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!
Australia
Oracle Power PLC (AIM:ORCP, AQSE:ORCP), is very pleased to announce what the Company considers to be highly positive geochemical sampling results from its maiden orientation survey at its 100% owned Jundee East Gold Project, located in the Eastern Goldfields region of
Western Australia ( Jundee East or the Project ). Jundee East is located ~7km due east of Northern Star s producing
Jundee Gold Mine, which has a current Resource of 5.4Moz.
· Geochemical soil sampling programme over the first three lines over Jundee East highlights positive responses for gold and copper using Mobile Metal Ion ( MMI ) geochemical techniques designed to identify mineralisation below cover.
Ed Mead: Prison Lives Matter
May 7, 2021
Ed Mead, right, and Mark Cook, left, were both active in Seattle’s ‘70s leftist paramilitary underground, Ed through the group George Jackson Brigade. Both men were incarcerated for long periods of time, where their militant human rights organizing became organizing for prisoner rights. Both Ed and Mark organized inside Walla Walla prison, where Ed organized Men Against Sexism and Mark formed a prison chapter of the Black Panther Party. They are pictured here at a discussion in Portland, Ore., May 10, 2014.
by Ed Mead
There had been a bit of a prisoners’ moment back in the 1950s; it took the form of a rash of prison riots across the country. As a result of this national uprising, changes were implemented, wardens became superintendents, guards became correctional officers, prisoners became inmates and the prisons themselves were renamed “correctional institutions.”
Don Wilkinson
South Coast mixed media artist Alma Cummings creates complex, abstract works that incorporate oil paint and collaged elements on small panels.
Working in a studio in the once-industrial Kilburn Mill at Clark’s Cove in New Bedford’s South End, she bounces back and forth between at least three ongoing series: “Pompeii,” “Star Attraction,” and “Synchrony.” Remaining true to the principles of non-objectiveness, all three sets of work are absent clearly defined subjects.
But that does not mean that the semblance of a common theme within each series does not reverberate.
Of course, the “Pompeii” series references the ancient city of the Roman Empire, destroyed by a catastrophic volcano in 79 A.D. Beyond its destruction itself, Pompeii is best known for the treasure trove of blatantly erotic art found in the ruins.