mNm_ PRISONERS NEWS ~\ mj PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD (N,Y;.CHAPTER) 6PEC/AL June-July, 1974 Volume 4, No. 5 mm mm% C jnvjps ®? In the beginning of 1974 a propaganda campaign was begun by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons concerning the new prison it took over in Lexington, Kentucky. News of this new co-ed institution quickly spread through each.federal prison and the national news madia. Norman Carlson, the director of the Bureau was eager to publicize the new minimum security pri son replete with "progressive" programs and "free doms" for both the men and women to be kept there. It was ordinary and in true Carlson fashion that in all the press releases there was no mention of the Addiction Research Center (ARC) adjunct to, but restricted from, the co-ed section of the prison. ARC is supposedly operated solely by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and has no affil iation with the Burear of Prisons. Carlson stated in Bureau Highlights , the weekly newsletter distrib- uted throughout its prisons, that the ARC does not fall under the purview of the Bureau. ARC is said to be funded and operated by the NIMH. Although it has been acknowledged by the ARC that: Bureau of Pri sons' policies apply within the institution (except where circumvented because of cost, inconvenience or a hindrance to the institution's overall opera tion); all prisoners/experimentees (approximately 50, well over half of whom are black, Chicano or Puerto Rican) are"borrowed" from the federal prison system by the Surgeon General of the United States; and that threse men are taken back to federal prisons upon'the completion of their use by the ARC'S doctors. Even though Carlson has publicly disclaimed re sponsibility for these biochemical experiments and pretends to ignorance of the ARC'S operations. Dr. William Martin, the man in charge of the ARC, appeared on a local radio station in Lexington on January 22, 1974, and stated; "We will function fairly autono mously but we will also be in some areas tied to the Bureau of Prisons." Why then does Carlson all edge that the Bureau is not an active accomplice in the research taking place? Well... The ARC is currently conducting biochemical ex perimentation on "volunteer" prisoners, using both tested and untested drugs. Most of those experiments (or tests of "studies") run for a period of seven teen weeks, although some are as short as five weeks, while a "chronic" study can last a year. The drugs used most frequently are heroin, morphine, ampheta mine and "goof-balls" (a combination of both amphet amine and barbituate). Drugs are often administered without the prisoner/experimentee even knowing what (continued on next page) reprinted from the Attica Book • : . . REFGIRM MARCHES ONVimRQ? ................................ ... Staff DSVChiatrict- ^u/hn Sc (continued from page 1J is being injected into his bloodstream, according to prisoners' first person accounts. There are ap parently other times when neither the prisoner nor the physician know what drug is being administered' Prisoners assigned for use to the ARC are "loaned' from the maximum security federal penitentiaries at Atlanta and Leavenworth. Case workers at the respec tive prisons choose prisoners on their case loads that have histories of drug addiction. The case work ers give these prisoners ( or the prisoners would approach the case workers if they had seen any of the advertisements posted around their respective prisons) a sales-pitch that states: Would you like to be transferred to a minimum security prison where you would have private room with a door, be able to ^y a television, have access to your own stereo, beUer food, and receive six more good days a month Off your sentence than you're getting now; as well as have an opportunity to make thirty dollars a month just for getting high on heroin, amphetamine, and morphine? To certify agreement the prisoner signs a contract, but he is not allowed to keep a copy, consenting to the use of his body for drug experi mentation. iTnfT "voluntary." f.nn ■ Dr Martin, the professional staff (approximately 15) at the ARC is said to be comprised chemists, biochemists, neurochem- TW« psychiatrists, pharmocologUts There are technical aides who are said to do mani of the experiments; aides trained in biophysics con and^clinir ’ ?™®!!^ ®>'P®''imental purposes; and clinical observers, reputed to be familiar with regation unit would be. On the contrary, these men and^rerL^?-''"'' f-^ve access to a g^" and recreation yard and are assigned janitorial jobs A primary reason prisoners from federal penitentiar ’ ’ "to the exper -' o^rt the promise of extra 9 me (days subtracted from one's sentence) All P'- ’ t°" system are af?o;ded on th^lenot^of^senf P®*" depending ceive thfL • "®"t®"«- Prisoners at the ARC re- t^ ^5 ’ =/tatutory good time allowance, plus ou^ omH considered as meritori- Tru?