The People's Revolutionary Party

The Peoples Revolutionary Party is BACK!!!

In the past year, the PRP has lagged to a steady crawl...

We need YOUR involvement if this is to work. I wish it were as easy as joining a group like this, but we all know it's not. It takes time and effort to get a movement going, but if we start today, with us, now, no one can say that we stood by and watched while the fascists, corporate and political, continued business as usual.

The first step is to join the PRP Forums, which can be found here:
http://prp2.ownforum.org

There you can join a union (or make one if it doesn't exist yet), vote in plans for action, and meet others with the same interests as you, so you can expand your knowledge and network with others. There are also news sections, debate/discussion forums, etc.

But this forum is only step 1, it only serves for us to be able to organize more effectively, and over a wider range of tactics and issues.

The next steps would be to organize actions and demonstrations, however big or small you want, to raise awareness, disrupt businesses, or any other non-violent action you think will shake the system, and wake other up to the reality that we are all being oppressed and taken advantage of by the elite of the state and corporations.

Of course, this carries with it some danger, but that's because we are fighting power. If you are uncomfortable with doing a certain action, you don't have to do it. But if you do take action, you must realize that there will be consequences from those in power, and you should be prepared to face those, whether by defending yourself, taking legal action, or simply being a passive resistor.

This movement cannot survive without your involvement. You've all joined this group because you believe in something, I hope. Now it's time to take action on what you believe. It's time to do something in the fight for freedom for all. Joining the group does nothing, and you throwing away your talents to be used by corporations, if at all. Let's use all of our talents to mount a multi-faceted approach to revolution- social and systemic- to end illegitimate power, and install grassroots democracy in every form and sect of social life.

Spread the word...100 people is great, but it isn't enough. Tell everyone you know, even if they disagree with you.

The time is now. Let's start a revolution!
-Jose, co-founder, PRP

Take Action To Protect RNC Protesters

http://answer. pephost. org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage

Although it went virtually unmentioned in the corporate media, on Monday, Sept. 1, the largest anti-war march of 2008 took place outside the Republican National Convention in Minnesota. 30,000 people from all over the Midwest and the country gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul and then marched to the Xcel Center, the site of the RNC. Large numbers of buses came from all over Illinois, Wisconsin, and the surrounding states.


The march was overwhelmingly young people, and was led by veterans’ and immigrant rights contingents. Other sizable contingents included a strong labor contingent, a poor people’s contingent, and a contingent in solidarity with Palestine.
The chant "Iraq for Iraqis—troops out now" filled the streets, along with the crowd favorite, "Who’s the biggest terrorist in the world today? Bush, Cheney and the CIA!"

Among the many speakers at the Minnesota State Capitol, where the march gathered, was Michael Prysner, an Iraq war veteran who represented the ANSWER Coalition. Prysner addressed the crowd: "I was sent to Iraq in 2003 not to save the Iraqi people, but to kill the Iraqi people. I was sent not to free the Iraqi people, but to imprison and torture the Iraqi people. I was sent not to liberate Iraq, but to occupy Iraq. There is no longer any question that this war was not for so-called ’Iraqi freedom,’ it was not an act of self-defense, and it was not simply a foreign policy error by the Republican party—it was a well-calculated plan carried out by both parties to dominate the Middle East, killing as many innocent people as necessary and profiting from that human suffering.
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Send a Letter Demanding the St.
Paul Government Release All Protesters!

The police have engaged in a widespread riot against social justice organizations, resulting in the arrest of around 300 protesters. Most of the arrested are still in jail, and at least one person with a serious medical condition has been refused care.


Even before the RNC began, protest organizing centers were raided. Armed groups of police in the Twin Cities have raided more than half-a-dozen locations since Friday night in a series of “preemptive raids." The raids and detentions have targeted activists planning to protest the convention, including journalists and videographers from I-Witness Video and the Glass Bead Collective. These media organizations were targeted because of the instrumental role they played in documenting police abuses the 2004 RNC. Their comprehensive video coverage helped more than 400 wrongfully arrested people get their charges thrown out.


Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar—who clearly identified themselves as members of the media—were arrested, and face suspicion of rioting charges, a felony. When Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! went to the scene to inquire with a police commander about the arrest of her producers, she too was arrested. A CodePink march and several breakaway marches were also met with police repression. Tear gas and concussion grenades have been used to disperse crowds.


There is an undeniable pattern of police repression at these conventions. In 2004, 1,500 protesters were arrested at the RNC. Subsequent litigation on behalf of the protesters revealed that national and local enforcement conspired to deny protesters their civil liberties and civil rights. Protesters were held in miserable conditions, and only mass pressure forced the police to release them.


