This year’s free May Day book is A Message from Home, by virtuoso Miami street photographer Terence C. Price II. It’s a 6.75 x 8.75 inch, 160-page sewn hardback, with an introduction by Zoé Samudzi entitled “Against the Black Sentimental.” We don’t seek to craft an ode to spectacular greatness or inaccessible performances of “excellence,”…
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Building a Midwest Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement
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3rd Zap for H.H.
Another week has gone by and H.H. is still in SMHU. We need to keep the pressure on to show the MDOC that WE DON’T GIVE UP. Conditions in the Egeler segregation unit continue to be cruel and inhumane. H.H. hasn’t had clean clothes in 4 weeks, continues to be cuffed whenever he leaves the…
2nd Zap for H.H.
After three weeks, H.H. is still in SMHU (segregation) which means we need to keep calling to get him out. After a confrontation with a white supremacist, H.H. was sentenced to 30 days Loss of Privileges (LOP). Instead of LOP he was put in detention in the Special Management Housing Unit (SMHU). This means lights…
The Psychology of the Prison Guard
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Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
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