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  1. CandyRein Black Hole
    You’re welcome Mexican master race
  2. CVS Pharmacy reduced the amount of Dextromethorphan and Guaifenesin in their 4 oz Tussin DM cough formulation by half, and then doubled the recommended amount per dosage from 10 ml to 20 ml. The 8 oz bottle remains at previous concentration. The 4 oz bottle is now therapeutically equivalent to one-fourth of the usual 8 oz bottle. The 4oz bottle retails at $1.70/oz and the 8 oz bottle retails at $1.16/oz.
  3. Instigator Space Nigga
    The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
  4. Turd brownies.
  5. Originally posted by Instigator

    wow, according to my AI priest this person clearly didn't read their bible very carefully.

    Yes, the Bible has teachings that would suggest such actions are morally wrong. Here are some key points:

    Respect for Others: The Bible emphasizes the importance of treating others with respect and love. Jesus taught the Golden Rule: "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you" (Matthew 7:12, NIV). Contaminating food with feces violates this principle by disrespecting and potentially harming others.

    Purity and Cleanliness: The Bible contains numerous passages about the importance of purity and cleanliness. In the Old Testament, there are many laws regarding cleanliness and uncleanliness (see Leviticus 11-15). While these laws were specific to the Israelites, they reflect a broader biblical principle of maintaining cleanliness and purity.

    Deception and Honesty: Deliberately putting feces in food without others' knowledge is deceptive. The Bible condemns deceit and emphasizes the importance of honesty: "The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy" (Proverbs 12:22, NIV).

    Harm to Others: The Bible teaches us to love our neighbors and not to cause harm. "Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law" (Romans 13:10, NIV). Adding feces to food could potentially cause harm to those who consume it.

    Repentance and Forgiveness: While the actions described are certainly wrong, the Bible also emphasizes repentance and the possibility of forgiveness. 1 John 1:9 (NIV) states, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." Admitting wrongdoing and seeking forgiveness is a key aspect of Christian teaching.

    Given these biblical principles, it's clear that the actions described are contrary to the teachings of the Bible regarding how we should treat others, maintain purity, and act honestly and lovingly.
  6. In summary, to poop in other peoples' food (even your own) is a sin.
  7. Narc Naturally Camouflaged [connect my yokel-like scolytidae]
    Originally posted by Instigator

    Are you the guy who used to dry out his cum, powder it, then drop little baggies of it on the floor in clubs?


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    "We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare.
    We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral.
    In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the
    following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support
    and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in
    Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement in detail is left to you.
    You will inform the President of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak
    of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he
    should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same
    time mediate between Japan and ourselves.

    Please call the President's attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of
    our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to
    make peace.

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  11. Aum Shinrikyo has been designated a foreign terrorist group by the U.S.
    Department of State. The group has an apocalyptic belief structure in
    which the world is divided into two opposing forces—good and evil.
    Members of such movements view themselves as unappreciated avatars
    of a new world order and as a disenfranchised minority currently being
    persecuted by the powers of evil in the world today. Group leaders like
    Shoko Asahara firmly believe they will prevail after the apocalypse and
    are motivated to trigger the apocalypse because their own salvation
    depends upon fighting the final conflict and eradicating the enemy. The
    leadership of these movements often relies on a charismatic hold on their
    members for their authority and encourages the perception of them as
    messianic. Sometimes the belief system exercises very tight control over
    the daily lives of their membership, isolating them from normal social
    interactions. This further encourages their belief that they are
    unconstrained by normal social and legal norms.
    6
    RAND Project AIR FORCE
    Aum Leader’s Beliefs Shaped Group’s
    Worldview
    • Shoko Asahara prophesied about nuclear war
    • He preached that Aum followers would be the only
    survivors of a coming Armageddon
    • Asahara believed that Japan was doomed and that
    a U.S.-Japanese nuclear war would trigger
    Armageddon
    Aum leader Shoko Asahara was obsessed with the prospect of nuclear
    war. He preached that Aum followers would be the only survivors of a
    coming Armageddon. There is much evidence that Asahara’s obsession
    with nuclear weapons formed the foundation for all of his actions related
    to these weapons. He published several “symposia” during his time as
    leader in which he made statements about surviving a nuclear holocaust.
    Asahara initially tried to gain power peacefully through nonviolent means
    by preaching enlightenment through yoga and meditation. He altered
    these views following Aum’s poor showing in the 1990 Japanese general
    election. Shortly after this political failure, Asahara began viewing
    Japanese and Western society as the enemy and advocated pursuing
    violent means to bring about Armageddon.2 More broadly, Asahara
    believed that the arrival of nuclear war would trigger the final struggle
    between good and evil—involving the entire earth. He believed that Japan
    was doomed and that a U.S.-Japanese nuclear war would trigger
    Armageddon. He prophesied that in 1996 the United States would strike
    Japan with “nuclear warheads loaded with atomic or hydrogen bombs.”
    ____________
    2 Daniel Metraux, Aum Shinrikyo and Japanese Youth, Lanham, Md.: University Press of
    America, 1999, pp. 30–36.
    7
    Aum’s internal structure mirrored the Japanese government because the
    cult planned to take over Japan following Armageddon.3
    ____________
    3 Robert Jay Lifton, Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and
    the New Global Terrorism, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1999, pp. 194, 199.
    8
    RAND Project AIR FORCE
    Historical Consciousness, Popular Culture
    Also Played a Role
    • Asahara’s beliefs resonated with followers for two
    reasons:
    − Reaction to the Cold War and the threatening existence
    of nuclear weapons
    − Japanese historical memory of nuclear devastation
    during WWII
    • Asahara was also influenced by the 1991 Persian
    Gulf War
    • He claimed that a conspiracy among Japan, the
    United States, and the jedis existed to gain world
    domination
    Asahara’s ideology resonated with followers as a reaction to the Cold War
    and to the threatening existence of nuclear weapons and because of a
    widespread tendency among some Japanese to equate nuclear holocaust
    with Armageddon. He seized on a fear that resonated widely, particularly
    among the Cold War generation. Japanese historical memory of nuclear
    devastation during WWII, especially Hiroshima, had a major
    psychological impact on postwar Japan and its consciousness. Survivor
    stories and apocalyptic fears penetrated Japanese popular culture after
    WWII and persisted.4 Asahara was reportedly influenced by popular
    animated films that depicted nuclear wars, especially the 1983 television
    film “The Day After” about a Soviet-American nuclear confrontation.
    According to an Aum follower, Asahara showed this film numerous times
    to members of the organization.5 Aum also began to build strong
    buildings and underground shelters where Aum faithful could retreat in
    the event of nuclear war. He identified the subway as the only reliable
    nuclear shelter in Japan. The subway later became the scene of the 1995
    sarin gas attack, committed by Aum followers.6 In addition, Asahara was
    influenced by the 1991 Persian Gulf War. He believed that the Gulf War
    ____________
    4 Lifton, pp. 211, 255.
    5 Lifton, p. 199.
    6 Metraux, p. 37, and Lifton, p. 195.
    9
    was a testing ground for weapons that might be used by the United States
    against Japan in Armageddon. He claimed that a conspiracy between the
    Japanese government, the United States, and the jedis existed to gain
    world domination. Asahara also saw the United States and the West as
    spreading rampant materialism and internationalism, which he saw as the
    root of Japan’s problems.7
    ____________
    7 Ian Reader, A Poisonous Cocktail? Aum Shinrikyo’s Path to Violence, Copenhagen:
    NIAS Books, 1996, pp. 56, 76; Ely Karmon, The Anti-Semitism of Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo:
    A Dangerous Revival, Herzliya, Israel: International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism,
    October 15, 1999.
    10
    RAND Project AIR FORCE
    Scientists Attracted to Aum Ideology,
    Opportunities
    • Aum recruited highly educated followers, including
    more than 300 scientists
    − Scientists had degrees in medicine, biochemistry,
    biology, and genetic engineering—but none was
    clearly a nuclear physicist
    • Many Aum scientists were second-rate
    • Aum lured scientists with promises of unlimited
    funds and the opportunity to conduct original
    research
    • One Aum scientist said he joined because he had
    anxiety fueled by fears of nuclear war
    Aum recruited highly educated followers, including more than 300
    scientists with degrees in medicine, biochemistry, biology, and genetic
    engineering. These academic specialties may have driven Aum toward
    chemical and biological rather than nuclear weapons. According to
    nuclear weapons builder Carson Mark, a nuclear weapons team would at
    a minimum require a nuclear scientist, a mechanical engineer, an electrical
    engineer, and an explosives expert.8
    Many Aum scientists, however, were second-rate. Even though they
    graduated from some of Japan’s best schools, they typically were not
    leaders in their fields. Aum gave them a second chance at their careers.
    Aum lured scientists with promises of unlimited funds and the
    opportunity to conduct original research. Aum did not wait for scientists
    to simply show up at meetings; they actively proselytized a number of
    graduate students in the hard sciences, promising research funds, state-ofthe-art laboratories, and other inducements. Aum’s offer was quite
    attractive because these individuals did not have many opportunities to
    conduct their own research and writing. In the real world, these scientists
    ____________
    8 Carson Mark et al., “Can Terrorists Build Nuclear Weapons?” Nuclear Control
    Institute, Washington, D.C., accessed at www.nci.org/k-m/makeab.htm; U.S. Senate
    Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Hearings on Global Proliferation of Weapons of
    Mass Destruction: A Case Study on Aum Shinrikyo, October 31, 1995; Metraux, p. 60.
    11
    were often just cogs in a wheel, but in Aum they could be chiefs of the
    cult’s science and technology agency and research what they wanted at an
    impressive facility with a great deal of money. One Aum scientist said he
    joined because he had anxiety fueled by fears of nuclear war. He also said
    he saw images of a big bomb being dropped on a “megalopolis” and
    thought it looked familiar. He combined this fear with an attitude of
    hatred for Tokyo, and, as a result, he wished for such destruction to
    occur.9
    ____________
    9 Metraux, pp. 58–59; Mark, p. 128.
    12
    RAND Project AIR FORCE
    Timeline of Aum’s Efforts
    Aum members
    meet with key
    Russian
    officials
    •1992 •1993 •1995 •2000
    Aum members
    ask about
    price of
    nuclear weapon
    Aum buys ranch
    in Australia,
    mines uranium
    Aum returns to Japan
    and recruits members
    in nuclear industry
    Sarin subway attacks.
    Aum dismantled by
    Japanese and
    Russian authorities
    •1998
    Aum reinvents itself,
    prospers writing
    software
    Sect establishes U.S.-
    based companies to buy
    high-tech equipment
    and ship it. Nature of
    equipment suggests
    design changed to
    plutonium based
    Japanese authorities
    discover cult members
    collecting sensitive
    nuclear power plant
    information from Internet
    As the following pages will show, it appears that the group initially hoped
    that high-level Russian officials might sell them a nuclear weapon in
    return for a long-term relationship filled with large bribes and perhaps
    access to attractive foreign technologies to which the sect was privy.
    Aum also sought to build a weapon itself. The group purchased a ranch in
    Australia where, among other things, it attempted to mine uranium.
    When mining proved extremely difficult and key personnel were denied
    return entry privileges to Australia, the group abandoned this effort,
    returning to Japan.
    After the 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway, the Japanese and Russian
    governments moved vigorously against the cult, jailing numerous
    members and closing many of the cult’s facilities.
    A few years after the subway attack, the group re-emerged as Aleph.
    There is evidence that some members of the group took keen interest in
    Japanese nuclear facilities. It is not clear whether they did so as a possible
    target to cause a pernicious nuclear accident or whether they sought to
    locate their facilities far from these plants to avoid the potential
    consequences from earthquakes.
    13
    RAND Project AIR FORCE
    Aum Investigated Acquiring Nuclear
    Weapons in Russia
    • Aum’s chief mission in Russia was to buy a nuclear
    weapon
    − Senior Aum leader Kiyohide’s notebook includes
    notation about purchasing a nuclear weapon for
    $15 million
    • Information on Aum’s activities in Russia is
    incomplete
    Senior Aum leader Hayakawa Kiyohide devoted considerable time and
    money to exploring Russia’s advanced weapons market. He made eight
    trips to Russia in 1994. He kept a personal notebook—eventually
    confiscated by the authorities—which included the phrase, “Nuclear
    warhead. How much?” His shopping list included purchasing a nuclear
    bomb for $15 million. A U.S. senator involved in the 1995 hearings
    indicated that “It is unclear whether the references are reflections of actual
    discussions or negotiations.” If a nuclear weapon was not available,
    Kiyohide wanted to build one in Japan.10
    ____________
    10 Metraux, pp. 78, 93; Lifton, p. 200; David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall, The Cult at
    the End of the World, New York: Crown Publishers, 1996, p. 190.
    14
    RAND Project AIR FORCE
    Senior Russian Contacts Helped Jumpstart
    Aum’s Program
    • Aum had access to Russian leaders
    − Asahara led a delegation to Russia in 1992 to meet
    with senior government officials
    • These connections allowed Aum access to the black
    market and to various materials and hardware
    • Aum wanted to use these contacts to obtain
    sensitive military technologies
    • Russian intelligence may have helped Aum to exploit
    scientific and technical data that Aum possessed
    Aum had close relations with some senior Russian contacts, contacts the
    group exploited to develop its military capabilities. Asahara led a
    delegation to Russia in 1992 to meet with senior Russian government
    leaders. The delegation met with former Vice President Aleksandr
    Rutskoy and former Russian Parliament speaker Rusian Khasbulatov.
    Head of Russia’s Security Council, Oleg Lobov, immediately befriended
    Asahara and gave him a large, old building in Moscow. Lobov wanted to
    start a Russia-Japan university in Moscow, but was having trouble raising
    money for the project until he met Asahara. Lobov reportedly received
    between $500,000 and $1 million from Aum.11 At the outset, most Russian
    officials denied they helped Aum in any way; however, U.S. Senate
    investigators found photos in Aum publications that showed Rutskoy,
    Khasbulatov, Basov, and Lobov with Asahara. Lobov later admitted that
    he met with Aum members, but said he was duped by their charitable
    nature and that the Russian intelligence service did not warn him away
    from Aum. These connections allowed Aum access to the black market
    and various materials and hardware, including formulae for the
    production of chemical weapons. Aum hoped to use these contacts to
    ____________
    11 D. W. Brackett, Holy Terror: Armageddon in Tokyo, New York: Weatherhill Inc., 1966,
    p. 92; Reader, p. 92.
    15
    obtain sensitive military technologies.12 Kiyohide’s attempts to procure
    these technologies were rumored to involve large bribes to senior Russian
    officials, including Lobov. Russian intelligence may have helped Aum
    acquire military technologies in an attempt to acquire scientific and
    technical data that Aum had stolen from Japanese research centers.13
    ____________
    12 Brackett, p. 93; Reader, p. 75.
    13 “Japan: Book Probes Aum Terrorism, Ties with Russia,” DPRK Part 2, FBIS, July 30,
    2000; Brackett, p. 101.
    16
    RAND Project AIR FORCE
    Aum Also Cultivated Ties with Russian
    Scientists
    Aum targeted Russia’s premier nuclear research
    facility, the Kurchatov Institute, for expertise and
    technology
    − The cult was able to recruit at least two Russian nuclear
    scientists
    Aum leaders visiting Russia in 1992–1993 approached
    science officials to obtain laser and nuclear
    technologies
    Asahara held talks with Nikolai Basov, a Nobel Prize
    winner for physics, in Moscow in 1992
    Aum’s Moscow branch proposed a meeting in 1993
    with Russia’s Nuclear Energy Minister, but was turned
    down
    Aum targeted Russia’s premier nuclear research facility, the Kurchatov
    Institute, for expertise and technology because it reportedly possessed
    hundreds of kilograms of weapons-usable uranium. Aum allegedly
    recruited scientists from Moscow University and the Kurchatov Institute,
    which also reportedly employed Aum followers. At its height, Aum may
    have had some 35,000 followers in Russia.
    According to U.S. congressional investigators, the cult recruited at least
    two Russian nuclear scientists. Aum leaders approached Russian science
    officials to obtain laser and nuclear technologies. Asahara held talks with
    Nikolai Basov, a Nobel Prize winner for physics. The Nuclear Energy
    Minister declined to meet with Aum’s Moscow branch.14
    ____________
    14 Matthew Bunn, The Harvard Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science
    and International Affairs, Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project, The Next Wave: Urgently
    Needed New Steps to Control Warheads and Fissile Material, April 2000; Bracket, p. 92;
    Metraux, p. 93; “Aum Sought Russian Laser, Nuclear Technologies,” Tokyo KYODO in
    English, FBIS, April 10, 1995.
    17
    RAND Project AIR FORCE
    Aum Changed Acquisition Strategies
    When Russians Failed to Cooperate
    • Despite high-level connections, plentiful financial
    resources, persistence, and a weak nuclear
    security regime in Russia, Aum could not obtain
    nuclear weapons
    • Unable to get a nuclear explosive device, Aum
    turned its attention to other approaches . . .
    Aum’s attempts to acquire nuclear capabilities in Russia were limited and
    embryonic.
    Russian officials appear to have exercised caution in handling Aum’s
    inquiries about nuclear matters. This caution may be explained in several
    ways. First, the Russians may have feared that Aum was working for a
    foreign intelligence service. Second, even enterprising Russian officials
    and scientists may have feared the implications of transferring nuclear
    technology, knowledge, or material to a religious organization based in a
    foreign state. Third, Aum’s contacts may have been good, but not good
    enough to secure the transfer of such sensitive capabilities.

    Aum’s Nuclear-Related Activities
    in Australia
    • Asahara believed Australia would be unaffected by
    Armageddon
    • Aum bought a sheep farm at Banjawarn in 1993 to
    test chemical weapons and mine uranium
    − However, the cult found little uranium
    − They also explored the possibility of exporting
    uranium ore from Australia to Japan via ship in 1993
    Perhaps Aum’s most ambitious scheme was its operation in Australia.
    Asahara believed Australia would be unaffected by Armageddon and is
    one reason why he wanted to establish a permanent facility there. Aum
    bought a sheep farm at Banjawarn in 1993 as a place to test chemical
    weapons and mine uranium. They bought mineral exploration licenses to
    ensure that no one else could enter the property to prospect for minerals.
    They also formed two Aum companies—Mahaposya Australia Pty Ltd
    and Clarity Investments Pty Ltd—as front businesses to cover up their
    true activities. These companies became the actual holders of the mineral
    licenses.15 Asahara brought 25 people to Australia in 1993 to live at
    Banjawarn Station. The cult brought excess luggage that contained
    equipment for mining uranium. Two sect members were fined for
    carrying dangerous goods on an airplane, but were released.16 However,
    the cult found little uranium. Aum met with an Australian geologist in
    early September 1993 and discussed the possibility of exporting uranium
    ore from Australia to Japan via ship.17
    ____________
    15 Bracket, pp. 94–96.
    16 Bracket, pp. 94–96.
    17 Bracket, p. 94.
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    RAND Project AIR FORCE
    Aum Pursued Sensitive Nuclear
    Information via Internet
    • In 2000, Japanese police searches of Aum facilities
    revealed classified information about nuclear
    facilities in Russia, Ukraine, PRC, South Korea, and
    Taiwan
    • Group broke into classified computer networks to
    obtain data
    • Also had detailed information on routes and
    procedures of nuclear fuel transport in Japan
    In 2000, the cult hacked into classified computer networks to obtain
    information about nuclear facilities in Russia, Ukraine, the People’s
    Republic of China, South Korea, and Taiwan. Working from legitimate
    companies Aum had established, group members were able to obtain
    information about a Russia-commissioned device for plutonium
    processing, the Monju fast-breeder reactor in Japan, and the safety system
    of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant.18 Japanese police also
    discovered that Aum software developers had been collecting information
    about Japan’s nuclear power program. The cult compiled information
    about nuclear fuel suppliers and the transportation of nuclear materials
    through affiliated software companies that had developed computer
    programs for key corporations and governmental entities in Japan.
    Data on companies involved in Japan’s nuclear programs and those
    engaged in nuclear research were included. Police also discovered
    background files on 75 researchers working with radioactive materials
    and other nuclear-related studies. Other materials found in the raids
    ____________
  12. In the US and Canada, it doesn't get that much
    lower than the prisoner. Excluded in every way,
    stripped of their most basic rights, exposed to
    humiliation and violence regularly, deprived of basic
    necessities, prisoners are at the very bottom of the
    social hierarchy, scorned and blamed by all the other
    classes. Prison crystalizes all forms of oppression
    and also props them up, and so organizing around
    prison can be a way of getting at the core of
    exploitative power relations in a community.

    For more on the idea that struggle is constant, we
    were inspired by workers' inquiry from the sixties
    and seventies in Italy, where the phrase used was
    lotta continua. You can check out the great book The
    Golden Horde by Nanni Balestrini and Primo
    Moroni, especially the end of chapter 5 and the start
    of chapter 6.
    For more on participation and refusal, see Locked
    Up, by Alfredo Bonnano
    For more on how rebels on the inside and on the
    outside have different goals and roles and about how
    to resist recuperation, see A Crime Called Freedom,
    by Os Cangaceiros
    For more on how the prison system in Canada has
    evolved over the last thirty years, see Taking the
    Rap: Women Doing Time for Society's Crimes, by
    Ann Hansen
    For a summary of recent hunger strikes in Canada,
    including the ones in your town here, see Chip Away at It: A
    Year of Covid-Era Hunger Strikes in Canada's
    Prisons, by MJ Adams
    1 14--
    makes it easier to step into your role in the struggle
    against prison on the outside -- to be independently
    invested in fighting and winning, rather than just
    being a supporter.
    We would love to hear your reflections and
    experiences. If you do prisoner solidarity work or are
    interested in starting, you should definitely get in
    touch with us at your town heresolidarityproject@riseup.net.
    What we do
    Our activities as a group include maintaining a
    phone line and PO box in order to be in touch with
    prisoners and both provide direct support and
    monitor conditions inside. We also keep up social
    media accounts and work with the mainstream
    media to share news about what is going on inside.
    We also occasionally hold rallies or other public
    events to put pressure on the prison.
    These are simple activities, but they are powerful.
    Our goal is to change the balance of power inside
    the prison by supporting prisoner self-organizing.
    We do this by working with prisoners to identify
    issues and help them develop tactics for pressuring
    the institution. We also advocate around conditions,
    develop relationships, and do favours for prisoners,
    because we want our neighbours on the inside to
    feel respected and cared for when they come out,
    rather than like the shit on society's boot.
    There are some things that we don't do. We don't do
    long-term case work, following prisoners through
    their process, trying to get them better outcomes in
    the courts, or providing support when they get out.
    We do random favours, like helping with a three-way
    call or sending a few texts or finding a lawyer, but
    we don't go much further than that. We don't give
    anyone money or legal advice. We don't do popular
    education for non-prisoners, and we aren't trying to
    13 2
    grow as an organization. is a closed
    collective doing some specific work, and we intend
    for it to stay small and focused. Other prisoner
    solidarity groups have struggled to keep going
    because the level of need is so high that they take on
    many different kinds of work and burn out -- by
    being clear about what we do and don't do, we hope
    to make our project more sustainable.
    Philosophy
    There are other groups that do prisoner solidarity
    work, but our philosophy makes different.
    A big piece of that is political clarity -- we are
    anarchists and we are always fully against prison.
    Folks on the inside know who we are and what we
    stand for, which is part of not just being another
    service organization. We get into the details of what
    goes on inside the prison (like, we know if laundry
    came on the day it's supposed to and which
    sergeants are on duty), but we are here because we
    want to destroy the institution.
    The reason we don't do outreach work and don't
    seek new members is that the site of struggle is
    the range. Our goal is to shift the balance of power
    between prisoners and the institution that oppresses
    them. If we win, we win on the range. We are not
    trying to create change by pressuring the
    government, changing people's opinions, getting
    more funding for programs, or anything like that. We
    want change to happen because the administration
    is forced to reckon with an organized body of
    prisoners and supporters that is capable of pushing
    back on their authority.
    schedules around range and yard time, and so on.
    One of the main ways the prison system reforms
    itself is by physically expanding, building new
    prisons. Some of our members have tried to respond
    to this by starting another project specifically
    opposing prison expansion, which you can learn
    more about here: escapingtomorrowscages.org. We
    have been more successful in avoiding recuperation
    than some other prisoner support projects, who have
    continued advocating for specific facilities for people
    with mental illnesses at the same time as the
    province is announcing it is building new prisons
    specifically for such people. But we can always do
    better.
    To Conclude
    It's not that prisoners are a revolutionary class, but
    there are unique opportunities in and around prison.
    Prison is a factory for reproducing subordinate roles
    within dominant power relationships by creating
    trauma and exclusion. When we do the work to
    elevate the voices of people on the inside, we can
    help interrupt that cycle.
    In a small way, we have seen the your town here Jail become
    a site of politicization and empowerment, making
    marginalized people feel strong and supported. We
    can lift each other up, and the struggles for basic
    human dignity underway inside do make us all more
    free on the outside.
    We in are no different than the people on
    the other end of the phone -- we too risk prison
    through the lives we lead, and and we too live in its
    shadow. We see ourselves as personally invested in
    ending the prison system, even as our motivations
    are also ethical and strategic. Understanding this
    3 12
    get from other places, especially if prisoners are
    reaching out to tell us they are taking action (our
    number really got around), but we are not able to be
    reliable around this.
    Our closed collective model had some challenges,
    but it was also a strength, since it allowed us to
    move quickly and be nimble in responding to events,
    and also to develop a really good group dynamic
    among a handful of highly motivated people (never
    more than 6). But it also meant that replacing people
    when they left was really hard, which led to us
    taking a six month hiatus at one point after the
    phone line had been run by just two people for about
    a year (which is a 12 hours a day commitment, seven
    days a week).
    The high cost of the phone line and the PO box
    have been a challenge at times, since the costs stay
    about the same every month but our ability to raise
    money is mostly limited to times when there is an
    exciting action happening. This got worse as people
    were transferred, since we tried to stay in touch
    with them, but ended up on the hook for hundreds of
    dollars in long distance fees. We responded to this
    by giving out our personal phone numbers to people
    who got transferred who we wanted to stay in touch
    with, but this has the effect of transferring costs to
    the prisoners and it also creates problems in terms
    of safety and privacy (you probably don't want your
    personal phone number floating around a prison
    with a reputation for being a friendly girl).
    And as always, recuperation is never far from our
    minds. A lot of the demands made by prisoners are
    shared by the system itself -- the prison system also
    wants less overcrowding, more programming,
    supports for mental health and addiction, regular
    Struggle is constant -- wherever there is
    oppression, there is resistance, and people tend to
    resist spontaneously at the site where authority is
    exercised over them. In prison, that site is the orders
    from the guards and the rhythm of the day. When we
    set out to support prisoner struggle, we look at the
    ways resistance is already occurring organically and
    ask how can we encourage it to deepen and spread.
    It is not enough for people doing prisoner solidarity
    to simply repeat the demands from inside. We
    believe that people on the inside and on the outside
    have different goals and roles. This is a way of
    dealing with the tension around demands related to
    reform versus abolition.
    We are against prison and against reforming prison,
    and we also make specific demands based on what
    prisoners are asking for. However, demands are
    slippery -- the nature of a demand changes when it
    travels from the inside to the outside. Inside, a small
    demand can become explosive, with no limit to how
    much it can escalate. It is no exaggeration to say
    that people have died over an early lockup. But on
    the outside, that same demand is just a mild policy
    disagreement, and we would just be reformists
    dialoguing with power if all we did was repeat it.
    To resolve this tension, we need to understand what
    our role is as people in solidarity and therefore what
    our goals are. The role of prisoners is to win
    concrete struggles and build their power; the role of
    people on the outside is to destroy prison. We
    support them to win inside, but we don't make their
    demands our own -- we stay focused on destroying
    prison brick by brick while also calling on the admin
    to negotiate with prisoners to meet their demands.
    11 4
    What organizing looks like
    In the four years our group has been around, one of
    the main forms prisoner struggle has taken is the
    hunger strike, and here we are going to walk you
    through the process of how a typical hunger strike
    happens.
    First though, hunger striking as a tactic is not well
    understood. The prison system is used to hunger
    strikes, and an individual doing it to try to produce a
    crisis by affecting their own health is unlikely to
    succeed. The prison treats it as no different than
    other forms of self-harm and has policies and
    procedures in place to funnel you into the medical
    system. Collective hunger strikes are different --
    rather than trying to create a health crisis, they
    create a crisis of mass disobedience and refusal.
    Prison tries hard to get prisoners to participate in
    their own incarceration. You have to participate in
    programs, talk to a psychologist, cooperate with
    guards, take on prison jobs, and follow all orders in
    order to receive privileges within the system.
    Without the participation of prisoners, the
    fundamental violence of the prison system is laid
    bare and the prison is left with no choice but to
    govern by force.
    In a hunger strike, prisoners are refusing to take
    their meals, one of the most basic acts of
    participation they are invited to engage in. Typically,
    prisoners would also refuse to have their strike
    medicalized by not cooperating with the daily
    medical exams the prison tries to force on you when
    you are refusing meals, which further throws a
    wrench into the prison's procedures.
    also heard lists of demands being used by prisoners
    in other institutions through the mainstream media,
    which motivated them to develop demands of their
    own.
    Hard Stuff
    There are a lot of challenges in this work that we
    don't always have great answers to, and we thought
    we would share a few of them here. Our hope is that
    other people will bring their own twist to this work
    and come up with great solutions to things we
    struggled with.
    We had a hard time cultivating organizers and
    keeping track of people. Since we don't have
    control over when we are in contact with prisoners,
    we were dependent on them deciding to call us and
    couldn't do anything if they didn't. That meant we
    often didn't know if people had been transferred or
    sent to seg -- we just stopped hearing from them,
    which also sometimes happened because folks just
    didn't feel like calling for a bit. As a result,
    organizers were taking some significant risks and, if
    they experienced reprisals, we wouldn't know and so
    were slow responding to support them.
    Similarly, the very local nature of our project was
    both a strength and weakness. By focusing on one
    facility, we could be very reliable and also have a
    very thorough knowledge of conditions, but it also
    meant that we couldn't do much if people were
    transferred. This was tied to our phone plan, which
    made it expensive (or sometimes impossible) to
    receive calls from any other prison. Some groups
    have tried to respond to this by operating multiple
    phone lines for different facilities, but we have so far
    not done this. We do occasionally respond to calls we
    5 10
    • Typically, the strike ends when the admin makes
    concessions or offers a promise of change. But often
    these would be only partially implemented or would
    prove temporary, and so the cycle would repeat.
    Each time the cycle repeated, the actions took less
    work and were stronger. During the COVID-19
    pandemic, there were three or four rounds of
    strikes, culminating in one involving over 200
    prisoners, almost half the population of the prison.
    This coincided with a COVID outbreak, when
    conditions in the jail were really at their worst -- a
    lot of the demands were about getting "back to
    normal," with visits, time out of cells, yard time,
    things like that. But in addition to winning these
    (sometimes more than once), prisoners also made
    some other gains and got items added to cantine (Mr
    Noodle cups!), some extra TV channels, and an
    overhaul of the library, significantly improving
    access to books.
    Things have been a bit quieter since then, in large
    part due to mass transfers related to some
    construction work in the prison (these transfers
    seemed to target politicized prisoners,
    unsurprisingly). However, transfers have also been a
    vector for spreading discontent. For instance, one
    prisoner who had gotten politicized in Burnside
    prison in Nova Scotia worked on organizing his
    range in your town here before being transferred to
    Maplehurst (about an hour away) where he
    continued that work. Another prisoner was
    transferred from OCDC in Ottawa and found the
    conditions in your town here to be so much worse that even
    just telling other prisoners about the difference was
    enough to trigger a wave of organizing. Prisoners
    Here is how it often goes down:
    • First, we establish contact, usually by phone. We
    write our number on a banner and hangout around
    the prison where people can see us.
    • We get calls, we listen, we take detailed notes
    • We build relationships on as many ranges as
    possible and try to get people calling us regularly to
    keep us posted about conditions.
    • Once we have some relationships, we try to
    identify organic organizers, the people who are
    already talking to folks on their range about
    collective problems. We also try to cultivate
    organizers by encouraging people to take their
    complaints about conditions to other people on their
    range and get on the same page about what is
    wrong.
    • We then compare notes across different ranges,
    telling people who call us about the problems
    elsewhere in the prison. This gives us and the inside
    organizers an overall picture of conditions in the
    prison.
    • We support prisoners in creating lists of demands
    and building support for the list on their range.
    — This is done in one of two ways: either
    through an assembly, where the TV is turned off and
    everyone on the range discusses together, or quietly,
    where the demands are circulated in one-on-one
    conversations and the written list grows and evolves.
    — Demands have included: an end to
    lockdowns, access to books sent from outside, daily
    yard time, faster mail, access to hygene supplies,
    9 6
    visits, additional canteen items or the ability to hold
    more money, and more
    • We communicate the list of demands to other
    ranges and get buy-in so that multiple ranges are
    asking for the same thing. This often involves things
    being added to the list, which involves more
    conversations on the ranges that already agreed to
    it.
    • We discuss possible tactics. Here, we are careful
    not to push people towards any particular tactic. We
    try to let it emerge from what struggle already looks
    like inside and from the history of struggles that
    prisoners are aware of.
    — There have been actions that aren't hunger
    strikes (like ranges refusing lockdown or refusing to
    return their meal trays or vandalizing phones or
    assaulting guards), and we try to be clear that we
    are in solidarity with any form that resistance takes.
    We do try to emphasize that things are stronger
    when they are more collective, which often involves
    them being planned in advance.
    — Prisoners in Ontario's provincial prisons do
    not have access to work and don't really have any
    programs, so the range of tactics available to them is
    pretty limited.
    • When prisoners choose to hunger strike, they can
    begin building a strike fund by stockpiling food.
    — Since the goal is not to create a crisis by
    ruining your own health, it is not necessary to
    completely abstain from food. The important thing is
    to refuse the prison's food -- to refuse to cooperate
    with their feeding responsibilities. This means that
    with some planning, ranges can save up food, either
    off their trays or from canteen purchases, in order to
    keep more people on strike longer. The strike fund is
    held in common by trusted organizers and is
    distributed over the course of the strike.
    • Prisoners pick dates for the strike
    • We try to be clear about what we will do on the
    outside: we will talk to other ranges and be out with
    a banner at 9am on the day the strike starts to
    announce it, we will do social media and send out a
    press release, we will hold demos and do a phone
    zap, we will release statements and letters from
    people inside...
    • Making regular social media updates about
    conditions in prison is an important part of our work,
    and it allows for some dialogue with the friends and
    families of prisoners. It also means we then have
    some ability to reach people and mobilize if need be.
    The mainstream media is also super important, since
    prisoners in your town here have access to the local paper
    and all watch the local evening news. Having a good
    relationship with journalists looks like having a
    media spokesperson in and also arranging
    interviews with prisoners or writing press releases.
    Relying on these institutions is obviously a problem,
    but it has been important in our work.
    • Prisoners would then refuse trays and also refuse
    medical exams, because it is a political issue and not
    a medical one. They would make their demands
    known, sometimes by sending a letter to the
    superintendent through the guards. And they would
    engage in negotiations with higher ups, either all
    together or in a small group.
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    As a system operator, it is easy to overlook the inherently
    tyrannical aspects of even the simplest computer. Conceived as
    manipulators of numbers, computers did not come into their own
    until they could sort and store large quantities of ordinary
    information.

    The largest user of computing power in the world today is the
    National Security Agency, or NSA. With a budget more than that of
    the FBI and the CIA combined, it is the job of the NSA to keep
    track of "threats to national security". These are the folks who
    intercepted that lovely little phone call that linked the bombing
    of a Disco in West Germany and Kaddafy. What do they do, really?
    three things: they gather, store, and collate information. They use
    computers to do it.