Please take a moment and click this link to send a letter to Chris Coleman, the mayor of St. Paul, demanding that all protesters and social justice organizers be released, and that all charged be dropped. The real criminals are the "law enforcement" authorities, who have systematically violated the free speech rights of protesters, and in more than a few cases carried out physical abuse.


This report was filed with information provided by John Beacham of the ANSWER Coalition.

Illegal Police Raid on Anti-RNC Convergence Space in St. Paul

At 9:15 Friday night, the St. Paul Police entered all doors of the RNC Convergence Space in St. Paul MN with guns drawn. The Space serves as a community center and organizing space for the upcoming protests against the Republican National Convention and for the RNC Welcoming Committee. At the time of the raid people were “sitting down to dinner and watching a movie” The police did not present a warrant at the time of the raid, but claimed that they had a warrant to search the building for “bomb-making” materials. There were no “bomb-making” materials found in the building after the raid. The police barked orders at everyone including children to get on the floor with their faces on the ground. Everyone inside the building was then put into handcuffs. The police then photographed everyone inside the space and recorded information from each person's Identification cards. The police also took all personal laptops and hard drives. Even more disturbingly “One female activist was sexually harassed by a cop who groped her crotch.” The police are now claiming that the space must be closed down due to “fire-code” violations, but according to City Council member Dave Thune, the police do not have the authority to enforce fire code. The only ones who have the power to issue “fire-code” violations are the Fire Department. Regardless the RNC Welcoming Committee says that this action will “not deter us from our plans to protest the RNC on September 1^st. We want to invite all people who oppose this police oppression to join us on September 1^st. See you in the streets.”

This shows yet another situation in which our government abuses power and violates our rights to silence the people. It shows how the right to freedom of speech, the right to organize and speak out against the government have been decaying for the past few years. The police simply exploited the fact that the RNC Welcoming Committee is Anarchist and used that to their advantage to accuse the organization of being violent (and of having bombs). It is outrageous that we are living in a Police State, what happened to the land of the free? And the Constitution, oh that's right I forgot that we disposed of that years ago. Even the Constitution is being torn down and ignored by our government. Even though everyone in America should be protected by the Constitution, we keep witnessing the fact that this is not true anymore. We keep seeing our government turn more fascist as the years go by and the people becoming increasingly apathetic on the situation.

Works Cited:

http://twincities.indymedia.org/2008/aug/illegal-police-raid-anti-rnc-convergence-space-st-paul

Big Brother Pushes To Have Young Minds

Big Brother Pushes To Have Young Minds
“Homeschooling Is Illegal In California”
By: Don_Anonimo

As if the government didn't have enough control over the youth, the state of California has virtually declared Homeschooling Illegal. On February 28, 2008, the California Court of Appeals in a juvenile court proceeding that declared that almost all forms of homeschooling in California are a violation of state law.(Private tutoring by certified teachers remains an option still) The Court also ruled that parents have no constitutional right to home school their children. This leaves an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution (San Francisco Chronicle).

California Justice H. Walk Croskey, whose opinion was joined by two other judges stated that: “Parents who fail to [comply with child enrollment laws] may be subjected to criminal complaint against them, found guilty of an infraction and subject to imposition of fines or an order to complete a parent education and counseling program.”. This statement reverses an earlier opinion from a Superior Court that found that “parents have a constitutional right to school their children in their own home.” But in his reversal, Croskey refers to the “ruse of enrolling [children] in a private school and then letting them stay home and be taught by a non-credential parent.”When the parents' "credentials" are determined by the state, then it is the state which is ultimately in control of the children's education.

Brad Dacus, president of the Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute explained that “It not only attacks traditional home schooling, but also calls into question home schooling through charter schools and teaching children at home via independent study through public and private schools...” According to him this ruling goes against prior court decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court which stated that parents do have a constitutional right to independently teach their own children. But, “it was completely reversed by this three-court judge panel in this appellate court.”

The future of home schooling seems bleak as Michael Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association, said the ruling would effectively ban home schooling across the entire state. "California is now on the path to being the only state to deny the vast majority of homeschooling parents their fundamental right to teach their own children at home," said smith in a statement.

Even though home schooled children have proven to be exponentially better academically than children who attend public or private schools the government feels a need to force these children to conform into what the state mandates and declares as education. Certificates don't guarantee good teachers and this ruling just deprives the families of independence in their believes and teachings. But what can be expected when the system hates independent thought? As if the government didn't have their hands on too many things! The government should have never been made "Ruler Over All Thing Educational" in the first place. Mussolini and Stalin would be damn proud.. It is the parents right to choose, not the state's. Just like abortion; it is the mother's right to choose.

