Building a united front inside: Educate, agitate, organize!
June 27, 2021
For the past six years, prison activist Kwame Shakur has worked with caged comrades around the u.s. to found a platform and political line for the Prison Lives Matter movement, establishing a united front to draw activists from outside and inside into the prison movement. The goal is to create a reproducible model for abolitionists everywhere to be part of PLM and to strengthen the fight for a future rooted in shared humanity and an end to the exploitation and unjustifiable incarceration of poor, oppressed and marginalized peoples as well as a decisive end to the prison industrial complex and the private prison industry. We are our own liberators!
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Liberate the Caged Voices
Front for the Liberation of the New Afrikan Nation (FROLINAN) is a political organization whose ultimate goal is the creation of an independent country for New Afrikans – Republic of New Afrika. In order to achieve it, the organization is spreading its ideas through educational programs and use of visual arts and music. While using the Garvey colors in original horizontal pattern, FROLINAN differentiates itself with use of a vertical red-black-green flag.
Introduction by Nube Brown, a budding New Afrikan
This is Part 1 of a two-part series of my interview with Jalil Muntaqim on Prison Focus Radio (KPOO San Francisco 89.5FM or KPOO.com) April 22, 2021. I made specific excerpts and edits to align with this month’s theme, Mother Africa – a place called home but that so many of us have been conditioned to forget and abandon, our connective tissue and roots ripped out and torn asunder by racialized capitalism, imperialism and white pathology, leaving us
Liberate the Caged Voices: Strategic release
January 30, 2021
by Bay View Managing Editor Nube Brown
I won’t say I’ve taken a sigh of relief. I haven’t … There’s still too much work to do. But I can say I know there is a light at the end of this tunnel because prisoners remind me of it every day.
In every letter I read, I find that prisoners are resourceful, thoughtful, grateful, loving, caring, wise, hungry for education and knowledge, intelligent, politically and socially astute, wanting human connection and missing their family, diligently and humbly striving for the liberation this system constantly denies them and deserving to be treated with the dignity and respect warranted all other people.