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Remembering historic prison liberation struggles

September 14, 2022 Lev Koufax
The month of September holds several major anniversaries in the struggle for prisoner liberation and to end the racist prison-industrial complex. It is important to salute the struggles of those prisoners who rose up against […]
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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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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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Albert Woodfox: Angola Three Warrior Passes

August 24, 2022 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Who has not heard of the Angola Three, three young Black prisoners who were falsely accused of killing a prison guard in 1972, in the infamous Louisiana maximum-security prison sited at a former slave plantation, […]
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Guilty until proven innocent

July 29, 2022 Stephen Millies
The so-called U.S. criminal justice system is just plain criminal. Two of its biggest atrocities are cash bail and solitary confinement. Black Lives Matter activist Sandra Bland was held in a Waller County, Texas, jail […]
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40 years is too long! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

July 5, 2022 Stephen Millies
Demonstrators in Philadelphia on July 3 demanded freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. They carried colorful signs and banners under a blazing sun. The rally was in front of the Municipal Services Building across from City Hall. […]
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Freedom and med care for Leonard Peltier

February 9, 2022 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For 40 years, former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has been in the clutches of the U.S. prison system –The Iron House of the whites, as indigenous people call them – on trumped […]
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58 years of unjust imprisonment – Free Ruchell Magee!

December 22, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
The Free Ruchell Magee Coalition held a rally on Dec. 18 in front of the CNN building in Los Angeles. They demanded that the powers that be – including the governor and corporate media – […]
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Labor leader calls for action to free Mumia Abu-Jamal

December 12, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein
On Dec. 9, the Free Mumia webinar began with a message from political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. for 40 years. Mumia, a journalist who was Minister of Information […]
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Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz is free, but other political prisoners languish

October 29, 2021 Margaret Kimberley
The demand for freedom of political prisoners must be consistently made for their sakes and for all at risk of joining them in the future. Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has been granted compassionate release after 50 years […]