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Build a United Front for Peace in Prisons
initiated in March 2011updated on September 30, 2024
Support September 9th Solidarity Demonstrations in prisons across the United $tates, an opportunity for prisoners to commemorate the anniversary of the Attica uprising and draw attention to abuse of prisoners across the country through a 24 hour work stoppage and fast. This demonstration was initiated in 2012 by an organization participating in United Struggle for Peace in Prisons and has been taken up as an annual UFPP event, with people committing to participate in prisons across the country.
You can read some reports about actions in previous years including a series of reports from California in 2016 and a report on the parallel demonstrations initiated by the Free Alabama Movement. Further readings include a summary report for the 2015 activities and a 2014 report as well as some 2013 protest of hunger strikes, fasting, work stoppage and other activities in Texas, Nevada, Georgia, Arkansas, Michigan and Maryland.
This demonstration aligns with the UFPP principle to build unity among prisoners who have a common interest in fighting the oppression of the criminal injustice system. Prisoners are taking the 24 hours to engage in solidarity building and education, ceasing all prisoner-on-prisoner hostilities. This is a critical step in building a United Front among prisoner organizations and individuals committed the anti-imperialist movement. We do not need to agree on every political issue, but we must come together united around core principles to build and fight together. The unity building starts well before September 9th for those who are engaging others to participate in the protest. It is a long slow process of education and organizing to build the anti-imperialist movement.
Those on the streets can distribute
this
flyer to support the struggle behind
bars.
Rebuilding
the anti-imperialist prison movement means uniting all who can be united
around the common interest of the U.$. prison population in solidarity
with the oppressed people of the Third World. Various tactics have been
used by the state to promote and exacerbate existing contradictions
among the lumpen, leading to the acceptance of the capitalist ideology
of “Do me.”
Torture, abuse and lack of freedom faced by the oppressed nations and particularly the imprisoned population can only be addressed by building bridges along common interests and focusing our struggles on the real enemy - the imperialist state.
After years of printing this message from countless individuals across the United $tates (including the campaign for a Peace Process in Pelican Bay) a handful of organizations came out with a Statement of Unity around which to build such unity. (also see the Announcement of the United Front)
This page will serve to collect the statements of unity received from groups who are working in solidarity with the United Front as well as reports on the progress of efforts to build peace and unity in U.$. prisons. Study, spread and promote the 5 principles.
Updates/Reports from Inside
- Black August Honored, UFPP Implemented (September 2024)
- Runaway Slaves Coalition Joins UFPP, But We Can't Certify Them (April 2024)
- United Front Means Thinking in Percentages (July 2023)
- A Message To All Lumpen Organizations (May 2023)
- Drug Addiction Remains a Primary Barrier to Unity (October 2022)
- Show Proof to Build Unity Against CDCR Divisions (October 2022)
- GA UFPP "Loyalty Ov3r Royalty" Statement of Unity (July 2022)
- Comrades in TN Observing their First Black August (July 2022)
- Liberate Our Elders Event Unites Inside & Out (February 2022)
- Black Mighty Loyal Soldiers and All Black Loyalty Join the United Front For Peace! (November 2021)
- NC UFPP Statement (September 2021)
- Anarcha-Queer Liberation Army signs on to United Front for Peace (June 2021)
- Orientating USW Organizing Strategy in Light of Texas Victory (February 2021)
- From the Inside Looking Out -- COVID Forced on Prisoners (November 2020)
- Freedom, Love & Prosperty joins United Front for Peace in Prisons (October 2020)
