Thanksgiving Statement From Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier
The year of 2019 is coming to a close and with it, comes the day most Americans set aside as a day for Thanksgiving. As I let my mind wander beyond the steel bars and concrete walls, I try to imagine...
View ArticleVisiting Britain’s Political Prisoner
I set out at dawn. Her Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh is in the flat hinterland of south east London, a ribbon of walls and wire with no horizon. At what is called the visitors centre, I surrendered my...
View ArticleFree All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange And Chelsea Manning
All of our fates are entwined with that of Julian Assange, a political prisoner of the global imperial state. Assange, an Australian currently held in solitary confinement in Britain’s Belmarsh prison,...
View ArticleReleased At Last: Welcome Home, Move 9 Member Chuck Africa!
Imprisoned since he was only 18, Charles Sims Africa was finally released from Pennsylvania’s SCI Fayette on Feb. 7. The youngest and the last of the MOVE 9 to be paroled, Chuck, now 59 and recovering...
View ArticleThe Fight For Black Power Requires The Immediate Release Of All Political...
The month of August is recognized as “Black August” by many militants associated with the prison movement. This is due in part to the impact of George Jackson, imprisoned revolutionary and Field...
View ArticleBlack August And Black Liberation: ‘Study, Fast, Train, Fight.’
Each August since 1979, the surviving sectors of the Black Liberation Movement, our supporters, and the new entrants into the ranks of resistors to the ongoing oppression against the African/Black...
View ArticleReport: Political Repression On The Rise In The United States
The Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) has released a comprehensive report detailing the various forms in which political repression of today’s anti-racist uprising in the U.S. has manifested itself....
View ArticleWest Papua: Violence Continues; Calls To Release Political Prisoners Strengthen
Large scale protests were held in the Papuan provinces of Indonesia at a time of heightened violence between government forces and pro-independence insurgents. On Friday, May 21, protests were held in...
View ArticleRussell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz Is Free, But Other Political Prisoners Languish
Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has been granted compassionate release after 50 years in prison. The length of his sentence is outrageous but it is hardly unique. The United States not only has the dubious...
View ArticleWhy We Must Fight To Free Political Prisoners In 2022
Newly elected Chilean president Gabriel Boric’s victory speech was interrupted by a chant that went through the crowd: “We’re not all here.” This has become a slogan for many of the last vestiges of...
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