[Presos] Fwd: new flyer on pedro

[joao coelho]

>From: "joao coelho" <freepedro89 at hotmail.com>
>To: freepedro89 at hotmail.com, mjmsampaio at hotmail.com
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:10:35 +0000
>
>FREE PEDRO
>
>Pedro José Veiga Luis Pedro, a young anarcho-punk, is currently 
>incarcerated in Linhó, a prison in Portugal. Briefly, Pedro was in an 
>altercation with the elderly landlord of his mother’s home. The conflict 
>was the result of an excessively combative relationship between the 
>landlord and Pedro’s family, which included a series of disputes between 
>the landlord and Pedro’s mother. The fight between the landlord and Pedro 
>ended with the landlord’s death. Arrested in February 1999, he was 
>convicted in July 1999 of homicide. Pedro is serving a sentence of 21 
>years, six months.
>
>Jail is nothing but a mirror of society, therefore it is no wonder that it 
>is peopled with individuals belonging to the oppressed class: immigrants, 
>young people from poor districts, rebels who do not abide by society’s 
>rules. His personal story is just another example of the class war set up 
>by the rich, which often drives the poor to eliminate one another.
>
>Today Pedro is in their cage. Of course, he is not reprimanded by the 
>guards for what he did, but because he defies their authority and refuses 
>to collaborate with the “good order” of the prison system. When he reads 
>anarchist literature, the light is mysteriously cut off – only in his cell. 
>When he writes letters, his mail takes a ridiculous amount of time to 
>arrive – and sometimes, it doesn’t arrive at all. When he refuses to rat on 
>a fellow prisoner, he receives death threats from the screws.
>
>Inside the prison walls, as outside, what the authorities will never accept 
>is any individual’s refusal to submit to the dominant class and to the 
>state’s will. They will never accept the refusal of social control, which 
>in most prisons means the refusal of drug addiction, whether the drugs are 
>dealt directly by the penitentiary’s authorities (anti-depressants, 
>sleeping pills) or with their agreement (as with heroin – in some 
>Portuguese prisons between 60 - 80 % of the inmates are addicted).
>
>The rejection of these dependencies, as with the refusal of work (in other 
>words, slavery) is equated with a freedom that is altogether incompatible 
>with the normalization of prisons and the “integration” of prisoners, which 
>justifies the existence of extermination centres like that of Linhó.
>
>Prisons are not isolated from society; ‘democracy’ is becoming a vast 
>prison with permanent controls. Reform cannot satisfy the rage of those who 
>will not submit. Only the destruction of all sorts of prisons (psychiatric 
>hospitals, detention centers for so-called ‘illegal’ immigrants, schools …) 
>along with the capitalist and state system which produces them will satisfy 
>us.
>
>The campaign of harassment, censorship and threats by the prison guards 
>against Pedro continues to escalate because of his anarchist beliefs.
>
>Pedro wishes to receive support from the outside, especially letters and 
>books. If you want to support him, you can write directly to him and 
>establish a personal relationship (write in English, Spanish or 
>Portuguese):
>
>When they jail one of us, nobody is free!
>
>Pedro José Veiga Luis Pedro
>No: 610	ALA: A
>E.P. Linhó
>2710 Sintra
>PORTUGAL
>
>
>e-mail for support: freepedro89 at hotmail.com
>
>Contact in Portugal available:
>
>Centro de Cultura Libertaria
>Apartado 40
>2801 Almada
>PORTUGAL
>
>(you can send money to Pedro at the CCL)
>
>BURN ALL PRISONS
>


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