• Certain Days 2017 Call for Submissions: SUSTAINING MOVEMENTS

    What: A call for art and article submissions on sustaining movements for the 2017 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar

    Deadline: May 15, 2016

    The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective (www.certaindays.org) is releasing its 16th calendar in the Fall of 2016. Over the years, we’ve turned our attention to various themes: grassroots organizing, resisting repression, and visions of justice. The theme for 2017 is focused on what it takes to sustain our movements.

    We are looking for 12 works of art and 12 short articles to feature in the calendar, which hangs in more than 2,000 ...........READ MORE

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  • Texas Prisoners’ Plan Work Strike, April 4th

    Prisoners in Texas are planning a work strike, to commence this April 4th. Their top five demands are:

    Meaningful Work Time – Applied retroactively, when our Flat Time and accrued Good/Work Time equals 100% we should be ENTITLED to Mandatory Supervision I Parole.
    We want a “Presumptive Parole System” which requires the release of a Prisoner at their earliest release date, unless there are valid objective reasons not to do so. Those reasons might include poor institutional behavior or refusing to participate in programming. The nature of the crime or any other “Static Reason” (things prisoners can NOT change) would ...........READ MORE

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  • Cops are Gangsters

    Intro: There are millions of oppressed people inside the borders of the u.s., but I’m not one of them. I come from a privileged background. I’m not the main victim of the police. Nor am I a leader in the growing struggle against police violence. Recognizing how far I am from the front lines, I hesitated to write about cops at all.

     In the end I decided that it’s important for all radicals, whether oppressed or privileged, to struggle for clarity about cops’ place in society.

     There are many kinds of police, ranging from elite national political police like the ...........READ MORE

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  • Portland, OR March 10 — Fade to Black: Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim Book Release & Fundraiser

    THE JERICHO MOVEMENT PRESENTS Fade to Black: Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim Book Release & Fundraiser

    WHEN: Thursday March 10th 2016, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
    WHERE: Social Justice Action Center,
    400 SE 12th Portland Oregon

    $5-10 sliding scale donation @ door!
    All ages and open to the public!

    Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/events/1056760471013606/

    Join us for another amazing political education/fundraising community event. The event will help to promote the recent book release of Jalil Muntaqim. Jalil is a Political Prisoner and Prisoner of War from the Black Liberation Movement. He organized with the Black Panther Party in the Bay area and was underground with the ...........READ MORE

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Rethinking White Men Behind Bars: Incorrigible Supremacists or Allies in Waiting? (repost)

This original story saw the light of day thanks to support from readers like you. Help us publish more stories like it by donating to Truthout now! Moments after I arrived in the living unit at the federal penitentiary in Lompoc, California, a young white man named Carl approached me.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Rethinking White Men Behind Bars: Incorrigible Supremacists or Allies in Waiting? ...........READ MORE

Mass Line and Mass Movement in Health: A Case Study of the Alliance for People’s Health (repost)

This article is based on my experiences over the past 9 years of working with the Alliance for People’s Health (APH) as a founding member. I have permission of current APH collective members to post this article and am very grateful for their thoughtful comments and contributions.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Mass Line and Mass Movement in Health: A Case Study of the Alliance for People’s Health ...........READ MORE

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Aric McBay Reviews Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead Book (in Briarpatch)

Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead
By Ed Mead
Kersplebedeb, 2015

Ed Mead’s autobiography, Lumpen, tells a story of a revolutionary life. Mead writes openly and unflinchingly about his days as a social prisoner, his time in the underground George Jackson Brigade, and his work as a prison organizer and founder of Men Against Sexism. The title, Lumpen, refers to Marx’s term lumpenproletariat – a social underclass of gangsters, swindlers, and petty criminals who, Marx argued, had no revolutionary potential; Mead sets out to prove Marx wrong about the lumpenproletariat’s contributions to social justice and revolution.

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Aujourd’hui ! « Comité d’accueil » montréalais pour Marine Le Pen | Today! Marine Le Pen “Welcoming Committee”

« Comité d’accueil » montréalais pour Marine Le Pen
LUNDI 21 MARS, 20 h
Montréal Marriott Château Champlain Hôtel
1050 de la Gauchetière Ouest (près Peel et Place du Canada)
prés métro Bonaventure ou métro Peel
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1138091196250382/
carte: http://bit.ly/1Uw1xvt

Marine Le Pen Montreal “Welcoming Committee”
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 8pm
Montréal Marriott Chateau Champlain Hotel
1050 de la Gauchetière West (near Peel and Place du Canada)
near métro Bonaventure or métro Peel
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1138091196250382/
map: http://bit.ly/1Uw1xvt

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La cheffe du Front National, un parti politique anti-immigrés de l’extrême droite française — Marine ...........READ MORE

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Marine Le Pen of the French Front National — Disrupted in Quebec City!

Comrades in Quebec City organized with just a few days’ notice to successfully disrupt a press conference held by Marine Le Pen — leader of the far right anti-immigrant French Front National – earlier today.

Le Pen is in Quebec for a week of racist rabblerousing, which was to include press conferences in Quebec City and Montreal, and in which she hoped to meet with canadian politicians. Fearing the protests which have “welcomed” previous forays by the FN into Quebec in the past, Le Pen only announced she would be coming in Friday, the day she actually arrived. ...........READ MORE