A Moment of Silence
The best poem i have ever read in my life; click here to listen to the poet reading it out loud:Before I begin this poem, I’d like to ask you…
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An Appeal from Ed Mead and California Prison Focus
The California Prison Focus newspaper was in good part responsible for carrying word of the now historic July hunger strike to SHU prisoners across the state. A hunger strike that…
Hungerstrike Recap: California Prisoners Showed the Way!
This spring, the news started going around that a hunger strike was being planned in the Security Housing Unit at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). Prisoners at the SHU…
Political Arrests in Montréal
Statement from the Canadian Revolutionary Communist Party (not the same as the u.s. Avakian group):Update (07/13/11): The four individuals who have been arrested and charged went in court last Wednesday.…
Support the California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike!
In the months before summer 2011, news spread that between 50 and 100 prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), Corridor D, were going on…
Hugo Pinell Participating in the California Hungerstrike
Excerpted from a letter to Kiilu Nyasha:A hunger strike has been in effect since July 1 and I've been with it, altho is very hard to know what's going on?…
Revolutionary Prisoner C. Landrum On His Decision to Hunger Strike Indefinitely
It’s been a difficult and uphill battle, a lot of brow-beating and direct debate, but as it stands all are participating on a limited basis. Some, including myself, are going…
Eddie Griffin’s Statement of Support for Prisoner Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay
Eddie Griffin, one of the surviving Marion Brothers who went on hunger strike in 1976, writes here of his support for the Pelican Bay strike, and his own experiences thirty…
Life in Pelican Bay SHU
From IF THE SHU FITS: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT AT CALIFORNIA'SPELICAN BAY STATE PRISON:B. General Conditions Within the SHUFrom the outside, the SHU resembles a "massive concrete bunker." From the…
Letter from Bomani Shakur of the Lucasville 5
The Lucasville 5 are five prisoners who were framed for the murder of snitches and guards in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot. The 1993 riot and hostage taking was one…
Sanyika Shakur, August Third Collective, On July 1 Hunger Strike
Due to the recent strike, i only received this letter dated June 13 a few days ago:i was given an indeterminate SHU term in 1989, for being a threat to…
Pelican Bay Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike to Protest Grave Conditions: Lawyers, Advocates, Organizations Hold Press Conference, Voice Prisoner Demands
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—June 29, 2011Press Contact: Isaac OntiverosCommunications Director, Critical ResistanceOffice: 510 444 0484Cell: 510 517 6612What: Press ConferenceWhen: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 11:00amWhere: Elihu M.&nb...
Unlock the Box at the Maison Norman Bethune, July 1
This Friday July 1 in Montreal the comrades from the Maison Norman Bethune (the PCR/RCP's bookstore) will be hosting a film screening of Unlock the Box, a documentary about isolation…
Kersplebedeb Publishing Responds to Pelican Bay Ban on Defying the Tomb
On April 5, K.L. McGuyer, Associate Warden of the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit, mailed a letter to Kersplebedeb Publishing informing us that Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and…
David Gilbert Transferred
David Gilbert has been transferred to Auburn prison; his new address is:David Gilbert, 83A6158Auburn Correctional FacilityPO box 618Auburn NY 13021David is a North American political prisoner. The Civil Rights struggle…
June 4: Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair
i've meant to table at every Hamilton bookfair so far, but there's been a variety of events and calamities that have always interfered ... but not this year! Finally it…
Pelican Bay Prisoners Set to Hunger Strike July 1
On July 1, 2011, between 50 and 100 prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), Corridor D, are going on an indefinite hunger strike. The…
This Weekend: Montreal Anarchist Bookfair!
The bestest and biggest radical bookfair in North America, and i'm lucky enough that it happens in my town. Come and say hi and check out the books at this…
May 11: "Beyond the Walls": A new publication about political prisoners in Colombia
it's the Festival of Anarchy in Montreal, a month of radical events around the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair... i'll be highlighting some of these on this blog, the first of which…