9-11-01: The Terrorism that Terrorism has Wrought by David Gilbert, Feb. 2002 Like most people in the U.S., I was horrified by the incineration and collapse of the two towers at the World Trade Center (WTC). Thinking about the thousands of people, mainly civilians, inside, I was completely stunned and …
Class Antagonisms inside the Fundamental Contradiction of National Oppression 7–4–47 ADM (11) Having just passed the 19th, and quickly approaching the 20th, anniversary of the L.A. Rebellion [1], We should be reminded here of what Rodney King whimpered as he stood in front of a bank of microphones surrounded by …
Jalil Muntaqim, POW This from comrades at Jericho: We received a call Friday morning from Jalil Muntaqim to advise us that his cell had been raided on Thursday, January 5th.(Attica,NY) When Jalil asked why his cell was being searched, he was told it was because “something happened in California.”The COs …
Article by JĂĽrgen Heiser, published in Junge Welt (29.12.2011): In the case of former US citizen, George Wright, Portugal’s Supreme Court ruled to deny an appeal made by the US Justice Department, shortly before Christmas. With its appeal, registered four weeks ago, the USA was seeking the extradition of the …
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in happier times… Many of you will have heard the sad news that police are claiming they have arrested George Wright, an alleged former BLA combatant living in Portugal under the name Jose Luis Jorge dos Santos. Mainstream news reports state that Wright escaped from prison where he was serving …
By the time you read this article, prisoners across California will have embarked on their second hunger strike in just a few months. Rising up against conditions of torture, the first hungerstrike lasted three weeks in July, with thousands coming together in an unprecedented show of unity and force. The …
For the past 10-40 years thousands of California prisoners have been confined in CDC-SHU units indefinitely based on status [E.G., a gang label – active gang classification, based on innocuous association activity, and allegations from confidential inmate informants] – wherein, they have been demonized as the worst-of-the-worst, in order to …
From http://signalfire.org/?p=14129: Over the years long standing organizing efforts by class conscious prisoners in the Virgina state system’s two maximum security facilities (Red Onion and Wallens Ridge) have been met with systematic repression including beatings, assaults with electrical and chemical weapons, isolation in special segregation units, interdiction of communications and …
CERTAIN DAYS: the 2008 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar This year’s theme, The 2007 targeting of the San Francisco Eight (SF8) shows, more than ever, that COINTELPRO is ongoing. Over thirty years after the incident of which they are accused, eight Black Panthers face new charges… During 2008, as this …