Prisons and Police

from indybay.org

in reference to the Oscar Grant verdict protests and state disinformation

In 1977 they made shotguns in prison and did patrols. They were willing to die to stop prison rape.

"I'll tell you what, we were some tough faggots." Ed Mead, Men Against Sexism organizer 1997

"Society no longer exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is only a tangle of norms and mechanisms through which THEY hold together the scattered tatters of the global biopolitical fabric, through which THEY prevent its violent disintegration. Empire is the administrator of this desolation, the supreme manager of a process of listless implosion."

"Tiqqun is the becoming-real, the becoming-practice of the world. Tiqqun is the process through which everything is revealed to be practice, that is, to take place within its own limits, within its own immanent signification. Tiqqun means that each act, conduct, and statement endowed with sense—act, conduct and statement as event—spontaneously manifests its own metaphysics, its own community, its own party. Civil war simply means the world is practice, and life is, in its smallest details, heroic."

The full text from the second issue of the French journal, Tiqqun. Complete with a new layout.

Funny little comics based on actual interactions with police. Make your own!

The police are not a uniform monolith. They are a collection of individuals, full of human features: doubt, uncertainty, complex motives and mixed loyalties. The divisions between them can be highlighted, and expanded. Their ranks can be divided and their power undermined.  read more »

Nanni Balestrini was born in Milan in 1935. Known both as an experimental writer of prose and verse and as a cultural and political activist, he played a leading role in avant-garde writing and publishing in the sixties. His involvement with the extra-parliamentary left in the seventies resulted in terrorism charges (of which he was subsequently acquitted) and a long period of self-imposed exile from Italy.  read more »

This is the second newspaper put out by the World Without collective based out of Melbourne. Their new website, different from the one listed in the newspaper, will be http://www.worldwithoutsexualassault.org/ though it is not yet online. World Without also runs a distro at http://www.myspace.com/bottlesandbonesdistro, and they have an email address: worldwithout@lists.aktivix.org

The newspaper has articles on topics like grieving and mourning, myths about sexual assault, restorative justice, consent, and support.

“Anarchism is a philosophy that advocates for complete liberty, freedom, and equality. The nuances are myriad and complex. Regardless of their intellectual or social merit, though, it is not necessary for the law enforcement professional to completely understand them all to confront the challenges posed by their advocates.”

-Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 28:201–223, 2005: Anarchist Direct Actions: A Challenge for Law Enforcement, by Randy Borum (University of South Florida) and Chuck Tilby (Eugene, Oregon Police Department)

This writing may be copyrighted.

This is a mini zine briefly describing grand juries and grand jury resistance. It goes on to talk about Utah grand jury resistor Jordan Halliday. It is meant to educate and inform. Please download, print, read & distro widely!
You can download the zine here: http://www.supportjordan.com/Zine.pdf

Three accounts of the riots after Oscar Grant was murdered by a BART police officer.

This was a story I wrote mostly from memory while in month two of seven of my incarceration in the Texas prison-industrial complex. Whether insect, plant, animal, or human, we are all pests to the state and our other enemies. In here, I attempt to relate and draw inspiration from our shared struggles. I kept the story in it's original version, but at the end of this zine I added some additional information.  read more »

Download at:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/firetotheprisons9.pdf (7.21 mb)

Fire to the Prisons-Issue #9-Summer 2010

For this issue, we will be giving copies out for free to anyone who requests them that is not a formal business.

All we ask is for you to pay the price of postage. Please let us know if you would like to order hard copies of the newest issue, or any other questions regarding distribution by contacting us at:

firetotheprisons (at) gmail (dot) com

Feel free to download past issues in PDF form on our website as well:

http://firetotheprisons.com  read more »

Peter Gelderloos' immensely accessible and useful book, now available as a professional-quality, printable booklet.

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No more prisons & police against surveillance society, 325 poster.

Sticker version of the 325 collective poster "Against Control Technologies, Against the Prison Society". Print these out & cover them with an overlapping layer of packing tape before you cut them out. They'll stay up through rain storms!