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 […]
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ATTICA: 41 Years Later [col. writ. 8/26/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal The name, Attica, has entered the lexicon of American culture, driven, in part, by the cinema performance in “Dog Day Afternoon”, when actor Al Pacino raised his fist and exclaimed, “Attica! Attica!” Viewers immediately got the reference, for on Sept. 9, […]
One hundred and eighty years ago today, Nat Turner – a slave and lay preacher from Virginia – calmly explained to six of his fellow slaves that the moment had come for him not only to lead his people out of bondage, but to destroy its racist institution entirely. Over the next two days, Turner […]
li “What Better Time Than Now?” New Piece on Gang and Prisoner Unity Published June 8, 2012 The Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective is proud to have just published a new piece of prisoner’s writing on unity, truce efforts, and political consciousness in US gangs. The zine presents a number of interesting topics like the forming […]
If one were to examine closely the hegemonic discourses of black American history, one would be surprised to find a long history of militant armed struggle. Slave rebellions, urban “guerilla” insurgencies, rural defense leagues, are all part of a tapestry of black militant rebellion to subjugation. Rashad Shabazz Issue #71, December 2004 If one were […]
Another Way of Seeing the World Zapatistas: 18 Years of Rebellion and Resistance by MARCELA SALAS CASSANI Hundreds of activists and academics from around the world gathered at the International Seminar “Planet Earth: Anti-Systemic Movements” to discuss the importance of the 1994 Zapatista uprising on its 18th anniversary. In the context of the popular insurrections […]
As a Pan-afrikanst living here in the amerikkka’s.I pledge to continue the fight that my ancestors fought and even gave their lives 4 so that i would have freedom to live as a proud NU-Afrikan. That dream is still differed still some 450 yrs later,and i will not rest until freedom is a reality for all […]
