Welcome to Rashid’s website. Here you will find art, articles, updates, and more from Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson, Minister of Defense for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter (NABPP-PC).
Make sure to check out Rashid’s new book, Defying the Tomb, available for purchase from Left Wing Books.
Rashid’s artwork can be viewed in the gallery section.
Documents from the United Panther Movement and the NABPP-PC are available in the United Panther Movement section.
Rashid is a co-founder of the NABPP-PC (New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter), and this section divides his articles between those written before the party was founded, and those written as a party member.
Read Rashid’s most recent article “Political Struggle in the Teeth of Prison Reaction: From Virginia to Oregon” (18 Mar 2013) directly on the Socialism and Democracy website.
What follows are a list of Rashid’s writings available online:
Party Articles
- Talking Nonsense Solves No Problems: Reply to an Open Response Letter Allegedly Written by the Amazons-August Collective and NAPLA to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (2013)
- It’s Raining Pigs, Rats and Moles! Vermin Culture, ‘Good Cop’ Brainwash, and National Oppression in Amerika (2012)
- Against Capitalism: To Exist We Must Resist (2012)
- On the Vanguard Party, Once Again (2012)
- No Incarceration or Taxation Without Representation: American Slavery in the 21st Century (2011)
- What is the meaning of the California prisoner hunger strikes? A statement in support of the hunger strikers (2011)
- Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism (first appeared in Right On! #19 Spring 2010)
- Wimyn Hold Up Half the Sky!: On the Questions of Wimyn’s Oppression and Revolutionary Wimyn’s Liberation versus Feminism (2008)
- Letter Entitled “Racial and Political Persecution of Grassroots Black Political Prisoners and Activists” (2008)
- Kill Yourself or Liberate Yourself (pdf) (2008)
- Advancing from the Black Brigade to the New Afrikan Service Organization (NASO): A Great Leap Forward! (2007)
- Reparations or Revolution? (2007)
- Promoting Proletarian Consciousness as Prisoner Rehabilitation (2007)
- Advancing from the Black Brigade to the New Afrikan Service Organization (NASO): A Great Leap Forward! (2007)
- Amerikan Prisons Are Government Sponsored Torture (2007)
- Protect our Leaders, Defend our People! (2007)
- Capitalism + AIDS = Genocide (2006)
- A Modest Proposal for the Abolition of Slavery in America in the 21st Century (2006)
- Historical & Dialectical Materialism: The Science of Revolution (2006)
- Recent Indictment of Rashid, Co-Founder of FedUp! (2006)
- On the Questions of Race and Racism: Revolutionary National Liberation and Building the United Front Against Imperialism (2006)
- What is Fascism? (first appeared in Right On! #2, Winter 2005-2006)
- The Real Face of U.S. Capital Punishment (2006)
- Don’t Shank the Guards (2005)
- The New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter: Our Line (2005)
- The Panther and the Elephant (2005)
- Panther Love: Addressing the Survival Needs of the People, Building Pan-Afrikan Unity & Sowing the Seeds of World Socialist Revolution (2005)
- From Benton Harbor, Michigan to Clichy-sous-Bois, France: The International Oppression of Youth of Color (2005)
- Perspectives on Comrade Amilcar Cabral: Afrikan Revolutionary Extraordinaire (first appeared in Leviathan Summer 2005 Issue No. #6)
- In Memory of Our Slain Comrade Hasan Shakur
- Katrina, Capitalism and Continuing Black Crisis in America
- Applied Panther Love: Organizing the Black Brigade and its Work Within the Razor Wire Plantations
- Unity-Struggle-Transformation: On Revolutionary Organization, Leadership and Cadre Development
- The New Afrikan Black Panther Party’s Organizational Principles, Policy and Practice: The 3-P’s
Pre-party (NABPP-PC) articles
- A Practical Approach to Strategic Organizing for Popular Struggle (2005)
- Thanksgiving: Celebrating Genocide and U.S. Imperialist Lies (2010)
Oregon Prison Conditions/News
- They Waited, Wanted and Watched For Me To Die… (Feb. 2013)
- Oregon Prisoners Driven to Suicide by Torture in Solitary Confinement Units (Dec. 2012)
- The Rising Tide of Hate in Amerika: A Sign of the Times (Nov. 2012)
- The South Is Risen: Old Jim Crow Thrives Inside Oregon Prisons (Aug. 2012)
Virginia Prison Conditions/News
- Oppression, Resistance, Unity, Power: A Statement in Support of the Virginia Hunger Strike (June 2012)
- Abuse Reports Culminate In Hair-Raising Assault By Red Onion State Prison Guards (Jan. 2012)
- From Bad to Worse: Transferred from Red Onion to Wallens Ridge State Prison (2012)
- Living for the Oppressed: A Journal Entry (2011)
- Under New Administration Torture Unit Closes then Reopens at Red Onion State Prison, And Prison Abuse on the Rise (Nov. 2011)
- Breaking Prisoners’ Fingers at Red Onion State Prison: Restraint Technique or Plain Old Torture? (Sept. 2011)
- Abu Ghraib Comes to Amerika: Torture Unit Under Construction at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison (October 30,2010)
- ROSP Expose – Addendum #8 (2010)
- When Given A Voice, The Voiceless Speak As One: A Random Survey Confirms Pervasive Racism, Abuse, And Corruption At Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison (2010)
- ROSP Expose – Addendum #2 (2005)
- Red Onion State Prison, an Expose: Racism and brutality equals kind and usual punishment in Virginia (2004)
Poetry
- Gorilla Theatre (May 2011)
