With the chains and shackles of solitary confinement, barely able to hold a pen, he would express his heart to humanity. We ask why they have given Ramsey a death sentence when he has never taken another person’s life. “History, culture, and freedom are the most important spiritual gifts from God.” Cinco De Mayo For the last 20 years of my life I have been incarcerated in the federal prisons of America. Every year of my imprisonment, on Cinco de … Continue reading →

by Greg Moses The Rag Blog / Dissident Voice / CounterPunch / Sri Lanka Guardian Counting in reverse through the great Theses on Feuerbach, we pass by the iconic eleventh, which demands that we quit describing the world and start changing it, in order to re-visit the lesser-known tenth. “The standpoint of the old materialism is civil society;” says the Smith-Cuckson translation of the tenth thesis, “the standpoint of the new is human society or social humanity.” In plain English … Continue reading →

by Greg Moses OpEdNews / CounterPunch So there I was hearing nothing but this wicked whirring Bandit Model Whole Tree Chipper rammed up against a load of Bibles, books, old newspapers, and brown-paper-covered magazines piled high as the Davis Mountains being scooped up and fed to the chipper by a Cat Ultra High Demolition Hydraulic Excavator. And with the backup alarm blaring from a 469 horsepower Segmented Ejector Truck moving relentlessly into loading position I was finally able to focus … Continue reading →

By Raul Garcia As I prepared to visit Ramsey Muniz, a political prisoner for the last 20 years, I thought about the many years we have known each other. In fact, we go all the way back to high school days. Though each visit through the years has been educational and inspirational, there seemed to be something different and special about this visit. We had scheduled the visit for April 22, 2011 without my realizing it would fall on Good … Continue reading →