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Lawsuit challenges solitary confinement at California prison
Prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay is cruel and unusual punishment, torture, lawyers say Oakland – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal lawsuit Thursday on behalf of...
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U.S. at U.N. prisoners’ rights meeting: Progress, but still wrong on solitary...
by David Fathi, ACLU National Prison Project Part 1 Buenos Aires, Dec. 11, 2012 – I’m writing from Buenos Aires, where I’m representing the ACLU at the Inter-Governmental Expert Meeting (IGEM) on the...
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California prisons: ‘Solitary confinement can amount to cruel punishment,...
Geneva, Aug. 23, 2013 –United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez today urged the United States government to abolish the use of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement. There...
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UN torture expert Juan Mendez on Albert Woodfox: ‘Four decades in solitary...
by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Geneva – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez today called on the United States to immediately end the...
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Revitalizing the demand for reparations
by Amadi Ajamu The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM’s) re-igniting of the reparations movement has raised the stakes to decisive governmental direct action. The 15 member regional bloc of nations...
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The Blue Angels air show: San Francisco’s choice
The Blue Angels FA-18s zoom past the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, in October 2007. – Photo: Clark Cook by Ann Garrison Fleet Week and the Blue Angels are as San Franciscan as Rice-A-Roni, the...
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Looking at Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and the African Union in 2015: an interview wit’...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239843645″...
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‘We Charge Genocide’
by Mike Kuhlenbeck “The responsibility of being the first in history to charge the government of the United States of America with the crime of genocide is not one the petitioners take lightly,”...
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Jalil A. Muntaqim: The making of a movement
by Jalil A. Muntaqim I was captured on Aug. 28, 1971, in San Francisco after a car chase and gun battle with San Francisco police. It was alleged that myself and co-defendant Albert Nuh Washington were...
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Prison Lives Matter: In the Spirit of Nelson Mandela
July 18 Call to Action by Kwame Shakur For the past year, we have been working to organize and grow the Prison Lives Matter Campaign in an attempt to rebuild and strengthen the prison movement in this...
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