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Vol. 77/No. 36      October 14, 2013

 
Letters
 
Solitary aims to smother souls
Once again I am here to commend you on bringing attention to California’s SHU inmates as well as all statewide hunger strikers!

The beauty of nationwide publicity is that our country is forced to face the realization that something dark and twisted exists: Indefinite Solitary Confinement. It operates with underground policies and one goal: to smother out the souls, spirits, voices and identities of those who possess ideas and aspirations for change.

Thank you.

July 8th hunger striker
A prisoner
California
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Support for U.S. prisoners
I would greatly appreciate if you would continue sending me the Militant. I look forward to reading each issue and sharing them with others in my unit.

What has been noted a lot here are the articles about the high number of police killings and about the Special Housing Units in California prisons and the inhuman treatment prisoners endure in long-term isolation. We tautoko [support] the actions these men are taking in their hunger strikes. We wish them all the very best!

I have just finished reading Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sundance by Leonard Peltier. I was deeply saddened by this story about him and many others from the American Indian Movement who set out to help, support and protect their people at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. And the injustice, exploitation and fabricated evidence against our brother that followed, and his incarceration ever since. It was his birthday Sept. 12, and I know he is not well, so I wrote a letter of support to him from us, the Maori people of the long white cloud.

Do any of the many political prisoners in U.S. prisons have a chance of ever being released? I do think René González must count himself very lucky indeed.

I hope the Militant never stops highlighting issues about all political inmates in U.S. prisons and about socialist struggles all around the world.

Kia Kaha [stay strong] Militant!

A prisoner
New Zealand  
 
 
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