“It’s a death trap. Most of those prisons are nothing but an oven.”
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Drinking the Kool Aid Flavor Aid
And since the victims of Jonestown who ‘drank the Kool Aid’ were largely held at gunpoint and other coercisions, it is false and even insulting to claim that they voluntarily drank the poison and fed it to their children.
But ‘drink the Kool Aid’ does mean something.
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Protected: Outrageous Government Waste of Texas Taxpayer’s Money (To Harass and Intimidate Yet Another TDCJ Inmate)
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Know Your Atrocity
“There is not a need for the United States to apologize to Afghanistan.” Susan Rice November 2013 “The destruction was mutual. We went to Vietnam without any desire to capture territory or impose American will on other people. I don’t feel that we ought to apologize or castigate ourselves or to […]
Articles / LMFAO: The Human Rights Report
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LMFAO: The Human Rights Report
The SacklersPeople dead everywhere – from the cities to the sticks. Prince. Tom Petty. They killed Tom fucking Petty. The Sackler family made billions – and Purdue Pharma pays some fines. It makes Chiquita Banana’s anonymized $25 million plea to terrorism look like grave honorable accountability. Fuck The Sacklers. CovidOver […]
Articles / In Memory Of
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Appreciation: Lydia Sargent
In Memory ofLydia Sargent Like many lefties, discovering Z Magazine for me was like finding someone I never thought I’d find, and they were even better than imagining. Lydia Sargent was half of Z (with Michael Albert) and an extremely influential activist, playwright, publisher and writer. Lydia died on September […]
Early American History / Interviews
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America’s Saint Paul: Bartolome de Las Casas
Why Does Most Of The Work Of The Most Important European Primary Source From 1492 Remain Untranslated Into English?
Articles / Book reports / Early American History / Prison
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The Old Plantations and Their Owners of Brazoria County, Texas by Abner J. Strobel
When still inside TDCJ hell, a friend asked me to see what I could find about the connection to plantations and the prison units he was imprisoned in: Ramsey Unit. Excerpts of my letter responding: There’s really not a major work on Ramsey Plantation / Prison. I consulted two resources […]
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Military Waste – Ooops On Purpose
In 1676 there were rebellions all over the American colonies, Bacon’s Rebellion being the most famous. After rebellions were suppressed, commissioners were sent in to find out what had happened. In the collected grievances from the people of Charles City County, VA, overtaxation was a major complaint, with military waste […]
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Hubert Harrison: The Black Socrates
Book: When Africa Awakes by Hubert H. HarrisonJeffrey B. Perry (Ed.)Diasporic Africa Press Hubert H. Harrison is the W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey that we’ve never heard of. Described by Richard B. Moore as the “Black Socrates” and by A. Philip Randolph as “the father […]
Articles / Prison
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Pandemics and Prisons
As prisons are enclaves of inhumanity surrounded by the hustle and bustle of modern society, physically isolated from, but engaged in constant intercourse with society.
Articles / Interviews
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How the K Got In the Circle
From: HandoutTo: Customer ServiceSubject: Circle KWhy is this store called CIRCLE K? Why not O K? Or just K? Where did CIRCLE come from? Thanks. Handout From: N., Mark To: HandoutSubject: answer to your specific question. Hi Handout, Circle K originated with the purchase of three convenience stores call “Kay’s Food Stores” in the early 1950s… The buyer […]
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Think Different – But NOT Persian!
Remember that time an Apple employee in the U.S. state of Georgia refused to sell a computer to a woman he had heard speaking Farsi because ‘our countries have bad relations’? Well me and the 29 other people who signed the change.org petition do! But then Reuters produced a confusing […]
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Interview briefly with Norman Finkelstein
“The bigger challenge is to preserve one’s hope without being naive.”
Interviews / Prison
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Interview with Dan Kinch: Activism, Performance, and Jury Nullification
Jury nullification is this great thing. William Penn is jury nullification. One of the founding fathers not talked about. But yes, in the American judicial system – this dates back to the colonies – you are allowed to vote your conscience regardless of the evidence you are presented with. It was how the Quakers kept from going to prison for not worshipping in the Church of England. And that has been true forever. There’s an organization called the Fully Informed Jury Association, which actually will send you leaflets and flyers that explain your rights as a juror. But people don’t hear that.
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Interview with street artist BAMN: Mural of a Whistleblower
“Manning is a beacon of hope and has set the standard for courage. He had the odds stacked against him and everything to lose, but he still chose to go with what he felt was right.”
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Interview with Prof. Gene Stavis, formerly of the School of Visual Arts
“Silas Rhodes, and Burne Hogarth, the guy who drew Tarzan, they started it. Then Silas pushed him out. And so Silas became the sole owner. There is an old quote from Hogarth about, ‘I hope I live long enough to see Silas dead and buried, and I’ll piss on his grave.'”
Articles / Music
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To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie: “The Patron”
The Patron begins with a sharp static blast and deep rumbles. Then, a violin (or cello?) that sounds like a long, sharp saw coming down from on high like God’s own blade. More often than not, To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie’s debut album elicits in me (if I let the […]