www.certaindays.org The calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside orga Learn more about them at certaindays.org.
The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York and Baltimore, with Xinachtli (s/n Alvaro Luna Hernandez), a political prisoner being held in Texas. Founding members Herman Bell, Robert Seth Hayes (Rest in Power) and David Gilbert were welcomed home from prison in 2018 and 2021.
Operating as usual
https://shadowproof.com/2023/03/09/healthcare-as-punishment-seeking-medical-care-in-washington-prisons/
Article by Lawrence Michaels, who is incarcerated in Washington State and also contributed art to the 2023 Certain Days calendar.
Prison health care is designed to avoid or withhold care for as long as possible, often to the point of causing serious harm.
On in 1976 George Jackson Brigade member John Sherman liberated and in 2008, Marius Mason arrested and indicted for ELF actions.
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Support the people arrested in Atlanta protesting cop-city. Many are being charged with domestic terrorism - for attending a music festival.
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/08/atlanta-cop-city-protesters/
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective is releasing its 23rd calendar in 2024. With twelve pieces of beautiful art and twelve essays, these radical calendars have a history of hanging in thousands of homes, workplaces, prison cells, and community spaces around the globe—both educating and reminding us of those behind bars in the struggle for a better world.
Having your work featured in the Certain Days calendar is a prestigious honor and a unique opportunity to use your words and your creative abilities to create a vision of an abolitionist future free of prisons, power structures, and authority. We especially seek to raise the voices of people who are or were incarcerated, so please forward this call for submissions to any prison-based artists and writers in your circles.
With the proceeds from these beautiful, educational calendars you are able to directly support organizations working to aid political prisoners and abolish the prison industrial complex.
Beneficiaries from the 2022 calendar include Release Aging People in Prison – RAPP, Mutulu Shakur legal support, The Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign release fund, Puget Sound Prisoner Support, Coalition to Decarcerate IL, Appalachians Against Pipelines, Community Resource Initiative, Burning Books expansion, P4W Memorial Collective, Cascadia Forest Defenders, and the Atlanta Solidarity Fund.
Submit your abolition-themed art or writing now and help raise funds for those struggling on the front lines of social change. See guidelines below for further information.
Submission Deadline: May Day – Sunday, May 1, 2023
https://www.certaindays.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Certain-Days-call-out-2024.pdf
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Articles
• 400-500 words max. If you submit a longer piece, we will have to edit for length.
• Poetry is also welcome but needs to be significantly shorter than 400 words to accommodate layout.
• Please include a suggested title.
Art
• The calendar is 11” tall by 8.5” wide, so art with a ‘portrait’ orientation is preferred. Art does not need to fit those dimensions exactly.
• We are interested in a diversity of media.
• The calendar is printed in color and we prefer color images.
• You can send a low-res file as a submission, but if your piece is chosen, we will need a high-res version of it for print (600 dpi).
• You may send as many submissions as you like. Chosen artists and authors will receive a complimentary copy of the calendar. Because the calendar is a fundraiser, we cannot offer money to contributors.
Due to space limitations, submissions may be lightly edited for clarity and concision, with no change to the original intent. This call for submissions is available as a PDF here.
Send submissions by May Day, May 1, 2023, to [email protected] or mail to: Certain Days, c/o Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, NY 14213.
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On in 1971, the “Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI”
raided the FBI office exposing COINTELPRO documents in Media, Pennsylvania.
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'1971' Film trailer
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Our friend (and 2023 Certain Days calendar contributor) Garrett Felber is launching the Free Society People's Library which will begin as a mobile library, offering accessible revolutionary literature to people in our communities. Eventually, the plan is for the FSPL to grow into a brick-and-mortar community space that offers opportunities for political education, communal study, organizations to meet, and a community archive that chronicles, preserves, and shares histories of local struggle."
Donate to this important effort at
I am an educator, organizer, and writer building a radical community library in Portland, … Garrett Felber needs your support for Free Society Mobile Library
Check out the featured article for March 2023 by political prisoner Dan Baker entitled "Fight Dirty". Dan is currently incarcerated at FCI Memphis until September 2023.
Dan Baker was kicked out of the Army for refusing to deploy to Iraq. He then became a yoga teacher, travelling all over the country, often homeless and unemployed. For 10 years Dan used begging money to fight in jiu jitsu tournaments, feed other homeless friends, and remove trash from the environment. In 2016 he protested against Richard Spencer. In 2018 Dan went to Rojava, joined the YPG International, and fought against ISIS on the front lines. He returned and participated in the 2020 George Floyd uprisings, traveling all over, and was at CHAZ/ CHOP as a medic, helping save a badly wounded teen. Dan is an anarchist, feminist, environmentalist, international revolutionary, and a certified combat lifesaver and emergency medical responder. He supports global, intersectional struggle.
