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Prison Radio Show – The Saskatchewan Penitentiary Riot

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Jan 162017

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This show featured news and a pre-recorded interview from Kingston’s Prison Radio with Sherri from Saskachewan about the December 14th riot in Saskachewan Pen in Prince Albert. We also had a live phone interview with Claude Marks, a former political prisoner and organizer with the Freedom Archives project. We talked to Claude about political prisoner and former Black Panther Jalil Muntaqim. Jalil is currently facing time in long term segregated housing for teaching his Black history class about the Black Panther Party. More info about Jalil is available at freejalil.com.

From Kingston Prison Radio: This week we bring you an exclusive interview that tells the inside story of the riot on December 14, 2016 that “completely destroyed” the medium security unit at Saskatchewan Penitentiary and resulted in the stabbing death of Jason Leonard Bird and several other injuries from gunshots. We spoke with Sherri who runs Beyond Prison Walls Canada and a Facebook group for prison wives. She has been in touch with several prisoners and their families who were present for the massive riot, and shared with us what she’s been able to find out.

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Prison Radio has been on the air in Montreal for more than a decade. The show seeks to confront the invisibility of prisons and prisoner struggle, by focusing on the roots of incarceration, policing, and criminalization, and by challenging ideas about what prisons are and who ends up inside.

Prison Radio is dedicated to programming that is directly collaborative with people who are currently incarcerated. This is in the interest of forging stronger ties between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people, ensuring that prisoners have direct control over their representation, and that our understandings of prisons be informed by those who live inside their walls.

If you wish to inform prisoners about this show, it can be heard at the following prisons:

Montreal:
Tanguay (women’s prison provincial) (now closed)
Bordeaux (men’s prison provincial)
Rivière-des-Prairies (men’s provincial prison)

Laval:
Centre de formation fédéral (Federal Training Centre – men’s multi-level medium and minimum security federal prison);
Leclerc (co-ed provincial prison);

Montée St-Francois (men’s Minimum Security federal prison – aka B-16);
Centre de détention pour les immigrants (Immigration Detention Centre)

Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines:
Archambault (Medium Security federal prison)
Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines (Minimum Security federal prison)

Cowansville:
Cowansville (Medium Security federal prison)

USA
Malone, NY:
Franklin State (Medium Security prison)
Upstate (Supermax prison)
Bare Hill Prison (medium security state prison)

If you wish to suggest something for the show, feel free to send an email to: prison@ckut.ca . Or you can call us at 514-448-4041 extension 6788.

Prisoners can reach us by writing to:
Prison Radio Show (or simply write: PRS)
c/o CKUT 90.3 FM
3647, University St.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
H3A 2B3

Setting a fire under a Cancer moon

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Jan 152017

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

On the icy morning of Friday the 13th, we awoke at dawn to venture into the winds and cold, where we were met by the beautiful full moon in Cancer setting towards the horizon, as a hazy sun rose in the east.

Together, we blocked the morning’s rush hour traffic headed downtown along Notre-Dame Est in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, with discarded Christmas trees and a pile of flaming tires. Above the street, a banner was hung from the railway bridge between the port and the wasteland. Jumping through the snow, dragging heavy things, watching out for one another, nurturing new skills, developing a multiplicity of tactics together, and building caring and meaningful relationships of struggle. Once the blockades were set and the fires lit, we quickly and carefully dispersed to get to warmth and safety.

This new year opens with the beginning of two “celebrations”: the 150th anniversary of the Confederation of so-called Canada, and the 375th anniversary of the colonial occupation, destruction, and genocide of Kanien’Keha:ka territory through the creation of the city of Montreal.

We wanted to express our disgust and rage for these celebrations by beginning the year with this action. We were also inspired by the war cry The Year for Indigenous Liberation. Another inspiring call was launched this week, 150, 375: Rebels come alive!, inviting the disruption of the colonial anniversaries of Canada and Montreal.

Fuck the 375th.
Fuck the 150th.

We believe in expressing our rage against all forms of control and domination, along with the cities, states and societies that uphold and require them.

We are inspired by anti-colonial and anti-capitalist struggles happening near and far, and the centuries of struggle of Indigenous nations and communities fighting for land, water, and life.

Check out some stories of these fights at:
Warrior Publications
SubMedia.tv

We want to manifest our revolt in all possible ways against the nationalist bullshit, the racist as fuck capitalist driven mechanisms of surveillance and repression, and the social cleansing and misogynistic entertainment spectacle that are the result of the anniversary of this city. And everything. Fuck everything.

How to make wheatpaste

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Feb 242015

Wheatpaste is the glue for postering in the streets. It is mostly composed of flour and water, and will keep your posters up for as long as a year.

Recipe to make 2 litres of wheatpaste:

9 cups of water
3 cups of white flour
glue or matte modge podge (optional)*

Start to heat the water at a medium temperature, stirring in the flour in small amounts with a whisk to avoid clumping. You should be adding flour and heating the water for about ten minutes, whisking throughout. Before it gets to a boil, take it off the heat and check the consistency; you are looking for something like watery glue, keeping in mind that the paste will significantly thicken as it cools. You may have to stir in more water if it is too thick, which would cause it to be opaque.

When the paste is ready, you can transfer it to milk containers to look inconspicuous in the streets, and just pour it onto a brush. Thoroughly wet the smooth surface you want to stick the poster on, have someone else firmly place the poster and smooth out any creases, then go over the top of the poster with more wheatpaste. Brush out any drips, and paste under any edges that aren’t sticking. The paste should be warm when used.

*To make your posters stay up for longer, you can add an adhesive as well. After taking the paste off the heat, add 1 1/2 cups of cold water to cool it so that the adhesive won’t clump, then stir in another 1/2 cup of flour. You can add 2-3 containers of white glue, or a similar volume of matte modge podge you can rack at art stores. Stir it in, then reheat the paste a bit before going out.

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