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Daily Archives: January 1, 2021

Prisons and jails are COVID-19 super-spreaders

The numbers are staggering. We have all heard the term “petri dishes” applied to our prisons, jails and detention centers. Discover the details in this short, concise no frills layout of how Gov. Newsom has abetted the deliberate indifference towards preventable deaths and suffering of our loved ones inside prisons and innocents in the communities where our prisons are located.

Change the name of the ‘White’ House! Change this oppressive system!

As we transition between the trials and traumas of 2020 into the possibilities of hope and inspiration for 2021, Baba Jahahara remembers our new ancestors with honor, respect and love, notes the challenges ahead to infuse renewed energies into the call for reparations, Mother Earth love, freedom for our Political Prisoners and the new Biden-Harris administration’s debt to those who’s votes made the nightmare escape possible.

What prisons are like during COVID lockdown: interview with a Pennsylvania incarcerated worker

At the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PA DOC), any sentence is a death sentence in the COVID-19 conundrum. COVID-free for 7-8 months, State Correctional Institute Frackville opened gates wide for intake of COVID-positive-tested prisoners and, federal funding. The only medical remedy? – drink water – verified contaminated water.

Call to action: Stop illegal, inhumane restrictions on Secure Housing Unit at WVCF

From behind the walls of the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, prisoners’ voices are calling supporters to action to make demands and expose mental torture, deliberate indifference, dehumanization and inhumane abuse by their corrupt captors – amid, compounded and weaponized by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Renewed call for shipyard excavation moratorium – the legal legacy of harm to the...

We will fight this attempted toxic genocide! So say Bayview Hunters Point residents, once again, clearly stating they will not accept the radiated, toxic grounds of their community, bearing the pain of years of deliberate indifference, lies, deceits and government and corporate shenanigans resulting in egregious harm and suffering to families’ lives.