    It is not the mission of a Bulletin Board to be a small NSA, but
    the capability is there. On most boards throughout the nation,
    users are requested to input all kinds of information. Names, "Use
    REAL NAMES ONLY! NO HANDLES!" And phone numbers, "The system will
    call you back. Hang up now." Often other information as well. What
    kind of computer do you have? How old are you? Sex? SEXUAL
    ORIENTATION?(!) How long have you had a modem? Where do you live,
    WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS? WHAT'S YOUR RACE? Amazing that anyone even
    logs onto any boards anywhere. Many folks lie. Even worse, many
    don't.

    Sysops do this to keep 'Undesirables' off of their boards. They
    examine this data and compare it to their image of an ideal user.
    Usually a upper middle class white male with an expensive IBM
    computer. They let most people on anyhow. But this stuff remains on
    file. Scared yet? You should be. The well-meaning system operators
    are trying to keep disruptive people off their boards. They don't
    want swearing or inane prattle. Striving for the ideal forum for
    communication, they try and weed out the misfits. Instead of
    promoting an exchange of ideas, they try to limit what ideas may be
    exchanged.

    And all this data remains on file. Chances are it will never be
    looked at again. But what if, someday, the board gets confiscated
    by the police for something that you had nothing to do with. Oops!
    You're a witness! Or worse, an accomplice. Maybe not. But who
    knows, and who wants to find out? "Bob" knows no computer system is
    secure. ANY data on ANY disk anywhere in the world should be
    considered PUBLIC information, and treated accordingly. The only
    truly secure computer is OFF.

    Don't let your own instincts make you into a fascist. An open
    system is a healthy system. Back in the olden golden days of the
    first multiuser operating system, people would pit their
    intelligence against the computer and crash it. Instead of beefing
    up the security, the programmers installed a new command, "crash".
    Now all you had to do was type 'crash', and the system would be
    brought to it's knees. Voila, the problem went away.

    Keep your system open and free. It's what computers are really good
    for anyhow -- all information to all people. There is no such thing
    as a bad fact, or a bad word. There never was. And that is the
    power that a system truly does have -- the power to exchange new
    and different information, and bring people together. If you give
    people this power, your system will grow.

    The only limit a Bulletin Board System has is time. If every user
    could use the system for only two seconds, the board would always
    be available. But such is not the case, and virtually every board
    in existence has some kind of time limit. Even download limits are,
    in essence, time limits.

    Don't cheat yourself my restricting the users! If a user really
    wants to get on, he will get on. Be lenient. If you can, be free.
    Give the user a gentle reminder. If you treat the people who use
    your computer like people, they will behave like people. Shackled
    and barred at every turn, they will misbehave and cause trouble at
    every turn.

    I have run two systems in the past. The first was rigidly
    structured, one hundred levels. Each level had greater time
    allotted to it, and more data could be accessed. People would
    participate just to get to a higher level, without even knowing
    what was available. I was inundated with level and time raise
    requests. Finally I shut the system down. "Too many losers," I
    said. "People who just take, take, take. Nobody could run a BBS
    today!" And indeed, they did just take, take, take. All they could,
    while they could.

    The next board I ran was different. One level. No validation.
    People would call up and have instant full access to the board.
    Often, these users would go totally bats. They would run to the
    files section and download all they could. They would read ALL the
    messages in one session, and then call back with another name. The
    second call was different, though. They would come and look, and
    download something, and read a message or two, and leave.

    Finally, after a couple of weeks, an amazing thing happened.
    Hopeless losers, people who usually spent all their time trying to
    download as much as they could, started to get into it. Many posted
    their first messages. And they even would upload. Why? They didn't
    have to. Those users had found a home, and you try to improve your
    home.

    Welcome home. Welcome to NIRVANAnet(tm).

    Dr. Strangelove
    Sysop, Just Say Yes
    San Francisco, CA
    November 15, 1989


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    There were once three BBSes in the Bay Area with the same
    philosophy. Dr. Strangelove ran a board called Just Say Yes in San
    Francisco, Ratsnatcher ran Rat Head Systems in Berkeley, and I ran
    & the Temple of the Screaming Electron in Walnut Creek. We decided
    that since our message bases were very similar, our users tended to
    overlap, and we shared the same basic philosophy of how to run a
    BBS system, we decided to create NIRVANAnet(tm) so that our ideas
    could spread throughout the BBS community.

    Since that initial beginning, NIRVANAnet(tm) has grown to become
    one of the country's best and most infamous networks because of its
    open access policies and diverse subject matter.

    Interest in joining NIRVANAnet(tm) has been intense, but it was
    founded with the sole purpose of being a regional network. That is,
    it was designed to serve only the San Francisco Bay Area. This
    limitation on network size was done on purpose so that we could
    concentrate on the quality of the boards involved, address regional
    issues, and keep things small-scale and personal.

    Because of the enormous success of NIRVANAnet(tm), the sysops of
    the net have decided to open NIRVANAnet(tm) to the rest of the
    planet. The new, expanded NIRVANAnet(tm) will consist only of
    boards that offer OPEN ACCESS. This means that member boards must
    let anyone on and give them full access on the first call.

    If you're interested, read on...

    In a perfect world, Open Access means no registration, no
    validation, no complex new user questionnaires, no requirement for
    users to enter their real names, addresses, phone numbers,
    birthdays, gender, or other personal information, handles are
    allowed and encouraged, users are trusted, freedom of speech reigns
    supreme, knowledge is available to everyone, and no discrimination
    based on age, sex, race, religion, drug use, or mental stability.
    It also means that once a person is on-line they can immediately
    read and write messages, download files, play games, and use any
    other functions that the BBS provides.

    In short, OPEN.

    Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. Many countries
    and states place restrictions upon free speech and free expression.
    Sysops who violate these restrictions can end up fined, imprisoned,
    or worse. Because of this governmental interference, sysops may be
    required by law to restrict information about sex to people over
    the age of 18 or 21, or in some areas, the information may not be
    provided at all. Some countries do not allow people to exchange
    information about explosives or weapons, in some jurisdictions you
    cannot discuss entry codes for getting into computer networks, and
    passing out credit card numbers is verboten just about everywhere.

    Since we don't want Sysops to end up in jail, it is permissable to
    restrict access to some areas or remove some types of information
    IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS. However,
    restrictions should be at the absolute minimum levels needed to be
    acceptable to the local authorities. For instance, if it is legal
    in your area to give access to erotic material by having users sign
    a document that says "I am over 18", then by no means should you be
    requiring them to send in photocopies of their driver's licenses.

    Just because computers are good at collecting data on people,
    doesn't mean that you have to collect data. Just because you have
    the power to be Big Brother doesn't mean that you should. Give
    people as much freedom as possible on your system.

    I could go on and on for days about the advantages of running an
    open system as opposed to a closed one, but I won't. If you run an
    open system, you KNOW why it's a better way. If you run a closed
    system, you're not going to be allowed to join NIRVANAnet(tm) so
    there's no point in arguing with you about it.

    NIRVANAnet(tm) does not force anyone to run their system a
    particular way, we just say that if you agree with these
    principles, we'll share a bunch of really cool echos and files with
    you. You and your users will get to read messages from freaks of
    all types on subjects from encryption to phone systems to movies to
    techo-jargon to music to sex. NIRVANAnet(tm) is designed to REWARD
    sysops who run open systems by giving them the most interesting and
    diverse messages and files on the planet.

    Hope to see you on NIRVANAnet(tm)!


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    | > | & the Temple of the Screaming Electron
    ( \/ ) Walnut Creek, California
    \__/ 510/935-5845
    || March 11, 1994


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    01 What NIRVANAnet(tm) Is

    NIRVANAnet(tm) consists of a group of Open Access BBSes, which
    carry a number of identical message echos and file echos. All
    boards will carry a minimum of two thirds of the message echos
    offered by the net, as well as NNSYSOP and Netmail. In addition to
    NIRVANAnet(tm) Message Areas, NIRVANAnet(tm) members can also carry
    NIRVANAnet(tm) Text File Echos, NIRVANAnet(tm) Public Key
    (encryption) Distribution Echos, and other NIRVANAnet(tm) data
    feeds to be announced.

    02 Why This Charter Exists

    This Charter is written not to be excessively bureaucratic, but
    simply because, in order for a network like this to exist and grow,
    it needs to have some sort of basic structure. This Charter
    attempts to nail down that basic structure so that NIRVANAnet(tm)
    will last for decades.

    03 Main Hub

    A Main Hub is defined as a BBS System that ties a local area into
    NIRVANAnet(tm). A Main Hub may feed messages to several smaller
    hubs which then feed messages to individual Nodes, or a Main Hub
    may feed messages to individual nodes directly. Main Hubs are
    always assigned Node Number 0 within their Local Net.

    04 Hubs

    A Hub is defined as any BBS System that is feeding the
    NIRVANAnet(tm) message echos to two or more NIRVANAnet(tm) BBSes.

    05 Net / Local Net

    A Net or Local Net is all of the Nodes that get data from one Main
    Hub.

    06 Node

    A node is a single BBS system.

    07 Main Hub Duties and Responsibilities

    Main Hubs have to call the backbone at least twice a night in order
    to transfer all echomail, netmail, and file echos. The sysops
    running these systems must be very technically proficient and have
    systems which are reliable. They must coordinate mail transfer
    periods with the hubs and nodes that they feed data to. A Main Hub
    is also responsible for routing mail around systems that go down
    within their Local Net.

    Main hubs will pass nodelist updates on to the Hubs and Nodes they
    are feeding.

    Main Hubs also have all of the duties and responsibilities of Hubs
    and Nodes.

    08 Hub Duties and Responsibilities

    The Hubs work with new Nodes to iron out technical problems and to
    get the new Nodes on-line.

    Hubs must know the NIRVANAnet(tm) Charter well enough to verify the
    fact that the their Nodes are Open Systems and continue to remain
    Open Systems as defined by the Charter. Hubs can cut the feed of a
    Node if the Node ceases to be an Open System. Nodes can appeal to
    their Main Hub or rest of NIRVANAnet(tm) if they think they are
    being treated unjustly.

    Hubs must call their Main Hub at least twice a night to pick up
    waiting mail. Hubs will route netmail and file echos for
    NIRVANAnet(tm).

    Hubs will pass nodelist updates on to the Nodes they are feeding.

    Hubs also have all of the duties and responsibilities of Nodes.

    09 Node Duties and Responsibilities

    Nodes will do their best to remain Open Systems and resist the urge
    to control their users. Nodes must call their Hub at least once a
    night, but preferrably twice, to pick up mail. Nodes will make
    NIRVANAnet(tm) Info Packs available to all callers, so that others
    can join the net.

    10 Voting

    Voting is used for electing the International Net Coordinator
    (INC), electing Net Coordinators (NC's), ammending the
    NIRVANAnet(tm) Charter, and adding new nodes.

    Votes can be for, against, or abstain. An abstain vote DOES count
    as a vote. If a person does not vote, this is counted as an
    "abstain" vote. (This means that in a simple majority vote, if
    there are 100 nodes in the net, and 49 vote "YES" and 48 vote "NO",
    then there are 3 abstensions, and the NO's win the vote.)

    Voting is done by placing the question on the NNSYSOP board and
    asking for a vote. Once a question has been put to a vote, all
    voting members must vote within 14 days, unless stated otherwise
    within the Charter. There is no such thing as a "secret ballot".

    The NNC tallies all votes and posts a running total of who voted
    "Yes" and who voted "No" up until the voting period is over. At
    which time the NNC will post the final results.

    A Voting Member may change their vote at any time up until the
    voting period is over.

    All votes to elect Net Officers are by simple majority.

    Ammending the Charter takes a 2/3 majority of ALL voting members.

    See the section on "New Systems" for information on voting in new
    systems.

    All other votes are by simple majority, unless otherwise stated in
    the Charter.

    11 Who Votes

    In order to vote, a member must have an active system. There is one
    vote per BBS system, and no one gets more than one vote.

    Generally, if a person's name appears in the nodelist, then they're
    eligible to vote, which is why the NNC also conducts elections.

    12 NC Elections

    All of the Voting Members within a Net will vote for an NC at least
    once every 18 months. If an NC steps down, an election for a new NC
    must be held within 30 days. An election is won by a simple
    majority. The current NC will set the date for the election period,
    which lasts for 30 days. Elections are called by posting a message
    on the NNSYSOP echo.

    13 INC Elections

    ALL of the members will vote for an INC at least once every 30
    months. If a INC steps down, an election for a new INC must be held
    within 45 days. An election is won by a simple majority. The
    current INC will set the date for the election period, which lasts
    for 45 days. Elections are called by posting a message on the
    NNSYSOP echo.

    14 Other Positions

    There are other positions within the net for Network EchoMail
    Coordinator (NEC), Network Netmail Coordinator (NMC), Network
    FileEcho Coordinator (NFC), and Network Nodelist Coordinator (NNC).
    These positions are voluntary support positions. They work with the
    INC and the NC's to make the network run more smoothly. Other
    positions may be added in the future at the discretion of the INC.
    All positions are appointed by the INC.

    15 Network EchoMail Coordinator (NEC) Responsibilities

    Makes sure that echomail is flowing smoothly. Works with the hubs
    to make sure that echomail is not being lost. Determines the
    routing for echomail between the various Main Hubs. Solves
    technical echomail problems. Splits echomail areas that become too
    congested. Adds new areas to the backbone as requested by nodes.
    Schedules mail run times so that echomail will flow quickly.

    16 Network Netmail Coordinator (NMC) Responsibilities

    Makes sure that netmail is flowing smoothly. Works with the hubs to
    make sure that netmail is not being lost. Determines the routing
    for netmail between the various Main Hubs and Hubs. Solves
    technical netmail problems.

    17 Network FileEcho Coordinator (NFC) Responsibilities

    Makes sure that those boards that wish to participate in the file
    echos are getting their files. Makes sure that boards which do NOT
    wish to participate in the file echos do not get stuck with the
    cost of transporting files. Figures out routing for files. Adds new
    files echos as needed or requested.

  14. Enigma Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood In the US and Canada, it doesn't get that much
    lower than the prisoner. Excluded in every way,
    stripped of their most basic rights, exposed to
    humiliation and violence regularly, deprived of basic
    necessities, prisoners are at the very bottom of the
    social hierarchy, scorned and blamed by all the other
    classes. Prison crystalizes all forms of oppression
    and also props them up, and so organizing around
    prison can be a way of getting at the core of
    exploitative power relations in a community.

