Prisoners: Write to Revolution about October 22!
September 23, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Prisoners who read Revolution,
This October 22, the 18th annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and Criminalization of a Generation, comes in the wake of intensified repression, including case after case of Blacks and Latinos, women, gay and transgender people, and others being harassed, assaulted, and murdered by police. It comes in the wake of the revelations by Edward Snowden of the most coordinated and intrusive surveillance of citizens in human history. And it comes as people's outrage is still fresh from the acquittal of the man who murdered Trayvon Martin.
Photo: Li Onesto/Revolution
This year has also seen intensified resistance, from upsurges against local murders by police across the country, to the nationwide protests against Zimmerman's acquittal, to the heroic California prisoners' hunger strike against solitary confinement, which started with 30,000 prisoners striking and was suspended after 60 days. The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation is calling for stoking "these sparks of resistance into a movement that can not only stop but reverse these escalating attacks."
You prisoners have a lot to say about the demonization, criminalization, and repression of generations of youth, the links between all of that on the streets and mass incarceration, about why this happens, about building resistance to it, about how to end it. People outside the walls need to hear what you have to say! PRLF (Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund) has already received requests from people involved in building October 22nd for more letters from you. Please write to the PRLF about October 22nd right away.
Send to: PRLF, 1321 N Milwaukee, #407, Chicago, IL 60622
(Tel: 773.960.6952, Email: contact@PRLF.org)
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