Mutope Duguma

1619 began the forced exportation of Afrikans to what is now called the United States. Between 1619 and 1776, this severe form of chattel slavery flourished within the thirteen British colonies: ...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2021/03/pattern-of-practice-edited-february-2021.html

by Mutope Duguma September 2018 Revised March 2021 How much more time must a person be imprisoned after being locked up for 10, 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years? 90% of prisoners come from lowe...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2021/03/how-much-more-time-revised-march-2021.html

On 12/7/2020, the Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón gave a public announcement In Special Directive 20 - 14 , which laid out a comprehensive directive or blueprint toward endin...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2020/12/indefinite-sentencing-is-cruel-and.html

BY MUTOPE DUGUMAPublished earlier on the SF Bayview and on Sitawa.org . It’s always hard to stomach news that is disheartening. To hear that a brother and comrade has suffered a stroke afte...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2019/12/lost-in-time-lift-up-our-brother-sitawa.html

Is a result of a failed government. The people of the United States have already through countless protests, movements of all sorts, declared that housing is a human right, and every human shoul...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2019/08/black-august-2019-homelessness.html

The Nigger in the ‘nigger’ Syndrome Mutope Duguma October 2015 revised 01/01/2019    The ‘Nigger’ in the ‘nigger’ syndrome is a disease that has been cultivated in the psych...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2019/01/the-nigger-in-nigger-syndrome.html

End Prison Draconian Policies By Mutope Duguma October 2018    It’s no secret that the government, whether local, state and federal have been complicit in the exploitation of prisoner...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2019/01/end-prison-draconian-policies.html

By Mutope Duguma June 2018, and reposted here ] “An End To Hostilities ” is an agreement/document that was brought forth to build Peace amongst the Prison Class, which means that strong c...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2018/07/nothing-new.html

This analysis is based purely on the personal view and perspective of this writer. With that said, it is encouraged that all readers use critical thinking when analyzing these words and to also ...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2017/02/infiltration-through-dna.html

April 2016 by Mutope Duguma We must take full responsibility for the current discipline that is being held inside these prisons since the recent release of the so-called ‘worst of the worst�...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2016/05/there-is-love-in-peace.html

From: SF BayView December 25, 2015 BY MUTOPE DUGUMA I greet you all with love and respect as usual, and it’s been awhile, but I recently made a transition from Pelican Bay State Prison...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2015/12/cultivate-seed-to-grow-inside-prison.html

Mutope spoke on Prison Radio today about The Power of the People, and you can listen to his voice here .

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2015/11/mutope-speaks.html

A Manifesto written by Mutope Duguma  If we are to survive in the 21st century, we got to get back to who and what we were, not what each of us is destined to be individually. Because in the...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2015/07/head-up-back-straight-move-forward.html

Published in: SF Bay View , June 21st 2015 by Mutope Duguma, Pelican Bay short corridor Let’s not forget that CDCr can lock you up for being an alleged leader, as an influential individual �...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2015/07/four-years-since-our-hunger-strikes.html

January 26, 2015 by Mutope Duguma Published in: SF Bay View In 1619, the first Africans were brought to North America by force to be slaves. From 1619 to 1776, this brutal chattel slave syst...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2015/02/pattern-of-practice-centuries-of-racist.html

How can we the People of this nation/world end the suffering of countless men and women held inside; man-made, 'manufactured' torture chambers called: solitary confinement? Can we call on the hu...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2014/09/im-just-asking.html

SF BayView , June 13, 2014 by Mutope Duguma To all officers and personnel within the CDCr* who have not fully grasped the state of our affairs as it relates to the events of the last three y...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2014/06/cdcr-counterpunch-new-rules-designed-to.html

By Mutope Duguma Published on: SF Bay View ,  May 1, 2014 Our Five Core Demands of the hunger strikes have not been met. And we see that reform always equals revisionism, which means it’...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2014/05/pelican-bay-update-what-change.html

March 29, 2014 by Mutope Duguma Published at SF Bay View We human beings are a political, social, cultural and economic force trapped within the colonial powers of our oppressors’ syste...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2014/05/we-are-world.html

February 24, 2014 Published in: SF Bay View by Mutope Duguma and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa This is a glimpse into torture by prison staff, using any means available, of which solitary confinem...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2014/02/how-torture-is-inflicted-on-prisoners.html

December 1, 2013 In: SF Bay View    by Mutope Duguma In all policies, the truth is in the details of their implementation. On the surface, a policy can appear reasonable, but once you ge...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2013/12/cdcr-calls-hunger-strike-supplemental.html

November 26, 2013 In: SF Bay View by Mutope Duguma The system, whether it is in the state of California or Louisiana, has demonstrated that those of us held in solitary confinement will r...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2013/11/herman-wallace-who-gave-his-life-to-end.html

November 26, 2013 In: SF Bay View   We prisoners are being told that as long as we are mentally healthy or not succumbing to CDCr’s debriefing policy, we will not be eligible for release ...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2013/12/being-normal-is-not-ok.html

From: SF Bay View , October 26, 2013 by Mutope Duguma It was on Aug. 23, 2013, that I was removed out of my Ad-Seg cell around 5 in the morning and placed on a CDCr transportation bus. I h...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2013/10/what-vacation-400-miles-by-bus-on.html

SF Bay View , October 26, 201 Our resolve remains as strong as ever, and we continue to press forward despite our torture being taken up a notch. We send a clenched fist salute to everyone wh...

https://www.mutopeduguma.org/2013/10/hunger-strikers-our-resolve-remains.html