Pierre Labossiere, a Haitian national, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, has been a long-time social-justice activist and advocate for the Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, currently exiled in South Africa. Pierre has also been active in the campaigns to free political prisoners in Haiti and the U.S.

Phavia Kujichagulia, a Griot/Djialli (Oral Historian), musician, writer, poet, dancer who utilizes music, poetry and dance to heal and reveal history -- was a professor of Ethnomusicology and African Civilizations at World College West and Stanford University's Workshop on Political and Social Issues.

Jamie Scott, 38, is suffering from kidney failure. She has received no indication that a kidney transplant is being considered as an option, though her sister is a willing donor. At the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) in Pearl, where Jamie and her sister Gladys are incarcerated, medical services are provided by a private contractor called Wexford, which has been the subject of lawsuits and legislative investigations in several states over inadequate treatment of the inmates in its care.

New book chronicles inner workings of Saipan's garment factories from first ever first-hand perspective of a former garment factory worker.

Guest, Bob Offer-Westort, Coordinating Editor of the Street Sheet, San Francisco homeless people's newspaper, and the Civil Rights Organizer for the Coalition on Homelessness. Guest, Tiny (daughter of dee, single mama of tiburcio) is a poverty scholar, co-editor and founder of POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork, member of the Poetas POBRE- Po' Poets Project and the welfareQUEENs, and author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing up Homeless in America.

By Larry Pinkney - January 7, 2009

Black Panther Party veteran, determined political activist, radio programmer, and published writer/journalist extraordinaire, Kiilu Nyasha (aka Pat Gallyot), is a sterling example of a woman who, since the late 1960s to the present, has served the people ‘body and soul.’ To get an important glimpse of Kiilu Nyasha’s ongoing work, go to www.kiilunyasha.blogspot.com. It will be an inspiration and well worth your while.

This article by James Ridgeway is featured at a brand new website focusing on the issue of solitary confinement in prisons. The Solitary Watch News site is part of an emerging project called Solitary Watch, an innovative public web site aimed at bringing this issue out of the shadows and into the light of the public square.

I wanted to let you know about the new release of the Message in-a-box free citizen journalism toolkit as we thought you may be interested. We have included an image in case you want to promote this toolkit to others...Message in-a-box gives you everything you need to make and distribute your own media. It covers print, images, audio, internet and video.

A couple of months after the launch of the site, it is now possible to download the full content of the archive, using the bittorrent protocol.

News, updates and analysis on the G20 summit in Pittsburgh and associated protests.

An archive documenting Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands.

37 years ago in Louisiana, 3 young black men were silenced for trying to expose continued segregation, systematic corruption, and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation called Angola. In 1972 and 1973 prison officials charged Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox, and Robert King with murders they did not commit and threw them into 6x9 ft. cells in solitary confinement, for over 36 years. Robert was freed in 2001, but Herman and Albert remain behind bars.

It's an incredibly intense journey into the bipolar mind and the subject matter has been shrouded in stigma for so long...but...the times, they are a changin'.

This coming August 9, 2009 marks one year since the police killing of Fredy Villaneuva, 18...More than two decades since Anthony Griffin, 19, was shot and killed...the impunity of Montreal police...continues...[Montreal cops] routinely harass, profile, injure, assault and even kill without suffering any serious consequences...When families demand accountability and transparency, the police use legal intimidation in their attempt to shut down public inquires...