Statement from the Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement First Amendment Campaign by Sondai Dumisani, Abasi Ganda, Mutope Duguma, Abdul O. Shakur, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa Drawing by Michael David Russell, C-90473, D7-217, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City CA 95532 The San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper for March 2013, Vol. 38, Issue […]
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Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety –An interview with author and former prisoner Shawn Griffith By Angola 3 News If given the attention it deserves, an important new book is certain to make significant contributions to the public discussions of […]
Statement from Leonard Peltier on the Tornado Tragedy in Oklahoma Friends, Relatives, Supporters, and to the People of Oklahoma, There are so many things in life that we question. We think that life isn’t fair. We wonder why so many innocent people have to suffer and what the lesson is, in all of this. I am […]
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.” ~~Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
MAY BELONGS TO MALCOLM! ANNUAL BIRTHDAY LECTURE AT LIBRARY WILL ALSO SPOTLITE GRANDSON On Wednesday, May 15th, Baba Zayid Muhammad will again do the Malcolm X Remembered Lecture for the James Brown African-American Room at the Newark Public Library. The lecture will take place at 6pm at Newark Public Library’s African-American Room. Admission is Free. […]
The prison industrial complex in the u.s. is essentially a 21st century form of economic and psychological slavery “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” – Frederick Douglass “There was one of two […]
Mondo we Langa We received this beautiful poem by Mondo We Langa from our friend Alina Dollat, who works with Amnesty International in France. ALL THE CHILDREN by Mondo We Langa i was a witness to your statement i heard the words expressing grief over the deaths especially of the children the slaughtered innocents who […]
Brother J of The X Clan returns with a powerful message about the trials of incarceration and the prison industrial complex. Featuring Christian Scott on trumpet. From the latest album “Return From Mecca“. Directed by Wraithe for Kinetik Cinematix. 2008
In a huge development in the case of the Cuban Five, the court has finally granted a motion, first made last June, to allow René González to serve the remaining portion of his three-year parole in Cuba, after which he will of course be able to remain in Cuba, outside the jurisdiction of the court. Until […]
Letter From Assata Assata: Exile since 1979 On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Shakur (fsn) JoAnne Chesimard, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances before escaping out of the maximum security […]
