Steve Champion: Nine days into his death row hunger strike, he’s lost 51 pounds
by Birgit Czerny Steve Champion I just got back from my visit with Ajani [Anthony Ross] that went from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. [on Saturday, Oct. 13]. Everyone in the prison treated me very politely, very...
View ArticleDemands from the San Quentin State Prison Adjustment Center
The Black Panther newspaper of Nov. 6, 1971, featured the Adjustment Center Six, later called the San Quentin Six – Hugo “Yogi” Pinell, Willie Sundiata Tate, David Johnson, Luis “Bato” Talamantez,...
View ArticleSecret torture unit at San Quentin
by a California Death Row SHU prisoner The Adjustment Center (AC) is the politically corrupt designation given to the death row Security Housing Unit (SHU) at San Quentin (SQ) which also serves as...
View ArticleFour hunger strikers in San Quentin Adjustment Center are refusing water as...
by Carlos M. Argueta On Feb. 20, 2012, prisoner supporters, motivated by horror stories like this, braved all sorts of obstacles and threats to stage a mass rally at the San Quentin gate. – Photo: Bill...
View ArticleOn visiting George
by Dr. Tolbert Small George Jackson was a legendary prisoner who was attempting to organize the Blacks, Latinos and poor whites under their common linkage as victims of an exploitative class system. At...
View ArticleBeloved political prisoner Hugo ‘Yogi Bear’ Pinell, feared and hated by...
This interview was recorded Aug. 14, 2015. by Dr. Willie and Mary Ratcliff Black August adds another hero and martyr to the roll. From December 1970 to 2014, when he finally had a contact visit with...
View ArticleDeath and life of Hugo Pinell
by Jaan Laaman, political prisoner It was with true sadness that, on Aug. 13, I received the news that legendary California prison activist Hugo Pinell was killed in a California prison. Let me share a...
View ArticleEva Contreraz: San Quentin Adjustment Center from my perspective
by Eva Contreraz I was in the San Quentin Adjustment Center (SHU) for four years in the early to mid-1980s. We called it AC. San Quentin was all holes except one block. AC was the deepest hole in San...
View ArticleHugo Pinell, aka Dahariki Kambon: Decades of assassination attempts against...
by Haazim W. Muntaqim (Jeffrey Milo Burks) I want to extend many thanks and appreciation to the San Francisco Bay View for providing us with great memories and genuine farewells from the family,...
View ArticleJalil A. Muntaqim: The making of a movement
by Jalil A. Muntaqim I was captured on Aug. 28, 1971, in San Francisco after a car chase and gun battle with San Francisco police. It was alleged that myself and co-defendant Albert Nuh Washington were...
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