^ (Janitorial as nrTi'y ° enticed by promise of four additional ief ^wlve^ Pfticipation in drug stud- tkf' ■~'vover, when the prisoners arrive at the ARC they decline to participate in the drug studies they will only receive two oood fnr! ®." ”nth for their janitorial efforts Tliere- oarticiMrr®"^® ’ K^^® prisoners are compelled to SSr^ha^ !P* ’ J®®ts of experiments in order to Errreric^ “ b?r^rorto^ “ ^ “ ’ '^ at'^the^AR^''®"'?^-^ tor"rr^-sttog “ theirSimertf aminl Ltn Participated in was the amphet- ri-n! ^ ^ receive an injection of amphet- Mine once a week, sometimes mixed with unknown d drugs, early in the day. Then the doctor's erne in every hour on the hour for the rest ol tie iy eye dilatir^^^c P<ctures of my ^ sample of my urine, etc. After twelve weeks of this test I explained to Dr. Griffith, the page 2 It was destroying my health. He "Griffith) told \ 5 “ ‘ ’ Je'= ’ ^' because -hhad a high re-ar.v.. sistance to the drugs; and he offered me a "deal ’ ' wLv t seventeen assured me if I finished the test I •pnin ® special heroin test that I would bearing this offer I decided to fin- isn the test. and Richard Alexander, another prisoner sent back to Leavenworth for resisting the dehumi- ciouftP^l^^h^-''®" the most vi- cious test being conducted at the Center is the Chronic morphine study. This particular study yaar. During the first ten months of a^dailv “ hp='C°''' ’ ^^-® ’ "Jaations are administered on tinn ’ P'" ’ aoner-subjects start off by get- dr...1 ,U„, pri,on.r-,„bJ«J,. SJJ, "" "' “ PPPlc" -OP- filggglrs- "cleanse"l? ’ sH'^ “ ^ mental drug the doaors are^"kin,l" a^'Peci- c"hance' ’ to''gefhigh'' ‘ ^ ’ "'P ’ y a' whil ’ ror^jLto v' ’ ® ^asearch Center assert that Sillir •ft,r fSf K^tlir^A ^'" ‘ ’ ^^r.ation and discomfort.^ Usually oner *^!.,^tago" ’ zer" is administered to a pris- receive a "reward" (again in the orm of drugs) for allowing himself to be subjected X- r to the misery of this experimental drug, .pen exploitation of the prisoner's addiction is repeat edly used to cajole "agreement" to continue playing the role of guinea pig. It is paramount to note that prisoners are always covertly coerced into submitting to experi ments by using the force of their own compulsions against them. Additionally, each prisoner must participate in at least two drug studies a year if he is to receive the benefits of the contract signed. Should the prisoner not fulfill his con tract, then he is discontinued from the program, not afforded the good days or privileges promised, and returned to the repressive federal penitentiary environment from which he came; and is also cited to prison ajjthorities in written reports as being uncooperative, disinterested in improving himself and/or a "troublemaker." It is significant to note, too, that only the prisoner from the maximum security penitentiaries are offered the “ opportunity" to go to the ARC. Prisoners from federal correctional institu tions or farm camps would not make "good subjects" due to the fact that they would not be in the degree of duress (environmental, excessive sentence, etc.) prisoners inside penitentiaries are subjected to. It's much easier to find "volunteers" in a prison setting where people are under heavy psychic and physical duress of a severely incompatible environ ment. A major grievance voiced by prisoners is in respect to the lack of concern and medical treatment for prisoners who suffer illnesses that seem to them to stem directly from,the drug experiments. The doctors at the ARC will not acknowledge the fact that experimentees ' resistance levels are lowered from the drug experiments, or that they are more susceptible to getting sick. Most of the prisoners who suffer from more severe ailments are said to be "treated" initially by being isolated from the general population and drugged with morphine. This type of "treatment" was reported to have been carried out on a man who had gallstones form when morphine crystalized in his stomach. The prisoner had beenia paft^of a morphine study test, and he was refused'medical treatment for two months after he brought his condition to the attention of the physician. It wasn't until he started urinating blood and ejecting gallstones from his penis that he was able to receive the medical treatment he actually needed. No known deaths have occurred at the ARC. However, prisoners-^like the case mentioned above--are sometimes taken to the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo. when serious medical problems materialize. Whenever such illness do arise the ARC staff expends no observ able to account for the cause ; nor, apparently, is a follow up study ever made by anyone in the NIMH or the Bureau of Prisons on the eventual fate of the victim, no formal ackndwTedgeitient of deletrious or potentially dangerous after effects have been made In the forty years the Research Center has operated. It has, in effect, an abruptly truncated history in this regard; that is caredfully skirted as if invisi ble and shades into deliberate maintenance of the proverbial