The Rock is a newsletter produced by former political prisoner Ed Mead, devoted to documenting and supporting the prisoners struggle, specifically in the context that was created in the 2011 California hunger strikes, and which continues to be created in the current mass action. What follows is the most recent …
The following essay was first published over twenty years ago; it is one of several texts which will be republished later this year by Kersplebedeb in a volume with the provisional title, Snapshots from the Scene of a Crime. It is being posted on this site ahead of time as …
Editorial by Ed Mead Censorship California’s written regulations require that CDCR issue the written reasons for a rejection or censorship of any publication. Those regulations require that the publisher be notified within 15 days of the rejection. California Prison Focus received notice of the rejection of their last issue of Prison Focus from Pelican Bay about …
This is a new pamphlet, translated and published by Kersplebedeb, which can be ordered from Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.net. The following is the preface i wrote for it: The following essay, by the Belgian revolutionary communist T. Derbent, is an unusual and valuable contribution to understanding, renewing, and rebuilding the revolutionary option. …
Editorial by Ed Mead As many of you may know, I am also the editor of the Prison Focus newspaper, a position I’ve held alone or jointly for the past thirteen years. Prison Focus #39 was mailed out to readers in early March. This week California Prison Focus received word …
An excerpt from Loic Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Duke University Press 2009), pages 59-73: The Gaols of the Subproletariat: An Experimental Verification It suffices, to discern the extrapenological functions served by the outsized extension of the US carceral apparatus even as crime plummeted for …
Monday, April 8, 2013 Contact: Kali Akuno404.567.5938kaliakuno@mxgm.org For Immediate Release: New Annual Report reveals that 313 Black People were killed in 2012, averaging one every 28 hours. Every 28 hours in 2012 someone employed or protected by the US government killed a Black man, woman, or child! This startling fact …
As part of the ongoing overhaul of the Kersplebedeb site, i have switched newsletter service. From now on, newsletters will have a slightly simpler format, be composed primarily of recent posts on Kersplebedeb, and will (hopefully!) occur far more often! (No need to worry, though – even at “far more …
I recently received an “open letter” purporting to be from the Amazons-August 3rd Collective (AA3) and New Afrikan Peoples Liberation Army (NAPLA), which claims to respond to an article I wrote elaborating the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter’s (NABPP-PC) line on New Afrikan Liberation. ((My article “Black Liberation in …