How Power Works
Oct 24, 2016 Historian Heather Ann Thompson’s book on the 1971 Attica prison uprising details the government’s brutality, lies and propaganda, demonization of the poor, obstruction of justice and silencing of those who tried to tell the truth. She exposes the American blueprint for social control.
Striking Prisoners Are Bending the Arc of the Moral Universe Closer to Justice
Sep 30, 2016 Right now, under some of the most repressive circumstances that exist in the United States, a national movement is growing for prisoners' rights.
Inmates Launch Series of Work Stoppages to Protest ‘Slave Labor’
Sep 16, 2016 The U.S. incarcerates the greatest number of people in the world, and most of them are expected to work inside the prisons that hold them, usually for well below minimum wage.
National Prison Strike Campaign Vows to End ‘American Slave System’
Apr 2, 2016 Starting Sept. 9, prisoners across the United States will begin a coordinated work stoppage to call attention to what they contend is involuntary servitude.
