PDC [Partisan Defense Committee] Holiday Statement 2015.
Hello to my PDC comrades and to all you good activists, organizers, revolutionaries, and PDC supporters who are here tonight for this Partisan Defense Committee holiday event. This is Jaan Laaman, coming to you from deep in the Sonoran desert at the U.S. prison in Tucson, Arizona.
As many of you already know, I am a long-held political prisoner and a long-time recipient of political and material support from the PDC. I’d surely enjoy being there with you right now, listening to remarks and having some good conversations. Actually, like other political prisoners around the country, I am right there with all of you in positive and militant spirit, and with these words.
There are many struggles, issues, worthy campaigns, and organizations that reach out for and need people’s support. The concrete work the Partisan Defense Committee does, and has been doing for 30 years – and I do know because at this point I have been in captivity for 31 years – is truly important for us class war prisoners. The PDC’s work is also pretty unique, and it is certainly real revolutionary solidarity and support. Your participation and support at this event, as well as your continuing awareness of and support for political prisoners held by the U.S. government, is a solid act of solidarity and important to us behind the walls.
As U.S. imperialism reaches and prepares for new and more wars, particularly in Syria; while cops shoot and murder people of color and others daily, it is important that we continue to resist on all levels. As you talk, work and struggle, keep us class war prisoners, political prisoners, in mind too. For more direct information on and from political prisoners, check out 4strugglemag. That’s at www.4strugglemag.org. Have a great event, and remember, freedom is a constant struggle. This is Jaan Laaman.
These commentaries are recorded by Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