Watergate "deniability" so important these days to operations in our government. In the last year Norman Carlson has had a few setbacks: a judge ordered prisoners in Marion's segre gation units CARE Program released from segregation; the infamous START Program was stopped via public outcry and court actions; L.E.A.A. (Law Enforcement Asistance Administration) terminated all funding for behavior modification programs in the federal prison system; a number of major law suits were won on the district court level; and, among other things. Congres sional and public investigations have emerged from the proposed opening of the Behavioral Research Center' in Butner, North Carolina. In light of those events, and due to the fact that Carlson ^s cognizant of what is taking place at the ARC, has taken the position that the ARC has no ties to the Bureau of Prisons is easily understood. Federal Prisoners Coalition Information Committee Terre Haute Federal Prison, Indiana -ft page 3 Alfred Rodriguez, "Untitled"; Auburn, N.Y. LIFE OF THE PEOPLE A - r '^■ m ’ N"'' i 4. ^ 5S.1 iPf; 'Si!?;; s;r,;h ‘ .r;;,2:;'fsj;,srs,&!- ••-»- ’ ' members. Russell Lit- tle and Joseph Ramiro, presently being held in the ** ’ ® ‘ = ’ ’ ^'"9® of allegedly mur dering Oakland School Superintendent Marcus Foster statements in respond ’ to the May 17th police raid in Los Angeles. Their of venuf arguing a motion for a change Of venue, on the grounds of adverse publicity.) RUSSELL LITTLF ''s comrades were killed on May 17, 1974 InH people's warriors to the bitter-sweet them In P^^od of Jilw ’ dlath whJh life- Revolutionaries v^w death - whether their closest comrade's, or their e^tio^ i' ’ ®'' ’ fe> ’ le Part of the struggle for lib- Uberatinn^aL"° ®®'' ®"' ‘ °f *1 ’ ® Symblonese *1^ Guerillas that die in Th^ ’ more rise, to take up the struggle The revolution continues. Pushed onwards, to higher i?rl whiteVo- in!» f ^ <lea more time to meet the challenge and Ion than^it^h ” ®" “ ""'® ‘ '®® Johnathan and George Jack- I ihpra?? ^®® 5?"!' "OP-white soldiers in the Black Liberation Army, Black Guerilla Family and other revo lutionary groups. So. let the pigs beware.. we was^t kin!^^ ’ 1 ®'"® 9lad that Tania t^ ® “ "Pll'nePt Tania on ' to I'®'" SLib-machinegun we are confident that she. along with the other sur- continue to struggle, giving it her all a?lM«"®" ^°^''® ‘ '®== '" ’ ® “ and^oJel. did ?o ’ waLlst "*" ’ ‘ »®'"s» we send our wrrost love and regards. We will close with a quote from General Field Marshall Cinque- me I'm ‘ '®J" ‘ *®e<l •'now me. You've always known r^d div nlgpr you've hunted and feared, night oeonlp^ ’ ip' "'.f^®f/ ’ 9ger you killed hundreds of Lr that no ''® ” ’ .®ff0''t. of finding. I'm that nigger ™ “ der and*;^bbe'r*^::^ aro th *'° ‘ ’ ' ’ ®'* and exploited us all, and we are the hunters that will give you no rest And 7e will not compromise the freedom of our children ’ JOSEPH RAMIRO to Is comrades in the Syrabionese Liberation Armv ISoI?! "® ” 5'°' “ ’ '' liberation front, and to the iS ^°r ° “ '"®®iy®s> we listened to a TV, located D?nr .1^®' ’ *^®"^ ’ “ ^ ’ 1® ^^''® ^ ’ “ ' ’ di-ed federal and local s frevo utioIT- ^^® weapons, assaulted llwnhSr ^IS ® ^^® ' ’ ® ” ^ P®°P ’ ® chuckled and "thi war" ” ” ®^ officials had termed • t I* ” ®^ ^^''® ’ f^® last poet said it would be. The government has claimed this is their a ’ S& ° ‘ ’ ^'®®''^® f®®ts don't si port such I^® are.that, it took over six months I?ons orio?ia°rl ®^?^9ned pigs, using ™1- slSnds- limillrin Is ™1 ®'" revolutionaries. This sounds' similar to the also questionable victory that this government claims in Vietnam. The S LA - ILTS lf®''oli'f ionary actions, answered many'questions Ii^^no ®' ’ ^'?®'"®d through intellectual theo rizing. They have, first of all. proven that revolu- tionari®s are not all the same color, or the same sex Thll D„? SlI ®?J .3®^ ’ ' ’ ^* ® "«chanized enemy, thxt SSI ? m S ’ ’ ' P°iifics.in a revolutionary style, that people will remember, and learn from. They ^ proved the military-political teachings of Geolge fill Sic “ ® ” ®^^ ’ ^ promise, "to haunt the pigs from his grave During the peoples' battle, and the Droved ” thP^S^ ” ®^ ^'" ‘ '® revolutionaries proved their love and dedication to the cause of the SSSIi °PP'"®®^®'i and imprisoned. The pigs fired, and rSif ™ ’ ’ ® '^ “ "ds than ever before. They had to SI iheil grenades to contin- SS p '" - 11 ■ "’ °' “ ® fi'an an hour of fighting. hSti-iS®! ’ ®!