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I long ago came to the realization that oppression exists everywhere,
regardless of our current position or circumstance. Within concentration
camps such as this “La Lucha Continua” - The Struggle Continues! When we
submit and allow our oppressors to dictate our actions and decisions
then we lose major points within our struggle. Our oppressors know that
we’re more of a threat alive than dead and so that’s why our oppressors
strive to push us into that fatal state of defeatism. And so, for those
comrades who’ve walked a suicidal line, for those who’re contemplating
suicide, I say “Live! Our youth need you! The community needs you! And
brothers within this crooked system such as myself need you!”
Every time I receive a newsletter from MIM(Prisons) I read about
comrades in Wisconsin, California, Texas, Arizona, and Illinois! And so,
I want to give our readers a peep behind these steel doors and concrete
walls in the state of Tennessee. In a failed attempt to mentally and
physically break me into submission because of my rebellious nature
against oppressive authority, the warden at West Tenn State Prison
(WTSP) had me transferred here to DeBerry Special Needs (DSNF) and
placed in Unit 7 which is supposed to be a mental health program, but to
all TDOC employees and correctional officers here, Unit 7 is knows as
the “Gladiator’s Academy!”
Everyday, prisoners who are mentally stable or unstable are verbally,
physically and sexually assaulted, abused, mistreated and tortured. In
Unit 7, L, D and F pods, TDOC correctional officers will give a prisoner
a razor blade or 2 sheets and tell him to make the world a better place!
From 2003 to 2010 several prisoners died suicidal and violent deaths at
the hands of these TDOC employees who’ve sworn to uphold the law (their
law)! Certain prisoners won’t get fed for days and the results of this
type of torture is fatal for the prisoners.
If a prisoner files a grievance in regards to this matter then he’s
immediately placed on rec, shower, mail and food restriction. And it’s
not uncommon to witness a gang of TDOC employees beating a prisoner or
hitting him with the taser gun or electric shield because he refused his
prescribed psychotic medicine. The warden here, Jennie L. Jobe, and the
deputy warden Debra Johnson are fully aware of what’s going on in Unit 7
here, yet they’ve made no move to put an end to this madness.
Here at DSNF in the state of Tennessee and everywhere else in the world,
oppressors/downpressors are at their best because they’re united! If
only all of us would do the same…unite!! I don’t consume any type of
psychotic (or non) medicine yet I’m still here. I’ve requested to be
discharged several times but all of my requests have been ignored. And
if I become too rebellious then in the name of mental health my
oppressors will inject me with their poison medicine. I know that one
small dose could alter or completely destroy my mind.
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.
I have recently received your MIM Theory 13 magazine and your letter and
the ULK newsletter. I am a Tamms C-Max incarcerated individual who has
been living and experiencing the Tamms life of daily struggles and
misfortunes for the past year of what seems like an estimated five to
ten years before review and actual consideration for an eligible
transfer. Although fixed annual and quarterly reviews are held for us
here, nobody goes anywhere, especially for what most of us are down here
for which is allegedly being gang leaders and influencers over a
Security Threat Group(STG). Really we’re just conspired against by those
in general population who can’t stand to live among a different mindset
which is hated on by those who can’t figure one out.
So the birds chirped and the masses spoke to get rid of yet another
innocent man just trying to get back in count and enjoy a few contact
visits. I was brought here in January and have kept to myself since
then. I’m antisocial and goal oriented, silent to the land but outspoken
and observant for the blind. So with that said, I’ve been silent to the
land concept and scheme which revolves around my 90 thousand dollar a
year head and stay here in the worst of the worst prisons. I’ve observed
enough and must now speak out for those who are blind and out of sync
with what’s really transpiring behind the walls of Tamms.
On my first day here from being transferred I wasn’t fed on the ride
here so I spoke up and was told my next meal was going to be a 3-11
shift, but then I stood light headed till four that afternoon hungry
from breakfast which was my last meal before waking up at 7 to be told
to pack up what property never got sent here to my possessions. I got
discriminated and retaliated against for something I wasn’t even a part
of. I only retrieved my personal electronics, clothing and food but all
my legal mail and personal mail never showed up… “mistake”, i think not.
