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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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
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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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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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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Now available in two formats — click here to download Main Line #8 in small print, appropriate for mailing in a single regular envelope, or click here to download Main Line #8 in larger print, easier to
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