^ trained pig teams could only end the ^ thills burning the house to its foundation. Now alixiSS®'"®"*"*^ claims that the war is over, fully re- thlt ^ 2 if i® only one battle rllll ®" ‘ ^ *S® ” ®'' jo^f P®9un. The govlrn- S^IksoI^in S®*II " ’ “ '"dering Johnathan ll 1971 ®^^r" " ’ “ '"dering George Jackson of thl ’ s L I in and imprisoning members SIfISS fi'®se are the boasts of ter rified pigs, who realize that the revolution can not be ordered. The terrified boasts of pSgs Sho SavS si^di'ffSIpSt° “ V ’ ’ ‘ -''®''? ’ “ ^ ’ °"®''^ ®0"'fat units, in SI? different urban jungles, and wake up screamina for-^fear^Sf®th^°' ” ^®^ by their wives - who can't s?eep Tor Tear of their own nightmares. " page 4 VIVA. S.L.A. PATRIA 0 MUERTE MARTIN SOSTRE. - STATEMENT ON THE S.L.A. The escalating repression by this predatory, racist and sexist capitalist system makes glaring ly clear to all but the most politically backward, that the dire predictions that U.S. capitalism would evolve into fascism have come to pass. Res toration of the death penalty, life sentences for drugs, recent Supreme Court rulings upholding the denial of the right to live in communes, the right to privacy and human dignity (by granting police the right to arbitrarily Invade peoples' persons and homes, and use, as evidence in court, anything seized during the illegal search), police electron ic eavesdropping, infiltration, frame-ups, assas sinations, brutalizations, dehumanizations, behav ior modification and genocide are some of the re- , pressive fascist measures now being implemented. The question now is; What are we going to do about this murderous fascism? Shall wecontinue spouting empty revolutionary rhetoric without com mensurate deeds and passively stand by like sheep while our comrades are framed by the gestapo po lice, kidnapped off the streets and murdered one by one? Must we each passively await our turn to be led to the oppressor's cages, brutalized or mur dered? Or shall we oppose the choking fascist op pression which, if allowed to continue encrouching on what's left of our personal freedoms, will even tually convert us into dehumanized mindless robots? The answer is obvious. To defend ourselves by all means necessary against the destruction of our hu man rights and personhood not only is the natural right to self-defense but a human duty. By what means, then, shall we resist the fascist oppressors? The answer to this is determined by the means employed to oppress us. Our oppression is multi-dimensional We are oppressed racially, sexually, economically, legally, psychologically, culturally, physically and, by all other means deemed necessary by the criminal ruling class, to maintain themselves in power. Since oppression is multi-dimensional , with each level of oppression challenged by a conmensurate level of revolution ary resistance? For example, the fascist lies propagated by the controlled media must be challenged with revolu tionary truth disseminated by the movement press, tapes, films, books, pamphlets, leaflets, posters, etc. Not too many militants and revolutionaries will disagree with this. Only when the same com mon-sense is applied to opposing fascist violence, with revolutionary armed resistance, do many of them become horrified. Witness the reaction of ntost of the movement people to the Symbionese Lib eration Army's armed revolutionary response to fas cist repression. The current revolutionary action of the S.L.A. is the correct and inevitable response to the count less kidnappings, frame-ups, brutalizations and murders perpetrated by the ruling class members, upon resistors of the oppression. At long last, the individual members of this exploitative racist sexist system are being subjected to revolutionary justice. As Malcolm X said: "It's a case of the chickens coming home to roost". I extend my revo lutionary love and solidarity to my S.L.A. comrades and wish them success. Why are so-called militants and revolutionaries so horrified when the armed fascist repression is resisted by the armed might of the people? Do they expect the peoplie to revert to the turn-the-other- cheek stage of the 1950's and respond to fascist murder, sadistic brutalization, frame-ups and tor ture with passive acquiescence, love for our fas cist enemies and cooperation in our own oppression? Or is it that these horrified so-calledjiilitants and revolutionaries see the liberation struggle as one-dimensional, to be fought solely on the level of consciousness they happen to be on? Surely they cannot be so politically retarded as to believe that in a liberation struggle the enemy should be fought on only one level -- that approved by the enemy ! 1 It is just as absurd to propose that_everyone resist fascist oppression through peaceful means as to propose armed resistance for everyone. Just because I'm a revolutionary anarcho-communist who believes in armed struggle does not dogmatize me to propose that everyone arm and go underground. Nor woul^d I denounce those who refi e to do so. The denunciation of the S.L.A. by the movement, press is indistinguishable from that of the ruling class. Indeed, some movement newspapers quoted statements from the controlled press, to support their claim that the people rejected the kidnap ping. The criminal ruling class rubbed their hands in glee and publicized how divided the left was over the S.L.A. Each left organization seemed to be competing with the others for legitimacy by de nouncing the S.L.A. It was utterly disgusting, reactionary and opportunistic. Nor