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Ft. Madison Prison Visitation The CIASU has continued their Prison Visitation Program at Ft. Madison during the summer semester. The program was allocated $105 from the UI Student Senate to be used for transportation and books. The Indian Chicano Cultural Center in the Ft. Madison prison has been in existence for about three years now, but administrative interferrence has not allowed the program to grow. Though this is the case, the inmates are striving to continue their program. Support may be offered in a variety of ways; for information contact Sylvia Ramirez, program coordinator for the student union. This spring, elections were held for the ICCC. Current officers are Preston Duncan, chairperson; Neal Stanley, secretary; Javier Alveado, acting secretary; Jim Cain, treasurer; and Ellsworth Youngbear, acting treasurer. There are presently 19 indio-chicano brothers within the Ft. Madison walls. Preston Duncan, chairperson of the ICCC, is both a (very) talented artist and articulate writer and speaker. U.S. prison walls have too often sequestered what may seem the very heart of progressive and independence movements. What follows here is the opening statement of an ICCC meeting delivered by Preston Duncan. - June 5, 1976; Speech to Visitors of the AICCC "Aho! Cousins, Brothers, and Sisters. The AICCC is very happy to see your support and your well-being. . . There are 17 Indio-Chicanos within the walls and one at the farm, who wishes visits from you supporters who are not allowed in the institution. . . Last month I mentioned the letters i have been sending to the warden concerning our appeal to have our guest list extended. We finally got some kind of an answer a couple of weeks ago. He sent word back through his channels and he will consider our request this month, depending on the out come of his guardforce extension, so we have to wait for the results of his consideration. [hand drawn pic] This is the big bicentennial year, 1976, and we are still battling to practice and follow our religion that was here on this land long before Jesus Christ was ever thought of. The federal and state constitutions state that there is a separation of church and state. In that amendment which says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . .' are words put into that constitution by Christian people who suffered from religious prejudice and persecution by other Christians. History will prove these people were, and still are worse than their own persecutors. After making the Constitution they turned around and did the very thing they suffered from, only worse: they decimated and are still decimating tribes with diseases and war; they stole a continent and called it patriotic and honorable; to top it all off these people want us to put our religions down and convert ourselves to theirs. Today, we are still battling through legal means, which is unnecessary but made necessary by these same people who are supposed to enforce and stand by that constitution 6
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Ft. Madison Prison Visitation The CIASU has continued their Prison Visitation Program at Ft. Madison during the summer semester. The program was allocated $105 from the UI Student Senate to be used for transportation and books. The Indian Chicano Cultural Center in the Ft. Madison prison has been in existence for about three years now, but administrative interferrence has not allowed the program to grow. Though this is the case, the inmates are striving to continue their program. Support may be offered in a variety of ways; for information contact Sylvia Ramirez, program coordinator for the student union. This spring, elections were held for the ICCC. Current officers are Preston Duncan, chairperson; Neal Stanley, secretary; Javier Alveado, acting secretary; Jim Cain, treasurer; and Ellsworth Youngbear, acting treasurer. There are presently 19 indio-chicano brothers within the Ft. Madison walls. Preston Duncan, chairperson of the ICCC, is both a (very) talented artist and articulate writer and speaker. U.S. prison walls have too often sequestered what may seem the very heart of progressive and independence movements. What follows here is the opening statement of an ICCC meeting delivered by Preston Duncan. - June 5, 1976; Speech to Visitors of the AICCC "Aho! Cousins, Brothers, and Sisters. The AICCC is very happy to see your support and your well-being. . . There are 17 Indio-Chicanos within the walls and one at the farm, who wishes visits from you supporters who are not allowed in the institution. . . Last month I mentioned the letters i have been sending to the warden concerning our appeal to have our guest list extended. We finally got some kind of an answer a couple of weeks ago. He sent word back through his channels and he will consider our request this month, depending on the out come of his guardforce extension, so we have to wait for the results of his consideration. [hand drawn pic] This is the big bicentennial year, 1976, and we are still battling to practice and follow our religion that was here on this land long before Jesus Christ was ever thought of. The federal and state constitutions state that there is a separation of church and state. In that amendment which says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . .' are words put into that constitution by Christian people who suffered from religious prejudice and persecution by other Christians. History will prove these people were, and still are worse than their own persecutors. After making the Constitution they turned around and did the very thing they suffered from, only worse: they decimated and are still decimating tribes with diseases and war; they stole a continent and called it patriotic and honorable; to top it all off these people want us to put our religions down and convert ourselves to theirs. Today, we are still battling through legal means, which is unnecessary but made necessary by these same people who are supposed to enforce and stand by that constitution 6
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