It's All One Struggle at Base Archival Work

Conferences and Convergences of the 90s/00s: a working archive

If anyone has any old programs, notes, or docs they would like to share from national anti-prison/abolitionist convergences of the '90s/'00s, please drop a line @Merlin_Buk. Slowly trying to build this collection. You can also simply submit materials by way of email: MBEC@protonmail.com  1998 Jericho '98 March - Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners … Continue reading Conferences and Convergences of the 90s/00s: a working archive

It's All One Struggle at Base Research Notes

Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication

Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication http://prisonfreepress.org/Prison_News_Service.htm Back Issue Catalogue Since the 1970s, the North American prison struggle has produced a tremendous body of theoretical, strategic, and inter-organizational analysis in its historic standoff with the U.S. regime of imprisonment. Yet only a handful of scholars pay concerted attention to texts circulating and events unfolding … Continue reading Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication

It's All One Struggle at Base Interviews

Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex

An Interview with Rachel Herzing The specific timing of this interview is important to highlight, as we’re now about midway through Black August. Could you possibly explain what Black August is, and why it is so important for people to recognize today? Rachel (RH): Black August is a call for reflection, study, and action to … Continue reading Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex

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“It’s All One Struggle At Base”

It's All One Struggle At Base

George Jackson once remarked:

The nature of the function of the prison with the police state has to be continuously explained, elucidated to the people on the street because we can’t fight alone in here. Oh yeah, we can fight, but if we’re isolated, if the state is successful in accomplishing that, the results are usually not constructive in terms of proving our point. We fight and we die, but that’s not the point, although it may be admirable from some sort of purely moral point of view. The point is, however, the fact of what we confront, to fight and win. That’s the real objective: not just to make statements, no matter how noble, but to destroy the system that oppresses us. By any means available to us. And to do this, we must be connected, in contact and communication with those in struggle on the outside. We must…

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It's All One Struggle at Base Archival Work

The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation

reposted from:    The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation A conversation between Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodriguez Angela Y. Davis teaches in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California (215 Oakes College, Santa Cruz, CA 95060), and has been actively involved in prison-related campaigns since the events that led to … Continue reading The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation

It's All One Struggle at Base Research Notes

South Chicago ABC Zine Distro: Interview with Anthony Rayson

South Chicago ABC Zine Distro is an Anarchist Black Cross, member of Anarchist Black Cross Network, providing prisoners with free literature consisting of zines and pamphlets, written by Anthony Rayson (b. 1954) as well as by prisoners and other activists. Zines are offered free of charge to prisoners and are welcome to be copied and distributed freely.    To download the following interview … Continue reading South Chicago ABC Zine Distro: Interview with Anthony Rayson

It's All One Struggle at Base Archival Work, References

From Political Prisoner to Poet: Marilyn Buck

This article is reposted from the Ms. Magazine Blog For close to 30 years, Marilyn Buck was one of many U.S. political prisoners, a population largely ignored in a country that doesn’t tire of criticizing other nations for imprisoning people for political reasons. A Marxist feminist activist who put her actions where her beliefs were, Buck took part … Continue reading From Political Prisoner to Poet: Marilyn Buck

It's All One Struggle at Base Archival Work

N.O.B.O. “Black Prison Movements U.S.A.” Trenton: Africa World Press, 1995

    ~ Ch. 1 "This article was first written at the request of the New Afrikan Peoples Organization (NAPO). Its original title was 'The Rise and Development of the New Afrikan Liberation Struggle Behind the Walls.'" https://t.co/5jeHRrq20d ~ Ch. 9 Dr. Mutulu Shakur, et al. "Genocide Wage Against the Black nation through Behavior Modification/Orchesterated by … Continue reading N.O.B.O. “Black Prison Movements U.S.A.” Trenton: Africa World Press, 1995