Posts Tagged: prisoners’ rights
South Florida shows solidarity with striking prisoners
Jan 17, 2018
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As Operation PUSH continues, we must keep our eyes on the prisoners’ struggle for justice and lend our full support as they face brutal repression f...
Florida prisoners work stoppage to demand better conditions on MLK Day
Jan 15, 2018
On a daily basis, the Florida Department of Corrections commits human rights violations against tens of thousands of people incarcerated in its 50 pri...
Ex-inmate: ‘We carried on the work of the Angola 3’
Oct 30, 2017
Liberation News interviews a former prisoner in Baton Rouge.
For-profit immigration prison pays detained people $1 a day
Sep 28, 2017
Detained immigrants at Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma face horrible conditions.
Boston to DC: Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March!
Aug 26, 2017
On August 19, hundreds people from around the United States, including organizers and former prisoners, gathered in Washington D.C. to take part in th...
March and rally for prisoners’ human rights in San José, Calif.
Aug 20, 2017
Hundreds marched and rallied in San José, Calif., Aug. 19, at a sister march for prisoners’ human rights to the main one that took place the same d...
More than 30 immigrant women on hunger strike in NW Detention Center
Jun 23, 2017
ICE officers threaten retaliation instead of addressing human rights abuses.
Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike with historic win against Israeli mass incarceration
Jun 04, 2017
The agreement was hailed as a “victory for the Palestinian people and the prisoners in their epic defense of freedom and dignity.”
Folsom prisoners declare hunger strike, mainstream media silent
May 25, 2017
The struggle will continue until the criminalization of the working class ends
Chicago celebrates freedom for Oscar López Rivera
May 19, 2017
Oscar López Rivera will always be celebrated as a hero.
New Book
Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation
(Liberation Media, 2017)
Tracing the historical evolution of a movement that has thoroughly transformed society, and is in need of militant revival today.