Prisons and Police

Midwest Books to Prisoners Zine #1 March 2010

Table of Contents:
1 - Police Rogues Gallery
2 - Obama directs Illinois to host Guantanamo Bay detainees
3 - Free after Decades: Tortured and Innocent Prisoners
4 - Civil and Human Rights Violations at Cook County Jail
5 - Governor Quinn Kills Early Release Program
6 - Chicago Copwatch: People’s Blotter
7 - Women Prisoner Struggles
8 - Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network
9 - “Conviction Through Corruption” - the story of Willie Boyd
10 - Writing through Prisoners in Illinois  read more »

As Day Follows Night: An Introduction to Prisoner Support

“Any political movement or peoples struggle, which
fails to provide support to fallen comrades, is
doomed to failure as certain as day follows night.”
-Harold H. Thompson
“Any political movement that does not support its
political internees is a sham movement!”
-Ojore Lutalo
“A movement that is not capable of looking after its
comrades in prison is destined to die, and that at a
high price under atrocious torture.”
- Daniela Carmignani
“The point is simple: no serious political struggle  read more »

a guide to the events surrounding the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Ministerial in Miami, November 20-21, 2003

.A Collaborative Work.

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http://zinelibrary.info/files/miamimodel.pdf (11 mb)

This pamphlet was written in Kingston Ontario, the city with the largest concentration of prisons in Canada, and our hometown. We wrote it to bring people up to speed with what we see as a dangerous agenda at work within the federal government with respect to the Canadian prison system. At this very moment, the federal Conservative Party, their various corporate partners, and their provincial proxy-parties are pushing hard for a major expansion of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC).  read more »

Selected Anarchist Responses to Prisons and Crime

Vol. 1; 1886-1929

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http://zinelibrary.info/files/yokeofthestate.pdf (12 mb)

Issue 6 Fall/ Winter 2006

The Newsletter of the Books 4 Prisoners Crew

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http://zinelibrary.info/files/unnamed_codefendant.pdf (8.81 mb)

The newsletter of the Missouri Prisoners' Labor Union

Issue 12 Sept. 2006

At the dawn of industrialism, factories were modeled after prisons...

in its twilight, prisons are modeled after factories.

August 8-10, 2003

University of Oregon

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http://zinelibrary.info/files/breakthechainsmanual.pdf (11 mb)

Break the Chains Blog:

http://breakthechains.info

information and resources

2004

Fire to the Prisons
An Insurrectionary Quarterly
Issue #8 Out Now
Winter 2010

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http://zinelibrary.info/files/firetotheprisons8.pdf (8.16 mb)

Glossy print copies are available for re-distribution by contacting us at:

firetotheprisons (at) gmail (dot) com

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Fire to the Prisons
c/o Shoelacetown ABC
P.O Box 8085
Paramus, NJ
07652, USA  read more »

The United States’ most populous state, California is the world’s eighth largest economy. The state has some of the planet’s most productive farmland and in the 1990s enjoyed an extensive real-estate boom. But intensive, industrialised agriculture has polluted much of the environment and now, with more foreclosed homes than anywhere else in the world, it is also home to a growing number of tent cities. Gifford Hartman takes us on a road trip through California’s Central Valley to witness the toxicity: of mortgages and ecosystems, houses, drugs and human relations.

by Ken Lawrence

Introduction by Kristian Williams

Notes: Originally written in French in August 1980 and signed by 25,000 people. Published in November 1980 by Editions Champ Libre, as part of the volume Appels de la prison de Segovie [Appeals from the prison in Segovia], which was attributed to the “Coordinated autonomous groups of Spain.”

Aux Libertaires was signed Les Amis Internationaux (“International Friends”) and is presently attributed to "that Debord guy."  read more »