were the de- nounciations made in a spirit of constructive crit icism by fellow comrades. No attempt was made by the movement press to publicize the S.L.A. progr^, analyze it and point out where it was erroneous.' The criticism was deliberately hostile and designed to isolate the S.L.A. by poisoning peoples ’ minds against it. Conspicuously absent from the denounciations of the S.L.A., in the movement press, is .any discus sion of the role of armed struggle. The impression given is that armed struggle is not an essential part of the revolutionary struggle; that revolu tionary violence is something repulsive which should be shunned -- only when it's directed against the UNiiy cneATtviryf^ T coUecTTve woRk SRespoNsiBiirry puRpose wrb SelF-OeTeRMINATK3N coopeRATive prd O uction page 5 ruling class of this country. Paradoxically, the armed violence of the revolutionaries in Africa, Asia, Ireland, the Mideast and Latin America is praised as "heroic" in every issue of the same left ist newspapers that bitterly denounce S.L.A. vio lence. The rule seems to be that armed violence is an acceptable form of revolutionary struggle except when employed by U.S. revolutionaries against the continuea on next pa9« LIFE OF THE PEOPLE {continued from page 5) fascist ruling class of the U.S. In effect, it's as if the role of these left groups is to protect the ruling class from violence and confine the lib eration struggle to the boundaries of legal activ ities approved by the ruling class. The left movement press would have one believe that to overthrow the criminal ruling class we have merely to organize mass movements, demonstrations, protests, and repeat revolutionary slogans. Even after Chile (the latest of a series of tragedies where thousands of defenseless comrades were slaugh tered because of the criminal refusal of leftist leaders to arm the people against the armed might of the ruling class) the movement in the United States still follows the same ill-fated line of Allende — as evidenced by their bitter denounci- ation of the armed action of the S.L.A. Host movement organizations are so busy follow ing their dogmatic party lines, repeating revolu tionary cliches and downing other movement groups that they're unable to see the self-evident. Were their natural powers of perception and conscious ness not stultified by party-1ineism, they would know that a revolutionary liberation movement must deal with the enemy concurrently on all levels, in cluding armed violence. Otherwise, when the inev itable showdown with the ruling class comes, the revolution will be left defenseless and the lives of our comrades needlessly sacrificed. The irrefutable truth is that a liberation strug gle IS revolutionary war. Revolutionary war is a complicated process of mass struggle, armed and un armed, peaceful and violent, legal and clandestine, economic and political, where all forms Of struggle are developed harmoniously around the axis of armed struggle. Anyone who by now has not grasped these basic facts does not know what liberation struggle is — or is trying to palm off reformism for liber ation struggle. A distinction must be made between reformists and revolutionaries. Reformists seek merely to re form through legal means, and not overthrow the ex isting system. That's why they panic when the peo ple exercise their right to armed self-defense a- gainst the genocidal violence of the fascist ruling class. Revolutionaries seek the complete overthrow of the system by all means necessary, including arm ed struggle. Revolutionaries seek moreover to sub- ject to people's justice individual members of the humanity class for their many crimes against The spreading of the philosophy of subjecting members and agents of the ruling class to people's justice from coast to coast attests to how wide spread this revolutionary concept has become. It can never be erased from the consciousness of the people; the revolutionary clock cannot be turned back. At long last the people's armed force has emerged within the United States to oppose the arm ed gestapo of the fascist ruling class. The balance of power has radically shifted. Gone forever are the days when the fascists could perpetrate every conceivable crime with impunity. The price of op pression has been raised, and shall soon become pro hibitive. The stolen billions of dollars possessed by members of the criminal ruling class shall soon become a liability. They'll be forced to convert their mansions into fortresses protected by round- the-clock armed guards and electronic protective devices. Every venture outside the besieged fort ress will reguire escorts of armed guards. Even this will not guarantee safety, for revolutionary justice will stalk the fascist criminals at every turn. Already the people's army has sent shivers of fear through the spine of 'the ruling class, wha clearly recognize the signs as mearn'ng the "Begin ning of The End". ,, Conversely, the people's armed defense force has created