To Be Black “Beyond mere color, being Black is first and foremost a conscious political, social, and economic commitment to the struggle for the collective betterment of the descendants of the Black slavery holocaust in what has now become the United States of America, in conjunction with other people of color and humanity as a […]
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Co-hosts Larry Pinkney and Phil Restino with guest Ralph Poynter on We Cannot Be Silent radio program, Wolf Spirit Radio, April 15, 2013. Caller Janet joins the conversation in the second hour. Duration: 2:04:47 Theme: Lynne Stewart and Political Prisoners in the U.S. (listen) Note: Within the second hour of the radio program, Ralph Poynter mentions a speech Lynne […]
On March 18, 1963, the US Supreme Court decided Gideon v. Wainwright, holding that all criminal defendants had the right to a lawyer. But fifty years later, this right is often a sham. We’ll talk about why this is with Stephen Bright, president and senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights and lecturer […]
Leonard Peltier, a former American Indian Movement member, is a political prisoner here in the United States. He continues to rot in prison without any hope for a re-trial or clemency despite the fact that much of the evidence held against him has been proven to be false, fabricated and coerced. Peltier and the two […]
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? COINTELPRO and THE 45th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Thursday April 4, 2013 Morgan State University Student Theater 9a – 4p Speakers & Panelists Include: Mr. Tom Porter former head of the King Center, Dr. Mark Bolden of The Fanon Project, Liz Derias of the […]
by Chris Hedges The barbarity of solitary confinement was reintroduced into the U.S. prison system following the Black Freedom and anti-imperialist movements of the Sixties, part of the “seamless evolution of political and social incapacitation of poor people of color.” At root “is the predatory nature of corporate capitalism itself. The Shame of America’s […]
A courageous anti-imperialist tradition An anti-war GI during the Vietnam War David Fagen, a Black soldier who defected to the Philippines guerrilla liberation forces and became a captain within it. Photo: H. Masayon/flickr.com This article was published in the ‘Breaking the Chains: Revolutionary Black History’ Edition of Liberation. View the complete issue. Throughout U.S. history, […]
“I think we need to create productive conversations and develop activism among different groups. We need activists, of course, but also intellectuals and scholars, people from the labor movement, women’s movement, prisoners, former prisoners. We need to learn how to talk to and with each other. We need to develop new vocabularies…….we have to recognize […]
by Kamau M. Askari Organization is a framework through which collective power can be achieved. Organization is also a byproduct of unity. Prisoners of varying racial and ethnic backgrounds and ideological and political persuasions have forged a united front – best reflected by the Short Corridor Collective confined in Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing […]
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=201302080851418ReformingPrisonsHarshe In December 2012 the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit to curb the use of solitary confinement in that state’s prisons, broadly decrying it as “extreme isolation” that imperils the physical and psychological well-being of inmates on solo lockdown and risks undermining prison safety overall. (The second of two parts) by Katti […]
