MIM(Prisons) is a cell of revolutionaries serving the oppressed masses inside U.$. prisons, guided by the communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
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The above letter is a response from a Corrections Counselor II
Specialist (CCII) of the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation (CDCR) to a prisoner in California who submitted to h the
grievance for the proper handling of grievances. Even though a CCII is
in a position to influence whether grievances are handled in a legal or
illegal manner, at least within h institution, in this letter A. Redding
advises the prisoner to file a lawsuit or contact the Inspector General
on the matter.
In this response to a grievance petition from California sent to the
Department of Justice (DOJ), they minimize the widespread scale of
corruption of the grievance system in the California state prison
system. Instead they are asking for facts and dates related to single
incidents or perpetrators.
In
“Bad
Apples” in the Pig Pen we explained why a focus on targeting
individual pigs is incorrect in most cases in our struggle because the
problems we address are societal. Although societal problems manifest in
individual pigs, focusing all of our energy trying to get one or two
pigs fired from our facility doesn’t significantly impact society as a
whole.
One may argue that the DOJ just needs a place to begin their
investigation. However, the petition makes it clear that this problem is
widespread throughout the system. Realistically they could interview
prisoners at random for details and receive enough information to begin
an investigation. Their narrow and sterile approach to “justice” is just
a cover for their interests in maintaining the status quo.
The pigs at CCI Tehachapi SHU are monitoring revolutionary
correspondence and materials coming through the mail; not censoring but
delaying them by as much as three to four weeks. This specific instance
was a personal experience, but it can be concluded that if one
individual’s revolutionary activity is being monitored, then all
revolutionaries may be monitored.
Due to a medical condition, I must be taken out of my cell and to
medical for a weekly injection which I use as an opportunity to butter
up loose-mouth pigs and gather intelligence, catching a general idea of
the internal condition of the pigs’ camp. Never at any time have I
mentioned or alluded to my revolutionary standpoint or activities in any
way.
While going to medical this past week a pig made a very revealing
statement inadvertently, immediately tipping me off that my mail was
being monitored, specifically what I’d mailed to MIM(Prisons) the
previous week. The pig’s statement could not have been reaching because
it contained the word “revolution” and related content of a letter to
MIM(Prisons).
Let this be a warning to revolutionary activists and comrades across the
U.$. injustice system, and California concentration camps in particular,
that even if there is no censorship at your facility, if you participate
in any serious revolutionary activities, then it’s sure to be monitored.
Practical steps may be taken to combat this issue, such as working with
and notifying MIM(Prisons) of censorship issues while going through the
grievance and court system, if able to do so. Keeping eyes and ears open
to detect if you are being monitored is not difficult to do.
If it feels like you are being watched, then you are. Remember, paranoia
can be the better part of prudence in the control unit.
Sergeant S. S. Crandell, Yega, S. Motto, S. Byers, and Fish victimized
me on 15 October. They stole my television and lied, saying it had wires
sticking out.
Guard Yega handcuffed me and took me to the program office over a 602
[grievance] for indigent envelopes I never received. When I returned to
the cell, all my legal materials were in a large pile on the floor,
covered with shampoo, coffee, hair styling gel and baby powder. My
television was gone. Officer S. Motto threatened to kick my ass if I
602ed it.
Can you please help? My aunt has cancer, and my family is sick living on
a fixed income.
The November 2 elections promise some shuffling of the imperialist
representatives in government, but as usual with elections where the
choices are limited to different flavors of imperialist leaders, there
will be no real change. One ballot initiative that did catch our
attention is Proposition 19 in California which would legalize and
regulate marijuana.
In an attempt to reduce support for Prop 19, on 30 September 2010
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law that changes the
punishment for possession of less than an ounce of pot to just a fine.
This reduces the potential impact of Prop 19 and should cut down on the
number of people in prison for marijuana possession. But even arrests
and convictions without a prison sentence have negative repercussions,
so Prop 19 goes farther in limiting the reach of the state in terms of
possession laws.
MIM(Prisons) supports any laws that will cut back on the number of
people locked up in prison or otherwise controlled by the imperialist
state. We know that drug laws (like other laws) are disproportionately
prosecuted against oppressed nations within U.$. borders, resulting in
huge numbers of Blacks and Latinos behind bars. For this reason we would
support legalizing all drugs to take power away from the imperialist
government and its criminal injustice system.
In 2009, just over half of the drug arrests were for marijuana (848,408
out of 1,663,583).(1) Marijuana arrests are growing as a proportion of
total drug arrests in the U.$., up to 52.6% in 2009 from 39.9% in 1995.
