by Ikemba S. Mutulu Young people, to start, you must acknowledge that for everything you think you know, there is a great deal you don’t know. That the first pursuit of man is to acquire knowledge. But until you can discern the real from the fake, true knowledge and the wisdom to wield it effectively will […]
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Source URL: http://ri-ir.org/2011/08/21/40-years-on-george-jackson-lives-september-23-1941-%e2%80%93-august-21-1971/ 40 Years On, George Jackson Lives (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) August 21, 2011 · by revintcan Long live the black communist guerrilla! Long live the Panther! Long live George Jackson! This Black August, download and spread around George Jackson’s writings, Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye. Click the […]
by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson Things I don’t do Even before I began my political journey in 2001, I maintained certain principles – a variety of things I just don’t do. And usually, if ever I deviated from those principles, even in error, I’d end up in a tangle of trouble. February 2013 was an ordeal. […]
by a California prisoner February 2013 permalink I’ve enclosed a chrono that documents how these people have chosen to violate my First Amendment right to read a book. I’ve been validated and am awaiting transfer to the Security Housing Unit (SHU). “On Thursday, November 18, 2010, the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) Institutional Gang Investigator (IGI) Unit conducted […]
Greetings All: As many of you already know, Hugo Pinell (Yogi Bear) and Ruchell Cinque Magee have been locked up in California gulags for 49 and 50 years, respectively. An outrage since neither has a murder conviction or LWOP (life without the possiblity of parole). To learn more, go to http://www.hugopinell.org. They are political prisoners even […]
Ruchell Cinque Magee # A92051 C-2 107L CSATF/State Prison at Corcoran P.O Box 5242 Corcoran, CA 93212 Personal Background Ruchell Cinque Magee is the longest held political prisoner in the U.S., having been locked up since 1963. Politicized in prison, he later participated in the Marin Countyh Courthouse Rebellion, the attempted liberation of political prisoner George Jackson. He has […]
Text written by Walter Rodney, November 1971 To most readers in this continent, starved of authentic information by the imperialist news agencies, the name of George Jackson is either unfamiliar or just a name. The powers that be in the United States put forward the official version that George Jackson was a dangerous criminal […]
Who were the Attica Brothers? Why did they seize control of the prison? What makes Attica important to the anti-prison movement today? Featuring historical materials from the Freedom Archives. Voices include: Frank ‘Big Black‘ Smith, Attica Brother and prison activist L.D. Barkley, Attica Brother killed during the re-taking of the prison Elizabeth Fink, attorney for […]
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation’s dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. George Jackson
