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The four California prisoner class representatives call for solidarity and...
These men, known as the “four main reps,” Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, George Franco and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, conceived, planned and led the historic 2011-2013 California mass hunger strikes...
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The birth, meaning and practice of Black August
“Black August” – This Black August, let’s get to know all the heroes pictured here. Do you know their names and deeds? – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 2005 by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson Black August is a...
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We are allowing our money to be used as a weapon of war against us
by Timothy Brown In solidarity I offer this suggestion: Reduce your contribution to your imprisonment. Instead, contribute to your child’s development. Advantages: The prison system has less funding,...
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Largest hunger strike in history: California prisoners speak out on first...
One year ago, on July 8, 2013, 30,000 California prisoners initiated the largest hunger strike the world has ever seen. Sixty days later, 40 prisoners, who had eaten nothing in all that time, agreed to...
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Prisoner Human Rights Movement: Agreement to End Hostilities has changed the...
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa It is incumbent upon all men prisoners across the state of California and globally to embrace the struggle of women prisoners as a whole. We, the four principle negotiators of...
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Unity between races is going strong; be proud of yourselves!
by Kendra Castaneda Perez Artist Jose Villarreal writes: “Like these birds in the drawing, we prisoners are also held captive by the same oppressor. When a species is hunted, eventually they will turn...
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Death and life of Hugo Pinell
by Jaan Laaman, political prisoner It was with true sadness that, on Aug. 13, I received the news that legendary California prison activist Hugo Pinell was killed in a California prison. Let me share a...
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KPOO interview: Kiilu Nyasha and Terry Collins remember Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell
This interview was broadcast live on Aug. 18, 2015, on Terry Collins’ show, The Spirit of Joe Rudolph. Listen to it in full at http://www.thespiritofjr.com/show/august-18-2015/21; these are...
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Revolutionary eulogy by Texas Chicano POW-political prisoner Alvaro Luna...
by Alvaro Luna Hernandez Power to the people! Power to our fallen Comrade Brother Hugo “Yogi Bear” Pinell! We were saddened by the news that Yogi was murdered last Wednesday, Aug. 12, during an alleged...
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Imprisoned people facing medical neglect and violence: Family members and...
by Dolores Canales, Family Unity Network, and Hannah McFaull, Justice Now Sacramento – On Nov. 11, an imprisoned person at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) faced extreme violence at the hands...
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David Johnson of the San Quentin 6 on his comrade Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237200251″...
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Hugo Pinell’s daughter Allegra invites you to join in honoring her father on...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250016443″...
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Prisoner Human Rights Movement Blue Print
Overview by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) has systemic and dysfunctional problems that run rampant statewide within California’s prisons for both...
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Prison strikes’ financial impact in California
by Yvonne Yen Liu, Solidarity Research Center Sept. 9, 2016, was the start of the largest prison strike in U.S. history. Over 72,000 incarcerated workers in 22 states refused to provide their labor to...
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Long live the spirit of Comrade W.L. Nolen
by Chairman Kijana Tashiri Askari, W.L. Nolen Mentorship Program W.L. Nolen and his brother, Cornell, grew up street fighting in Oakland and were both prison boxing champions. For those who are not...
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Losing direction: The abysmal history of mental health care at Pelican Bay...
by Mariposa McCall From 2010-2011, while working as a contract psychiatrist for the California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) providing supportive therapy and medication management...
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PTSD SC: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Solitary Confinement
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and Baridi J. Williamson California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) had been locking classes of prisoners up in solitary confinement since the ‘60s as part...
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Proposition 57 dashes hopes for lifers and Three Strikers, turning cirrhosis...
by Julius ‘Kimya’ Humphrey Sr. Gov. Brown’s Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016 was a sham that gave false hopes of freedom to thousands of juvenile offenders who have grown up – and are now...
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Ongoing isolation in California prisons not governed by settlement, judge rules
Activism needed to remedy solitary conditions in prisons, civil rights attorneys say by the Center for Constitutional Rights Here’s how it all began, how the public first learned of the new California...
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Folsom Manifesto for the California Statewide Prison Strike, 1970
The Folsom Prisoners’ Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Repression Platform This is Folsom Prison, opened in 1880. In 1970, it was one of only a few prisons in California housing about 20,000 prisoners, a...
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