Last month in October a brother was written a misconduct report for
having Soledad Brother and From Niggas to Gods. They
reasoned that George Jackson is a “known Panther” as if that is a valid
reason to write him up. They said From Niggas to Gods was
banned in Green Bay Correctional Institution. I guess ’cause they don’t
want us to go from calling ourselves niggas, behaving like niggas, to
calling ourselves children of God or behaving as such. They want us to
still be their niggas and we best not be caught trying to learn or read
any books of substance. But we can read an “urban” novel that promotes
all type of Black-on-Black murder and violence. He was given 210 days in
the hole.
On November 2 2010 my comrade’s bunk was searched and the racist pig Van
Laden took several books from him, i.e. Soledad Brother, Noam
Chomsky, Niami Akbar, Cornel West’s Reader and a couple more.
They also took some 4struggle newspapers because they mentioned
the
Black
Panther Party. For several days they didn’t give him the conduct
report. They usually come within 2 days. He was called out to talk to
the pig Van Laden and Van Laden told him that he will see him in court,
meaning at the conduct report hearing.
On November 8 2010 he was given the conduct report. It is a witch hunt.
The pig Van Laden says Soledad Brother mentions the Black
Panthers, that 4struggle mentions the Panthers’ 10 point
platform, and phrases like “clenched fist,” “power to the people,” “red
black and green.” This pig said the material and books are “black
supremacy” literature! I’m still trying to understand what is Black
supremacy and what does that mean. The use of the word supremacy means
one group is saying that they are superior to another. Nothing in any of
the material points to that because if it did he would have written
“page so-and-so of this book says they are superior and whites are
inferior.” But he can’t because that is not what any of the material
advocates. He claims to be a Security Threat Expert and states in the
report that the Panthers are on the list as a security threat group.
Thus any material that mentions it is banned and anyone caught with it
is in violation for having this reading material. Same as slavery.
But dig this, comrade has receipts for every book they say is a threat
to their security. They let them in, then say you can’t have them. They
have a list of banned books and none of his books are on the banned book
list. Not even Soledad Brother, because nothing in it is a
security threat. George ain’t advocating nothing of so-called violence
or Black supremacy. Like I said before this is just a witch hunt to
break us up. The two brothers I mentioned are in the dorm with me, we
are in a social environment, not fighting each other, and teaching these
younger brothers. That is the security threat to them. They don’t want
us to learn about our history and gain a sense of self. They want us
ignorant running around here being good n’s. Reading is forbidden unless
it’s fiction. He was charged with Group Resistance and Petition and
awaits to go on his hearing.
On November 5 2010 I was called up to the CO desk and asked how another
prisoner got my book. She said if I didn’t give it to him she would
write him up for theft. I said the regular CO Zellner that works here
said he can read it as long as I get it back by the end of the night.
She said “well I’m giving you a ticket for unauthorized transfer of
property.” She called another brother to the desk and gave him his book
back without writing a ticket for him. The title of my book was Huey
P. Newton and the Black Panther Party. That is why she wrote me up
but gave the other brother his book back.
I got the conduct report on November 8 2010 and Group Resistance and
Petition was on it too. This charge is one that they use to lay someone
down in the hole or send to Wisconsin’s supermax in Boscobel where I
have been for over 4 years already. The report says I gave my book to
someone else to read which is a violation 9.e. unauthorized transfer of
property. Even if a CO gave you permission it is still unauthorized
transfer of property under their 1984 newspeak semantics. It also says
that the Black Panthers are an “unsanctioned” group, and the book is
confiscated. But I worked in the library here before and I’ve seen this
same book come in on inter-library loan on several occasions;
Soledad Brother and From Niggas to Gods too.
The fix is in. My comrade and I still await our hearings. We talked to
white shirt and the security director about this fix. This way they have
knowledge of it and can be added to the lawsuit. Because none of this is
a threat. I had this book for almost six and a half years! We’re trying
to get the word out about this. They have a list of banned books but
none of these books we are written up for are banned.
