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Hunger strikers protest perpetual solitary confinement
John Martinez The following letter from PBSP SHU prisoner John R. Martinez was written just before he and other SHU prisoners were set to begin their hunger strike. Edmund G. Brown, Governor State...
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The English rebellion: Let’s talk about the cause
by Natasha Reid Operation Trident, employed to crack down on gun and drug crime in the Black community, is routinely used to carry out stop and searches. Pictured are three Operation Trident officers....
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The justice in Christopher Dorner’s rebellion
by Joaquin Cienfuegos Rebellions aren’t pretty, clean or politically correct. Rebellion is like an uncontrollable fire, catching anyone in the slave master’s house, or anyone in an occupying army...
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Enlightened
by Imara Mwasi aka De’anthony Chaney I am a 22-year-old young Black brotha currently housed in Corcoran SHU, arrived here Nov. 27, 2012, after the hunger strike. I came from Deuel Vocational...
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Palestine prison
by Mumia Abu-Jamal Palestinians protest apartheid constantly – and creatively. This banner was raised to demonstrate resistance to a new segment of the apartheid wall in Qalqilya, Palestine, on July...
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Cellmate or not, indeterminate SHU confinement is torture
by Heshima Denham, Zaharibu Dorrough, Kambui Robinson and Jabari Scott, NCTT-Cor-SHU Indeterminate SHU confinement is torture, and though not all those thus situated are in cells alone – some have...
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State and federal prisons persecute Nation of Gods and Earth (Five Percenters)
by Immortality Exegetical 120 Allah (Randal Best) I write to commend you for a job well done in covering and telling the horrors and realities that we behind enemy lines are subjected to. I understand...
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Concerning reactionaries and thugs: The New Black Panther Party
by Elbert “Big Man” Howard Like many of my comrades, original Black Panther Party members, I have for years watched these strutting caricatures who call themselves the New Black Panther Party and...
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NorCal People’s Housing Union – fighting gentrification in Oakland – meets...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey The politics, color and income of Oakland is changing rapidly similar to what happened over in San Francisco, where the population went from 16 percent...
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‘I just wanted to be free’: The radical reverberations of Muhammad Ali
by Dave Zirin The reverberations. Not the rumbles, the reverberations. The death of Muhammad Ali will undoubtedly move people’s minds to his epic boxing matches against Joe Frazier and George Foreman,...
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Mutope: Because the Bay View was there for us, the world came to our defense
by Mutope Duguma First and foremost, I want to say that I will always love and respect Willie and Mary Ratcliff for their undying support of oppressed people in Amerika. They have been remarkable, to...
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Russell Maroon Shoatz: Rage, humiliation, testosterone, youth and the...
by Russell Maroon Shoats/z Steve Bloom, a comrade and veteran activist, asked me several questions regarding my contribution to “Look for Me in the Whirlwind.” The questions delve into aspects of our...
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A mass work stoppage is the ultimate sanction
by Termaine Saulsbury Prisoner supporters protesting outside Durham County Detention Facility in North Carolina recognize that “prison is the new slavery.” – Photo: Alex Boerner I would like to share...
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Give Dr. King the birthday present he wants: VOTE in Cali’s March 3 primary
Martin Luther King Jr. – Photo: Martin Mill by DJ Sister Yasmin, Voting Rights for All! “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social...
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Remembering a humble giant, Qassem Soleimani
A US airstrike in early 2020 killed Iran’s beloved military leader Qassem Soleimani, who is hailed as a hero for his devotion to unifying the Middle East’s struggles for liberation and for doggedly...
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Statement for our Palestinian sisters and brothers!
On March 21, 2021, Art Against Imprisonment, a virtual art exhibit, “will shine a light on the multiple forms of creativity that people trapped in Israeli and US prisons use to break through isolation...
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End the war on Africans: The truth about Eritrea and Ethiopia’s brutal regimes
Warmonger Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia and dictator Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea unite fascist forces to carry out genocide on the people. – Photo: Ghideon Musa Aron, Visafric by Dina Tesfay What took place...
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A light at the end of the tunnel for Kevin Cooper
“Free Kevin Cooper” – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 264847, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 500, Carlisle IN 47838 Kevin’s June letter to comrades and loved ones Dear Comrades in...
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Imprisoned in ‘Sundown Towns’: The racial politics of my domestic exile
Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, built in 1998, is a supermax prison built to house men in 8-foot-by-10-foot solitary-confinement cells for 23 hours a day, with time ranges spanning months to...
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Don’t ignore the 2021 Tribunal on genocide
The International Tribunal 2021 held at Malcom X Dr. Betty Shabazz Center in Harlem, NY Oct. 22-25 with opening prayers and commentary by (left to right) former Political Prisoner Sekou Odinga, Dr....
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