Fromme-Peltier: Inequality of mercy
by Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina Leonard Peltier has been in prison since his arrest, shown here, in 1976. Note from Consortium News: The U.S. government’s release of ex-Manson gang member...
View ArticleAttica Solidarity Statement from the San Quentin Six
Commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion Friday, Sept. 9, 7 p.m., 518 Valencia St., San Francisco – featuring ‘Attica,’ the restored 1974 film by David Johnson, Willie Sundiata...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for April 2012
by Wanda Sabir Wanda’s niece, Wilda Aiysah Batin, about six years ago Congratulations to my niece, Wilda Batin, for being honored by the City of San Francisco in February for Black History Month as one...
View ArticleChowchilla Freedom Rally to draw hundreds of Bay Area residents to Central...
by Adrienne Roberts, California Coalition for Women Prisoners San Francisco – Hundreds of Bay Area residents will be getting on buses and into cars Saturday morning, making the long trek to the...
View ArticleTreating us like slaves: an analysis of the Security Threat Group Step Down...
by Dadisi Kambon, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe Dumisani, Mutope Duguma and Abasi Ganda For the past two years we’ve heard the state claim it’s reforming its long term...
View ArticleThe deadly ‘integrated yard policy’: Commentary on ‘The Pelikkkan Bay factor:...
by Haazim W. Muntaqim (Jeffrey Milo Burks) Jeffrey Burks (Haazim Muntaqim) After reading “The PeliKKKan Bay factor: An indictable offense” in the Februay 2013 edition of the San Francisco Bay View, I...
View Article‘Condemned’ by Keith LaMar (Bomani Shakur)
Review by Denis O’Hearn When I was asked to write a review of Keith LaMar’s “Condemned,” I wondered if I was the best person to do it. First of all, I wrote the foreword to the book. Plus, as you’ll...
View ArticleQuest for Democracy 2015: Formerly incarcerated people lobby for justice in...
by Dorsey Nunn On Quest for Democracy Day at the capitol in Sacramento, April 27, 2015, 250 people split up into 30 teams to visit legislators’ offices to advocate for legislation relevant to formerly...
View ArticleToday, few know how bad it was for Black and Brown people back in George and...
by Pablo Piña I was sitting in my cell in administrative segregation when the news station here in Corcoran announced that Hugo Pinell had been killed at Folsom Prison and that a riot had followed the...
View ArticleFolsom 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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