Author: Kanya D'Almeida

Kanya D’Almeida currently works as Editor, Asia-Pacific for Inter Press Service. As a freelance journalist, she has covered human rights issues in Mexico, Sri Lanka, and the United States. Her work has appeared on Al Jazeera, The Margins, Truthout and Alternet, among others. She splits her time between her native Sri Lanka and New York City.

Out of Control (Nancy Kurshan)

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  How does one connect the struggles of the American Indian Movement, the Puerto Rican Independentistas and the Black Panthers in an anti-imperialist, pro-worker, environmentally-friendly framework? For Nancy Kurshan and her peers at the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), the answer —in 1985—was clear: launch a massive attack on control unit prisons. Out…

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