Everything you are
is everything I hate
Everything you love
is everything I ain't
I want to live
you are already dead
I struggle to achieve revolution
Divesting knowledge like you do bread
The day your obese heart stops
and all you know ceases to exist
I'll still be sweating truth
Your daughter my wife, you not missed
Keep me here for years
but know the longer I stay
my mind's building the future
how it'll be one day
Understand I'm a man now
not that weak confused child
What pain you caused me growing up
will return, boomerang, anything but mild
For now I sit
starved, rattling my chains
but I'm stronger for this
You weaken by the day!
Also published here.
February 2010
Monday, 1 February 2010
Friday, 1 January 2010
Hogan Return
Prison building in the distance
Stop it I say
Cease trying to emulate the mountains
With your concrete crags.
The mountains are from God
Yours are manmade peaks
His will forever stand tall
Yours, like Troy, will fall
Damn you penitentiary
Your halogen lights attempt to rival the stars
Blasphemy, a sinner is what you are
Keeping Mother Nature out
And the poor luckless men and women in
Gulag you are destined to fall
The sun will rise on your destruction
Fingering your greasy bricks with her rays
The keepers gone home, dazed and confused
Feeling guilty, feeling soiled and used
Taken by Satan’s wiles they marched
Cuffed, beat, starved, viciously, mind-beat
Their fellow man
He raises his head and wails
Catching, billowing, pushing revolution’s sails
A movement is born on their wind
Millions together at last begin
To rebuild, to heal, to discover truth
We owe it to the people to destroy your false face
We owe it to our youth
Us Natives own this place.
January 2010
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Earlier alarming calls from Utah's dungeons...
Also published here.
Utah
Utah State Prison, Draper 2009
I wish strength to all comrades worldwide. Last year on April 16th I caused a code red count by not racking in and having the SWAT Team deployed. For a couple hours I was considered AWOL from this Utah plantation. I sat in protest of the conditions and unjust treatment we were subject to last spring.
Since then I've been housed here in supermax, and along with the escape attempt they charged me with last year, there've been several inciting riots and disorderly conducts. My comrades in these actions have since been moved, if that's the word. One terminated or paroled and I wish him luck on the streets. The other, after continual abuses, resorted to hanging himself last month. And I want to just say to Spider and all those that choose that route, you're not forgotten and may you finally rest. I'm exposing as much as I can about these sadistic guards and have been studying law to better arm myself and eventually bring a rock solid case against the USP.
One pig was fired because of me documenting his exploits, but he has since been rehired, though it seems, and I hope, it's only temporary. The pig got a lawyer and he's suing the DOC for firing him. Sgt. Feikert doesn't realize that in a way he's now fighting on our side, the oppressed side. His lawsuit will weaken his and the prison industrial complex's capital. No matter who eventually wins, it's still a pig-on-pig fight and I can think of no better way at their throats than that.
By refusing OMR, I and others, especially almost all of section 3, have pretty much shutdown most all moves and the pigs have had to come up with new policies and rules to move us. One comrade in section 3 has been back here over 15 years, but his story is he's been kept here because the pigs fear his mind and political actions. The section 3 strike has, I assume, been his resistance and I want to wish strength to him and all those who are down.
Amerikan prisons are growing and no way a body looks at that fact is positive. Yet as a presence, us comrades are growing also. Both in numbers and knowledge, strength, and solidarity. We must all not become complacent but train our bodies and minds to be ready for action when the call to arms sounds.
It's not 'if,' it's 'when.' (Rage Against the Machine)
Word is born,
Fight the war, fuck the norm,
Now I got no patience,
So sick of complacence,
With the D - E - F - I - A - N – C- E,
Mind of a Revolutionary,
So clear the lane,
The finger to the land of the chains,
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy,
Now something must be done,
About vengeance, a badge and a gun,
Now action must be taken,
We don't need the key, We'll break in.
I feel the time is nearing for revolution as the bloodthirsty U.S. overextends militarily overseas, and opportunities and weaknesses are becoming exposed here at home. Every small strike or rebellion we cause matters. We must remember that, and I want to say RIGHT ON to P.A.N. and all those that uphold the struggle by letting our voices beheard. We, as captives, have really no choice but to struggle. Either we struggle as awhole or lay down. But these ABC Networks and others have my, and I think I speak for us all, appreciation and respect, for all the tiresome, time consuming work andsupport you all provide for us convicts.
In Unity! Up the Struggle!
Brandon Green #35439,
UI 208
Utah State Prison
P.O. Box 250,
Draper, Utah 84020
From: Prison Action News (Boston ABC, 2008): p. 18-19
Utah State Prison
Draper, December 2008
The Utah State Prison is begging for litigation for First & Fourth Amendment Rights Violations, in its UINTA-1 Special Intensive Management Unit (SIMU), for Muslim diet refusals. Religious literature is not being allowed through the mail and obvious cruel & unusual punishment-type issues with mentally ill inmates being housed in these solitary cells. The denial of books and basic hygiene materials, combined with the fact that most all CO´s are just plain mean and emotionally desensitized from years of inflicting abuse, surely account for the unbelievably high rate of suicide attempts and actual suicide rates I witness day in and day out.