    For more on the idea that struggle is constant, we
    were inspired by workers' inquiry from the sixties
    and seventies in Italy, where the phrase used was
    lotta continua. You can check out the great book The
    Golden Horde by Nanni Balestrini and Primo
    Moroni, especially the end of chapter 5 and the start
    of chapter 6.
    For more on participation and refusal, see Locked
    Up, by Alfredo Bonnano
    For more on how rebels on the inside and on the
    outside have different goals and roles and about how
    to resist recuperation, see A Crime Called Freedom,
    by Os Cangaceiros
    For more on how the prison system in Canada has
    evolved over the last thirty years, see Taking the
    Rap: Women Doing Time for Society's Crimes, by
    Ann Hansen
    For a summary of recent hunger strikes in Canada,
    including the ones in your town here, see Chip Away at It: A
    Year of Covid-Era Hunger Strikes in Canada's
    Prisons, by MJ Adams
    1 14–
    makes it easier to step into your role in the struggle
    against prison on the outside – to be independently
    invested in fighting and winning, rather than just
    being a supporter.
    We would love to hear your reflections and
    experiences. If you do prisoner solidarity work or are
    interested in starting, you should definitely get in
    touch with us at your town heresolidarityproject@riseup.net.
    What we do
    Our activities as a group include maintaining a
    phone line and PO box in order to be in touch with
    prisoners and both provide direct support and
    monitor conditions inside. We also keep up social
    media accounts and work with the mainstream
    media to share news about what is going on inside.
    We also occasionally hold rallies or other public
    events to put pressure on the prison.
    These are simple activities, but they are powerful.
    Our goal is to change the balance of power inside
    the prison by supporting prisoner self-organizing.
    We do this by working with prisoners to identify
    issues and help them develop tactics for pressuring
    the institution. We also advocate around conditions,
    develop relationships, and do favours for prisoners,
    because we want our neighbours on the inside to
    feel respected and cared for when they come out,
    rather than like the shit on society's boot.
    There are some things that we don't do. We don't do
    long-term case work, following prisoners through
    their process, trying to get them better outcomes in
    the courts, or providing support when they get out.
    We do random favours, like helping with a three-way
    call or sending a few texts or finding a lawyer, but
    we don't go much further than that. We don't give
    anyone money or legal advice. We don't do popular
    education for non-prisoners, and we aren't trying to
    13 2
    grow as an organization. is a closed
    collective doing some specific work, and we intend
    for it to stay small and focused. Other prisoner
    solidarity groups have struggled to keep going
    because the level of need is so high that they take on
    many different kinds of work and burn out – by
    being clear about what we do and don't do, we hope
    to make our project more sustainable.
    Philosophy
    There are other groups that do prisoner solidarity
    work, but our philosophy makes different.
    A big piece of that is political clarity – we are
    anarchists and we are always fully against prison.
    Folks on the inside know who we are and what we
    stand for, which is part of not just being another
    service organization. We get into the details of what
    goes on inside the prison (like, we know if laundry
    came on the day it's supposed to and which
    sergeants are on duty), but we are here because we
    want to destroy the institution.
    The reason we don't do outreach work and don't
    seek new members is that the site of struggle is
    the range. Our goal is to shift the balance of power
    between prisoners and the institution that oppresses
    them. If we win, we win on the range. We are not
    trying to create change by pressuring the
    government, changing people's opinions, getting
    more funding for programs, or anything like that. We
    want change to happen because the administration
    is forced to reckon with an organized body of
    prisoners and supporters that is capable of pushing
    back on their authority.
    schedules around range and yard time, and so on.
    One of the main ways the prison system reforms
    itself is by physically expanding, building new
    prisons. Some of our members have tried to respond
    to this by starting another project specifically
    opposing prison expansion, which you can learn
    more about here: escapingtomorrowscages.org. We
    have been more successful in avoiding recuperation
    than some other prisoner support projects, who have
    continued advocating for specific facilities for people
    with mental illnesses at the same time as the
    province is announcing it is building new prisons
    specifically for such people. But we can always do
    better.
    To Conclude
    It's not that prisoners are a revolutionary class, but
    there are unique opportunities in and around prison.
    Prison is a factory for reproducing subordinate roles
    within dominant power relationships by creating
    trauma and exclusion. When we do the work to
    elevate the voices of people on the inside, we can
    help interrupt that cycle.
    In a small way, we have seen the your town here Jail become
    a site of politicization and empowerment, making
    marginalized people feel strong and supported. We
    can lift each other up, and the struggles for basic
    human dignity underway inside do make us all more
    free on the outside.
    We in are no different than the people on
    the other end of the phone – we too risk prison
    through the lives we lead, and and we too live in its
    shadow. We see ourselves as personally invested in
    ending the prison system, even as our motivations
    are also ethical and strategic. Understanding this
    3 12
    get from other places, especially if prisoners are
    reaching out to tell us they are taking action (our
    number really got around), but we are not able to be
    reliable around this.
    Our closed collective model had some challenges,
    but it was also a strength, since it allowed us to
    move quickly and be nimble in responding to events,
    and also to develop a really good group dynamic
    among a handful of highly motivated people (never
    more than 6). But it also meant that replacing people
    when they left was really hard, which led to us
    taking a six month hiatus at one point after the
    phone line had been run by just two people for about
    a year (which is a 12 hours a day commitment, seven
    days a week).
    The high cost of the phone line and the PO box
    have been a challenge at times, since the costs stay
    about the same every month but our ability to raise
    money is mostly limited to times when there is an
    exciting action happening. This got worse as people
    were transferred, since we tried to stay in touch
    with them, but ended up on the hook for hundreds of
    dollars in long distance fees. We responded to this
    by giving out our personal phone numbers to people
    who got transferred who we wanted to stay in touch
    with, but this has the effect of transferring costs to
    the prisoners and it also creates problems in terms
    of safety and privacy (you probably don't want your
    personal phone number floating around a prison
    with a reputation for being a friendly girl).
    And as always, recuperation is never far from our
    minds. A lot of the demands made by prisoners are
    shared by the system itself – the prison system also
    wants less overcrowding, more programming,
    supports for mental health and addiction, regular
    Struggle is constant – wherever there is
    oppression, there is resistance, and people tend to
    resist spontaneously at the site where authority is
    exercised over them. In prison, that site is the orders
    from the guards and the rhythm of the day. When we
    set out to support prisoner struggle, we look at the
    ways resistance is already occurring organically and
    ask how can we encourage it to deepen and spread.
    It is not enough for people doing prisoner solidarity
    to simply repeat the demands from inside. We
    believe that people on the inside and on the outside
    have different goals and roles. This is a way of
    dealing with the tension around demands related to
    reform versus abolition.
    We are against prison and against reforming prison,
    and we also make specific demands based on what
    prisoners are asking for. However, demands are
    slippery – the nature of a demand changes when it
    travels from the inside to the outside. Inside, a small
    demand can become explosive, with no limit to how
    much it can escalate. It is no exaggeration to say
    that people have died over an early lockup. But on
    the outside, that same demand is just a mild policy
    disagreement, and we would just be reformists
    dialoguing with power if all we did was repeat it.
    To resolve this tension, we need to understand what
    our role is as people in solidarity and therefore what
    our goals are. The role of prisoners is to win
    concrete struggles and build their power; the role of
    people on the outside is to destroy prison. We
    support them to win inside, but we don't make their
    demands our own – we stay focused on destroying
    prison brick by brick while also calling on the admin
    to negotiate with prisoners to meet their demands.
    11 4
    What organizing looks like
    In the four years our group has been around, one of
    the main forms prisoner struggle has taken is the
    hunger strike, and here we are going to walk you
    through the process of how a typical hunger strike
    happens.
    First though, hunger striking as a tactic is not well
    understood. The prison system is used to hunger
    strikes, and an individual doing it to try to produce a
    crisis by affecting their own health is unlikely to
    succeed. The prison treats it as no different than
    other forms of self-harm and has policies and
    procedures in place to funnel you into the medical
    system. Collective hunger strikes are different –
    rather than trying to create a health crisis, they
    create a crisis of mass disobedience and refusal.
    Prison tries hard to get prisoners to participate in
    their own incarceration. You have to participate in
    programs, talk to a psychologist, cooperate with
    guards, take on prison jobs, and follow all orders in
    order to receive privileges within the system.
    Without the participation of prisoners, the
    fundamental violence of the prison system is laid
    bare and the prison is left with no choice but to
    govern by force.
    In a hunger strike, prisoners are refusing to take
    their meals, one of the most basic acts of
    participation they are invited to engage in. Typically,
    prisoners would also refuse to have their strike
    medicalized by not cooperating with the daily
    medical exams the prison tries to force on you when
    you are refusing meals, which further throws a
    wrench into the prison's procedures.
    also heard lists of demands being used by prisoners
    in other institutions through the mainstream media,
    which motivated them to develop demands of their
    own.
    Hard Stuff
    There are a lot of challenges in this work that we
    don't always have great answers to, and we thought
    we would share a few of them here. Our hope is that
    other people will bring their own twist to this work
    and come up with great solutions to things we
    struggled with.
    We had a hard time cultivating organizers and
    keeping track of people. Since we don't have
    control over when we are in contact with prisoners,
    we were dependent on them deciding to call us and
    couldn't do anything if they didn't. That meant we
    often didn't know if people had been transferred or
    sent to seg – we just stopped hearing from them,
    which also sometimes happened because folks just
    didn't feel like calling for a bit. As a result,
    organizers were taking some significant risks and, if
    they experienced reprisals, we wouldn't know and so
    were slow responding to support them.
    Similarly, the very local nature of our project was
    both a strength and weakness. By focusing on one
    facility, we could be very reliable and also have a
    very thorough knowledge of conditions, but it also
    meant that we couldn't do much if people were
    transferred. This was tied to our phone plan, which
    made it expensive (or sometimes impossible) to
    receive calls from any other prison. Some groups
    have tried to respond to this by operating multiple
    phone lines for different facilities, but we have so far
    not done this. We do occasionally respond to calls we
    5 10
    • Typically, the strike ends when the admin makes
    concessions or offers a promise of change. But often
    these would be only partially implemented or would
    prove temporary, and so the cycle would repeat.
    Each time the cycle repeated, the actions took less
    work and were stronger. During the COVID-19
    pandemic, there were three or four rounds of
    strikes, culminating in one involving over 200
    prisoners, almost half the population of the prison.
    This coincided with a COVID outbreak, when
    conditions in the jail were really at their worst – a
    lot of the demands were about getting "back to
    normal," with visits, time out of cells, yard time,
    things like that. But in addition to winning these
    (sometimes more than once), prisoners also made
    some other gains and got items added to cantine (Mr
    Noodle cups!), some extra TV channels, and an
    overhaul of the library, significantly improving
    access to books.
    Things have been a bit quieter since then, in large
    part due to mass transfers related to some
    construction work in the prison (these transfers
    seemed to target politicized prisoners,
    unsurprisingly). However, transfers have also been a
    vector for spreading discontent. For instance, one
    prisoner who had gotten politicized in Burnside
    prison in Nova Scotia worked on organizing his
    range in your town here before being transferred to
    Maplehurst (about an hour away) where he
    continued that work. Another prisoner was
    transferred from OCDC in Ottawa and found the
    conditions in your town here to be so much worse that even
    just telling other prisoners about the difference was
    enough to trigger a wave of organizing. Prisoners
    Here is how it often goes down:
    • First, we establish contact, usually by phone. We
    write our number on a banner and hangout around
    the prison where people can see us.
    • We get calls, we listen, we take detailed notes
    • We build relationships on as many ranges as
    possible and try to get people calling us regularly to
    keep us posted about conditions.
    • Once we have some relationships, we try to
    identify organic organizers, the people who are
    already talking to folks on their range about
    collective problems. We also try to cultivate
    organizers by encouraging people to take their
    complaints about conditions to other people on their
    range and get on the same page about what is
    wrong.
    • We then compare notes across different ranges,
    telling people who call us about the problems
    elsewhere in the prison. This gives us and the inside
    organizers an overall picture of conditions in the
    prison.
    • We support prisoners in creating lists of demands
    and building support for the list on their range.
    — This is done in one of two ways: either
    through an assembly, where the TV is turned off and
    everyone on the range discusses together, or quietly,
    where the demands are circulated in one-on-one
    conversations and the written list grows and evolves.
    — Demands have included: an end to
    lockdowns, access to books sent from outside, daily
    yard time, faster mail, access to hygene supplies,
    9 6
    visits, additional canteen items or the ability to hold
    more money, and more
    • We communicate the list of demands to other
    ranges and get buy-in so that multiple ranges are
    asking for the same thing. This often involves things
    being added to the list, which involves more
    conversations on the ranges that already agreed to
    it.
    • We discuss possible tactics. Here, we are careful
    not to push people towards any particular tactic. We
    try to let it emerge from what struggle already looks
    like inside and from the history of struggles that
    prisoners are aware of.
    — There have been actions that aren't hunger
    strikes (like ranges refusing lockdown or refusing to
    return their meal trays or vandalizing phones or
    assaulting guards), and we try to be clear that we
    are in solidarity with any form that resistance takes.
    We do try to emphasize that things are stronger
    when they are more collective, which often involves
    them being planned in advance.
    — Prisoners in Ontario's provincial prisons do
    not have access to work and don't really have any
    programs, so the range of tactics available to them is
    pretty limited.
    • When prisoners choose to hunger strike, they can
    begin building a strike fund by stockpiling food.
    — Since the goal is not to create a crisis by
    ruining your own health, it is not necessary to
    completely abstain from food. The important thing is
    to refuse the prison's food – to refuse to cooperate
    with their feeding responsibilities. This means that
    with some planning, ranges can save up food, either
    off their trays or from canteen purchases, in order to
    keep more people on strike longer. The strike fund is
    held in common by trusted organizers and is
    distributed over the course of the strike.
    • Prisoners pick dates for the strike
    • We try to be clear about what we will do on the
    outside: we will talk to other ranges and be out with
    a banner at 9am on the day the strike starts to
    announce it, we will do social media and send out a
    press release, we will hold demos and do a phone
    zap, we will release statements and letters from
    people inside…
    • Making regular social media updates about
    conditions in prison is an important part of our work,
    and it allows for some dialogue with the friends and
    families of prisoners. It also means we then have
    some ability to reach people and mobilize if need be.
    The mainstream media is also super important, since
    prisoners in your town here have access to the local paper
    and all watch the local evening news. Having a good
    relationship with journalists looks like having a
    media spokesperson in and also arranging
    interviews with prisoners or writing press releases.
    Relying on these institutions is obviously a problem,
    but it has been important in our work.
    • Prisoners would then refuse trays and also refuse
    medical exams, because it is a political issue and not
    a medical one. They would make their demands
    known, sometimes by sending a letter to the
    superintendent through the guards. And they would
    engage in negotiations with higher ups, either all
    together or in a small group.
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    2284367 HOWARD BRETT BERGER
    5535698 JOSEPH C BERGERON
    6745156 Joseph Charles Berghausen
    5630238 BRITNEY L BERGUM
    19421 MARTIN MARVIN BERK
    2308190 JAY STUART BERKMAN
    19483 MALCOLM JAY BERKO
    4787371 BRIAN SETH BERKOWICZ
    19495 DAVID MELVILLE BERKOWITZ
    4251362 GREGG ARNOLD BERLIN
    2413745 GARY IRVING BERMAN
    7127759 Matthew Tyler Berman
    5526970 REED FRANCIS BERMINGHAM
    818057 CHARLES THOMAS BERNARDO, SR
    2535421 BARBARAANN BERNATZKY
    5651609 AMANDA YVONNE BERRY
    1300104 CHARLES WAYNE BERRY
    [/quote]
  16. Enigma Tuskegee Airman
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    5429958 BARBARA JEAN ABADI
    5251101 YOUSEF ABERCROMBIE
    1610607 ANDREW MARTIN ABERN
    4162073 JOSH RAY ABERNATHY
    2987570 EUGENE GILBERT ABEYTA, JR
    4311057 ANTHONY RICHARD ABNER
    2733649 MAURICE WAYNE ABNEY
    3273075 AMR MOSTAFA ABOULMAGD
    6140331 CRYSTAL DAWN ABRAHAM
    4412506 SEYMOUR ISAAC ABRAMOWITZ
    4661358 LISA ACCA
    4936501 SALVATORE ACCARDI
    2508321 GIOVANNI L ACEVEDO
    6535283 MARIA ELENA ACEVEDO
    4449836 BRET MICHAEL ACKERMAN
    1580808 MARVIN ACKERMAN
    1149303 STEPHEN ROBERT ACKLEY
    5264694 CHAD E ACKZEN
    6738058 Fernando Enrique Acosta
    6531648 FRANCIS KEYLA ACOSTA
    4440729 JAMES PATRICK ACOSTA
    4419505 JASON ACOSTA
    4770756 SANDRA R ACREE
    1429736 ROBERT CHRISTIAN ACRI
    3237599 MAURICIO ACUNA
    1192587 GREGORY ADAMO
    2016233 JOSEPH JAMES ADAMO
    4135862 FRANK SLATES ADAMS, III
    1631898 BARRY LEE ADAMS
    867706 BRADLEY PAUL ADAMS
    3180366 DARREN RAY ADAMS
    1450961 DAVID STEPHEN ADAMS
    4149381 JAESON ERICH ADAMS
    2833013 JEFFREY CLYDE ADAMS
    4606998 KEVIN ERIK ADAMS
    2973741 RASHEED AREE ADAMS
    2733333 RICHARD ALLEN ADAMS
    2896069 RICHARD JUAN ADAMS
    5510273 RYAN KIMBALL ADAMS
    5411560 STEPHEN ROBERT ADAMS
    4129723 Tracy Adams
    4608530 GORDON W. ADAMSON
    1592822 RAYMOND DICKIE ADCOCK
    2641975 BRYAN LEE ADDINGTON
    2638760 JEFFREY LEONARD ADELL
    2992185 DEBRA JEAN ADER
    2292310 MICHAEL ADINOVICH
    1880173 JAMES RICHARD ADKINS
    3175612 IRVING LOUIS ADLER
    2972717 REGINA BALANLAY ADORA
    4158129 HUMBERTO DANIEL ADVINCULA
    5129822 MITZIE A AGARD
    4974222 KWASI MENSAH AGGOR
    854773 RICHARD GARY AGRAN
    5343999 SAMARTH AGRAWAL
    5640727 JUAN ALFREDO AGUILAR
    5770949 MARIO H AGUILAR
    5663204 MIGUEL ANGEL AGUILAR
    6125908 STEVEN ANGELO AGUILAR
    2661001 MICHAEL JOHN AHEARN
    2983399 JAMES JOSEPH AHMANN
    2404244 FUAD AHMED
    5532259 NAASON AHUMADA
    1994 BENJAMIN GLASSER AIBEL
    4558740 ROBERT RUSSELL AIKENS
    5360407 JARED EVAN AILSTOCK
    5675154 EMMANUEL OLUFEMI AJAYI
    4050242 JOHAN MARY-LYN AKAL
    5690198 SCOTT AKASHI
    3108018 DON JACKSON AKIN
    4315718 KENNY AKINFOLARIN AKINDEMOWO
    4552640 SHANOA ADRIANNE ROSE AKINS
    5159766 THADDEUS EDEM AKLOYO
    4148915 ROBERT JOSEPH ALANIZ
    4182760 JUAN CARLOS ALB
    4680317 JOSE ANTONIO ALBA
    2662411 GLEN WILLIAM ALBANESE
    6234333 Michael P Albarella
    1067662 JOSEPH RICHARD ALBERS
    6589844 Christina Albert
    2213211 JONNIE LAYNE ALBIN
    2035269 JAMES JOEL ALBRIGHT, JR
    3183199 MARKEL TARON ALBRITTON
    3064806 MILTON ALBUQUERQUE
    5258443 SALVADOR G ALCALA
    2983730 SCOTT PATRICK ALCUS
    3027749 RICHARD JOSEPH ALDERMAN, JR
    4108723 JUAN C. ALEJOS
    1755471 RAYMOND FRANCIS ALEKSEY
    6732188 RUBEN GERARDO ALEMAN ESCALANTE
    5510223 ARMANDO R. ALEMAN
    1615360 HARRY A ALESSI, IV
    2724252 DAMIEN PAYMAN ALEXANDER
    6044480 EVAN CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
    2760 JACK ASBURY ALEXANDER
    5020883 MICHAEL ALLEN ALEXANDER
    6116172 RYAN GORDON ALEXANDER
    4437162 STEVEN PRESTON ALEXANDER
    3273969 TERRENCE THOMAS ALEXANDER
    2701389 LAWRENCE JOSEPH ALFANO
    4049120 BRIAN KEITH ALFARO
    7609272 GABRIELA CHANEL ALFARO
    6198334 JENNIFER ALFARO
    2625120 DOUGLAS ALFIERI
    3064116 PEDRO JULIO ALFONSECA, JR.
    6817711 Cesar Ricardo Alfonzo
    2135500 RANDY LAMAR ALFORD
    2445460 ROBERTO ALFORD
    500332 DONALD CHARLES ALGER
    2938087 JOSEPH VICTOR ALHADEFF
    3063988 JOSEPH ALI
    4833349 MOHAMMED KARIUKI ALI
    6549579 MONA ALI
    5205635 VIRGINIA E ALI
    6126120 ALEN ALIC
    5774330 DIMITRIS ALIFRAGIS
    4943780 ENVER RAHMAN ALIJAJ
    3274506 MUSTAPHA YOUSSEF ALJAROUDI
    2019226 SAVAS ZAFER ALKOC
    2621727 JAMES WAYNE ALLDREDGE
    2171324 BRIAN JOSEPH ALLEN, SR.
    5515997 BILLY WAYNE ALLEN
    2666395 JAMES CHARLES ALLEN
    2574350 KENNETH RONALD ALLEN
    1763329 MARK DAVID ALLEN
    3075257 NICOLE YVETTE ALLEN
    2925054 RAY ANTHONY ALLEN
    1689767 SUSAN JANE ALLEN
    3051774 TERRISA MARIE ALLEN
    2348806 TIMOTHY LUKE ALLEN
    1344149 WALTER MORROW ALLEN
    5305728 DION ANTHONY ALLISON
    5265234 KELLYE C. ALLISON
    6021970 LEEANN VICKIE ALLISON
    2245162 ALFRED MIRZA ALLOS
    5408119 EMILY MAUREEN ALLRED
    5092387 BRANDON C ALLSUP
    3141791 LAURIE SUE ALMACK
    1176134 GILBERT LOUIS ALMADA
    4447869 JEREMY STEVEN ALMQUIST
    6294694 RICARDO ALONZO, JR
    2862178 Mercy J Alpert
    5644156 Renee Valerie Altamirano
    2666723 KELLY CLAYTON ALTHAR
    5547881 LENA MICHELLE ALTMAN
    1961149 FREDRICK RAYMOND ALTVATER
    6890579 ARELY J ALVAREZ
    4499192 CHARLES IGNACIO ALVAREZ
    2724763 DOMINIC ALEX ALVAREZ
    5571844 EDWIN ALVAREZ
    6126780 MARICELA ALVAREZ
    4375595 RODOLFO ALVAREZ
    5844392 MELISSA LYNN ALVERIO
    3086395 THEODORE SANIDAD ALVIA
    6414709 JESUS JOSE ALVIDREZ
    2582497 EMAD AMIN ALWAN
    4710052 MAJIED AD ALZID
    2213067 PETER KENNETH AMAN
    2710334 OMAR SHARIF AMANAT
    4440980 JUSTIN AMARAL
    2927679 ANTONIO AMBROSIO
    2225040 JEFFREY MARK AMBROSIO
    5732488 Joseph A Ambrosole
    4185840 AMY MARIE AMBURN
    2627838 DODZI KOMLA AMENU
    5083580 DEBORAH ANNE AMES
    2975952 CARLA N AMIEIRO
    1576068 LABIB AMIRALSHARIF
    2121350 HOSSEIN AMIRRIAHEI
    6069392 KENNEDY KWABENA AMOFA
    1502074 JOHN JOSEPH AMORE
    1177946 MATTHEW PHILIP AMOS
    4728125 JOSEPH STANLEY AMUNDSEN
    5160369 DEVIN R ANAND
    4632532 ABIGAIL RUBIO ANCHETA
    2468059 LEONAIDA A ANCHETATORRES
    5776082 STEPHEN R ANDERS
    2872133 ANDRE ANDERSON, SR
    5361159 AARON DEAN ANDERSON
    4243107 ALEX P. ANDERSON
    4791069 ANDY JAMES ANDERSON
    4006436 ARTHUR A ANDERSON
    2283955 BRIAN DOUGLAS ANDERSON
    3116269 BRYAN WAYNE ANDERSON
    4989688 CHAD MICHAEL ANDERSON
    4799519 CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE ANDERSON
    2204878 DANA REECE ANDERSON
    3210057 DAVID ARTHUR ALBERT ANDERSON
    4933936 DAVID STEVEN ANDERSON
    1127707 EUGENE DONALD ANDERSON
    2113685 GREGORY WYLEN ANDERSON
    4803514 JAMES F. ANDERSON
    6034985 JASON J ANDERSON
    4326656 JEFFREY JON ANDERSON
    2285320 JEFFREY LEE ANDERSON
    5993214 JEFFREY SCOTT ANDERSON
    5335694 JOHN MARK ANDERSON
    6389728 JUSTIN ALLEN ANDERSON
    1837799 KEITH M ANDERSON
    5065346 MONICA NICOLE ANDERSON
    1984629 RENE CARLOS ANDERSON
    4684930 TERRI LYNN ANDERSON
    2218049 THOMAS WILLIAM ANDERSON
    1896352 TODD RAY ANDERSON
    5640 WARD BYRON ANDERSON
    2709918 JANE MARIE ANDRASHIE
    2936298 ANTOINE ANDRE
    6196235 ALISON NICOLE ANDREWS
    4121976 CAROLYN MARIE ANDREWS
    1717820 JOHN MICHAEL ANDREWS
    2089621 KEITH JACOB ANDREWS
    1992069 KEVIN SHAWN ANDREWS
    4587953 THOMAS EDWARD ANDREWS
    6491985 VAUGHN LEE ANDREWS-MCKAY
    2371705 ROBERTA I ANDRINA
    1872187 BRYAN WESLEY ANDRZEjediSKI
    5307459 ALEXANDER ANDUJAR
    5391037 GREGORY MORGAN ANGELILLO
    1552444 MOLLY K ANGELO
    2792191 JOHN PAUL ANGELONE
    2670988 MORRIS ANGELOU
    811495 ROBERT THOMSON ANGLE
    3171868 RONALD GENE ANGLIN
    2221337 MAYRA JEANETTE ANGULO
    2245120 NOEL MENDOZA ANONUEVO
    2356706 HARRY MICHAEL ANTHONY
    2596275 KIMBERLY GALLOPS ANTHONY
    2955420 PETER T ANTIPATIS
    3215807 DOMINIC ANTONUCCI
    713649 JOSEPH JOHN ANTOSH, JR
    1604427 CHARLES WILLIAM APODACA
    1595927 NICHOLAS APODIAKOS
    4211338 CARLOS APONTE, JR.
    1026798 DAVID APPEL
    500336 ALAN ZELIG APPELBAUM
    6661 LEIGHTON DAVID APPLEFELD
    6991143 SOLOMON APPREY
    2431669 ANTHONY JAMES APUZZO
    1130803 FRANK CARMEN AQUILA
    2851934 NICOLAS ESTEBAN ARANGO
    1649069 DONALD PAUL ARANT, SR
    5625392 LEONARDO S ARAUJO
    4737140 NATHAN PAUL ARAUJO
    4610869 HERNAN ESTEBAN ARBIZU
    6804747 Holly Florence Arbuckle
    4781588 DONOVAN ARCHER
    6890 JOHN THOMAS ARCHER
    1979672 LONZO ARCHER
    6125762 KIRK ERIC ARCHIBALD
    5701306 MICHAEL ARCHIMEDE
    2200431 DANIEL JOSEPH ARCURI, JR
    5837571 JAMES KENNETH ARD
    1598393 RUSHTON LEIGH ARDREY, III
    5757952 FELIPE ARELLANO
    2560324 RICHARD JOSEPH ARENA, JR
    826440 LOUIS PATRICK ARENA
    1083897 THOMAS MICHAEL ARETZ
    5884590 FERNANDO L AREVALO
    4418605 STEVEN JOHN ARGO
    2518033 ALBERTO ENRIQUE ARGOMANIZ
    4335211 LUIS ARGUELLES
    4556162 MAXI JOEL ARIAS
    2957096 CHRISTOPHER B ARIOLA
    2927350 JOSE ANGEL ARIZMENDI
    2877644 SHAWN PAUL ARLAUCKAS
    4993347 IVAN ARMAS
    3117506 JOSEPH E ARMENTA
    1213772 MICHAEL EDWARD ARMENTROUT
    1037854 JOHN GRANT ARMISTEAD, III
    1041078 GARY THOMAS ARMITAGE
    2729805 STANLEY CRAWFORD ARMOUR
    6124102 AARON CARTER ARMSTRONG
    4592423 LANCE ROMAN ARMSTRONG
    5293387 CRISTIANO G.M.C. ARNDT
    2606096 CATHERINE ELIZABETH ARNETT
    7458 JOHN HUTCHISON ARNETTE
    2643104 ANDREW PAUL ARNO
    5908774 CHRISTOPHER ROBERT ARNOLD
    4192536 DEBBIE SUE ARNOLD
    2550256 JACK ALEXANDER ARNOLD
    4551033 JORDAN ANNE ARNOLD
    6308181 MATTHEW JOHN ARNOLD
    2278472 PAUL DAVID ARNOLD
    1817656 ROBERT PAUL ARNOLD
    5284151 ROGER LEE ARNOLD
    4664318 STEVEN ROBERT ARON
    5443201 GAUTAM ARORA
    6212050 JONATHAN ARROYO
    4163052 JOSE A ARTETA
    6249211 JARED CODY ARTHO
    1864083 ANDREW MARKMAN ARTHUR
    6440268 KERBYE ARTHUR
    2374368 HERIBERTO AMERICO ARTIGA, SR
    1991130 CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH ARTS
    1324218 LORIANN ARTZBERGER
    4209245 HILDA ASENCIO
    1148811 MANUEL PETER ASENSIO
    4096004 KEITH TODD ASHLEY
    867625 ELIAS EMILE ASHOOH
    5794420 BRETT ALEXANDER ASHY
    5172158 GENE MICHAEL ASKINS
    2849493 MICHAEL JOHN ASSENZA
    5137579 MARCELO L ASSIS
    3165470 WILLIAM NICHOLAS ATHAS
    2589195 PROSPERO ATIENZA, JR
    6348394 Lorenzo Atkins
    1438065 JAMES RAY ATRAT
    1132472 RYAN JERRY ATTENSON
    1208702 CHARLES EDWARD ATWELL
    2540982 BRENT ALLEN ATWOOD
    3197843 DIONNE MARIA AUBERT
    2053214 JOHN DOUGLAS AUDIFFEREN
    708942 JOEL ARNOLD AUGUST
    6874949 Robin Auguste
    1081795 TARRANT MCCUTCHEN AUGUSTINE
    4608307 CHING Y AUL, MR.
    4890774 RAMNIK SINGH AULAKH
    1798015 RICKY DARNELL AUSBON
    5481214 AARON L AUSTIN
    6702519 David Austin
    5803618 PHILLIP K AUSTIN
    5262341 TODD AUSTIN
    2089448 OPIE BLAND AUTEN
    7331393 Brandon Autiero
    1606802 MICHAEL AVELLA, JR
    4955956 MEIEWYN CLARYSE AVENT
    2005765 COLLEEN ANNE AVERILL
    1101660 James Arther Avery
    4766216 KERRI LYNN AVERY
    4192196 TAAL ALEXANDER AVIAD
    4341162 RAFAEL ERNESTO AVILA
    1949853 ALBERT LUIS AVILES
    4943291 ANGEL MANUEL AVILES
    5845463 DAVID CHRISTOPHER AWAD
    9148 MICHAEL GERARDY AWES
    9164 MICHAEL LEWIS AXEL
    2467912 EDWIN AYALA
    2197712 DENNIS O AYERS
    6599784 Jennifer Ann Ayers
    1127162 JOSEPH KESL AYLWARD
    5365176 DENNIS PHILLIP AYRE
    4798445 MASOOD HUSAIN AZAD
    5880708 KAMRAN AZIM
    1721932 SAM AZIZ
    2446677 JOSEPH JOHN AZZATA

