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Milwaukee, September 5: Prisoner Support: Letters and Mass Mailings

Come by Kern Park 6:00-7:30 PM on Monday, September 5, and support the growing movement of prisoner response. This event is free and open to the public, if you need childcare contact us and we will work to provide it. To find us in the park, look for our signs and the piles of envelopes.

Format will be:
-Introductions, why are we here? (3 minutes)
-Update on Wisconsin prisoner hunger strike, the September 9’s national prisoner work stoppage, and other struggles (10 minutes)
-Overview of current best practices used by Milwaukee IWW to keep up contact with hundreds of prisoners, methods to grow organizing (15 minutes)
-Mailings and letters to prisoners, including writing statements of solidarity to hunger strikers, penpal correspondence, mailing of issue 2 of Voices Behind Wisconsin Prison Gates and responding to recent prisoner mailings to IWW. (rest of the time for this event)

We will be present in Kern Park while the Riverwest Co-Op has their picnic, info on their event can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/308211679530498/

If you are interested in this event and are unable to make it, contact us and we can followup with you through phone chat or one-on-one conversation. Wherever there is exploitation, let’s grind it to a halt!