new hope in the hearts of the oppressed — particularly revolutionary comrades held hostage in fascist prisons serving long sentences. Soon the ruling class will be forced to free these prisoners of war in exchange for captured members of their own class. The S.L.A. is the armed resistance of the people to the exploitative, racist and sexist fascism which now IS upon us. All resistors of oppression, on whatever level of conscience they may be, should re joice at the S.L.A.'s existence, at it's successful deeds and the fear it has put in the hearts of the ruling class. It is therefore the duty of us all to support, by all means necessary, our S.L.A. com rades. We must close ranks with them and give them the support they need. Let's not fall for the ma licious lies spread by agents of the F.B.I. about the S.L.A. which are designed to isolate tbe S.L.A. from the people, to make it easier to capture or murder them. I have carefully studied the Declaration of Rev olutionary War & The Symbionese Program of The Sym- bionese Federation & The Symbionese Liberation Army and find it generally sound. It incorporates much of our historical revolutionary experience. I be lieve the Symbionese Liberation Army has one of the most advanced revolutionary programs for liberation in operation within the United States of America. The S.L.A. represents the greatest challenge to fascist power bec«ise it objectifies the nucleus of the people's army which as history shows is necces- sary to deliver the death-blow to the military aami of the fascist parasitic class. ^ Your comrade in struggle April, 1974 MARTIN SOSTRE Federal Detention Headquarters 427 West Street New York, New York 10014 Over 2,000 supporters attend "Cinque's" funeral"* in Cleveland, Ohio. page 6 IINTENTIBNI F T44E ENEMY It is the intention of the enemy to keep third wrld. people ignorant, unaware, and paranoid. It ns also their desire to turn us against ourselves while they arrest, molest, and kill more and more sisters and brothers with their,drugs and organized murder. Our size and strength is outstandingly more powerful than the enemies. We have, behind us, ’ all the struggling and sacrificing it takes to deal with the reality of a life that is absolutely un bearable. To be railroaded through court for some thing you did wrong, according to rules prescribed and regulated by the enemy. To be locked up for as long as judge "so & so" thinks, will be punish ment enough to keep us from stepping out of line again. We are treated, fed and isolated as though we were lepers and then, we are "let go" with a probation noose around our necks or a methadone ad diction to be sure they always know where we are. The enemy enjoys seeing you sign, up for metha done. Methadone is their pacifier, it keeps you in a state that is detrimental to our cause -- you are one less sister they have to worry about. You cannot oppose, hinder, or restrain them. You can not even realize what theyare doing to you if all you are worried about is what time, the methadone lady gets here! But, methadone is only one tactic out of many. An equally destructive one is making us enemies among ourselves, to make us hate each other so that we might turn our energies in the opposite direc tion -and take out our aggressions oh another oppres sed person rather than the oppressor. We single out one person or one group of persons to hate be cause we think they are talking about us, they have our cards, they think they are better than we are, they have less time to do or some trivial bullshit that is just as unimportant. What^'s important is, that those of us that are locked up understand who it is that locked us up and why. We, (the oppres sed) are one side, they (the oppressors) are an other. I should not hate a sister because.I cannot see ■ what I want on television, or have what I want for dinner, or because she sat in my chair. We, togeth er, should go to the power that allows these con- di-tions; that — not only locks us up, but keeps locking us up --- until some of us have been locked up our entire lives. We should hate those who keep us from our families and our lives.' We should hate those who make us hate each other. We should hate the real enemy as much if not more than he hates us. Under no circumstances should we permit him to de- vide us as we have been, or poison us with his drugs. A few of them are given unlimited authority over 20 to 80 of us. They, in turn, tell us ex actly what to do minute-by-minute. They are so confident of their control over us that they try to regulate how we think, act and behave. They may even have you thinking that they like you, be cause they bring you cigarettes, or gum, or because they mail special letters to your mom, who you could talk to yourself if they didn't have you in jail. All third world people must unite ’ and stop this massive brainwasn and destruction of our people. It cannot be put off. You should not feel that as long as you are locked up you'may as well settle down and make friends with the enemy. The meaning of Revolution is not to become neutral upon capture ...it is to stop him, to destroy him if necessary. We must keep him as ignorant, unaware, and paranoid as he thinks he keeps us. We must change this sys tem to one more devoted to (not against-!') US. San Bruno Bounty Jail, Ca. 1.1 J Acceptance 4-9-74 Click-Bang! The cell door closes. You touch your light switch and the yellow rays from the bulb dissolves the darkness of your tomb. You look around the interior of your coffin. No longer asking for a reason why it is so... You look around you...and you accept You accept that you must keep it clean and nice & tidy. 