- Dead Man Incorporated Statement of Unity with UFPP (October 2020)
- Black August: Peace and Education to Combat Behavior Modification (September 2020)
- Unity Is: I Care About You (September 2020)
- Fasting for September 9th Helps NC Comrades Connect to the Struggle (September 2020)
- A.I.R.'s Statement of Unity (August 2020)
- Hatchets for Maoism UFPP Statement of Unity (January 2020)
- On Independence and Promoting the UFPP (September 2019)
- Build Cellblock Schools as Independent Institutions (August 2019)
- Notes on Bridging Gap Between SNY and GP in California (April 2019)
- Building the UFPP through Missouri Protests (January 2019)
- Showing Unity in F.A.T. Recruiting (January 2019)
- The Return of the Northern Stars (January 2019)
- Spreading the Word on September 9 (November 2018)
- September 9 Builds Peace and Solidarity (October 2018)
- Missouri Building United Front for Peace (October 2018)
- Valley State Prison September 9th Solidarity (September 2018)
- Salinas Valley State Prison September 9th Solidarity (September 2018)
- California Correctional Institution September 9th Solidarity (August 2018)
- Building Unity to Fight Abuses in Maryland (August 2018)
- USW Leader Under Investigation For Spreading United Front for Peace In Prisons Principles (July 2018)
- September 9, California USW Must Prepare Unity Between Mainline and SNY (April 2018)
- The Contagious Disease of Backbiting (March 2018)
- USW Council Pushing September 9th for 2018 (January 2018)
- United Front for Peace Established in Connecticut (November 2017)
- Re-Unify Aztlan! (September 2017)
- Inspired by UFPP in Lousiana (July 2017)
- Abolitionists From Within Platform and Organizing Report (June 2017)
- Combating Gossip, and Setting Examples to Build the UFPP (January 2017)
- CCI Study Group Puts Theory Into Action, Organizing Unity Celebration (December 2016)
- Love Your Enemies for the United Front? (December 2016)
- Brutal Response to September 9 Work Stoppage at Gulf CI Annex (November 2016)
- September 9 Day of Peace and Solidarity 2016 - part 2 (November 2016)
- Who Says the Masses Can't Lead? (October 2016)
- September 9th Setback Leads to Unity Building (October 2016)
- Sept 9: Virginia Comrades Meet, Study, Discuss, Build (September 2016)
- Virginia Study Group Organizing for Education and Action (September 2016)
- Observing Sept 9 in Michigan (September 2016)
- Transferred for Suspicion of Organizing a Work Stoppage and BPP-Prison Chapter (September 2016)
- September 9: Prisoner-on-Prisoner Hostilities Cease 4 the Day in California (September 2016)
- Abolitionists from Within Prepare for 2nd September 9th Day of Solidarity (August 2016)
- Building Peace and Unity in Colorado (July 2016)
- Approaching Conflict More Scientifically (July 2016)
- Guerilla Elite Family Pushes Peace and Unity (May 2016)
- FFU Joining the United Front for Peace in Prisons (April 2016)
- Fighting the Real Enemy on September 9 Solidarity Demonstration (April 2016)
- Operation S.A.F.E. Standing Against Fearful Environments (March 2016)
- Statement from Ohio Study Group (February 2016)
- Statement of Solidarity with UFPP from NAAB (February 2016)
- Call for Lumpen Unity against Oppression in Maryland (January 2016)
- Red Confederation On Point with UFPP in Georgia (January 2016)
- The United Lumpen Front for Peace & Unity in Virginia Prisons (November 2015)
- North Carolina Soldiers of Revolution Organizing for Peace (November 2015)
- Sept 9 Solidarity As Survival Strategy (November 2015)
- Arkansas Study Group Responds to UFPP Discussion (October 2015)
- AMBI Statement of Unity (October 2015)
- Indigent Mail Restrictions Silences Prisoners (September 2015)
- Initial Report from September 9 Day of Peace and Solidarity (September 2015)
- United We Stand (September 2015)
- High Desert September 9th Organizing Followed by Violence Month Later (September 2015)
- Hours of Discussion to Comemmorate September 9 (September 2015)
- Aryans in the Struggle for Peace in Prisons (September 2015)
- Stand Firm With Unity join UFPP (August 2015)
- Attacking From All Angles (August 2015)
- AFW Joins UFPP, Plans Demo for Sept. 9 (August 2015)
