MIM Notes 208                   April 15, 2000

What prisoners can do to build the ULK2000 campaign 

1) Write essays, speeches and poems related to the each 
month's theme. We are focusing on "Prisons vs Education" in 
April; "Prison Slavery" in May; "Black nation behind bars" in 
June; and "Indigenous and Latino Nations behind bars" in July.

How is the Amerikan prison system denying prisoners means to 
education themselves? What are the educational opportunities 
in your prison, in your state? How many resources are put 
toward education on the inside and outside versus resources 
put toward repression?

What are the working conditions in your prison? How much do 
prisoners get paid for how many hours and what type of work?

How do imprisonment and imprisonment conditions for oppressed 
nation members differ from that of white settler nation 
members? How do the guards treat oppressed nationals in 
prison? What are the ways that prisons deter revolutionary 
nationalist organizing within prisons?

2) Make sure that at least one prisoner in your facility 
writes to explain in detail of prison slave labor at the 
facility or in the state. This is important information we 
need to bolster opposition to exploitation of prisoners. If 
possible, research the facility's history of prison labor and 
what entity (i.e. the state, a private industry etc) keep 
profits from prison slavery.

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, 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. It is not too late to write about themes of months past 
("Serve the People"; "Prisons as political repression"; and 
"End the Amerikan Apartheid"). The work we are doing will 
continue to be used to organize opposition to settler nation 
domination and the Amerikan Lockdown.

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.)