MIM NOTES No. 201            January 1, 2000

What prisoners can do in January 2000

Watch for updates to the list of tasks prisoners can work with MIM 
on to build Maoism and the "Under Lock & Key 2000" campaign

1) Write essays, speeches and poems related to the Maoist 
philosophy of service to the people. What basic needs of prisoners 
are ignored by the imperialist system? What is the value of 
independent institutions to prisoners? How can prisoners establish 
their own independent and proletarian programs to advance toward 
liberation and Maoism? How do MIM Notes, the Prisoners' Legal 
Clinic, MIM's Free Books for Prisoners Program fit into the 
concept of service to the people? How to these independent 
institutions of the people meet needs that the imperialists 
ignore? How can these and other people's institutions be improved?

2) Make sure that at least one prisoner in your facility writes to 
explain in detail the educational opportunities available at the 
facility or in the state. This is important information we need to 
bolster support both for revolution and for educational 
opportunities within Amerika's dungeons. If possible, research the 
facility's history of educational opportunities and if/how they 
changed after Pell Grants were denied to prisoners. Write articles 
and essays comparing educational opportunities of prisoners before 
and during incarceration.

3) Send artwork that demonstrates educational opportunities, 
health care access, segregation, brutality and resistance within 
prisons.

4) Send submissions covering the political nature of the Amerikan 
prison system and the way that it is a tool of political 
repression.

5) Interview other prisoners (when possible) about conditions in 
facilities, ways that education and organizing within prisons are 
obstructed, about their observations on the ways that oppressed 
nationals are treated in prisons. (Send MIM your list of interview 
questions.)

Please continue to build study groups, translate, fight censorship 
and help us connect with outside allies, but we encourage 
prisoners to help build the ULK2000 campaign in the above ways and 
any other creative and proletarian ways you can find.

Submissions that represent the interests of the oppressed will be 
published on MIM's website and selected submissions will be used 
in whole or part for MIM Notes articles, ULK2000 campaign 
material, flyers etc. MIM will edit submissions to fit a 
particular publication's purpose unless the author explicitly 
requests that submissions not be changed. (If you do not want 
submissions edited by MIM, note that it is more difficult for us 
to publish the material.)