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Dialogue with a political prisoner of today, part 1

August 17, 2025 Jay Burton, Adé T.W. Jackson, Esq., and Scott Scheffer
“We don’t get how we are all tied to the prison industrial complex. Nobody’s out.” – Mariame Kaba, interviewed by Mahogany L. Browne, 2019 Having a conversation with a political prisoner would be rare under […]
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What to the Political Prisoner is the Fourth of July?

July 10, 2025 Jay Burton
Jay Burton is a political prisoner. At just 16 years old, he was ensnared by the predatory neo-Nazi Lynwood Vikings deputy gang within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department — a white supremacist gang that […]
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After 43 years in jail, Mumia Abu-Jamal is still innocent

July 7, 2025 Stephen Millies
Philadelphia, July 5 — Over a hundred people demonstrated for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom here today. Forty-three years ago, on July 3, 1983, the Black revolutionary was convicted after being framed for killing a Philadelphia cop.  […]
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Always remember Shaka Sankofa

June 22, 2025 Stephen Millies
Shaka Sankofa was executed 25 years ago on June 22, 2000. Texas governor and future president, George W. Bush, ordered the legal lynching in Huntsville. Sankofa spent half his life on death row. He was […]
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LGBTQ+

Mumia embraces the LGBTQ+ movement

June 3, 2025 Lallan Schoenstein
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a brilliant and empathetic revolutionary journalist known as “the Voice of the Voiceless,” hailed as a leader of people working for peace and justice. He is a father, a grandfather, and a […]
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‘It has been a long 22 years’: wife of wrongfully imprisoned man speaks out

June 2, 2025 Lev Koufax
On May 30, Struggle-La Lucha sat down with Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly activist, Miss Van Green. She has been fighting to free her husband, Duryea, who is currently serving an unjust prison sentence for a […]
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Free Jay Burton: Fighting for justice against LA’s neo-Nazi Sheriff’s gangs

May 18, 2025 Scott Scheffer
On Aug. 29, 1970, some 25,000 people gathered for the Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles to protest the brutal U.S. imperialist war against the Vietnamese people. Early in the historic protest, L.A. County Sheriff’s […]
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Honoring Mumia Abu-Jamal on his 71st birthday

May 6, 2025 Gloria Verdieu
“Know this: throughout it all. I have never felt alone. To the eye, I was alone in solitary confinement, on death row, but the eye cannot really see all that is, for behind brick and […]
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New York State prison guards ‘strike’ for brutality and solitary confinement

February 21, 2025 Stephen Millies
Prison guards and cops are not workers Thousands of prison guards have staged a so-called strike since Feb. 17 in over 30 New York State prisons. All these hellholes are concentration camps for the poor.  […]
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Indigenous peoples

Why the delay? Release Leonard Peltier now!

February 2, 2025 Gloria Verdieu
In a final act of clemency on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, was a prominent […]