AZ DOC: churning out revolutionaries

I would've written sooner, but we just switched our store process over to a private company, and we were unable to shop for a few weeks so stamps were low.

When I came to prison, I was barely 18 years old and I wasn't too interested in world politics. Now, 14 years later, after reading and following the world news, I've come to realize my views and theories are almost the same as in your articles. I've always felt the U.$. was a bullying imperialist country just getting fat on other weaker and Third World countries. The U.$. is like the conglomerate companies using sweatshops, just on a much higher scale.

I know you said books were reserved for those who may be able to help in the movement, and that's understandable. I wish my skills were a little better to offer you revolutionary fighters a lil help. I am enclosing five stamps. It ain't much, but when I get more I will be sure to send more to the cause.

Right now I too am in one of those Super Max prisons, supposedly a Security Threat Group (STG) member. But they are so full of shit. If you guys can state court cases that other convicts are using to fight our case in the courts to overturn this government's right to keep us locked down indefinitely, that would help.

--an Arizona prisoner, 28 August, 2005

MIM responds: Stamps are as good as cash to us, and we value your financial contributions every bit as highly as we do your writing efforts. We're sending back an issue of MIM Theory, with study questions and a guide to forming an effective study group -- just one more thing you can do in exchange for more revolutionary lit from MIM.

And to the prisoners engaged in court struggles: please include case citations where you can when you report on your work for Under Lock & Key, this will help other prisoners benefit from your hard work.