This is driven by arrests for simple possession, the percentage of
arrests for marijuana trafficking has not changed much over time.(2)
Adding to these statistics on marijuana arrests is compelling
information on the disproportionate use of marijuana laws against Black
men in California. The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice reports:
“African Americans, just 6% of the state’s population…comprise a
staggering 45% of the 1,600 Californians imprisoned for marijuana,
including more than half of those locked up for marijuana felonies.
Blacks are nearly 4 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than
other races, a racial gap only slightly wider than for other crimes. But
after African Americans enter California’s ‘Black marijuana system,’
disparities multiply more than for any other offense. Seven in 10 Black
marijuana arrestees are charged with felonies, compared to one-fifth for
other races. Blacks convicted of marijuana felonies are 3 times more
likely to be sent to prison than Nonblack marijuana felons. The upshot
of these accumulating discriminations is that Blacks wind up being
imprisoned for marijuana at 8 times the rate of Hispanics and 18 times
the rate of Whites. At older ages, the Black-Nonblack marijuana
imprisonment gap soars to nearly 4,000%… No other offense (including
violent, property, and other crimes) and no other drug (including
heroin, methamphetamine, and crack) even remotely displays the huge
racial discrepancies in imprisonment for marijuana.”(3)
The new law would not completely eliminate marijuana arrests and
prosecutions, primarily because it restricts the legal age to 21 and
only allows possession of small quantities, but they would be greatly
reduced. In addition, the federal government has promised to challenge
the constitutionality of Prop 19 if it passes, and to enforce the
federal laws in California regardless. Of course we can’t look at these
laws in a vacuum, the criminal injustice system will not cut back on the
police force or shrink the prisons simply because one law changes. Cops
will just find other reasons to arrest people, and those people will
continue to be disproportionately Black and Latino.
Even worse, cities like Oakland will likely be using the new tax
revenues to restore its recently cut back police force. The city stands
to be one of the biggest beneficiaries if the law passes, as it is home
to Oaksterdam University, which will be licensing large growing and
distribution centers under the new law. The financial interests behind
Oaksterdam University bankrolled the introduction of Prop 19 to the
November ballot. Los Angeles campus chancellor Jeff Jones pointed out
that support has come primarily from the jobs and tax revenue angle. He
says that focusing on imprisonment rates gets little support from
Californians.
While the imperialists run the global drug trade, here the state is
partnering with corporate interests to take over the local industry,
which has been the domain of the lumpen class. Following the national
liberation movements of the sixties many in the ghetto who didn’t see
the Amerikan dream through integration were able to find an income
through the drug economy. By the 1970s, Italians, Jews and others who
dominated black markets, in particular drugs, had long been integrated
into white Amerika. Whites left the inner cities for the suburbs where
they could become richer more easily by joining a growing financial
sector, allowing for Black and Latino gangs to take over profitable
street crime in their own areas. Organized crime, led by the CIA, backed
the most individualistic and destructive emerging groups, while
repressing Black and Brown power movements and flooding these
neighborhoods with cocaine.(4)
Faced with economic crisis today, white Amerika wants these jobs back.
And the state is leading the charge, hoping to reach a new tax source to
close huge shortfalls in paying their bureaucrat employees - especially
their pigs, who account for 85% of city spending in Oakland (police
& fire combined).(5) But whites aren’t forming a new mafia (at least
not exactly). Instead they formed a new university to train and certify
workers in the industry and they have joined labor unions to ensure
wages of $25.75 an hour with pensions, paid vacations and health
insurance.(6) In contrast, reports from the 1990s showed that most in
the drug game in the inner cities made around minimum wage and worked
long hours (needless to say with no benefits).(7) So the state hopes to
shrink the workforce in drug sales and production, pay a few trained
workers a nice sum, and increase their share of profits from the sale of
marijuana to pay cops and other state employees. In the process, the
economic crisis will be passed along to the lumpen who will become ever
more desperate to make ends meet. This will lead to more violence and
problems, and make the need for self-determination more dire in
oppressed nation communities that lack legal job markets.
While MIM(Prisons) supports the passage of laws that result in fewer
people in prison, we are under no illusions that even full legalization
of drugs in Amerika will solve the drug problems here. As we have seen
with alcohol, legalization of a drug does not make for safe use.
Amerikan culture is alienating and leads to rampant legal and illegal
drug abuse. According to a World Health Organization survey of 17
countries across the globe, the U.$ leads the world in users of both
legal and illegal drugs. Drug use is correlated with wealth of a country
with the richer countries having a higher percentage of drug users.(8)
It will take a revolution to create a culture that allows people to feel
valuable, safe and empowered and not in need of the easy escape that can
be found in drugs. After the revolution in China, the Maoist-led country
basically eliminated drug addiction through community-based campaigns.
