Marie Mason now has email. She asks that if you are in email contact with her, go to www.corrlinks.com to check for mail.
The email she sends will NOT go to your inbox - you must go to corrlinks.com to retrieve her emails.
Some of Marie Mason’s other supporters have put out a call to contact Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials to ask them to grant Mason a vegan diet. (After the Waseca warden denied her this, Mason started an appeal process to the regional BOP.) However, we spoke with Mason and she notified us that her appeal process had encountered some difficulties, and so she must repeat two of the steps.
Because is this, there is no need to contact these officials at this time, as her appeal will not be before them.
Sadly, we must convey the news that the Waseca warden has denied Marie Mason the right to vegan meals. She has told us that sometimes she goes days without being able to eat anything from the meals served, and must buy all her food from the commissary. However, her commissary funds are penalized to pay restitution.
Mason is currently appealing the Warden’s decision to the regional prison authorities.
We would like to thank everyone who has contacted the Warden’s office on her behalf. If you would like to donate money for her commissary, she asks that you send it directly to the PO Box. Do NOT send it directly to her commissary account.
A supporter has set up a new gift book list at Powell’s Books for Mason. If you’d like to send her a book she wants, you can purchase it here:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/wishlist?email=bird@riseup.net&list=Saved%20From%20Shopping%20Cart
Mason’s job in prison is being a guitar instructor, so when you buy the music books, it benefits all of her students as well.
Marie Mason Benefit Show
at Little Hamilton Collective
1318 Little Hamilton, Nashville
February 26th @ 6pm (Friday)
$5 donation
All Ages
Live music by the Thimbles
Followed by a Square Dance Party, featuring Daniel Frazer as caller
Free food provided by Food Not Bombs
“Marie is missed dearly by her community. We are are putting on this benefit to support her and to make sure her needs are being met.”
Keep writing the warden’s office to demand vegan meals
Published February 20, 2010 Uncategorized ClosedNote: The warden has denied Mason vegan meals; see above.
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We are calling on all supporters of Marie Mason to contact the warden’s office at Waseca prison and ask that she be provided with vegan food. Mason is a vegan for ethical, medical and spiritual reasons, but the prison has denied her vegan meals since her incarceration. Because of this, she has been in ill-health, suffering from symptoms like dizziness and extreme pain in her hands. We call on all supporters to contact the warden’s office and ask that her request for vegan food be approved. Please be very polite.
write:
Warden Nicole English
FCI Waseca
Federal Correctional Institution
PO Box 1731
Waseca, MN 66093
fax:
507-837-4547
On Saturday, February 27, the Solidarity with Earth Defenders Concert features music by Los Mex Pistols Del Norte, Blackbird Raum and Samba Ja with special guest speakers Jeff “Free” Luers and Ramona Africa. Held in conjunction with the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon, this event is a benefit for the Civil Liberties Defense Center’s activist defense programs, as well as for Green Scare ecoprisoners Marie Mason, Briana Waters, and Eric McDavid.
We are calling on all supporters of Marie Mason to contact the warden’s office at Waseca prison and ask that she be provided with vegan food. Mason is a vegan for ethical, medical and spiritual reasons, but the prison has denied her vegan meals since her incarceration. Because of this, she has been in ill-health, suffering from symptoms like dizziness and extreme pain in her hands.
We call on all supporters to contact the warden’s office and ask that her request for vegan food be approved. Please be very polite. Also note that currently (as of Wednesday, February 3) there is no Warden at Waseca. We expect that Warden English will be starting this position next week.
write:
Warden Nicole English
FCI Waseca
Federal Correctional Institution
PO Box 1731
Waseca, MN 66093
fax:
507-837-4547
Marie Mason’s birthday is January 26. We ask all supporters to send her a card!
If you make one, remember – don’t use anything like white-out, stickers, tape or glitter on it. We also recommend that you put her name and prisoner number on the card, lest the authorities “lose” the envelope and forget where it is going.
Marie Mason #04672-061 FCI Waseca Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 1731 Waseca, MN 56093Greetings from Waseca!
I’ve been incarcerated here a bit more than 6 months now and have appreciated your cards and letters of support so much. Thank you especially to those who’ve sent books and ‘zines, as these have been shared around and donated to our library here for all to use. It always makes me happy and proud to hear from all the folks at animal rights gatherings abroad, at anarchist and eco-groupings in the US and to know that there are so many in the struggle to confront this twisted, death driven, capitalist system and demand an end to fortune, exploitation and destruction. I’m proud to know you and share this struggle with you.
But without ideas and information to guide our actions, we can be lost and overwhelmed by the powers we confront. That’s why it’s so important to support the organizations that educate us and connect us to one another, celebrate our victories and rally us to solidarity. That’s why I’m asking that you consider making a donation or ordering a subscription to the Earth First! Journal this year.
These have been tough times financially for so many, but to lose this important voice for the wilderness would be a tragic loss and diminish our power as a movement. Please help if you can, with whatever you can and if you’d write me and say you gave to the Journal – it’d be the best holiday gift this prisoner could get. Thank you for all you do to defend the Earth.
Marie Mason
FCI Waseca
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Earth First! Journal subscriptions are $25/ year in US ($22 for low-income). For more information and complete rates, see http://www.earthfirstjournal.org
(text adopted from www.freemarie.org)
