Organizing Points in NJ

Revolutionary Greetings to all the comrades at MIM,

...I've been spreading the word about the Maoist Internationalist Movement, and brothers seem interested in your communist platform. Like I've said, I'm steering my "Folk Nation" into a communist direction. And I appreciate the insight that MIM has to offer us young striving communists. I'm in the midst of exposing these "Devilish Pigs" in Bayside State Prison. I'm going to attack them here:

  1. They don't have college courses for those that want to further our education inside these U.S. gulags.
  2. BSP limits our reading material to 12 books. I believe prisoners should be able to obtain as much reading material as he pleases.
  3. Prisoners are required to wear ID's inside of BSP at all times. If you happen to groom yourself (get a shape up, braid your hair or twist your locks), they want to make prisoners get new ID's at our own expense and they cost two dollars.
  4. Somehow it's state law that all prisoners get screened for TB and nine times out of ten the method for screening is injecting that poison into our bodies. Something must be done about that.

--a New Jersey Prisoner, May 2003

MIM responds: We support this comrades effort to organize for more educational opportunities and control over prisoners' healthcare. Forcing prisoners to pay for the bureaucratic expenses is just one more form of expropriating the wealth of the oppressed. MIM agrees with this comrade that there is no good reason to limit access to books and supporters on the outside can help make sure that prisoners do have access to revolutionary materials by supporting our Books for Prisoners program and helping with legal battles to oppose censorship in prisons.