MTWT - Chris | November 16, 2009
By: Coyote Sheff
These few humble words go out to the “Local Boy 76” and to all who care to know what I have to say and to all who would like to join in these open chats. Please, try to stay as open-minded as you can, because I know that most people in society have [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | July 17, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
Sitting in solitary for years and years, I’ve learned that an active mind is a dangerous mind, but I think having an inactive mind, under these conditions is even more dangerous and very harmful to ourselves.
Surrounded by madness and perversion, these guards and this administration seems to want us [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | July 14, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
It is 3:07 a.m. as I sit here in this cold silence of another imprisoned November night, I can hear the echoes of the ghetto life ringing clearly in my head; the gunshots, the sirens, the dogs barking the helicopters. It has been years since I’ve been in the [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | July 12, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
Note: This is in part a response to a poster on the Ely Times Message Board who calls himself Localboy76 (Click the link to see the posts he is responding.)
It is important what Local Boy 76 said about how prison has tendencies turn officers into animals…
I find it hilarious how people try [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 11, 2009
By: Coyote Sheff
While I sit, stand, lay here in this cell, exiled from American society and confined to 4 gruesome walls that were intentionally designed to break me all the way down, my heart beats furiously, yet proudly with resistance and I try to keep my mind open, heart open and eyes open, reaching [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 10, 2009
By: Coyote Sheff
In the depths of these dregs where our souls dwell in darkness as our minds dwindle like dust in the wind, we sit here with sad looks on our faces, waiting for a letter in the mail or a hot meal to be served. Waiting, waiting, waiting, always waiting for something, but [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 5, 2009
Nevada town rallies to save prison camp
By Ashley Powers
May 5, 2009
Reporting from Tonopah, Nev. — Diane Perchetti couldn’t pull off the Easter celebration alone. Her to-do list was too lengthy: stack chairs, mop floors and haul out the decorative jail cell from the recent Muckers Ball fundraiser.
She phoned Bob Bottom, who oversees the local [read more...]
Editor - Lisa | April 22, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
To live, to fight for what you believe in, to fight for what you have coming to you. To overcome adversity, to eliminate all distractions and to remove self-destructive influences from your life. To fight for your freedom.
To survive, to resist, to become stronger under dire circumstances, to revolutionize and politicize your mind [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 15, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
Knowledge is power but for anarchists it’s the essence of life. In a prison cell I sit, hungry for knowledge, but not power. My enemies are powerful, so to stay on my toes I have to be as smart, or smarter, than them.There are a lot of people in [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | April 6, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
They’ve got us confined to these cells, where we are intellectually suffocating, in desperate need of literature, books, love, compassion and support. Being in this graveyard is like walking down an endless, dark tunnel, with no end, no light, no hope in sight, trapped in a box with no visible exit. We have [read more...]
Matt | April 6, 2009
Coyote Sheff is a self-styled anarchist. This according to him means that “what I do as an anarchist defines what anarchism means to me.” He became aware of anarchism while in prison. Coyote is an intellectual and a writer. Coyote has published three Zines up to now with the help of South Chicago ABC, and [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | April 1, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
Ely State Prison is a so-called maximum security prison that was opened in 1989 out in the middle of nowhere, outside of a small miner’s town called Ely, Nevada. This prison is surrounded by the mountains of Nevada’s Great Basin. There are mountains on all sides of this prison. It is very secluded [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 30, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
Prisons are not here to help us. Prisons are not here to rehabilitate. US prisons do not stop, deter, or prevent crime and they never will. The people in power can continue to lock people up and they can keep building more prisons and crime is still going to happen, because we [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 29, 2009
A Zine by Coyote Sheff
Something as beautiful as freedom; something that good; something that great could never be free. It seems like it always comes with a price. Trust me when I tell you that it’s a high price we have to pay for our freedom, especially if you come from the gutter, born into [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 19, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
In prison one of the first things a convict learns is not to judge dudes by what they say but by what they do, because anybody could say anything and make it sound really beautiful too, but when it comes down to it a lot of these dudes talk a good game, but [read more...]
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