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Hugo Pinell: Is 42 years in isolation about to end?
by Kiilu Nyasha UPDATE: Yogi’s [Hugo Pinell’s] board hearing has been postponed another year due to CDCR’s new gang validation rules. Uncommon Law, the firm of Keith Wattley, is handling Yogi’s case...
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Monster Kody: an interview wit’ author Sanyika Shakur
by Minister of Information JR Sanyika wrote this note on the back of the photo: “I was considerably younger here, but I doubt if I’ve changed much since. Being preserved here in this can.” The first...
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Jonathan Jackson Jr.’s foreword to his Uncle George Jackson’s ‘Soledad...
Commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion by Jonathan Jackson Jr. Jonathan Jackson I was born eight and a half months after my father, Jonathan Jackson, was shot down...
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Tribute to Comrade George Lester Jackson, prison scholar, prisoner mentor,...
George Jackson – 41 year commemoration from Freedom Archives on Vimeo. This video is based on an edited portion of the film “Prisons on Fire” by the Freedom Archives (2001) with video editing by...
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Revenge vs. a Kage Brother’s tolerance
by King William E. Brown, Jr. “It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.” – Maulana Karenga William E. Brown Jr. with his family – all of...
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Wanda’s Picks for March 2013
by Wanda Sabir ‘Mumia’ comes to Oakland Back when Mumia was a member of the Black Panther Party, he traveled west to work with the Oakland chapter – an important time in his evolution as a radical...
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The acquittal of a murderer
by Kiilu Nyasha The long-awaited verdict in the Zimmerman trial was incredible – “not guilty.” Hundreds rallied in Oscar Grant Plaza at Oakland City Hall at 4 p.m. Sunday to protest the Zimmerman trial...
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The revision and origin of Black August
by Kiilu Nyasha “As a slave, the social phenomenon that engages my consciousness is, of course, revolution.” – George L. Jackson The revision of Black August George Jackson – Linocut: Santiago Armengod...
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New on DVD: ‘Free Angela and All Political Prisoners’
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey Angela Davis is one of the most famous women, communists and professors to be groomed in the tumultuous revolutionary ‘60s and ‘70s, when Blacks and...
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Wanda’s Picks for April 2014
by Wanda Sabir Notes from prison Beverly Henry died. I just got the email today. I don’t know if she made it to Cirque du Soleil or to the snow or to Disneyland. When one’s time is short, the list can...
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Abu Jihad: A living, fighting museum for prisoner movement affairs
by Midnight Jones You may take the last strip of my land, Feed my youth to prison cells. You may plunder my heritage. You may burn my books and poems Or feed my flesh to dogs … O enemy of the sun, But...
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Soledad Brother John Clutchette asks for your help
by John Clutchette I have read your publication periodically over the years, and after some discussion with fellow prisoners, it was suggested I seek your assistance with getting the message out there...
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KPOO interview: Kiilu Nyasha and Terry Collins remember Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell
This interview was broadcast live on Aug. 18, 2015, on Terry Collins’ show, The Spirit of Joe Rudolph. Listen to it in full at http://www.thespiritofjr.com/show/august-18-2015/21; these are...
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David Johnson of the San Quentin 6 on his comrade Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey David General Johnson, a former political prisoner, played a major role in the California Prison Movement of the ‘60s and ‘70s. He is here to talk...
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Black August Memorial: an interview with Kasim Gero, Patuxent Prison
On FLEA Days, Tupac Shakur, Baltimore, Kwanzaa, women-comrades and the revolutionary experience of Black August by Emilia A. Ottoo Kasim O. Gero is currently housed as an inmate at the Patuxent...
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“Blood in My Eye” 45 years later wit’ David Johnson of the San Quentin 6
The People’s Minister of Information JR interviews David Johnson of the San Quentin 6 about the 45th anniversary since the publishing of the political masterpiece “Blood in My Eye” in relation to the...
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Ruchell Cinque Magee, sole survivor of the Aug. 7, 1970, Courthouse Slave...
by Kiilu Nyasha Preface: I can hardly believe that 47 years have gone by since the Aug. 7,1970, Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion. Ruchell is now 77 years old, same as myself. It’s a sin and a shame the...
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Free California political prisoners Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald and Ruchell...
by National Lawyers Guild Political Prisoner Support Committee Resolution calling for the release of California political prisoners Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald and Ruchell ‘Cinque’ Magee WHEREAS, Romaine...
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Black August: The power of prisoner-led organizing
Thousands came to pay their respects to one of the most influential imprisoned writers ever, George Jackson, at his funeral in Oakland on Aug. 28, 1971, a week after his assassination at San Quentin on...
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Folsom 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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