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Mumia Abu-Jamal health alert & action

March 1, 2024 Prison Radio
Mumia underwent a double bypass heart surgery on April 19, 2021. His doctor prescribed a cardiac diet and regular exercise for recovery. To date, almost 3 years later, the prison has failed to provide Mumia the required cardiac diet and […]
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‘Keep Fighting’: Leonard Peltier’s message to supporters on 48 years since arrest

February 9, 2024 Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier has been unjustly imprisoned for 48 years on Feb. 6. In this letter, he reflects on the anniversary of his incarceration and calls upon all to “keep fighting.” As NDN Collective works in […]
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Sekou Odinga, Black liberation fighter and former political prisoner, passes at 79

January 16, 2024 Natalia Marques
Odinga leaves behind a legacy of resistance, having helped Assata Shakur escape prison and having been a member of the most notable Black liberation organizations Sekou Odinga, a former United States political prisoner for 33 […]
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Mobilizing to release all political prisoners

December 14, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
They fought for the people! Now is the time for the people to bring them home!  The San Diego Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Black Panther Party San Diego joined the hundreds […]
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Political prisoners worldwide to participate in a one-day hunger strike in defense of Palestinian prisoners

November 21, 2023 Anti-Imperialist Front
Appeal to all political prisoners in the world to participate in a one-day hunger strike in defense of Palestinian prisoners on Friday, 11-24-23 On October 27, 20 political prisoners from multiple prisons in Euskal Herria […]
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‘I am still here’: Leonard Peltier’s letter to supporters

September 13, 2023 Leonard Peltier
Dear friends, relatives, supporters, loved ones: 79 years old. Mother Earth has taken us on another journey around Grandfather Sun. Babies have taken their first breath. People have lived, loved, and died. Seeds have been […]
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‘Long live the spirit of Jonathan Jackson!’

August 20, 2023 Stephen Millies
Two 17-year-olds at the door of history Jonathan Jackson was just 17 years old when he gave his life for oppressed people on Aug. 7, 1970. He went to the San Rafael, California, courthouse to […]
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Mutulu Shakur, Black Liberation Movement elder and stepfather to Tupac, dies at 72

July 7, 2023 Bruce C.T. Wright
‘The struggle was never about me, but for the will of the people,’ the longtime political prisoner once wrote. Mutulu Shakur, the Black liberation movement elder and stepfather to the late rapper and actor Tupac […]
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In brutal summer heat, prisoners say their cells are like ‘stifling hot coffins’

July 5, 2023 Victoria Law
Days of extreme heat without access to enough water and cooled air become deadlier for an aging prison population. Shortly after midnight this past Friday, guards found 37-year-old Elizabeth Hagerty dead in her unair-conditioned Texas […]
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Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free Leornard Peltier! Free Them ALL!

May 3, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
Talk given by Gloria Verdieu of the Socialist Unity Party at the May Day rally in San Diego. Freeing Political Prisoners is a Working-Class Struggle. Why? It is our class, our families. Our youth, brothers, […]