Black Liberation
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Solidarity Protests Continue
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Different forms of prisoner resistance and repression continue as long as the prison system stands. The biggest recent instance of prisoner unrest/repression in Michigan was at Kinross CF in the Upper Peninsula, Sept 9-10, 2016. The uprising was part of the nationwide Prison…
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Attica’s Legacy
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Over the course of the last week we’ve been looking at the Long Attica Revolt and Orisanmi Burton’s book Tip of the Spear. We’ve tried to give a glimpse of the story – but we’ve barely broke the surface. Tip of the Spear…
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Attica as a Gender War
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series The fantasy of the hypermasculine, sexually potent Black man is a cornerstone of Amerikkkan whiteness, laid by the long history of lynching in this backward country. After being hanged, the victim’s genitals swell — an erection, often called “angel lust.” The eroticized corpse…
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The Attica Commune
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Over the course of the Long Attica Revolt, imprisoned comrades confronted the dehumanizing conditions and horrific treatment of the carceral system. Tip of the Spear encourages us to understand that paired with this demand to be treated as humans was a demand for…
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The Long Attica revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Between Oct 1970 and the Attica Rebellion Sept 1971 the carceral system of NY was shaken by a series of escalating rebellions where incarcerated rebels fought back, captured hostages, communicated revolutionary ideas and vision, developed organization, and participated in abolitionist world building in…
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Setting the Stage for Revolt: The Context of the Long Attica Revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Orisanmi Burton refers to prison as war. And prisons were only one facet of the ongoing war during this period. The Long Attica Revolt took place against a backdrop of international anti-colonial struggle across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. In the…
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Exploring the Long Attica Revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series For the final week of our 28 Days of Black Liberation program we will be looking at the Long Attica Revolt and the role of prisoners in the Black Liberation Struggle using Orisanmi Burton’s book Tip of the Spear. During spring of 2024…
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Housing Then and Now – From 1947-2025
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series In the roughly 80 years since the Hickman case, not much has changed. We read the descriptions of housing conditions in the poor, Black neighborhoods of Chicago in the 1940s – from caving ceilings to pests. Through our tenant organizing, our canvassing and…
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Ohio Street Trial
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series The inquest into the ten deaths on Ohio Street would involve five public hearings, only two of which would take place before the murder trial of James Hickman, but the horrendous conditions, neglect by public authorities, and personal stories of tragic loss would…
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Courts are not Instruments of Justice
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Banks and real estate & insurance companies had so influenced the political power in the city of Chicago (as elsewhere) that David Coleman, despite merely being a small landlord with no connections to the big bourgeoise, benefited from the system set up to…