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!
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
Kwame Shakur: Letter to the People
May 6, 2021
Donate and sign the petition to return the Hyte Center to the New Afrikan Black people! The Hyte Center, now with the name Booker T. Washington, once belonged to Kwame Shakur’s family and is now run by a Euro-American person who is not representative of the community who once used and thrived on its bounty of offerings. The current organization running the center has become unresponsive to Kwame’s and his family. Support the movement for collective liberation! Sign: https://www.change.org/p/city-of-terre-haute-return-the-hyte-center-to-the-community?recruiter=890080600&recruited by id=103c03e0-8d0d-11e8-91ce-35539dd82049&utm source=share petition&utm medium=copylink&utm campaign=psf combo share initial
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After weeks of city-wide shut offs, water has been restored in Jackson, Mississippi. However, most of the city is still under a precautionary boil water notice until the water is tested and determined to be safe for consumption. Residents rightly continue to be skeptical of using the water for cooking, washing, bathing. There are still areas of the city with low water pressure a problem being attributed to their distance from water-treatment facilities.
The boil-water notice and low water pressure point to long-standing infrastructural problems in the Blackest city in the Blackest state in the country.
Jackson’s acute water crisis began with a snowstorm during the week of Feb. 15. During the storm, almost all of Jackson was without water. The freezing temperatures caused many of the city’s aging pipes to burst and the main water-treatment plant became inoperable. Parts of the city’s water system are over 100 years old. Thousands of lives came to a
In the days before Christmas, 44-year-old April Harris sat in her prison cell at the California Institution for Women for more than 23 hours a day. In the 20 minutes she was allowed to leave it, she and the other prisoners would flood into the common areas – choosing either to take a shower or to make a short phone call.
Restrictions have fluctuated during the various lockdowns implemented throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the 11 months since the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) first banned visitations across state prisons, Harris says she has seen the mental health of those around her steadily deteriorate.