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Contents:
End the Massachusetts Lockdown
Mass RAIL campaign information
Upcoming RAIL Events & Meetings in Western Massachusetts
MIM and RAIL Radio work
Drop Sanctions Not Bombs on Iraq
Stop the U.$./NATO attacks on Yugoslavia
Local publications and articles
Sign up for events e-mailing list
End the Massachusetts Lockdown
- Massachusetts Prison Facts.
- MIM factsheet on prisons and the prison system: The Amerikkkan Lockdown Index.
- Students: Intern with the Prisoner Legal Clinic doing legal research on prisons and for prisoners
- Listen to Under Lock and Key, a weekly RAIL radio program on prisons on WOZQ (91.9FM, Northampton), Sundays between 8 and 10pm. Help is needed to get this program on more stations.
Mass RAIL campaign information
Mass RAIL fights the whole injustice system, and we've picked a few winnable battles that we focus a lot of our energy on: stopping the control units torture cells, and returning the prisoners deported to Texas. Read up on it here, and get involved!
- Read about Massachusetts Control Units
- Petition text
Mass RAIL also works to support the revolution in the Philippines against the U.$-backed regime.
- Read about the deportation of Massachusetts prisoners to Texas
- Petition text
- Support the National Democractic Front of the Philippines: a RAIL Pamphlet
- Appeal for the Grant of Asylum to Prof. Jose Maria Sison and Family
Upcoming RAIL Events & Meetings in Western Massachusetts
BANKING ON LIFE AND DEBT
Video and discussion
Weds April 26 7pm
UMass Campus Center 903The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) contribute to poverty
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in Third World counties like the Philippines, Ghana and Brazil through
their lending practices. Loans from these imperialist organizations have
forced already poor countries into greter poverty for the benefit of the
imperialists. This film explores the war on the poor of the world and
exposes the imperialist intentions behind the rhetoric of the World Bank
and IMF. A discussion of the anti-imperialist struggles of resistance in
the Philippines and around the world will follow.
Now has its own page: http://www.etext.info/Politics/MIM/ma/radio.html with links to real audio and mp3 (as well as transcripts) of MIM & RAIL radio productions and audio recordings of events. Back to the top of this page. MIM and RAIL Radio work
Drop Sanctions Not Bombs on Iraq
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- MIM Notes archive of stories on Iraq
- RAIL has organized teach-ins, marches and leafletting sessions on the U.$. war against Iraq. Get involved with Iraq events.
- Materials used at Iraq teach-ins
- RAIL holds events around U.$. war on Iraq; Patriotic Amerikans respond with anger, vandalism and threats of violence
- RAIL's appeal to academics for anti-imperialist work against Iraq sanctions
- RAIL article on the Dec 16 U.$. attack on Iraq
- RAIL struggles with pacifists against demonizing Saddam Hussein
- MIM's 1998 open letter to anti-war activists
Stop the U.$./NATO attacks on Yugoslavia
MIM Notes archive on Kosovo & NATO bombings Back to the top of this page.
Publications: Local publications and articles
Articles on prisons:
- MassRAIL No. 14 (Feb 99-June 99)
- MassRAIL No. 13 (October 98-February 99)
- MassRAIL No. 12 (June 98-September 98) [coming soon]
- MassRAIL No. 11. February 98-April 98)
Articles on Student Struggles:
- Massachusetts opens new supermax prison on Sept 30, 1998 to torture politically conscious prisoners
- MIM Notes article: Governor candidates promote failed strategies on crime. Article on debate and counter demonstration at Mullins Center. Oct 14, 1998.
- Review: The Farm Springfield College 9/24/98
Film about Angola prison portrays humanity of prisoners, downplays inhumanity of the prison system.
- MIM Notes 157 (March 1 1998): Youth Rise Up! Organize to Free Revolutionary Leaders
- MIM Notes 158 (March 15 1998): Wimmin prisoners win lawsuit against Mass DOC
- MIM Notes 99, (April 1995) Research shows "eyewitness" evidence unreliable
- Collection of articles about MIM's and RAIL's 1996 anti-prisons work in Ma husetts
- MIM Notes article about Mumia Abu-Jamal's 1996 remand hearing before Judge Sabo.
- Speech prepared to introduce a panel the topic of incarcerated revolutionary leaders.
- MIM Notes 135, April 1997: Students Seize Building For Mixed Bag Of Demands (Goodell takeover, March 1997)
- MIM Notes 104, September 1995: University of California Regents Abolish Affirmative Action
- MIM Notes 100, May 1995: ULCA Students Rally to Defend Affirmative Action
- MIM Notes 71, Dec 1992 article: Racists rewarded at UMass
Flyers:
Misc articles:
- Archive of flyers in PDF format," started March 2000
- Flyer distributed at Doing Time, Doing Vipassana. "Prison is oppressive: Organizing not meditation is the answer!"
- Flyer: The Peace Corps is a tool of U.$. Imperialism.
- Open letter to the gutless wonders of De-RAIL, and other students actively trying to destroy the work of RAIL
Misc resources:
- MIM Notes 152 (December 15, 1997): Lazy use of statistics doesn't advance feminist revolution
- MIM Notes 162 (May 15, 1998): RAIL spreads revolutionary struggle at Earth Day Forum
- Collection of 1995 articles about RAIL's protest of National Security Advisor Anthony Lake as Commencement Speaker
Guidelines for practice:
- Build your own RAIL literature box
- Order anti-imperialist buttons from RAIL
- Search the MIM and RAIL websites.
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- RAIL's policy on joint work with other organizations.
- Notes on RAIL's tone & language, (why some RAILers spell Amerika that way and other topics)
- What is Imperialism?
- Combining our Efforts: Working in a United Front
- What is Mass Practice?
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Want more information on prisons, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and anti-settler struggles?
Contact WMass-RAIL by writing mim@mim.org, or PO Box 712, Amherst, MA 01004-0712.
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