Prison Struggle
Freedom For DPM Graffiti crew - 8 years for 5 men
-Andrew Gillman, 25, from Battersea: 2 years custodial sentence.
-Ziggy Grudzinskas, 25, from Blackheath: 18 months custodial sentence.
-Slav Zinoviev, 25, from Battersea: 18 months custodial sentence.
-Paul Andrew Stewart, 26, from Lewisham: 18 months custodial sentence.
-Matthew Pease, 24, from Lewisham: 15 months custodial sentence.
-Matthew Tanti, 23, from Streatham: received 12 month suspended sentence and 200 hours unpaid work order.
-Jack Binnie, 25, from Lewisham: 12 month suspended sentence and 200 hours unpaid work order.
-Alex McClelland, 24, from Dulwich: received a 9 month suspended sentence and 150 hours unpaid work order
Injustice was handed down by Judge Christopher Hardy at Southwalk Crown Court, July 11th, 2008.
DPM's sentencing was highly politically motivated. British Transport Police needed to have some high profile arrests to show for their increase in funding due to the "terrorist threat". Also the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA - British equivalent of the FBI) also needed some results and claimed that DPM represented "serious organised crime".
This is not going to stop the writers who are getting up on the streets and creating their own culture, wrecking the souless places with beautiful letter, colour and image - a wake-up call for boredom and exploitation.
If Graff is a "serious organised crime" we better get organised and paint mad burners end-to-end over this crap society.
Enough businesses want to make money from their products dressed in Graff, but when it comes to respecting the original culture, there is little out there but reformist bullshit and criminalisation. Here's to an extended insurgent Graff War against mind-destroying conformity and a life of getting screwed over by corporations and people in 'authority' - FSU & DGC.
Through this website you can find addresses to write to DPM