Main Line #8
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Kevin Rashid Johnson
A CALL TO SUPPORT FLORIDA STATE PRISON (FSP) PRISONERS, by Kevin Rashid Johnson MOD, on behalf of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP)
We stand in support of those in prison at FSP who are in need of sustained public protest and support against intolerable conditions, which includes months of denied access of clean linen during an unprecedented Covid-19 outbreak; frequent brutal assaults
Indiana Prison Officials Devised to Keep Comrade Rashid and Kwame Shakur Separated (2022)
My prior domestic exile, where Virginia prison officials had me bounced from one state prison system to another in retaliation for and in efforts to suppress my political work and publicizing and resisting abuses, lasted nearly a decade (from Feb … Read the rest
THE WAR IN UKRAINE: IT’S ONLY AN “ILLEGAL INVASION” WHEN IT’S DONE TO WHITE PEOPLE (2022)
As millions of Afghanis sit starving under punitive US sanctions in the wake of a 20 year military invasion and occupation by Amerika that shattered their country, the US media and political mouthpieces are denouncing the Russian invasion of Ukraine … Read the rest
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)
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.
With … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
My Return to Virginia: A Tribute to People Power (2021)
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 … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest