My message to the state:

Don’t even try to drive a wedge
Between me & Workers World Party!

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I try to take as much care with the pronouns
“I” and “we” as I do she, ze and he.

So I’m sharing this excerpt from the letter
I sent months ago to my comrades
in Workers World Party.

FBI: Hands off
the movement!
http://www.stopfbi.net/

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February 18, 2012
Dear Comrades,

If comradeliness generated actual thermal heat, this would be a very warm message.

Today—without one single political or personal grievance—I request that the Secretariat accept my request to formally change my status in relation to the Party from Member to Supporter.

I take this action, after 39 years as cadre, for one reason only: to protect Workers World Party from any possible legal consequences that could result from my public actions in pursuit of access to medical expertise and treatment for Lyme and co-infections (Lyme/+). …

I have moved into a medical Standard of Care that puts me on a collision course with the U.S. medical establishment and the state. This period of active witch hunts against continued Lyme/+ care that has been characterized by doctors and people with Lyme/+ as “medical McCarthyism.”

Treatment within this controversial and dissenting medical Standard of Care, by Lyme/+ knowledgeable doctors, leaves me vulnerable to scrutiny by state agencies and the threat of prosecution for pursuing care.

I won’t spell out here the lengths to which I will go to overcome legal obstacles to open-ended, long-term antibiotic treatments, including intramuscular and intravenous delivery.

As I pursue treatment, I am going to publicly defy the ruling U.S. medical treatment guidelines. At the same time I will raise the demand for access to health care, free of charge, for all—like I witnessed in three visits to Cuban hospitals. And I will raise the demand for access to health care, free of charge, for all—free from racism, documentation, woman-hating, and anti-LGBTQ/+ ideological barriers.

For more specifics about the controversy and struggle over care, see: “Casualty of an undeclared war,” transgenderwarrior.org

message from Leslie Feinberg:

5.4.12:
MY MEDS RAMP UP;
NO RETREAT!

I ramp up my treatment protocols today. I made a long-distance trip for expert tick-borne-disease-syndrome care, my second extended trip in five days.

This is my first post in some time about my health, and noticeable improvements.

For those who are combatants or caring for those in the tick-borne disease syndrome epidemic, I can sum it up succinctly:

I am in month 8 of expert ILADS care, and we are paving new clinical science together. ILADS doctors and patients are, however, subject to medical McCarthyism.

I am defying the ruling U.S. medical establishment treatment guidelines for Lyme—which suppress science and public understanding—and I will publicly fight any obstruction to access to open-ended treatments, whether with oral, intramuscular or intravenous delivery.

I will continue to struggle publicly, on social media, with the U.S. medical establishment, health insurance industry and the state in the Lyme/+ wars.

It takes ongoing battles in order to continue uninterrupted treatments for late-stage tick-borne disease. I don’t want to use what energy I have to struggle for myself alone.

However, I have not written about my treatment experiences. Instead, I chose to show, not tell, the immediately noticeable improvements in treatment. I’ve used whatever energies I have been able to muster to help CeCe McDonald, her family/loved ones, defense committee and communities to free her self from the racist, transphobic, sexist and youth-hating state.

I’ve just begun to organize to help fight oppressions. That’s why I’m in this medical battle, one evidence-based step at a time.

I’ve put up as much as I could this week to demonstrate clearly that I’ve just begun to organize to help fight for justice for CeCe McDonald.

If I post less beginning today, you’ll be able to tell from these posts—I hope—that I am still in the fight to help her free herself from the racist, mass incarceration of the Prison-Industrial-Complex.

Please read Kenyon Farrow’s powerful and timely article below.

I’ve made plans to be in the courtroom in South Minneapolis on June 4.

The tasks of the historic moment remind me to note publicly that if I am jailed at any time for any reason, I will halt all medical treatments until my release, in order to publicly demonstrate the impact on abilities when treatments are interrupted and infectious disease thresholds rise.

In the meantime, I’ll be online and/or post when I’m able!

solidarity in struggle,
Leslie Feinberg

Justice for Trayvon Martin!
justice for Paige & Brandy!
FREE CECE!

NO JUSTICE?
NO PEACE!

To CeCe McDonald, her family/loved ones,
and her defense committee:

I am making plans to be with you all
at sentencing on June 4
to demonstrate solidarity with CeCe
and to help deliver this message to the state
on the eve of Pride marches & rallies
around the world:

Justice for Paige & Brandy:
FREE CECE!!