Also I wrote a book about change and let a young brother read it. His
bunk was searched and a new pig brought it up to the Sergeant and he
called me up to the desk and asked if it was my book. I said yes. He
asked, “who gave you permission to write this?” I said, “my mind! What
you mean who gave me permission?” He said he was calling up to security
to see if I could do that. About an hour went by and he called me to the
desk and gave me the book back. But the thing is “who gave you
permission?” As if I need someone’s permission to write down my own
thoughts. This same pig has a confederate flag tattoo on his left arm.
Saying we can’t read or gain a sense of self by learning our history or
that we need “their” permission slip to write our thoughts is the same
as the slavery that our ancestors went through. But most can’t see it.
They just see these racist pigs as having a job. This is not a job, this
is a form of oppression. Capitalism is a form of oppression. We are a
means for them to be employed through our oppression. And I try to get
these young and older brothers to see this. Slavery was capitalism.
Prisons are capitalism. Whites were the ones that ran the plantations.
Whites are the ones that run the prisons. It’s all the same just a new
way.
by a North Carolina prisoner November 2010 permalink
I am a prisoner at Scotland Correctional Institution in Laurinburg,
North Carolina. I am writing to you because of the fact that the legal
mail that you sent out to several prisoners here [containing a letter
MIM(Prisons) sent to the Director of Prisons regarding ongoing
censorship at Scotland CI] was opened by the mailroom staff and treated
as regular mail.
Even though the mail had “Legal Mail” stamped on it, the mailroom staff
still opened it. By DOC policy I have to witness them opening my legal
mail, and I have to sign for legal mail. By them opening this legal
mail, they violated DOC policy and broke Federal law.
This requires some sort of action. I am filing a grievance on this
matter and when I receive a response I will send it to you.
MIM(Prisons) adds: This letter is just one example of the long
history of mailroom staff at Scotland CI unjustly censoring, banning,
and trashing mail from MIM(Prisons), with the collusion of Assistant
Superintendent Karen Stanback. While this comrade is filing grievances
and organizing other prisoners around the issue, another comrade in
North Carolina is working on bringing a case against the NC DOC to
hopefully reformat the whole censorship and grievance system. If you
want to get involved, or support this case, get in touch. Both methods
are correct and necessary if we want to combat censorship.
…I would have responded much sooner to give notice to the fellow
comrades at MIM(Prisons) that I received
ULK 16. However,
at the time I was forced to remain in solitary confinement for
organizing an intellectual study group, which included members
affiliated with organizations such as Bloods, 5 Percenters and Latin
Kings. This oppressive institution of confinement and confusion charged
me with “group demonstration.” I am currently housed in Administrative
Segregation for that charge and serving a 365 day sanction. But in any
event, I received the ULK 16 and wish to be added to your
mailing list.
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.
I want to tell my story about what’s happening to me and others like me.
I’m labeled a Security Risk Group Threat Member (SRGTM) because I fight
against oppression. Me and other members of groups are being targeted.
We are being punished, and the form of punishment being use is violating
the United States Constitution 8th Amendment. During our legally
mandated meaningful hour recreation in outside air, I and other SRGTM
prisoners are being handcuffed behind the back, and we can’t properly
get exercise while handcuffed in this painful way. After a half hour
with my hands cuffed behind my back my wrists and shoulders are in pain,
and this pain continues even after the cuffs are removed. And all SRGTM
have been going through this for 5 to 6 months, maybe more. I believe
this is cruel and unusual punishment.
Here’s what I wrote to the unit manager captain Marinelly. I also wrote
to Deputy Warden Faucher, Warden Angel Quiros, and Commissioner Leo
Arnone. These people, these pigs of oppression, don’t have morals or
principles.
Mr. Marinelly,
I am hereby addressing this policy that the administration has put into
effect. This is my second complaint, since early this year about this
condition where security risk group threat members have to be handcuffed
behind the back. This in fact is a violation of my 8th amendment, the
right to be free “cruel and unusual punishment”, as guaranteed by the
eighth amendment of the United States constitution…
I am an A.S./Phase 2 prisoner, I am also labeled as a Security Risk
Group Threat Member and due to that label I am forced to be handcuffed
with my hands behind my back if I want to go outside to exercise for my
entitled one hour recreation. I already have pain in my wrist and
shoulders being cuffed from the back for an hour. How can I exercise
like that?
Sir, if you take a look at the “Connecticut prisoners right handbook”
and look at chapter 8 page 66, “Exercise and Recreation,” you’ll in fact
see how serious and severe this violation is.
