Posts Tagged: prisoners’ rights
For-profit immigration prison pays detained people $1 a day
Sep 28, 2017
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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.
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...
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.