Works Cited:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/07/MNJDVF0F1.DTL

http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/ca/200803060.asp

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=69177

Immortal Technique- "The 3rd World"

Immortal Technique's new album -The 3rd World- is finally out!! For those of you who can't get the album around where you live you can find the torrent here:

www.mininova.org/tor/1517481

I encourage you get the actual cd on viperrecords website if you can though, as you can get it cheaper than at the actual store:

http://69.49.190.167/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=IT3W

Viva La Revolucion!

Gun Control Makes A Dictator's Job So Much Easier

“Gun Control Makes A Dictator's Job So Much Easier”

By: Don_Anonimo

In the last ten or twenty years we have witnessed the destruction of the 2^nd Amendment; the right to bear arms. Through congress with the bills like the Veterans Disarment Act (H.R. 2640) which prohibit any veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and any person that was diagnosed with ADHD from owning a firearm (Pratt and Bob Unruh). Another gun banning bill by Rep. Carolyn Mcarthy, also known as the “queen of gun control”, was the “Assault Weapons Ban And Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007 (H.R. 1022). This bill would “reinstate all of the now-defunct provisions pertaining to semi-automatic firearms and large-capacity magazines.”, ban conversion kits, ban the private transfers of assault weapons and the manufacture and/or importation of many firearms would be prohibited as well (H.R.1022). This bill has yet to be passed in the house, and its most recent status, according to GunLawNews.org, was being referred to the subcommittee of crime,Terrorism and Homeland Security and March 19, 2007.

Not only has the right to own guns been slowly destroyed through congress, police and the military have also started to take away our right to bear arms. Shortly after Katrina police confiscated the weapons of law-abiding citizens in New Orleans in areas that weren't even affected by the Hurricane, even in New Orleans driest and wealthiest neighborhoods. They went from door to door taking away each citizen's guns, and if they denied they would still barge in the house to search for them (thank the Patriot Act). They were told not to use force, instead they were told to use “strong persuasion”, sometimes going into houses with “guns drawn” (ABC World News). What a play on words right? Some citizens even ended up handcuffed and treated like criminals just because they wanted to keep their rights, in this case the right to bear arms. Patie Konie was a victim of gun confiscation who suffered police brutality in her own home. Police asked her to leave the home but she insisted saying she had enough food and supplies. Whilst this feud ensued she was holding a small unloaded handgun which she showed to the police, at this moment they pushed her to the wall, took her down and punched her in the face. After the incident Konie recalls she “really thought they were going to kill me.”

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Not only has the United States started gun bans, Britain has also been a victim this. On March 16, 1996, Thomas Watt Hamilton entered a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and killed 16 schoolchildren and a teacher. The people of United Kingdom, for the most part, demanded something had to be done to stop such horrific events. So, the government passed highly restrictive gun laws which was then followed by a ban on handguns, shotguns and most rifles (Connell). The ban destroyed the right of self-defense and to keep and bear arms. Just because one licensed gun owner was psychotic that doesn't mean all licensed gun owners are psychotic, and if law abiding people of the UK were allowed to carry guns then in the killing he would have been shot by a member of the public, therefore he wouldn't have been able to kill as many people, but the government and media have a way with words and they clouded rationality with emotions doing a very good job. The people remained silent and accepted this ban in hopes of preventing future incidents like the one on March 16. Regardless, now the people of Britain regret their decision vehemently and have organize large protests in the streets fighting for their rights back, fighting for a freedom they have already lost. Albie Fox,the director of Sportsman's Association, speaks that the “main thing that is being destroyed right now in the U.K. is democracy”, Len Martin, a gun collector, states “my family fought for this country, for his rights and my rights, and they did it for nothing. Because what we've got now, and were headed, we're very close to a dictatorship.” The people did not fight for their rights when they had to and instead fell for the false promise of protection, they only have themselves to blame; “we did not stand up and fight at all”, “...the good man, we sat home all 60,000 of us and we were silent, a very bad mistake.”, recalls Norman Murray.

