April 25th Update: Upcoming events and what's new with Phoenix IWOC

This was a good week for the Phoenix IWOC. We were able to raise a number of stamps during our first stamp/envelope drive that took place this week during the Nueva Ola zine release in Tempe. We thank the organizers and hosts for accommodating our efforts at this event. We were also able to send in a number of letter's to the AZ DOC, as well as increase coordination with other West Coast IWOC branches. We look forward to future collaboration with our new contacts.

Finally, we held our 3rd letter writing/organizing meeting this past Sunday at Fair Trade Cafe in Downtown Phoenix. A 4th event has not yet been scheduled, but will likely come after Mayday weekend. Please follow our Facebook page to keep updated on these events, but we will post about them here as well.

This coming week, we will be conducting 2 more stamp/envelope drives to support Phoenix IWOC's efforts. The first will be at The Space for their Mayday/1 year anniversary event, and the second will be at the Backslider/Humiliation/Saintbreaker/Dayak Mayday show in Phoenix. We wholeheartedly thank Alec for setting this up for us.
Additionally, the Free Alabama Movement has called for a month-long work stoppage beginning May 1st. They have called for Solidarity actions around this.

Going forward, we can always use more contacts and we hope to expand our collaboration efforts with different community organizations in the Valley. While material donations of stamps and envelopes are important and greatly reduce the cost of Phoenix IWOC's correspondence efforts, we are always looking for volunteers and organizers. We are also looking for as many outreach opportunities as possible, so if you are open to letting Phoenix IWOC table and discuss the prisoners struggle, please reach out. We also have a number of texts we would like to translate to Spanish, so if you can lend translation skills, they are invaluable to us.

If you are interested in contributing to our efforts, shoot us an email at Phoenix.iwoc@riseup.net or leave us a message at (480) 296-3106
Solidarity forever, fire to the prisons!

-Phoenix IWOC

Phoenix IWOC letter writing/organizing meeting