Stop Mass Incarceration | February 22, 2015 Stop Business As Usual! We Will Not Go Back! No School! No Work! This Call for a day of massive resistance all over the country…
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Michael Brown’s death: what kind of message will be sent?
Debra Sweet | November 18, 2014 On Monday, Missouri Governor Nixon declared a “State of Emergency” — mobilizing the National Guard, and authorizing violent suppression of protest — even before there is…
Gather Up Now
Debra Sweet | September 15, 2014 38 days ago, Michael Brown was shot six times by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. More witnesses have come forward to corroborate eye-witness testimony that…
Jailed Occupy Activist Cecily McMillian Acts with The Stop Mass Incarceration Network to End Abuse at Rikers Island
Stop Mass Incarceration Network | August 15, 2014 NYC-SMIN activists joined with OWS activist Cecily McMillan and her supporters to deliver petitions demanding an end to human rights abuses on Rikers Island,…
Nationwide Protests to Mark Two Years Since Unjust Killing of Trayvon Martin
Stop Mass Incarceration Network | February 25, 2014 Press Advisory:“Hoodies Up! Targets Held! We’re Standing Up! No More Murder of Black Youth!” Nationwide Protests to Mark Two Years Since Unjust Killing of…
February 26: A Day of Outrage and Remembrance
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network | January 27, 2014 HOODIES UP!February 26, 20142 years since the murder of Trayvon MartinA Day of Outage and Remembrance We Are All Trayvon The Whole Damn…
Fasting in Solidarity: Standing with the Hungering Grave Diggers of this System
Jill McLaughlin | August 19, 2013 I want to take this time to respond to the recent article that appeared in Revolution newspaper What is Actually Revealed in the California Prisoner Hunger…
A “Fair Trial?” George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin and the System of “Justice”
Dennis Loo | July 15, 2013 A number of people say in the wake of the “not guilty” verdict of George Zimmerman in his killing of Trayvon Martin that this was a…
What About Trayvon Martin’s Right to ‘Stand his Ground?’
Miller Francis | July 11, 2013 Like many people, I’ve been riveted by the George Zimmerman trial. I call it “the George Zimmerman trial” because that’s what it is, but the more…
30,000 California Prisoners Join Hunger Strike
Larry Everest | July 11, 2013 Prisoners are rising above years of torment, torture and vilification to assert their humanity As of this writing, thousands of prisoners remain on hunger strike across…