DECEMBER 5
6-9pm
Boxcar Books
408 E. 6th St
Join Bloomington Anarchist Black Cross for a night of holiday card & letter writing night for prisoners!
We’ll provide the materials, postage, and lots of snacks. You bring yourself and your friends.
We’ll have information and addresses for dozens of friends and comrades behind bars. Please feel free to bring info on folks you know in prison, or use materials to send mail to your loved ones behind bars.
From Kite Line
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This episode is the second installment exploring women within prisons. First, we get updates on struggles in Bulgaria and Turkey, hear about proposed changes to solitary confinement, and learn about the case of Red Fawn, a Colorado woman arrested at the Standing Rock occupation against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Micol Seigel interviews two women, Ana and Michelle, who have done research about the history of the Indiana Women’s Prison while serving time inside it. We speak with a woman who works on Unstoppable, a publication focusing on female prisoners’ resistance. She also shares some stories about trauma, health, and the prison system that she has seen during her time doing prisoner support for women.
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This week’s episode is the second installment of our Families and Prison series. We speak with April, a formerly-incarcerated mother who works with House of Hope in Martinsville, Indiana. She shares her experiences and thoughts about the issues facing women in prison, as well as the work she has been doing since her release. We also hear some updates about the growing national Movimiento Cosecha, and an ACLU report condemning private prisons.
From Kite Line
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This week is our first installment of a series covering the impact of prison on families. This episode focuses on Wendi Middleton, who works in the Indiana Women’s Prison with her organization Angel’s Wings, which provides a variety of services to incarcerated women, from newly pregnant mothers to women who became prisoners while being the primary caregiver for their children. In the upcoming weeks, we will interview a variety of people who have had their family impacted by prison- from former prisoners and their children, to adult children of prisoners serving decades, to those who research the impacts of the prison system on families.
Discussion about the struggle against prison society in the US with comrades from Bloomington Anarchist Black Cross (Indiana)
Wednesday November 23rd at 20:00, Gini building
Athens Polytechnic School (entrance from Stournari St.), Exarchia
Themistokleous 58 Squat
& Contra Info translation counter-information network
NOVEMBER 28
7pm
Boxcar Books
408 E. 6th St
Join us for November’s edition of Cage Flight: a monthly night of news and solidarity with prisoners and their struggles.
This month we’ll be writing to Red Fawn Fallis and Ramsey Orta, as well as providing ongoing material solidarity for comrades facing repression for the September prison strike.
Red Fawn Fallis is an indigenous water protector from Denver who has been charged with attempted murder at Standing Rock during #NoDAPL pipeline protests.
Ramsey Orta filmed and spread a video of the police murder of Eric Garner. The NYPD responded to his expose of their brutality by harassing, recording, and arresting Ramsey multiple times. One of these charges stuck and Ramsey surrendered himself on October 3rd and is serving a four-year sentence.
Write to Red Fawn Fallis:
Red Fawn Fallis
c/o Morton County Detention Center
205 1st Ave NW
Mandan, ND 58554
Write to Ramsey Orta:
Ramsey Orta – 16A4200
Downstate Correctional Facility
121 Red Schoolhouse Rd.
Fishkill, NY 10309
As always, feel free to bring news of your imprisoned friends and family members to share.
NOVEMBER 22
7:30pm
Boxcar Books
408 E. 6th St
IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on the transformation and radicalization of one of its members.
The film recounts the events leading to the formation of the Earth Liberation Front – a name taken up by decentralized groups using direct action in defense of the earth. This story is told through the lens of ELF member Daniel McGowan as he deals with house arrest and prosecution for acts claimed by the ELF.
Though Daniel is now out of prison, his co-defendant Justin Solondz remains held in federal custody. After the film, we’ll be writing letters and signing cards for Justin.
From Kite Line
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This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years in Alabama prisons. He was originally charged due to his commitment to Black liberation and organizing in the deep south. In this interview with James Kilgore, we get a picture of the New Afrikan practices of self-education and jailhouse legal work which anticipated the contemporary wave of prisoner organization. We also get prison related news, and updates on uprisings in Alabama, as well as hear call-in requests from prisoners.
Kite Line is a weekly radio show out of Bloomington, IN, focusing on prison issues and those affected by incarceration.
The Bomani Episode
This week, we focus on a topic that is close to many of us on the outside: the story and struggle of political prisoner and Ohio death row inmate Bomani Shakur (known to the state as Keith Lamar). We begin our episode with an update on Marius Mason, news from the Kinross Correctional Facility, Holman Prison, and give call in information for some Indiana prisoners asking for outside support. For more information on Bomani’s case, visit the Kite Line website or www.keithlamar.org
OCTOBER 31
7pm
Boxcar Books
408 E. 6th St
Between trick-or-treating and late-night cover shows and costume parties, join us to show support for a few prisoners who are facing especially hard times.
Robert Seth Hayes, a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member, is one of the longest-held political prisoners in the US. Along with a number of other untreated medical issus, Seth has recently had several diabetic emergencies, including diabetic coma. Right now he needs support and for us to demand that the prison provide adequate medical care. More here: http://www.jerichony.org/sethmedical.html
Kara Wild is an American detained in France on serious charges related to alleged participation in protests against labor reforms and police repression. She was recently denied bail for the final time, which means she will be locked up until her trial.
We will be learning more about Robert and Kara and their cases and then writing them letters and cards . We will also get some updates on prisoners facing repression for alleged participation in the Sept. 9th prison strike & info on how to show them soli.
As always, feel free to tell us about your friends and family who are locked up and need support. Bring zines, poems, pictures, whatever you want to send inside!
If you’re interested in the state of the strike or showing material solidarity with prison rebels, this will be a good place to plug-in.
