In the month of April, 2022 I was transferred from Virginia’s infamous Supermax Prison called Red Onion to Jessup Correctional Institution in the state of Maryland through Interstate Compact transfer. After months of trying to settle and focus on the battles at hand, one of my primary goals was to
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Kersplebedeb: The Resounding Right of Mutulu Shakur to Die in Freedom [CounterPunch.org]
Mutulu Shakur and his codefendant Marilyn Buck at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan, 1987. Photo: Trella Laughlin. [This article was originally posted to Counterpunch.org on July 31, 2022.] Anyone with a loved one in prison carries around the silent, ceaseless terror that the person so loved will die
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Inge Viett, 1944-2022
Several weeks ago, we learned that Inge Viett had died. She passed on May 9, at the age of 78. We offer the following notes to English-speaking readers, so that they can know something of this former guerilla and her legacy. Inge Viett was a central participant in armed left
Continue readingKersplebedeb: International campaign for the release of Georges Abdallah
At the end of a month-long international campaign for the release of Georges Abdallah, a large demonstration will be held on October 23 in front of the Lannemezan prison in the South of France, where he is incarcerated. October 24 it will be 37 years that he has been in
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Free Maroon Now Campaign/Coalition: Letter in Support of Compassionate Release for Russell Maroon Shoatz
[This post was recently published on the website Free Russell Maroon Shoatz! U.S. Held Political Prisoner] Letter in Support of Compassionate Release for Russell Maroon Shoatz Russell Maroon Shoatz was denied compassionate release in August despite serious life-threatening medical conditions by Judge Kai Scott, on the grounds that he presents “an
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin’s “Anarchism and the Black Revolution” [Black Agenda Report]
[This post is mirrored from BlackAgendaReport.com] Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor 13 Oct 2021 In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. Ervin is an American writer, activist and black anarchist. He is a
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar 2022 – Now Available!
Full of essays, beautiful artwork and important dates in social justice history! Now in its 21st year of publication, the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is required reading for radicals, leftists, and all who support political prisoners and advocate the end of mass incarceration. Each calendar has 12
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NEW: Re-Build! A New Afrikan Independence Movement Periodical, Special Commemorative Issue, Black August 2021
The Rebuild Collective has a new issue of their newspaper out. You can read it online on their website here! The Rebuild Collective is a New Afrikan Independence Movement Formation founded by New Afrikan Nationalists inspired by the thought of Movement theoretician Atiba Shanna and committed to winning the struggle for Independence and Socialism. This issue is dedicated to
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Writings of Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner David Gilbert
David Gilbert is an ex-Weather Underground member imprisoned after filling a support role in a failed attempt to expropriate an armed truck’s currency for the support of the revolutionary Black underground in 1981. This week he was granted clemency by the outgoing governor of New York, which will allow him
Continue readingKersplebedeb: David Gilbert, Ex-Weather Underground Member, Granted Clemency by Cuomo. Will Parole Board Free Him? [DemocracyNow]
This post is mirrored from DemocracyNow.org. Outgoing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used his final hours in office to grant clemency to six men, including former Weather Underground member David Gilbert, who was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison for his role in a 1981 robbery of an
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Harm Reduction Guided by the Goal of the Abolition of Prisons and Capitalism: An interview with former Direct Action member and ex-prisoner Ann Hansen
The now closed P4W (Prison for Women) in Kingston, Ontario. Ann Hansen was imprisoned in 1983 for her involvement in the urban guerilla group Direct Action. She is the author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes. She wrote
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971 [mirrored from BlackAgendaReport.com]
Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches. [This article was originally posted by Black Agenda Report on August 18, 2021. For more on the Attica Rebellion, check out the book A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt. For audio with the words of participants and fellow
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates June 15, 2021
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Doug Wright, he has been moved (it’s unknown how long he will be there before being transferred, but his mail _should_ follow him): Douglas Wright #57973-060 FTC Oklahoma City Post Office Box 898801 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73189 Here’s the latest compilation of
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates June 1, 2021
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Carmen Trotta, Jaan Laaman, Martha Hennessy, or Skelly, please stop, as they were recently released. What an amazing couple of weeks. Welcome home, comrades! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/updates-1-jun-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates May 18, 2021
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Loren Reed, please stop, as they were recently released. Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/updates-18-may-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates May 4, 2021
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Steve Martinez, please stop, as he was recently released. Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/updates-4-may-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Apr. 6, 2021
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Chip Fitzgerald, please stop. After 51 years in prison, and directly resulting from medical neglect by the state, Chip recently died in Prison. RIP, Chip. Our statement regarding Chip’s death can be found in the updates as well. If you send the
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Mar. 23, 2021
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/updates-23-mar-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us know
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Mar. 9, 2021
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/updates-9-mar-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us know
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NEW RELEASE: Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction
Available for pre-order. Shipping in late March. Margrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again
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