Prisons: tear them down

The MOVE 9: 39 years too many

Brooklyn, N.Y. — The MOVE 9 were honored on Aug. 5 at a Commemoration and Art Exhibit at Brooklyn’s House…

August 10, 2017

Eyricka King, Black trans woman prisoner, needs ‘Freedom to Live’

Tonight, some 2.3 million people in the United States will fall asleep in a prison, jail or juvenile or immigrant…

July 17, 2017

Political prisoner the Rev. Pinkney ’FREE AT LAST’

Detroit — Activists here gathered on July 8 to celebrate a rare victory in the struggle against capitalist oppression. More…

July 15, 2017

On heels of DA scandal: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

Scores of demonstrators brought afternoon rush-hour traffic in Philadelphia’s Center City to a halt on July 7 as they took…

July 12, 2017

Oakland rally says ‘Free Mumia!’

Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered at Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland, Calif., on July 7 to demand that the…

July 12, 2017

‘Out of the mouths of babes’

This is from a column written by Mumia Abu-Jamal on June 21. It arrived after the June 24 ceremony for…

July 7, 2017

Stop DA office coverup, free Mumia now!

For the second time, Common Pleas Court Judge Leon Tucker ordered the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on June 22 to release…

July 5, 2017

‘Juvenile lifers’: Demanding justice in Detroit

A group of at least 80 protesters rallied in Erma Henderson Park in Detroit on Father’s Day, June 18, to…

June 28, 2017

Pennsylvania prisoner fights toxic prisons

This is the lightly edited text of a speech given for the Fight Toxic Prisons 2017 National Convergence Conference, held…

June 23, 2017

Rev. Pinkney is free!

Exactly two years and six months after being locked up, Michigan’s political prisoner, the Rev. Edward Pinkney, walked out from…

June 13, 2017