Posts Tagged ‘Political Prisoners’
Torture in the US Prison System: The Endless Punishment of Leonard Peltier | Truthout
by: Preston Randolph and Dan Battaglia, Truthout | Op-Ed In June 2006, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons released “Confronting Confinement,” a 126-page report summarizing its 12-month inquiry into the prison systems. The commission [Read More]
Political Prisoners? Black Lawyers Say Obama Could Free ‘Em All by Jared Ball
“With their call this week for president Obama to free all political prisoners the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) have given him yet one more opportunity to actually address a specific concern of many Black and other well-meaning people [Read More]
Detroit Meeting on the Struggle to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Posted on Pan-African News Wire: The excellent summary below, written by Saeed Shabazz and just published in the Final Call, about the current repression and brutality against our political prisoners is a very accurate and chilling picture. But there is a more positive [Read More]
Call to Action: For Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier
Urgent! Leonard needs a diabetes test kit now! You may recall that Leonard suffers from diabetes. To date, his diabetes has been managed by diet but this is difficult to do when the prison won’t give Leonard a test kit by which to monitor his blood glucose [Read More]
Romaine “Chip†Fitzgerald: Former Panther up for Parole
From Black Agenda Report Having expressed deep and sincere remorse for the acts he was convicted of so long ago, and posing no threat to anyone, Chip Fitzgerald now awaits a July 2 parole hearing. We respectfully request that our readers sign the petition at the end of the [Read More]