'Cause if you don't they'll take you from this coffin and bury you deep within the dark, damp bowels of the crypt called the box To another cel 1 ___ In.another time ___ For another more lethal form of jail death.... You accept the officers' harrassments, and their abuse ----- You accept this place called "Prison/Jail" lost in its limbo Hellish turmoil ... \ Lost in its catastrophic upheavel of chaos., drifting without course or direction in the ceaseless confusion created by the numbing pain of mental anguish ___ This place where men are no longer men, but pawns, dolts, walking entities of stupidity This place of the unaware and the living dead This place...called...Jail You accept: They have lost the battle which they had never fought They play with toys/handballs, basket balls, footballs, movies/which replace their identities You accept: The guards who play with your life everyday You accept: The thought that one day some fool will mistake you for his "Brother", his enemy, and stab you in your back You accept: The feeling of becomning totally para noid because you know, that like so many other children, they too, will soon forget their toys and turn to games of war You accept: That you lay in your coffin And pick you nose but so many times And pick you toes but so many times And masterbate but so many times And think thoughts but so long And accept these but so long before you stop accepting ___ and start doing Maybe fight the battle ............. and win To make them accept change from one who has regained his identity r- Beacon, New York page 7 News Round-up NEWS FROM LEAVENWORTH BROTHERS OFFENSE/DEFENSE COMMITTEE May 10, 1974 Bennett, a Black Leaven- f 5. convicted yesterday of one count ditina ?PP°s ’' ’ 9> impeding, intimi dating and intefenng with a federal officer He innocent of a similar count. A mis-trial was declared on two others. a possible sentence of three addi- lentpnr»f ' ’ 1^°'" Conviction. He has not been sas City, ^., said there would be an appeal. Ironically, the motions for the case were heard on May 1, Law Day. Three major motions heard that himself, a mo- oHh^iurfnf^ 1'^° (™tiny), and a challenge Of the jury panel which contained only one Black ^nnett contended this was oot a jury of his pee^s government cSuld Sra^Wd particulars. Bennett would cross-examine certain witnesses, but Federal judge George Tempalar refused to hear the neaiL''®® established that Bennett was to have ap- E fennet? u ^ P®' ’ ‘ ' ’ "9 against Loren L Before he could go to coi^t had to submit to a "finger wave" rectal search ^ven O'" eight guards came to his cell. He refused to go and stated he would drop his charges rather oux^d! ^ attacked. The «iohL 2 ’ ° P°'^' ’ ‘ ^s each. Bennett H^ and had not eaten for 22 days. mv cell " ‘ " ’ i ’ e «as in £oL"dt ’ iave^^^t!t^?^fie^^h^:?1„1"c1!^i: “ ^ i::cen"rof “ a^^^' ’ ^I?|.' ‘ "'=^• whel^ marshalls dress-out room “ stored ^1^ “ aye rectal probe was admin- r ^ charged with forceably resisting shaIl;?eH\-®''K®^rB!i “ ®''® Placed on him while he was A? ?el^? handcuffs belly chain and leg irons. rl fh ‘ >el<e''e an assault could have occured while in this condition. Thus ws declared ’ i"?^ ® ® mistrial was declared on these two counts nne 5? “ *' Composed of 10 women and 2 men The fc ‘ - ’ ■ ’ ’ ian Moore, the wifrof T t^rasS®cLI!?'^°'';h' ’ ''-''®"^® ‘ ' conviction on lockL 11 hopelessly dead- that "Mn^t e? ^ charges. Ms. Moore later related ses wer^lying."* *"^® 9°''®^""*' ’ ^ “ Itnes- clos “ ^'^"oci>t"?es"' are side ?her^" “ S' ’ ^^' ’ ® knw whSt gZl o^?!!-® side there." He later added. "My real cri^ is my page 8 resistance to the inhuman conditions, my filino of lawsuits against the warden, and my )[ ’ ®P^amoVeterans Against the War/Wi_nter Soldier Org: to hearing. Templar refus2 statl of psychiatrist as to Bennetts H ? ^®arch. Templar al- a?tho.mh H 1° defense witnesses although defesne attorneys requested 17. Templar la- ter refused to disqualify himself for what the de- slnnltt! ’ ®' personal.bias and prejudice against - ^ SUPPORTERS DEMONSTRATE staled ®’ '2 ‘ 5®''" pffense/Defense Coanittee oekf ThiTH^^ ‘ •ecompton Kansas to To- mp\""^®lr J5 oor^inl ^°®se they risked a possible •iL ;iir,S L° !S ri;: at the Capitol Building was Lennox Hinds Natinnai ^ ?ellqrL°o%*'^ Confe “ 'ofllac^uSrs Tel®grams of support came from Ron Dellums Bella Ahtug.oPhniip Berrigan. Liz Me A1 ister^nd Dr!