I have read one of your many newspapers (MIM Notes) and I thought your publications were awesome indeed. The points you have expressed are right on point with so much relevance to this condition I find myself in. Very well, I also take great interest in your lock and key articles. I read you provide free newspapers to prisoners and unfortunately I meet the criteria. So if you would be so kind, please send me an issue so I can spread the word.
- a California prisoner, October 2006
Thanks for the education
Today I sit within the confines of one of the many dingy chambers of this steel and concrete dungeon of Corcoran's Security Housing Unit hoping to extent the utmost respect to all those (male and female) who have taken initiative to position themselves on the front line to oppose the systematic design of oppression.
In extending my respects to all, I would also like to convey my heartfelt appreciation to everyone working at, working with and/or affiliated with Maoist Internationalist Movement for all that you do and the services you provide. Especially, in regards to prisoners. Speaking from personal experience I can say that in receiving and reading your newsletters, it's both a major source of motivation and encouragement. To say that your MIM Notes have served me well does not cover any specifics, but I can say that your notes have been a potent ingredient towards my transformation: and your free books to prisoners program has nurtured and fed me like a baby at his mother's bosom. The books you have been so generous to send have taught me to respect and value the importance of an education…an education that has taught me that with knowledge comes enormous responsibility. The responsibility that arises from not just knowing the difference between what is said to be right, or wrong, testing an deciphering, truth and lies, but knowing and acting in accordance with what is consistent and progressive in the exercise of self determination and self defense.
Even today as I sit in the gulags in one of the most abusive and repressive prisons in this country, being taunted and tormented by my sadistic captors, I'm not discouraged by either the dingy confines of this steel and concrete dungeon or the rough road ahead that I must travel. You see, I will persevere these trials gladly to oppose, expose and blow as many holes as I can in this political, social and economic system of exploitation and oppression.
I will close this letter with the request of being place on your mailing list to receive your MIM Notes and ask if, you can send me some literature.
The struggle continues.
- a California prisoner, October 2006/I>
MIM replies: We do provide MIM Notes free to prisoners, along with other political literature. But our mailings of the newspaper have been sporadic over the past year, due to shortages of funds and labor. The need in Amerikan prisons is far larger than we can fill - we need benefactors who will help finance this work.