Letter from an innocent man in a fascist prison. (Letter from Luigi Mangione, April 25)
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Letter from an innocent man in a fascist prison. (Letter from Luigi Mangione, April 25)
I would love nothing more than to be able to write to Luigi, but unfortunately, due to my living situation, that's just not a possibility right now. I live with people who are HEAVY against Luigi and think he's the scum of the earth for "gunning down an innocent father and husband! Also, he's a coward for shooting him in the back, too!" 🙄🙄 (yes, I know. Yall pray for me, lol)
I'm genuinely afraid that if any of them were to see a letter with a return address being from Luigi (yes my remarkably delulu ass is really over here imagining actually getting a reply), it could result in me getting both cussed out and kicked out.
I wish I could say I'm over-exaggerating, but I'm really not. I never get to the mail first here. Ever.
Now, OBVIOUSLY, I would not write to Luigi for the sole purpose of trying to get a response, I swear! All I want is to be able to send one letter only telling him how much I support him and how much I believe he'll come out of this ok.
BUT.
IF he were to ever get around to responding to it and the people I live with see it, it will not be pretty.
So all I can really do is encourage everyone who can write to him to do so. And to also let him know there are many of us who would love to write and mail in our love and support, but unfortunately, we're simply unable.
Something is rotten (but not just) in Denmark. As a matter of fact, thousands of people have been considered, without any evidence, a threat to the society. Hundreds have been arrested and some are still under detention, waiting for judgment or under investigation. Among them, us, the undersigned. We want to tell the story from the peculiar viewpoint of those that still see the sky from behind the bars.
A UN meeting of crucial importance has failed because of several contradictions and tensions that have shown up during the COP15. The primary concern of the powerful was the governance of the energy supply for never-ending growth. This was the case whether they were from the overdeveloped world, like the EU countries or the US, or from the so-called developing countries, like China or Brazil.
At odds, hundreds of delegates and thousands of people in the streets have raised the issue that the rationale of life must be (and actually is) opposed to that of profit. we have strongly affirmed our will to stop anthropic pressure on the biosphere.
A crisis of the energy paradigm is coming soon. The mechanism of the global governance have proven to be overwhelmingly precarious. The powerful failed not only in reaching an agreement on their internal equilibrium but also in keeping the formal control of the discussion.
Climate change is an extreme and ultimate expression of the violence of the capitalistic growth paradigm. People globally are increasingly showing the willingness of taking the power to rebel against that violence. We have seen that in Copenhagen, as well as we have seen that same violence. Hundreds of people have been arrested without any reason or clear evidence, or for participating in peaceful and legitimate demonstrations. Even mild examples of civil disobedience have been considered as a serious threat to the social order.
In response we ask — What order do we threaten and who ordered it? Is it that order in which we do not anymore own our bodies? The order well beyond the terms of any reasonable “social contract” that we would ever sign, where our bodies can be taken, managed, constrained and imprisoned without any serious evidence of crime. Is it that order in which the decision are more and more shielded from any social conflicts? Where the governance less and less belongs to people, not even through the parliament? As a matter of fact, non-democratic organisms like the WTO, the NB, the G-whatever rule beyond any control.
We are forced to notice that the theater of democracy is a broken one as soon as, one approaches the core of the power. That is why we reclaim the power to the people. We reclaim the power over our own lives. Above all, we reclaim the power to counterpose the rationale of life and of the commons to the rationale of profit. It may have been declared illegal, but still we consider it fully legitimate.
Since no real space is left in the broken theater, we reclaimed our collective power — Actually we expected it — to speak about the climate and energy issues. Issues that, for us, involve critical nodes of global justice, survival of man and energy independence. We did marching with our bodies.