- Seize the Time on September 9 (July 2015)
- Attica Prisoner Remembers 1971 Uprising (July 2015)
- Peace and Solidarity Challenge September 9 (June 2015)
- UFAO Links Up with UFPP (June 2015)
- A Day of Solidarity, September 9th (May 2015)
- Education is Critical to the United Front (March 2015)
- Lessons from the Bandung Conference for the United Front for Peace in Prisons (March 2015)
- Agreement to End Hostilities is the Main Struggle in CA (January 2015)
- United Front for Peace in Prisons Status Report (January 2015)
- Carry on the September 9 Day of Peace and Solidarity (January 2015)
- Fight in Mississippi Leads to United Front Peace and Unity (January 2015)
- Building Peace with the United Front (January 2015)
- EZLN Prison Chapter Joins United Front for Peace in Prisons (December 2014)
- Resumiendo las protestas del 9 de Septiembre (December 2014)
- Summing up September 9 Protests (November 2014)
- New Afrikan Uhuru Movement Joins United Front for Peace in Prisons (November 2014)
- Brown Berets - Prison Chapter of Colorado Join United Front for Peace (November 2014)
- Declaration of Unity for the United Front for Peace in Prisons (November 2014)
- 3BKingdom Joins UFPP (October 2014)
- Emerging September 9 Protestors (September 2014)
- Pigs Endanger Safety and Security of Institution, Put Lives of Prisoners at Risk (August 2014)
- Inspired by Prisoner Standing up Against Oppression (July 2014)
- Colorado Organization Builds for Peace, Activists Locked up in Segregation (June 2014)
- Global struggle requires global unification! (May 2014)
- United Front Organizing: Working Towards LO Peace in Ohio (May 2014)
- September Solidarity Demonstration: Using Our Financial Power (May 2014)
- Georgia SMU Prisoners Fight to Maintain Peace (April 2014)
- Planning for September 9 Solidarity Day (March 2014)
- New Afrikan Maoist Brotherhood Joins United Front for Peace in Prisons (March 2014)
- E-NUF Joins United Front for Peace in Prisons (March 2014)
- Goodfellas Build UFPP, Promote Multinational Organizing (March 2014)
- New Virginia Organization Embraces United Front for Peace (February 2014)
- Applying the United Front for Peace Principles to the Rasta Movement (December 2013)
- Long-Term Lock Down for Prisoners United in Peace Treaty (December 2013)
- A Message to Street Organizations: Ride or Die! Unite or Perish! (November 2013)
- South Carolina Prisoners Coalesce to Join UFPP (October 2013)
- Utah Street Gang Injunction Demonstrates Parallels Between Prison and Street Battles for Oppressed Nations in the U.$. (October 2013)
- The Voice of Liberty Joins United Front for Peace in Prisons (October 2013)
- Report on United Front for Peace Work in Texas (October 2013)
- Peace and Solidarity Protest in Nevada (September 2013)
- Peace and Solidarity Fast in Georgia (September 2013)
- Day of Peace Protest in Arkansas (September 2013)
- September 9: We Need to Remember This Day (September 2013)
- Texas Comrades to Remember Attica September 9 (September 2013)
- Maryland Prisoners Commemorating September 9th (August 2013)
- LK Leader Calls for Unity (August 2013)
- Laying the Groundwork for Revolutionary Organizing in Texas (July 2013)
- Unity in Texas Against Guard Brutality (June 2013)
- Rats Undermine United Front Unity (May 2013)
- Expanding the California SHU Struggle to Nevada (May 2013)
- Comrades, Maintain your Commitment to the Movement (January 2013)
- Indigenous Group Takes Up Revolutionary Organizing on Death Row (December 2012)
- Unity Can Win Battles for Prisoners Rights, and More (December 2012)
- Making Prisons Safer with Revolutionary Education (November 2012)
- California Hunger Strike Representatives Promote Peace Agreement (November 2012)
- Violence Perpetuated by Prison Admin: Come Together and Fight for Peace (November 2012)
- Unprovoked Beatings of Prisoners in Texas Must be Stopped (October 2012)
- Delayed Report on September 9 Protest and Repression (October 2012)
- Fliers to Promote the United Front for Peace in Prisons (October 2012)
- Report from California Sept 9 Protest (September 2012)
- Dept. of Public Safety Opposes Efforts to Stop Fighting (September 2012)
