Author: Gloria Verdieu

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Political Prisoners

Court denies a fair trial: The fight for Mumia’s freedom continues

April 3, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
 On March 31, news of Judge Lucretia Clemons’ decision to deny Mumia Abu-Jamal his right to a fair trial spread instantly around the world, even though in the U.S., the major media remained silent. […]
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Political Prisoners

Mobilizing to free Mumia Abu-Jamal – San Diego

March 23, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
 The San Diego Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal hosted a meeting on March 11 at the Malcolm X Library to follow up on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.  We are answering the call to […]
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Oppressed genders

San Diego March for Black Womxn-2023 was Live!

March 20, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
 San Diego — Sunday morning, March 12, started a little overcast, but that didn’t keep people from coming out for the 10 a.m. kick-off rally for the March for Black Womxn (M4BW) 2023. The […]
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Cuba

‘People in the U.S. have a lot to learn from Cuba’s Families Code’

January 28, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
Talk by Gloria Verdieu of the Prisoners Solidarity Committee at the webinar “What We Can Learn from Cuba’s ‘Code of Freedom’ for Families,” hosted by Women In Struggle/Mujeres En Lucha on Jan. 22. I remember […]
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Political Prisoners

Reflections on the passing of Wadiya Jamal

January 6, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
When I read the email message from Black Alliance for Peace on Dec. 27 stating Mumia Abu-Jamal’s wife, Wadiya Jamal, had transitioned, I was deeply saddened.  I recovered from my state of shock, reading the […]
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Political Prisoners

SoCal fights to bring Mumia Abu-Jamal home

December 23, 2022 Gloria Verdieu
On Oct. 16, Judge Lucretia Clemons of the Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania dismissed all the claims that political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and his lawyers presented – critical evidence, withheld for over 40 years, that […]
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Political Prisoners

We want justice! Stop locking up our people!

September 4, 2022 Gloria Verdieu
According to Prison Policy Initiative, white people are proportionately underrepresented in prisons and jails, while Black, Native, and Latino people are overrepresented. In a graph showing the racial makeup of U.S. prisons – Black people […]
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Political Prisoners

Sacramento: A day of solidarity with prisoners and formerly incarcerated people

August 24, 2022 Gloria Verdieu
Based on remarks at the Socialist Unity Party national plenum on Aug. 13. This is the story of my experience going to Quest for Democracy 2022 on Aug. 8 in Sacramento, California’s state capital. I […]
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Cuba

‘U.S.-NATO proxy war in Ukraine is extension of the war against us’

May 6, 2022 Gloria Verdieu
Presentation on behalf of the Socialist Unity Party and Women In Struggle at VII International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases in Guantanamo, Cuba, May 4. Since the last international seminar […]
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In the U.S.

Biden’s promise to appoint first Black woman to Supreme Court

February 11, 2022 Gloria Verdieu
During a Democratic presidential debate on March 16, 2020, candidate Joe Biden said: “If I am elected president and have an opportunity to appoint someone to the courts, I would appoint the first Black woman […]