Articles – DIANA BLOCK

I write articles periodically for various journals. The articles have primarily focused on international solidarity and prison abolition. Below are some of the articles I have written since 2009.

Top -Ramon, Rene, Gerardo, Antonio, Fernando & member of La Colmenita –

Bottom -Graciela Ramirez –
photos by Alejandro Azcuy Domínguez.

The Cuban Five Victory: Reflections Ten Years Later

Counterpunch December 27, 2024

La Victoria de los Cinco Cubanos: Reflexiones diez años después

Resumen Latinoamericano, 29 de diciembre de 2024

Sana’ and Milad daqqah-

Reproductive heroism defies israel’s prisons and genocide

Counterpunch June 12, 2024

S ana’ y Milad Daqqah: El heroísmo reproductivo desafía las cárceles y el genocidio de Israel – Cuba en Resumen, junio 24, 2024

Defending bodily sovereignty-

The long arc of radical feminist care

A Book Review and Reflection Forward

Counterpunch, March 22, 2024

Nov. 3 Cuba Solidarity Rally S.F. – Photo by Bill Hackwell

U.N. to vote on us-cuba blockade

KPFA Interview with Diana Block

Law & Disorder, KPFA – Nov. 1, 2022

Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees demonstration against terrorist designation

The terrorist designation is a crime against us – An Interview with tahreer jaber -director union of palestinian women’s committees

Counterpunch/ Oct. 18, 2022

Cuba Lives and Breathes – Billboard in Havana, April 2022

Cuba Lives, Breathes, Resists – May Day, COVID, GUANTANAMO & THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS

Counterpunch/ June 3, 2022

No To Preventive Detention: From Palestine, to Guantánamo, to U.S. Jails!

Counterpunch/ February 23, 2022

The Great Palestinian escape of 2021: reflections from the u.s. abolitionist landscape

Counterpunch/ December 24, 2021

Art Against Imprisonment – From Palestine to the U.S.

SF Bayview | May 28, 2021

Mural in Minneapolis painted during George Floyd uprising.

Abolitionist Fantasies: Revisiting the Fictional 2020 of My Novel

Abolition Journal | Oct. 21, 2020

What Cuba Has to Teach – In Pandemic Times and Beyond

Counterpunch | May 1, 2020

Fernando González Llort, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), speaks at the 50th Anniversary of the creation of the Venceremos Brigade

The Venceremos Brigade at 50

MR Online | Sept. 24, 2019

Delegation to Teaching Palestine Conference, Soweto, South Africa 2019

Teaching palestine in south africa

Counterpunch | June 7, 2019

ABOLITION SPOTLIGHT: DIANA BLOCK

Black Agenda Report, February 2019

Oscar Lopez Rivera(center left) and Fernando González Llort (center right) in Havana, 2017

Two wings of the same bird — Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hurricanes and Political Prisoners

Counterpunch | Feb. 14, 2018

Oscar Lopez Rivera and Rasmea Odeh, Chicago 2017

rasmea and oscar — Resisting the Criminalization of freedom fighting

Counterpunch | Aug. 29, 2017

Edward Said mural at San Francisco State University

no sanctuary for palestinian scholarship

Counterpunch | May 10, 2017

*Emory Douglas, Black Panther Party Minister of Culture, with Palestinian former political prisoner Mukhles Burgal and his son.*

reflections on a delegation to imprisoned palestine

Counterpunch | May 13, 2016

OBAMA, GIVE ME FIVE | Counterpunch | Dec. 3, 2013

BREAKING THE BLOCKADE OF SILENCE FOR THE CUBAN 5 | MR Online | May 29, 2010

FREEING THE TRUTH — INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM FOR THE CUBAN 5 | MR Online | Dec. 4, 2009