On December 21, 2016 I was set up for both assault and to have almost all of my personal property permanently taken upon threats to do so by several ranking guards at the Clements Unit in Amarillo, Texas where I … Read the rest
As I write this legal battles are ongoing to compel the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ( PADOC) to provide needed medical treatment to political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, and some 8,000 other PA prisoners, for the highly contagious and deadly … Read the rest
Within a year, three federal lawsuits have been brought behind the tortured deaths of men imprisoned at the William P. Clements Unit in remote Amarillo, Texas.
The latest suit was filed on Oct. 11, 2016 in the U.S. District Court … Read the rest
Monday, September 5, 2016: Labor Day. Here at the William P. Clements Unit, a prison in remote Amarillo, Texas, the prisoners awoke to a late breakfast. A single PBJ sandwich, a small bowl of dry cereal, and no … Read the rest
PANTHERISM AND REVOLUTIONARY INTERCOMMUNALISM VS. SHAM “MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM”
A RESPONSE TO: “WHAT TO DO WITH WHITE PEOPLE?” BY RED MIDWEST
By Tom Watts, on behalf of the White Panther Organization (WPO) and the United Panther Movement (UPM) led by the New … Read the rest
“They’re lying!” It’s almost a reflex response whenever prisoners expose abusive practices of their keepers. Then come the appeals to prejudice: We’ve been convicted of crimes they say, which implies we simply shouldn’t be believed; as if everybody in … Read the rest
31 year old Alton Rodgers, a Black man imprisoned at the Clements Unit in Amarillo, Texas, died on January 19, 2016, at the Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo. He was found unconscious in his cell the day before by … Read the rest
Suddenly Texas prison officials are banning prisoners from having people outside of prison maintain social media accounts for them. Since prisoners do not otherwise have direct access to the internet we can’t manage our own social-media accounts. Officials are taking … Read the rest
… Read the rest“In the past we have also handled some cadres in an incorrect way. No matter whether we were completely mistaken in our handling of these people, or only partially mistaken, they should all be cleared and rehabilitated according to
Comrade Hugo “Yogi Bear” Pinell was murdered on August 12, 2015, at California’s New Folsom State Prison. He was a veteran and much loved leader of the Prison Movement against oppressive prison and social conditions. On behalf of the New … Read the rest