Drug addiction, particularly to opium, was a widespread problem imported
by the British. But after the revolution there was a strong focus on
helping drug addicts get clean, and on giving everyone useful work and
education as well as health care. This campaign, combined with a
strategy of wiping out opium growing and distribution in favor of much
needed food crops, virtually eliminated the drug problems in China by
the early 1950s. Only with a government that serves the people rather
than working to enrich its imperialist masters will we be able to
eliminate drug abuse and the criminal injustice system. As we work
towards such a system we will support laws that result in fewer people
in prison, but we know the impact of these laws will be minimal at best.
I would like to say something about the
article
by the drop out skinhead who became an SNY. It is good that this person
is involving himself in MIM because MIM can remedy some line questions
concerning progress. This is i believe the underlying issue with the
snitch question, and many other strategies.
Here’s a valuable quote,
“Our public relations policy is based on anonymity, which is to say,
attraction rather than promotion; we need to always maintain personal
anonymity at the level of press, internet, radio etc. Anonymity is the
spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place
principles before personalities. Understanding these traditions comes
slowly over time. We pick up information as we talk to members and visit
various groups. By following these guidelines in our dealings with
others, and society at large, we avoid problems. We still have to face
difficulties as they arise; communication problems, differences of
opinion, internal controversies, and troubles with individuals and
groups outside the fellowship. However we apply these principles, we
avoid some pitfalls. Many of our problems are like those that our
predecessors had to face. Their hard won experiences gave birth to these
traditions, and our own experience has shown that these principles are
just as valid today as they were when these traditions were formulated.
Our traditions protect us from the internal and external forces that
could destroy us.”
From where? Mao Zedong’s red book? No, a narcotics anonymous pamphlet!!
But does it really matter where it comes from, or the merit of the
content?
This is my objection to going SNY. Only because these three letters
mean, “you have told the police information”. You have strengthened the
hand of the police by information. You have dialed 911 and gave 411. For
me, that’s the foul. Now of course the gangs that these people walked
away from have a different objection than this one. But it is very
common for gangs to split, or have coups from within, or be taken over
by other gangs… examples abound! John Gotti killed his own boss to
become the boss, Lucky Luciano made peace treaties with the NY mafias
and founded ‘Murder Inc’ - his own army.
Such putchism and naked self interest is not at all a new feature of
gang activity and reality. Neither is martyrdom an estranged element of
nazism or fascism. Both Mussolini and Hitler were killed in 1945. The
drop out skinhead seems to have had a “disillusionment” about his
experience with other skinheads. Can it be possible, that a group that
espouses an ideology of national socialism, that claims to be not a gang
but a “social movement”, can surprise its own members with hidden
tenants and protocols? This person talks as if he was conscripted or
enslaved by his own group and liberated by SNY.
A motif that puts principle above inter-personalism and sentiment that
does not connect to the concepts above about anonymity. Rather avoiding
line issue progress, but material canteen, coffee pack type motivations.
Disconnected from the imperatives of duty, social progress and
revolution! Fascism claimed to be and was revolutionary! Marx explained
that the bourgeois has historically played quite a revolutionary role in
relation to the establishments that come before it. But also explained
how these bourgeois revolutions did not benefit or literate the 3rd
estate, the proletariat or the international proletariat. The 4th of
July being such a type of bourgeois revolution… while they held others
as slave.
SNY (Sensitive Needs Yard) or PC (Protective Custody) is now very
popular in prison. I think that many prisons have a majority of PC
prisoners over mainline. Both of these concepts come from the cops! and
many prisoners have let these concepts creep into their consciousness
and thinking. As MIM theory 4 said, “many of these people use FBI
reasoning in their politics. You hear the cops foster little comments.
For example, The C/O’s start calling our property shit.”Inventory this
shit” , “get your shit”, “here’s your shit”, and like monkeys, inmates
picked it up.”I’m waiting to get my shit” Stop thinking and talking like
the pigs! The C/O’s started calling a cell a house. ” go back to your
house”, “is this your house?” inmate monkeys,” in my house”…it’s not a
house! it’s a coffin! “Gassing” is another coin they want to circulate.
A little system of mnemonics that they propagate, which we swallow up!!!
In effect letting pigs create culture for us.
A prevalent concept i hear those going to SNY is “I want to back away
from the politics”… Like Cuban refugees who ask for political asylum,
but come to Miami and work with the CIA agents to overturn a political
movement. Like the bay of pigs. That is not “Apolitical” like they say.
Who cares what people say? Science is not about opinion and subjective
narratives, but observation, strict non-fiction. The drop out skinhead
relates that SNY’s are more violent than mainline now, and i agree!
