lunedì 10 ottobre 2011

Proposals: Reflecting on an Anarchist/Prisoner Publication


The following is a self-reflection regarding a North Carolina-based publication titled Proposals. This publication was a joint effort of anarchists on the outside and many prisoners on the inside: on a monthly or bimonthly basis it published prisoner-supplied letters, report-backs, analysis, and historical accounts, as well as news briefs and anarchist perspectives on anti-prison struggle from the outside. The contributors were mostly not “political” prisoners in the traditional leftist sense but rather conscious, “social” prisoners seeking a way to ignite some kind of rebellion in their facilities. By our accounts, Proposals reached as many as 1000 of the 40,000 prisoners in North Carolina, and continues to be passed around at least half of the State's facilities, excluding jails. [Social /> Politics]

Though the project was fairly short-lived (it lasted from January to September), it has contributed to an ongoing trajectory of anti-prison politics and action in our State, as well as a large number of relationships with rebellious prisoners. For this reason we desired to present a broad self-critique of the project to the larger national anarchist milieu, in hopes that the questions, answers, and points of departure we have found may find some resonance in others' anti-prison efforts. Up until now the project has been mostly kept out of the anarchist space, for reasons both of focus as well as a desire to avoid unwanted attention. Now that these efforts have shifted somewhat, we hope that an open discussion of our successes and failures might benefit others.

To view various issues of Proposals, check out: http://prisonbooks.info/resources (The issues are formatted for printing, but you can figure it out...)

Original Intent

--continuing to read
http://www.anarchistnews.org/node/15511

http://prisonbooks.info/resources

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