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• Originally published 10/28/2013

  A look at Southern prison camps from the '60s and '70s

  Bruce Jackson documented the South's prison camps, direct descendants of nineteenth-century slave plantations.

• Originally published 08/23/2013

  Angela Y. Davis: Indefinite Solitary Confinement Violates Human Rights

  California prisoners are now in their 33rd day of a hunger strike; what they are risking their health and possibly their lives for is basic: an end to indefinite solitary confinement, a practice that most countries recognize as a violation of basic human rights.

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• Originally published 08/14/2013

  Evil is Alive and Well (And Right Off Our Coast)

  Raul Castro and Che Guevara in 1959. Via Wiki Commons.Foreign reporters -- preferably American -- were much more valuable to us at that time (1957-59) than any military victory. Much more valuable than recruits for our guerrilla force, were American media recruits to export our propaganda." (Che Guevara 1959)“Reporters in Havana are either insensitive to the pain of the opposition 'or in clear complicity' with the government.” (Cuban dissident and torture-victim Jorge Luis García Pérez, known as Antunez, in the Miami Herald, August 7, 2013)