Prison Focus Radio

We continue this month’s series with New Afrikan Political Prisoner Michael Zah Dorrough who will be co-hosting as part of the ongoing Prison Focus Radio project to share the airwaves as co-hosts, with California former and current Political Prisoners discussing their work, ideas and fight for liberation - after all, this is their program.

We will be joined by imprisoned comrade William Curl, convicted of the crime of murder (which he didn’t commit) at 18 years old and given life without the possibility of parole by the judge who stated: “I see the system has failed you. I don’t plan to do the same.” What did he mean?

We will hear a more indepth perspective on the LWOP sentence from two people experiencing it, Brotha William and Brotha Zah, and why it needs to be reevaluated and abolished; and the need for a Community Release Board to give the power back to the people to have a say in how, when and why people taken from their communities and legally enslaved should come home.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop

Free Em All

Liberate Our Elders

All Power to the People!

Free Palestine!

We begin the month with New Afrikan Political Prisoner Michael Zah Dorrough, Sr., who will be co-hosting as part of the ongoing Prison Focus Radio project to share the airwaves with California former and current Political Prisoners discussing their work, ideas and fight for liberation - after all, this is their program.

We will be joined by guest Carl Marion, held captive at SATF with Brotha Zah, to discuss two bills, Proposition 6 which will remove the slavery language from our state constitution and will be put before the voters this year. Early voting begins in October; and SB94 which failed to pass but would’ve given some relief to a very small percentage of the over 5,000 people serving LWOP, like Zah.

Zah is serving a life without parole (LWOP) sentence for which he is unjustly convicted, and is part of the historic California Prisoner Hunger Strike class which culminated in 30,000 people participating to end indefinite solitary confinement. One person died, Billy Sell – rest in power – Zah almost did. He endured 28 years in solitary confinement and is in his 40th year of captivity.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop

Free Em All

Liberate Our Elders

All Power to the People!

Free Palestine!

Black August Memorial Black August Resistance 2024 finale

“We attempted to transform the Black criminal mentality into a Black revolutionary mentality.” – George Jackson, from Soleded Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

On this last week of the 45th cycle of authentic Black August, moving into the final community breaking fast on August 31, New Afrikan Political Prisoner, Joka Heshima Jinsai, founder of Build the AIM, author and father – still caged after 30+ years; and New Afrikan former Political Prisoner and father, Fati Yero, home after 50 years, member of Cell Block 2 City Block, will co-host the final episode pulling together the last five weeks of commentary and political education regarding the original Black August Memorial Black August Resistance, its tenets and its historical and cultural purpose towards New Afrikan liberation and empowerment.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop

Free Em All

Liberate Our Elders

All Power to the People!

Free Palestine!

Black August Memorial continues!

We just finished our 24hr fast FLEA day honoring George Lester Jackson, The Dragon.

New Afrikan Political Prisoner, Joka Heshima Jinsai, founder of Build the AIM, author and father – still caged after 30+ years; and New Afrikan former Political Prisoner and father, Fati Yero, home after 50 years, member of Cell Block 2 City Block, will co-host giving commentary on the true meaning of Black August and George Jackson’s influence on and significance to it.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop

Free Em All

Liberate Our Elders

All Power to the People!

Free Palestine!

BAM BAR 2024 continues…

Excerpt from a letter written January 8, 1970 in Soledad prison: “My dear Mother & Dad … I hope you understand. I wish I could talk to you and explain what the facts are about this hole I’m in, but sence [sic] I can’t, please believe me. I don’t get in trouble unless it is necessary.” – Alvin “Jug” Miller (20 years old, assassinated in Soledad prison January 13, 1970 along with W.L. Nolan and Cleveland Edwards sparking a statewide prison movement and uprising, and birthing Black August Memorial).

We continue our political and historical education regarding the roots of Black August Memorial and focus on Black August Resistance and its cultural origins through the lens of the three young martyrs W.L. Nolan, Cleveland Edwards and Alvin “Jug” Miller who were assassinated by the pig guard, O. Miller, January 13, 1970. (We memorialize them on FLEA day August 13, fasting 24 hours in remembrance).

Joka Heshima Jinsai of Build the AIM (still held captive after 30+ years, 20 in solitary confinement) co-hosts. We are joined by guests Brotha Fati Yero who’s been practicing BA since its inception and is integral in its further development, and Comrade Joka Hodari Kambon.

