End the Amerikkkan Lockdown month: September 13-October 15

In 1999 MIM initiated an annual month of protest against the 
Amerikan criminal injustice system that continues 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 led by MIM.

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 
indigenous nations of North America were invaded by Columbus, 
initiating over 500 years of genocide. It is in this tradition 
that the u.s. has grown into the number one country in the world 
for imprisonment per capita with a higher proportion of Black men 
in prison than they had in the u.s. backed apartheid regime in 
South Africa.

Throughout these weeks of protests we will be holding educational 
events about the criminal injustice system as well as protests 
focusing on ending various aspects of the Amerikan Lockdown within 
the context of building public opinion for Maoist revolution.

The month will be highlighted by a day of action to End the 
Amerikan Lockdown on October 1st. Join in this day of action if 
you oppose the injustice of a system that gives Black men a better 
chance at ending up in prison than college, a system that tortures 
prisoners while pretending to offer rehabilitation, a system that 
offers no educational programs to prisoners yet censors books 
being sent in to educate prisoners, a system that allows legal 
slavery in prison, a system that uses its prisons as a tool of 
social control against its internal colonies and all who dare to 
fight against it.

To get involved in this month of action to End the Amerikan 
Lockdown contact MIM. This month of agitation intensifies the 
daily work of MIM. We welcome your participation during EAL Month 
and throughout the year. We can help you host video showings and 
talks, provide you with posters to put up exposing 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 on October 1.