Download this zine by the Page One collective that highlights the 13 elders currently incarcerated for their participation in Black liberation movements. Write them, support them, bring up their names. Hand this information out at a protest, at a family dinner, or in your neighborhood. Let’s keep these names in our minds and hearts.
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Steve Martinez, please stop,
as he was recently released.
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates:
https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/updates-4-may-2021.pdf
NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support
crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of
war we support.
If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner,
please let us know so we can insure there’s no overlap. The goal is to
have copies sent to all of the prisoners we list.
We’ve also been told that some prisoners are not receiving the copies
sent in, yet we aren’t getting rejection notices. If you are in steady
contact with a prisoner, please ask them whether or not they are
receiving the updates and let us know.
Free ’em all,
NYC ABC
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NYC ABC
Post Office Box 110034
Brooklyn, New York 11211
NYC Books Through Bars and Freebird Books Monthly Bundle for May 2021.
May’s picks focus on political iconoclasts and great thinkers like Assata Shakur and James Baldwin
May 2021’s pick: Assata: An Autobiography, Giovanni’s Room, and a selection from the Penguin Great Ideas Series–three books for $30
Following April’s drive (almost 700 books collected!) is a bundle focusing on great thinkers and political iconoclasts. Assata Shakur and James Baldwin were firebrands in the 1960s and 70s who challenged mainstream culture and racial assumptions through their words and activism.
Shakur’s 1987 autobiography has become an important document of Black resistance movements that reveals the incredible lengths the U.S. government went to stifle revolutionary thought at the height of the Civil Rights era.
Though James Baldwin’s own nonfiction (essays, criticism, polemics) is substantial, we decided to focus on his fiction this month, and the novel Giovanni’s Room. Set in 1950’s Paris and amongst a community of American expatriates, Baldwin tackles social isolation, gender and sexual identity crisis, as well as conflicts of masculinity within this story of a young bisexual man navigating the public sphere in a society that rejects a core aspect of his sexuality.
Rounding out the bundle are classic works from the Penguin Great Ideas Series, which your purchase will allow us to provide incarcerated readers with a variety of, like works on evolution, political theory, the ethics of the Samurai, and women’s rights.
To learn more about the important work NYC Books Through Bars does, go here.
Our friends at Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners collective published their May Prison Break column on It’s Going Down. Here is what they had to say about it:
It’s May 1st: Mayday and that means our column on It’s Going Down: *Prison Break* is out for May! Check it out at the link and read all about political prisoner birthdays, releases, acquittals & dropped charges, ongoing cases and our new Call for Submissions for our 2022 calendar!!! Be sure to check out the amazing art by indigenous PP Oso Blanco featured as well!
Read it at https://itsgoingdown.org/prison-break-may-2021/
