First of all, fuck you. Apologies, when we know what you’re craving is civility in “these difficult times,” but fuck you if you don’t celebrate a black man owning a sword. If you don’t mind that your neighbor the white attorney has a closed mind, money, and a basement full of guns, fuck you. But…
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Soledad Brother
Fifty-four years, four months, and a dozen days since his assassination, we share here a free digital version of George Jackson’s Soledad Brother, redesigned and with archival finds appended, to honor the memory of Maurice, a beloved teacher no one in movement circles will have heard of, but who carried the warm dyad of kindness…
We Are a Conspiracy: 56 Notes on Red
Note: This essay contains references to multiple forms of state, racial, and gender-based violence. 1 Her comrades called her Red. She may have been born in Chicago or New Orleans as Saundra Cosey, Sandra Lee, Sandra Lane, or possibly Sandra Jones. Gaidi Faraj tells us she was named Saundra Hobson. In her teens, owing to…
Phone Zap for Freedom for HH Gonzales
Editor’s note: this call comes from MAPS *** Update from MAPS! *** We don’t have to escalate now because phone calls from family yesterday got him out tonight! This shows how powerful shining a public spotlight on MDOC abuse can be. Harold Gonzales (aka “HH,” our long-time comrade) has done everything in his power to…
Just Some of the Problems That Plague the Prison Industrial Complex
Editor’s note: These short texts were submitted anonymously by an incarcerated Michigander. As I sit and watch the deterioration of the prison industrial complex here in Michigan, I’m struck by how far it has fallen. While it has never been ideal, in the past it had pseudo ethics, morals, and values; since the advent of…
Leila Khaled: My People Shall Live
“I come from the city of Haifa, but I remember little of my birthplace. I can see the area where I played as a small child, but of our house, I only remember the staircase. I was taken away when I was four, not to see Haifa again for many years. Finally I saw my…
We Remember Aura Rosser: A Vigil
From the organizers: We invite you to join folks in downtown Ann Arbor at Liberty Plaza on November 9, 2024 at 7 p.m. for a vigil honoring the memory of Aura Rosser. On November 9, 2014, Aura Rain Rosser was killed in her home by Ann Arbor Police Department officer David Ried. Ried was exonerated by the Washtenaw County…
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