MIM Notes 193 
September 1, 1999

End the Amerikkkan Lockdown month
September 13- October 15

In 1999 MIM is initiating an annual month of protest against the 
Amerikan criminal injustice system that will continue into the new 
millenium. This call for protests against the Amerikan Lockdown is 
joined by the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League and United 
Struggle from Within, an anti-imperialist organization of 
prisoners within the MIM-led United Front.

We chose these dates because of their historical significance. 
September 13th is the day the Amerikan government sent in troops 
and massacred the prisoners (and the guards who were being held 
hostage) who had taken over Attica prison to demand livable 
conditions. October 15th is the anniversary of the founding of the 
Black Panther Party, the revolutionary Maoist vanguard of the 
Black nation in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

Appropriately, encompassed in this month is October 11, the day 
the so-called western hemisphere was invaded by Columbus, 
initiating over 500 years of genocide against indigenous people. 
It is in this tradition of genocide that the u.$. has grown into 
the number one country in the world for imprisonment per capita. 
Imprisoning over 1.8 million people, the u.$. has a higher 
proportion of Black men in prison held by the u.s.-backed 
apartheid regime in South Africa.

Throughout these weeks of protests we will hold educational events 
about the criminal injustice system. We are organizing protests on 
focused demands to change conditions under the Amerikan Lockdown. 
We will be on the streets educating and organizing, offering 
progressives small and large tasks to contribute to the struggle.

The month will be highlighted by two days of action to End the 
Amerikan Lockdown, October 1st and 2nd. Join in these days of 
action.

*If you oppose the injustice of a system that gives Black men a 
better chance at ending up in prison than college...

*If you oppose a system that tortures prisoners while pretending 
to offer rehabilitation...

*If you oppose a system that offers no educational programs to 
prisoners yet censors books being sent in to educate prisoners...

*If you oppose a system that allows legal slavery in prison...

*If you oppose a system that uses its prisons as a tool of social 
control against its internal colonies and all who dare to fight 
against it...

Get involved and fight to End the Amerikkkan Lockdown!

To participate in this month of action to End the Amerikan 
Lockdown contact MIM. We can help you host video showings, 
lectures and round table discussions and provide you with posters 
to expose the criminal injustice system, hook you up with 
literature explaining the use of prisons in the u.s. as a tool of 
social control, and work with you to coordinate protests across 
the country.