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Todd Ashker details his efforts against solitary confinement at the infamous Pelican Bay State Prison in California.

The economic hit men system is fueled by something far more dangerous than a global conspiracy. It is driven by concepts that have become accepted as gospel.

The TPP looks far more in doubt than it ought to at this stage.

The murder of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in the winter of 2012 was a turning point.

This nation was founded upon terrorism, namely that of slavery, whose unspeakable degradations hardly ended with formal emancipation.

The war on terrorism has morphed into a new form of authoritarianism whose real enemy is not terrorism at all, but democracy itself.

The “Deep State” is system composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services, military, security, judiciary and organized crime.

Noam Chomsky discusses the historical embedding of an elite “guardian class” in US society going back to the framers of the Constitution.

The very amendment to the US Constitution that was to have performed the miraculous conversion of “chattel into man” actually facilitated his and her re-chattelization through imprisonment.

Winning requires a “we,” a community, a group, an organization. And transformative change, in the face of powerful forces, requires a fight.