http://www.sundiataacoli.org/wp-content/uploads/Prison-v.-Education-presentation.pptx This power point presentation was created to help people better understand what is going on with the prison system. The presentation contains 47 slides which are made up of graphs and images that depict the rise of men, women, juveniles and seniors behind bars. We also take a closer look at the expansion and […]
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by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China The State Department of the United States recently released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012, posing as the world judge of human rights again. As in previous years, the reports are full of carping and irresponsible remarks on the […]
Wed, 05/08/2013 – 10:00 — Margaret Kimberley by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Thanks to The First Black President and The First Black Attorney General, “the only people safe in speaking of or contacting Shakur are those who mean her harm.” To speak of Black liberation, its heroes and history, is […]
All My life, all my entire life I’ve heard this phrase recited over and over and over again in regards to the critical condition, predicament, whatever-in-the-hell you want to call it, which most of Black America finds itself mired in; babies havin’ babies . . .havin babies. That’s been the rock-steady beat, the same beat, a […]
http://sfbayview.com/2013/brown-can-release-prisoners-early-without-compromising-public-safety/ by Lizzie Buchen After a year of defying court orders to alleviate the state’s prison crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown seems to have finally pushed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to its limit. In an April 11 ruling, having already “exercised exceptional restraint,” the exasperated federal judges declared the state “will […]
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO– Today, at 3:15 p.m., Greg Curry and I, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, decided to end our almost month-long hunger strike. The strike commenced on April 11, the 20th anniversary of the Lucasville prison uprising. The sole purpose of our strike was to vigorously challenge the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) continuously denying us […]
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr “Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.” […]
- Global Voices – http://globalvoicesonline.org – Banned Occupy Nigeria Documentary Goes Viral Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike On 18 April 2013 @ 12:36 pm | 1 Comment In Arts & Culture, Citizen Media, English, Feature, Film, Freedom of Speech, Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa, Weblog A Nigerian documentary about the government’s removal of a fuel subsidy last year, which […]
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by CorpWatch Blog by Pratap Chatterjee In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court today dismissed a lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria. The lawsuit was brought by Esther Kiobel against the company for aiding and abetting the Nigerian government who executed her husband and 10 other activists in the Ogoni […]
