WTF The New Crime of Eating While Homeless (Hard Times, USA)

  By outlawing dumpster diving, Houston is making life impossible for the most vulnerable.   Photo Credit: Larry Powell/ Shutterstock.com May 23, 2013  | Whenever one of our cities gets a star turn as host of some super-sparkly event, such as a national political gathering or the Super Bowl, its first move is to tidy […]

Political Prisoner Health Updates

      8:00PM EST  Paulette Dauteuil, Co-Chair of the Jericho Movement will be joining us tonight on Political Prisoner Radio to update us the health of several political prisoners being held by the US government. Many of our comrades who fought for the social/political/human rights of the masses are now fighting to get adequate […]

FBI on Former Black Panther Assata Shakur: ‘We Absolutely Still Consider Her a Threat’

To many, the idea that a woman who spent the majority of her life working against the oppressively racist American government could ever be considered a terrorist in her own right is preposterous. But Assata Shakur, who is accused of k!lling a New Jersey trooper during a firefight, is being sought out not as an […]

Cops Go Undercover at High School to Bust Special-Needs Kid for Pot: Why Are Police So Desperate to Throw Kids in Jail?

  The school-to-prison pipeline strikes again. Photo Credit: shutterstock.com May 22, 2013  | Californians Doug and Catherine Snodgrass are suing their son’s high school for allowing undercover police officers to set up the 17-year-old special-needs student for a drug arrest. In a video segment on ABC News, they say they were “thrilled” when their son — […]

Assata Shakur, “most wanted terrorist”, talking about COINTELPRO and her frame-up by the FBI

    DOWNLOAD MP3   Full DN AUDIO ->11MINS IN> – The FBI has added the former Black Panther Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorists list 40 years after the killing for which she was convicted. Born Joanne Chesimard, Shakur was found guilty of shooting dead a New Jersey state trooper during a gunfight […]

Real rap

  May 20, 2013     by Shuja Moore   Yo. You. Yea, you with DOC (Department of Corrections) printed on your back. Naw, don’t turn the page … WAKE UP! Better yet, look around. Like what you see? I know the streets were live: Money was flowing, women were chasing, and the respect was […]

Bomani Shakur and Staughton Lynd speak to the Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising Conference

  May 20, 2013     The Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising Conference, held April 19-21 in Columbus, Ohio, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Lucasville Uprising, was a resounding success by all reports. “A strong and vibrant coalition has come together to advocate for innocence of those convicted in the aftermath of the uprising,” […]

Deaf Prisoners in Florida Face Abuse and Solitary Confinement

By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella In Florida’s Tomoka Correctional Institution, a corrections officer appears at a cell door and begins mocking fake sign language to the man inside, who is deaf. Then he pulls Sam Hart out of the cell and escorts him for a haircut. After half his hair is shaved off one side of his head, the […]