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Email statements to the UC Regents now, condemning
the police attacks and supporting the student protesters at UCLA!

NEWS FLASH:

Yesterday the finance committee of the UC Regents approved a 32% tuition fee hike, while University police in riot gear attacked student protesters with tasers and batons and arrested at least 14.  Today, the full Board of Regents is meeting to make the final decision on what will effectively bar many more students from public education at California universities.

The LA Times online and other news sources report that early this morning UC students took over and are still occupying Campbell Hall on UCLA campus, and hundreds of students have surrounded Covel Commons where the UC Regents are meeting.  Click here for an audio statement from UCLA students who are occupying Campbell Hall, posted on the LA Times website.  Click here for photos.

We are calling on everyone to email or phone the UC Regents now condemning the police attacks and supporting the students, include that you heard this call from Revolution Books / Libros Revolución, and forward us a copy of your statement.  Email: regentsoffice@ucop.edu, (510) 987-9220 phone; (510) 987-9224 fax; www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents.

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Check out CLYDE YOUNG interview on WBAI, New York City

On this past Saturday morning, November 14, 10:30 to 12 noon on WBAI’s Eddie Ellis show, Clyde Young was interviewed about the special issue of Revolution on prisons and prisoners.  The show is for and about and by prisoners: On the Count: The Criminal Justice and Prison Report

You can listen to it by going to the station archives online at archive.wbai.org, scroll down to find the date and time, and click on “play.”
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Who is CLYDE YOUNG?

As a young man in the 1960s, CLYDE YOUNG spent many years in prison where he became a revolutionary. In 2008, he spoke at UCLA on a panel titled “Religion, Atheism and Black People.” An interview with him was recently printed in “Bandana Republic,” a book published by Soft Skull Press. He has spoken at benefits for the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund, including at “The Ascendancy of Obama and the Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation: A Dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix” in July 2009 in Harlem, NY.

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Help spread this special issue on Prisons and Prisoners in the U.S. everywhere in society.

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Suggestions especially needed for places to go to get this newspaper into the hands of families of prisoners - in visitor waiting lines, bus lines, - and into the hands of those who work with prisoners - teachers, prison project people - who can help get this issue to the prisoners.  Contact us with best places, times, days.  And volunteers needed to get this everywhere throughout society.  Contact us if you have an hour or two of free time, or are planning to go to a jail or prison and can take some issues with you to distribute.  Help get this out at high schools, college campuses, in neighborhoods, at churches, malls, movie lines.

“This issue will expose the horror that prisoners face behind the penitentiary walls and in the jails across this country. The United States now has five percent of the world’s population, but nearly twenty-five percent of its prisoners. There are literally tens of thousands of prisoners who are in long-term solitary confinement. There are more women prisoners in this country (per capita) and in absolute numbers than in any other. One in eight young Black men in this country is imprisoned. And across this country, there are hellhole detention centers which incarcerate, in the most inhumane conditions, immigrants whose only crime is crossing the border to survive.”

“But this issue will not only expose the horrors, but demonstrate how a section of prisoners are fighting back and transforming into emancipators of humanity. As a centerpiece of this issue, we will feature letters from prisoners themselves. Prisoners who have written in response to the call from Joe Veale (“The Revolution Needs You,” Revolution #173, August 16, 2009) to respond to the statement, “The Revolution We Need… The Leadership We Have,” and to consciously and actively join the struggle to initiate a new wave of communist revolution in the world.”

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