THE END OF AUGUST IS NOT THE END OF BLACK AUGUST
It is Jails and Cops friday at Scission.Black August ain't no movie.Black August originated in the prisons of California to honor fallen Freedom Fighters, Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson, William...
View ArticleFIGHT ISIS, ARM THE PKK NOW
PKK FIGHTERSI have seen my share of evil in the world, but not much that I can think of approaches the evil known as ISIS or The Islamic State. These people are more than fascists, more than nazis,...
View ArticleCANADA'S SHAME: MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN
People attend a vigil for Tina Fontaine and Faron Hall in Winnipeg, ManitobaThe murders and disappearances have gone on since 1980. One thousand, two hundred murdered or missing. Must be a huge...
View ArticleTHE REAL CRIME IS THE MASS CRIMINALIZATION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
For Jails and Cops friday at Scission, let's try something different. Let's try a video that you should see, use, and spread around. This is a video produced by the Black Alliance for Just...
View Article"STANDING IN LINE AT THE HUNTSVILLE FREE CLINIC IN ALABAMA"
Arab, AlabamaWell, it is theoretical Monday at Scission and what I will be posting is kind of theoretical, kind of historical, kind of just talking, just kind of...Let's see, how can I describe this...
View ArticleATTICA STATE: IT WILL NEVER BE OVER, IT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
SEPTEMBER 1971On Sept. 9, 2011, I wrote of the uprising at Attica State:For days, prison inmates banded together in what could just as well have been called the Attica Commune although I remember no...
View ArticlePOVERTY, EBOLA, AND THE NEXT PANDEMIC FLU, TOO
What is happening in Liberia and across West Africa is not only an Ebola epidemic, but is an affront to humanity. Ebola, like other infectious diseases including AIDS, TB, Malaria, and the like has...
View ArticleAT LEAST ONE OF THE COPS WHO KILLED EZELL FORD HAS STRUCK BEFORE
"The Los Angeles Police officers involved in the use of lethal force (i.e. the killing of Ezell Ford) in Newton Division on August 11, 2014 were Police Officer III Sharlton Wampler, Serial No. 36135,...
View ArticleSUBURBS BURNING: BEAVER CLEAVER DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Children watch from their home in Ferguson as people march to the police station to protest the shooting of Michael Brown. It is Theoretical Monday and I am returning to Ferguson with an analysis that...
View ArticlePAGANS, HEATHENS FIGHT RACISM WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITIES
Danjul Norsewind of the band Norsewind performing solo at an eventDanjul, is a Chieftain of a Norse/Germanic Tribe and an active Odinist...and more...I don't know how many regular readers of Scission...
View ArticleIS EBOLA ALREADY AIRBORNE: "IT'S THE SINGLE GREATEST CONCERN I'VE EVER HAD IN...
???????????If you are a regular follower of Scission, you have seen my posts and articles related to the current Ebola epidemic. They have all dealt not so much with the specifics of the disease,...
View ArticleDOD DIRECTIVE 2310.01E: THE BANALITY OF A TORTURE STATE
Last month the Department of Defense (DOD) issued a new version of "Directive 2310.01E." Hmm...sounds ominous. It is. This directive is one of the central documents outlining the policies and rules...
View ArticleINSURGENT IMAGINATIONS BY ALEX KHASABISH
Theoretical Monday is here and I have one long article, that I confess I have not read. So here is the abstract.In the 1980s, ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal elites intoned ‘there is no...
View ArticleTHE WORLD NEEDS MORE PEOPLE LIKE DR. WILLIE PARKER
THE PINK HOUSEDr. Willie Parker is one of two doctors who performs abortions at the only women’s health clinic in Mississippi where abortions are performed.Dr. Willie Parker is one helluva man, one...
View ArticleYES TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY, NO TO COLUMBUS DAY
The Seattle City Council will be voting on October 6 on a resolution to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day. It seems likely at this moment that the motion will pass.This seems so obvious....
View ArticleYES INDEED, THEY ARE DARREN WILSON
WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN THAT THESE YAHOOS SUPPORT DARREN WILSONI know it is cops and jails friday, and maybe this strays a bit, but really not so much.Who are the people who raise and contribute money...
View ArticleTHE STRUGGLE AGAINST PATRIARCHY: WOMEN AND THE ZAPATISTAS
“If there is to be a [future], it will be made with the women, and above all, by them.” -----Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, March 8, 1996The core changes in the communal life of indigenous Mayan...
View ArticleANOTHER ACTIVIST OF SOUTH AFRICAN SHACK DWELLERS MOVEMENT MURDERED
Thuli Ndlovu, 36, chairwoman of the KwaNdengezi branch of the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), was killed a few hours after telling her mother, “today we are going to be shot”. She...
View ArticleNURSES PROTEST: SAY USA NOT PREPARED FOR EBOLA
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/24/6731509/nurses-to-march-on-vegas-strip.html#storylink=cpy NURSES' PROTEST SAYS US HOSPITALS ARE NOT PREPARED FOR EBOLA The...
View ArticleJUST DON'T GET SICK OR INJURED IN PRISON
THE TROUBLE WITH THIS FUNNY IS IT AIN'T FUNNYI wasn't in prison all that long (though long enough for me) and I only had to be treated once by the prison infirmary - for a head injury. I saw some...
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