[Bookstoprisoners] Prison related events

[sara ross]

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HI Everybody, 
This is a very long e-mail but lists many many events, over the 
next 3 months, concerning prisons, schools and the Tamms Year Ten Campaign. 
All events are in the Chicago area. 
Best, Sarah Ross 

The time is now!
Tamms Year Ten Organizing Meeting
Saturday Feb. 23, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Progressive Community Center
The People's Church
56 E. 48th St.

Very close to Red Line and lots of parking.
Contact Laurie Jo Reynolds at lreyno at artic.edu to RSVP or to request a
 ride.

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** Take a look at all the organizations (below) that have joined
forces with the Year Ten Campaign below and take heart! Our coalition
grows bigger every day. Keep reaching out to these organizations,
supporting them by attending their events, and continue to connect
Year Ten with other organizations that would make our coalition
stronger!

** Take a look at all the upcoming March and April events below and
commit to attending them!



TAMMS YEAR TEN EVENTS
3/1–Saturday–10:30 AM. A Talk on "Human Contact Deprivation"
Sacred Heart Parish
337 S Ottawa St, Joliet, IL

3/3–Monday–4PM. Press Conference and Poetry Reading:
Featuring Spoken Word Poets Richard Green and Baba Griot Lucas
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted, Chicago, IL

3/8–Saturday–1:30PM. Letter-writing to Tamms Prisoners and Kick-off
 of
Supermax Subscriptions
Chicago Freedom School
230 S Clark, Chicago, IL

3/10–Monday–10PM. Peace Party at Danny's
Benefit for Tamms Year Ten
1951 W Dickens, Chicago, IL

3/14—Friday-8PM. The Tradeshow
Live performance installation by RATIO and Chicago Arts District
1945 S. Halsted, Ste 101, Chicago, IL
(also performed on 3/16 at 2PM and as a Tamms benefit on 4/25 at 8PM)

3/15–Saturday–9PM. Hideout Benefit For Tamms Year Ten
Featuring Elmore James Jr. and Rupert
The Hideout
1354 W Wabansia, Chicago, IL


4/17–Thursday–6PM. "You Don't Remember The Time You Do: Moments in
 the
Lives of Prisoners" Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State, Chicago, IL

4/26–Saturday–11AM. Freedom School Communiversity
All-day education on the prison industrial complex
Chicago Freedom School
719 S State, Suite 3N, Chicago, IL

4/29-Tuesday-4PM to 5:30PM. Northwestern University Center for
International and Comparative Studies "Torture in the Era of
Democracy" series lecture: "Tamms as Torture."
Location TBA

5/12—Monday—10AM to 4PM
Legislative Hearings on Tamms At Ten Years
James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph, Chicago
(Tentative date)



ENDORSEMENTS
8th Day Center For Justice
American Friends Service Committee–Chicago
Black People Against Police Torture
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Chicago Anarchist Black Cross
Chicagoland Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (CCCLR)
Citizens For Earned Release
Coalition to Reduce Recidivism
Critical Resistance Chicago
Education Justice Project, Urbana-Champaign
Illinois Institute for Community Law
Justice Coalition of Greater Chicago
Midwest Books to Prisoners (MWBTP)
National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression–Chicago
National Lawyers Guild-Chicago
Progressive Community Center, The People's Church, Rev. B. Herbert
 Martin
Saving Our Sons Ministries
Stateville Speaks
STOPMAX/American Friends Service Committee
Raising Awareness to Inspire Others (RATIO)
Tamms Committee
Tamms Poetry Committee
Temporary Services
Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners
Voices for Creative Non-Violence


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MEN AT TAMMS DESCRIBE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE THERE
Physically out of balance, no weights to exercise with, no gym or yard
to engage in sport activities. More deadaches from stress & high blood
pressure. I've been almost completely cut off from my family and the
strain from miscommunication in little mail I do get is destroying the
family bod. I'm not able to be effectively influence my children
lives. The weight of stress, anger (from being treated as an animal),
and anxiety on my mental faculties are staggering. Not being able to
touch (sensory deprivation) another human, plus this perpetual cage,
has the effect of depersonalizing me. Don't know if one could be
rehabilitated by locking one up in a cage & isolated from human
interaction 24-7. There's no education here. Only thoughts or plans
for the future is to survive Tamms by not going insane.


* * * *

I received your letter and was very happy and surprise to see and have
your concern for my well-being. It brought joy and tears to my eyes
knowing there are people's in this cruel world we live in that believe
there are individual's no matter where they are, need a better
qualities of life and are willing to lend a hand in any possible way
they can. Thank you! Your presence is as powerful as it is sweet. : )
What you're doing is making me strong and have faith.

When you ask me to write about my experience of Tamms prison, I was a
little frighten although I've been stumbling along my path for
numerous of years now: 21½. I feel so out of touch that I wonder if I
can be much of a help. But I will do it, so if you can use any of it
you certainly may. I would indeed feel honor in your project. Also, a
great change from the old me is slowly transforming with love and
forgiveness due to people like yourselves had come into my life


* * * *

I'm right now sitting in a special locked isolation cell, with the
lock welded shut, and there is no one to talk to – just the sound of
screaming voices. And because there is no human contact, you depend on
a television and radio, something that will be forever out of my reach
because of me having absolutely no help from the outside. So I must
depend on books, which have become an impossible task because in order
to get any meaningful reading material, once again, you must have
somebody on the outside to send it to you, or else you are left with
bedtime stories for children... The only friend I have is the friend I
have created in my imagination. Sometimes I talk with him out loud.
I'd sort of wake myself up and I hear myself talking to him. I guess
it is like some kind of wish fulfillment. Even when I'm asleep at
night, I still find myself talking to this guy. I'm at the point of
exhaustion but I'm laboring hard to maintain my sanity!!!  Thank you
for your time.


* * * *

I've been in Tamms for 8 years, 10 months and have not been able to
embrace, hug or hold my loved ones (or any other person). I have not
felt a simple handshake in all those years. We live in physical
isolation at Tamms. I would love to play sports with others, or to be
able to sit at a table with others and eat a meal together. I recently
read a newspaper article of a man who would travel the country with a
sign that offered free hugs to anyone and people would approach him
and ask why. Some people were skeptical, others were curious. This man
knew the warm, loving power of a simple hug. To have any physical
interaction with others is a longful thought beyond reach at Tamms. We
live with many longful thoughts beyond reach. That is our reality
here.

       
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