Poetry Corner: Champagne Song, Prairieland Defendant Sentence to 100 Years

https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/never-forget-other-poems/ This is Champagne Song, one of the Prairie Land defendants currently in solitary confinement. These are some poems that I wrote after being sentenced to 100 years. This first one is called “Never Forget”   Never Forget the Threat of communism/ that was Hitler’s excuse for everything that he did. We must go to war because of communism, he said. We must get rid of the Jews because of communism. No [...]

Haiti: Solidarity in a World at War

By Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee [excerpts] As the world reels from the devastating U.S.-Israel war on Iran and Lebanon, and as the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide continues in Gaza and the West Bank, the Trump Administration’s plan to assert its dominance over the Americas is also moving forward at an unprecedented pace. Having kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and colleague, Cilia Flores, and taken control over Venezuela’s oil reserves, [...]

Removing Migrant Workers Reduced Jobs for Everyone

Stephen Miller Lied: Removing Migrant Workers Reduced Jobs for Everyone, Including White Men Pablo Manríquez, Migrant Insider [Excerpts] https://substack.com/@pablo/p-196878542 The promise was simple, and Stephen Miller has been making it for years: clear out undocumented workers, and US-born workers get their jobs. The data is now in. The promise was a lie. A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research — the first comprehensive, causal national study of [...]

Local Struggles on Many Fronts: ICE, LAUSD, World Cup

Shut Down Adelanto ICE Detention Center! There is an ongoing hunger strike in the Adelanto CA ICE detention center’s Desert View Annex, where at least 20 people are refusing food in a last resort effort to try and change the horrifying conditions they endure at the detention center.      All immigrants deserve to seek immigration relief in the care of their beloved communities and with access to resources. Studies by the American [...]

Normalizing Troops in US Streets

© by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/normalizing-troops-in-u-s-streets/ People always criticize the Congress, at least the Republicans in Congress for being too supine, and too prostrative when it comes to the president. Well, I don't think it's fair to charge just one branch of the government. We live in a country where the Supreme Court, which is the highest judicial power in the US, essentially gave unlimited power and immunity to the president on the [...]

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