Political prisoners

Marcus Garvey surrounded by US agents
Domestic News

Justice Denied and Delayed—Leonard Peltier Commutation, Marcus Garvey Pardoned

January 30, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On this year’s annual holiday to commemorate the life, times and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), news had quickly spread regarding the long-delayed decision to commute the life sentence […]
Jamil Al-Amin (left)
Domestic News

My recent visit with Imam Jamil Al-Amin at the federal prison in Tucson, Arizona

January 28, 2025 fwstaff
By Arun Kundnani Earlier this month, I was finally able to visit Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly H. Rap Brown, at the federal prison in Tucson, Arizona. Imam Jamil is one of the great political activists […]
Poet recalls Schindler’s List as genocide continues in Gaza
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PAY-TO-VIEW GENOCIDE | COUNTER GENOCIDE-WISE | OUR ABOLITIONIST ADVENT CALENDAR | OUR ABOLITIONIST ADVENT CALENDAR

December 18, 2024 fwstaff
PAY-TO-VIEW GENOCIDE lest we forget the film on Oskar Schindler’s list was oscarized lest we forget this black and white film was memorialized by the sight of a child dressed in red fleeing the nazi […]
Mumia and Leonard
Domestic News

Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues to Struggle After 43 Years of Unjust Imprisonment

December 12, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the early morning hours of December 9, 1981, cab driver and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was wounded and arrested on charges related to the shooting death of a white Philadelphia police officer. […]
Marcellus Khaliifah Williams, executed by the State of Missouri, September 24, 2024
International News

TO KHALIIFAH AND REFAAT | CHILDPOCALYPSE | OCTOBER 7TH AND THE SALT OF TRUTH

October 15, 2024 fwstaff
TO KHALIIFAH AND REFAAT Khalifah – they put you to death the day after the birth of the poet who also became their martyr – Refaat Alareer one of your last poems also wrote about […]
International News

SOUL-PROOF STROLL TO THE BEACH | THE JUDAS WITHIN | WHAT IS IT THAT IS SO WHITE HOT? | RE-MISSION

August 30, 2024 fwstaff
SOUL-PROOF STROLL TO THE BEACH a lost bandaid decorated with comic strip fun is glued by the heat to the pavement where lizards frolic it is difficult to tell which palm trees are not artificial […]
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, finally free
Domestic News

A Pan-Abolitionist View on Julian Assange’s Release

July 8, 2024 fwstaff
By Julia Wright As freedom fighters who have seen many wars from Vietnam to Algeria, from Palestine to Kanaky, we do not take the good news that comes our way lightly. First, because we fought […]
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
International News

‘Revealer of Inconvenient Truths’

July 1, 2024 fwstaff
By Robert Inlakesh Known internationally as a revealer of inconvenient truths and a political prisoner of the West, Assange had profound impacts on almost all corners of the globe. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is finally […]
The children of Gaza
International News

THE DEAD NO LONGER NEED TO BE BROUGHT HOME | WHO SAID THE TIMES ARE ALL DARK? | HERE WE ARE, THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR | NO BOMBTIME STORIES FOR GAZA’S CHILDREN

June 2, 2024 fwstaff
THE DEAD NO LONGER NEED TO BE BROUGHT HOME Greetings Sisters, Brothers, Comrades, Today is May 19th – the birthday of three iconic revolutionary ancestors – Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama, and Ho Chi Minh. I […]
International News

The Devil’s in the Genocide | Our Shared Breath for Gaza | Kaleidoscoping the Paradigm | Each Red Sunrise is Dripping Gaza

April 27, 2024 fwstaff
The Devil’s in the Genocide ” Concentration camps ? They are a detail of history “. Jean -Marie Le Pen, French neo nazi leader who tortured in Algeria “The devil is in the detail “ […]