[Ppnews] Still time to order your Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar!

[Political Prisoner News]

With just over a week left before the holidays, 
you are looking for a unique, meaningful gift for 
your loved ones - whether family, co-workers or 
comrades. Please consider giving the Certain 
Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar.

Order now at 
<http://www.certaindays.org/>www.certaindays.org. 
See below for holiday shipping deadlines

Our collective will be happy to mail calendars 
anywhere in the world on your behalf, and we can 
even include a personalized message.

Featuring 42 gorgeous pages of full-colour art 
and writings, the calendar is a thoughtful gift 
and also makes an important financial 
contribution supporting grassroots groups (The 
New York State Task Force on Political Prisoners, 
Addameer, and the Freedom Archives).

Sincerely,
The Certain Days collective
<http://certaindays.org/>certaindays.org

* * * *HOLIDAY SHIPPING DEADLINES* * * *
For those of you ordering for December 25 or 
thereabouts, please note  that Canada Post 
recommends ordering by December 8 in the United 
States or December 12 in Canada. Later than that 
and express post should work up til the 16th in 
the U.S. and the 21st in Canada. Please note that 
additional charges will apply for express orders, 
and that orders placed by 5pm (Eastern Standard 
Time) will be sent out by the following day.

If you're outside North America, air mail (i.e. 
orders of 1-2 calendars) should still work until 
November 29, and express post (all larger orders, 
or rush orders of any size) until December 6.

All the above are rough guidelines, not 
guaranteed. For more information, check out the Canada Post website.

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Certain Days: The 2012 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
COINTELPRO: Repression & Resistance, Then & Now
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ORDER NOW at <http://www.certaindays.org/>www.certaindays.org
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42 GORGEOUS FULL-COLOUR PAGES OF ART AND WRITINGS! A GREAT FUNDRAISER
FOR GROUPS, AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING, AND A
MEANINGFUL GIFT!

FEATURING amazing artwork and writings from Aric 
McBay, The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, 
Claude Marks, David Gilbert, The Denver Anarchist 
Black Cross, Emily Kantar, Favianna Rodriguez, 
Fireworks Graphic Collective, Gerald and Maas, 
Herman Bell, Jesus Barraza, Jihad Abdulmumit, 
Josh MacPhee, Kara Sievewright, Kevin ‘Rashid’ 
Johnson, Lynne Stewart, Ojore Lutalo, We Are The 
Crisis Collective, the RNC 8, Safiya Bukhari, 
Santiago Armengod, Shannon Willmott, Supporters 
of John Graham, Tim Groves and Tom Manning.

WHERE TO GET 2012 CALENDARS
Calendars can be ordered online at 
<http://www.certaindays.org/>www.certaindays.org 
and purchased at local bookstores, distros and 
community events. Calendars cost $12 (plus 
shipping) and $5 for prisoners. We encourage 
groups to buy in bulk ($8 each when purchasing 10 
or more) and to sell them as a fundraiser. Visit 
our website for more info - <http://www.certaindays.org/>www.certaindays.org.

Funds raised from the sale of this calendar will 
be divided between the New York State Task Force 
on Political Prisoners, the Palestinian NGO Addameer, and the Freedom Archives.

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COINTELPRO: Repression & Resistance, Then & Now
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The term COINTELPRO has become synonymous with 
the ‘tricks of the trade’ of state repression: 
surveillance of organizations and individuals, 
the use of infiltrators and  informants, 
frame-ups, harassing or disproportionate use of 
the legal system, and outright physical attacks. 
While the term is widely used to describe 
repression of liberation movements, at least in 
North America, the history of the actual 
COINTELPRO program – its details and the lessons 
to be learned from it – remain relatively unknown.

Recently, we have witnessed growing awareness of 
state repression of radical organizing in North 
America, although it is difficult to judge to 
what extent repression is actually increasing, 
and to what extent this reflects the success of 
the work to expose it. Certainly since September 
11, 2001, the state has new tools – and new 
social license – to go after social movements and 
marginalized sectors of the population alike, 
perhaps comparable to the Red Scare climate of 
the 1950s, when COINTELPRO was conceived of.

In some ways, this is to be expected. Effective 
movements beget repression. That being said, 
resisting this backlash – directly fighting back 
(rhetorically, legally, physically, but also via 
a more general resilience) – is fundamental to 
the survival of liberation movements.

In the wake of the repression associated with the 
summer 2010 G20 meeting Toronto, with several 
cases of infiltration in both the US and Canada 
coming to light in recent years, and with ongoing 
legislative changes giving government increasing 
power to surveil and disrupt us, the time seemed 
ripe to remind ourselves of the legacy of COINTELPRO, and resistance to it.

In putting together the Certain Days calendar, we 
always aim for a realistic balance between 
bringing to light social injustice and the 
challenges we face, and the inspiring work done 
to meet these challenges. It is important to 
speak of repression – to share examples so that 
we might learn from each others’ experiences, and 
see the patterns and trends in the state’s 
approach. But it is impossible to do so without 
also being struck by the many contemporary and 
historical examples of resistance. We hope that 
the information gathered in this year’s calendar 
can help teach the difficult lessons we need to 
learn to weather the storm and also provide the inspiration we need to do so.

The Certain Days Collective
<http://www.certaindays.org/>www.certaindays.org
QPIRG Concordia
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, suite 204
<tel:514-848-7583>514-848-7583 fax: <tel:514-848-7584>514-848-7584
<http://qpirgconcordia.org/>qpirgconcordia.org – 
<mailto:qpirg at qpirgconcordia.org>qpirg at qpirgconcordia.org



Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

415 863-9977

www.Freedomarchives.org  
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