Posts Tagged: prisoners’ rights
More than 30 immigrant women on hunger strike in NW Detention Center
Jun 23, 2017
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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.
Palestinian hunger strike leader to stop drinking water
May 18, 2017
With the announcement by its initiator and leader Marwan Barghouti that he will stop drinking water, the Palestinian mass hunger strike, now in its 32...
Mass Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike in 4th week
May 09, 2017
Today there are more than 6,300 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, while there are exactly zero Israeli prisoners in Palestinian jails.
Oscar López Rivera and Chelsea Manning to be freed! Free Leonard Peltier and other prisoners now!
Jan 17, 2017
In an exciting development on Jan. 17, two U.S. political prisoners, anti-war whistleblower Chelsea Manning and Puerto Rican freedom fighter Oscar Ló...
California propositions yield a mishmash of progress and reaction
Nov 15, 2016
Eight to nine million votes were cast on 17 different ballot initiatives that ranged from legalizing marijuana to maintaining Medi-Cal funding to spee...
Gloria La Riva and Dennis Banks hold San Quentin press conference
Sep 29, 2016
“The death penalty is an abomination and we call for its immediate abolition.”
Protest demands: Close Rikers Island
Sep 29, 2016
“Rikers Island is a hellhole. No man deserves to live in that hellhole.”
Revisiting the theories of the state first developed by Marx, Engels and especially Lenin in his work "The State and Revolution."