    B
    1276193 WILLIAM CECIL BABB, III
    6123929 CHRISTOPHER BRYAN BABBITT
    5004907 CHRISTOPHER SOMES BABCOCK
    4617436 RICHARD WENDELL BABICH
    5387332 MALCOLM J BABIN
    2103727 THOMAS MACAULAY BABINGTON, JR
    2376943 MICHAEL BABYAK JR, II
    1011097 RICHARD HANS BACH
    1033017 LOUIS JOSEPH BACHER, JR
    5261603 BRETT E BACKERMAN
    2022409 JEFFREY LYLE BACLET
    4064268 JOHN ROBERT BACON
    1957919 THOMAS DEAN BADE
    5902742 ZACHARY T. BADER
    6087170 TREVOR EVAN BAER
    3201089 PHILIP BAGALANON
    4194351 ED BAGAPORO
    3178716 MARIO BAGO
    10084 WOODLEY HANNON BAGWELL
    4465228 JEREMY BRIAN BAGWILL
    6067377 AMADOU BAH
    5136334 MICHAEL BAHAR
    1569518 TERRY DEAN BAHGAT
    10092 MILES ARTHUR BAHL
    859930 WILLIAM MILTON BAHR
    5135311 IGNACIO ANDRES BAIGORRIA
    7096388 Imani L Bailey
    1756858 JERRY DON BAILEY
    4608681 JOSEPH DALYN BAILEY
    4944448 KENIA BAILEY
    6521977 MICHAEL GEORGE BAILEY
    4163297 RICHARD EUGENE BAILEY
    5400845 SHERETTA A BAILEY
    3097243 DAMIAN MARK BAIRD
    6501692 WESSAM BAIZ
    4873334 AIDA BAKAMOVIC
    3153629 DONALD L BAKER, II
    5394639 ANDREW CHARLES BAKER
    10600 CHARLES RONALD BAKER
    1639374 CHRISTIAN WEEKLEY BAKER
    4493790 DEAN RUSSEL BAKER
    3214470 FRANK BAKER
    4920460 HEATHER JOY BAKER
    6623314 JESSE BAKER
    6463146 JOSHUA GREGORY BAKER
    2215803 MICHAEL GLENN BAKER
    2565823 MICHAEL JEFFREY BAKER
    2885880 MOHAMED BAKSH
    5523079 SARAVANA RAM BALAKRISHNAN
    2251085 TAMI SUSAN BALAS
    5165930 SHONDEEP SAJAN BALCHANDANI
    2402939 JOHN JOSEPH BALDECK
    2917763 JAMES KIRK BALDI
    5381450 HEIDI JO BALDRIDGE
    2976766 TROY CHRISTOPHER BALDRIDGE
    4281564 SHAWN DERRICK BALDWIN, MR.
    1856003 GREGORY ALLEN BALDWIN
    11239 LARRY THOMAS BALENTINE
    1174731 ROBERT SCOTT BALES
    2988526 JOHN VINCENT BALLARD
    2252282 ROGER DEAN BALLARD
    1073181 TIMOTHY DAVID BALLARD
    1652114 ROBERT IRA BALLON
    6853439 JASON LEE BALLOR
    857771 STEVEN JOHN BALOG
    2084901 VITO JAMES BALSAMO
    704053 KEN ALAN BALSER
    2570499 CHRIST ELIAS BALTAS
    1863517 KEVIN SETH BALTIMORE
    2660922 JOHN PATRICK BAMBER
    4534394 JOE RUSSELL BANCROFT
    11715 JAMES CARLOS BANDA
    11744 DARLENE KAY BANDY
    4172393 ARNAB BANERJEE
    5088782 GREGORY HUNTER BANG
    5917243 MICHAEL BANJANY
    2744671 DARYL GENE BANK
    2133170 JEFFREY BANKS
    4909350 ROBERT LEE BANKS
    1062813 JOHN MICHAEL BANNON
    6648369 SARAH LEANNE BANON
    6376630 ROHIT BANSAL
    5706315 JOSE L BANUELOS
    6308317 NEDJEEN BAPTISTE
    2690190 FRED BARAM
    4921433 CHAD RYAN BARANCYK
    2317724 ARNOLD BARATZ
    4171149 EMILY BOTELHO BARAZI
    4460674 BRETT REED BARBER
    3095959 BRUCE PAGE BARBER
    3102983 CHRISTOPHER LAYNE BARBER
    1165082 DAVID LLOYD BARBER
    5647121 STEVEN NEIL BARBOT
    5084096 KALOIAN IVANOV BARBUKOV
    4394074 ANGELO BARCELO, III
    2447501 ROBERT GLENN BARD
    4650925 SANDEEP BARDIA
    2815723 SAWSAN ANIS BARDISSI
    4075146 HENRY CARL BAREFIELD
    5710454 JOAN LUND BARERE
    3243595 BRIAN COLEMAN BARGE
    6674648 Kelley Macon Barham, Jr
    2748877 JAMES LOUIS BARI
    1255255 ANTHONY HAROLD BARKATE
    2474154 RANDALL C. BARKER
    4754577 SCOTT DEE BARKER
    5980820 DEVIN BARKLEY
    6372903 MATTHEW GARY BARKS
    5012726 JUSTIN MATTHEW BARLUP
    4245309 SAMUEL SHMUEL BARMAPOV
    5653949 DONNA LYNN BARNARD
    1342721 REBECCA SUSAN BARNARD
    5504882 Robert Barnard
    4656593 DAMON LEE BARNES
    2292179 LEVINSKI DEALEXIS BARNES
    4577695 ALONZA BARNETT, JR
    3132151 SALLEE JO BARNETT
    4162879 ROMANO J. BARNEY
    3071033 CINDY SUE BARNHART
    3099928 GARY SCOTT BARNHILL, SR
    2450380 ERIK ANTONY BARON
    2108213 JEFFREY JOSEPH BARON
    3093975 STUART DAVID BARON
    2032268 CHRISTOPHER RICHARD BARONE
    5002855 ADRIAN ROBERT BARR
    5103543 LYDIA BERTHA BARRAZA
    1789580 DANIEL FORREST BARRETT
    5441006 JOEL BARRETT
    4748518 JOHN KEVIN BARRETT
    1088520 JAMES ISAAC BARRICK, III
    4761986 TABOR ALAN BARRICK
    1022433 DIANE LOUISE BARRIGA
    2122824 NICOLAS JESUS BARRIOS
    3103134 KERRY DEXTER BARRIS
    1020898 VAL U BARRUTIA
    1377935 DONALD ANDREW BARTELT
    3122838 ALAN EDMUND BARTHOLEMY, JR
    3211860 SCOTT ANTHONY BARTLETT
    5405555 JEVON WILLIAM BARTLEY
    1077607 WILLIAM ROSS BARTO
    6908590 Thomas Patrick Barton, III
    5884591 JOSHUA M BARTON
    718185 JOSEPH FRANCIS BARTOSIEWICZ, JR
    4805130 NATHAN D BARTOW
    2104489 RONALD G BARTSCH
    5077566 JEFFREY DANIEL BASFORD
    3218720 EDWARD DEE BASHAM
    2239782 DONNY MENASHE BASHKIN
    4025062 INNA BASIEVA
    2392772 ROBERT LEE BASILE
    5713753 DONNA A BASKERVILLE
    4388378 EDDIE BASORA, JR.
    2990346 BILAL BASRAI
    14385 GARY JOHN BASRALIAN
    1165415 JUDY DAVIS BASS
    2913362 JAMES LEE BASSA, JR
    6015424 MICHAEL ANTHONY BASTARDI
    5511706 ERIC MICHAEL BASTARDO
    6570886 ROBERTO OMAR BASTARDO
    5257073 LOUISE M BATCHELOR
    2124129 ALEX ERNESTO BATLLE
    2171601 MARTIN DAVID BATSTONE
    6229734 LUCIANO ANDRES BATTIOLI
    4652820 SAMMY BATTISTA
    6015345 LARRY DIANTE BATTISTE
    3187137 DAVID HARRY, MICHAEL BAUDO
    2552478 GREGORY RUSSEL BAUER
    1902320 JAMES PATRICK BAUER
    2087276 ANDREW WILLIAM BAUM
    5407548 DIANNE MARIE BAUM
    5007841 JON JOSEPH BAUMAN
    2837559 RICHARD ANDREW BAUMEL
    4684408 CONSTANCE MULHERIN BAUMGARN
    5025273 NICHOLAS ANTHONY BAUMGARTNER
    1582353 CONRAD TAMBALO BAUTISTA
    1137366 PHIL DAVID BAUTZ
    4515485 KYLE LEON BAXTER
    2990440 JOHN MICHAEL BAYER
    4324630 KY NIGEL BAYLOR
    4065458 VICKI DONNA BEALMAN
    6481178 BRIDGETT ELIZABETH BEARD
    6757771 SAMANTHA CHRISTINE BEASLEY
    2934785 CHARLES ANDREW BEAUCOND, III
    4489715 DANIEL EDWARD BECERRIL, II
    1064989 KENNETH BRUCE BECK
    3048844 PETER BECK
    5550802 STEVEN P BECK
    1491140 DONALD SHERMAN BECKER
    4323217 MICHAEL JOSEPH BECKER
    2706294 RANDALL TODD BECKER
    2084248 SHEPARD ROY BECKER
    4363085 STEPHANIE ANN BECKER
    16443 WALTER J BECKER
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  17. Enigma Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood In the US and Canada, it doesn't get that much
    lower than the prisoner. Excluded in every way,
    stripped of their most basic rights, exposed to
    humiliation and violence regularly, deprived of basic
    necessities, prisoners are at the very bottom of the
    social hierarchy, scorned and blamed by all the other
    classes. Prison crystalizes all forms of oppression
    and also props them up, and so organizing around
    prison can be a way of getting at the core of
    exploitative power relations in a community.

