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  • Subject: [Internationalist] This Sunday! Mother's Day Noise Demo @ Women's Prison in Raleigh!!
  • Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:45:24 -0700

Dear Members,

In this email You will find info on these events:

1)Thur.,May 9th, Jerry Koch, NYC activist support and film showing: The
Wind that Shakes the Barley
2)Sun., May 12th, Mother's Day Anti Prison Noise Demo in Raleigh
3)Wed., May 15th, Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night


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1)Thursday, May 9th, Jerry Koch, NYC activist support and film showing:
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
7pm @ Internationalist Books

Jerry Koch, a NYC anarchist and legal activist, has been subpoenaed to a
grand jury. The Support Jerry Committee will present information about
grand juries, Jerry’s case, and how to support him, and screen “The Wind
that Shakes the Barley,” one of Jerry’s favorite films.

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5)Sunday, May 12th, Mother's Day Anti-Prison Noise Demo
3pm Meet at State St. and Bragg St. in Raleigh.

Spread The Word! Bring a Friend!

We'll be breaking the isolation and monotony of the women in the Raleigh
Correctional Center for Women and the North Carolina Correctional
Institution for Women (a minimum-security prison next door to RCCW).
Together these two prisons have almost 1,500 women, almost all of them
mothers. RCCW is the state's largest prison with 1,288 women including
women's death row.

Bring banners,drums, pots and pans, your voice, your love for those inside
and your anger for the walls that separate us.

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, there will be a day of solidarity with incarcerated mothers and
against a penal system that disproportionately cages people based on race,
class, and gender non-conformity.

Noise demonstrations outside of prisons are a growing tradition–a way of
expressing solidarity with people imprisoned, sharing joy and celebration
within struggle, and remembering those held captive by the state. Mother’s
Day is, without exaggeration, the most emotional day in women’s prisons.
Few imprisoned mothers will receive a visit from their children this
year–let alone on this day. A noise demo breaks the isolation and
alienation of the cell walls, but we cannot stop there. The captivity of
women does not begin inside those walls, but rather with the threats of
poverty and violence outside them. Liberation means an end to the abusive
economic systems that devalue human needs and relationships, reducing our
mothers to wage slaves and commodities for others’ profits.

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6) Wednesday, May 15th, Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night @ 7pm @
Internationalist Books

The Internationalist Prison Books Collective brings you this month’s
Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night! Write letters and birthday cards
to political prisoners whose birthdays fall during the month of May.
It’s an easy way to let these people know they aren’t forgotten. These men
and women fought for many of the freedoms we take for granted today. If
you can’t make it to the letter writing night then please send a birthday
card from home.

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Thanks For Reading,
Solidarity Forever,
Internationalist Books and Community Center


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