Hauling Up the Morning

Hauling Up The Morning / Izando la manana

writings and art by political prisoners and prisoners of war

edited by Tim Blunk, Raymond Luc Levasseur and the editors of Javobin Books
introduction by Assata Shakur, prefaratory note by William Kunstler

Dalou Asahi – The Bangs in Prison
Kuwasi Balagoon – Why Isn’t the Whole World Dancing?
Laura Whitehorn
Bill Dunne – sliding into shadow
Sekou Cinque T. M. Kambui – Freedom
Katya Komisaruk – Visitor – “After 7 o<clock tonight females may use the yard until 9 p.m.” – They Are Searching
Oscar Lopez-Rivera – El Caido de la Gracia del Todopoderoso Senor Dolar
Standing Deer – Rehabilitation Marion Style

Salvador Agron – The Political Identity of Salvador Agron
James Doherty – Death in the Raion – Walls of Silence
Marilyn Buck – To Women who Work – Remembering a 15-year-old Palestinian Woman – In Celebration of the Intifadah
Pat Gros-Levasseur – On getting organized in Cuyahoga County Jail – for Carol Saucier Manning – Been Thinking – Lacemakers – From these deprived walls
Imam Hakim – My Pledge for the New Year – We Will Survive
Jamal Josephs – No Distance at All
Carlos Alberto Torres – Graciela Esperanza
Kazi Toure – Like a Rock – Life Styles of the Rich and Famous
Jaan Lamaan – From a Statement in Court

Alan Berkman – A Modest Supposal
Ray Luc Levasseur – mémêre (grandmother) – Bro & I
Judy Clark – Portrait – New Year’s Poem – Sister Says
Edwin Cortes – A Soldier of the Motherland – Un Soldado de la Patria – The Charade – La Charada – Confidence in My People – Confianza in mi Pueblo – Struggle in Order to Live – Luchar para Vivir
Vincent Kay – Letter in September
Barbara Curzi-Lamaan – For Susan – Winning Battle – Look at Our Beautiful Sister – For My Parents – For My Children – For My Sisters
Alberto Rodriguez – El Companero Combatiente (in English)
Paul Magno – Advent for Prisoners – A Touch of Hunger – ACTS 19: A Contemporary Account – May Day Observations from Jail

Hakim Al-Jamil – who killed mcduffie? (a definitive question) (available on this website)
John Africa – On the Move
Terry Bisson – RSVP to the FBI
Herman Ferguson – Excerpts from a Letter
Russ Ford – Declaration of a Draft Registration Resister
Bashir Hameed – The Struggle is Jihaad
Alicia Rodriguez – Patriarchy – Continuum – Paloma Borincana
Kuwasi Balagoon – Your Honor (available on this website) – With No Question

Laura Whitehorn – Claustrophobia – The Enemy – Sisterhood is Powerful – Baltimore City Jail, August, 1985
Hanif Shabazz Bey – The Throwing of Stones
Tim Blunk – for comrades who ask, “what ois to be done?” – liberated territory
Kojo Bomani Sababu – New Afrika
Linda Evans – Vigilancia para el Pueblo (art work)
Susan Rosenberg – Puerto Rico, a Fantasy Dream
April/Spring/Hungerstrike
Sparks Fly
Of Poems
Albert Nuh Washington – Smile – Faith – Liusten – BLA – By Way of Introduction – That Which is Shared – Nelson ‘n’ Winnie – Spiderman – If I could
Liz Davidson – Prison Visit – Deeper Waters – Elephant
Sekou Odinga – Why Struggle?
Elizam Escobar – from “The Other Dreamer” – de “el otro suenista” – from “Nietzschean Poems” – de “poemas nietzscheanos” – Yo me muero a veces – Sometimes I Die
Obafemi Senghor – Apocalyptic Children

Prince Cuba – Universal struggle
Mumia Abu-Jamal – Things Go Round – Sister Mona Africa
Jonathan Blunk – A Letter to my Brother in Prison
Mtayari Shabaka Sundiata – By Choice You Are Assata
Larry Giddings – Roque, Federico and Victor – Ricardo Flores Magon -Rock – No Borders
David Gilbert – Born on Sunday
Shaheem Malik Jabbar – Poem to Mtayari
Richard Williams – Mairead, St. Patrick’s Day, 1988 – The Sea – Again
Mike McCoy – A Vision
Thomas Manning – Linda Evans – South Africa will Be Free! (artwork) – (note scrawled on a leaflet sent outside)
Chim Trang – From “The Rising Song”