Paragraph 2 explains this: Prison officials cannot take a prisoners’
“exercise privileges for a substantial amount of time without a good
reason. Restrictions on exercise must be limited to ‘unusual
circumstances in which exercise is impossible because of disciplinary
needs.’”
Indeed, the fact that a prisoner is violent may justify segregating him
or her from general prison population, but does not necessarily justify
prison failure to make other exercise arrangements. In addition, prison
may not invoke cost consideration in denying prisoners the opportunity
to exercise.
Prisoners’ right to exercise does not require prisons to provide games
or weight equipment for indoor or outdoor exercise areas since reliance
on running, calisthenics, and isometric and aerobic exercise satisfies
the exercise requirements of the 8th amendment. Prison need only provide
time and space.
Sir, how can one do any of the above mentioned exercises that satisfies
the requirements of the 8th amendment with his hands cuffed behind his
back. This situation isn’t for a week or two weeks, but for however long
it takes for those who are “SRGTM” to get to 2 East, those of us have to
do 4 months as phase 1 with our hands cuffed behind our back. So a month
in AS/phase 2 and 4 months in phase 1 of the SRGTM equals 5 months or
more. I believe that is a substantial amount of time, wouldn’t you
agree?
This violation not only deprives me of my adequate exercise. May I
remind you that’s protected by our 8th amendment of the United States
constitution. It also puts me in danger, how can one defend himself if
someone slips his cuffs off and attacks me while my hands are cuffed
behind my back. I am asking, Sir. Marinelly that this violation be
investigated and corrected immediately.
MIM(Prisons) adds: This is yet another example of the
brutality of the Amerikan criminal injustice system which barely pays
lip service to even following their own rules and regulations. Because
these are not just individual cases, MIM(Prisons) focuses on fighting
the entire system. We know that we can’t win until imperialism is
defeated. But exposing the injustice system and organizing prisoners in
a United Front are important for developing the anti-imperialist
struggle here in the belly of the beast.
Fronteras Unidas es la teoría de unir grupos diferentes por líneas de
clase para un objetivo común y interés, mientras manteniendo la
independencia cuando estos grupos no están de acuerdo. La aplicación de
la teoría de la frontera unida es como el reconocer de las diferentes
contradicciones en la sociedad y utilizarlas en el interés del
proletariado internacional. La primera frontera unida es la Frontera
Unida del Anti-imperialista, la cual está formada por la mayoría de las
personas quienes intereses materiales se basan en el fracaso del
imperialismo. Esta es una frontera unida estratégica basada en la
principal contradicción.
En este artículo hablaremos de un par de asuntos contemporáneos en los
E.U. y analizaremos su potencial para el trabajo de la frontera unida.
Veremos que muchos de los conflictos grandes en un país del Primer Mundo
están entre las clases enemigas, pero eso no quiere decir que siempre
vamos a sentarnos en el banquillo. Algunas formas de las Fronteras
Unidas son tácticas y requieren una acción inmediata basada en
conocimiento a fondo. Para navegar exitosamente la potencial de las
Fronteras Unidas en el Primer Mundo que sirve a los intereses del Tercer
Mundo proletariado, debemos tener un análisis correcto de nuestras
condiciones. La primera sección de este artículo se proporciona un fondo
rápida de hacernos comenzar.
La Tierra, Vivienda y la Nación de Colonos
Un argumento contra la tesis trabajo del aristocrática es que las
corporaciones no tienen el interés en sacrificar sus ganancias para
pagar más a los trabajadores de países del Primer Mundo, y no hay una
conspiración corporativa para hacer cumplir esta conducta. Esto se basa
en la teoría de mercado libre capitalista, o solo por leer los primeros
capítulos de El Capital por Marx y aplicándolos como un modelo de
realidad específico en todos lugares por todo el mundo. Como una clase,
los capitalistas depende en la aristocracia del trabajo no sólo
políticamente sino económicamente como los consumidores y engranajes de
su sistema de pirámide de crecimiento de capital financiero. Y hay un
lugar, al menos, donde los imperialistas EEUU pueden ejercer su voluntad
como una clase social (mucho más estos días) - se llama el gobierno EEUU
La promoción de propiedades domésticas por los federales es uno de los
mayores ejemplos del imperialistas conscientemente construyendo una
aristocracia del trabajo en el corazón del imperio.
