The London Evening StandardMarch 10, 2010 Bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River, the Louisiana State Penitentiary is the…
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A Sensation Playlist
By Nick Mamatas Two weeks ago I was asked by the nice litblog Largehearted Boy to compile a “playlist” of…
A New Notion: The World View of CLR James
The World View of C.L.R. James by Noel Ignatiev Cyril Lionel Robert James was born in Trinidad in 1901 to…
A Nation of Prison Houses (Part 2) – Making a Buck in the Pig’s Pen
By Michael Ryan A Nation of Prison Houses (Part 2) – Making a Buck in the Pig’s Pen[1] In August,…
A Nation of Prison Houses (Part 1) – Tallying the Damage Done
By Michael Ryan A Nation of Prison Houses (Part 1) – Tallying the Damage Done If Tsarist Russia was “a…
Open Letter to President Obama: A Pardon for Oscar Lopez Rivera
By Guillermo Rebollo-GilCounterpunchNovember 28th, 2014 Dear President Obama: Here in Puerto Rico, your lunch with now Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla…
NOT GUILTY: Twelve reasonable people, and how the state tried to ‘Aunt Sally’ Kate Kibby
by scott crow “ These are dangerous days To say what you feel is to dig your own grave “Remember…
Peace and Prisons
The Not-So-Hidden ConnectionBy Matt MeyerWIN Magazine “We must work together to set free those who are bound, to turn our…
“From Ayotzinapa to Ferguson, the State Is Our Enemy”
By Cindy Milstein So much could be said of yesterday’s large, boisterous, self-organized #ShutItDownForMikeBrown disruption of downtown San Francisco during…
“Hatred and Pity”: James Baldwin in “I Am Not Your Negro”
by JJ Amaworo Wilson Anyone interested in race and civil rights needs to see this film. It’s based on thirty…