Statistically SNY is one of the most violent of yards now. It wasn’t
always like that, and we can identify factor’s as to how this came
about. The DOC lowered its standard for letting people go to SNY. Before
you had to snitch, nowadays all you have to do is ask!! This is because
the DOC created a legal category of protected prisoners for its own
administrative convenience, but when challenged in court became more of
a burden than anything else. Opening up lawsuits and legal dilemmas…
They just opened the doors.
I want to caution righteous activists who hate snitch logic, to not
think of all PCs as weak cowards, some are, but know some PCs are very
dangerous! They do exercise routines also, and many pack heat
religiously as we do… Sammy “the rat” Grivano, was not a wimpy sissy at
all! but a determined fierce weasel, who killed more than anyone he
snitched on. Just like cops are not all fat pigs, some are committed
murderers. Like Johannes Mehserle, straight executioner! You have to be
like Karl Marx, who acknowledged the impressive violence of the
bourgeoisie, but qualified this violence with a philosophical analysis
of who it served, and what it meant for the workers of all nations,
never denying the inextricable link between thought and action - Theory
and Practice. Defining violence by its direction and and constitution.
MIM will help all of its students develop a deliberate super-structure,
not insulate concepts like the pigs! The pigs use slight of hand mind
control, MIM has criticism and demonstration instead of this. SNY’s need
to look hard at their own political line and ask whether or not they
push revolution, and what kind of revolution, and not act like rag dolls
caught in the currents of a river they chose to jump into. That’s real
politics not identity politics.
– a California Prisoner
D12 for MIM(prisons) responds:This comrade’s understanding
concerning the need to stay away from identity politics is good. It will
guard the movement, and prevent revisionism. This comrades reason for
seeing the SNY as only those who give 411 go to the SNY is not accurate.
The CDC has long held the policy to segregate prisoners from the general
population who have criminal records which would warrant their assault
on the general population, or due to the identity of the prisoner, i.e
pigs, k9s, and so forth. Due to the gang problem the CDC has had to
change its policy to allow former gang members who would be assaulted,
or killed if they remained on the general population, as well as
prisoners who enter the prison and face a choice of being forced into a
prison gang or to follow the underground rules set up by the prisoners.
The comrade states certain examples of cooperation between those engaged
in the unlawful market and the state, lets not forget that Lucky Luciano
aided the U.$. against fascist Italy. The main point that needs to be
remembered is that while these lumpen organizations have the greatest
potential for revolution in a parasitic imperialist country. They are
still lumpen, and have not shed their lumpen skin to stand with the
Third World proletariat as communists. The very nature of the lumpen is
predatory, not to the degree of the big imperialists, but they have a
lot of work to do. Many lumpen groups have revolutionary concepts as
their teachings, yet you still see them killing each other or
distributing drugs in to our neighborhood, robbing and stealing. It is
not surprising that many people join these lumpen organizations and are
let down, causing them to look for a way out.
History has shown that the revolutionary rhetoric espoused by the LOs
where brought in by those in the 60’s and 70’s who were involved in the
struggle for liberation. What we see is revolutionary nationalism within
the oppressed nations that are engaged in capital enterprise. We have to
recognize that it is the will of the state to play prisoner against
prisoner; to disrupt the educating and organizing of prisoners for
revolution. It’s the state that is ready to welcome prisoners and offer
them a “safe” place to do their time when the prisoner breaks a rule
that would warrant his assault or death from a lumpen organization. Or
to welcome those who no longer see any logic in participating in these
LOs due to political difference even when they tried to stay and
convince the others within their org. It is not MIM(Prisons) policy that
a prisoner should risk his safety when the prisoner doesn’t have to.
You’re more valuable alive, on the streets, and if in prison then you
should be able to move around and do political work. Engaging in
chauvinism and ultra-left behavior sets the movement back. While there
is a point when one should not cooperate with the state, we will not
encourage a persyn to stay in the SHU serving an indeterminate term,
when that persyn is a communist revolutionary and the tide is on his or
her shoulders. What matters is what one does as a communist
revolutionary. The line that one has will prove them to be for or
against the people. A friend or our enemy.
I want to send a fraternal embrace to everyone. I am writing from the
Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU). I write this letter in response
to some stepped up repression that seems to have increased here starting
last year in 2009. It is important to understand when these restrictions
occur so as to see more broadly if such occurrences are random or a
wider campaign. I have within the last year had “returned to sender”
eight pieces of mail from MIM(Prisons). I was never notified from the
prison, and I had no idea of these returns or rejections until
MIM(Prisons) notified me of these refusals. I reach out to highlight
this situation, this tragedy that is occurring to me so that these
lessons may be used by a receptive ear, worked with in some way, and
possibly overcome in the future.