La propiedad doméstica en la América ha sido un elemento básico de la
riqueza de América desde que los colonos le robaron la tierra de la
Primeras Naciones y construyeron sus hogares en ella. El valor neto de
las familias americanas comparado con las primera nación y los
descendientes de esclavos en los EEUU es una herencia de esta forma
primitiva de acumulación. Mientras la propiedad de la tierra entre los
invasores europeos los más tempranos era 100% (este es porque vinieron a
las Américas), por la Guerra de Independencia de 1776, la propiedad de
la tierra era todavía a 70% para la nación euro-americana.(1) Arghiri
Emmanuel señaló que los salarios americanos fueron capaces de permanecer
tan altos en el periodo temprano del desarrollo capitalista, aunque la
propiedad de la tierra cesó de ser universal, porque la abundancia de
tierra “gratis” - robada de las Primeras Naciones presentaba un plan
alternativa para los colonos europeos.(2) Esta primitiva acumulación a
través del genocidio fue la base de la riqueza que las trabajadores
aristocráticas americanas disfrutaron mientras la industrialización
transformó más de los colonos a trabajadores asalariados.
Siguiendo la lucha inter-imperialista de WWI, los EEUU han llegado a ser
el podar imperialista dominante. La afluencia de riqueza que vino con
esto permitió la integración de la parte de inmigrantes del sur y del
este de Europea a la nación blanca conducía a la Gran Depresión.(1)
Desde 1900 hasta 1950 el promedio de la propiedad domestica en los EEUU
era casí un 45%, con los precios lo más bajo en la cinturón negro del
sur y el más alto en los estados del Norte que eran dominados por
Europeos.(3) Después de la recuperación económica que comenzó después de
WWII, los EEUU se embarcó en la sub-urbanización de América con
incentivos numerosos del gobierno federal para traer la propiedad
domestica encima del 60% de nuevo.
Desde 1960, la propiedades doméstic se mantenido encima del 60% para los
ciudadanos de los EEUU en su conjunto.(4) Esta tasa fue superior al 70%
de los estadounidenses blancos en los últimos años, pero el censo no
cuenta con estadísticas comparables por la raza que se remonta muy
lejos. La tasa de propiedad de la vivienda por los negros y los latinos
es poco menos del 50%, a pesar de la opresión nacional ha asegurado que
actualmente se enfrentan la ejecución hipotecaria en forma
desproporcionada.
Las teorías de Emmanuel en el “Cambio Desigual” demuestran que como los
salarios significantemente más altos de las personas del primer mundo en
realidad transfieren las riquezas desde el Tercer Mundo a los países
imperialistas, reforzando sus ventajas económicas. Del mismo modo, la
nación opresora tiene la equidad, y es capaz de aumentar la riqueza de
una manera que las semi-colonias internas no son capaces de hacer a
pesar de acceso a empleos de nivel explotador. Todo esto encaja con la
tendencia general del capitalismo, que es la acumulación de capital.
Cuanto más se tiene, más se tiende a obtener.
La Caída del Mercado Domiciliario en US
El ala izquierda del nacionalismo blanco (si se describan anarquistas,
socialistas, Maoístas o democráticos) ha estado diciendo que el
incremento en la reposesión de domicilios es una indicación de las
contradicciones aumentados entre el proletariado americano y el
capitalismo. Estas personas defienden la tierra robada que ha sido la
base de riquezas para los colonos de América y la esquema pirámide
moderna de propiedad domestica que es la base del sueño Americano hoy.
