Burning Spear News

Colonialism, the colonial mode of production, destroys everything: human beings, trees, wildlife, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Leroy Jones is an incarcerated African in the Nevada prison system. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, Africans are eight percent of Nevada’s population but nearly 33 percent of its prisoners.

African people cannot stand by when any African government shoots down our impoverished people.

I was introduced to the work of the African National Women's Organization (ANWO) through the #ArrestCPS campaign. My comrades Demetria Hester and Erika Clark were holding #ArrestCPS rallies in Portland, Oregon. I was drawn to the campaign because of my very own experience with child “protective” services and family separation.