Pelican Bay threatens hunger strikers
From the Pelican Bay SHU/CMU by Kijana Tashiri Askari, s/n Marcus Harrison On Aug. 17, CDCR led several major media reporters on a rare tour of the Pelican Bay SHU. This shows a prisoner’s shower...
View ArticleThe struggle continues: A message of love and appreciation
by Kijana Tashiri Askari Malcolm X, 1964 – Photo: Robert Parent, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images “What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. … We have a common oppressor, a...
View ArticleTo the contrary, George Jackson was never a prison gang member
by Kijani Tashiri Askari No investigation, no right to speak. – Chairman Mao Tse Tung As revolutionaries, it is our duty to come to the aid of all oppressed people – in particular, when the people are...
View ArticleThe W.L. Nolen Mentorship Program
by Kíjana Tashiri Askari, Baridi Yero and Yafeu Iyapo “To enable the people of the community to have an intelligent or informed opinion about matters of importance, the principal role of leaders is to...
View ArticleThe Prison Industrial Slave Complex, a profit-making industry
by the Pelikan Bay First Amendment Rights Campaign: Abdul Shakur, Ifoma Modibo Kambon, Dadisi Yero Kambon, Raridi Yero, Abasi Ganda, Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu I-Yapo Many within society, and...
View ArticlePelican Bay: Campaigns against torture and censorship unite to end...
by Kijana Tashiri Askari The Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement First Amendment Campaign stands in solidarity with the Stop the Torture Campaign, as our goals and objectives are mutual. We aim to...
View ArticleYou can help us end solitary confinement
by Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu Iyapo and Kamau Askari for the W.L. Nolen Mentorship Program Now picture this: a human being entombed in his or her bathroom 22½ hours out of the day for 10 to 40-plus...
View ArticleCDCR’s sham mental health interventions and evaluations
by Kijana T. Askari, Yafeu Iyapo and Kamau Askari for the W.L. Nolen Mentorship Program “It wasn’t always like this. The wide-scale use of isolation is, almost exclusively, a phenomenon of the past 20...
View ArticleMy safari from Pelikkkan Bay
by Kijana Tashiri Askari On Jan. 29, 2015, my travels began with a wakeup call at 2:30 a.m. I was told by the first watch unit officer to be ready in 30 minutes. Myself and a total of 17 prisoners were...
View ArticleKern Valley administrators aim to undermine our Agreement to End race-based...
A bulletin from the Prisoner Human Rights Movement (PHRM) and Free Speech Society by Kijana Tashiri Askari, Abdul Olugbala Shakur and J. Heshima Denham Kern Valley State Prison administrators have...
View ArticleLong live the spirit of Comrade W.L. Nolen
by Chairman Kijana Tashiri Askari, W.L. Nolen Mentorship Program W.L. Nolen and his brother, Cornell, grew up street fighting in Oakland and were both prison boxing champions. For those who are not...
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