Monthly Archives: August 2025

All of Us or None held its national convening in San Antonio from July 17–20, drawing formerly incarcerated organizers from across the country to share strategies on legal advocacy, parole preparation and community reintegration; participants celebrated solidarity through workshops on basebuilding and AI for liberation, heard messages from imprisoned leaders and marched downtown to demand reforms aimed at restoring rights and resources for people inside and formerly incarcerated.

JR Valrey remembers David “General Jap” Johnson as a longtime Black revolutionary and mentor whose work with the Black Prisoners Movement and the San Quentin 6 helped educate a new generation of organizers in Oakland; Valrey recalls Johnson’s mix of fierce loyalty, sharp teaching and humor, citing his role in community events, political education and cultural life as central to his legacy.

“We are not just captives — we are the system’s most knowledgeable critics and its most formidable opponents. Together, we can dismantle not only these walls but the limits on our imagination of justice.”

They say they care about us. If that were true, we wouldn’t be constantly stressed out. Our daily lives are full of anxiety

C-Note’s continued imprisonment is a moral failure .His art, advocacy and rehabilitative record demand his immediate release!