The grand jury is a tool of the federal (and California) legal system. Ostensibly they are used to determine whether or not to issue an indictment in the case of a felony crime, and hear evidence presented by a prosecutor to make this determination. Unlike normal...
On Friday December 12th, Oregon-based political prisoner Malik Muhammed was transferred out of Snake River Correctional Institution, where they had spent over a year in solitary confinement. They are now in Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, a medium security...
by: Oso Blanco This book Eric King has published will tell you many truths of what US colonialism has come to in the form of US federal prisons, especially the abuses of humans in the SHU and at the ADX Supermax in Florence, Colorado. The haves who seek to destroy and...
Amber Fitts, longtime resident of Eugene, Oregon, and advocate for the unhoused, is being held in Idaho. She was arrested in June and is seeking support. Amber would love to receive letters to help her get through the next seven months, and funds for commissary and...
hello eric! i wanted to ask you this question when you were in oregon in may, but i was too shy, so seeing that you were accepting questions for this column gladdened me. essentially, i’ve fallen in love with a political prisoner. it is that future-altering,...
“Study, fast, train, fight” These are the principles of Black August, a month of commemoration rooted in the 1970’s Black Liberation Movement that honors fallen Black freedom fighters and political prisoners. In August 1619, the first enslaved Africans were brought to...
