[from Socialism and Democracy, 27:1 (March 2013); published text at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2012.760266]
Introduction
Virginia’s prisons claimed 22 years of my life. Those years were not kind or gentle. The last 14 were spent in extreme solitary confinement, in Virginia’s
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For Juneteenth (June 19th) 2019 the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP), and its mass organization the United Panther Movement (UPM), organized a People’s Barbecue at Westside Park in Newark, NJ where the NABPP is headquartered.
The six-hour event,
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Under the leadership of Chairman Shaka Sankofa Zulu the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and its mass organization the United Panther Movement, has been organizing “No Prison Fridays” protests in Newark, NJ since April.
These mass rallies which quickly grew
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This past April a politically astute Native American historian, Tom “Big Warrior” Watts, was banned from Facebook for supposedly posting anti-Semitic hate speech.
The alleged hate speech was a reply he’d posted to a meme
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As a captive population, prisoners have no choices about what, if any, medical and mental health care they receive. And, in most cases in U.S. prisons, any care given is substandard at best.
But even under these conditions, the courts
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An Interview with Comrade Rashid by Marquis Winston of Kite Line Radio (2018)
Marquis: What was the intent of the authorities to move you to Florida? Did they see it as disconnecting you from the contacts you had in Texas?
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It’s been some years since I’ve been able to communicate through radio outlets. This on account of a series of transfers between various states’ prison systems—from Virginia to Oregon, then Texas to Florida and back to Virginia—as reprisals for my
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Thomas Porter is a 42-year-old Black man held on Virginia’s Death Row for the October 25, 2005, shooting death of a Norfolk, VA cop, for which he was charged, tried, and convicted of capital murder.
His
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Allies, comrades and supporters of striking prisoners across the U.S. have set up an “Occupy Camp” outside a prison work camp in Gainesville, FL.
The camp has been rolling strong since the strikes began on August 21st, and has received
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Across Amerika (home of the world’s largest prison population) growing numbers of the imprisoned are coming to realize that they are victims of social injustice.
Foremost, they are victims of an inherently
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