[IMC] May Political Prisoner Birthday Poster

[ppbirthday at riseup.net]

Hello Friends and Comrades,

Here is the political prisoner birthday poster for May. The file is a
little big this month so give it a second to open. 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/2013/05/may-letter-writing-62.pdf

Mother’s Day began not just as a day to honor mothers, but as a day for
mothers to express solidarity with one another and against the wars that
left widows and orphans impoverished. This Mother’s Day, in honor of this
tradition, we are calling for a global day of solidarity with incarcerated
mothers and against a penal system that disproportionately cages people
based on race, class, and gender non-conformity. Please circulate this
call far and wide and help organize a noise demo outside a prison or jail
near you that holds women captive.
http://prisonbooks.info/2013/04/09/global-noise-demo-mothers-day-2013/

Here is a flyer that was made for one mother's day demo that you can pass
out at yours.
http://prisonbookscollective.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/mdhalfsheet.pdf

June 11th is the international day of solidarity with Eric McDavid, Marie
Mason, and all long term anarchist prisoners. You still have plenty of
time to organize something in your town. You can find more info on
organizing an event and what has happened in previous years here.
http://june11.org/

The campaign to get former Black Panther Russell Maroon Shoatz out of
solitary is still going on. He has been held in torturous conditions of
solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons for the past thirty years.
>From April 8 to May 10, 2013, the Campaign to Free Russell Maroon Shoatz
is calling for an intense call-in and write-in campaign to bring pressure
on the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PA DOC), to release Maroon
from solitary confinement and into the general prison population. You can
find out all about it and download action packets on his support page.
http://russellmaroonshoats.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/action-alert-russell-maroon-shoatz-call-to-demand-his-immediate-release-from-solitary-confinement/

Jason Sutherlin of Tinley Park 5 wrote a really sweet and powerful letter
to all of his supporters thanking them for all the support and birthday
cards he's been getting.
http://prisonbooks.info/2013/04/16/jason-sutherlin-of-tinley-park-5-thanks-his-supporters/

We are thrilled to announce that our friends in Croatan Earth First! will
be hosting next summer’s Earth First! rendezvous in North Carolina. The
Round River Rendezvous is the annual gathering of the Earth First!
Movement. Each Summer, this week-long camp-out attracts several hundred
Earth First!ers from around the world.
http://summerrondy2013.wordpress.com/
Help promote the event, nationally and internationally by downloading and
printing these quarter sheets:
http://croatanearthfirst.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/rondyflyerquarter.pdf

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/2013/05/updates-30-apr-2013.pdf

Until Every Cage Is Empty,

<a href="http://prisonbooks.info">The Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective</a>