Those of us who speak up and out get extra shakedowns, refused writing materials and Grievance Forms; and our doors kicked during counts with taunting-type language.
SWAT Team extractions and beatings with pepper spray seeping into neighboring cells happen almost daily, and usually to the same poor mentally ill and confused inmates. One is actually almost totally deaf, so the direct orders he receives, fall literally on deaf ears. Psychiatric medications are pushed on inmates like dope on the streets, mostly so everyone will just sleep through the abuse. I find myself scared to even shower because these CO’s sometimes don’t need an excuse to throw you down and rough you up.
When I do try and grieve these issues, either I receive no responses or get excessive retaliation. I’ve been handcuffed to a hitching post for several hours and forced to urinate on myself, which I still to this day have shoulder pain from. Just one voice in 2.3 million. Utah State Prison is soon to be served a wake up call…
Brandon Green,#35439,
UINTA-One,
Utah State Prison,
P.O. Box 250,
Draper, Utah 84020
Saturday, 12 January 2008
Utah State Prison- Draper December 2008 - November 2009
From:
Also published here.
Utah State Prison- Draper December 2008
The Utah State Prison is begging for litigation for First & Fourth Amendment Rights Violations, in its UINTA-1 Special Intensive Management Unit (SIMU), for Muslim diet refusals. Religious literature is not being allowed through the mail and obvious cruel & unusual punishment-type issues with mentally ill inmates being housed in these solitary cells. The denial of books and basic hygiene materials, combined with the fact that most all COs are just plain mean and emotionally desensitized from years of inflicting abuse, surely account for the unbelievably high rate of suicide attempts and actual suicide rates I witness day in and day out.
Those of us who speak up and out get extra shakedowns, refused writing materials and Grievance Forms; and our doors kicked during counts with taunting-type language.
SWAT Team extractions and beatings with pepper spray seeping into neighboring cells happen almost daily, and usually to the same poor mentally ill and confused inmates. One is actually almost totally deaf, so the direct orders he receives, fall literally on deaf ears. Psychiatric medications are pushed on inmates like dope on the streets, mostly so everyone will just sleep through the abuse. I find myself scared to even shower because these CO’s sometimes don’t need an excuse to throw you down and rough you up.
When I do try and grieve these issues, either I receive no responses or get excessive retaliation. I’ve been handcuffed to a hitching post for several hours and forced to urinate on myself, which I still to this day have shoulder pain from.
Just one voice in 2.3 million. Utah State Prison is soon to be served a wakeup call…
Brandon Green, (address etc) Draper, Utah 84020
November 2009, Draper, UT
I send strength to all comrades worldwide! The beautiful people at TIME and Prison Reform Community Center have been helping me and about forty convicts here at the USP Auschwitz expose the abuses and the murders resulting from said abuses. As I wrote in last January’s issue of PAN, Utah pigs are belittling and torturing us all here in Uinta one Solitary Supermax day and night by denial of hearing aids to the deaf, sleep deprivation, starvation, freezing, and refusing to deliver all personal mail. For the last year and a half, I’ve recorded each and every incident while I was awake and sent copies to several human rights organizations. TIME was my only response and that only through the persistent mailings and phone calls by a family member to get their letter to me. Once I learned that TIME was interested in helping, I contacted attorneys to grease up some of my letters so these Nazi pigs’ sticky fingers wouldn’t hold them up. I also sent calls to arms to those who’ve experienced or are experiencing inhumane conditions in hopes they would stand up and fight back. They did stand up and we are fighting.
Just this October 26th, I was informed that an investigation was begun, spearheaded by none other than Adolf Hitler “himself” Warden Steven Turley. So far the facts are these: A Sgt. Scott and Officer Robinson just returned from a 3-week suspension without pay, but these guys are alcoholics and rumor has it they were suspended after being busted for poaching beer and driving under the influence of alcohol.
The investigation has just started with many statements and grievances in favor of us and against these swine and interviews will soon follow. It’s just a matter of time until turn keys will be turning burgers or tossing and turning in one of these cells beside me. In the upcoming July issue I’ll let everyone know how this all pans out.
Abu Ghraib’s scandal included several higher up grand dragons from Utah DOC and the way these scum-pig-leaches look out for and watch each others’ backs. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still employed somewhere in the shady injustice system. My goal here is to keep at their throats, record each abuse, expose each grievance, and raise support from the outside and convict awareness on the inside until the true nature of an Amerikan prison is known by the masses. I breathe revolution, I sweat revolution, and I will see revolution or die in the process. I’ll die with a smile on my face and righteous rage in my heart. Behind these fences, ghetto fences, prison fences, the poor, struggling fences, we are the ones who will bring about revolution. We on the bottom can see more clearly than those with their heads in the clouds. History’s wheel is about to open. Let us make sure our minds are right and our shoestrings are tight. An army sits in silence on the outskirts of small Amerikan towns and big cities, huddled, hungry, and waiting, 2.4 million strong.
We stir. Dreams over.
Brandon Green …
P.S. It’s 11/7/09 and I’ve just discovered that an officer Nelson is on administrative leave without pay, so Sgt. Scott and Officer Robinson may have suffered the same fate. But this ‘must’ be the tip of the iceberg.
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