Christmas and New Years

Prison Books News

• Puppets vs. Prisons Round 2 December 15, 2011
  Memebers of our collective  in the Mysterious Rabbit Puppet Army are following up their summer shows with a short winter tour down south. Their feature show, “What Are Prisons For?”, uses shadow puppets to outline the history of the Prison Industrial Complexfrom chattel slavery in the South to today’s exploding prison population. We highly recommend […]
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• Prison Books Condemns Police Advisory Committee as “Farce” December 15, 2011
  The following is a statement by the Prison Books Collective sent out to local media as a press release, in regards to a meeting of the Police Advisory Committee reviewing the Yates Building eviction. CHAPEL HILL, NC: The Internationalist Prison Books Collective condemns the attempts of the Town of Chapel Hill to justify state repression […]
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• Mumia Transfered December 15, 2011
  ONA MOVE, Everybody! We’ve received news that Mumia has now been transferred to SCI-Mahanoy, another prison in Pennsylvania. He is in “Administrative Segregation”, he is not in general population yet. We need to let those administrators know, immediately, that we know Mumia is there and that the WORLD is watching. People need to flood the […]
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• Prisoners Hunger Strike Against Solitary Conditions in Morganton December 13, 2011
  We recently recieved word that on December 1st, at least ten prisoners at the Foothills Prison in Morganton, NC went on indefinite hunger strike. This action was/is being taken in protest of the conditions in solitary confinement. They submitted the following demands to the administration. “We feel these are modest demands and will not quit […]
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• Noise Demo Announced to Support Latin Kings December 8, 2011
  DETENTION HEARING & PUBLIC NOISE DEMO OUTSIDE OF THE L. PREYER FEDERAL COURTHOUSE 324 WEST MARKET ST. IN DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13th: 10am & 2:30pm Anarchists in Greensboro stand in solidarity with the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) of NC and its members who have been indicted and imprisoned under false charges. […]
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• Prosecutor Drops Death Penalty Effort Against Jamal December 8, 2011
  PHILADELPHIA — Prosecutors on Wednesday abandoned their 30-year push to execute convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther whose claim that he was the victim of a racist legal system made him an international cause celebre. Abu-Jamal, 58, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison. Flanked by police Officer Daniel Faulkner’s […]
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• Call for New Year’s Eve noise demos outside of prisons, jails, and detention centers worldwide December 6, 2011
  From: Anarchist News Global Noise Demo: NYE 2011/2012 Outside & inside prisons, jails, and detention centers everywhere. This event is inspired by the North American call out for a day of action against prisons in the New Year of 2011, which remains relevant unchanged: Noise demos outside of prisons in some countries are a continuing […]
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• Pelican Bay is not Enough!! Continuing the Struggle Against Extreme Isolation and Sensory Deprivation December 2, 2011
  By Victoria Law, criticalmassprogress.com Last month, prisoners across California ended a nearly three-week hunger strike. The strikers, who numbered 12,000 at the strike’s peak, had five core demands: 1) Eliminate group punishments for individual rules violations; 2) Abolish the debriefing policy and modify active/inactive gang status criteria; 3) Comply wi […]
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• Breaking and Entering a New World: Video, Photos, and Article on the Chrysler Occupation November 30, 2011
  A new report from Crimethinc tells the story of the occupation of a derelict building in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on November 12-13, 2011, drawing on accounts from a wide range of participants. While anarchists and corporate media have circulated news of this action far and wide, the experiences shared inside the building have remained a sort of black box […]
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• Crowd Marches from Police HQ to Town Hall November 22, 2011
  (from capitalist press) CHAPEL HILL — Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt briefly recessed tonight’s Town Council meeting after angry protesters jeered a council decision to put off apologies to two journalists detained in the Nov. 13 occupation of the Yates Motor Co. downtown. Council member Laurin Easthom had proposed apologizing to News & Observer staff writer Ka […]
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