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Mumia on Lockdown
17 Sep 2018
“It’s a war against the prisoners, but also a war against knowledge and, ultimately, the Constitution, itself,” said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, ch
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Pennsylvania Funds Prison Repression, But Not Health Care
17 Sep 2018
Although a statewide lockdown is officially over, prisoner mail and visitation will be hugely disrupted for the next 90 days, said Johanna Fernandez, of the Campaign to Bring Mumia
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Spike Lee Movie Whitewashes Police Repression of Blacks
17 Sep 2018
Robin DG Kelly, the author and essayist, agrees with Boots Riley’s critique of BlacKkKlansman, the Spike Lee movie whose hero is a Black cop who spies on Black activists.
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Trump Wants to Tax Protests in DC
17 Sep 2018
The public has until mid-October to comment on Trump administration plans to charge protesters in the nation’s capitol, said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, of the Partnership for Civil J
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Ramona Africa Needs Your Help
10 Sep 2018
Longtime MOVE Family spokesperson Ramona Africa’s health took a turn for the worse, necessitating an emergency appeal for assistance.
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Chicago Cop Murder Trial Begins
10 Sep 2018
“The one truth” in former cop Jason Van Dyke’s not guilty plea in the 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald “is when he says, ‘I was doing as I was trained by the Chicago Police Department,” said author
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U.S. Corporate Media Lies for a Living
10 Sep 2018
Facebook has still not given any coherent explanation for briefly removing the page of Venezuelanalysis.com, the daily English-language political analysis publication, said reporter Jeanett
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“Anonymous” Shows Split in Ruling Class
10 Sep 2018
The “Anonymous” article in the New York Times is more evidence of “a real split in the upper levels of the US ruling elite,” said Dr Gerald Horne, professor of history and African
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Evolving Tactics of the National Prison Strike
03 Sep 2018
The tactics of imprisoned activists have evolved since the prison strike of 2016, which was brutally repressed, especially in Georgia, said Bruce Terpstra, of the Incarcerated Work
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Cell Phones Pull Back Curtain on Prison Conditions
03 Sep 2018
Prison officials across the country are apoplectic over inmate access to cell phones, partly because “it allows people that are incarcerated to serve as reporters, to broadcast firsthand what they