Saturday, May 23, 2009

Deadline for PAN vol 2#2 coming up soon! (submit!)


Just a reminder that the 4th issue of Prison Action News is due to come
out July 1. We need all submissions in by June 1 (you can submit by email
to prisonactionnews@riseup.net or by mail to PAN c/o Boston ABC PO Box
230182 Boston, MA 02123 USA). If you or prisoners you know have an entry,
we would love to have them!

Below are guidelines and a brief description of PAN!

Prison Action News is a newsletter collaboratively published by prisoner
support groups worldwide for prisoners to report on their struggles and
acts of resistance from behind bars. All submissions must be received by
Dec 1st or June 1st and be in compliance with the following guidelines.
Please note that we retain the right as editors to alter submissions for
grammatical or content-related issues. Prison Action News is one part of
the multi-faceted Prison Abolition movement. We feel as though the
writing that goes into Prison Action News is equally vital but different
than other forms of writing, such as poetry, political essays, etc. but is
often less represented.

History:
The idea for Prison Action News came out of the 2007 Anarchist Black Cross
gathering. We wanted to create a venue for prisoners to share updates of
their activities with each other, similar to the updates we wrote in our
network newsletter. Recognizing that there is far too much activity
occurring in prisons to put in our quarterly newsletter, we decided to
create a new newsletter specifically to report activity within prisons. As
people on the outside, we can facilitate this dialog of prison
resistance, and help our comrades on the inside hear from each other about
the inspiring actions they are taking. We have recently opened up
submissions to prisoners and prison groups worldwide. With your help this
newsletter will be a success!

Guidelines
1. An update must not exceed 500 words.
2. We will not accept submissions with racist, sexist, homophobic, or
otherwise oppressive language.
3. An update may be a report on resistance activities of individual
prisoners or prison groups (this can include, but is not limited to,
radical book groups, hunger strike, general strike, letter writing
campaigns, etc.)
4. PAN is accepting artwork for the covers of upcoming issues, so send us
your designs!
5. A report should not be a political essay or a report on prison
conditions, rather the response and resistance to these conditions 6. One
submission per group, per prison, per newsletter
7. We will not report on gang activity.

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