Censorship exists, not censorship of some technological weapons or some
type of recipe for a plague of sorts but censorship of ideas, banning of
political theory that is not compliant with the state norm. I have
always taken on legal battles, jailhouse lawyer activities, anything to
right a wrong and resist an injustice system that was built on the land
of my ancestors. For this prison resistance I am rewarded by the state
with an aggressive push to keep excellent political theory from reaching
me, from comrades being able to send a letter of encouragement or
perhaps a book on political science.
I was receiving literature and Maoist books from MIM for several years
while on the “mainline” general population and I delved into those works
so many times that even though I am currently subjected to censorship of
political correspondence from MIM(Prisons) I have a strong understanding
of the society we live in and the need for political power. It is
situations like what I am currently undergoing that really drive home
the need to liberate oppressed nations. Here in the SHU, Raza cannot
even learn or read about their ancient pre-Columbian languages as the
state says this is gang related. Now political science, the ability to
theorize and have ideas of a society outside of what currently exists,
is denied us.
Occupation is done on many levels all over the world. In some countries
occupation may be more subtle but if you look close enough the
similarities are there. When the Japanese occupied Korea after the war
the Korean language was banned; the Korean people could only speak
Japanese. All Korean history and political literature outside Japanese
imperialism was censored. We must learn from history; not just our
specific history of our particular country of origin. A study of all
histories will show that what is occurring here has occurred many times.
The situation in California prisons in particular should be noted and
learned from; the censorship we are experiencing has been employed in
years past. This targeting of political organizations has been seen and
felt on many levels, but today’s censorship comes at historic times. It
is because contemporary ideas and revolutionary theory in general and
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in particular is essential for future struggles
and because of the current “awakening” of oppressed nations people in
prisons that CDCR has begun a program of censorship particularly in its
control units, i.e. SHUs where it is no coincidence that the most
politically advanced are held captive. Getting the independent press,
such as ULK, in the hands of the imprisoned masses is of
extreme importance.
The people are fighting to educate the political prisoners, uplift the
consciousness of prisoners, and bring politics to the prison houses
nationwide, and build the prison base for revolution. At the same time
the ruling class sees the 2+ million potentially revolutionary prisoners
behind bars and knows that every prisoner who takes up the struggle for
a better society is another addition to resist their program. They
understand that prisoners in general are becoming radicalized yet they
know they can’t shut down all so called “freedom of the press,” so they
spend their time and resources on what they feel are their prime target
group or persons of influence which are what they label the people held
in control units. By doing so they are basically isolating these
comrades from correspondence, political literature or study material of
any sort, even of basic contact with comrades on the outside.
This is being done to dull or attempt to dull the revolutionary edge in
the prison population, starting in SHUs and expecting this dullness to
permeate the rest of the population. The need for people who still have
the ability to receive any papers, newsletters or literature from
MIM(Prisons) to do so is of utmost importance, with vigor and hunger as
if you will never get the chance again because once in a SHU you will be
censored. The need to support independent press like ULK is on
top of the priority list and should be done financially or any other
way. It is times like now that I appreciate a crisp uncut publication
like ULK; when only watered-down periodicals are allowed to
reach me I see how precious ULK is.
I am embarking on another legal battle for the censorship here in
Pelican Bay and i encourage others to do the same. United we will
overcome this battle.
Manos por América, que maravilloso, concepto conmovedor. Desde Santa
Mónica, California hasta las playas de Alabama. Americanos unidos en un
atentado para enseñar su desilusión y coraje al Petróleo Británico
compañía de petróleo (BP), tanto como su amor por el medioambiente,
específicamente a la costa del Golfo.
Han sido más de dos meses desde que BP causó el desastroso derrame de
petróleo en la región de la Costa del Golfo de los Estados Unidos y
todavía los imperialistas y capitalistas grandes no saben cómo parar uno
de los desastres ambientales más destructivas en la historia humana.
¡Los americanos están enojados! Una de las cosas que los americanos
odian a ver lo más es cuando el toque del imperialismo tiene un impacto
en la costa “suya”. Que enorme golpe financiero para todas esas personas
viviendo en o cerca de la costa del Golfo, ni mencionar toda esa pobre
vida marina indefensa - cómo se atreve ese BP venir aquí y imponer sus
maneras descuidados y maniáticas en América - ¿no tienen ninguna
vergüenza? los americanos no querían ese petróleo de todos modos,
¿verdad?
En realidad, los americanos sí quieren que BP perfore para petróleo.
