Prisons: tear them down

Albert Woodfox: ‘a warrior who loved humanity’

John “Bunchy '” Crear joined Peoples Party 2 in Houston in June 1971. He went to Oakland, California, with Charles…

August 31, 2022

Momentum builds to stop the new jail plan

Over 100 Greater Cleveland community members turned out Aug. 25 for a “Community meeting” held to purportedly hear from Cuyahoga…

August 30, 2022

Yvonne Swan Wanrow set precedent for self-defense cases

Record numbers of women and gender-oppressed people are being locked up.  Writing for the Guardian, Marianne Kaba estimated that between…

August 29, 2022

Sexual assaults by staff at Stewart Detention Center: Shut it DOWN!

Lumpkin, Georgia On Saturday, Aug. 20, immigrant rights activists brought their outrage to the gates of the Stewart Detention Center,…

August 25, 2022

Recollections of Albert Woodfox

Parnell Herbert grew up with Albert Woodfox and later reconnected when Woodfox was in prison. Malik Rahim was a founder…

August 24, 2022

Bradford Gamble, liberated activist and prison whistleblower

When Bradford Gamble died, he was surrounded by his family. The 65-year-old had been imprisoned for nearly a lifetime —…

August 23, 2022

Albert Woodfox, Angola Three warrior passes

August 9 Who has not heard of the Angola Three, three young Black prisoners who were falsely accused of killing…

August 22, 2022

Philadelphia: Ban of nicotine sabotages drug rehab, harms users

What would you do, if you were an addict living with the constant agony of addiction? What would you do,…

August 19, 2022

Lessons from Charlottesville: How to fight fascism

This article first appeared on workers.org on Jan. 13, 2021, in response to the Jan. 6 pro-Trump, violent takeover of…

August 17, 2022

Methadone clinics: ending stigma and social control

In the 1930s, the German company I.G. Farben was looking for a solution to the opium shortage and the company’s…

August 11, 2022