    For more on the idea that struggle is constant, we
    were inspired by workers' inquiry from the sixties
    and seventies in Italy, where the phrase used was
    lotta continua. You can check out the great book The
    Golden Horde by Nanni Balestrini and Primo
    Moroni, especially the end of chapter 5 and the start
    of chapter 6.
    For more on participation and refusal, see Locked
    Up, by Alfredo Bonnano
    For more on how rebels on the inside and on the
    outside have different goals and roles and about how
    to resist recuperation, see A Crime Called Freedom,
    by Os Cangaceiros
    For more on how the prison system in Canada has
    evolved over the last thirty years, see Taking the
    Rap: Women Doing Time for Society's Crimes, by
    Ann Hansen
    For a summary of recent hunger strikes in Canada,
    including the ones in your town here, see Chip Away at It: A
    Year of Covid-Era Hunger Strikes in Canada's
    Prisons, by MJ Adams
    1 14–
    makes it easier to step into your role in the struggle
    against prison on the outside – to be independently
    invested in fighting and winning, rather than just
    being a supporter.
    We would love to hear your reflections and
    experiences. If you do prisoner solidarity work or are
    interested in starting, you should definitely get in
    touch with us at your town heresolidarityproject@riseup.net.
    What we do
    Our activities as a group include maintaining a
    phone line and PO box in order to be in touch with
    prisoners and both provide direct support and
    monitor conditions inside. We also keep up social
    media accounts and work with the mainstream
    media to share news about what is going on inside.
    We also occasionally hold rallies or other public
    events to put pressure on the prison.
    These are simple activities, but they are powerful.
    Our goal is to change the balance of power inside
    the prison by supporting prisoner self-organizing.
    We do this by working with prisoners to identify
    issues and help them develop tactics for pressuring
    the institution. We also advocate around conditions,
    develop relationships, and do favours for prisoners,
    because we want our neighbours on the inside to
    feel respected and cared for when they come out,
    rather than like the shit on society's boot.
    There are some things that we don't do. We don't do
    long-term case work, following prisoners through
    their process, trying to get them better outcomes in
    the courts, or providing support when they get out.
    We do random favours, like helping with a three-way
    call or sending a few texts or finding a lawyer, but
    we don't go much further than that. We don't give
    anyone money or legal advice. We don't do popular
    education for non-prisoners, and we aren't trying to
    13 2
    grow as an organization. is a closed
    collective doing some specific work, and we intend
    for it to stay small and focused. Other prisoner
    solidarity groups have struggled to keep going
    because the level of need is so high that they take on
    many different kinds of work and burn out – by
    being clear about what we do and don't do, we hope
    to make our project more sustainable.
    Philosophy
    There are other groups that do prisoner solidarity
    work, but our philosophy makes different.
    A big piece of that is political clarity – we are
    anarchists and we are always fully against prison.
    Folks on the inside know who we are and what we
    stand for, which is part of not just being another
    service organization. We get into the details of what
    goes on inside the prison (like, we know if laundry
    came on the day it's supposed to and which
    sergeants are on duty), but we are here because we
    want to destroy the institution.
    The reason we don't do outreach work and don't
    seek new members is that the site of struggle is
    the range. Our goal is to shift the balance of power
    between prisoners and the institution that oppresses
    them. If we win, we win on the range. We are not
    trying to create change by pressuring the
    government, changing people's opinions, getting
    more funding for programs, or anything like that. We
    want change to happen because the administration
    is forced to reckon with an organized body of
    prisoners and supporters that is capable of pushing
    back on their authority.
    schedules around range and yard time, and so on.
    One of the main ways the prison system reforms
    itself is by physically expanding, building new
    prisons. Some of our members have tried to respond
    to this by starting another project specifically
    opposing prison expansion, which you can learn
    more about here: escapingtomorrowscages.org. We
    have been more successful in avoiding recuperation
    than some other prisoner support projects, who have
    continued advocating for specific facilities for people
    with mental illnesses at the same time as the
    province is announcing it is building new prisons
    specifically for such people. But we can always do
    better.
    To Conclude
    It's not that prisoners are a revolutionary class, but
    there are unique opportunities in and around prison.
    Prison is a factory for reproducing subordinate roles
    within dominant power relationships by creating
    trauma and exclusion. When we do the work to
    elevate the voices of people on the inside, we can
    help interrupt that cycle.
    In a small way, we have seen the your town here Jail become
    a site of politicization and empowerment, making
    marginalized people feel strong and supported. We
    can lift each other up, and the struggles for basic
    human dignity underway inside do make us all more
    free on the outside.
    We in are no different than the people on
    the other end of the phone – we too risk prison
    through the lives we lead, and and we too live in its
    shadow. We see ourselves as personally invested in
    ending the prison system, even as our motivations
    are also ethical and strategic. Understanding this
    3 12
    get from other places, especially if prisoners are
    reaching out to tell us they are taking action (our
    number really got around), but we are not able to be
    reliable around this.
    Our closed collective model had some challenges,
    but it was also a strength, since it allowed us to
    move quickly and be nimble in responding to events,
    and also to develop a really good group dynamic
    among a handful of highly motivated people (never
    more than 6). But it also meant that replacing people
    when they left was really hard, which led to us
    taking a six month hiatus at one point after the
    phone line had been run by just two people for about
    a year (which is a 12 hours a day commitment, seven
    days a week).
    The high cost of the phone line and the PO box
    have been a challenge at times, since the costs stay
    about the same every month but our ability to raise
    money is mostly limited to times when there is an
    exciting action happening. This got worse as people
    were transferred, since we tried to stay in touch
    with them, but ended up on the hook for hundreds of
    dollars in long distance fees. We responded to this
    by giving out our personal phone numbers to people
    who got transferred who we wanted to stay in touch
    with, but this has the effect of transferring costs to
    the prisoners and it also creates problems in terms
    of safety and privacy (you probably don't want your
    personal phone number floating around a prison
    with a reputation for being a friendly girl).
    And as always, recuperation is never far from our
    minds. A lot of the demands made by prisoners are
    shared by the system itself – the prison system also
    wants less overcrowding, more programming,
    supports for mental health and addiction, regular
    Struggle is constant – wherever there is
    oppression, there is resistance, and people tend to
    resist spontaneously at the site where authority is
    exercised over them. In prison, that site is the orders
    from the guards and the rhythm of the day. When we
    set out to support prisoner struggle, we look at the
    ways resistance is already occurring organically and
    ask how can we encourage it to deepen and spread.
    It is not enough for people doing prisoner solidarity
    to simply repeat the demands from inside. We
    believe that people on the inside and on the outside
    have different goals and roles. This is a way of
    dealing with the tension around demands related to
    reform versus abolition.
    We are against prison and against reforming prison,
    and we also make specific demands based on what
    prisoners are asking for. However, demands are
    slippery – the nature of a demand changes when it
    travels from the inside to the outside. Inside, a small
    demand can become explosive, with no limit to how
    much it can escalate. It is no exaggeration to say
    that people have died over an early lockup. But on
    the outside, that same demand is just a mild policy
    disagreement, and we would just be reformists
    dialoguing with power if all we did was repeat it.
    To resolve this tension, we need to understand what
    our role is as people in solidarity and therefore what
    our goals are. The role of prisoners is to win
    concrete struggles and build their power; the role of
    people on the outside is to destroy prison. We
    support them to win inside, but we don't make their
    demands our own – we stay focused on destroying
    prison brick by brick while also calling on the admin
    to negotiate with prisoners to meet their demands.
    11 4
    What organizing looks like
    In the four years our group has been around, one of
    the main forms prisoner struggle has taken is the
    hunger strike, and here we are going to walk you
    through the process of how a typical hunger strike
    happens.
    First though, hunger striking as a tactic is not well
    understood. The prison system is used to hunger
    strikes, and an individual doing it to try to produce a
    crisis by affecting their own health is unlikely to
    succeed. The prison treats it as no different than
    other forms of self-harm and has policies and
    procedures in place to funnel you into the medical
    system. Collective hunger strikes are different –
    rather than trying to create a health crisis, they
    create a crisis of mass disobedience and refusal.
    Prison tries hard to get prisoners to participate in
    their own incarceration. You have to participate in
    programs, talk to a psychologist, cooperate with
    guards, take on prison jobs, and follow all orders in
    order to receive privileges within the system.
    Without the participation of prisoners, the
    fundamental violence of the prison system is laid
    bare and the prison is left with no choice but to
    govern by force.
    In a hunger strike, prisoners are refusing to take
    their meals, one of the most basic acts of
    participation they are invited to engage in. Typically,
    prisoners would also refuse to have their strike
    medicalized by not cooperating with the daily
    medical exams the prison tries to force on you when
    you are refusing meals, which further throws a
    wrench into the prison's procedures.
    also heard lists of demands being used by prisoners
    in other institutions through the mainstream media,
    which motivated them to develop demands of their
    own.
    Hard Stuff
    There are a lot of challenges in this work that we
    don't always have great answers to, and we thought
    we would share a few of them here. Our hope is that
    other people will bring their own twist to this work
    and come up with great solutions to things we
    struggled with.
    We had a hard time cultivating organizers and
    keeping track of people. Since we don't have
    control over when we are in contact with prisoners,
    we were dependent on them deciding to call us and
    couldn't do anything if they didn't. That meant we
    often didn't know if people had been transferred or
    sent to seg – we just stopped hearing from them,
    which also sometimes happened because folks just
    didn't feel like calling for a bit. As a result,
    organizers were taking some significant risks and, if
    they experienced reprisals, we wouldn't know and so
    were slow responding to support them.
    Similarly, the very local nature of our project was
    both a strength and weakness. By focusing on one
    facility, we could be very reliable and also have a
    very thorough knowledge of conditions, but it also
    meant that we couldn't do much if people were
    transferred. This was tied to our phone plan, which
    made it expensive (or sometimes impossible) to
    receive calls from any other prison. Some groups
    have tried to respond to this by operating multiple
    phone lines for different facilities, but we have so far
    not done this. We do occasionally respond to calls we
    5 10
    • Typically, the strike ends when the admin makes
    concessions or offers a promise of change. But often
    these would be only partially implemented or would
    prove temporary, and so the cycle would repeat.
    Each time the cycle repeated, the actions took less
    work and were stronger. During the COVID-19
    pandemic, there were three or four rounds of
    strikes, culminating in one involving over 200
    prisoners, almost half the population of the prison.
    This coincided with a COVID outbreak, when
    conditions in the jail were really at their worst – a
    lot of the demands were about getting "back to
    normal," with visits, time out of cells, yard time,
    things like that. But in addition to winning these
    (sometimes more than once), prisoners also made
    some other gains and got items added to cantine (Mr
    Noodle cups!), some extra TV channels, and an
    overhaul of the library, significantly improving
    access to books.
    Things have been a bit quieter since then, in large
    part due to mass transfers related to some
    construction work in the prison (these transfers
    seemed to target politicized prisoners,
    unsurprisingly). However, transfers have also been a
    vector for spreading discontent. For instance, one
    prisoner who had gotten politicized in Burnside
    prison in Nova Scotia worked on organizing his
    range in your town here before being transferred to
    Maplehurst (about an hour away) where he
    continued that work. Another prisoner was
    transferred from OCDC in Ottawa and found the
    conditions in your town here to be so much worse that even
    just telling other prisoners about the difference was
    enough to trigger a wave of organizing. Prisoners
    Here is how it often goes down:
    • First, we establish contact, usually by phone. We
    write our number on a banner and hangout around
    the prison where people can see us.
    • We get calls, we listen, we take detailed notes
    • We build relationships on as many ranges as
    possible and try to get people calling us regularly to
    keep us posted about conditions.
    • Once we have some relationships, we try to
    identify organic organizers, the people who are
    already talking to folks on their range about
    collective problems. We also try to cultivate
    organizers by encouraging people to take their
    complaints about conditions to other people on their
    range and get on the same page about what is
    wrong.
    • We then compare notes across different ranges,
    telling people who call us about the problems
    elsewhere in the prison. This gives us and the inside
    organizers an overall picture of conditions in the
    prison.
    • We support prisoners in creating lists of demands
    and building support for the list on their range.
    — This is done in one of two ways: either
    through an assembly, where the TV is turned off and
    everyone on the range discusses together, or quietly,
    where the demands are circulated in one-on-one
    conversations and the written list grows and evolves.
    — Demands have included: an end to
    lockdowns, access to books sent from outside, daily
    yard time, faster mail, access to hygene supplies,
    9 6
    visits, additional canteen items or the ability to hold
    more money, and more
    • We communicate the list of demands to other
    ranges and get buy-in so that multiple ranges are
    asking for the same thing. This often involves things
    being added to the list, which involves more
    conversations on the ranges that already agreed to
    it.
    • We discuss possible tactics. Here, we are careful
    not to push people towards any particular tactic. We
    try to let it emerge from what struggle already looks
    like inside and from the history of struggles that
    prisoners are aware of.
    — There have been actions that aren't hunger
    strikes (like ranges refusing lockdown or refusing to
    return their meal trays or vandalizing phones or
    assaulting guards), and we try to be clear that we
    are in solidarity with any form that resistance takes.
    We do try to emphasize that things are stronger
    when they are more collective, which often involves
    them being planned in advance.
    — Prisoners in Ontario's provincial prisons do
    not have access to work and don't really have any
    programs, so the range of tactics available to them is
    pretty limited.
    • When prisoners choose to hunger strike, they can
    begin building a strike fund by stockpiling food.
    — Since the goal is not to create a crisis by
    ruining your own health, it is not necessary to
    completely abstain from food. The important thing is
    to refuse the prison's food – to refuse to cooperate
    with their feeding responsibilities. This means that
    with some planning, ranges can save up food, either
    off their trays or from canteen purchases, in order to
    keep more people on strike longer. The strike fund is
    held in common by trusted organizers and is
    distributed over the course of the strike.
    • Prisoners pick dates for the strike
    • We try to be clear about what we will do on the
    outside: we will talk to other ranges and be out with
    a banner at 9am on the day the strike starts to
    announce it, we will do social media and send out a
    press release, we will hold demos and do a phone
    zap, we will release statements and letters from
    people inside…
    • Making regular social media updates about
    conditions in prison is an important part of our work,
    and it allows for some dialogue with the friends and
    families of prisoners. It also means we then have
    some ability to reach people and mobilize if need be.
    The mainstream media is also super important, since
    prisoners in your town here have access to the local paper
    and all watch the local evening news. Having a good
    relationship with journalists looks like having a
    media spokesperson in and also arranging
    interviews with prisoners or writing press releases.
    Relying on these institutions is obviously a problem,
    but it has been important in our work.
    • Prisoners would then refuse trays and also refuse
    medical exams, because it is a political issue and not
    a medical one. They would make their demands
    known, sometimes by sending a letter to the
    superintendent through the guards. And they would
    engage in negotiations with higher ups, either all
    together or in a small group.
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  18. Enigma Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by Enigma [quote pk=1928598 author="the man Adam