Siendo los parásitos sobre la humanidad y el globo que son, ellos
definitivamente quieren que BP perfore para el petróleo en la costa del
Golfo pese a lo que digan. Son tan sedientos por petróleo como un
garrapata de la sangre. Es en parte por qué instalaron el Sha de Irán
hace años atrás. Es porqué invadieron a Kuwait y atacaron a Iraq durante
la Guerra del Golfo, que resultó en rompimiento de record de derrames de
petróleo marinas a ese tiempo contaminando las ciénegas en Iraq. (BP ha
superado ese record en el extremo ahora.)(1) Es porqué América invadió a
Iraq la segunda vez y colgó a Saddám. Y es en parte por qué ahora tienen
sus miras fijos en Irán por un cambio de régimen. Así que por favor, a
todos ustedes sedientes glotones Americanos, evítenos sus sentimientos.
Ustedes querían este petróleo tanto como, si no más que sus grandes
capitalistas y empresas de energía.
No es como si BP fuera una entidad externa y completamente ajeno a
América que de algún modo simplemente forzó o manipuló la única
superpotencia del hemisferio occidental y empezó a perforar a su propio
deseo. Ustedes querían ese petróleo cuando ustedes decidieron a
deshacerse de ese viejo cansado Chevy y mejorar a un decadente y caro
2010 SUV de todo terreno. Ustedes querían ese petróleo cuando decidieron
mantener sus casas a un cómodo 73 grados por todo el año aunque ustedes
viven en California. Ustedes querían ese petróleo cada vez que compraron
toda esa otra ociosa e innecesaria porquería que no necesitaron que
requiso petróleo para fabricar, empaquetar, enviar, etcétera. Y
finalmente, ustedes probaron que ustedes querían ese
petróleo cada vez que uno de sus niños regresó del extranjero en un saco
de cadáver, o sometieron al Tercer Mundo a su yugo de opresión, muerte y
destrucción.
Todo está excelente y magnífico cuando el derrame de petróleo ocurre en
otra parte, en un país que ustedes están muy flojos a siquiera intentar
de pronunciar correctamente. Los Nigerianos han estado viviendo entre
derrames de petróleo por más de 50 años, que asciende a más de 550
millones de gallones derramados, gracias a empresas de petróleo
extranjeros que prestan América y otras países ricos.(2) 50 años, y
todavía nada ha sido hecho sobre los ecosistemas destruidos ni medios de
vida humana. Para aquellos que hacen campaña para parar la perforación
fuera de orillas en los Estados Unidos sin seriamente restringir el
consumo del Primer Mundo: eso solamente traducirá en más contaminación y
destrucción en Nigeria, el Sudan y por todo del Medio Oriente donde
vidas humanas y ecosistemas están considerados menos digno por los
chauvinistas gritando “¡no en mi patio!”
El derrame de petróleo no era solamente la culpa de BP ni fue solamente
la culpa de Obama tampoco. Es capitalismo, estúpido, y lo más pronto que
lo empieces a entender y comiences a hacer algo para asegurar que los
derrames de petróleo como lo de la costa del Golfo no sucedan otra vez,
como por ejemplo ayudando a derribar el imperialismo, lo mejor
estaremos.
Este tipo de desastre habría tenido muy poco o cero posibilidad de
ocurrir en la Unión Soviética anterior (1917-1953) o la República de
China Socialista (1949-1976), porque esos países comunistas no habrían
tenido hacer el extenso perforación que el Primer Mundo parece estar
enganchado con. ¿Por qué? Eso es exactamente por qué los países
comunistas implementaron algo llamado “economías planeados” para cumplir
con necesidades humanas. Con el conocimiento de hoy de los efectos de
capitalismo sobre la ecología de la tierra, una forma de producción
socialista sólo aprobará la producción de cantidades necesarias para los
necesidades de sus pueblos, tal como comida, ropa, refugio, provisiones
médicos y otros necesidades para comercio y venta. Estas economías
planeados estarán puestos al corriente trimestralmente, anualmente, o
como necesitado. Pero ahora, Americanos exigen más y lo quieren barato.
Y los imperialistas tienen que producir más de lo necesario para
continuar sacar provecho.
En las sistema económica Maoísta, ya que la producción es por necesidad
y no por la ganancia, la seguridad de repente se hace “manejable.” Bajo
el capitalismo, cortando esquinas aumenta beneficios, mientras amenaza a
la vida humana. Aunque mucho estadounidenses está legítimamente
enfadados, se sienten incapaces de hacer nada. Los oficiales de BP
parecen intocables, sin embargo en una economía planeado socialista
Maoísta, los responsables de las operaciones que amenazan la vida se
llevan a cabo a la mayor rendición de cuentas, incluida la pena de
muerte.. Mientras los oficiales de BP son millonarios, los oficiales
comunistas en socialista China ganaron mucho menos que los
intelectuales, aunque llevaban mucho más responsabilidad. Permitir que
los pocos sacar provecho de la destrucción del planeta, que depende toda
la vida, será el legado más duradero del capitalismo que las
generaciones futuras se rascarán la cabeza.
