On Turtle Island every day should be Indigenous People’s day. Each day we need to honor the land and remember that the colonial logic of extraction is the same logic that perpetuates the prison industrial […]
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Solidarity with 3,000 Kurdish Hunger Strikers
There has been an ask for international solidarity for the 3000 prison hunger strikers fighting towards Kurdish autonomy in so-called Turkey. 15 of them are beginning a death strike (refusing supplements) starting on May 1st. […]
Welcome to Appalachia’s Gulag Archipelago
By Skyler Simmons / Earth First! Newswire Exile in the Mountains It is hard to imagine the hollers and hills of southern Appalachia ever being a place of punishment. With its lush coves filled with […]
What does it look like to be an environmentalist in prison?
What does it look like to be an environmentalist in prison? by Panagioti Tsolkas [UPDATED 5/10/16. Also, for more on prisons and the environment, check out “Incarceration, Justice and the Planet: How the Fight Against […]
Beyond Innocence: US Political Prisoners and the Fight Against Mass Incarceration
By Dan Berger (Image: Lauren Walker / Truthout) From Truthout President Obama’s recent statements about mass incarceration, together with his decision to commute the sentences of 46 people serving lengthy and life sentences in federal prison […]
