When we arrived on the scene, vehicles lined the cross-street in both directions. We struggled to find parking as police cars block the entry onto Bermis road, so we couldn’t quite see where the rally was taking place, but we knew that it was in well attendance. As we walked toward the prison grounds, joining […]
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 […]
On May 11th, while thousands of people were cashing their stimulus checks, I published an article on SawariMedia about why People in Prison Should Receive Stimulus Money. The reasons, in my eyes, were obvious: people in prison make cents to the dollar (if anything) hourly for the work that they do if they are able […]
Leaders weren’t bread for social isolation or sensory deprivation, but this is the fate that many outspoken leaders from throughout the earlier years of the Black Liberation Movement are suffering at the hands of prison and political officials who’ve condemned them to captivity in the United States’ Departments of Korrections. These leaders who have been […]
Without An Aggressive Mass Decarceration Effort a Second Wave Will Devastate the United States Black August has been recognized by the prison class as a month of resistance since the early 1970s. The demands of prisoners have not changed much over the decades. Over the last few years, as people in prison expand their networks […]
I want to begin this piece with my empathy for my brothers and sisters behind the wall, we have not forgotten about you. I empathize, rather than sympathize. Sympathy is recognition through a lens of pity, saying, “I see what’s happening to you” while empathy is recognition through the lens of shared understanding, saying, “I […]
by Lacino Hamilton Stark statistics have come to light showing that Black Americans are disproportionately contracting and dying from COVID-19. However, the focus on why this is may be less racial than it is economic? Furthermore, when Whites and Blacks are convinced that their basic health and economic interests are the same they may find […]
Impactful Political Organizing while in Quarantine Resource List Links Elements of Traditional Community Organizing: https://www.movementmatters.net/ 2018 National Prison Strike Event Overview: https://sawarimi.org/national-prison-strike Jailhouse Lawyers Speak: https://sawarimi.org/jls-prisoners-initiative Solid Black Fist NPS Newsletter: https://sawarimi.org/npsnewsletter Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign: https://harvardprisondivest.org/ University Beyond Bars: http://www.universitybeyondbars.org/ Books to Prisoners: https://www.bookstoprisoners.net/ Jpay Paid Emailing Vendor: www.jpay.com Connect Network, Phone Calling Vendor: […]
Weeks after passing the stimulus package, the IRS made a recent determination that convicted, incarcerated people were not eligible to receive stimulus money. This extremely disheartening for me as a prisoner human rights advocate and community organizer because after seeing that incarcerated people were not written out of the legislation I was excited to look […]