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, by MOODY Kim
The debate over the causes of mass incarceration, and its class and racial roots, is crucial not only because it gives us an insight into the current rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, but also because it forces us to look more deeply into the persistence of racism throughout American (…)
, by OTTESEN KK
Albert Woodfox, 73, is an activist and the author of “Solitary,” a 2019 National Book Award finalist. Known as one of the Angola Three, along with Robert King and Herman Wallace, Woodfox served nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He was released in 2016. (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Prisoners in many states in the U.S. began a coordinated National Strike on August 21, the anniversary of the killing of Black Panther member and prison activist George Jackson by guards in an escape attempt, in 1971, at San Quentin prison in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the context of the (…)
, by LOOMIS Erik
A national strike by prisoners is the latest iteration of demands for freedom from forced labor.
Since Aug. 21, prisoners across the United States have been on one of the largest prison strikes the nation has seen in years. They have several demands, but at the top is the end of the forced (…)
, by LOSIER Toussaint
This year’s ongoing nationwide prison strike demonstrates the upsurge in a movement that is “self-organized, independent, and fighting against the brutality of the prison system.”
On August 21st, forty-seven years after the assassination of key movement organizer and theoretician George (…)
, by GILMORE Ruth Wilson , PETITJEAN Clément
Ruth Wilson Gilmore discusses the function of prisons under racial capitalism, abolitionist organizing, mass incarceration and class struggle, and what has changed since the publication of Golden Gulag.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore at Brown University, October 2016.
This interview was published in (…)
, by PILKINGTON Ed
Mike Africa Jr has spent 40 years of his life with both parents behind bars. Then one day in June, his life changed. Ed Pilkington tells his story
The placenta was the trickiest part. How to dispose of it without it making a mess that would alert the guards that a child had just been born in a (…)
, by PILKINGTON Ed
Some African American rebels, including Mumia Abu-Jamal and members of Move, are still incarcerated for their actions during the 1970s black liberation struggle
Mumia Abu-Jamal, AKA Wesley Cook, former Black Panther Former Pennsylvania death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, seen here in a 13 (…)
, by PILKINGTON Ed
Over two years, Ed Pilkington has interviewed eight people imprisoned since the 1970s black liberation struggle that rocked the US. As they near 50 years inside, will America’s black radicals ever be freed?
Antoinette Russell vividly recalls the first time she was led to believe she would (…)
, by PILKINGTON Ed
The best known of America’s incarcerated black radicals speaks out in a two-year email correspondence with Ed Pilkington on the ‘continuum’ of the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter
Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. Photograph: April Saul/Philadelphia Inquirer
The letter was dated (…)
Review of James Kilgore, Understanding Mass Incarceration:. A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time. New York: The New Press, 2015, 264 pages, $17.95 paper.
UNDERSTANDING MASS INCARCERATION by James Kilgore is the latest in a wave of publications on mass incarceration (…)
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