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national | anti-war / imperialism | news report Monday April 04, 2005 20:08 by Ciaron

They're in Jail for Us, We're on the Loose for Them!

As the the Bush administration escalates it's war on the poor ,nonviolent resistance grows amongst the U.S. civilian population and within the U.S. military. Any serious movement that challenges power will have it's prisoners. Prison is designed to isolate, demoralise and crush the resister.

A smple way to counter such isolation is sending a letter or postcard to peace prisoners in military brigs, county jails and federal pens.

From personal experience I can assure you that getting such correspondence from Ireland when your living in a cage or cell lifts morale, makes it safer with the guards and is big hit fellow prisoners (especially stamp collecters!).

If you're going to write a letter against the war - makeit to a peace prisoner rather than a politician!

The link below will give you profiles and prison addresses for those sentenced for trespass at the "School of the Americas" where Latin American death squads are trained at Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA.

The soldiers go home to wage war on the poor on behalf of U.S. foreign policy (More info on School of the Americas www.soaw.org)

These folks were arrested in November and sentenced recently.