- Attica Report From September 9 Protest (September 2012)
- September 9 Protest Report from Missouri (September 2012)
- Florida Organizations Come Together in Peace for September 9th (September 2012)
- Seven LOs, Religious Groups Rep in 9/9 Day of Solidarity (September 2012)
- Texas Guards Encourage Oppressed Nation Fights (September 2012)
- Solidarity and Peace Demonstration Builds, Guards Retaliate (September 2012)
- Black August and Bloody September, Rise Up and Remember on September 9 (August 2012)
- Building for September 9 Across the Country (August 2012)
- Llamada para demostración de Solidaridad 9 de Septiembre (August 2012)
- Continuing the Debate on the Need for New Organizations (August 2012)
- Promote Prisoner Day of Solidarity - September 9, 2012 (July 2012)
- Warrior's Order joins United Front for Peace in Prisons (July 2012)
- North Carolina in for Solidarity Demo (July 2012)
- Call for Solidarity Demonstration September 9 (July 2012)
- Five Percenter Shows Unity with United Front for Peace in Prisons (June 2012)
- Debating the Need for New Organizations: Cell Structure and United Fronts (May 2012)
- South Carolina Struggles and Lumpen Organizing (April 2012)
- Who's Leading Lumpen Peace Work? (March 2012)
- MPMM signs on to United Front for Peace (March 2012)
- Brutality and Resistance in Pennsylvania Demonstrates Need for United Front (March 2012)
- Criticism and Good Communication Helps Us Grow and Develop (January 2012)
- Black Mass Army Joins United Front for Peace (December 2011)
- Proof!: The State Lies in Order to Censor (November 2011)
- Revolutionary Mandingo Warriors Join United Front for Peace (November 2011)
- USW Study Cell Signs onto UF for Peace (October 2011)
- Hunger Strike First Step in Building United Front (October 2011)
- Ghost Guerilla Mafia Signs on to United Front (October 2011)
- Build the United Front to Address LO Contradictions (September 2011)
- S.O.B. Joins United Front (September 2011)
- United Revolutionary Movement Joins United Front for Peace (September 2011)
- UF for Peace in Prisons Statement from USW cell (September 2011)
- Enforcers Elite Society joins United Front (September 2011)
- United Gangsta Nation joins forces with UF for Peace (August 2011)
- PBSP Hunger Strike Update - Education Needed (August 2011)
- BORO Calls on Leaders of Lumpen Orgs to Step Up (July 2011)
- United Front for Peace (July 2011)
- National Liberation Revolution of Oppressed Persons Signs UF for Peace (June 2011)
- Revolutionary Gangstas Join United Front for Peace (June 2011)
- SAMAEL Signs on to UF for Peace (June 2011)
- Peace First, Then Unity (May 2011)
- New Man Corp supports UF for Peace and Freedom (May 2011)
- NJ Avalon Crip Signs On to UF Statement (May 2011)
- Peace Movement Destroyed in Infancy (May 2011)
- Lack of Education Limits United Front (May 2011)
- We Must Advance the United Front for Peace! (May 2011)
- United Front and First Nation struggles (May 2011)
- We Want Peace agitational pamphlet (April 2011)
- Statement of Unity from the Makavelian People's Party (MPP) (April 2011)
- Ex-Capo Joins Peace Agreement (March 2011)
- Announcing the United Front for Peace in Prisons (March 2011)
- United Front for Peace in Prisons - Statement of Principles (March 2011)
- Lumpen United Front: Its Basis and Development (November 2010)
- In Unity & Struggle: Why United Front? (October 2010)
Related Censorship
Click for more | STATE | DATE | TYPE | TITLE | REASON GIVEN | FACILITY | DIRECT LINK |
[US] | 08/01/2017 | study pack | September 9 Organizing Pack | unknown - no notification given. prisoner reported not received on Unconfirmed Mail Form | Garza West Unit | ||
[US] | 07/26/2016 | study pack | September 9 Organizing Pack | 1 print out talking about strike | Allred Unit | ||
[US] | 03/15/2016 | study pack | September 9 Organizing Pack | Mailing which incites murder; arson; riot; or any form of violence. Disallowed per CCR, Title 15, section 3006(c)(1) | Pelican Bay State Prison | ||
[US] | 03/03/2015 | letter | Sept. 9 UFPP organizing pamphlet | inciteful material throughout | Shawangunk Correctional Facility | ||