REASSESSMENT

January 29th, 2007

Hunger Strike 2 ends, but the movement is still starving.

Knight ended his hunger strike on the 24th with me, Comrade Woods on the 25th, Dickson and Turner both on the 28th; and sources say, though we have no confirmation since he is located on the other side of the pod, Billy Mason also ended his hunger strike. But the question is “Where do we go from here?”

REASSESSMENT - Jan 30th, 2007

Our movement has been going strong for over a year now. Many of you have been with us from the beginning, and many of you are new to it all. Either way, your support has been beautiful and uplifting. However we need all of you now more than ever because of the nature of the anti-death penalty movement here in Texas, we’ve been forced to take up the slack and represent ourselves; fight for ourselves—which is fine. We have already spent the last year highlighting the “problems”. Now is the time that we DRIVE our movement to the next level, that next mile.

In the oncoming days, we will delineate a more aggressive agenda. Though aggressive, there will be positions for EVERYBODY to fill; positions entailing action more than letters and petition drives. We need YOU-the outer comrades to take the time leading up to the day we place these aggressive agendas on the DRIVE table- to introspect. Ask yourselves how much are you able/willing to give of yourselves to this cause? How badly do you want abolition? How badly do you want better living conditions for us until abolition is realized? Do you believe we can move this mountain that has been here for so long?

We have to have an open mind. The reason we are fighting this fight is because activists have been stiff and narrow-minded in their activism. We need the versatility of water, the solidarity of the ocean rising like a storm surge, a tsunami, DRIVing this mountain of oppression into the sea of equality; the sea of Humanity. But we can’t do it without YOU.

The spirit is DRIVing. Will we give ourselves to this divine will, this divine service? Will we open ourselves to be the vehicle through which this struggle is brought to a conclusion? These questions will either be answered in our lifetime or the next generations. The spirit must move; we as people must evolve. Until we bare this burden utterly, carrying this torch, we will be aiding our own destruction, dying in self-created darkness.

Who is willing to help carry this torch, seeing this movement through this dark tunnel of struggle, and unto its conclusion, its answer, the light?

DRIVE!

Love and Solidarity

From the trenches,

Comrade

Reginald “Omari Huduma” Blanton

D.R.I.V.E.

DEATH Row INNER-COMMUNALIST VANGUARD ENGAGEMENT