Over the past few months I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with a small group of college students studying at Yale university during this Summer of 2022. Several Yale students responded to my request for support with developing a Digitized Archive of Incarcerated Reader Submissions that’ve mailed to SawariMedia over the past five years. I […]
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 […]
Revolutionary greetings to all freedom fighters and supporters for prisoners human rights: On a southern plantation (prison) JLS was founded in 2015 amongst a group of Jailhouse Lawyers who were already in unity as a cadre based upon the studies of George L. Jackson. This original group of comrades make up the current central committee. […]
I used to listen to Kanye West often. “Late Registration” was one of my favorite albums, so you can’t get me not to sing along to every single word of “Gold Digger.” Over the years, West has never been afraid to speak out even if what he had to say wasn’t in line with popular […]
Costa Rica is an insanely beautiful place. When I took my trip I did not expect to have any sort of life changing revelation and that’s not what this write-up is going to be about. I took a simple trip to visit my friend that I hadn’t seen in over a year and was to […]
Over the past three weeks prisoners have been working heavily with strength and bravery to demonstrate to the world through the National Prison Strike that the US criminal justice system is in critical need of some transformative changes. Prisoners have been able to do this on a massive scale through organizing work stoppages, peaceful sit […]
New confirmed prison action reports (full list & details below) Missouri: at least one prisoner on a hunger strike at Leavenworth (USP). New York: strike activity at Coxsackie Correctional Facility, strike activity and boycotts at Eastern Correctional Facility. Ohio: at least one block engaged in a 3 day fast on first days of the strike […]
YOUNGSTOWN OH- Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan, a revolutionary organizer and outspoken advocate of the national prisoner rights movement has appealed the Ohio Department of Correction (ODRC) decision that restricted him from communication access for a year of more leading up to the Agust 21- September 9 nationwide prison strike. In his appeal Imam Hasan states: “The fabricated charges in my conduct report, the […]
Recently there has been a rise of worker strikes happening throughout the country. Throughout Western Washington construction workers have been on strike. Construction workers have been striking unsafe working conditions for decades. Teachers are striking in Tumwater and have been striking for years about their inadequate wages. Recently I saw a documentary that highlighted NFL […]
New word of protest action within the prisons continues to reach us almost every day (see “Strike action roundup” below) as the National Prison Strike enters its third and final week.We expect to continue getting reports from inside in the coming months as lockdowns and communication restrictions ease. Speaking to a small group of journalists […]