Rashid

THE WHITE SNAKE REARS HIS HEAD AGAIN: HOW TOM “THE GREAT WHITE HOAX” WATTS RECRUITED A “ROCK STAR INFORMANT” INTO THE NABPP (A Q&A RESPONSE TO “THE SNAKE REARS ITS HEAD: FOR TEN YEARS WE HAD A “ROCK STAR INFORMANT” IN THE NABPP: THE EXPOSURE OF KEITH “MALIK” WASHINGTON”), by Kevin Rashid Johnson (2022)

January 10, 2022 | Filed under: Articles, Uncategorized

QUESTION: WHO WROTE “THE SNAKE REARS ITS HEAD”?

RASHID: It is being represented as written by the Central Committee of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP). It was actually ghostwritten by a white guy Thomas Watts or Tom.
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My Return to Virginia: A Tribute to People Power (2021)

December 5, 2021 | Filed under: Articles

After less than three months in the Ohio prison system, on Oct 5, 2021 I was transferred from the Ohio back to the Virginia Department of Corrections (sic!) [VDOC]. This transfer defied everything that VA officials had previously projected against
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Imprisoned in Sundown Towns: The Racial Politics of My Domestic Exile (2021)

September 2, 2021 | Filed under: Articles

Power Reacts to All Threats

On July 12, 2021 I was transferred from the Indiana prison system to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (sic!). This was my sixth interstate prison system transfer in nine years. For a state
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STATEMENT BY THE RIBPP, RIWPO & PSO ON THE RETALIATORY TRANSFER OF AND SUBSEQUENT RACIST THREATS BY SOUTHERN OHIO CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OFFICIALS TOWARDS POLITICAL PRISONER, KEVIN “RASHID” JOHNSON

August 30, 2021 | Filed under: News and Updates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

08/06/2021

STATEMENT BY THE RIBPP, RIWPO & PSO ON THE RETALIATORY TRANSFER OF AND SUBSEQUENT RACIST THREATS BY SOUTHERN OHIO CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OFFICIALS TOWARDS POLITICAL PRISONER, KEVIN “RASHID” JOHNSON

All Power to the People!

Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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The Sport of Abusing Prisoners in Lucasville, Ohio: Like Pulling Wings Off Flies (2021)

August 22, 2021 | Filed under: Articles

The Psychosis of Torture

Some behavioral theorists believe that children who torture animals (those who pull the wings off flies for example), display early pathological tendencies and will likely become sociopaths or violent psychotics as they age.

What does this
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The Birth, Meaning, and Practice Of Black August (2021)

July 21, 2021 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Black August is a month designated to pay tribute to the true heroes, martyrs, and history of New Afrikan (Black) people in our struggle for liberation against the over 400 years of violent repression, suffering, and exploitation that we’ve endured
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Join The Panther Solidarity Movement!

July 1, 2021 | Filed under: Uncategorized

The Panther Solidarity Movement (PSM) is a continuation of the original Rainbow Coalition started on April 4, 1969 by Chairman Fred Hampton of the Chicago Chapter of the BPP.

Many efforts have been made to form Rainbow Coalitions, most often
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Coopting Juneteenth with a Federal Holiday (2021)

July 1, 2021 | Filed under: Articles

Damage Control

The police murder of George Floyd during the summer of 2020 was a lynching. The act differed little from the routine public murders of Black people by mob and police violence that has punctuated centuries of Black existence
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A People’s Tribunal to Try Crimes Against the People: On the October 2021 International Tribunal Against the U.S. Government (2021)

June 28, 2021 | Filed under: Articles

How often have the millions of us who’ve suffered the tortured abuse of U.S. imprisonment, heard officials self-righteously sermonize that we must accept responsibility for our accused crimes? Well, so too must they.

We call on everyone, especially young people,
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ON THE EXPOSURE OF KEITH “MALIK” WASHINGTON AS A “ROCK STAR INFORMANT” (2021)

During November 2021 the San Francisco Bay View (SFBV) newspaper published an article about Keith “Malik” Washington and a 2011 letter in his handwriting that described him as having been a “rock star” informant for the FBI and Texas officials

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Are We Prison Abolitionists? (A Response To Bob Avakian’s “Abolition: Real And Illusory”)

I was invited by affiliates of the Revolutionary Communist Party-USA (RCP) to write a “refutation” of a short polemic by the RCP’s Chair Bob Avakian titled, “Abolition–Real and Illusory.” In inviting me to reply they expressed, “a critique with substance

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Join And Support ODRC Watch: A New Support Network For Ohio Prisoners (2021), by Kevin ”Rashid” Johnson

I have spent nearly two decades writing about the abuses of U.S. prisons. There are very few people who do this. Outside journalists have basically no inside access to prisons and few prisoners are willing to speak out as witnesses

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Inventing Pretexts To Justify Official Crimes: Pages From The Pig Playbook–Reading Number 2 (2021)

Pig Pretext Crimes: They Are No Accident!

Everyone is familiar with the game so-called “law enforcement” officials play of creating or using pretexts to justify criminal abuse. Whether it’s the unarmed person of color gunned down for holding a cell

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The Lucasville Gas Chamber: Torturing Ohio Prisoners With War Crimes Chemical Weapons (2021) By Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson

The Dictator’s Motto

U.S. officials are quick to condemn other countries for human rights abuses, standards that they don’t apply to themselves. It’s the motto of the dictator: “Do as I say, not as I do!”

Take for example the

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Main Line #7 August 2021

Now available in two formats — click here to download Main Line #7 in small print, appropriate for mailing in a single regular envelope, or click here to download Main Line #7 in larger print, easier to read.

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In Answer to Pig Harassment; Keep the Heat On ‘Em! (2021)

On August 27, 2021 I received my recently purchased Jpay prison tablet, which can be used to correspond with the outside, send out articles, that sort of thing. Officials here at Southern Ohio Correctional (sic!) Facility aka Lucasville prison, know

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Kevin Rashid Johnson — Transferred to Ohio and Facing Bogus Charges!

On July 12 Kevin “Rashid” Johnson was transferred from Wabash Valley prison in Indiana to the custody of the Ohio Department of Corrections, being brought directly to their intake center in Orient. He would remain there for less than three

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Black Wall Street Is Still Burning (A Poem) (2021)

If in 1921 Greenwood was a ‘hood,

They’d dismiss what happened as gentrification;

“Black Wall Street,” a phenomenal feat,

So historians erased it.

How the burning aimed to depopulate it,

A thriving Black community, although segregated.

White mobs massacred hundreds,

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Join the Panther Solidarity Organization! (2021)

The Panther Solidarity Organization Belongs To The People

The Panther Solidarity Organization (PSO) is a democratic mass organization that operates under the leadership of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP). It is an organization composed of the people to

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The Psychosis of Torture

Damage Control

Pig Pretext Crimes: They Are No Accident!

The Dictator’s Motto

The Panther Solidarity Organization Belongs To The People