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Tens of thousands liberate state Capitol in Madison
by Bryan G. Pfeifer The people showed their power this week at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisc. This photo was taken Thursday, Feb. 17. Madison, Wis. – Since Feb. 14, tens of thousands of students,...
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Global and local people power unites
by Carol Harvey San Francisco – December 2010 Tunisian civil resistance erupted when a poverty-stricken college grad, Mohamed Bouazizi, unable to find work, harassed by “authorities” while selling...
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‘Bombing his own people?’
by Mumia Abu-Jamal A crowd watches on May 13, 1985, as a bomb dropped by Philadelphia police on the home of the MOVE family on Osage Avenue ignites and destroys two full blocks of homes and kills 11...
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Hiding Africa’s looted funds: Silence of Western media
by Lord Aikins Adusei A little known news aggregation site called Newser used this photo showing how oil pipelines have taken over and destroyed the economy and environment of the Niger Delta to...
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Benton Harbor is the new Selma
by Eartha Jane Melzer Leading the anti-takeover march April 27, Rev. Edward Pinkney decried the emergency financial manager as a “dictator,” declaring: “The city of Benton Harbor Is now under martial...
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Tanya pleads not guilty and we march next month
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World – Scholarship in Action Tanya McDowell Tanya McDowell, the mother in Connecticut who was charged with larceny for allegedly stealing an education for her son,...
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New Orleans news from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Thousands more Black home owners who lost their homes when the levees burst in 2005 would rebuild and return to New Orleans if the Road Home program would treat them fairly. Post-Katrina housing case...
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Partisan resistance: Anatomy of a takeover at a health care corporation
by Carol Harvey When wellness is based on a home, a health care corporation leaving a building empty is a savagely hypocritical act. Years ago, Kaiser Permanente, the landlord, evicted all the tenants...
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Rethinking Malcolm: What was Marable thinking?
by Abdul Alkalimat Malcolm X at Queens Court 1964 - Photo: Herman Hiller The new book by Manning Marable, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” will help us to get a deeper understanding of Malcolm X and...
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Strike updates: Stop prison torture at Pelican Bay
A weekend of demos and rallies for the hunger strike by PrisonerHungerStrikeSolidarity When the July 8 Bay of Rage march brought the noise to the North County Jail at Seventh and Clay in Oakland,...
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People are being tortured inside these places
Statement for today’s hunger striker solidarity rallies by Bomani Shakur Bomani Shakur and other veterans of the Lucasville rebellion went on hunger strike earlier this year and succeeded in persuading...
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Attica Solidarity Statement from the San Quentin Six
Commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion Friday, Sept. 9, 7 p.m., 518 Valencia St., San Francisco – featuring ‘Attica,’ the restored 1974 film by David Johnson, Willie Sundiata...
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Crime and punishment
by Bomani Shakur “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” – Dostoyevsky Bomani Shakur and his comrades from the legendary Lucasville uprising went on hunger...
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Ohio hunger strike ends
Youngstown, Ohio, May 9, 2012 – After long negotiations with Warden David Bobby on Monday, May 7, the hunger-striking prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) began eating again. Two of the men held...
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Prison liberation movement needs new kinds of thinking
by Dennis Boatwright Dennis Boatwright The increase in hunger strikes in state prisons throughout the United States, which have been inspired by the courageous examples of Ohio and California...
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Prisoners at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison on hunger strike
by Mary Ratcliff On May 22, brave prisoners at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike. Their decision to starve themselves in an effort to be heard is the latest in a recent series of...
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Prosecuting free speech
by DeBray “Fly Benzo” Carpenter For speaking out and organizing resistance against the SFPD murder of Kenneth Harding, DeBray “Fly Benzo” Carpenter has been jailed twice George Washington, the first...
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Wanda’s Picks for October 2014
by Wanda Sabir Blood Moon On Wednesday, Oct. 8, between 1:17 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., view the eclipse of the moon. Called the blood moon because of its red hue, it should be pretty spectacular and, weather...
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Joe Debro on racism in construction, Part 9
A study of the manpower implications of small business financing by Joseph Debro A 1968 book-length report, titled “A Study of the Manpower Implications of Small Business Financing: A Survey of 149...
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Prisoner Human Rights Movement fights on many fronts to reclaim our lives and...
by Mutope Duguma Although our initial focus was and is ending long term solitary confinement for thousands of prisoners who been subjected to unspeakable torture by the state of California’s prison...
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