Larry Pinkney

The prison industrial complex in the U.S. is essentially a 21st century form of economic and psychological slavery.

Silence is complicity and it really is betrayal – betrayal of the aspirations and legitimate needs of everyday people. Our task is to be true to principles in this long and protracted people's struggle.

Being kept ignorant, misinformed, and/or uninformed is, in itself, a form of terrorism by the corporate-owned U.S. government against the people of the U.S. and against peoples of Mother Earth.

Human and political rights in the U.S. is an utter farce. And it will continue to be such until everyday people collectively say, “NO MORE!” and systemically CHANGE IT!

politician thus far in this 21st century.

Under the guise of supposed objectivity and scholarship these systemic gatekeepers gloss over or omit entirely the narrative of everyday ordinary people.

“If you’re not willing to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” – Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” – Bobby Sands In the year 1978, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, publicly stated that, “There are hundreds, perhaps thousands,…

“Today is a good day to die. Follow me!” – Crazy Horse, at the battle of Little Big Horn “To die for the…racists…is lighter than a feather. But to die for the people…is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.” – Huey P. Newton Words seem so inadequate when our freedom fighters transition…

“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.” – Frantz Fanon “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” – Rosa Luxemburg Oppression, more often than not, is both physical as well as psychological. Moreover, oppression has many forms and manifestations. Unfortunately however, while many manifestations of oppression are…