Prisons: tear them down

Prisoners harness power of labor strikePrisoners harness power of labor strike

Prisoners harness power of labor strike

As movements for freedom and against mass incarceration continue to build behind prison walls, more prisoners are looking to the…

July 3, 2016
Stop force feeding striking prisoners!Stop force feeding striking prisoners!

Stop force feeding striking prisoners!

At least six prisoners are now on hunger strike in Wisconsin at Columbia, Green Bay and Waupun maximum security prisons.…

July 3, 2016
Sign the petition to tell Attorney General Loretta Lynch to FREE the MOVE 9Sign the petition to tell Attorney General Loretta Lynch to FREE the MOVE 9

Sign the petition to tell Attorney General Loretta Lynch to FREE the MOVE 9

The following appeal was written by Michael Davis Africa, one of the unjustly imprisoned MOVE 9 and a member of…

June 30, 2016
Major Tillery case appealedMajor Tillery case appealed

Major Tillery case appealed

The family and other supporters of Major Tillery, who has been in Pennsylvania prisons unjustly for over 30 years, gathered…

June 21, 2016
Protests fight Michigan prison conditionsProtests fight Michigan prison conditions

Protests fight Michigan prison conditions

Prisoners at the Marquette Branch Prison in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula held a mass boycott of the facility’s cafeteria on May…

June 17, 2016
Mumia Abu-Jamal on: Muhammad Ali –‘the greatest!’Mumia Abu-Jamal on: Muhammad Ali –‘the greatest!’

Mumia Abu-Jamal on: Muhammad Ali –‘the greatest!’

It was January 1942, when the baby Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born to a working-class Black family in Louisville,…

June 17, 2016
Free Rev. Edward Pinkney!Free Rev. Edward Pinkney!

Free Rev. Edward Pinkney!

Activists from around Michigan converged in Benton Harbor in the southwest portion of the state on May 28 for a…

June 3, 2016
Solitary confinement is ‘no touch’ torture and must be abolishedSolitary confinement is ‘no touch’ torture and must be abolished

Solitary confinement is ‘no touch’ torture and must be abolished

Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the heroic WikiLeaks whistleblower and transgender activist currently jailed in the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.,…

May 30, 2016
Bond demanded for Rev. Pinkney, political prisonerBond demanded for Rev. Pinkney, political prisoner

Bond demanded for Rev. Pinkney, political prisoner

Michigan political prisoner the Rev. Edward Pinkney had his appeal placed on hold May 12 following oral arguments in his…

May 23, 2016
Activists support Rev. Pinkney at hearingActivists support Rev. Pinkney at hearing

Activists support Rev. Pinkney at hearing

The Michigan State Appeals Court hearing for the Rev. Edward Pinkney, an African-American political prisoner, was held in Grand Rapids,…

May 18, 2016