of political prisoners to be part of our<br>
organizing.<br><br>
So this year, for the calendar’s tenth issue, we’re going “back to<br>
basics,” putting the focus on the theme of political prisoners:
their<br>
voices and perspectives, their contributions, the particular issues<br>
they face inside prison. Political prisoners are still in the<br>
struggle: as organizers, as mentors, and as comrades in need of our<br>
solidarity to win their freedom.<br><br>
- The Certain Days collective<br><br>
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