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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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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The Hippocratic Oath, often reduced to the four words “First do no harm,” is one of the oldest professional pledges in Western society. Still preserved and taken by medical professionals in various forms
… Read the restAfter 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
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[from Socialism and Democracy, 27:1 (March 2013); published text at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2012.760266]
Introduction
Virginia’s prisons claimed 22 years of my life. Those years were not kind or gentle. The last 14 were spent in extreme solitary confinement, in Virginia’s
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Because I struggle to give a voice and human face to and to publicize abuses suffered by my imprisoned peers, help them challenge their mistreatment and work to educate them on their human rights and true role
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This is my second attempt to send out a message thanking all the many thousands of supporters, friends, and comrades for adding your voices to the recent online (Roots Action) petition against my being held in isolated solitary confinement on
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SUPPORT KEVIN “RASHID” JOHNSON, FACING NEW ABUSE FROM VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS!
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is a revolutionary prisoner and artist in Virginia. He is a founding member, and Minister of Defense, of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party–Prison Chapter,
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