The Stop Snitching Movement
By Ikemba Serious Mutulu (Marritte Funches)I first wrote this paper a couple of years ago after reading a two-part article in the Bayview, a national black newspaper discussing the Stop Snitching...
View Article"FUCK NASTY NAS" - Hip Hop Ain 't Dead
"Fuck that dude Nas." That's what a lot of them rap cats is sayin right now. But the trues who know is diggin what the brotha Nas is talking about when he say Hip Hop is dead. All these ignorant...
View ArticleLetter to Mrs Obama
(Thanks for sharing your story as part of this American Moment)22 December 2008 Dear Mrs Obama, Of the many pieces of mail you must be receiving, I am sure you will not be allowed to even see this...
View ArticleNo Change
Published on: Nevada Prisoner Voice (2009)The news of the legislators failing to arrest corruption in Nevada prison is not surprising. And I doubt they will until their hands are forced. Either by...
View ArticleHow can I watch while they strip us of our humanity and not rebel?
Published in SF Bay View, March 1st, 2009Open letter to the peopleEditor’s note: An abbreviated version of this open letter was published in the March print edition of the Bay View. This is the full...
View ArticleInterview with Marritte Funches
Where were you on March 27th, 1991?There was nothing special about that day for me to remember, nothing out of the mundane. So what I do remember now is very foggy, and mostly a memory of a memory...
View ArticleThe Struggle Ain´t Over
Every day I see it, from the block to the college campus, on the idiot box (t.v.) and in the music. “My president is Black, my lambo is blue, and I´ll be god damned if my rims ain´t too.” Okay and I´m...
View ArticleTu wa moja watu (we are the people)
Published in: SF Bay View, Feb. 10, 2010Dear Bayview readers, and especially my fellow convicts throughout the country. I send this call out to “you”, to join with me in showing some love to the...
View ArticleAdventures in food, filth, molesting doctors and heat, at High Desert State...
You asked me to tell you what it´s like here. Nothing has changed from the last time I was here, except to get worse.FoodThere is no such thing as a hot meal here. None of the established laws or rules...
View ArticleFuck Arizona´s Lawmakers
Be it the invaders of this land, those who stole these lands and built a nation on the blood of millions of slaves, to tell its indigenous peoples that “they” are illegal. We all know the fact is the...
View ArticleConvicts – Corrections Officers – Understanding?
Several weeks ago I had a brief but genuine and eye-opening conversation with an employee here who approached me after observing a minor dispute between me and a corrections officer whom I felt was...
View ArticleDear Society, hate will never cure crime
Published in: SF Bay ViewBy Ikemba S. Mutulu, s/n Marritte FunchesReading the Nevada Prisoners’ Newsletter today, I learned of the death of my friend Bro. Muteen (Robert Brown), caused by the state’s...
View ArticleDemocracy
Tomorrow is the mid-term elections. Where its predicted the democrats will lose the majority in both the house and senate. All of whitch is being put out as a very big deal. What kills me are the...
View ArticleSupport the struggle for human rights in Georgia prisons
Published in: SF Bay View, Jan. 12, 2011 I’d like to offer this word of support to the convicts and comrades out in them Georgia dungeons doing your thing. As word comes out about the inhumane...
View ArticleNevada prisoner Ikemba to California hunger strikers: I am with you
Published in: SF Bay View, July 15, 2011They tell you that I’m the monster,But it’s my humanity they seek to take.Every day that I awake, I break the law.Every time I pass a book to one of my fellow...
View ArticleTo my comrades
To my comrades, loved ones, and those I’ve met but hadn’t had a chance to really know yet. I am currently here at HDSP waiting to be transferred out of state. Apparently foreseeing the work I’ve done...
View ArticleYoung people in the streets and prisons are starving for truth
Published in: SF Bay View, February 17, 2012Everywhere I go young people are dying of thirst, starving for truth and guidance, something real they can relate to. Unfortunately this isn’t something...
View ArticleGame Tight
Published in: SF Bay View, April 29, 2013 Young people… to start you must acknowledge for everything you think you know, there is a great deal you don’t know. That the first pursuit of a man is to...
View ArticleHunger strike in 8th week: Don’t let them die
Published in: SF Bay View, Sept. 1, 2013Off top, salute to my rilla ones out in them streets and the prisons, comrades unknown but most appreciated. Your recognition of our human and civil rights has...
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