As those who have been following my situation of denied cancer treatment know, Virginia prison officials have known from blood tests taken over a year ago that I have had prostate cancer at least
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Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is Minister of Defense of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, and a long-time prisoner held by the Virginia Department of Corrections. Rashid is a well-known artist and author, who had written about politics, history, and philosophy,
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Since receiving a recent diagnosis of prostate cancer I have received an outpouring of love and support from many individuals, and organizations and their supporters, including the Panther Solidarity Organization, the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, the
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On July 1, 2022 I was informed by a prison doctor here at Virginia’s Nottoway Correctional (sic!) Center (NCC) that I had tested positive for prostate cancer.
This diagnosis came after I had been left for months by NCC medical
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“Defying the Tomb is a very easy and exciting read. However, it is also the very cornerstone of the kind of political education that the masses of our people need. I will even go as far as to say that
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As I continue to endure worsening complications from prostate cancer and denied treatment by U.S. prison officials, which has gone on for over a year, I’m reminded of Frantz Fanon’s own death from leukemia, and how the U.S government provided
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Wage labor is slavery. To illustrate the point, let’s compare chattel slavery and wage labor.
The point of chattel slavery, which was an economic system, was to exploit the labor power of the slaves for the ‘owner’s’ profit. Capitalism,
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In 2011 the United Nations declared solitary confinement to be torture and that it should not be used for longer than two weeks. The next year I was transferred out of state after spending 18 years
In the month of April, 2022 I was transferred from Virginia’s infamous Supermax Prison called Red Onion to Jessup Correctional Institution in the state of Maryland through Interstate Compact transfer. After months of trying to settle and focus on the
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Aug 25, 2022 was a sad day for many of us here at Virginia’s Nottoway Correctional (sic!) Center. It was the day that Shawn “Flip” Joyner was abruptly transferred to another prison.
Those of us in
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The Hippocratic Oath, often reduced to the four words “First do no harm,” is one of the oldest professional pledges in Western society. Still preserved and taken by medical professionals in various forms
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Rashid has learned he has prostate cancer, as detailed here. He needs all his supporters to call the Virginia authorities and urge that he begin treatment immediately. The following text can be used by people
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I was able to read a series of exchanges from a discussion group for the Panther Solidarity Organization (PSO).
One particular discussion went on at some length on the question of armed struggle and at what point it is
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