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Vol. 71/No. 48      December 24, 2007

 
Letters
 
Prison ban on ‘Militant’
I have been in a month-long duel with this rightist administration as they attempted to put a ban on your newspaper. They were quite insistent on claiming the Militant wasn’t going to pass the prison’s mailroom. They had refused my possession of the paper by shielding their personal objection with doltish and unreasonable justification. One, which was the most idiotic and humorous of them all, stated:

“It has been determined that the newspaper which you have requested to receive, ‘The Militant’ (in English and Spanish), conflicts with institutional policies and its contents has been found to threaten the safe, secure, orderly operations of this institution.”

Did I miss the truth of this statement? Feeling so, I challenged the response to the Review Committee and after an “extensive” review of the paper, I was granted approval but each printing was “subject to review.”

Please continue to send the Militant weekly. I have only received one issue as of the date of this letter. The fight continues!

A prisoner
Virginia

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