Brink’s Trial Opening Statement By Kuwasi Balagoon July 11, 1983 My name is Kuwasi Balagoon. The name is of Yoruba origin. Yoruba is a name of a tribe in western Africa in what was called the Slave Coast, and now called Nigeria. Many if not the bulk of slaves brought to the Western Hemisphere were…
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Kuwasi Balagoon : Letters from Prison
Kuwasi Balagoon, is a man who many anarchists, nationalists, and anti-imperialists may have heard of in passing, but about whom very little has been made broadly available. As you read on, this state of affairs may perplex or even anger you, for certainly what we have here are important and eloquent words by a man…
Back from Hell : Black Power and Treason to Whiteness Inside Prison Walls
By Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin The federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana had the reputation of being the most racist and brutal prison in the federal prison system. The city of Terre haute itself had been known in the 1920s as one of the strongest base areas for the Ku Klux Klan in the Midwest. As…
The Prison Industrial Complex | Assata Shakur
Greetings Sisters, Brothers, Comrades, Never in our history has critical resistance to the status quo been more important. The growth of the Prison-Industrial complex has been appallingly rapid and the escalating repression that has accompanied it is totally alarming. What of future lies ahead of us? What are the implications of for our children? Those…
Nazis, New Jersey State Police and Assata Shakur
By Hans Wolff August, 1998 There have been persistent reports of a Nazi subculture in the New Jersey State Police, which has long had a reputation for violence and racism. Recently, the State Police was the subject of a review article in the New York Times, which cited years of allegations and a landmark court…
A Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network
By Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin A Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network – 9 Page Document Preface to the Second Edition This pamphlet is dedicated to all those suffering in the dungeons of North America and all those revolutionaries who have lost their lives in prison anywhere in the world. I first wrote it…
Masked Racism | Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex
Angela Davis Born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama A radical Black activist, author and academic, Angela Davis received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1965. She later studied as a doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego, under the Marxist professor and ‘One Dimensional Man’ (1964) author Herbert Marcuse. Davis joined…
“Assata And The Pope” | Interview With Assata Shakur
By Karen Wald Interview by Karen Wald of Assata Shakur during the Pope’s visit in January 1998 Q: The New Jersey State Police asked the Pope to intervene on their behalf to get the Cuban government to extradite you to New Jersey. Before asking your reaction to that, I think it would be a good…