Dan can be reached at:
Daniel Baker, 25765-509
FCI MEMPHIS
P.O, BOX 34550
MEMPHIS, TN 38184
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And if you're looking to decorate for spring with some incredible artwork (like our friends at Niagara University's Justice Center pictured above) you can get your hands on copies of past years' Certain Days calendars for only $5 each by emailing [email protected]
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March is here! Time to flip your 2023 Certain Days calendar and check out the amazing art by incarcerated artist Juan Hernandez. The featured art is of Puerto Rican Independista Don Pedro Albizu Campos. We bet you will love this art as much as we do.
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About the Artist
Juan Hernandez is an incarcerated artist born and raised in Chicago. His artwork has been exhibited at Angelica Kauffman gallery, DragonFLY Gallery, Art in Odd Places, and elsewhere. He has been featured in Latino Rebels and he is a 2022 grant recipient of The Puffin Foundation. His work can be found online at https://www.instagram.com/jch_convictedart/
Juan can be written at:
Juan Hernandez
Dixon Correctional Center
2600 N Brinton Ave
Dixon, IL 61021
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Fifty years ago on in 1973, Oglala Sioux and American Indian Movement (AIM) members seized the town of Wounded Knee in what became a 71-day occupation and stand-off against US forces. Though the seize has long ended, the struggle continues.
https://ictnews.org/news/special-events-will-mark-wounded-knee-50th-anniversary
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Today is Indigenous political prisoner Oso Blanco's 56th birthday. Oso Blanco has an incredible story, and is a prolific writer, so write to him and show your solidarity. He has created rad greeting cards, proceeds of which benefit the Zapatistas in Chiapas, as well as several books and the cool shirt pictured below.
https://freeosoblanco.org/
Byron Chubbuck, #07909-051
USP Victorville
PO Box 3900
Adelanto, CA 92301
*Address letter to Oso Blanco
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See covers below for back copies and check out what others have done with the art from back copies!
Our collective member Daniel will be doing a Q&A after a screening of If a Tree Falls in Pittsburgh, PA this Sunday.
"Gather at 5:00 PM, documentary screening @ 5:30 PM. We’ll take a short break and then at 7:00 PM do a Q&A with Daniel McGowan , joining us via zoom. (Email [email protected] if you’d like to join via zoom remotely, or have any questions you’d like to ask.) Masks encouraged. Bring a camping chair/yoga mat/pillow if you want to get cozy."
This is a fundraiser for the Atlanta Solidarity Fund.
On in 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated while beginning a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. He was only 39 years old, yet his life changed the trajectory of movements around the world. Malcolm X Presente!
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/malcolm-x-assassinated/
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Defend Atlanta's Forest Defenders!
Emily Murphy's support team is reporting that they are "emaciated" after a month in jail with no vegan food. Support them this week:
TODAY: Call Fulton County Sheriff 404-612-4000 or email [email protected]. Demand Fulton County stand by its own policy, guaranteeing "dignity and respect for all inmates" and "nutritionally balanced" food. Demand Emily Murphy and all inmates be given their meals.
Emily Murphy has been imprisoned and denied bail since the Jan 21 protest in downtown ATL following the police murder of Tortuguita. Emily was charged with "domestic terrorism" despite there being no evidence of them doing anything besides attending a protest.
Atlanta City Detention Center has denied them vegan food, and their support team reports that they are "emaciated ... after a month of starvation." In a recorded statement, Emily describes horrific, abusive jailing conditions, including arbitrary use of tasers and systemic denial of balanced nutrition, "far and beyond my personal needs," for people "who have only been charged, not convicted, of any so-called crime."
An accountant by trade and an avid vegan cook, Emily is known for giving care to so many people, whether in providing delicious food or supporting in navigating violent bureaucracies. It is time for us to give back.
Emily Murphy in their own words:
I am writing this statement to describe the horrific conditions at the Fulton County Jail Section of the ACDC. I was arrested on Sat, Jan 21 and taken to Fulton County Rice Street where I immediately informed intake nurse of my vegan dietary needs. It has been now been 29 days since my arrest and I still have not had consistent access to vegan food. The injustices around food and food system for incarcerated folks go far beyond my personal needs. Many others have been denied timely access to food required to meet their dietary and health needs such as folks who are diabetic being forced to wait many days or weeks for adequate meals that are necessary to regulate blood sugar. A friend that needs access to gluten free food submitted a medical form over 3 and a half weeks ago and is still waiting. Per the jail policy, it is our right to have meals that are nutritionally balanced. However, we do not have access to fruits and vegetables, not even through purchase or commissary. Also per jail policy, two of our meals are supposed to be served hot. Our food is prepared at Fulton County Rice Street even though there is a working kitchen that services the ACDC. The food arrives here ice cold and the oatmeal and grits have to be cut into chunks to be eaten because they are so coagulated. Our trays often come crushed, broken apart, and stepped on with the food all mixed together. None of the food has even an ounce of seasoning, with salt and pepper only available by purchase through commissary, causing accessibility to be an issue. Breakfast and lunch are served together anywhere from 1:45 to 5:30AM every morning with dinner not until around 6. The majority of folks here have only been charged, not convicted, of any alleged, so-called crime. Some have been here for 9+ months without a single phone call from their public defender. Most public defenders never answer the phone or communicate with their clients at all. Per jail policy, we are supposed to receive one visitor per week, however visitation access has been completely denied. We are only outside of our cells for no more than 3 hrs each day and are forced to eat dinner inside the cell at times. Free time is often reduced or eliminated as a punitive measure for talking during head count or anything else the guards feel they want to take it away for. On two separate occasions I witnessed guards pull out and hold tasers to people's backs for things such as passing a friend a bible verse under their door and verbal disagreement over the tv channel. Medical requests are often ignored, and medical information that is supposed to be private is not kept that way. Guards have also made derogatory comments regarding folks mental health and medication usage, which is completely disgusting. Fulton County Jail policy states that all inmates are guaranteed respect and dignity. Locking people in cages, taking away "free time" and threatening with tasers is not a relationship of respect and dignity, but abuse of power and oppression. Solidarity with incarcerated folks everywhere. All people should be free.1:47 PM
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On in 2003 (Oakland, California) Black Panther Lil’ Bobby Hutton’s gravesite receives tombstone, 35 years after his murder.
