The following is from a letter just received from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party Prison Chapter. As previously reported here, Rashid was recently transferred from Oregon to Virginia, likely in retaliation for his ongoing work reporting on and challenging abuses by the prisoncrats. As can
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Sketchy Thoughts: COINTELPRO Murders (Intervention by Geronimo ji Jaga)
The following is Geronimo ji Jaga’s intervention at a September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus’s legislative weekend in Washington, DC. It was initially included in a pamphlet published in 2001 by the Human Rights Research Fund (founded by activist attorneys Kathleen
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Out: The Making of a Revolutionary
Convicted of the 1983 U.S. Capitol Bombing, and “conspiring to influence, change, and protest policies and practices of the United States government through violent and illegal means”, Laura Whitehorn, an out lesbian and one of six defendants in the Resistance Conspiracy Case, spent 14 years in prison. “OUT” is the
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Daniel McGowan Released After Lawyers Confirm He Was Jailed For HuffPost Blog
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/05/daniel-mcgowan-jailing_n_3021613.html on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/daniel-mcgowan-released-after-lawyers-confirm-he-was-jailed-for-huffpost-blog/
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: IWD Message from Political Prisoner Lynne Stewart
Radical human rights attorney Lynne Stewart has been falsely accused of helping terrorists. On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, she was arrested and agents searched her Manhattan office for documents. She was arraigned before Manhattan federal Judge John Koeltl. This is an obvious attempt by the U.S. government to silence dissent,
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Kevin Rashid Johnson and Oregon’s Isolation Torture Unit
This is an update about Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, a prisoner activist and intellectual who is currently in a dire situation in Snake River Correctional Institution in Oregon. As was reported last week, Rashid has been in the midst of a health crisis for almost a month now, which has included
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Mtl Film Screening: Freeing Silvia Baraldini
This Friday at La Belle Epoque in Montreal, join us for a conversation about political prisoners, and a screening of the film Freeing Silvia Baraldini. Friday, March 1st at 7pmLa Belle Époque1984 rue Wellington, Montreal, QuebecThis film documents the life of former U.S. political prisoner Silvia Baraldini. Silvia moved to
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Oregon DOC Attempting to Kill Kevin Rashid Johnson!
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is a New Afrikan Communist prison organizer and intellectual in the United States and one of the founders of the NABPP-PC (New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter). He has spent most of his adult life in the prison system and continually been subjected to political repression and
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Video Interview with Sanyika Shakur
In this interview, New Afrikan Communist Sanyika Shakur discusses his personal social development, his time in Pelican Bay-SHU, the 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strikes, the effects of long-term isolation torture, New Afrikan nationalism, communism, and the struggle against gender oppression. In a biographical note written while in PB-SHU, Shakur explained:
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: New Interview by David Gilbert
This interview originally appeared in Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 5:2, 259-270. For a PDF of the interview, go here. It is also mirrored on the Kersplebedeb site here. In the 1960s and 1970s, many activists looked to the prisons for political leadership, while viewing prisons themselves
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar 2013
Here it is again, a beautiful political calendar created by a Canadian collective working under the guidance and inspiration of u.s. PP/POWs David Gilbert, Robert Seth Hayes and Herman Bell. Proceeds from this full color calendar go to the New York Task Force on Political Prisoners, the Palestinian NGO Adameer
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Celebrating the Life and Work of Marilyn Buck
Two years ago today, Marilyn Buck died of cancer in New York City; after decades behind bars, she had been released from prison barely a few weeks earlier. As comrade Judy Greenspan wrote at the time: Marilyn died today not in the hospital but at Soffiyah Elijah’s house, her close
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Workers Dreadnought Reviews David Gilbert’s, “Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond”.
I must admit that it is difficult for me to write an honest review about Com. David Gilbert’s “Love and Struggle” (you can purchase your personal copy here), especially because of the enormous respect that I have for him and the sacrifices that he has made for the revolutionary cause,
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle: The Philly Launch Online!
On April 13, Philly celebrated the release of the book Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond, by David Gilbert, who is a political prisoner in New York State. (For more about David, click here!) The event, at Goldilocks Gallery, featured speakers, a short video
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: April 19 in Montreal: Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners
Thursday April 19, 20126:30pm at Concordia UniversityHall Building, Room H-1101455 de Maisonneuve WestMetro Guy-ConcordiaMontreal, Quebec Since 1967, it is estimated that approximately 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel as part of its repression of the popular resistance. As of March 2012, there were 4,637 Palestinians behind bars in Israeli
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle: the Videos!
Here is the official trailer for David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond, recently published by PM Press. As many of you know, David is an anti-imperialist political prisoner serving a 75-year-to-life sentence in New York State – he has been locked up
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Gabriel Kuhn Reviews David Gilbert’s "Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond" (Oakland: PM Press, 2012)
The following review is reposted from the Alpine Anarchist: David Gilbert mentions the documentary film The Weather Underground by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, released in 2002, on the very first page of his book Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond. Gilbert relates how the film has
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Jalil Muntaqim Sent to SHU on Bogus Charge
Jalil Muntaqim has been sent to the SHU on a bogus charge (see below). Comrades from Jericho are asking that people speak with their own organizations and ask them to write or call the folks below to get Jalil out of the SHU and if possible a transfer to another facility.
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: North American Events for David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle
From coast to coast, in canada and the united states, here is a list of event around the recent release of political prisoner David Gilbert’s book Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond – please get in touch to organize an event in your area
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Stop Ongoing Harassment of Jalil Muntaqim!
Jalil Muntaqim, POW This from comrades at Jericho: We received a call Friday morningfrom Jalil Muntaqim to advise us that his cell had been raided onThursday, January 5th.(Attica,NY) When Jalil asked why his cell was beingsearched, he was told it was because “something happened in California.”The COs confiscated pictures of
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