[IMC] January 2013 Political Prisoner Birthday Poster

[ppbirthday at riseup.net]

Hello Friends and Comrades,

1) Poster
2) Free Luke
3) Get Grand Jury Resisters out of solitary
4) New Year's Eve and Free Carlos
5) Radio Show on Multi-generational Movements
6) Political Prisoner Updates

1)Here is the political prisoner birthday poster for January. As always,
please post this poster publicly and/or use it to start a card writing
night of your own.
http://prisonbookscollective.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/january.pdf

2)Nineteen year old anarchist Luke O’Donovan is being charged with 5
counts of aggravated assault for defending himself from a queer bashing by
multiple attackers. You can find out more here: http://letlukego.com

3)Matthew Duran and Katherine “KteeO” Olejnik were unexpectedly thrown
back into solitary confinement at SeaTac FDC on December 27th. Please call
SeaTac FDC at 206-870-5700 to demand that Matthew Duran, Katherine
Olejnik, and Matthew Pfeiffer be released from prison. <!--more-->More
info can be found here:
http://prisonbooks.info/2013/01/03/northwest-grand-jury-resistance-matt-and-kteeo-back-in-solitary-confinement-please-call-the-prison/

4)There was a nice little New Year's Eve noise demo at the jail in
neighboring Durham. You can read about it.  Inside the Durham jail on New
Year's Eve was Carlos riley Jr. People in the area are stepping up to
fight to free Durham native Carlos Riley, Jr, the cousin of known Bay-area
activist and MC Boots Riley. Carlos was stopped by a cop mid morning on
December 18th. During the stop, the cop shouted expletives, physically
attacked Carlos, verbally threatened to kill him and attempted to draw his
weapon to shoot at Carlos Riley. While attempting to draw his weapon, the
cop shot himself in the leg. Fearing for his life, Carlos fled the scene
in his car. According to the police, at this point he also allegedly took
the cop’s weapon and badge away from him.

Noise Demo:
http://prisonbooks.info/2013/01/02/durham-new-years-eve-demo-noise-fire-and-lots-of-rage/
Carlos Riley:
http://amplifyvoices.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/liberty-and-justice-for-carlos-riley-jr/

5)The Final Straw recently did another interview with Viki Law and China
Martens about the newly published book, Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind:
Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and
Communities (PM Press, 2012), which they edited and contributed to. They
talk about multi-generationality in struggle as well as intersections of
age, class, gender and race.

The Final Straw:
http://www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw/12/2012/radical-parenting-and-sustaining-a-multi-generational-movement-a-conversation-with-vikki-law-china-m

Viki Law: http://resistancebehindbars.org/

China Martens: http://kidzcitybaltimore.blogspot.com

6)Lastly, here is a link to the latest Political Prisoner/Prisoner Of War
every-other week update by the  NYC-Anarchist Black Cross. There are lots
of good updates on many political prisoners.
http://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/updates-18-dec-20121.pdf

Until Every Cage Is Empty,

The Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective
http://prisonbooks.info