No justice?
No peace!

yours in struggle
until every battle is won,
Leslie Feinberg

“We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.”
—Ella Baker
link to: Sweet honey in the rock - “Ella’s Song”

I’m trying to get back in the rhythm of treatments, preparing for medical travel to expert care. I appreciate individuals who have asked about my health. I’ll write about my health, soon as I’m able.

I know there is legal news breaking in the courtroom where CeCe McDonald is on trial for surviving a violently white supremacist, transphobic attack last June. I thank committee activists for contacting me.

I don’t speak for CeCe McDonald or her defense committee—I support them.

It’s not appropriate for me to address courtroom issues. I don’t interpret or defend capitalist laws. I struggle for revolutionary justice and I’m willing to break laws.

There’s one relationship of forces inside the courtroom; there’s another on the streets. As long as CeCe is behind bars, the demand remains: “Free CeCe!”

From Sanford to Tulsa to Minneapolis—police departments and media, courts and prisons are protecting armed fascists who killed—or tried to kill—Black people. The media questions: Were the Black victims or survivors truly “innocent”?

My support for CeCe McDonald’s struggle to free herself is not based on whether this racist, anti-immigrant, transphobic, sexist, anti-LGBTQ/+, youth-bashing injustice system finds her “innocent” or “guilty.”

The struggle for justice is what I’m fighting for.

I appreciate the bridge of support that older generations of LGBT/+-self-identified people have extended in videos and blogs that advise youth “It gets better.” One of my own grandchildren shared one of the video songs with me because it meant so much to hir, and moved hir so deeply.

But the term “bully” doesn’t reveal the sharp rise in white supremacist, immigrant-bashing, anti-LGBTQ/+, sexist, neo-fascist and militia propaganda and organizing within the U.S. during this period of protracted economic crisis and joblessness.

It’s not getting better for CeCe McDonald, who is 23 years old, or her friends.

Police occupy nationally oppressed communities as a force of brutal racist violence. Youth and adults of color are subjected to racist profiling, “stop and frisk” and apartheid passbook laws. ICE raids illegally detain immigrant workers, tear families apart, using mass detention and deportation.

Youth—predominantly youth of color—are channeled into the school-to-prison pipeline into racist mass incarceration in concentration camps for the nationally oppressed and impoverished. Youth work along older generations in the Prison-Industrial-Complex, often in privately-owned prisons run for profits.

The CIA and military development of sexual, gender and sex humiliation, rape and other forms of violence is part of a science of torture that is used in prisons from Pelican Bay to Attica, from Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo .

There’s no jobs for youth, particularly youth of color. But the military is always “hiring.”

The U.S. is waging criminal warfare against Cuba by enforcing an economic blockade—an illegal act of war. CIA-Pentagon occupations, overt warfare, covert warfare, drone waves and wars by proxy in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, under a banner of Islamophobia.

U.S. State Department and its Big Lie media, like to sometimes hoist a “rainbow flag” to cover

The U.S., Britain and other imperialist powers, who wrote and enforced biblical anti-“sodomy” laws around the world now like to hoist a rainbow flag as part of propaganda spin to prepare the population for wars-for-profit in the Middle East and Central Asia, Asia and Africa.

These racist, imperialist wars profit the 1%.

The continued imprisonment of CeCe McDonald, and so many youth—and many generations—of color is a form of domestic colonization. The police may be recruited from the working class, as are many white supremacists. But their violently racist actions only benefit the ruling class of the ruling nation.

My support for CeCe McDonald’s efforts to free herself has just begun. And I’ll help in efforts to organize opportunities for others in the U.S. and around the world to express and demonstrate solidarity.

At the heart of CeCe McDonald’s struggle to break the shackles of the prison-industrial complex is the right of self-defense against oppressions. That was the right that ignited the Compton Rebellion and the Stonewall Uprising.

As the season of Pride events in the U.S. and around the world gears up for mass mobilizations, protest/resistance art may appear on urban walls and trains, pressing the demand—in many languages—to “Free CeCe!”

If you you see that demand where you live, please make a photo and please include me in the tag!

In fact, I’m making myself a note that when I post the digital dedication to CeCe McDonald in Stone Butch Blues, I will set up the dedication photograph so that it is interactive. That means you’ll be able to tag the photo with your name, or the name of your group, in solidarity.

When does it get better? What makes it get better?

Frederick Douglass summed it up best:

“The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions, yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

Anti-racists, progressives, revolutionaries:
Stand y/our ground!

Sweet honey in the rock - Ella’s Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Uus—gFrc
www.youtube.com
Words won’t do so you’ll have to listen…..