In November of 2003, my partner and I committed nonviolent civil disobedience to close the notorious School of the Americas along with ninety-six others: nuns, priests, doctors, and lawyers. We did this because ten of the fourteen dictators who seized power in Latin America from 1958 to the present graduated from this school: it's been used by the CIA to undermine democratically elected governments in the name of US business interests. Because of our misdemeanor action of cutting the lock on a small pedestrian gate, we served six months in federal prison—me in Terre Haute, IN.

Below are letters, poems, and communiques from my six months in Terre Haute Federal Prison.