We prefer to enter the space where the power is locked dancing and singing. We would have liked to do this at the Bella center, to disrupt the session in accord with hundreds of delegates. But we were, as always, violently hampered by the police. They arrested our bodies in an attempt to arrest our ideas. we risked our bodies, trying to protect them just by staying close to each other. We value our bodies: We need them to make love, to stay together and to enjoy life. They hold our brains, with beautiful bright ideas and views. They hold our hearts filled with passion and joy. Nevertheless, we risked them. we risked our bodies getting locked in prisons. In fact, what would be the worth of thinking and feeling if the bodies did not move? Doing nothing, letting-it-happen, would be the worst form of complicity with the business that wanted to hack the UN meeting. At the COP15 we moved, and we will keep moving.
Exactly like love, civil disobedience can not just be told. We must make it, with our bodies. Otherwise, we would not really think about what we love, and we would not really love what we think about. It’s as simple as that. It’s a matter of love, justice and dignity.
How the COP15 has ended proves that we were right. Many of us are paying what is mandatory for an obsessive, pervasive and total repression: To find a guilty at the cost of inventing it (along with the crime perhaps).
We are detained with evidently absurd accusations about either violences that actually did not take place or conspiracies and organizing of law-breaking actions.
We do not feel guilty for having shown, together with thousands, the reclamation of the independence of our lives from profit’s rule. If the laws oppose this, it was legitimate to peacefully — but still conflictually — break them.
We are just temporarily docked, ready to sail again with a wind stronger than ever. It’s a matter of love, justice and dignity.
Luca Tornatore — from the Italian social centres network “see you in Copenhagen”. Natasha Verco — Climate Justice Action Stine Gry Jonassen — Climate Justice Action Tannie Nyboe — Climate Justice Action Johannes Paul Schul Meyer Arvip Peschel Christian Becker Kharlanchuck Dzmitry Cristoph Lang Anthony Arrabalr
Ok if you had false hope at chapter 28 then realized it was a oops, it’s now a few hours later and the real chapter 29 is updated .
Life is about to start getting ready to live together as Mickeys release date comes closer.
Plus a big ( ish ) surprise
As always the art for this fic is found in chapter 11, from the Uber talented @darthvaders-wife . Thank you Alice
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Losing it over your prison letters wip. I think a lot abt if kiryu got sent any letters❤️❤️❤️
Oh man, it’s one of my FAVORITE ideas. Believe it or not, that’s one of the first things I started writing as soon as I finished Kiwami 1. It still bothers me that Kiryu didn’t have contact from ANYONE while he was in prison. 10 years without a word? Oh, come on, fuck that...
It would be MASSIVE for me to cover all 10 years though, so it’s been put on semi-permanent hiatus. But I still like the idea of Majima sending him notes and keeping in contact. I think he would, I think he’d find a way. Given what we see at the beginning, before Kiryu goes to jail, Majima’s clearly already invested. And he’s there waiting for him when he gets out. He’s the only one waiting. And I just really wanted to do something with the idea that Majima’s the only one who doesn’t give up hope, who’s there. I think it’d be really sweet and really meaningful for Kiryu. And, y’know, maybe he’d be a little sweeter to Majima when he gets out with all of that ;) I know I would be...
So there’d be all kinds of cute gimmicks and shit in the fic. Majima sending Kiryu people to train, Majima trying to get into the prison as Goromi, Kiryu runs into Saejima One Time and we in the audience start screaming...
One of my favorite bits to think about is Majima secrets these notes in because Kiryu’s mail is obviously being tracked if not outright blocked and/or tampered with. So he cannever get anything big through. But occasionally he sends shit anyway, knowing it’ll be held for Kiryu until he gets out. And when Kiryu gets out, he gets handed this shoebox full of stuff, magazines mostly. And there’s a note from Majima, informing him they’re birthday presents. Kiryu flips open the magazines and they’re porn mags. Only, Majima has gone and pasted his Own Face on all of the models. Kiryu’s DYING.
“Ya geddit Kiryu-chan? Ya geddit?? I’m saying, I want ya ta fuck-” “I GET IT! I GET IT!”
That’s just so good on its own I still wanna write it xp
Doodle for a prison pal. Don't 4get 2 write to the locked up homies. We might not b able to give them justice just yet but we can give them solidarity.
... nothing will ever be perfect except the love that we share, now that is perfection at it's best!
“J”