Podemos esperar muchas desastres más golpear a los Estados Unidos, como
lo han estado golpeando el Tercer Mundo desde hace décadas, en los
próximos años como los imperialistas se vuelven más desesperados para
explotar la Tierra de sus recursos materiales y dejar a un lado todos
los escrúpulos cuando se aprovecha cada vez más a las reservas de
minerales y de combustibles fósiles de los EE.UU. El apetito insaciable
de consumo del Primer Mundo debe ser detenido con el fin de mantener un
planeta que valga la pena construir el socialismo en.
Approximately 30-45 days ago all 46 SHU prisoners at CCI (California
Correctional Institution) Tehachapi received an institution wide memo
from the Associate Warden, in response to a complaint from a prisoner in
regards to soap allotment. The main contention being that we had not
received soap for an entire week. Now this would seem a legitimate
endeavor on the surface - with one problem. This comrade apparently
fired off some half-cocked letter with no proactive action to support
it. The end result, of course, being very ineffective and worsening the
situation.
The typical administration response we got was that we are only allotted
1/2 a bar of soap per week. Until that point we were receiving an entire
bar of soap. The justification for the cut was the current excuse of
‘budget cuts’. Of course this was a punitive response.
There’s one very important thing that I would like to stress to all
comrades: the major difference between bitching and complaining
legitimately. To simply bitch is to make an issue out of current
circumstances/conditions with no intention of following through to the
court system or gathering outside pressure with support. A complaint is
supported by affirmative action with planning, forethought, and distinct
political goals. In our case, causing a blow to the imperialist system
of incarceration.
por un@ prisioner@ en California October 2010 permalink
Cuanto tiempo más siguieran matando a nuestros profetas, mientras nos
mantenemos a un lado observando algunos comentan que solo es parte de
ello: tenemos que satisfacer el libro. ¿No ayudarás a
cantar estos cuentos de libertad? Por que todo lo que
tuve: cantos de alivio, … -Bob Marley, del Canto de alivio.
Wyclef Jean, el músico haitiano y una vez, miembro del grupo Hip-Hop,
Los Fugees, ha anunciado su candidatura a la presidencia de Haití. El
comenta que fue forzado hacerlo ahora por la destrucción causado por el
temblor en Haití en enero, y clama que fue reclutado por la juventud
haitiano, lo cual dice sobrepasa el 50% de la población en este país.
Parece haber tomar prestado de la campana de Obama con su calificación
principal de que él es “nuevo” es decir, “cambio”.(1)
En ULK10(Bajo Cerradura y Llave), MIM(Prisiones) señaló como Hip-Hop se
ha convertido a una cultura global por el imperialismo. Era el título
“Hecho en América” que lo hizo tan popular alrededor del mundo, en donde
la población del Tercer Mundo ha sido manipulado para ver su propia
cultura como hacia atrás y fuera de modo. Así como los imperialistas han
usado Hip-Hop para reclutar juventud de la nación oprimida en los
Estados Unidos para matar a la juventud de la nación oprimida en el
Tercer Mundo, ahora están usándolos para empujar un nuevo títere
estadounidense en el pueblo de Haití.
Lo que Wyclef hace con el Hip-Hop es lo que la aristocracia de identidad
ha hecho con su marca de liberación de mujeres en el Medio Oriente. Pese
ser un hombre de cuarenta años, quien gana $18 millones al año, el alega
que de alguna manera representar a los intereses de la juventud haitiano
a causa de su puesto en Hip-Hop.(2) Que seamos claros, un niño desde los
barriados de Cité Soléil tiene intereses muy diferentes a los de Wyclef
Jean, así como una mujer muslímica en las montañas de Afganistán tiene
intereses muy diferentes a los de Paris Hilton.
La esperanza de los imperialistas es que la cultura de Hip-Hop sirva
para endulzar este nuevo régimen de títeres en los ojos de la juventud
Haitiano. En un país donde los niños se alimentan de pasteles de lodo
para mantener sus estómagos llenos y menos del 3% de la población votó
en elecciones títeres el año pasado por que el partido popular Lávalas
fue prohibido de participar, unas cuantas canciones dulces de Wyclef
probablemente no serán suficiente.(3)
Aunque no se les fuerza a comer pasteles de lodo para combatir dolores
de hambre, mucha juventud de la nación oprimida en los Estados Unidos
fueron atraídos por la campana de Barak Obama. Hay una relación directa
entre el primer presidente negro de los EEUU y Wyclef, quien desempeñó
para una audiencia en su mayoría negra a la fiesta de la inauguración
del Presidente dado por el canal de televisión de entretenimiento Negro
(BET) para Obama, donde se ha reportado que serenó a Colin Powell con la
“Canción de alivio” por el músico rebelde jamaiquino Bob Marley. Colin
Powell precedió Obama en dar un rostro más negro en la Casa Blanca.
