This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

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Possible Legal Internships for five college students! This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

Possible Legal Internships for five college students!

There are some legal research and writing projects that can be turned into an internship for next semester. They all deal with prisoners and prisons.

Most deals with doing research for pretty well trained and politically conscious prisoners. Some stuff is on religious discrimination, national oppression, brutality, censorship, due process violations, etc. Many will have the specifics of what needs researching, but they themselves have little to no access to books so need people on the outside to look up and photocopy stuff. Others will have vague issues that need more in depth info.

Other stuff will deal with writing legal information into plain english (a feat in itself!!) so that prisoners and other people can understand it.

Still more work will be doing blanket research on specific topics, maybe not related to one specific prisoner struggle.

If anyone is interested, contact mim@mim.orgfor more information or call (413) 582 3934 or write RAIL PO Box 712 Amherst MA 01004

Below is the article from Mass RAIL No 13 about the Prisoner Legal Clinic:

Serve the People Prisoners' Legal Clinic: call for RAIL participation

At the urging of prisoners and RAIL comrades who do work with MIM, MIM is launching a Serve the People Prisoners' Legal Clinic as part of the new MIM-led anti-imperialist prisoner organization. The Prisoners' Legal Clinic (PLC) is organized around prisoners combining their own legal knowledge and skills to meet their own needs. Prisoners who work as part of the legal clinic will write articles for publication explaining the major legal issues facing political prisoners today, and back those articles up with legal briefs that will be available to all political prisoners who need additional legal firepower to wage their battles against the prisons cyst'm. The PLC is centered around political goals, specifically using the law to facilitate political work of political prisoners in Amerika and educating about prisons through coverage of prisoners' legal concerns. This means that the types of legal questions the prisoners tackle should be those that most directly relate to organizing, like censorship, property, library access and Security Threat Group policies.

RAIL Notes is publishing this announcement to call on all interested people to volunteer their time for the PLC. We need people on the outside to help with typing up articles for comrades under lock & key who do not have typewriters. We need your help editing legal articles into plain English that we can print to educate people on the connections between political imprisonment and the law. You do not have to be a lawyer or know anything about the law to volunteer for this work. Many comrades in prisons have taught themselves law and are now ready to do work with others who do not have the background they do. All you need are fingers ready to type and a single hour of free time and you can be a help to this program.

If you want to contribute your time or money to the Prisoners' Legal Clinic, please get in touch with us at the addresses on page two.

Note: MIM believes that all prisoners in the u.$. criminal INjustice system are political prisoners because the system of imprisonment is political. This is evidenced in the disproportionate weight of prison terms on the oppressed nations, in laws that hold theft of a rich person's property to be a more heinous crime than theft of a poor nation's land, and in the overwhelming presence of physical and mental abuse coupled with the absence of physical or mental enhancement in the so-called Corrections systems.

Because MIM treats all prisoners as political prisoners, this Serve the People program under MIM leadership will specifically address the political problems of prisoners. The goal of this program is to be part of a movement against imperialism and against oppression in prisons. This means that the legal focus will be on clearing enough space for prisoners to organize -- to build independent institutions of the oppressed toward the eventual goal of revolution.

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