Suggested reading: “Melancholy History of Soledad Prison” by Min S. Yee

Suggested listening: Previous PF Radio shows in August 2024

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop

Free Em All

Liberate Our Elders

All Power to the People!

Free Palestine!

BAM BAR 2024 continues This week we continue our political education regarding the roots of Black August Memorial. “We’re taking over.” “You can take our pictures, We are the revolutionaries.” Jonathan Jackson Joka Heshima Jinsai, New Afrikan Political Prisoner, still captured after 30 years, 20 years in solitary confinement will Co-host, Queen Makini of Never Forget, Never Alone, Never Again and Fati Yero New Afrikan former Political Prisoner, home after 51 years held captive, 38 years in solitary confinement will continue to unpack and share the original intent, true history and purpose of Black August to maintain it’s vital narrative. Each of our guests have been practicing Black August Memorial and its tenets for at least 30 years, and we consider them authorities on the subject – Fati Yero, has been practicing since its inception and is integral in its further development. All of our guests are part of the original Black August Organizing Committee and thus we are honored to have them share with us the true meaning of Black August Memorial Black August Resistance. We encourage you to join us throughout the month of August as we focus solely on BAM BAR (2024) with the purpose of maintaining the narrative of the true meaning, history and intent of Black August as the practice is becoming more mainstream. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop Free Em All Liberate Our Elders All Power to the People! Free Palestine!

Black August Memorial Black August Resistance!

Former Political Prisoner, New Afrikan Revolutionary Fati Yero, home after 51 years, 38 straight years in solitary confinement, co-hosts and shares his knowledge, experience and analysis of Black August and its historical and socio-political significance, as well as the importance of maintaining its authenticity and pushing forward its original intent.

"Losing our history only requires that we neglect to package and pass it on – then when we die, it will die with us. That death may mean the end of the spiral development of BAM from theory to practice, from practice to new theory – which has characterized its growth over 44 Cycles – to any whim which has apparent merit, and can carry the day." – Fati Yero

"For 44 years We have honored its standard bearers; for 44 years We have guarded its legacy, We have studied its lessons; We have re-taught what had been mis-taught; We have practiced and advanced its tenets – and on the eve of BAM's 45th anniversary, We know We are the best keepers of our story." – Fati Yero

This is a two-part series that you’ll want to make sure you come back to.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop

Free Em All

Liberate Our Elders

All Power to the People!

Free Palestine!

SItawa Nantambu Jamaa, New Afrikan, former Political Prisoner, home after ~ 44 years Co-hosts our last show of July.

Our esteemed Political Prisoners hold deep wisdom and knowledge about the state of the world and Humanity – Listen up! And get laced up!

Every month forward, Prison Focus Radio will be co-hosted, along with Nube, by a New Afrikan California former or current Political Prisoner.

Our Freedom Fighters must be part of the dialogue for change forward as they represent the resistance to the state's violent and insidious quest to maintain white (false) supremacy, capitalism and imperialism for profit and power over People and Planet.

Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, New Afrikan former Political Prisoner and Co-author of the Agreement to End Hostilities, continues as co-host with nube.

This week, Ann Weills, Civil Rights attorney and counsel for the Ashker V Brown class action to end indefinite solitary confinement joins us…

As well as Mr. Lawrence, who will call in from California Health Care Facility in Stockton to speak on medical abuse and neglect happening there.

Stay educated, Stay motivated, take action!

Kan't Stop, won't stop

All power to the people

Free Em all!

Free Palestine!

“For more than two centuries our forebears labored here without wages. They made cotton king, and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of the most humiliating and oppressive conditions. And yet out of a bottomless vitality they continued to grow and develop. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery couldn’t stop us, the opposition that we now face will surely fail.” MLK Jr.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop!

New Afrikan former Political Prisoner Wembe Kamau Kolomo joins co-hosts nube brown and New Afrikan former Political Prisoner Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa to speak on the work he’s been doing with and for the community since he’s been home, but started while he was still held captive at the notorious Pelican Bay and San Quentin state prisons. We’ll also be loved up and inspired by some of Brotha Wembe’s poetry and the interchange between him and Brotha Sitawa highlighting their collaboration to honor and Liberate Our Elders.