Prisons: tear them down

U.S. role in Ecuador prison uprisings

“In places where inequality is the deepest, the use of prison and punishment is the greatest.” (Ruth Wilson Gilmore) Prisons…

April 23, 2021

<span class="streamer">WAAR on Chauvin verdicts:</span> <br />‘We’ll accept nothing less than police abolition’

The following statement was issued on April 20 by the Workers Assembly Against Racism, based in New York City. One…

April 21, 2021

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s life in jeopardy — demand his release now!

Philadelphia Family and supporters of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal became alarmed when they did not get his routine daily…

April 21, 2021

San Antonio activists take on phony cop ‘unions’

San Antonio — Black Lives Matter activists in San Antonio came out April 16 and 17 to demand an end…

April 21, 2021

‘Shackling of aged inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is deplorable’

The following statement was released April 20 from the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commission concerning the…

April 20, 2021

Brick by brick and wall by wall, we will free Mumia Abu-Jamal

By Erica Caines This lightly edited presentation was given by Erica Caines, with Black Alliance for Peace and Hood Communist…

April 19, 2021

For incarcerated trans women: ‘Injustice at every turn’

According to the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey, one in six transgender people have been imprisoned. For Black transgender people…

April 14, 2021

Breaking the prison chains

Rebellion at St. Louis City Jail A continuous assault on imprisoned inhabitants at the “Justice Center” in downtown St. Louis,…

April 13, 2021

Victory for Jalil Muntaqim over Monroe County DA

After 49 years, on Oct. 7, 2020, political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim was finally released, becoming the last remaining Black Panther…

April 12, 2021

PA DOC: Stop persecuting Bryant Arroyo for exercising free speech!

Bryant Arroyo, an incarcerated worker at Pennsylvania SCI Frackville, was placed in isolated custody for several days — in other…

April 9, 2021