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From: Payday men’s network (London, England)
To:
Bomani Shakur, Siddique Abdullah
Hasan, Jason Robb & Namir Abdul Mateen, and, the rally to protest
inhumane treatment in Ohio’s supermax prison, OSP
15 January 2011 We send solidarity and greetings to the Lucasville hunger strikers and all those who rally to support them on Dr Martin Luther King’s birthday.
We are honoured to be in touch with prisoners on the inside whose struggle is too often ignored and even hidden, and whose only resource is each other. You are showing us on the outside how to organize effectively.
We are an international network of men working with soldiers, and their supporters – most often mothers, daughters, sisters, wives – who refuse the military and its illegal orders, who refuse to be killers, rapists, torturers and occupiers. We know well that most people in prison should not be there, and that many are being punished for organizing against state-sponsored racism and murder.
Prisoners are telling the world that exploitation, brutality and torture are commonplace and extensive in the “land of the free”. The real criminals, who have impoverished, poisoned and bombed, destroying communities all over the world, including in their own country, sit in judgment on the rest of us.
We stand with you and all those who oppose the inhuman conditions that you are protesting against.
Payday men’s network working with the Global Women’s Strike
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