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    5020883 MICHAEL ALLEN ALEXANDER
    6116172 RYAN GORDON ALEXANDER
    4437162 STEVEN PRESTON ALEXANDER
    3273969 TERRENCE THOMAS ALEXANDER
    2701389 LAWRENCE JOSEPH ALFANO
    4049120 BRIAN KEITH ALFARO
    7609272 GABRIELA CHANEL ALFARO
    6198334 JENNIFER ALFARO
    2625120 DOUGLAS ALFIERI
    3064116 PEDRO JULIO ALFONSECA, JR.
    6817711 Cesar Ricardo Alfonzo
    2135500 RANDY LAMAR ALFORD
    2445460 ROBERTO ALFORD
    500332 DONALD CHARLES ALGER
    2938087 JOSEPH VICTOR ALHADEFF
    3063988 JOSEPH ALI
    4833349 MOHAMMED KARIUKI ALI
    6549579 MONA ALI
    5205635 VIRGINIA E ALI
    6126120 ALEN ALIC
    5774330 DIMITRIS ALIFRAGIS
    4943780 ENVER RAHMAN ALIJAJ
    3274506 MUSTAPHA YOUSSEF ALJAROUDI
    2019226 SAVAS ZAFER ALKOC
    2621727 JAMES WAYNE ALLDREDGE
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    5515997 BILLY WAYNE ALLEN
    2666395 JAMES CHARLES ALLEN
    2574350 KENNETH RONALD ALLEN
    1763329 MARK DAVID ALLEN
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    2925054 RAY ANTHONY ALLEN
    1689767 SUSAN JANE ALLEN
    3051774 TERRISA MARIE ALLEN
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    5265234 KELLYE C. ALLISON
    6021970 LEEANN VICKIE ALLISON
    2245162 ALFRED MIRZA ALLOS
    5408119 EMILY MAUREEN ALLRED
    5092387 BRANDON C ALLSUP
    3141791 LAURIE SUE ALMACK
    1176134 GILBERT LOUIS ALMADA
    4447869 JEREMY STEVEN ALMQUIST
    6294694 RICARDO ALONZO, JR
    2862178 Mercy J Alpert
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    5571844 EDWIN ALVAREZ
    6126780 MARICELA ALVAREZ
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    5844392 MELISSA LYNN ALVERIO
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    2975952 CARLA N AMIEIRO
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    2121350 HOSSEIN AMIRRIAHEI
    6069392 KENNEDY KWABENA AMOFA
    1502074 JOHN JOSEPH AMORE
    1177946 MATTHEW PHILIP AMOS
    4728125 JOSEPH STANLEY AMUNDSEN
    5160369 DEVIN R ANAND
    4632532 ABIGAIL RUBIO ANCHETA
    2468059 LEONAIDA A ANCHETATORRES
    5776082 STEPHEN R ANDERS
    2872133 ANDRE ANDERSON, SR
    5361159 AARON DEAN ANDERSON
    4243107 ALEX P. ANDERSON
    4791069 ANDY JAMES ANDERSON
    4006436 ARTHUR A ANDERSON
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    3210057 DAVID ARTHUR ALBERT ANDERSON
    4933936 DAVID STEVEN ANDERSON
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    2113685 GREGORY WYLEN ANDERSON
    4803514 JAMES F. ANDERSON
    6034985 JASON J ANDERSON
    4326656 JEFFREY JON ANDERSON
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    5993214 JEFFREY SCOTT ANDERSON
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    6389728 JUSTIN ALLEN ANDERSON
    1837799 KEITH M ANDERSON
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    5640 WARD BYRON ANDERSON
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    2936298 ANTOINE ANDRE
    6196235 ALISON NICOLE ANDREWS
    4121976 CAROLYN MARIE ANDREWS
    1717820 JOHN MICHAEL ANDREWS
    2089621 KEITH JACOB ANDREWS
    1992069 KEVIN SHAWN ANDREWS
    4587953 THOMAS EDWARD ANDREWS
    6491985 VAUGHN LEE ANDREWS-MCKAY
    2371705 ROBERTA I ANDRINA
    1872187 BRYAN WESLEY ANDRZEjediSKI
    5307459 ALEXANDER ANDUJAR
    5391037 GREGORY MORGAN ANGELILLO
    1552444 MOLLY K ANGELO
    2792191 JOHN PAUL ANGELONE
    2670988 MORRIS ANGELOU
    811495 ROBERT THOMSON ANGLE
    3171868 RONALD GENE ANGLIN
    2221337 MAYRA JEANETTE ANGULO
    2245120 NOEL MENDOZA ANONUEVO
    2356706 HARRY MICHAEL ANTHONY
    2596275 KIMBERLY GALLOPS ANTHONY
    2955420 PETER T ANTIPATIS
    3215807 DOMINIC ANTONUCCI
    713649 JOSEPH JOHN ANTOSH, JR
    1604427 CHARLES WILLIAM APODACA
    1595927 NICHOLAS APODIAKOS
    4211338 CARLOS APONTE, JR.
    1026798 DAVID APPEL
    500336 ALAN ZELIG APPELBAUM
    6661 LEIGHTON DAVID APPLEFELD
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    1649069 DONALD PAUL ARANT, SR
    5625392 LEONARDO S ARAUJO
    4737140 NATHAN PAUL ARAUJO
    4610869 HERNAN ESTEBAN ARBIZU
    6804747 Holly Florence Arbuckle
    4781588 DONOVAN ARCHER
    6890 JOHN THOMAS ARCHER
    1979672 LONZO ARCHER
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    2927350 JOSE ANGEL ARIZMENDI
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    1213772 MICHAEL EDWARD ARMENTROUT
    1037854 JOHN GRANT ARMISTEAD, III
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    7458 JOHN HUTCHISON ARNETTE
    2643104 ANDREW PAUL ARNO
    5908774 CHRISTOPHER ROBERT ARNOLD
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    2550256 JACK ALEXANDER ARNOLD
    4551033 JORDAN ANNE ARNOLD
    6308181 MATTHEW JOHN ARNOLD
    2278472 PAUL DAVID ARNOLD
    1817656 ROBERT PAUL ARNOLD
    5284151 ROGER LEE ARNOLD
    4664318 STEVEN ROBERT ARON
    5443201 GAUTAM ARORA
    6212050 JONATHAN ARROYO
    4163052 JOSE A ARTETA
    6249211 JARED CODY ARTHO
    1864083 ANDREW MARKMAN ARTHUR
    6440268 KERBYE ARTHUR
    2374368 HERIBERTO AMERICO ARTIGA, SR
    1991130 CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH ARTS
    1324218 LORIANN ARTZBERGER
    4209245 HILDA ASENCIO
    1148811 MANUEL PETER ASENSIO
    4096004 KEITH TODD ASHLEY
    867625 ELIAS EMILE ASHOOH
    5794420 BRETT ALEXANDER ASHY
    5172158 GENE MICHAEL ASKINS
    2849493 MICHAEL JOHN ASSENZA
    5137579 MARCELO L ASSIS
    3165470 WILLIAM NICHOLAS ATHAS
    2589195 PROSPERO ATIENZA, JR
    6348394 Lorenzo Atkins
    1438065 JAMES RAY ATRAT
    1132472 RYAN JERRY ATTENSON
    1208702 CHARLES EDWARD ATWELL
    2540982 BRENT ALLEN ATWOOD
    3197843 DIONNE MARIA AUBERT
    2053214 JOHN DOUGLAS AUDIFFEREN
    708942 JOEL ARNOLD AUGUST
    6874949 Robin Auguste
    1081795 TARRANT MCCUTCHEN AUGUSTINE
    4608307 CHING Y AUL, MR.
    4890774 RAMNIK SINGH AULAKH
    1798015 RICKY DARNELL AUSBON
    5481214 AARON L AUSTIN
    6702519 David Austin
    5803618 PHILLIP K AUSTIN
    5262341 TODD AUSTIN
    2089448 OPIE BLAND AUTEN
    7331393 Brandon Autiero
    1606802 MICHAEL AVELLA, JR
    4955956 MEIEWYN CLARYSE AVENT
    2005765 COLLEEN ANNE AVERILL
    1101660 James Arther Avery
    4766216 KERRI LYNN AVERY
    4192196 TAAL ALEXANDER AVIAD
    4341162 RAFAEL ERNESTO AVILA
    1949853 ALBERT LUIS AVILES
    4943291 ANGEL MANUEL AVILES
    5845463 DAVID CHRISTOPHER AWAD
    9148 MICHAEL GERARDY AWES
    9164 MICHAEL LEWIS AXEL
    2467912 EDWIN AYALA
    2197712 DENNIS O AYERS
    6599784 Jennifer Ann Ayers
    1127162 JOSEPH KESL AYLWARD
    5365176 DENNIS PHILLIP AYRE
    4798445 MASOOD HUSAIN AZAD
    5880708 KAMRAN AZIM
    1721932 SAM AZIZ
    2446677 JOSEPH JOHN AZZATA

