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DESCRIPTION:Revolutionary journalism and Prisoner Human Rights Movement\n... freedom of 
 the press ... is an embodiment of freedom....Freedom is so much the essence 
 of the human that even its opponents realize it ... No human fights 
 freedom; they fight at most the freedom of others. Every kind of freedom 
 has therefore always existed, only at one time as a special privilege, at 
 another time as a universal right.   Karl Marx \n\n\nA new book, Prison 
 Truth, “The Story of the San Quentin News” by William J. Drummond (UC 
 Press, 2020) tells of prisoners’ self-transformation through journalism, 
 even under prison’s censorship. Does Prison Truth itself suffer from this 
 self-censorship? Is there a deeper truth, a new humanism, within prisoners 
 themselves? \nThe most visible manifestation of such a new humanism emerged 
 in the torturous hell-hole of perpetual solitary confinement in Pelican 
 Bay. Their successful mass hunger strikes (2011-13), based on their 
 Agreement to End Hostilities, undermined gang-based identification of 
 prisoners fomented by the prison authorities. The strikes brought an end to 
 indeterminate solitary confinement and “changed the face of race 
 relations” in prison according to strike representative, Sitawa Nantambu 
 Jamaa (see reverse side). That struggle continues against the ongoing abuse 
 of “confidential information” which creates discord and racial 
 animosity between prisoners.\nWe’ll explore the contrast between the 
 practice of revolutionary journalism shaped by freedom as human essence and 
 freedom as a “special privilege” in press freedom under censorship.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/11/18830614.php
SUMMARY:Prison Truth
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library, upstairs,\n6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/11/18830614.php
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