Come send a birthday card to these political prisoners. It's an easy way to help remind these freedom fighters that they aren't forgotten. We'll be writing to prisoners like:

Steve Murphy, courageous eco-warrior

Sekou Kambui, incredible civil rights and black panther activist

Leonard Peltier, Native writer and warrior

Sean Swain, Indigenous anarchist and former union organizer

and Brian McCarvill, anarchist and prison censorship opponent.

Details TBA

Reading list TBA

The Prison Books Collective is a Chapel Hill-based prison abolitionist group that sends hundreds of books to prisoners in the South each month, maintains an extensive radical 'zine catalog, and publishes prisoners' art and writing. We also work to raise awareness about the prison-industrial complex in our own community and connect with others seeking to abolish this brutally racist and repressive system.

"Prison Books" meets monthly to write to political prisoners whose birthdays are each month.

Political Prisoners' Birthdays in June

Send a birthday card for these political prisoners. It's an easy way to help remind these freedom fighters they aren't forgotten. If you make one, remember- don't use anything like white-out, stickers, tape or glitter on it. We also recommend that you put your name and address and their name and prisoner number on the card, lest the authorities "lose" the envelope and forget where it is going. If you would like to add a birthday, email us at ppbirthday@riseup.net. Brought to you with love by the Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective.

Join us for the latest in our monthly series of Political Prisoner Letter Writing night events, as folks gather to write letters and send birthday cards to some of the political prisoners locked up in the US whose birthdays take place in March. Come out and show your support for folks on the inside. Here are some of the prisoners whose birthdays come this month:

RICHARD MAFUNDI LAKE: a long-time organizer against racist police brutality in Alabama. To stop his organizing work, he was sentenced in 1983 under Alabama's Habitual Offender Act to life in prison.

Join us for the first of a monthly series of Political Prisoner Letter Writing night events, along with a screening of the radical cult classic film, "Born in Flames"!

From 7:30 to 8:30, folks will gather to write letters and send birthday cards to some of the political prisoners locked up in the US whose birthdays take place in February, including Byron Shane Chubbuck, Albert Woodfox, and Veronza Bowers, Jr. There will also be letters on hand from LGBT prisoners seeking penpals and support. Come out and show your support for folks on the inside.

Please join the Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective at a delicious Indian eat in/take out dinner hosted by renowned Chapel Hill cook Vimala Rajendran!

Dinner will begin at 5:30 PM. The location: 105 Lexington Drive in Chapel Hill (Vimala's home) in Heritage Hill, off Smith Level Road. Bringing your own containers to take home food is highly recommended; you are also welcome to stay and eat at the house.

The menu for this Wednesday:
*Usal - Whole yellow peas stewed
*Bhaji - sir fried chopped seasonal, local vegetables

Join us at Nightlight (405 1/2 W. Rosemary St.) Friday night for an exciting program of radical films, sweets, and booty-shaking, all to benefit the Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective!

Films will include one of Guy Debord's early films, a documentary about the defense of a squatted social center in Copenhagen, Denmark, and more surprises. Bring a few dollars and your sweet tooth!

To be followed by... the To-Cool-For-School DANCE PARTY! Get down to hip-hop and various danceable jams, along with the cutest radicals in town. Bring your dancing shoes--and a friend.