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Flowers From Guantanamo

December 23, 2015 Kathy Kelly, www.antiwar.com ,
By Kathy Kelly for Antiwar - Here in Kabul, young friends with theAfghan Peace Volunteers look forward to learning more about “The Tea Project” in late December, when Aaron Hughes arrives, an artist, a U.S. military veteran, and a core member of Iraq Veterans Against War. He’ll carry with him 20 plaster replicas of a standard-issue, factory-made Styrofoam cup. They’re part of a set numbering 779 replica cups, each cup dedicated to prisoners detained in Guantanamo. In the entire collection, 220 of the cups bear names of Afghan citizens imprisoned in Guantanamo.

After Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer’s BBC Interview

December 18, 2015 Andy Worthington, www.andyworthington.co.uk ,
Andy Worthington for Andy Worthington - On Monday, after an exclusive interview with the Mail on Sunday, published the day before (which I wrote about here and here), both the BBC and ITV News ran interviews with Shaker Aamer, who, until October 30, was the last British resident in the prison. I am delighted to have played a part in securing Shaker’s release through ten years of writing about Guantánamo, and campaigning to get the prison closed, and, for the last eleven months of Shaker’s imprisonment, through the We Stand With Shaker campaign that I launched with the activist Joanne MacInnes last November.

The Day I Became A Political Prisoner

December 16, 2015 Jaytee, www.hermanwainggai.net
By Jaytee for Herman Wainggai - After 25 five years of my involvement in our struggle for independence, West Papua is still under the grip of colonialism. Our beautiful home is still one of the most militarized territories in the world. Today, I’m celebrating one of West Papuan national days with my American friends. December 14 is a day that is significant to my personal struggle, but more so our struggle as West Papuans. December 14 has a very special meaning to me personally and to our peaceful freedom fighters in West Papua. On this very day, December 14, 1988, as a young boy, I witnessed with my own eyes the brutality of the Indonesian military

Mumia’s New Pamphlet On Organizing To Abolish Police Violence

December 5, 2015 Suzanne Ross, www.blackagendareport.com , ,
By Suzanne Ross for Black Agenda Report - The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, has weighed in on the debate over how to control the police. The former Black Panther “uses the Marxist analysis of the police as the enforcers of the will of the ruling class, and “how that role continues in the post-slavery period to this day.” Economic exploitation and police repression are also racial in character, with the police playing a role not much different from the KKK.”

Redacted Tonight: Rev Pinkney, Chevron, Robots And More

November 6, 2015 Staff, www.youtube.com , ,
By Staff of Redacted Tonight - Comedian and host Lee Camp talks about Reverend Ed Pinkney – the political prisoner from Michigan you’ve never heard of. He’s slated to be locked up for years because he got in the way of a major corporation. Denver police arrest volunteers for building micro-homes for the homeless, Chevron sues Ecuadorians for suing Chevron over Amazon oil spill, and Carlos Delgado explains why robots are scarier than capitalism. Also – John F. O’Donnell reports from the second Republican Presidential debate in Colorado.

Manning Calls For Abolition Of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

November 4, 2015 Chelsea Manning, www.medium.com , ,
By Chelsea Manning for Medium - Taking on the Most Difficult Undertaking in Prison (So Far), Not shooting from the hip — writing opinions and a bill in prison is hard work. I recently published an op-ed in The Guardian and a bill to abolish the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and to transfer the controversial surveillance authority from the secretive court to a good ol’ fashioned U.S. District Court. I’m way ahead of your question — What the hell did I get myself into? The answer is: the most difficult undertaking since arriving here after mycourt-martial in 2013.

Activist Facing 1000 Lashes & 10 Years In Prison Wins Human Rights Prize

October 30, 2015 Staff, www.europarl.europa.eu , ,
By Staff of European Parliament News - “The conference of Presidents decided that the Sakharov Prize will go to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi,” said Schulz announcing the 2015 laureate in plenary. “This man, who is an extremely good man and an exemplary good man, has had imposed on him one of the most gruesome penalties that exist in this country which can only be described as brutal torture." The EP President added: “I call on King of Saudi Arabia to stop the execution of this sentence, to release Mr Badawi, to allow him to back to his wife and to allow him to travel here for the December session to receive this prize."

Calls Are Helping; Return Rev. Pinkney Downstate

October 19, 2015 Staff, www.bhbanco.org
By Staff of Banco - Thank you to all who have called Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) Director Washington's office to urge Rev. Pinkney's safe return down state, including Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein. Your calls are already beginning to help! Rev. Pinkney was recently moved from a location that was so moldy he was dizzy, sick to his stomach, and unable to eat, to quarters that are less moldy (but still in Marquette, 500 miles from his family and attorney). It is crucial that MDOC know that we care about Rev. Pinkney. Please continue to make calls every day this week (details below). If we keep the pressure up, there is still hope that Rev. Pinkney will be returned down state! Marquette Branch Prison is known to be dangerous, particularly for Black prisoners.