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Rest in Power to former Black Panther and former political prisoner of 44 years, Marshall Eddie Conway, who passed away yesterday. Eddie never stopped working to make the world, and his immediate community, a better place, whether in prison or out. Watch his show Rattling the Bars, read his books, and help continue the work Eddie spent a lifetime doing.
Remembering the life and struggle of a beloved comrade and former political prisoner.
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On , in 1971, 63 peaceful hunger strikers were shot at Raiford Prison, Florida.
On in 1990, South African political prisoner Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years of brutal confinement. His struggle helped to bring the struggle of all political prisoners to the world's attention and an end to the apartheid regime. Madiba's commitment to the freedom struggle continues to inspire people and movements around the globe.
https://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography
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Seventy years ago today, on in 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were denied clemency by then-President Eisenhower due to the "nature of their crime." Their subsequent executions highlight the inhumanity of the state. This reason continues to be used to lock up people beyond their parole dates, causing tragic harm to those incarcerated and their loved ones.
https://www.rfc.org
Rosenberg Fund for Children
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It’s Black History month. Why not learn more about Black political prisoners and their cases? Check out the info below on Black political prisoners.
Veronza Bowers
www.abcf.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Bowers.pdf
Jamil Al-Amin
https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/jamil_nyc.pdf
Kojo Sabubu
https://www.abcf.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Kojo.pdf
Mumia Abu Jamal
https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/mumia_nyc.pdf
Joe-Joe Bowen
https://www.abcf.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Bowen.pdf
Fred Burton
https://www.abcf.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Fred-Burton-Copy.pdf
Ruchell Magee
https://www.freeruchellmagee.org
Ronald Reed
https://www.abcf.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Ronald-Reed.pdf
Free Kamau Sadiki
https://www.abcf.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Kamau-Sadiki.pdf
Ed Poindexter
https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/nebraska2_nyc.pdf
Virgin Island 3
Meral Smith
Warren Ballentine
Beaumont Gereau
https://www.abcf.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/vi-5.pdf
Check out the NYC Anarchist Black Cross Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners at
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/guide/
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URGENT! Call to Action!
, is facing a medical crisis due to medical neglect at Augusta State Medical Prison. He has not received his Blood Pressure Medication, Amlodipine in four days! He is at high risk for a heart attack and stroke without this medication. His family and loved ones are extremely concerned for his well being.
We are asking folks to call Augusta State Medical Prison Administrative Office TODAY, to put pressure on the prison to provide Kamau with his necessary blood pressure medication and inform his family of his health needs!
"Freddie Hilton" #0001150688
Call Augusta State Medical Prison Administrative Office at:
(706) 855-4700
On in 1968, in South Carolina, police fired into crowd of anti-segregation protestors, killing 3. The incident is known as the Orangeburg, Massacre.
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All proceeds support prisoners and grassroots organizations like Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP), Mutulu Shakur legal support, Sundiata Acoli release fund, Palestinian Youth Movement, Burning Books expansion, Puget Sound Prisoner Support , Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois, Appalachians Against pipelines, Community Resource Initiative- CA, P4W Memorial Collective Prisoners’ Justice Day healing circle, Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Fund 2022, Cascadia Forest Defenders and NorCal Resist.
https://www.abcf.net/blog/newly-released-political-prisoner-oso-blancos-latest-book-the-blue-agave-revolution/
The Blue Agave Revolution: Poetry of The Blind Rebel is a collaboration among radical author, indigenous freedom-fighter, and political prisoner Oso Blanco (aka Byron Shane Chubbuck, aka Robin The Hood) and Michael Novick–a Brooklyn-born veteran of SDS/Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, publisher of Turning The Tide journal, and all-around tireless anti-fascist activist–along with numerous contributors who have supported, and continue to support, Oso Blanco over the years spanning his imprisonment.
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by Michael Novick and Byron Shane Chubbuck/Oso Blanco Part Book 1/17/2023, paperback SKU: 9781667877006 A joint work of poetry and speculative/magical realist fiction from Indigenous freedom fighter and political prisoner Oso Blanco (Byron Shane of Chubbuck) and anti-racist activist, author and publ...
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