Posts Tagged ‘Prison Industrial Complex’
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s first interview since being removed from Death row.
RT has become the first TV channel in the world to speak to former journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal since he was removed from death row in January. [Read More]
The 99%: a community of resistance – Angela Davis
The Occupy activists and their supporters have brought us together as the 99%. They call upon the majority to stand up against the minority. The old minorities, in effect, are the new majority. There are major responsibilities attached to this decision to forge such an [Read More]
Torture in the US Prison System: The Endless Punishment of Leonard Peltier | Truthout
by: Preston Randolph and Dan Battaglia, Truthout | Op-Ed In June 2006, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons released “Confronting Confinement,” a 126-page report summarizing its 12-month inquiry into the prison systems. The commission [Read More]
Press Release: Pelican Bay Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike to Protest Grave Conditions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—June 29, 2011 Pelican Bay Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike to Protest Grave Conditions Lawyers, Advocates, Organizations Hold Press Conference, Voice Prisoner Demands Press Contact: Isaac Ontiveros Communications Director, Critical Resistance Office: [Read More]
Michelle Alexander on California’s ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Prisons | The Nation
Michelle Alexander, a former ACLU lawyer in the Bay Area and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, has pointed out that the rush to incarcerate has gotten so out of control that “if our nation were to return to the rates of [Read More]
Color of Change: Call to Action
Last year, California State Senator George Runner fought against a plan to provide every Californian with health coverage — legislation that threatened the profits of his wealthy allies in the insurance industry.1 Now his friends, including the California Association [Read More]
