By his 70th birthday in 2013, Russell Maroon Shoatz had spent nearly 30 years in extreme solitary confinement. A prisoner in Pennsylvania’s Restricted Housing Unit (RHU), Shoatz spent 23 hours each day confined to a 7-by-12-foot cell. He ate all his meals alone inside that cell. He slept under lights that were never turned off.
Albert Woodfox, the last remaining member of the Angola 3 still behind bars, was released from prison 43 years and 10 months after he was first put in a 6x9 foot solitary cell for a crime he did not commit.
August21, 2015
by Lana Habash
Repression in Jordan to Protect Israel
The Trial and Sentencing of Amer Jubran
Black August -- Hiroshima - 70 years later and the bomb still burns --Well hi folks. I thought I'd send a little thought out about nuclear bombs, past and present; about Black Lives Matter, past and ongoing, about the horror of it all as we remember the crimes of u.s. imperialism.
"... on relativity, cecil, the lion with the black mane. killed because of the increased value his black mane demanded.for his gene pool and for the trophy hunters. lots of folks very upset at his demise. me too. freddie grey's dead. killed because his black skin determined that, in america he had less value, to the powers that be in this racist system. cecils dead. but keep it in perspective.