President Evo Morales Calls For Leonard Peltier’s Freedom

October 13, 2015 Peter Clark, www.whoisleonardpeltier.info
By Peter Clark for International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee - Today, at the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and Defense of Life, President Evo Morales—joined by Vice President Linera, Chancellor Choquehuanca, and Ambassador Caceres—acknowledged Leonard Peltier as a defender of Indigenous Peoples and Mother Earth, and urged President Obama to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier was wrongfully convicted in 1977 in connection with the shooting deaths of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. The federal prosecutor has twice admitted that the government did not and can not prove Peltier's guilt.

#FreeAJStaff: Travesty Of Justice Continues

September 2, 2015 Omar Ashour, www.aljazeera.com , , , ,
By Omar Ashour in Al Jazeera - "Shocked", "sickened", and "appalled" were appropriate words to describe theinternational reactions - and some of the local ones - to the second sentencing of Al Jazeera journalists and their colleagues in a Cairo court on Saturday. "The verdict today ... sends a message that journalists can be locked up for simply doing their job, for telling the truth, and reporting the news. And it sends a dangerous message that there are judges in Egypt who will allow their courts to become instruments of political repression and propaganda." Those were words of Mohamed Fahmy's lawyer, Amal Clooney. The more disturbing part is that her words are an understatement. The Committee to Protect Journalistsissued a report in June 2015 that concluded that Egypt's imprisonment of journalists is at an all-time high.

Why Is Rev. Edward Pinkney In Prison?

August 31, 2015 Jackie Miller, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Jackie Miller of BANCO. Benton Harbor, MI - One answer comes to mind from my very first meeting with Pinkney in 2003. I drove from Lansing to Benton Harbor in southwest Michigan to witness a Berrien County Commissioners meeting soon after the Benton Harbor uprising. At that eye-opening introduction, white commissioners literally laughed at Black community members’ desperate appeals for justice for their young Black men, incarcerated or killed with impunity at a sickening rate. From this vignette straight out of the Jim Crow South, I left 90% white St. Joseph and crossed the bridge to Benton Harbor where well over 90% of the residents are Black and nearly half live in poverty according to census data.

Newsletter – Black August, End Neo-Slavery, Resist

August 30, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance - Black August is coming to an end as we commemorate the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. As many head back to school, a full season of actions are being planned for the fall to stop the corporate takeover of our communities and world and the push toward neo-slavery. There is a lot of resistance going on. We hope that you have an opportunity this summer to relax and build up your energy for the many actions that are being planned for the fall. If you go to a park, there is one more thing you can do: take a moment to think about the people who inhabited the land before it became a park.

Mumia Being Denied Hep C Treatment

August 30, 2015 Noelle Hanrahan, www.PopularResistance.org , , ,
By Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio - The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home is in court demanding immediate lifesaving medical treatment for Mumia Abu-Jamal, and we are going to win. On Aug. 24, Mumia's lawyers Bret Grote, Legal Director of the Abolitionist Law Center, and co-counsel Robert Boyle filed a preliminary injunction in Abu-Jamal v. Kerestes with Judge Robert Mariani of the Middle District Federal U.S. Court (see link below). The injunction seeks a federal court order to ensure that prison medical staff provide immediate lifesaving treatment to Mumia. The prison administration is simply denying Mumia all treatment. Treatment for hep C has a 95% cure rate. By withholding medication, the DOC would like to see this become a death sentence.

Black Prisoners’ Lives Matter: Dallas 6 Blow Whistle On The Inside

August 25, 2015 Shandre Delaney, www.truth-out.org , , , ,
By Shandre Delaney in Truth Out - On April 29, 2010, six prisoners in solitary confinement at SCI Dallas in Dallas, Pennsylvania, decided that enough was enough. Collectively, they are known as theDallas 6. One of them is my son. The Dallas 6 are jailhouse lawyers who fight injustice within prison walls and share information with the outside. They came to be seen as political prisoners through their actions as jailhouse lawyers, activists and whistleblowers. This caused them to be held in solitary indefinitely, where they were starved, beaten and outright tortured. Between the six, they served from 10 to 20 years in solitary, and one of them is still in solitary. After being subjected to starvation, brutal beatings, food tampering, witnessing beatings, the guard-assisted suicide of one prisoner and the torture of another, they covered their solitary cell windows and politely requested outside intervention.

Chelsea Found Guilty Of Infractions, Spared Solitary Confinement

August 20, 2015 Chelsea Manning Support Network, www.chelseamanning.org , , ,
By Chelsea Manning Support Network - We are only $15,000 short on paying for Chelsea’s appeal! Please donate today. After 100k petitions were delivered to the Army yesterday, the secret disciplinary panel at Fort Leavenworth military prison sentenced Chelsea to 21 days of restrictions on her recreational activities, including no access to the gym, library or outdoors. Supporters delivering 100,000 petitions to Army officials the morning of Chelsea’s hearing. Chelsea Twitter Chelsea’s reactions, over the last 24 hours, to being found guilty of prison infractions. Chelsea doesn’t have Internet access in prison, so she tells us what to post during our regular phone calls with her. We won an important victory by keeping Chelsea out of “indefinite solitary confinement;” however, this ruling of guilty on all four absurd charges is not without significant ramifications. “Now these convictions will follow me through to any parole and clemency hearings, forever. "
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