Even though guns have been banned, crime has increased dramatically. Gill Marshall-Andrews, the Chairperson of gun control network, says that “it becomes quite clear that if you want a safer society with lower gun violence then you got to reduce your gun ownership.” But this couldn't be more far from the truth, two years after the 1997 handgun ban, the use of hand guns rose by 40 percent and from April to November 2001, the “number of people robbed at gun point in London rose 53 percent” (Lee Malcolm). In 2003 the BBC reported that “Gun crime has risen by 35% in a year, new Home Office Figures show. There were 9,974 incidents involving firearms in the 12 months to April 2002 – a rise from 7,362 over the previous year.” Joyce Lee Malcolm of Reason.com reports that “Your chances of being mugged in London are now six times greater than in New York. England's rates of assault, robbery, and burglary are far higher than America's, and 53 percent of English burglaries occur while occupants are at home, compared with 13 percent in the U.S., where burglars admit to fearing armed homeowners more than the police.” Bloomberg reported in 2005:

“Violent crime in the U.K. rose 6 percent in the three months through September, led by an increase in alcohol-fueled offenses and gun crime, police figures show. Violence against the person, excluding sexual offences [sic], rose 7 percent from the year-earlier period, U.K. Home Secretary Charles Clarke said, citing police statistics, while firearms offences [sic] increased 5 percent in the year through September, to 10,670 incidents. Total crime across the U.K. fell 6 percent from the year-earlier period, the figures show. “Violent crime remains our biggest challenge,” said Clarke at a London press conference, his first on crime figures since he took over from David Blunkett in December. “It’s a difficult task, but we are going in the right direction. It will be my number one priority to drive down violent crime.” (Connell)

John Manner, a retired police officer, talks on the gun ban being beneficial, “I don't think people believe that anyways, common sense dictates that no, they're not going to be any safer.” Rem member that while the law-abiding citizens don't have their guns, criminals will always have their guns. They can easily get guns through the black market, and are encouraged to increase their violence since the risk of doing so has been drastically lowered. Gun control only places the people at the mercy of criminals and their government. Since police and the authorities still keep their guns and the people don't have guns it ultimately creates a police state.

Australia has also been a victim of gun bans. In only two weeks they banned all semi-automatic firearms and pump action shot guns. Gun owners in Australia were forced by new laws to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be seized and destroyed by their own government. It was in essence the same scenario as Britain. And like Britain, they only have themselves to blame, Stan Tetis, a gun shop owner says “our biggest enemy has been ourselves and apathy.”

Like Britain, crime and gun crime has increased, only two years after the ban armed robberies increased by 73 percent; unarmed robberies by 28 percent; kidnappings by 38 percent; assaults by 17 percent; manslaughter by 29 percent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (A. Faria). The "trend in assaults shows an average growth of 5% each year between 1995 and 2006. This is four time the annual growth of the Australian population over the same period." (Australian Crime: Facts And Figures Of 2008). Gary Fleetwood, Chief Inspector of Police, RET., speaks that the “crime rate is not to drop the use of firearms by criminals will still be there, and they will still obtain their firearms on the black market, and the black market is burning in Australia at the moment.”

History has proven that almost every time -if not every time- that gun control is declared in a country it is followed by a dictatorship and the mass killings of defenseless dissidents.

-In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

-In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

-Guatemala established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents were rounded up and exterminated.

-China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents were rounded up and exterminated.

-Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977,one million educated people,unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20^th century because of gun control: 56 million and thats only for the people we have records for. (D. La Rosa and Alan L. Lund)

We are getting closer and closer each day to a police state, not just in our country but in the entire world. Our rights, not just constitutional rights, but our rights as human beings are being slowly chipped away while the masses remain blinded and conditioned. We cannot let these governments control our lives, if we let these bankers, governments and corrupt groups do their way we will end up in a slave world, a prison planet. Therefore we must fight to keep our guns, if we dont what will you do when they come at your door to drag you away to a detainment camp? What will you do when they start killing us for being dissidents? There is no way the people can fight back against the government if they don't have firearms. We'll end up like the unarmed citizens of the past, killed, oppressed and enslaved. A defenseless population is nothing but slaves, gun control is nothing but despotism.

Works Cited

A. Faria Miguel, Jr., MD. “Gun Control- Chaos Down Under”.<www.haciendapub.com/comm8.html>

Australian crime : facts and figures 2007.

D. La Rosa, Benedict. “Can Gun Control Reduce Crime?”.<www.fff.org/freedom/fd0211f.asp>

H.R.1022 - Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007, <www.gunlawnews.org/110th-House-Bills/hr1022-3.html>

Lee Malcolm, Joyce. “Gun Control's Twisted Outcome: Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.”.<http://www.reason.com/news/show/28582.html>

L. Lund, Alan. “Gun Control Really Does Work!”.<www.kc3.com/editorial/gun_control_works.html>

Pratt, Larry. “Veterans Disarment Act To Bar Vets From Owning Guns". >

Connel, Shaun. “UK Gun Ban”.<http://rebirthoffreedom.org/freedom/guns/uk-gun-ban/>

Unruh, Bob. “Ex-Military To Be Denied Gun Ownership”.<www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57847>