by Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu Iyapo, Baridi Yero and Ifoma M. Kambon Due to the litany of contradictions that we as an oppressed people are confronted with, it is easy for us to focus solely on the problem and lose sight of formulating concrete solutions to our problems. The current discussions that are centered around the revisions to the gang […]
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Statement from the Pelikan Bay Human Rights Movement First Amendment Campaign by Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe Dumisani, Abasi Ganda, Ifoma Modibo Kambon, Dadisi Yero, Askari Joka, Mutope Duguma, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Baridi Yero, Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu I-Yapo Preamble: Fascist repression can only flourish when the voices of its victims have been brutally silenced and isolated within the concrete confines of a man-made construct where the scrutiny […]
On Monday April 8th they ran no yard on 4B facility in Corcoran-SHU. We of course investigated as to why we were, yet again, denied yard access without explanation and discovered staff had all gone to some sort of “training.” By chance, or design, one of the N.C.T.T.-Cor-SHU coordinators was under escort by 2 officers who, […]
Advocates push to bring prisoners home by Emily Harris, Californians United for a Responsible Budget Sacramento – Yesterday’s ultimatum by the three-judge panel puts Gov. Brown and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on notice to present a plan for further reductions in the state’s unconstitutionally crowded prisons within the next three weeks. “The […]
by Arturo Castellanos Greetings to all those men and women of like minds and spirits who are going to volunteer and stand with us in solidarity in the upcoming peaceful struggle to force positive changes to CDCR that will benefit all prisoners and all our outside families and friends. California prisoners who backed up their […]
April 8, 2013 By Sal Rodriguez California Security Housing Unit Cell California Governor Jerry Brown’s bid to end federal control over the state prison system’s mental health system was denied in federal court on Friday, April 5, in a sharply worded ruling by U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton. In the 68-page ruling, Judge Karlton […]
by Gabriel A. Huerta You, Gov. Brown, not the Legislature, recently received a document from prisoners currently confined in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) entitled “Peaceful Protest to Resume July 8, 2013.” The additional grievances in this current communication build on the Jan. 27, 2013, document as these grievances are also […]
23 years of solitary: Beyond ‘cruel and unusual’ April 3, 2013 by Marie Levin I have not hugged my brother in over two decades. His name is Ronnie Dewberry and he goes by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa. He has been in solitary confinement in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison since 1990. Ronnie could have been home […]
by Mutope Duguma, Sitawa N. Jamaa, Abdul O. Shakur and Sondai K. Dumisani Gov. Brown has declared that the prison crisis that allowed prisoners to die is over and that prisoners are receiving good care. His words, not ours. It is obvious that the governor has not produced any data that supports his claim. Furthermore, the governor is deliberately […]
PELICAN BAY HUNGER STRIKE RESUMES: The Continued Struggle to End Solitary Confinement in California Tuesday March 19th @ 6:00pm UC Hastings College of the Law 198 McAllister Street Louis B. Mayer Lounge JOIN US this Tuesday, March 19th at 6:00pm at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco for a panel on […]
