This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) events
Boston, MA -- Fall, 2000
Tuesday, September 12 Leonard Peltier Vigil
4:30 to 8:30 PM Boston Common, at the Fountain behind Park Street T station
RAIL is organizing a contingent to attend this vigil which will include speakers and native drummers.
Join us in protest against the state's incarceration of our revolutionary brother Leonard Peltier. The
vigil is organized by the American Friends Service Committee, the Council for Native American Solidarity,
and the Boston Area Leonard Peltier Support Group.
Wednesday, September 13 FBI's War on Black America
7:00 PM Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass. Ave., Harvard Sq. Cambridge
Join us for a movie about the FBI's COINTELPRO and how it was used to disable the Black
Liberation movement in the united $tates in the 1960's and 70's. While we watch the movie
we will be putting together our monthly mailing of MIM Notes to prisoners throughout the u.$.
We encourage everyone to come learn from revolutionary history, while helping to build for
revolution in the future.
Thursday, September 21 Prison Struggles Forum
7:00 PM Boston University Room Photonics 203, 8 St. Mary's St. (BU central T-stop Green Line)
Come to a presentation featuring former prisoners turned activists, including Big Black, who participated
in the Attica uprising. Speakers will share how their experiences have led them to their current activist
work. The goal of the event is to discuss what prisons-related work is currently going on, and what are
the best things we can be doing to support the struggle.
Sunday, September 24 Poster Making/Rally Prep Mtg
4:30 PM Boston University CAS 312, 725 Commonwealth Ave. (BU east T-top Green Line)
Our weekly prison letter meeting will start 1 hour earlier in order to prepare posters and materials
for next weeks Anti-Prisons Rally. We will be painting a big banner and creating fake bodies to
represent those that have died due to conditions in MCI Framingham's women's prison in the past month.
Saturday, September 30 Anti-Prisons Rally
1:00 PM Harvard Sq. Cambridge, in the pit near out of town news
This rally will feature anti-prisons activist, ex-prisoners, readings of prisoners' letters, and poetry, groups
distributing literature and more. We will be opposing the disproportionate incarceration of oppressed
nations, brutality, lack of health care, censorship, control units, phone call prices, visitation limitations,
and the whole prison industrial complex. Come make your voice heard!
Monday, October 9 Anti-Kolombus Day Protest
1:00 PM near the corner of Massachussetts Ave. and Newbury St.
RAIL will be holding a public show of protest against Amerikan imperialism which can be linked as
far back as the landing of Colombus in 1492. Reject this celebration of hundreds of years of oppression
and join us in spreading the truth about this corrupt nation.
Thursday, October 12 (Colombus Day) Celebrate First Nation struggles
7:00 PM Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences room 220, 725 Commonwealth Ave.
Join us for a film on the struggle of First Nations against the white invasion on Colombus Day.
We will also be stuffing envelopes for our monthly MIM Notes mailing to prisoners
across the country.
Tuesday, October 24 No Exploitation with (or without)Representation
7:00 PM Pearl St. Public Library, Central Sq. Cambridge
Come find out why people in countries such as the Philippines should have a vote in the upcoming
elections in the United $tates. What does the outcome of these elections mean for this world? If
everyone in the world did have a say in what the U$ did, the current regime would topple. Why? What
does this mean about so-called democracy in this country?
Thursday, November 9 Shut Down the Control Units
7:00 PM Pearl St. Public Library, Central Sq. Cambridge
Film about the recent craze in high security prison construction, chocked-full of shocking facts on
the prison-industrial complex. Not only can you learn about the prison system, but you can help
prisoners at the same time as we put together our monthly mailing of MIM Notes to prisoners around
the country.
Wednesday, November 15 Poetry from Prison 101
7:00 PM Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences Room 216, 725 Commonwealth Ave.
Last year RAIL helped initiate U.B.A.R.S (University of Boston Activists for Revolutionary Schooling)
which is a program that organizes professors, students, and others knowledgeable in certain subjects
to offer correspondence classes to prisoners that we already work with. At this event the instructor
of a Revolutionary Poetry course offered this past year will report back with her experiences with the
course and many of the pieces that were produced by students in her class.
Wednesday, December 13All Power to the People -- Monthly Prison Mailing
7:00 PM Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St. , Copley Sq. Boston
We will be showing a film dealing with the history of the Black Panther Party and discussing the future
of the movement where the video leaves off. During the movie we will put together our monthly mailing
of MIM Notes to prisoners around the country.
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