The Fifty-Year Revolt
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On prison organizing: Two reviews
On prison organizing: Two reviews
On prison organizing: Two reviews
film
Prison Stands Between Fathers and Their Daughters in Poignant, Lovely Documentary
AV Club
A compassionate documentary told with elegiac brushstrokes, Daughters tracks the generational trauma of incarcerated fathers.
film
Sing Sing Is a Humanizing Portrait of the Dehumanized
Jacobin
Prisons serve as giant holding pens for people our society has come to see as subhuman. Sing Sing resists such dehumanization through a tender portrait of the creative capabilities and emotional lives of prison actors.
The Long Struggle To Read in Alabama’s Prisons
Facing South
Jennings and other prisoners say reading is therapy for them, but a hostile bureaucracy often makes access to books and other reading materials difficult.
Mapuche Hunger Strike Reaches Crisis Point: Political Prisoners Fight for Madre Tierra
Monthly Review
The prisoners are members of the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), a movement that is involved in direct action to recover ancestral lands in order to protect Madre Tierra from spoliation by logging companies and big business latifundios.
Friday Nite Videos | October 6, 2023
Portside
Trump Takes Real Step Toward Becoming House Speaker. Speaker of the House | Randy Rainbow Song Parody. Who Killed Che? Prison Health Care | John Oliver. What if We Bring Back Life From Mars?
Prison Health Care | John Oliver
Damn writers! No sooner do they end their strike than they're back to writing jokes and raking up muck. And this shit needed exposing.
Friday Nite Videos | July 28, 2023
Portside
Teamsters Launch Massive Effort To Unionize Amazon. 'Hotel Magadonia' | Parody of Hotel California. Learning From Covid-19, Preparing for Future Pandemics. A Fact-Checked Debate About Euthanasia. Attack Dogs Used To Maul and Terrorize Prisoners.
Attack Dogs Used To Maul and Terrorize Prisoners
A shocking investigation by Insider reveals how patrol dogs in U.S. prisons have attacked at least 295 people since 2017.
Atlanta’s Attack on Cop City Protesters Should Be a Warning to Us All
Truthout
The fight against the militarized police training center dubbed “Cop City” is one of the great struggles of our time.
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