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.

Prison Awareness Week/End the Amerikan Lockdown Month 1999 UMass Campus Center,Nov 3-Dec 1

The 6th annual Prison Awareness Week will include speakers, films and discussions on a broad range of topics concerning prisons and social control in the U.$. The week will be both educational and oriented towards organizing.

Weds Nov 3 7pm Censorship in Amerikan Prisons. Lecture by Attorney Sarah Playter. The U.$. is unique in the world with a constitution guaranteeing citizens the right to free speech. But for 2 million people incarcerated the first ammendment is not worth the paper itŐs printed on. However, the prisons will sometimes respond to public pressure to abide by the U.$. constitution. UMass Student Union Commonwealth Room (Earthfoods)

Weds Nov 10 7pm. Incarcerated Revolutionary Leaders: From Leonard Peltier to Mumia Abu Jamal. Videos and presentations by Dan Sheehan, Paul Kramer, and local activists on the hundreds of people incarcerated solely for their political beliefs and/or actions. The U.$. demonizes other countries for the treatnent of their dissidents, yet this country has hundreds of its own deep in its dungeons. Discussion of their cases, the movements they come from, and the struggle to free them will be the topic of this event. UMass Campus Center 911

Tues Nov 16 7pm What do rural white communities say to the idea of building prisons to lock up urban Black men? "Yes, in My Backyard" New film on the political economy and geography of building prisons to hold urban Black men in rural white communities. Film focuses on the dependence of rural communities on the prison industrial complex. Filmmaker Tracy Huling will lead the post film discussion. UMass Campus Center 904. previously listed as Thurs Nov 16. Tues Nov 16 is the correct date.

Monday Nov 22 7pm Date with Death: The Struggle to Save the Life of Mumia Abu Jamal. Video showing, presentation and discussion led by Holyoke Community College Professor of Government Mark Clinton. Mumia is a former Black Panther on death row in Pennsylvania. Governor Ridge signed his death warrant in mid-October 1999. UMass Student Union Commonwealth Room (Earthfoods)

Weds Dec 1 7pm Shut Down the Control Units: Film and presentation on the role of prison system in the ongoing genocide against Blacks in the U.$. Presentation and discussion led by Rene Clark. Control units are the tiny torture chambers existing in most states to break the will of politically conscious prisoners. Video traces growth of prisons, while explaining that prisons do not stop crime. Video concludes with a comparison with black incarceration rates. Ms. Clark is a prison activist researcher and writer. UMass Campus Center 803

Sponsors: (as of 10/26/99) Friends of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL)--RSO & GSO, Student Activities Cultural Enrichment Fund (SACEF),

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