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Part III: Campaign to Redistribute the Pain 2018 by Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun, formerly known as Melvin Ray, Free Alabama Movement While the Montgomery (Ala.) Bus Boycott is the most well-known of the...
View ArticleBoycott, Defund, Bankrupt – Say NO to canteen, incentive packages, collect...
Part VI: Campaign to Redistribute the Pain 2018 by Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun, fka Melvin Ray, Free Alabama Movement Fire burns off the dross of the hidden gem to reveal the precious metal. In struggle, it...
View ArticleKinetik speaks: ‘In segregation or on the yard, the message is the same –...
by Kinetik Justice Amun (Robert Earl Council), Free Alabama Movement Kinetik raises a Black Power fist as he holds his June Bay View. With strength and optimism, I greet the Comrades and salute the...
View ArticleEnd prison slavery in Texas now – Part 3: Knockin’ doors down
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington, Chief Spokesperson for the End Prison Slavery in Texas Movement “Collective Struggle” – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 264847, Pendleton Correctional Facility, G-20-2C, 4490...
View ArticleAramark is pimping the Georgia DOC
by Willie Coe Aramark’s contract with the Michigan DOC for $145 million over three years was terminated in 2015 after negative headlines proliferated in press around the state. An advocacy group,...
View ArticleFederal court in Louisiana ignores COVID terror inside FCI Oakdale
“Comrade Malik” – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 264847, Pendleton Correctional Facility, G-20-2C, 4490 W. Reformatory Road, Pendleton, IN 46064 by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington FCI Elkton is a low-security...
View ArticleOpen Prison Initiative
In this famous photo by the great Black photographer Gordon Parks, “six Black children face a chain-link fence, peering into a park on the opposite side. Two of them clutch the gate, hoping to gain...
View ArticleTreating us like slaves: an analysis of the Security Threat Group Step Down...
by Dadisi Kambon, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe Dumisani, Mutope Duguma and Abasi Ganda For the past two years we’ve heard the state claim it’s reforming its long term...
View ArticlePrison hunger strikers face reprisals as papers that back them are censored
by John Studer Since some 30,000 California prisoners launched a hunger strike July 8 against the practice of long-term solitary confinement and other abuses, participants have faced punitive...
View ArticleMajor law firm opposes new rules that could ban the Bay View from all...
This letter, from attorney Leila Knox of Bryan Cave LLP, one of the world’s largest law firms, was emailed and mailed on July 13, 2014, to Regulation and Policy Management Chief Timothy M. Lockwood,...
View ArticleAttorney Anne Butterfield Weills: ‘Obscenity’ regs show ‘CDCR views many of...
by Anne Butterfield Weills To: Timothy M. Lockwood, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Regulation and Policy Management Branch, on June 17, 2014 Re: CDCR Notice of Change to...
View ArticleInside a CCA private prison: Two slaves for the price of one, Part Two
by Anthony Robinson Jr. “The slave went free, stood a brief moment in the sun, then moved back again towards slavery.” – W.E.B. Du Bois, “Black Reconstruction” Anthony Robinson Jr. In 1973, the...
View ArticleInside a CCA private prison: Two slaves for the price of one, Part Three
The People vs. CCA by Anthony Robinson Jr. “How frightening it is to see people choose not to see what’s in front of them.” – Stuart Grassian, Massachusetts psychiatrist Corrections Corporation of...
View ArticlePrison officials, ACA inspectors ignore contaminated water in Texas prisons
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington “Multi-racial unity among and across oppressed and exploited groups is necessary for revolutionary alliance that can win but must be built upon the basis of independent...
View ArticleExposing toxic work conditions inside Texas Prisons
by Keith “Malik” Washington and David “Chino” Martinez “Our current form of capitalism has no concept of right and wrong. It only recognizes what is profitable and what you can get away with. And when...
View ArticlePrisoner Human Rights Movement Blue Print
Overview by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) has systemic and dysfunctional problems that run rampant statewide within California’s prisons for both...
View ArticleIncarceration, justice and the planet
Could the fight against toxic prisons shape the future of environmentalism? by Panagioti Tsolkas Prisons inspire little in terms of natural wonder. It might be a weed rises through a crack and blooms...
View ArticleHelp prisoners break the ban on Bay View
It’s time to make a way out of no way. Censorship of the Bay View around the country – originally because prison authorities fear the widespread prison strikes to end slavery – appears to have become a...
View ArticleFrom media cutoffs to lockdown, tracing the fallout from the U.S. prison strike
by Kamala Kelkar Prisoners in a walkway at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas, are being processed for release at the completion of their sentences. – Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein, Corbis Dec. 18, 2016...
View ArticleWhy isn’t ‘prison reform’ seeking an effective demand for change?
by Anthony Robinson “A criminal justice system is a mirror in which a whole society sees the darker outlines of its face. Our ideas of justice and evil take on visible form in it, and thus we see...
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