Letter from Anthony “Jalil” Bottom Requesting Letters in Support of Parole May 2004 Dear Friends and Supporters: In July 2004, I will be reappearing before the parole board for release considerations. When I reappear before them, I will have completed 32 years of imprisonment, the last 27 of those years …
Kuwasi Balagoon died of AIDS on December 13, 1986, locked up in Auburn, N.Y. prison. He had been a freedom fighter his entire adult life. Kuwasi was a member of the Black Liberation Army. His comrade, Judy Clark, a revolutionary white anti-imperialist, was convicted of taking part in the October …
The Vancouver Five (aka Direct Action) One of my more vivid childhood memories was a car trip somewhere or another when the news came on the radio that a Litton Industries factory where a component for the U.S.’s new Cruise missile was being made had been blown up by a …
Cartoons by Peter Collins Peter Collins is a 41 year old artist, activist and prisoner currently in his 20th year of a sentence of 25 years to life in Canada for killing a policeman. You can listen to a series of interviews with Peter in mp3 format at http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=6743 You …
Jalil Muntaqim was 19 years old when he was arrested. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. For the past 42 years, Jalil has been a political prisoner, and one of the New York Three (NY3), in retaliation for his activism in …
Losing has never been an option to me. What has happened to me can easily happen to any poor person. Zolo Agona Azania, 2005 Who is Zolo Agona Azania? by Owusu Yaki Yakubu The imprisonment rate for African-American people in the U.S. is six times higher than for white people. …
Of all ideologies, anarchy is the one that addresses liberty and equalitarian relations in a realistic and ultimate fashion. It is consistent with each individual having an opportunity to live a complete and total 1ife, With anarchy, the society as a whole not only maintains itself at an equal expense …
? Volume 52, Number 10 March 2001 Capitalism and Crisis:Creating a Jailhouse Nationby David Gilbert HomeSubscribe Notes Fromthe Editors Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialismby Robert W. McChesney Subverting A Model by Annette T. Rubinstein The Myth of the Middle-Class Societyby Paul Buhle Refuting the Big Lieby Doug Dowd Christian Parenti, …
For the record, i’ll say right now, that this place is an armed camp. It has the trappings and props of a court. A state-issued clone in a black robe, an ambitious state-issued clone of the state table, a fenced off area, and a section for spectators with a smaller …
Sanford’s son Rick Wormwood The Portland Phoenix, Dec. 17th-23rd, 2004 Activist Raymond Luc Levasseur has been labeled a terrorist by some, a martyr and hero by others. Back in Portland after 20 years in federal prison, he’s not about to drift quietly into history. Raymond Luc Levasseur is the second …