There is a literal crisis of denied and substandard treatment of prisoners’ serious health conditions in Virginia. My own experiences give testament to this.
During 2021 I returned to the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) from confinement in a series
… Read the rest”We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people, other people of color, and all oppressed people inside the United States.” (1)
Huey P. Newton made an accurate comparison when he stated that police in Black
… Read the restWhen whites who witnessed the brutal reality of Blacks suffering at the hands of the U.S capitalist imperialist and white supremacist system asked Huey P. Newton how they could help, he told them to go and start a White Panther
… Read the restYou call it independence day
Oh my how you lie
Cuz Black folks were still your slaves
On that day in July
If taxation without representation
Was just cause for outrage
How about being enslaved
>From cradle to grave
To
… Read the restIf you ever wanna discover
A place of boundless treasure
Where sisters and brothers can found with
Talents beyond measure
All one need do is
Tear down these walls
Walk down these halls
You’ll hear it in their calls
Lyricists
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night of growth
from gestation
comes youth
cycle of life
first begun
two forms
joined
to one
from a pool
dark in form
emitted to light
newly born
a gift to a world
torn by strife
oblivious to
On March 23, 2023 the Virginia legislature passed a new law restricting the use and duration of solitary confinement in the state’s prisons. (1) This law was enacted in response to years of public protest against Virginia’s
… Read the restThe thing with invented
Professions
Are it’s self proclaimed professionals
Are in possession
Of all the made up credentials
That are essential
To inventing false social afflictions
Then prescribing treatments
That cause bad results like drug addictions
Treatments that help
… Read the rest”Our point of departure is to serve the people wholeheartedly and never for a moment divorce ourselves from the masses, to proceed in all cases from the interests of the people and not from one’s own self-interest or from the