Prison Focus Radio

January 27, 2022 We get an update on Corcoran State Prison from Mwalimu Shakur, AG8738, Corcoran SP 3A-02-144, P.O. Box 3461, Corcoran CA 93212; Nube reads a poem, 'American Negro' from Rashad El, 1179337, Jefferson City CI 4C-207, 8200 No More Victims Rd., Jefferson City, MO 65101; We hear success curtailed by racist fascism from Dr. Michael D. Williams, 00133193, Bibb County CF, 565 Bibb Lane, B...

We get an update on Corcoran State Prison from Mwalimu Shakur, AG8738, Corcoran SP 3A-02-144, P.O. Box 3461, Corcoran CA 93212; Nube reads a poem, 'American Negro' from Rashad El, 1179337, Jefferson City CI 4C-207, 8200 No More Victims Rd., Jefferson City, MO 65101; We hear success curtailed by racist fascism from Dr. Michael D. Williams, 00133193, Bibb County CF, 565 Bibb Lane, Brent, AL 35034; N...

We hear from Andre Tinnon, corruptly accused and serving a life sentence in as Wisconsin prison. He shares with us the debilitating affects of solitary confinement and what he asks to stay sane; we also hear Danny Gibbs of the Ohio Strikers of 2022 - although he's clear it's about all of them, not just him - calling from a Toledo prison to share the demands of the hunger strikers and the suicidal...

Today we spend the hour speaking with Joka Heshima Jinsai about the urgent Institutional Restitution campaign. Please sign petition: https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/restitution-now-support-the-concept-of-institutional-restitution-today

Nube reads some of the many letters from prisoners expressing their love, support, advice and more in response to the SF Bay View's November article "Was the Bay View infiltrated by a 'rock star' informant?" We also hear an excerpt of Michael Zaharibu Dorrough's article "Wrongful convictions and racism as a Human Rights crisis..." from Prison Focus issue 61. Move into the new year with hope and st...

An "angry critique" from Troy T. Thomas aka Asar Imhotep Amen, PhD, "What working poor Black folks need to realize as we protest for better conditions in Amerika;" Tribute to Russell Maroon Shoatz, we hear a 2011 interview and read a statement about his joining the ancestors December 17, 2021 by Abolitionist Law Center.

We spend the hour with Jeff Ace Walker speaking with us about his transformation during his 16-year modern-day enslavement for a wrongful conviction while now wrongfully sitting in a jail cell, and his campaign "Clear Jeff Ace Walker's name." Please sign the petition at Change.org, go to FB under same name and read his article "No warning shot" at sfbayview.com. You can write to him at Mr. Jeff Wa...

We listen to excerpts of the 3rd Annual Ratcliff Awards on December 7, 2021, hosted by Minister King X and co-sponsored by K.A.G.E. Universal, California Prison Focus and SF Bay View newspaper. We hear from multiple people in the movement on both sides of the wall.

Nube reads a variety of letters, Dennis Hopper from HDSP, Steven McCain on Open Prison Initiative; shake it up a bit with Khafre Jay of Hip Hop for Change; poetry from Rashad El; wisdom from Elder Hunger Striker Baridi Williamson.

We spend the hour with Chris Johnson of The New Hope Initiative. Chris is currently caged at Alexander CI in North Carolina serving a 16-20 year sentence for 1st degree murder. This inside outside project will unveil it's launch Saturday, Nov. 20, 5pm EST, virtually. Go to: therealnewhope.org/news, for details.

We spend the whole hour in conversation with Hatari Olugbala, home after 32 years in Pelican Bay State Prison and others, speaking on his Warriors Healing Program addressing historic and systemic trauma to Black people.

We spend the whole hour in tribute to beloved Black Liberation freedom fighter, Assata Shakur.

This is the week of the Tribunal taking place Oct. 22-25. We hear witness testimony from former political prisoner Seku Odinga; witness testimony from former youth prisoner Saleem Holbrook, Executive Director of Abolitionist Law Center; we learn that political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz has been given compassionate release after 49 years!; political prisoner David Gilbert has been given parole...

