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For over two years now, prisoners at USP Victorville have been prevented from performing sweat lodge as well as other Native spiritual ceremonies at times. They were given improper rocks, pressure treated lumber to burn which is toxic, have had medicine bags withheld, have had sacred pipes mishandled and many sacred herbs have not been available or distributed properly.

The Cherokee Prayer and Songs were recorded from USP Victorville high security prison in California via phone by Pain Chain (Sam Gayheart), from across the country at The Falling Rock Zone in Taunton, MA in 2022.

The Blue Agave Revolution: Poetry of the Blind Rebel is a collaboration among radical author, indigenous freedom-fighter, and political prisoner Oso Blanco (aka Byron Shane Chubbuck, aka Robin The Hood) and Michael Novick–a Brooklyn-born veteran of SDS/Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, publisher of Turning The Tide journal, and all-around tireless anti-fascist activist–along with numerous contributors who have supported, and continue to support, Oso Blanco over the years spanning his imprisonment.

Brothers and Sisters: I encourage Running Down the Walls , September 12th, nationwide. The crimes against native people have gone 100% unpunished for over 500 years– since 1492. Yet we who fight by any means for justice have been shot, dog mauled, beat, gassed, tortured, held in solitary for years.