    B
    1276193 WILLIAM CECIL BABB, III
    6123929 CHRISTOPHER BRYAN BABBITT
    5004907 CHRISTOPHER SOMES BABCOCK
    4617436 RICHARD WENDELL BABICH
    5387332 MALCOLM J BABIN
    2103727 THOMAS MACAULAY BABINGTON, JR
    2376943 MICHAEL BABYAK JR, II
    1011097 RICHARD HANS BACH
    1033017 LOUIS JOSEPH BACHER, JR
    5261603 BRETT E BACKERMAN
    2022409 JEFFREY LYLE BACLET
    4064268 JOHN ROBERT BACON
    1957919 THOMAS DEAN BADE
    5902742 ZACHARY T. BADER
    6087170 TREVOR EVAN BAER
    3201089 PHILIP BAGALANON
    4194351 ED BAGAPORO
    3178716 MARIO BAGO
    10084 WOODLEY HANNON BAGWELL
    4465228 JEREMY BRIAN BAGWILL
    6067377 AMADOU BAH
    5136334 MICHAEL BAHAR
    1569518 TERRY DEAN BAHGAT
    10092 MILES ARTHUR BAHL
    859930 WILLIAM MILTON BAHR
    5135311 IGNACIO ANDRES BAIGORRIA
    7096388 Imani L Bailey
    1756858 JERRY DON BAILEY
    4608681 JOSEPH DALYN BAILEY
    4944448 KENIA BAILEY
    6521977 MICHAEL GEORGE BAILEY
    4163297 RICHARD EUGENE BAILEY
    5400845 SHERETTA A BAILEY
    3097243 DAMIAN MARK BAIRD
    6501692 WESSAM BAIZ
    4873334 AIDA BAKAMOVIC
    3153629 DONALD L BAKER, II
    5394639 ANDREW CHARLES BAKER
    10600 CHARLES RONALD BAKER
    1639374 CHRISTIAN WEEKLEY BAKER
    4493790 DEAN RUSSEL BAKER
    3214470 FRANK BAKER
    4920460 HEATHER JOY BAKER
    6623314 JESSE BAKER
    6463146 JOSHUA GREGORY BAKER
    2215803 MICHAEL GLENN BAKER
    2565823 MICHAEL JEFFREY BAKER
    2885880 MOHAMED BAKSH
    5523079 SARAVANA RAM BALAKRISHNAN
    2251085 TAMI SUSAN BALAS
    5165930 SHONDEEP SAJAN BALCHANDANI
    2402939 JOHN JOSEPH BALDECK
    2917763 JAMES KIRK BALDI
    5381450 HEIDI JO BALDRIDGE
    2976766 TROY CHRISTOPHER BALDRIDGE
    4281564 SHAWN DERRICK BALDWIN, MR.
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    1174731 ROBERT SCOTT BALES
    2988526 JOHN VINCENT BALLARD
    2252282 ROGER DEAN BALLARD
    1073181 TIMOTHY DAVID BALLARD
    1652114 ROBERT IRA BALLON
    6853439 JASON LEE BALLOR
    857771 STEVEN JOHN BALOG
    2084901 VITO JAMES BALSAMO
    704053 KEN ALAN BALSER
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    2660922 JOHN PATRICK BAMBER
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    11744 DARLENE KAY BANDY
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    5917243 MICHAEL BANJANY
    2744671 DARYL GENE BANK
    2133170 JEFFREY BANKS
    4909350 ROBERT LEE BANKS
    1062813 JOHN MICHAEL BANNON
    6648369 SARAH LEANNE BANON
    6376630 ROHIT BANSAL
    5706315 JOSE L BANUELOS
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    2690190 FRED BARAM
    4921433 CHAD RYAN BARANCYK
    2317724 ARNOLD BARATZ
    4171149 EMILY BOTELHO BARAZI
    4460674 BRETT REED BARBER
    3095959 BRUCE PAGE BARBER
    3102983 CHRISTOPHER LAYNE BARBER
    1165082 DAVID LLOYD BARBER
    5647121 STEVEN NEIL BARBOT
    5084096 KALOIAN IVANOV BARBUKOV
    4394074 ANGELO BARCELO, III
    2447501 ROBERT GLENN BARD
    4650925 SANDEEP BARDIA
    2815723 SAWSAN ANIS BARDISSI
    4075146 HENRY CARL BAREFIELD
    5710454 JOAN LUND BARERE
    3243595 BRIAN COLEMAN BARGE
    6674648 Kelley Macon Barham, Jr
    2748877 JAMES LOUIS BARI
    1255255 ANTHONY HAROLD BARKATE
    2474154 RANDALL C. BARKER
    4754577 SCOTT DEE BARKER
    5980820 DEVIN BARKLEY
    6372903 MATTHEW GARY BARKS
    5012726 JUSTIN MATTHEW BARLUP
    4245309 SAMUEL SHMUEL BARMAPOV
    5653949 DONNA LYNN BARNARD
    1342721 REBECCA SUSAN BARNARD
    5504882 Robert Barnard
    4656593 DAMON LEE BARNES
    2292179 LEVINSKI DEALEXIS BARNES
    4577695 ALONZA BARNETT, JR
    3132151 SALLEE JO BARNETT
    4162879 ROMANO J. BARNEY
    3071033 CINDY SUE BARNHART
    3099928 GARY SCOTT BARNHILL, SR
    2450380 ERIK ANTONY BARON
    2108213 JEFFREY JOSEPH BARON
    3093975 STUART DAVID BARON
    2032268 CHRISTOPHER RICHARD BARONE
    5002855 ADRIAN ROBERT BARR
    5103543 LYDIA BERTHA BARRAZA
    1789580 DANIEL FORREST BARRETT
    5441006 JOEL BARRETT
    4748518 JOHN KEVIN BARRETT
    1088520 JAMES ISAAC BARRICK, III
    4761986 TABOR ALAN BARRICK
    1022433 DIANE LOUISE BARRIGA
    2122824 NICOLAS JESUS BARRIOS
    3103134 KERRY DEXTER BARRIS
    1020898 VAL U BARRUTIA
    1377935 DONALD ANDREW BARTELT
    3122838 ALAN EDMUND BARTHOLEMY, JR
    3211860 SCOTT ANTHONY BARTLETT
    5405555 JEVON WILLIAM BARTLEY
    1077607 WILLIAM ROSS BARTO
    6908590 Thomas Patrick Barton, III
    5884591 JOSHUA M BARTON
    718185 JOSEPH FRANCIS BARTOSIEWICZ, JR
    4805130 NATHAN D BARTOW
    2104489 RONALD G BARTSCH
    5077566 JEFFREY DANIEL BASFORD
    3218720 EDWARD DEE BASHAM
    2239782 DONNY MENASHE BASHKIN
    4025062 INNA BASIEVA
    2392772 ROBERT LEE BASILE
    5713753 DONNA A BASKERVILLE
    4388378 EDDIE BASORA, JR.
    2990346 BILAL BASRAI
    14385 GARY JOHN BASRALIAN
    1165415 JUDY DAVIS BASS
    2913362 JAMES LEE BASSA, JR
    6015424 MICHAEL ANTHONY BASTARDI
    5511706 ERIC MICHAEL BASTARDO
    6570886 ROBERTO OMAR BASTARDO
    5257073 LOUISE M BATCHELOR
    2124129 ALEX ERNESTO BATLLE
    2171601 MARTIN DAVID BATSTONE
    6229734 LUCIANO ANDRES BATTIOLI
    4652820 SAMMY BATTISTA
    6015345 LARRY DIANTE BATTISTE
    3187137 DAVID HARRY, MICHAEL BAUDO
    2552478 GREGORY RUSSEL BAUER
    1902320 JAMES PATRICK BAUER
    2087276 ANDREW WILLIAM BAUM
    5407548 DIANNE MARIE BAUM
    5007841 JON JOSEPH BAUMAN
    2837559 RICHARD ANDREW BAUMEL
    4684408 CONSTANCE MULHERIN BAUMGARN
    5025273 NICHOLAS ANTHONY BAUMGARTNER
    1582353 CONRAD TAMBALO BAUTISTA
    1137366 PHIL DAVID BAUTZ
    4515485 KYLE LEON BAXTER
    2990440 JOHN MICHAEL BAYER
    4324630 KY NIGEL BAYLOR
    4065458 VICKI DONNA BEALMAN
    6481178 BRIDGETT ELIZABETH BEARD
    6757771 SAMANTHA CHRISTINE BEASLEY
    2934785 CHARLES ANDREW BEAUCOND, III
    4489715 DANIEL EDWARD BECERRIL, II
    1064989 KENNETH BRUCE BECK
    3048844 PETER BECK
    5550802 STEVEN P BECK
    1491140 DONALD SHERMAN BECKER
    4323217 MICHAEL JOSEPH BECKER
    2706294 RANDALL TODD BECKER
    2084248 SHEPARD ROY BECKER
    4363085 STEPHANIE ANN BECKER
    16443 WALTER J BECKER
    3195313 CISLYN LOUISE BECKFORD
    4674899 SHAWN AARON BEDFORD
    3111079 LOUIS WILLIAM BEDINOTTI
    5664392 RHETT DOUGLAS BEDWELL
    6331074 TIFFANY DAWN BEE
    2231851 MICHAEL DOUGLAS BEEBE
    2248923 GREGG ALAN BEEMER
    717043 HANS NORMAN BEERBAUM
    1172038 DONNA KAY BEERS
    5837978 CHRISTOPHER BEGHTEL
    1876563 BRIAN JOSEPH BEGOS
    2376641 SAMUEL JAY BEGUN
    4401272 MICHAEL CLARK BEHREND
    1246183 BRYAN SCOTT BEHRENS
    2986562 ROBERT JOHN BEIHOFF
    1982417 LLOYD SYLVESTER MARTIN BEIRNE
    5431139 EMA BEKIROVIK
    5870019 JASON MICHAEL BELAJACK
    5221927 ADAM GERARD BELARDINO
    2035064 BRIAN THOMAS BELDYK
    2707354 ANASTASIOS P BELESIS
    4860444 GEORGE BELESIS
    2700118 HURSON BELIZAIRE, JR
    6168292 WILBERT NORMAN BELIZAIRE, JR
    4495421 FRANCIOS WOLFFE BELIZAIRE
    3176804 HENRY BELKIN
    1055210 KENWYN JOHN BELKOT
    5316645 ERIN MICHELLE BELL
    2191634 KENNETH RAY BELL
    2065556 RICKY EUGENE BELL
    1204847 ORVILLE DALE BELLAMY
    4422333 BARRY LEE BELLAN
    1557140 MANUEL MARTIN BELLO
    6974662 CYNTERA ANN BELSER
    2271077 RAYMOND JOHN BELSKI
    1759651 RANDY LEE BELTRAMEA
    6056976 VLADIMIR BELYAEV
    1616847 RODNEY LYNN BELZER
    2980331 RONNIE BEN-ARON
    2579528 CHARLES LEWIS BENDER, III
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    4489423 MICHAEL J BENN
    2254995 WESLEY ARTHUR BENNETT, JR
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    1567051 DAWN BENNETT
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    2395555 HARRY COLON BENNETT
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    4636923 NICHOLAS P BENTIVEGNA
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    1548330 PAUL JOSEPH BENZ
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    19421 MARTIN MARVIN BERK
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    19495 DAVID MELVILLE BERKOWITZ
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    2413745 GARY IRVING BERMAN
    7127759 Matthew Tyler Berman
    5526970 REED FRANCIS BERMINGHAM
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    5651609 AMANDA YVONNE BERRY
    1300104 CHARLES WAYNE BERRY
    [/quote]
    [/quote]
  19. DigiByte
    Community
    Infopaper
    V1.0
    Introduction & History
    DigiByte is a truly decentralized UTXO blockchain that was fairly launched on
    January 10, 2014. DigiByte is also truly permissionless, since there is no central
    controlling authority. Accordingly, this Community Infopaper is written without
    requiring authorization from any single individual.
    The DigiByte blockchain is an immutable ledger, a chain of blocks all with
    verifiable digital signatures since its creation in 2014 and backed by billions of
    dollars of cryptographic computation. Its blockchain is also fully open-source,
    released under the MIT license, and completely verifiable by any individual or
    entity. DigiByte embraces the Bitcoin core ethos of “Do not trust, verify”, in that
    no entity should ever need be “trusted” in order to send/receive DigiByte (DGB)
    or to store/retrieve data from the DigiByte blockchain.
    DigiByte originally utilized the Litecoin code-base, with a completely independent
    blockchain and a unique Genesis Block. It has undergone several
    non-contentious soft-forks and hard-forks, none of which culminated in a
    chain-split, but rather a complete consensus resulting in seamless upgrades of
    the entire DigiByte network.
    DigiByte never held an ICO, but was fairly launched in an open and transparently
    planned manner. DigiByte does not take a percentage of block-rewards for a
    founders fee. The minimal 0.5% pre-mine was given away in its entirety to
    community members in the first month of its existence in order to incentivize
    early client downloads, ensure the survival of the blockchain, and to develop the
    original Android/iOS applications.
    1
    DigiByte focuses on speed, security, and scalability. It prides itself with being
    “faster, more secure, forward thinking”. With significantly faster block timings
    than any other UTXO blockchain to date (15 seconds), DigiByte has encountered
    and overcome a number of issues that many other blockchains such as Bitcoin
    will not face until the advent of the next century. It is due to this forward thinking
    nature that DigiByte adopted the SegWit protocol through a soft-fork consensus
    in 2017, being the first major blockchain to do so, well before Litecoin or Bitcoin
    adopted the upgrade.
    DigiByte believes in on-chain scalability as a core tenet of its blockchain, with
    “second layer” protocols never expected to be the primary “solution” for
    increased throughput or transaction capacity. This on-chain scaling coupled
    with OP_codes and SegWit allows for a large number of usage scenarios, such
    as distributed applications (DApps), document notarization/validation, token
    issuance, and asset digitization.
    DigiByte has a maximum supply of 21 billion DigiByte, to be fully mined by the
    year 2035. While other blockchains only utilize a single mining algorithm to mine
    new blocks and introduce new assets into circulation, DigiByte has employed
    five unique and independent algorithms in a “MultiAlgo” solution since block
    145,000 in September 2014. DigiByte holds the dominant hash-power in 3 of its
    5 algorithms globally, by an order of magnitude more than any other competing
    blockchain. This provides greater security to the network while helping prevent
    any “rented hash power” from attacking the blockchain.
    DigiByte continues to pioneer in the areas of security based on the “forward
    thinking” of its foundation by creating the Odocrypt algorithm. Odocrypt is a
    mining algorithm which rewrites and morphs itself every 10 days in order to
    prevent ASIC dominance, focusing on utilizing FPGA mining. Future algorithms
    will also likely be replaced as necessary on an on-going basis to ensure
    maximum security of the DigiByte network, while simultaneously expanding
    upon the decentralization/distribution of the DigiByte blockchain.
    DigiByte has been leading innovation with the industry-renowned DigiShield, a
    real-time difficulty adjustment mechanism which ensures the stability of block
    generation timing, despite exponential increases/decreases in mining hash
    power. DigiShield is utilized in a respectable number of other major
    cryptocurrency/blockchain projects, such as Dogecoin, ZCash and dozens more.
    DigiShield was originally created for a single mining algorithm, and shortly after
    DigiByte changed to MultiAlgo, it was ported and upgraded to become
    MultiShield. This allows for regular block timings across multiple mining
    algorithms, as well as an even block mining distribution between algorithms,
    while also preventing mining dominance in the event of a sudden inflow/outflow
    of substantial mining hash power.
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    DigiByte Key Specifications
    Launch Date January 10th, 2014
    Genesis Block Hash "USA Today: 10/Jan/2014, Target: Data stolen
    from up to 110M customers"
    Blockchain Type Public, Decentralized, UTXO, Proof of Work,
    Multi-Algorithm
    Ticker Symbol DGB
    Maximum supply 21,000,000,000
    Block Reward Reduction 1% reduction monthly
    Block emission schedule Fully mined by 2035
    Mining Algorithms SHA256, Scrypt, Odocrypt, Skein & Qubit
    Algorithm Block Share 20% per-algo, contested each block
    Difficulty Retarget Every block, 5 separate difficulties (Per-algo)
    Block Timing 15 seconds per-block (75 per-algo approx)
    Segregated Witness Support Yes (First major blockchain to activate)
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    Key Aspects of DigiByte
    Decentralization
    DigiByte is the most decentralized Proof-of-Work-mined blockchain in the world.
    Decentralization means there is no central controlling entity that is able to
    dictate direction, terms, use of the network, changes, charges and fees, locking
    of funds, or undoing transactions. Although the world predominantly
    understands centralized control, the mind-shift to decentralization is an
    incredibly important progression in today’s global society. Where many other
    cryptocurrencies concede significant compromises in one or more aspects of
    decentralization (if not all), DigiByte remains unwavering in its dedication to
    decentralization as a key aspect of being a globally distributed blockchain
    solution.
    DigiByte maintains this decentralization through a combination of methods,
    namely:
    1) Multiple algorithms;
    2) GPU/FPGA mining;
    3) On-chain scaling;
    4) Educating the importance of running a full-node;
    5) Embracing code contributions that uphold the ethos of DigiByte.
    This decentralized nature is of vital importance not only for the survival of the
    DigiByte blockchain, but also to prevent any tampering from malicious actors,
    governments or corporations. Due to the lack of any “head” or controlling party,
    there is no entity to manipulate, blackmail, or “lean on”. In a world growing ever
    divided, there is solace in the consensus of the DigiByte network, that it can be
    relied upon as accurate and truthful without reservation.
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    Pure Consensus
    This consensus is the core foundation of the DigiByte blockchain. Since its
    inception in January 2014, DigiByte has had its consensus mechanism reliant on
    the belief in on-chain scaling, speed, security, and forward-thinking progression
    of the DigiByte blockchain.
    This consensus is obtained through a vastly distributed network of nodes
    running the Core DigiByte wallet, which holds a complete and continuously
    updated copy of the DigiByte blockchain, as well as block creation via the
    “Proof-of-Work” (POW) mining method. Other blockchains have shown that
    Staking, Distributed Proof-of-Stake, and other such poor attempts at alternative
    consensus methods are far too susceptible to centralization, manipulation, and
    tampering by various malicious individuals or organizations. Similarly, trusting a
    3rd-party for consensus defeats the purpose of being a distributed and
    decentralized blockchain in the first place, with users genuinely being better off
    with a centralized database.
    Permissionless Network
    DigiByte is a completely permissionless blockchain. Since there is no centrally
    controlling entity to dictate the network, there is no need to seek “permission”
    from anyone. As such, permission is implied no matter what “use case” you
    would like to implement or accomplish with DigiByte. Examples include
    advertising the acceptance of DigiByte as a payment method, listing DigiByte on
    an exchange, using DigiByte with your platform/service, or when
    spending/sending/receiving DigiByte. In addition, anyone is free to speak on
    behalf of DigiByte, to promote DigiByte, or to even author a community Infopaper
    such as this.
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    Proof-of-Work is the only proven and reliable method of obtaining a distributed
    and decentralized consensus (A solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem),
    which is why DigiByte proudly remains true to POW. Proponents of alternatives
    usually cite delays in block creation and propagation; however, thanks to
    DigiSpeed, the DigiByte blockchain overcomes this. Which is why the most
    battle-hardened POW consensus method is still being utilized today for DigiByte.
    There has never been any rational argument against the ability of POW to arrive
    at a sound consensus.
    DigiByte’s permissionless nature is both a by-product of decentralization, as well
    as an intentional aspect that the community deeply values and celebrates. This
    is what also prevents influence, changes, or take-overs by malicious parties,
    because the permissionless nature requires consensus from the majority of the
    network. It is a key characteristic of DigiByte which has held up against any
    would-be attempts from malicious actors for the past six years and counting.
    On-Chain Scaling
    DigiByte is a network that believes on-chain scaling should be the primary
    method for future growth in transaction volume and frequency. A true
    transaction only happens when it occurs on-chain and has been incorporated
    into the blockchain. Compare this to second-layer methods where transacting
    can occur without ever being presented to the network, thus defeating one of the
    primary reasons blockchain as a technology was created, immutability.
    Broad support & network participation
    DigiByte aspires to be broadly supported across a variety of platforms, to
    encourage participation from as many entities as possible. Part of pushing the
    boundaries regarding block timings / sizes means that not all will be able to
    participate with a full Core Node (for example, drivespace / data transfer /
    memory requirements), however broad support is available across Windows,
    Linux & OSX.
    DigiByte development has also intentionally added backwards compatibility for
    older versions of Android that are prominent in developing & impoverished
    nations. This allows for greater participation, despite aging hardware devices.
    Broad network participation is also why the Android / iOS applications have
    been translated to 50+ native languages.
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    The very essence of the DigiByte blockchain is predicated upon the fact that all
    blocks since the very first Genesis Block are able to be replayed and
    cryptographically validated, with all transactions being visible. There are no
    anonymous/shielded transactions employed, as DigiByte believes a key defense
    for anonymity is the significant growth of on-chain transactions and the
    pseudo-anonymous nature of the UTXO’s architecture. In keeping with that
    philosophy, the DigiByte blockchain will scale in future through block-size
    increases, with proposals for the size to double every 2 years.
    Protocol Upgrades
    DigiByte at Launch
    DigiByte was the brainchild of Jared Tate, who wanted to create a blockchain
    that addressed many of the perceived shortcomings of Bitcoin. DigiByte
    originally started out as a Scrypt-only mined blockchain, with 60 second block
    times and a two hour difficulty retargeting frequency. Compared to every other
    Proof-of-Work UTXO blockchain that existed during its 2014 launch, this was
    considered incredibly revolutionary, and still is to this day. Although the
    block-timing has changed with network upgrades, the maximum supply of
    DigiByte will always remain fixed at 21 billion and the last DigiByte to be mined
    is scheduled to occur prior to the year 2035. DigiByte was created to be
    “forward-thinking”, with two primary objectives: cybersecurity and on-chain
    scalability. This is why the news article headline “USA Today: 10/Jan/2014,
    Target: Data stolen from up to 110M customers” was hashed into the Genesis
    Block. These guiding principles have remained in effect over the past five years,
    and will continue to guide the future of DigiByte.
    DigiShield
    During the launch of DigiByte back in 2014, most blockchains utilized either
    SHA256 or Scrypt algorithms. Mining pools that would automatically
    profit-switch known as “Multipools” would regularly switch back and forth
    between cryptocurrencies that they mined, depending on the mining difficulty
    and the block-rewards. Miners utilizing these Multipools would have their
    hashing power changed between a variety of blockchains - such as from
    DigiByte to Dogecoin to Litecoin.
    These fluctuations would cause blockchains to sometimes experience
    exponential increases in mining hash-power of up to 10 times the normal level,
    which would rapidly speed up block production until the next difficulty retarget.
    Once the difficulty retarget for the blockchain had occurred, making mining
    more difficult and less profitable, the hash-power would then be taken to
    another more profitable blockchain. This led to many blockchains seeing a rush
    of block production, followed by a complete stalling when the hash-power fell
    off. Some blockchains could go for days without a block being found as a result
    of the major difficulty adjustment. This unsustainable volatility led to the
    development of DigiShield. DigiShield was created as a mechanism for real-time
    adjustment of block-difficulty, which allows for the effective handling of sudden
    influxes of mining hash-power or the equally significant outflux.
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    This prevented “chain-freeze” and also helped smooth out block creation times.
    DigiShield was implemented on the DigiByte network as the first protocol
    upgrade on February 28, 2018 at block height 67,200.
    The DigiByte core developers then directly assisted the Dogecoin development
    team to implement DigiShield, another of many blockchains that had been
    suffering as a result of erratic Multipool hash-power swings. DigiShield has
    since been implemented in dozens of other blockchains such as Zcash, Ubiq,
    and Monacoin.
    MultiAlgo
    DigiByte upgraded its network yet again on September 1, 2014 at block height
    145,000 with the implementation of multiple mining algorithms. While some
    blockchains had initially launched with multiple mining algorithms, DigiByte was
    the first blockchain to upgrade from single to multiple algorithms.
    The change to five algorithms (SHA256, Scrypt, Qubit, Myr-gr and Skein) was
    initiated in order to improve the security of the blockchain, while allowing for
    equitably distributed mining, decentralization, and increased protection from
    51% attacks. By having some of the algorithms remaining “GPU friendly”, it
    allowed for people to mine DigiByte from home, contributing to the security of
    the DigiByte network from their desktop PC.
    It was also at this point where the block timing was adjusted from 60 seconds to
    30 seconds, which was approximately 150 seconds in between each mining
    algorithm finding a block. This further affirmed DigiByte as a leader in the UTXO
    blockchain space and was also the second seamless and non-contentious
    network upgrade that DigiByte successfully executed.
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    MultiShield
    Since DigiShield was originally created only for single mining-algorithm
    blockchains, this necessitated the launch of the MultiShield network upgrade
    which occurred on December 10, 2014 at block height 400,000. The MultiShield
    upgrade allowed for the real-time mining difficulty adjustment of DigiByte spread
    across all 5x algorithms, which further ensured that block timings would remain
    steady. MultiShield also allows for a sudden influx and exit of hash-power on
    one or more mining algorithms, all in real-time, further protecting the DigiByte
    network.
    MultiShield works by increasing the difficulty for an algorithm every time it finds
    a block, while simultaneously decreasing the difficulty of the other algorithms,
    which protects against a single-algorithm takeover. Should a manufacturer of an
    ASIC ever be found to intentionally or inadvertently placing a back-door into their
    miners that would allow them to redirect the hash rate elsewhere, MultiShield
    would prevent that malicious hashrate from affecting the production of blocks
    and a double-spend occurring. Where other single-algorithm blockchains would
    fall victim to such an attack, or to pool collusion from 2-3 operators, MultiShield
    would render such an attack futile.
    Even if an attacker was able to secure 90% of the hash rate on their primary
    attack algorithm, and 35% on the remaining 4 algorithms, they would still not
    have the majority of hash power and be unable to successfully attack the
    DigiByte network.
    Rented attacks are the most common types of attacks on single-algorithm
    blockchains, however despite there being several SHA256 pools which have over
    50% of the hash-power of the entire DigiByte network, that is still insufficient to
    attack against MultiShield. Should an attacker somehow gain control of all the
    remaining SHA256 hashpower being used by BTC in the whole world (61,000
    PH/s at the time of writing), they would have 2^10 SHA256 hashpower
    compared to DigiBytes 40PH/s. Attempting to attack DigiByte with that hash
    power would double the difficulty every 5x blocks, meaning that after approx 50
    blocks (12.5 minutes) the honest miners would have outpaced such a
    doublespend attempt. By contrast, that same hashpower could be used to
    attack any other SHA256-only blockchain such as BTC, BCH, BSV repeatedly and
    continuously. It is for this reason that many exchanges require a mere 40 block
    confirmation (10 minutes) for most deposits.
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    MultiShield also renders DigiByte impervious to the plague of single-algorithm
    51% attacks that rented hash power made so common during 2018, along
    with the timestamp vulnerability attacks that affected other multi-algorithm
    blockchains.
    Since 2018, DigiByte has constantly remained the dominant global hash-power
    for Qubit, Myr-Gr, and Skein by an order of magnitude, and now also with the
    Odocrypt algorithm.
    MultiShield was the third seamless and non-contentious network upgrade that
    DigiByte successfully executed.
    DigiSpeed
    The DigiSpeed upgrade also implemented a block-size doubling every two years
    in order to consistently increase the transaction processing capacity twofold
    until the year 2035. This was done in order for DigiByte to remain true to its
    ethos of always being forward-thinking, in order to prepare the network for
    growth and avoid being limited by an insufficient block size. However, the
    block-size doubling aspect was grandfathered as part of the SegWit upgrade,
    due to it’s 4X weighted capacity increase, with expectations of further
    refinement and reimplementation in the future.
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