Prison Lives Matter is a United Front for Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, Politicized individuals behind enemy lines and their organizations, as well as any outside formations in unison to abolish legalized slavery.
The objective of Prison Live Matter is to establish a national infrastructure within the overall Prison Movement that will allow Us to implement a national strategy geared toward creating Regional Organizing Committee's on both sides of the wall. The R.O.C's will be put in place through the work of the current Prison Lives Matter -National Coordinating Committee (NCC), which is made up of some of the nation's leading Political Prisoners and their outside support networks including former PP Jalil Muntaqim who was liberated in 2020.
It is the job of NCC members behind enemy lines to set forth Political Education classes and Cadre Development programs that will help transform their environment in captivity. These environments should serve as Revolutionary Universities, Liberation Schools and Cadre Training Centers so that upon re-entry into society We will have capable cadre leaders ready to step into the movement and continue the work needed to build and Rebuild our infrastructure.
Incarcerated members of the NCC will network with other captives throughout their state in order to appoint Field Marshalls capable of developing Political Education classes in each camp. This broadening of the PLM platform is what will essentially lay the foundation for the Regional Organizing Committees. Outside members of the NCC will utilize the national network of support groups, families of incarcerated individuals and other formations within the PLM Movement to establish the R.O.C's. We have witnessed the difficulties of assembling national demonstrations with limited resources and calling on Our leaders to travel around the kounrty, making these things possible only once a year. This organizing strategy of the PLM-NCC/ROC will prove most effective in terms of forming regional vanguards that are able to mobilize boots on the ground and respond to the call of action when necessary.
Rather than organizing and mobilizing, the most important work of PLM both inside & out is to EDUCATE. The Political Education of those held captive, as well as comrades and the masses is the tool needed to build resistance and sustain a movement for liberation. Prison Lives Matter is not about "reforming" the existing system. Through this United Front which operates on an anti- racist/capitalist/imperialist line, We will strive to expose the prison industrial slave complex's hidden political & economical position of hierarchy within the united states empire. Therefore raising consciousness to the contradictions that exist on class, "race", and national oppression leading to the rise of mass incarceration/legalized slavery and the building of more state & privatized prisons. The higher calling for the 'In the Spirit of Nelson Mandela' campaign is one calling for an International investigation into the human rights violations of prisoners that exist within the united states. However, in order to garner the recognition and support of the International community, We must establish this infrastructure and National Strategy on these shores. WE ARE OUR OWN LIBERATORS!
~Kwame “Beans” Shakur