We continue with the youth voices regarding the International Tribunal 2021 WE CHARGE GENOCIDE; Mel Charles of @agapemvmt on Franz Fanon's quote "Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it." Kevin Steele of Bring Mumia Home and Root & Branch Collective on next steps; Nube reads "The Tribunal" by Jihad Abdul Mumit Chair of National Jericho Moveme...

We hear from Taran Helms, a prisoner in Ohio, speak on writing, publishing, making his own way and being a 5%er; we also hear from Michi Dixon, out of CSATF, talking about the power of (Black) men being vulnerable. Nube reads and letter from Vincent A. Callender out of CSATF, about the insensitivity of not allowing prisoners to donate organs while alive- so he starts his own organization. Vincent...

We spend the rest if the month focusing on the upcoming International Tribunal 2021 We Charge Genocide. This week we'll hear excerpts from the first webinar which gives some background and back drop to the reasons for the tribunal. We also hear from our friend Zah, who despite suffering the genocidal sentence of LWOP continues to assert his humanity thereby uplifting ours.

We spend most of the hour hearing from Jamilia Land and her son Elijah Johnson on their developing action to address the crime against humanity that is Elijah's triple life sentence; Nube reads from an article "Black Love for Brown Pride" a show of solidarity, inside and out, for National Hispanic Heritage Month. Sent by Minister King X from Donald C-note Hooker, imprisoned artist and organizer.

We hear from Joka Heshima Jinsai on the continued struggle and the SF Bay View's role in it; We hear from Michi Dixon, prisoner at SATF speaking on self love; Nube reads and letter from Tupac Shakur to Public Enemy's Chuck D from 1995; We hear from Mfalme Sikivu (Dauntie Mitchell) from N.Y. who just came home after 25 years on a commutation by the governor, speaking on UFD, Ujamaa Fraternal Dynast...

Nube speaks with Jay DeAndre, abolitionist, formerly incarcerated and working with Initiate Justice to transform and ultimately abolish the PISC (prison industrial slave complex ); Nube reads a 2009 article from the Sfbayview by Abdul Olugbala Shakur.

This week, we hear from Mwalimu on progress with the youth, many if them lifers and how the New Afrikan teachings of Black August are empowering them; we hear from Elder freedom fighter Zah on humanity and what we need to do to uplift it

In our last week of commemorating Black August we hear from Georgia Jackson revolutionary mama of George Jackson; Nube reads a current piece by recently returned comrade, Paul Redd; we hear from comrade Mwalimu in Corcoran on Black August

Black August Memorial/Black August Resistance- Nube reads Statement from Joka Heshima Jinsai; we hear from Michael Zaharibu Dorrough on Black August and current SATF prison conditions; Nube reads from the W.L. Nolan Mentorship Program and mission statement; Bob Dylan writes and sings a song about George Jackson

We continue with our Black August Memorial/Black August Resistance; we hear statements from Joka Heshima Jinsai, Jitu Sadiki, Zaharibu, Abdul Olugbala Shakur; we hear audio from George Jackson and other brothers on the SQ yard; Nube reads from Jackson's Blood In My Eye; we hear interviews with Mama Ayanna Mashama, Colonel Nyati Bolt.

We continue to commemorate the Hunger Strikes as an extension on the struggle through Black August; Nube reads a Black August statement by Comrade Bobby Dixon, MI Ministerr of Justice, NABPP-PC; we hear an audio clip from George Jackson; Nube reads and statement from Joka Heshima Jinsai and Abdul Olugbala Shakur; we hear from Queen Makini on the Hunger Strikes and BA; lastly, Nube reads and statem...

We hear from various voices from the historic California Hunger Strikes, James Baridi Williamson, member of the representative body and signer to the Agreement to End Hostilities; Anne Weills, council to plaintiffs of the Ashker v Brown class action lawsuit that helped end indefinite solitary confinement; Michael Zah Dorrough, LWOP, spent 30 years tortured in solitary confinement; Dolores Canales,...