^ reprinted from the news bulletin of Leavenworth Brothers Offense/Defense Committee ^e ‘ yva!ido?r^r .found dead in his cell in the Nya^otts County Jail. Kansas City, on Thursdav seve^H ’ ®?^ one orthe"^ ’ 3Ut rbte^^?on aI “ ^Ih*'®M c ” ^ “ ooections with the July was rha n 1 Leavenworth. He w?th ®" ‘ ^ kidnapping four guards tn Hisr ^ ® meeting with Warden Daggett fir ar^M' ” 'iI^°I'®'' 9rievances. Of the seven indicted four are black, two are chicano, and one white- Wi1 Xstin^-r^'® ’ "®-' ’ ® Blither Surst had bein *^^® attempts to split him from the others by separating him off and sending him to Wyan hurst was an example of a true shio wafanH ” o«e. whose example and leader ship was and is important to all of us He contn ’ K f®®°u<iing an artic e' n the «archT^y/| issSe. called "Rhetoric or Prac tice , about the role of white revolutionaries in suPPortin^nd fighting alongside Third World people THE GARMENT FACTOR 14 News Round-up ...Each day blueprints are being drafted to build more dehurrianizing camps that are known to society as prisons and/or correctional institutions, which are to be situated all over this good ole U.S. of A. for the housing of the oppressed, and to whom the majority are blacks. Unless the 'people' are made to grasp how this effects their lives the materialization of a revised colonialism willhave crept upon us. And those that the oppressor fear will reject this status that he's designated will be ousted out of existence immediately. In this particular camp (as well as others) VICIOUS attacks upon our person, and genocidal mur ders are as common as the r.isin' and settin' of the sun. Then there's the legal way - eighteen (18) men now housed on r-wing's second ffoor, and I assume about five of the eighteen are white. At a moment notice they 11 be taken from their cell and placed in a large wooden chair that was/is designed to roast them anve. On the evening of April 30th, 1973 an incident transpired in the prison's garment factor because of the attacking of ,con*ades Willie C. Holley and Pi I \ kdf.4 .ff .1 The Great Speckled Bird page yw Nathaniel Pressley by prison guards, instructors, and a supervisor. Both the guards and one instructor were injured, and the supervisor was critically in jured. And in the process of aiding the prison officials in their attack about four white prisoners were injured. But of ninety-some-odd prisoners in the garment factor doing the said evening only forty- one, fourteen(now known as the garment factor 14) were singled out and given trumped up charges varying from destroying state property — assault with intent to commit murder, ... Inmediately after the incident occurred Louis L. Wainwright (Florida's director of Division of Corrections) seen a chance to increase his income — by exploiting the people ’ s tax money and channeled it into his pockets. To get the money in the first place he clam more prison security was needed. He x also stated that blacks are the major cause of all , racial disturbances in prisons (this statement was a follow up of a legal complaint filed by Bernard Nash alleding that whites were afraid to be near blacks at RSP, and wanted to be isolated from them. On or about the time Nash was transferred to a lesser security prison ('O' unit) his complaint was withdrawn. Nash supposed to be released from prison some next month). And to substantiate the director's clam, destigation and agitation by prison guards provoked the August 5, '73, disturbance on M-wing. This disturbance was labelled "racial" by prison officials and resulted in the death of one white prisoner and critical injuries to both black and white prisoners. The M-wing 8 (all black), Charles Henry; Charles Buchannon; Harold Gray; Richard Hix; Joe Grier; Roy Lee; James Vangooks; and James M. Fields, were charged with the death and to make it look good, two more charges were given -- riot and destroying state Property. Trial/kangaroo has been set sometime next month. In Starke's house of law there's no such thing as justice for prisoners (and because of rel- a-tives and political ties, Bradford's neighboring counties are just a worst -- Union and Baker) and an acquital is extinct as a dinosaur. The Garment Factor 14 (Bonnie Brown Jr., Harry Grays, Horace L. Maddox, Jimmy McCorvey, George Pickett, Nathaniel Pressley, Ernest McCloud, Willie C. Holley, Harry Mungin, William R. Cole, Stevie D. C. Bell, Leon Mungin, Willie F. Rambo, and my self) were scheduled for the trial in January '74. As it turned out comrade Pressley and I were the first to be kangarooed. (continued fron\ page 9)_ - Vawn J?® L^rand°™ied^ ^■ on the Kouthouse steos) Th^c" ’ ^^^ for two days - 27th and P r I h e lasted ^2i?hi °d “ ^ ? sorrt^°t^e" ’ :a?c;^e^s"r ’ ^ “ ‘ ^^ the kangaroo last^ -! inspUe'o^lip ^^nd Judge Vawy wanted to do a^'wUh us inT We were convicted by a jury of siv nl one white female, and four^whitr^i the conviction a p?ot Intak