Sirviendo como Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, donde se le recordara
más por haber mentido sobre las así llamadas “armas de destrucción
masiva” para justificar la invasión de Iraq, la cual continua hasta hoy
día. Es mal que Wyclef usara las palabras de Marley para dar serenata a
tal asesino.
Bob Marley era el punto de marca en atentos de asesinato por milicias de
mano derecha colectados con el régimen títere del U.S. tratando de
atener poder en Jamaica en 1976. Al último, se parece que fue asesinado
por la CIA sí misma(4). Como Haití, Jamaica es una isla en el Caribe
habitado por los que eran esclavos africanos dominados por el
imperialismo de los EEUU. Compare a Marley al músico Haitiano Wyclef
Jean (el cual le gusta cubrir canciones de Bob Marley) el cual salió en
MTV y apoyó milicias de la derecha que pelearon para forzar la salida
del presidente Haitiano Jean-Bertrand Aristide, matando a muchos civiles
que les estorban. Más pistas al porque diría cosas semejantes incluyen
reportes que el tío de Jean ha sido embajador del régimen títere US en
Haití, y que el tío pública un periódico que apoya los ataques
sangrientos en la gente de Haití cometidos por las milicias.(5)
Siguiendo el secuestro del Presidente Aristide por los Estados Unidos en
2004, la caridad de Wyclef Jean fue reportada como el primer grupo
permitido entrar en el barriado central de Cite Soliel, apoyado por
millones de dólares de la agencia estadounidense de desarrollo
internacional (USAID). La misma USAID que el presidente estadounidense
Bill Clinton ha usado para socavar la soberanía de Haití por años. Jean
forzó a los haitianos a tumbarse frente a la ocupación mientras las
tropas de la O.N.U. apoyadas por las milicias de los EEUU y Haití
asesinaban a la resistencia en los barriados de Haití (6).
Los imperialistas secuestran, encarcelan, y matan a los líderes de la
gente y después usan sus imágenes para descaminar. ¿Qué desesperados se
han convertido que sus títeres ahora vienen envueltos en las imágenes
los que han atacados y asesinados? Es posible que estén desesperados,
pero son inteligentes.
Originalmente la voz de la juventud de la nación opresa, Hip-Hop tiene
una fuerte papel doble jugar a través del mundo hoy. Pero más y más, si
viene de los Estados Unidos – compra con precaución. En las décadas
recientes, la riqueza aumentada que América proporciona a hombres negros
ha venido desproporcionadamente por la industria del entretenimiento.
Hombres negros regularmente aparecen en cubiertos de revista, con fotos
de sus cuerpos retocados, vendiendo productos de belleza, un papel
considerado como el dominio de la mujer blanca. Esto se ha desarrollado
al fenómeno reciente del hombre negro, anteriormente la víctima
principal del sexo privilegiado de la mujer blanca, haciéndose lo que
llamamos el privilegio de género. En vez de atraer a los opreso de
género como mujeres, Hip-Hop atrae a la juventud del género opreso. El
Departamento de Estado ha elaborado a partir de esta, una vez justo,
rebelión a menudo El departamento del estado ha sacado de esta una vez
justa rebelión, a menudo personificado en Hip-Hop, a construir el
concepto de una cultura de juventud global.
Hip-Hop es una frente mayor en la imposición moderna de la cultura
imperialista en la cultura de los opresos. Mientras esto no impide que
Hip-Hop juegue una papel progresiva, los que rechazan la cultura del
occidente resistirán la influencia corrupta del imperio con mucha más
facilidad. Con una fuerte historia de resistencia a la intervención
imperialista, estamos confidentes que la gente de Haití, le va a
tratarle con frialdad con este intento de instalar un títere vestido en
la ropa de Hip-Hop.
Notas: (1) August 5, 2010 Interview on CNN. (2) Katz, Jonathan. AP
Interview: Wyclef Jean’s vision for Haiti. 6 August 2010. (3)Hinton,
Charlie. Wyclef Jean for president of Haiti? Look beyond the hype. SF
BayView. August 2, 2010. (4) Potash, John. The FBI War on Tupac
Shakur and Black Leaders. Progressive Left Press, 2008.
p.183. (5)It’s not All about That!: Wyclef Jean is fronting in Haiti
by the Haiti Information Project (6)Kevin Pina interviews the
most-wanted man in Haiti: Amaral Duclona by the Haiti Information
Project