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

From prisonactionnews@riseup.net:

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.