UltraViolet Newsletter

 

In 1988 we started a newsletter called "Out!", a play on U.S. Out (at that time principally of Central America, which our government was in the process of invading -- remember Honduras and Panama?) and, obviously, Out of the Closet and Into the Streets. A few years later, every queer rag in the country was calling itself Out and we decided to change the name. After many long and hilarious debates over what to call it, we settled on UltraViolet - the invisible fringe of the rainbow. It is a forum for discussion of issues important to the queer community, a source of information about political issues and actions you don't hear enough about in the mainstream (and mainstream gay) press, and a place where we get to be wild and wacky and witty on any subject that particularly interests us at the moment. We mail it out for free to over 900 people, including about 300 prisoners, and sometimes people who like it send us money, which we really appreciate.

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SPECIAL ANTICAPITALIST ISSUE!

LAGAI Shocked by Cyprus Bailout Declares Capitalism Must Die
Diane Fisher (Vazques-Amaral)
Abortion rights on life support
Support the ACAC 19
Save SF City College
Dignity and Resistance on the March in Oakland
Our Inside Voices:  Writings by Prisoners
  The Gay Boys Fight
  Last two verses of “America’s Daughters and Sons”
  My strength and pride behind bars
  I’m Lost
Chowchilla Freedom March
The MOCHA Column

Imprisoned Bahraini Medics Freed
Like White on Wedding Rice
Dirty G
Angela Davis & Alice Walker Join Call to Frameline to Get Out of Bed with Israel
Out of Time  

LAGAI Shocked by Cyprus Bailout
    Declares Capitalism Must Die

LAGAI, long known for its support of the international capitalist system and imperialism, recently announced that it could no longer go along with a system that would “reach into the people’s bank accounts and steal their money.”

Karat R explained that the group had been shocked by the EU/IMF/ECP move to bail out the two largest banks in Cyprus by confiscating 6.7 percent of every single savings account.

“I thought capitalism was all about private ownership. How can they just take people’s stuff,” she asked, looking a bit dazed.

Karat explained that the group had hung in with capitalism through the Ten Plagues of aids drug profiteering, health care, housing, destruction of social programs and public education, pension theft, bankrupting of social security, invasions and genocide in Asia, Latin America and Africa, destruction of the environment, workplace deaths and diseases, slavery, the prison-industrial complex, and nuclear disasters.

“But,” she explained, “invading the sacrosanct private ...  more

 

 UltraViolet is distributed with another newsletter, Out of Time, which is produced by Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners. Prisoners, especially political prisoners, queer prisoners and the death penalty, are a big focus of LAGAI too. Great information on prison activist work is available from the Prison Activist Resource Center.