MY NAME IS REVOLUTION
I reach the world
Borders and checkpoints
can’t impede
my seeds
I make flags unfurl
arm little girls
against your preying
not praying
so you can lay in wait
Teach them freedom songs
for THIS world
No
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WHY WOULD MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS LIE? MY DENIED CANCER TREATMENT BECOMES MORE SINISTER (2022), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
A RECAP OF MY DENIED TREATMENT
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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Book Review: “Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson Featuring Exchanges With an Outlaw”, By Irik Robinson
“Defying the Tomb is a very easy and exciting read. However, it is also the very cornerstone of the kind of political education that the masses of our people need. I will even go as far as to say that
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MEDICAL CARE AS A POLITICAL WEAPON: REFLECTIONS ON FRANTZ FANON’S TREATMENT AND DEATH FROM CANCER IN AMERIKA (2022), By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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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THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY: PERPETUATING WAGE SLAVERY AND MANUFACTURING ARTIFICIAL DESIRES (PAGES FROM THE “PIG PLAYBOOK”: READING #3) (2022), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
INTRODUCTION
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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RETALIATION FOR LITIGATION: VIRGINIA TARGETS PRISONERS SUING AGAINST SOLITARY CONFINEMENT (2022), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
SOLITARY TORTURE IN VIRGINIA
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
Main Line #9
Now available in two formats — click here to download Main Line #9 in small print, appropriate for mailing in a single regular envelope, or click here to download Main Line #9 in larger print, easier to read.
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Defying the Tomb: An Overdue Book Review, by Peter Mukuria
In the month of April, 2022 I was transferred from Virginia’s infamous Supermax Prison called Red Onion to Jessup Correctional Institution in the state of Maryland through Interstate Compact transfer. After months of trying to settle and focus on the
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Rashid Has Been Transferred! In Solitary, with No Medical Care
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is Minister of Defense of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, and a long-time prisoner held by the Virginia Department of Corrections. Rashid is a well-known artist and author, who had written about politics, history, and philosophy,
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