In the recent years of the the prison resistance movement, new methods for inside organizing have tremendously pushed inside organizers cause forward. People in prison had pleaded for more human conditions and just policies since before the years of the Attica revolution in 1971 that promoted 35 demands around these issues. During the early 70s […]
Chicago Votes’ Silenced Documentary brings together impacted voices in order to address the basic issue of disenfranchisement in our communities. Featured speakers remind viewers that, “America moves in a malicious way” as Illinois was founded on the disenfranchisement and criminalization of Black people like many other states’ legislation concerning voting, follow the national government’s trend […]
Outside of the 6th District’s Federal court dozens of people: family members, advocates and organizational leads came together in support of those wrongfully convicted and over-sentenced in Michigan’s Departmet of Corrections (MDOC). New York based Shawanna Vaughn, prisoner right’s advocate and founder of Silent Cry, traveled across the region to host this rally in support of MDOC captives […]
Three years, ago the 2018 National Prison Strike united incarcerated people across 17 states around 10 demands. In order to elevate those demands, incarcerated organizers promoted four actions for inside participants to engage in: work strikes, sit-ins, boycotts and hunger strikes. The outside world took notice worldwide responding to prisoners call to post their demands […]
As the majority of Americans have cashed their stimulus checks, incarcerated citizens are burdened under the weight of new restrictions along with mounting telecom and mailing costs for staying connected with loved ones throughout the pandemic. In May I wrote an article listing reasons, Why People in Prison Should Recieve stimulus money. That following October […]
Critiquing Bob Barker Institutional Supply Company Retired American game show host and Washington State born Bob Barker, is one of the most recognizable names on daytime television, most known for his role hosting the longest running game-time television show in North America. The Price is Right was first filmed with Barker as its new star […]
As an ignorant US born person, an ongoing war in a foreign land felt like the unfortunate repercussion of my citizenship. While captive in this mindset, foreign regions promoted in corporate media stories as terror threats were represented as “places of endless war”. This is the position that the Middle East holds for many, but […]
I avoided going to the place that one has to be in order to do the research and reflection required to write this piece. My passion for umoja pushed me to love enough to share through my fear. Now that we as a community have felt the impact of judicial validation, we realize that a […]
Ohio Corrections is a fucked up place, but what state’s department of (rehabilitation &) corrections isn’t that chooses to maintain the following conditions: Classifying stamps as contraband Placing people in solitary confinement for five years consistently Placing mentally ill and developmentally disabled people in solitary confinement Blocking individuals placed in restrictive solitary confinement from filing […]
I refuse to endorse films profiting off of Black history that are directed by non-Black people centering non-fiction African descendant of slaves as main characters because it feels more like puppeteering than storytelling. This is the reason why I have yet to see popular Black history inspired movies like Hidden Figures, directed by a white […]