No solo han perdido millones de gente su domicilio por reposesión en
años recientes, sino los traficantes del miedo señalan que en el
“mercado hipotecario de alto riesgo resultó en la desaparición de 13
trillones de dólares en la riqueza domiciliario americano entre el
medio-año de 2007 y marzo 2009. . . en el promedio, el domiciliario
estadounidense ha perdido un cuarto de su riqueza en ese periodo.”(5)
Tantas alarmistas ignoran que estadounidenses ganaron 10 millones de
dólares desde 2006 a 2007 llegar a un nivel alto más alto, y que el
valor neto de los ciudadanos del país ha generalmente ha amentado a
tasas incrementando desde WWII.(6) Las subidas y bajadas más grandes en
todos los mercados financieras son seguramente señales de crisis, pero
para actuar como los americanos se han estado hundidos a condiciones del
Tercer Mundo en el 2010, es ridículo. ¡Si solamente esas activistas
gritaran tan fuerte para ellos que realmente tienen que vivir en
condiciones del Tercer Mundo por toda sus vidas y generaciones!
La mayoría, si no toda, la pérdida del valor neto americano es contada
por carteras de acciones y valores de domicilios (las cuales se vende y
se compra como acciones hoy) en otras palabras pérdidas del capital
financiera. Tradicionalmente, la pequeña burguesía marxista no fue
explotado, ni tampoco ha significantemente explotado de ningún otro.
Para decir que ellos que ganan de inversión de capital financiera son
algo menor que los miembros de la pequeña burguesía es un rechazo a la
definición marxista. Con la propiedad doméstica alrededor de 68% en años
reciente, eso es un sólido dos tercios de las gente en los Estados
Unidos que ciertamente cae en la categoría de la clase media, o más
alto, incluye 50% de Negros y Latinos (mínimo). Este grupo tiene 210
millones de gente, o solo 3% de la población mundial en 2010, pero ellos
tienen más riqueza neta de la capitalización total del mercado de todas
compañías que cotizan en bolsa en el mundo.(7)
Nuestros críticos señalan a las iniquidades grandes de riqueza en los
Estados Unidos como una razón de organizar americanos para la
revolución. Entonces déjemos mirar sólo al 80% inferiores de los
americanos, quienes eran dueñods de 15% (un insignificante arañazo de la
mása) de la riqueza neta en los E.U. en 2007 (y esta fue un mínimo de 15
años para ellos).(8) Mientras su parte ha bajado unos pocos porcentajes
desde 1983, un total de la riqueza neta en los E.U. se ha incrementado
por cinco veces. Por eso lo más inferior 80% de americanos fueron acerca
de $2.2 trillones de riqueza neta en 1983 hasta casi $10 trillones en
2007.(9) La clase media en América tiene activos que superan el Producto
Interno Bruto de China(10), la potencia industrial del mundo que
representa casi 20% de la población mundial. Eso se compara solo las
clases americanas “media” y “pobre” a toda la nación de China, incluye
su clase capitalista muy desarrollada.
Puesto que el proletariado, por definición, tiene un valor neto
insignificante en forma de activos, dejemos a mirar a sus ingresos.(11)
El ingreso generalmente crece proporcionalmente con la riqueza neta
alrededor del mundo.(12) Casi una mitad de la población mundial vive en
menos de $1000 al año. Eso es 3.14 billones de la gente vive en menos de
$3 trillones en un año.(13) Ahora, antes de condenar los activos grandes
americanas, hay que estar seguro que ellos son mejores en el ahorro y
también el invierto de su dinero que el proletariado. En 2005 el 20% del
mundo lo más rico contaba con 76.6% de todo del consumo privado de
bienes. el 50% lo más pobre contaba con sólo 7.2% de consumo(13) Una
estimación conservativa nos deja con los americanos consumiendo al menos
de 27 veces más que la persona promedia en la mitad del mundo lo más
pobre.(14) Entonces las habilidades de administrar el dinero no pueden
explicar la riqueza neta americana grande.
Una sociedad humana justo y sostenible requiere que la aristocrática
obrera americana se reduzca a los niveles de consumo mucho más cercanos
a los del Tercer Mundo. Pero este ejercicio demuestra que esto está muy
lejos de pasar, peso a los gritos de los alarmistas.
Últimamente, la contradicción que estamos describiendo está entre la
aristocracia obrera y el imperialismo. Los imperialistas, en particular
el capital financiero, son un clase oportunista dinámica. En contraste,
las obreras aristocráticas se benefician de la estabilidad del estado
actual de los asuntos.
