SOME TACTICS TO FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS

SOME TACTICS TO FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS

Form legal defense committees and affinity groups to support political prisoners.

Adopt a political prisoner and then write support letters to him/her.

Include resolutions to free political prisoners at organizational meetings.

Make up flyers publicizing political prisoners then distribute them at rallies, on school bulletin boards, etc.

Organize benefit concerts.

March in human rights demonstrations.

March in protests against police brutality.

Demand the dissolution of the BATF-DEA-IRS and all other secret police agencies, all vice and narcotics squads, all police political intelligence sections.

Do not argue over ideological points with other groups in political prisoner coalitions. The real issue is freeing all political prisoners.

Learn from other groups. The Free Mumia abu Jamal Movement has lots of experience--and success--in turning a political prisoner case into an international cause celebre.
GOVERNMENT COUNTER-TACTICS

Divide and conquer: the government will attempt to play off different groups in a coalition against each other.

Impeaching the victim: the government will accuse the political prisoner of assorted henious acts.

Playing off the center against the extremes: government collaborators will claim that your cause is just but that the political prisoner in question is too radical to gain support from the general populace.

Infiltration and entrapament: government agents may attempt to manipulate an organization into committing blatantly illegal acts.HOW TO COUNTER GOVERNMENT TACTICS

Keep to your stated objectives.

Maintain solidarity with political prisoners and coalition partners.

Remember, an attack on one is an attack on all.