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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Several months ago U.S. officials announced a depraved “zero-tolerance” policy for migrants entering the U.S. from what Donald Trump called “shithole countries” south of the border, even if they be fleeing deadly conditions as refugees—a status protected by international law.
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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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We have learned that the Virginia Department of Corrections is planning to hold a hearing Monday September 10th, to have Rashid transferred out of state yet again. This is a punitive act, most likely retaliation for Rashid’s ongoing writings about
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Rashid was moved on July 10 from Red Onion to Sussex I State Prison in Virginia. It is feared that this is preparatory to another out-of-state-transfer, possibly into the federal system and into a site of extreme isolation.
Urgent demands:
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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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After six years of being bounced from state to state, having been exiled from the Virginia prison system for my political views and years of publicizing and resisting the brutal and racist abuses in
… Read the restPoison gases were first developed and widely used as battlefield weapons during World War I. Among those weapons were chlorine gas, mustard gas, and the benignly named “tear gas,” all of which have similar effects,
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Kevin “Rashid” Johnson has been moved to Red Onion State Prison in Virginia. His lawyer’s office received a letter from him sent from Red Onion on Saturday.
All Rashid’s property was transferred with him, but the Virginia Department of Corrections
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“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it” – Karl Marx
Historical Dialectical Materialism (HDM) is a method of analysis to understand the world as it actually
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