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Locked up and locked down
April 10 ā For nearly a month now, all prisoners in Pennsylvania state prisons ā over 40,000 men and women ā have been locked down. What does ālocked downā mean? When I was on death […]
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Coronavirus pandemic: Remove prisoners from these death cells!
It appears that the U.S. government ā headed by Donald Trump and enabled by Democrats who refuse to seriously check the most egregious actions of this fascist-minded, racist and sexist president ā is using the […]
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Maryland prisoners contact community group about denial of proper care amid pandemic
Prisoners Solidarity Committee/Peoples Power Assembly FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2020 Contact Person:Ā Attorney Alec Summerfield Phone: 443-324-8644 Email: asummerfield@protonmail.com Maryland prisoners contact community group about denial of proper care amid pandemicĀ Baltimore ā Multiple […]
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Statement from Chelsea Manningās legal team: Ms. Manning is recovering in hospital, scheduled to appear in court Friday
Alexandria, Va. ā On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, Chelsea Manning attempted to take her own life. She was taken to a hospital and is currently recovering. Ms. Manning is still scheduled to appear on Friday […]
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Robert Seth Hayes, Ā”Presente!
Robert Seth Hayes was a freedom fighter who fought for all Black and oppressed people. The Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army member passed away last year on Dec. 21. Hayes was a […]
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Family fights to uncover truth behind jail death
On Feb. 19, the family of Marlyn Barnes filed a petition in the Circuit Court for the city of Baltimore requesting the release of photographs and additional information from his autopsy. Barnes, an African American […]
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Bail is ransom for the poor
An average of 462,000 people were kept in U.S. jails every night last year because they couldn’t afford bail. Their crime was being poor. The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill […]
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Chicago: Free police torture victim Gerald Reed!
Statement from the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Chicago Torture Justice Center, and Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity. Judge Thomas J. Hennelly has attempted to illegally reverse the order of […]
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Chuck Africa goes home
For over 40 years, Chuck Sims Africa, member of the famed MOVE 9, veteran of the MOVE confrontation of Aug. 8, 1978, has been imprisoned in state joints across Pennsylvania, serving what is arguably an […]
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Delbert Africa, free!
MOVE member Delbert Africa, held in prison since the confrontation of Aug. 8, 1978, has walked out of a Pennsylvania prison after 42 years. Delbert, in his 73rd year of life, came out to meet […]