The thrill is gone: a report from the rallies protesting Mehserle’s release
The Morning Mix with JR and Sabrina – June 15, 2011 at 8:00am Click to listen (or download) by Minister of Information JR “I am Oscar Grant,” graffiti once ubiquitous in Oakland, is caught in this...
View ArticleHunger strikers, supporters refute CDCR gang propaganda
by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Oakland – With the historic California prisoner hunger strike in its 37th day, supporters are outraged that the California Department of...
View ArticleAgreement to End Hostilities benefits both the streets and the prisons
A discussion on the Agreement to End Hostilities as a basis for socio-economic empowerment and inter-communal independence by the NARN Collective Think Tank, Corcoran SHU “To overcome the intelligent...
View ArticleBlack Autonomy Prison Federation is born
by Terrance White Black Autonomy Federation is the activist arm of Power to the People, Inc., based in Memphis, Tenn., a non-profit tax-exempt organization. Meeting during the June 2013 annual...
View ArticleMargaret Winter, ACLU: California can be in the vanguard of the movement to...
Testimony of Margaret Winter, associate director of the ACLU National Prison Project, at the California Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees’ Joint Informational Hearing on Segregation Policies...
View ArticleProven innocent: The case of Bobby McClelland
by Charles ‘Talib’ Brooks As the world laid to rest Nelson “Madiba” Mandela, who was wrongfully incarcerated for 27 years, I thought about the case of Bobby McClelland. He was arrested 23 years ago on...
View ArticleCalipatria riots need to cease and unity needs to spread
by Kendra Castaneda “Power of Unity” – Graphic: Soundthings Over the last few months, there has been an excessive amount of fighting between different races at Calipatria State Prison within the...
View ArticleJury denies damages to father of Oscar Grant
by Nick Chiles Oscar Grant III hugs his daughter Tatiana in this 2007 photo. The father of Oscar Grant III, whose shocking death at the hands of a transit police officer was memorialized in the...
View ArticleThe Black Guerrilla Family and human freedom
by Steve Martinot After Germany’s defeat in World War II, the leadership of the Nazi Party was brought to trial in what has become known as the Nuremberg Process. From that process, new social...
View ArticleThe Agreement to End Hostilities: Use it or lose all we’ve won
by Damu Katika Chimurenga, s/n Hayward L. Mayhan “Upon the thirsting for knowledge and wisdom, while attempting to understand our true Afrikan roots, once reading and researching, I would often inquire...
View ArticleCalifornians call for ‘Decarceration Budget,’ more prisoner releases and...
Los Angeles County is home to the largest jail system in the world. Newly formed COVID-19 Special Budget Committee receives more than 770 public comments demanding reduced spending on prisons,...
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