By James KilgoreTruthoutOctober 1st, 2018 In 2005, when I was in Lompoc US Penitentiary, prison authorities sent me a slip…
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The First Step Act Opens the Door to Digital Incarceration
By James KilgoreTruthoutDecember 18th, 2018 The recent debates over the First Step Act and California’s SB-10 — two bills that…
Inside the Prison Labor Strike: New Tactics Pay Off in Mainstream Coverage
By James KilgoreTruthoutSeptember 4th, 2018 “Fundamentally, it’s a human rights issue. Prisoners understand they are being treated as animals. Prisons…
WikiLeaks: Who Helped Shape Julian Assange?
George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Among Writers Whose Work Influenced the Founder of WikiLeaks By Christopher TorchiaCBS NewsDecember…
Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989 Excerpt
By Lindsay MarshallLindsay’s Untitled Rock Mag May 17th, 2019 “Despite the mainstream press declarations that ‘punk died with Sid Vicious’…
RIP Marilyn Buck: Activist, Poet, Writer, Translator, Teacher, Former Political Prisoner, and Inspiration to Many
By Victoria Law In May, I wrote a short blog post about the influence Marilyn Buck had on my early…
Strike Zone: Hungering for Justice in the Crime-and-Punishment System
By Victoria Law “This is what democracy looks like!” These days, when you hear those words at a protest, whether…
Tens of Thousands of California Prisoners Launch Mass Hunger Strike
By Victoria LawThe NationJuly 10th, 2013 On Monday, July 8, prisoners at the Security Housing Unit (SHU) in California’s Pelican…
The Big Society Bail-In in Brixton
By Andrea Gibbons UK Uncut came out in force against the cuts in Brixton this morning, cold and rainy as…
Occupying Lambeth Town Hall to Hold a People’s Assembly
By Andrea Gibbons It’s what we did on the 23rd, and extraordinary it was too! The crowd outside was so…