In these urgent times, as prisons and prisoners are key hotspots of death and disease from COVID-19, we are asking you to be part of Turning Prisons into Universities of Revolution by financially supporting Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund (PRLF). We send revolutionary and other literature, primarily from the online Revolution newspaper, to hundreds of prisoners across the U.S.

The disastrous impact of COVID-19 is largely unnecessary. As one prisoner wrote:
“This virus has knocked amerikkka off its "high-horse"—for the lack of a better term—as it has exposed the underlying workings of this system—a system which operates through racism, oppression, and corruption. A particularly astonishing contradiction … it likes to propagate is the belief that it is the greatest country in the world. While the U.S. has the largest economy in the world, why is there a major lack of resources—i.e. medical supplies and the whole health care infrastructure—to alleviate the spread of covid-19 throughout the world?” (read more)

Some prisoners with pre-existing conditions have told their families that they’re preparing to die when COVID-19 comes to the prison they’re in. The Los Angeles Times recently reported that Riverside, California County Sheriff said, “If you don’t want to contract (the coronavirus), don’t break the law. You can’t get any more plain than that.” In 2020 America, even being arrested without being able to post bail is punishable by possible death!

Millions of people inside and outside prison walls are wondering: Is this really the best of all possible worlds? Is a radically better and different world possible? If so, what would it look like and how could we get there? Another prisoner wrote:

“I understand, disasters happen, epidemics happen, it’s the way of the world. The problem lies in how we as a people, respond to it… [H]ad we been living in a true Socialist Society, a real Communist Society, where the means of production are socially owned. Where the necessities of life are produced for the betterment and well being of humankind and not for profiting! There wouldn't be a price tag on dealing with emergencies, vaccines wouldn't be cost an arm and a leg. Hospital visits won't leave you in debt. Relations in society wouldn't consist of commodity and capital relations. Under communism, it would be OVERstood! that humankind comes first!” (read more)

Many prisoners have recently thanked PRLF for sending them scientific information that enables them to counter-act conspiracy theories and mysticism of all sorts, about COVID-19, why the world is as it is, and how the world could be radically different.

More people outside the walls are asking us, “What are the prisoners saying?” Revolutionary-minded prisoners offer all of us fact-based, moral clarity and determination that challenge us to look at the world, and human possibility, very differently.

Weekly mailings of articles from Revolution cost $3,000/month.  Almost everyone is getting “stimulus checks” up to $1,200. Could you contribute your stimulus check to PRLF? Or half of it? Could you become a $50/month sustainer to PRLF? The need is that important.

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Thanks for your consideration.

 

Mail ALL checks or money orders to: 
Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund
1321 N. Milwaukee Ave. #407 | Chicago, Illinois 60622
(773) 960-6952 | Contact@PRLF.org

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