Los capitalistas financieras eran capaces de hacer unas ganancias
rápidas por la venta en corto de la aristocracia obrera, entonces los
americanos están disgustados. Aunque tal vez empuja la aristocracia
obrera hacia el fascismo, los capitalistas financieros están
malvendiendo al consumismo de los americanos en lo que su sistema
depende tanto. Lo que estamos presenciando es una contradicción interno
en el sistema capitalista llevando a cabo. Los dos grupos controlan
trillones de dólares en riquezas del Tercer Mundo, y anti-imperialista
Frontera Unidas no tiene un interés en uno de ellos teniendo más que el
otro. Hay que mantenernos sentados fuera de nosotros.
La Migración a los EEUU
Como discutido arriba, altos salarios y crecientes valores domiciliarios
se reafirman en nuestro sistema económico actual, haciendo el rico más
rico. Sin embargo, no podría mantenerse sin levantar una frontera afuera
de lo que estas dos cosas no puede fluir. Entonces mantener los salarios
y el valor domiciliario de alto está directamente relacionado con la
lucha por la creciente represión de trabajadores migrantes en las
fronteras de los EEUU. La contradicción en esta lucha es entre las
naciones
oprimidas que están tratando de acceder a puestos de trabajo en los EEUU
y la nación opresora que está intentando de mantenerlos afuera. Esta
desafío a los privilegios de los países imperialistas indica que la
lucha por los derechos del inmigrante es parte de la lucha
anti-imperialista.
Mientras la gente del Tercer Mundo y algunos jóvenes americanos
enfrentaron las obreras aristocráticas americanas en la calle, fue el
Tribunal del Distrito de los E.U. quien puso en marcha una orden
judicial contra la mayoría de lo dispuesto en el proyecto de ley del
senado del estado de Arizona 1070 (SB1070) a la luz de una demanda
presentada por el departamento de justicia (DOJ) contra el estado de
Arizona. El DOJ sostuvo que la inmigración es de la jurisdicción federal
y que el DOJ tenía un plan para todo el país para equilibrar sus
diversos intereses relacionados con la inmigración que Arizona no se le
permitiría echar a perder.
El interés de los miembros de la clase media internacionalista esta en
teniendo acceso gratis a los mercados y trabajadores, no mencionar que
también relaciones internacionales. Este campo incluye el gobierno
federal y sus capitalistas financieros como también los negocios
pequeños que solo operan en los EEUU pero dependen en el trabajo de
inmigrantes. Su conflicto es con los intereses de otros miembros de la
clase media y la mayoría de de la clase media americanos cuya posición
de privilegio viene del elitismo de quienes son permitidos entrar a sus
fuentes riquezas.
Entonces hay una frontera unida efectiva entre el internacionalismo de
los más resistentes a SB1070 en ambos lados de la frontera con Méjico y
el gobierno de EEUU que actua a favor de los miembros de la clase media
internacional. Y por ahora, son los imperialistas quienes son los que
realmente lanzan una llave en el trabajo de los americanos, aunque la
contradicción es básicamente entre naciones oprimidas y naciones
opresoras.
Una mayoría de los americanos, en una serie de encuestas, apoyo a
SB1070, o una ley similar. El mayor porcentaje que figura en un
artículo, 79% no estuvieron de acuerdo que los “inmigrantes ilegales
tienen derecho a los mismos derechos las libertades fundamentales como
un ciudadano de los EEUU.”(15) Esta es la definición del chovinismo
estadunidense. A lo mejor, un quinto de ciudadanos americanos no piensan
que ellos merecen más que otras personas humanas por la virtud de haber
sido nacidos en EEUU. Eso es porque nosotros dejamos de buscar un rayo
de luz en el imperialismo del primer mundo.
Con los latinos, nosotros podemos ver rápidamente esta consciencia
desarrollar por siguir el porcentaje de coco en la población. Una
encuesta de decisiones latinas que encontró que un 12% de la población
latina de votantes de la segunda generación en Arizona estaban de
acuerdo con SB1070. Por la cuarta generación ha incrementado a 30% de
acuerdo con la posición de coco (16) El americanismo es una creciente
enfermedad que ha aclamado proporciones significantes de las
semi-colonias internas de los EEUU.
