The CDC's policy of of take-take-take continues unchallenged with ever increasing momentum and, as usual, without any form of coordinated and organized resistance from the prison masses. (Sporadic and isolated acts of unorganized resistance from specific groups or races has proven time and time again "ineffective.")
As we have recently seen and are experiencing, personal packages from loved ones and family have been terminated under the guise of "the safety and security of the institution" and the supposedly "tremendous" burden of labor that is required from the correctional officers to pass these packages out to the convicts and inmates. We can easily assume that these pigs/puercos have forgotten what they were hired to do.
But better yet, let's not assume anything and stick to the concretes. Personal packages no longer exist. Overpriced vendor packages through state approved companies are allowed. Well, isn't that convenient? And again, which has and is becoming evermore characteristic, inmates and "so-called" convicts lay down in defeatist acceptance as if this were somebody else's problem and purchase these overpriced vendor packages.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this is an issue of money, an issue of financial gain for the state and these vendor companies (not to mention other things) at our expense and our families expense. Not my expense, not your expense, not the individual's expense, but our expense, the collective expense of us all, irrelevant of gangs and racial divisions. The issue here is financial gain, pure and simple, despite their phony concerns and excuses.
The first step in countering this is in the education and cooperation of the prison masses. The second step and quite possibly the only other step necessary in countering this is also pure and simple: boycott. They want to make profit, well then we can take profit out of the equation and deprive them of this. Through practice (action), let's gain back what we are losing and in the process, separate the inmates from the convicts. That is, separate the dead weight of the selfish individualists from the collective masses.
The CDC's tactics of oppression, of dividing and conquering the prison masses, are not only succeeding but are continuously changing, while our tactics of resistance have either become nonexistent at all or, at best, only rigid, unchanging, and held in the past by the existing social order within prison society itself. Our tactics of resistance must also change, fluidly and creatively, in order to coincide and counteract these pigs/puercos' changing methods of oppression and take-take-take which is only splitting the prison masses further and depriving us of more and more power everyday.
-- A California Prisoner, February 2004