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Building a united front inside: Educate, agitate, organize! June 27, 2021 For the past six years, prison activist Kwame Shakur has worked with caged comrades around the u.s. to found a platform and political line for the Prison Lives Matter movement, establishing a united front to draw activists from outside and inside into the prison movement. The goal is to create a reproducible model for abolitionists everywhere to be part of PLM and to strengthen the fight for a future rooted in shared humanity and an end to the exploitation and unjustifiable incarceration of poor, oppressed and marginali...
Liberate the Caged Voices Front for the Liberation of the New Afrikan Nation (FROLINAN) is a political organization whose ultimate goal is the creation of an independent country for New Afrikans – Republic of New Afrika. In order to achieve it, the organization is spreading its ideas through educational programs and use of visual arts and music. While using the Garvey colors in original horizontal pattern, FROLINAN differentiates itself with use of a vertical red-black-green flag. Introduction by Nube Brown, a budding New Afrikan This is Part 1 of a two-part series of my interview with Jal...
Civil rights of prisoners gaining attention Jakkar Aimery Capital News Service LANSING — Allegations of discrimination and civil rights violations against prisoners in the state is drawing increased attention, and organizations including the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the NAACP are making the issue a priority. And on a national level, President Joe Biden has directed the U.S. Department of Justice to end its use of private prisons and pledged to advance racial equity. Those actions have garnered the attention of individuals working to end the federal use of private prisons, ...