Commemorating Attica

This week we are honoring the incarcerated revolutionaries that took part in the groundbreaking Attica Prison Uprising of September 9-12, 1971. Hundreds of people living inside the infamous Attica State Prison in upstate New York brought the prison to a standstill, and the state responded brutally. The power dynamic of prisons in the United States was changed forever. Our correspondents continue in this tradition of using their voices to resist. We have pulled out a few of their tributes to the uprising to share with you here.

R*pe Blocks – Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Attica was supposed to be the bellwether of change to American corrections. But, if anything, it shows the limits of liberal reforms, which can be washed away in another season,” Check out Mumia’s piece “Attica 41 Years Later.”

Prison and Slavery – Kevin Rashid Johnson
“oppression breeds resistance and alongside the growing exposures of the evils of the American prison system is growing resistance by the victims with increasing public support,”

There’s a Storm a’comin’ – Khalfani Malik Khaldun
“September the 9th through September the 12th will forever be recognized as the days a nation behind bars was built. When prisoncrats start walking off their jobs or refusing to be agents of prison exploitation, the movement is winning,”

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