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"WAR IS OVER... if you want it!"
- Merry Christmas from the London Catholic Worker
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DOR7Ml4XF0

not just our friends. solidarity with all inside pentonville and every other one of her majesty's prisons.

And what may I ask are you doing to show solidarity to all prisoners? Put up a link for prisoner welfare, ex-prisoners projects or even a little story how difficult prison is for all who are subjected to this nightmare.

Ya kinda letting yourself down there don't ya know!

Sally and Scare Crow if you take the time to check out the London Catholic Worker website
 http://londoncatholicworker.org/ you will see that the LCW hs been proactive in recent solidarity with prisoners - Michael Lyons, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange for example. None of these three identify as Catholic, anarchist or pacifist or to the best of my knowledge thiests. CW's were also at Raytheon 9/Belfast and EDO 9/ Brighton trials in proactive solidarity (again neither of these groups spring from the CW christian anarchist pacifist tradition).

Since its start in NYC in 1933, the anarcho-pacifist Catholic Worker movement has held an abolitionist position in relation to prison. Praxis has included the Liverpool CW community in the '90's offering free accomodation to Irish families visiting relatives and friends in Walton Prison, the role of the Brisbane CW in the '80's in closing Boggo Rd. Jail and the ongoing CW hosipitality house offering hospitality to prisoners families near the geograohically isolated Alderson Fed Womens Prison in West Virginia.

Many of the London CW's are former prisoners (chances they will be future prisoners...seems to be an occupational hazard fo CW's!)...they know the siginificance of small acts of human solidarity - vigils & letters - to resisters in prison in terms of safety and morale.

Catholic Workers see anti-war prisoners as confronting the ongoing war. They also view sharing the prison environment and its struggles as an act of solidarity with the imprisoned.

The London Catholis Worker runs 2 hospitality houses for destitute refugees, some who are former prisoners and some who are survivors of torture. They run a cafe in Dalston three days a week, and a Sunday soup kitchen for the homeless in Hackney as well as sustaining ongoing anti-war resistance & solidarity.

London CW presently have 3 long term fulltime community members, 3 live in short term volunteers and a growing network of volunteers form varied faith/ non faith and political backgrounds. They refuse all state funding for these projects. Obviously having Martin - a long time fulltime member in jail has diminished their reosurces for carrying on the work on the outside.

Today Michael Lyons, who Martin visited while Michael was serving a 7 month sentence for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan, will vigil outside Pentonville Prison. This is what solidarity and mutuality looks like.