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Michelle Alexander’s ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...
Review by Lenore Jean Daniels, Ph.D. “This book is not for everyone. I have a specific audience in mind – people who care deeply about racial justice but who, for any number of reasons, do not yet...
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Belize Territorial Volunteers demarcate border lines
by George and Candy Gonzalez Belize has had a land dispute with Guatemala over where the Belize border is. Guatemala has traditionally claimed Belize as part of Guatemala. Now it is proposed that the...
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Why I joined the multi-racial, multi–regional Human Rights Movement to...
by Antonio Guillen, Pelican Bay SHU Short Corridor Collective I’ve been asked several times how it was possible that rivals from different racial and/or regional groups were able to see past...
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A strategy meant to break me fuels my passion for human rights
by Amy Preasmyer I am an inmate at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, California. In April 2013, I and another individual were falsely accused of sexual assault and placed in...
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Prison hunger strikers face reprisals as papers that back them are censored
by John Studer Since some 30,000 California prisoners launched a hunger strike July 8 against the practice of long-term solitary confinement and other abuses, participants have faced punitive...
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Our own political action committee can expand the prisoners’ rights movement
by Jose Villarreal I was pleased to read about the current talk of creating a political action committee (PAC) for prisoners. There was a time when I despised the whole oppressor political apparatus,...
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Child refugees: When children are ‘the enemy’
by Mumia Abu-Jamal I’ve been watching for days now as media reports display the growing hatred at the arrival of Central American children across the Mexican-U.S. border. A little girl cries as her...
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California prisoner representatives: All people have the right to humane...
Main reps mark the first anniversary of suspension of the 2013 Hunger Strike and the second anniversary of the Agreement to End Hostilities by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos and George Franco We...
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Grant ‘Strategic Release’ to Abdul Olugbala Shakur
A petition for Strategic Release, a groundbreaking initiative to free prisoners with a record of service to their communities, will for the first time be presented to the Parole Board April 2, 2015, on...
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Moving forward with our fight to end solitary confinement
by Todd Ashker Greetings of solidarity and respect to all similarly situated members of the prison class unified in our struggle to end long term solitary confinement and win related long overdue...
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Dorsey Nunn on Hugo Pinell and the Agreement to End Hostilities: An old man’s...
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that...
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We stand together so prisoners never have to go through the years of torture...
by Todd Ashker “Pelican Bay SHU Half Living, Half Dying” – Art: Michael D. Russell, C-90473, HDSP C2-122, P.O. Box 3030, Susanville CA 96127 This is a follow-up to our October 2017 Prisoner Class Human...
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