Une a todos los que puedan unirse
Mientras muchos dogmáticos todavía critican a Mao por aliarse a los
comunistas chinos con la clase media nacional, podemos tomar la teoría
de Fronteras Unidas aún más y llegar a ejemplos de fuerzas progresivas
aliándose con el gobierno de los superpoderes imperialistas del mundo
contra una nación opresora. Esto nos enseña que no podemos dejar que las
ideas de extrema izquierds de la pureza prevenirnos aliarse con aquellos
que podrían ayudar a nuestra causa.
Los errores de la derecha en aplicar la teoría de Fronteras Unidas
sucede cuando tenemos líneas incorrectas en otras partes. No reconocer
que la Frontera Unida trabaja con una clase enemiga, ni llegando a ser
convencida que otras contradicciones han sido resueltas y no empujada a
una posición secundaria son la formas principales del derechismo para
protegerse. Mao tuvo que luchar el derechismo con otros comunistas
quienes pensaban que los comunistas y la clase media nacional deberían
fundirse en uno, donde inevitablemente la clase media reaccionaria
llevaría a causa de su poder relativo. El derechismo en los EEUU se ve
como gente que se encontró con batallas legislativas sobre los derechos
de obreros migrantes. Sin la liberación nacional no hay libertad para
las naciones oprimidas bajo al imperialismo. Y los imperialistas siempre
se oponen eso, como las nacionalistas se fajaron con los comunistas en
una guerra civil cuando los Japoneses fueron forzados afuera.
No buscamos unidad por el privilegio de estar unidos. Buscamos la unidad
que usa todas las fuerzas posible para parar la principal contradicción,
o las batallas que empujan la contradicción principal adelante. Cuando
encontramos grupos en los cuales podemos unirnos estratégicamente, las
Fronteras Unidas también ofrecen un base para la unidad - crítica -
unidad la cual avanza la lucha y depende de unidades revolucionarias y
toda gente oprimida por un futuro mejor.
As of this writing I’ve been confined to a special management unit
because, of all things, a drawing. The artwork however is not the
problem, but what it supposedly represents. From a larger standpoint the
censoring of such work is another form of passive cultural destruction.
What they can’t control they restrict. What they don’t understand, they
tend to fear. And of course the “they” I’m speaking of are those
upholding Amerikan values of whitewashed virtues.
The drawing was one I chose to adopt because of its high symbolism and
esoteric meanings. But because this symbol was first used by the Nation
of Gods and Earths (Five Percenters), a branch of the Nation of Islam,
which is deemed a “security threat group” within penal institutions in
six states, I was also branded a threat. I have no affiliation with that
organization or any gang. I don’t adhere to the NOGE’s or NOI’s
religious dogmas. I do however share in their militant outlook and
agree, for better, with what they’ve done to reeducate Black youth to
the realities of this system. Because of this they, and anyone even
duplicating a representative symbol of such organizations, are deemed a
threat.
I must assume the motivation behind the government labeling a peaceful,
cultural religious organization as a gang can be found in a real
warranted fear of this group’s objectives. To name just a few: its
obvious work in enlightening individuals about this police state, its
very successful strategy in reducing the recidivism rate, and most
importantly empowering youth to be leaders and conduits of true culture
in their families and communities. These priorities, and numerous
others, are something to fear, especially when privatized institutions
can prospectively lose millions annually.
The programming of the masses through corporate-owned media propaganda
has not been done haphazardly. Sensationalism, violence, stereotypes and
desensitization through repetition of crime and cop shows has not only
controlled opinion but has thoroughly turned people into mindless
robots, keeping the rich in control, middle class happy and poor
discontented but helpless. Any organization that exposes this government
for what it is and directs its energies to providing and teaching what
true responsibility is to a community, is one I’d gladly be a part of.
MIM(Prisons) responds: We agree with this prisoner that the
criminal injustice system has a real reason to fear any organization
that is educating people about the prison system, working to reduce
recidivism, and organizing oppressed nations. These organizations
threaten their use of the prison system as a tool of social control. And
it is true that the media plays a major role in promoting imperialist
policies to the Amerikan people. However, this is not the only reason
the masses are passive. Amerikan citizens are acting in their economic
self-interest when they play the role of happy robot and accept
imperialist policies. See our article
Amerikkkans:
Oppressing for a Living in
ULK 2.