The Nationwide Prison Strike: Why It’s Happening and What It Means for Ending Mass Incarceration
It was time to launch a national prison strike to raise awareness around the brutality of mass incarceration.
It was time to launch a national prison strike to raise awareness around the brutality of mass incarceration.
These party elites, consumed by greed, myopia and a deep cynicism, have a death grip on the political process. They’re not going to let it go, even if it all implodes.
Civil rights advocate and best-selling author Michelle Alexander responds to the new push by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to escalate the war on drugs
Our failure to defend those who are demonized and persecuted leaves us all demonized and persecuted. Our failure to demand justice for everyone leaves us all without justice. Our failure to halt the crushing of popular movements that stand unequivocally with the oppressed leaves us all oppressed. Our failure to protect our democracy leaves us without a democracy. (Includes interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal.)
Our failure to defend those who are demonized and persecuted leaves us all demonized and persecuted. Our failure to demand justice for everyone leaves us all without justice. Our failure to halt the crushing of popular movements that stand unequivocally with the oppressed leaves us all oppressed. Our failure to protect our democracy leaves us without a democracy. (Includes interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal.)
Taylor believes the absence of her father made a huge difference. If he had been around, she observed, "the household would have been more structured ... I don't think my brother and sister would have gotten into trouble."
Taylor believes the absence of her father made a huge difference. If he had been around, she observed, "the household would have been more structured ... I don't think my brother and sister would have gotten into trouble."
Trump's trash-tweeting mimics the hate-filled discourse and threats of violence in which he often engaged during the presidential primary campaign -- only now he has a much broader audience
The institutions and elite factions that have spent years mocking, maligning, and pillaging large portions of the population ...are now shocked that their dictates and decrees go unheeded.
The avalanche of government lies permeates the narrative—not a surprise to anyone who has reported on the inner workings of power...
These striking prisoners are far more effective, and far more threatening to the corporate state, than the outside multitudes entranced and manipulated by the Donald Trump andHillary Clinton Goon Show.
These articles address the state of the current prison system in the United States taking on the concepts of innocence vs. a rigged system in the courts and likening the labor of prisoners to an American Slave System, the school-to-prison system, corporate-owned prisons for profit, and more.