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A large-scale musical celebration honoring the life and legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a global leader in the movements for Black trans liberation, abolition, housing justice, and gender freedom. October 25, 1946- October 13,2025 For more than 18 years, The Miss Major Alexander L Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center has been dedicated to ending human rights abuses against transgender, gender-variant, and intersex people in California prisons and beyond. Our office has long served as a ...

We are facing a moment of truth. And Gaza is the wake-up call... The role of Zionism was to normalize atrocities against dark-skinned people — indeed, to give these crimes a moral purpose — while breathing life into colonialism's favorite narrative: the “clash of civilizations” between Western progress and Eastern barbarism. The success of Zionism depended on creating a politics of fear....

Washington, D.C., October 27, 2025 | The Biden administration’s cover-up of Israel’s assassination of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, as detailed in today’s New York Times reporting, is a treasonous betrayal of public trust. Current and former U.S. officials admit that internal findings on the 2022 murder of Abu Akleh were “soft-pedaled” to appease the Israeli government and preserve a “working relationship” with the Israeli military. Prioritizing a foreign government over ...

Today you write, “Fascism is not a historical artifact, but a reoccurring political logic, one that depends on mythologizing a lost past, stoking a sense of victimhood, and building a hierarchy of purity.”...

“I have a dream.” Martin Luther King spoke these words almost 60 years ago at the March on Washington. He outlined a vision for the future of the United States. Isn't it high time to create new visions for the future and summarize them under the heading “I have a dream”? In our present day, many things have gone off the rails. Countless injustices burden our lives....

AB 715 swaps explicit Israel-Palestine bans for an IHRA‑aligned, “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” led instruction materials regime that channels “compliance” through advocacy networks, relabels Israel‑critical scholarship as “bias” and discrimination, chilling classroom speech. AB 715 must be rejected in favor of viewpoint‑neutral standards, established K–12 speech/harassment thresholds, transparency, and clear classroom guidance....

ICE detention, the largest detention system in the world, will double capacity to detain more than 100,000 people this year...

In March 2025, a local chapter of the Proud Boys in Kentucky, known as the “Green River” Proud Boys, announced their plans to host a summer gathering on July 5th to commemorate the one-year anniversary of their founding, declaring it would become an annual event....

A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization. A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization....

In this column, It's Going Down presents a monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays....