http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/ en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:09:17 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/images/misc_2/rss.jpg http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/ http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40431-jalil-muntaqim-denied-parole.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:15:30 GMT Jalil Muntaqim had a parole hearing Tuesday, November 17. He was just denied parole today, November 18, 2009. In a brief report from him by phone he noted that the board was courteous, saying that his record showed improvement and a good attitude. They noted his exemplary record, but still,... Jalil Muntaqim had a parole hearing Tuesday, November 17. He was just denied parole today, November 18, 2009.

In a brief report from him by phone he noted that the board was courteous, saying that his record showed improvement and a good attitude. They noted his exemplary record, but still, they denied him parole.

Jalil thanks everyone who wrote letters of support and says he will appeal the decision.

His next scheduled parole hearing will be in June 2010.

For more detailed information and to continue supporting Jalil check
FREE JALIL: Jalil Muntaqim Political Prisoner ]]> Moorbey http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40431-jalil-muntaqim-denied-parole.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40427-activist-atty-lynne-stewart-under-attack.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:41:41 GMT Lynne Stewart has been an activist attorney for decades and has been sentenced to 20+ months in prison for doing her job. It's no accident this is happening just as they begin their so-called terrorist trials in NYC. Lynne is 70 years old and battling breast cancer, but her spirit is strong and revolutionary. Visit Justice for Lynne Stewart for more specifics, she needs and deserves our solidarity and support!
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Lynne Stewart Is Ordered to Begin Serving Sentence

Lynne Stewart Is Ordered to Begin Serving Sentence - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

By BENJAMIN WEISER
Paul O. Boisvert
for The New York

A federal appeals court panel in Manhattan on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Lynne F. Stewart, the outspoken defense lawyer who was found guilty in 2005 of assisting terrorism by smuggling information from an imprisoned client to his violent followers in Egypt.

The three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit also revoked Ms. Stewart’s bond, and said that she must begin serving her 28-month sentence.

But the panel also sent the case back to the trial judge, John G. Koeltl of Federal District Court, to determine whether she deserved a longer sentence in light of the seriousness of her conduct and the possibility she had lied at trial. Prosecutors had sought a term of 30 years.

It was not immediately clear when Ms. Stewart, who is 70 and who was being treated for breast cancer at the time of her sentencing in 2006, would surrender. She could not be reached for comment by phone; her lawyer, Joshua L. Dratel, declined to comment, as did a spokeswoman for the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan.

Judge Robert D. Sack, who wrote the appellate ruling, said the panel had rejected Ms. Stewart’s claim that she was acting only as a “zealous advocate” for her imprisoned client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, when he passed messages for him, and was not seeking to incite violence among his militant followers. Mr. Abdel Rahman was serving a life sentence for his conviction in a plot to blow up New York landmarks.

“A genuinely held intent to represent a client ‘zealously’ is not necessarily inconsistent with criminal intent,” Judge Sack wrote. The ruling upholding the conviction of Ms. Stewart and two co-defendants was joined by Judges John M. Walker Jr. and Guido Calabresi.

Judge Sack also noted that when Judge Koeltl imposed the 28-month sentence, he cited what he called her extraordinary personal characteristics in supporting leniency. Judge Koeltl had described Ms. Stewart as “a dedicated public servant who had, throughout her career, ‘represented the poor, the disadvantaged and the unpopular,’ ” Judge Sack wrote.

But Judge Koeltl had declined to decide, as prosecutors had argued, whether Ms. Stewart had lied at trial, a factor he should have considered in weighing her sentence, Judge Sack wrote.

“We think that whether Stewart lied under oath at her trial is directly relevant to whether her sentence was appropriate,” Judge Sack wrote. He said that the case should be sent back to Judge Koeltl for a determination as to whether she lied, and if so, the judge should “resentence Stewart so as to reflect that finding.”

Judge Walker dissented on the sentence, which he called “breathtakingly low.” He said that he would go further than the majority in finding additional errors by Judge Koeltl. The majority, he wrote, “trivializes Stewart’s extremely serious conduct with a ‘slap on the wrist.’ ”
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U.S. lawyer convicted in terrorism case imprisoned

Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:52pm EST
U.S. lawyer convicted in terrorism case imprisoned | U.S. | Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A disbarred New York lawyer convicted in 2005 on charges of supporting terrorism by helping an imprisoned blind Egyptian cleric smuggle messages to militant followers was ordered to prison by a U.S. federal appeals court that upheld her conviction on Tuesday.

The appeals court also ordered the trial judge to consider lengthening the 28-month prison sentence given to civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, 70, saying the judge had declined to consider whether Stewart committed perjury.

Stewart was sentenced in October 2006 to 28 months in prison for helping her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, contact the Islamic Group, which the U.S. government lists as a terrorist organization.

Abdel-Rahman was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to attack U.S. targets in a plot that U.S. prosecutors said included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The twin towers of the World Trade Center were later toppled in the 2001 attacks on the United States carried out by the group al Qaeda.

Prosecutors said messages Stewart passed on for Abdel-Rahman could have incited violence in Egypt.

Evidence in the case against Stewart included a call the lawyer made to a Reuters correspondent in Egypt in which she read a statement issued by the cleric saying he had withdrawn his support for the Islamic Group's ceasefire in Egypt.

In its nearly 200-page ruling, the U.S. second circuit appeals court ordered Stewart to begin serving her sentence.

Stewart had been released on bail pending the appeal. She could have been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison after being convicted on charges of supporting terrorism. Prosecutors had sought up to 30 years.

Stewart was tried along with Mohamed Yousry, an Arabic language translator working for her, and New York postal worker Ahmed Sattar.

Sattar was sentenced to 24 years in prison and Yousry to 20 months. The appeals court also said the trial judge could reconsider the sentences of those two men as well.

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Will Dunham)

© Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. ]]> nattyreb http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40427-activist-atty-lynne-stewart-under-attack.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40394-long-live-john-africa-s-revolution.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:04:59 GMT LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA’S REVOLUTION MAY 2010 MARKS 25 YEARS SINCE THE VICIOUS MURDEROUS BOMBING OF OUR MOVE FAMILY AND WE DON’T INTEND TO EVER LET PEOPLE –OFFICIAL OR UNOFFICIAL) FORGET WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY AND WHAT GOVERNMENT SHOWED PEOPLE THAT DAY. WE’RE URGING PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF... LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA’S REVOLUTION

MAY 2010 MARKS 25 YEARS SINCE THE VICIOUS MURDEROUS BOMBING OF OUR MOVE FAMILY AND WE DON’T INTEND TO EVER LET PEOPLE –OFFICIAL OR UNOFFICIAL) FORGET WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY AND WHAT GOVERNMENT SHOWED PEOPLE THAT DAY. WE’RE URGING PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF PHILADELPHIA TO SAVE THE DATE (THURSDAY MAY 13, 2010) AND JOIN US IN SENDING A STRONG CLEAR MESSAGE OF “NEVER AGAIN AND FREE THE MOVE 9”. IF YOU’RE LOCATED TOO FAR FROM PHILADELPHIA TO JOIN US IN OUR ACTIVITY, THEN WE URGE YOU TO HAVE SOME SORT OF ACTIVITY IN YOUR LOCAL IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE BOMBING. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO FORGET THE MESSAGE THAT WAS SENT TO PEOPLE BY GOVERNMENT THAT DAY. WE MUST REMEMBER AND WE MUST TEACH OUR CHILDREN ABOUT IT SO THAT THEY KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DEALING WITH. WE WILL INFORM YOU AS THE DETAILS OF OUR ACTIVITY ARE NAILED DOWN, BUT FOR NOW, SAVE THE DATE AND PLAN TO BE WITH US ON MAY 13, 2010.




CONTACT US 215 387-4107/ onamovellja@ aol.com ]]> Moorbey http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40394-long-live-john-africa-s-revolution.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40376-help-ojore-lutalo-settle-into-his-new-home.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:16:10 GMT New Afrikan Anarchist Prisoner of War, Ojore N. Lutalo, is out after 26 years of imprisonment! In continuation of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) fundraising efforts to support Ojore transition back to life on the outside, we have created a gift registry of items for his new... New Afrikan Anarchist Prisoner of War, Ojore N. Lutalo, is out after 26
years of imprisonment!

In continuation of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF)
fundraising efforts to support Ojore transition back to life on the outside, we have
created a gift registry of items for his new apartment. Please visit
https://www.target.com/lists/2G4Y0IKDCZMNX (or go to target.com and
search for Ojore Lutalo or List ID:012399301813930) and make a purchase
either as an individual or an organization.

This financial assistance will allow Ojore to transition more smoothly,
giving him the needed time to readjust to life on the outside that he
hasn't experienced since 1982. Please note that his move-in date is
Sunday, Nov. 15th so purchasing items for shipment on this Thursday or
Friday would be ideal.

As many former prisoners and their supporters know, coming back home
after doing a long stretch in prison is difficult, and without a support
base it is even more difficult. The ABCF, anarchists and many PP/POW
activists who have maintained contact and supported Ojore over the years, have
benefited immensely from the example that he's set as what it means
to be a revolutionary. His untiring advice/criticism to us has helped many
of us and our organizations grow politically and deepen, not only our
commitment to the struggle to free political prisoners and prisoners of war, but to
that of building a revolutionary movement.

It's our revolutionary duty ensure Ojore has all the support he needs!

We encourage folks to fundraise and/or donate whatever they can
towards Ojore's housewarming fund, and circulate this appeal far and
wide.


To make a donation without selecting an item from the gift registry,
check or money order payable to TIM FASNACHT, can be sent to:

Philadelphia ABCF
P.O Box 42129
Philadelphia, PA 19101


Thank you for your support! Solidarity and Struggle!

ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS FEDERATION (ABCF)

ABCF.net
Contact-
timABCF [at] aol [dot] com,
nycabc [at] riseup [dot] net



Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

415 863-9977

Freedom Archives Home ]]> Moorbey http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40376-help-ojore-lutalo-settle-into-his-new-home.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40324-introducing-black-unity-s-political-prisoners-pen-pal-movement.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:52:35 GMT Black Unity never wishes to forget about political prisoners. These are the individuals whom sacrificed their freedoms for various beliefs. The objective is not to determine the rights or wrongs based on individualistic views, but to recognize the fact that these political prisoners are human.... Black Unity never wishes to forget about political prisoners. These are the individuals whom sacrificed their freedoms for various beliefs. The objective is not to determine the rights or wrongs based on individualistic views, but to recognize the fact that these political prisoners are human. Imagine sitting in a cell awaiting court and/or attempting to survive sentencing without any encouragement or support... Better yet, what if you were to exchange places with a political prisoner??? Wouldn’t you want to be remembered at least on your birthday or on holidays???



Black Unity empathizes with everyone’s busy lifestyle, but take some time to select one of our “Political Prisoners” within the list provided. Each time a volunteer selects a political prisoner as a “Pen Pal”, hope is restored. Hope in humanity must never be lost.



Therefore, join Black Unity’s Political Prisoners “Pen Pal” movement.



When writing a letter, first wish the prisoner well and then introduce yourself. "Tell them where you heard about and perhaps that Assata Shakur Speaks! is providing you a lot of background and information on political prisoners and this is what encouraged you to write. Tell the inmate a little something about yourself, just as much as you are comfortable sharing with them. You can talk generally about politics, spirituality, and maybe something that you'd be interested in their feedback on given their history and background.


Be friendly, even humorous, and cheerful (upbeat). Don't share your phone number because the prisons take a cut from the phone calls and they are at a minimum double the cost of normal collect calls, at least not until you get tight enough to bear the expense. Tell them you'd love to read back from them whenever they are able to do so and do not assume that they have a lot of free time just because they are incarcerated.


Don't include anything in the envelope besides the letter itself. Put your return address in the upper left-hand corner of the envelope or it won't get delivered to the inmate and write the inmates name, # and complete address as neatly as possible or else they will send it back. Write the date that you mailed the letter on the back of the envelope, (i.e. Mid on 10/28/09) so that the inmate will know that if he receives your letter11/5/09 that he's got a problem with his mail in the prison.


Below is a sample of what I would write to an inmate for the first time. Put your name and address somewhere on the letter in case it gets separated from the envelope:


Dear Bro./Sis Turner


I hope this letter finds you well in health and spirits and I’m so glad to be in touch with you. I'm Chaka, a student at Rahway College, Rahway, NJ. I'm a member of Assata Shakur Speaks!, Sundiata Acoli Speaks - SundiataAcoli.Org - Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign (SAFC) websites and there is a lot of information about political prisoners on both sites. Your name is listed as one of the U.S. political prisoners and I read your history and wanted to, actually needed to drop you a line, I hope you don't mind.


I believe that everyone should communicate with political prisoners / prisoners of war because you have so much information and knowledge that we need to learn. I also want you to know that you are not in that prison in vain; the people on our websites all know that you exist and still fight for our liberation and we do recognize and appreciate the sacrifices that you have made. I am studying business because I want to open my own shop one day. At first I wanted to sell newspapers and magazines but since I have been Assata Shakur Speaks!. I now know that I want to sell books and DVD's related to health and exercise to build a strong black nation. I could also include some work-out equipment so that I could work-out everyday for free (smile). I have a family that I am determined to leave them something that they can use to earn their own income independent of this system when they grow up.


Thank you very much for your time in reading this note. I really look forward to reading back from you whenever you can.



Take care and be well.



In struggle


Chaka Khun


51 Front Street, B – 2


Rahway, NJ 08092

Here is a up - dated PP/POW List

Abdullah, Haki Malik (s/n Michael Green) # C-56123
PO Box 3456, Corcoran, CA 93212

Abu-Jamal, Mumia #AM 8335
SCI-Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Birthday: April 24, 1954

Acoli, Sundiata #39794-066
FCI Otisville, P.O. Box 1000, Otisville, NY 10963
Birthday: January 14, 1937

Africa, Charles Simms #AM4975
SCI Graterford, Box 244, Graterford PA 19426
Birthday: April 7, 1956

Africa, Debbie Sims #006307
451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238
Birthday: August 4, 1956

Africa, Delbert Orr #AM4985
SCI Dallas Drawer K, Dallas, PA 18612
Birthday: June 21, 1951

Africa, Edward Goodman #AM4974
301 Morea Road, Frackville, PA 17932
Birthday: October 21, 1949

Africa, Janet Holloway #006308
451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238
Birthday: April 13, 1951

Africa, Janine Phillips #006309
451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238
Birthday: April 25, 1956

Africa, Michael Davis #AM4973
SCI Graterford, Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426-0244
Birthday: October 6, 1955

Africa, William Phillips #AM4984
SCI Dallas Drawer K, Dallas, PA 18612
Birthday: January 1, 1956

Al-Amin, Jamil Abdullah # 99974-555
USP Florence ADMAX, P.O. Box 8500, Florence, CO 81226
Birthday: October 4, 1943

Azania, Zolo #4969
Indiana State Prison, P.O. Box 41, Michigan City, IN 46361
Birthday: December 12, 1954

Barnes, Grant #137563
San Carlos Correctional Facility, PO Box 3, Pueblo, CO 81002

Bell, Herman #79C0262
Sullivan Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 116, Fallsburg, NY 12733-0116
Birthday: January 14, 1948

Beltrán Torres, Haydée #88462-024
SCI Tallahassee, 501 Capitol Circle NE, Tallahassee, FL 32031

Block, Nathan #36359-086
FCI Lompoc, 3600 Guard Road, Lompoc, CA 93436

Bomani Sababu, Kojo (Grailing Brown) #39384-066
USP Hazelton, P.O. Box 2000, Bruceton Mills, WV 26525

Bowen, Joseph AM-4272,
1 Kelley Drive, Coal Township, PA 17866-1021

Bowers, Veronza #35316-136
USP Atlanta, P.O. Box 150160, Atlanta, GA 30315
Birthday: February 4

Buck, Marilyn #00482-285
Unit A, Camp Parks, 5701 Eighth Street, Dublin, CA 94568
Birthday: December 13

Burton, Fred "Muhammad" AF 3896
SCI Somerset, 1590 Walters Mill Rd, Somerset, PA 15510
Birthday: December 15, 1946

Campa, Rubén #58733-004
(envelope addessed to Rubén Campa,
letter addressed to Fernando Gonzáles)
FDC Miami, P.O. Box 019120, Miami, FL 33101
Birthday: August 18, 1963

Chubbuck, Byron Shane (Oso Blanco) #07909-051
USP Lewisburg, PO Box 1000, Lewisburg, PA 17837
Birthday: February 26, 1967

Conroy, Jacob # 93501-011
FCI Terminal Island, P.O. Box 3007, San Pedro, CA 90731

Conway, Marshall Eddie #116469
Jessup Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 534, Jessup, MD 20794
Birthday: April 23, 1946

Dunne, Bill #10916-086
USP Big Sandy, P.O. Box 2068, Inez, KY 41224
Birthday: August 3

Fitzgerald, Romaine “Chip” #B-27527
Centinela State Prison, FC-2-110, PO Box 921, Imperial, CA 92251
Free Romaine ?Chip? Fitzgerald

Ford, Patrice Lumumba #96639-011
USP Coleman 1, P.O. Box 1033. Coleman, FL 33521

Gazzola, Lauren # 93497-011
FCI Danbury, Route #37, Danbury, CT 06811
Birthday: May 1

Gilday, William # W33537
MCI Shirley, PO Box 1218, Shirley, MA 01464-1218

Gilbert, David #83A6158
Clinton Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 2001, Dannemora, NY 12929
Birthday: October 6, 1944

González Claudio, Avelino #357422
MacDougall-Walker CI, 1153 East Street, South Suffield, CT 06080

González, René #58738-004
FCI Marianna, P.O. Box 7007, Marianna, FL 32447-7007
Birthday: August 13, 1956

Guerrero, Antonio #58741-004
FDC Miami, P.O. Box 019120, Miami, FL 33101
Birthday: October 18, 1958

Hayes, Robert Seth #74-A-2280
Wende CF, Wende Rd., PO Box 1187, Alden, NY 14004-1187
Birthday: October 15, 1948

Hernández, Alvaro Luna #255735
Hughes Unit, Rt. 2, Box 4400, Gatesville, TX 76597
Birthday: May 12, 1952

Hernández, Gerardo #58739-004
U.S.P. Victorville, P.O. Box 5500, Adelanto, CA 92301
Birthday: July 4, 1965

Hilton, Freddie (Kamau Sadiki) #0001150688
Augusta State Medical Prison, Bldg 13A-2 E7
3001 Gordon Highway, Grovetown, GA 30813

Hoover, Larry #86063-024
Florence ADMAX, P.O. Box 8500, Florence, CO 81226
Birthday: November 30, 1950

Ka'bah, Abdullah Malik (aka Jeff Fort) #92298-024
USP Florence ADMAX, P.O. Box 8500, Florence, CO 81226
Birthday: February 20, 1947

Kambui, Sekou (William Turk) #113058
Box 56, SCC (B1-21), Elmore, AL 36025-0056
Birthday: September 6, 1948

Khabir, Maumin (aka Melvin Mayes) #09891-000
USP Terre Haute, P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808

Kjonaas, Kevin # 93502-011
Unit I, FCI Sandstone, P.O. Box 1000, Sandstone, MN 55072

Koti, Mohamman Geuka 80A-0808
354 Hunter Street, Ossining, NY 10562-5442
Birthday: October 11, 1926

Laaman, Jaan Karl #10372-016
USP Tucson, P.O. Box 24550, Tucson, AZ 85734
Birthday: March 21, 1948

Lake, Richard Mafundi #079972
Donaldson CF, 100 Warrior Lane, Bessemer, AL 35023-7299

Langa, Mondo We (David Rice) #27768,
Nebraska State Penitentiary, P.O. Box 2500, Lincoln, NE 68542
Birthday: May 21, 1947

Latine, Maliki Shakur # 81-A-4469
Clinton Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 2001, Dannemora, NY 12929

López Rivera, Oscar #87651-024
FCI Terre Haute, P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808
Birthday: January 6, 1943

Luers, Jeffrey (Free) #13797671
CRCI, 9111 NE Sunderland Ave, Portland, OR 97211-1708
Birthday: December 5

Magee, Ruchell Cinque # A92051
C-2 107L CSATF/State Prison at Corcoran
P.O Box 5242, Corcoran, CA 93212

Majid, Abdul (Anthony Laborde) #83-A-0483
Elmira Correctional Facility
PO Box 500, 1879 Davis St, Elmira, New York 14902-0500
Birthday: June 25, 1949

Manning, Thomas #10373-016
USP Hazelton, P.O. Box 2000, Bruceton Mills, WV 26525
Birthday: June 28, 1946

McDavid, Eric 16209-097
FCI Victorville Medium II, PO Box 5300, Adelanto, CA 92301
Birthday: October 7

McGowan, Daniel #63794-053
USP Marion, P.O. Box 1000, Marion, IL 62959
Birthday: May 2, 1974

Medina, Luís #58734-004
(envelope is addressed to Luis Medina, letter to Ramón Labañino)
FDC Miami, P.O. Box 019120, Miami, FL 33101
Birthday: June 9, 1963

Muntaqim, Jalil (Anthony Bottom) #77A4283
Auburn CF, P.O. Box 618, Auburn, NY 13021
Birthday: October 18, 1951

Odinga, Sekou 09A3775
Shawangunk Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 700, Wallkill, NY 12589
Birthday: June 17, 1944

Paul, Jonathan #07167-085
FCI Phoenix, 37910 N 45th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85086

Peltier, Leonard #89637-132
USP Lewisburg, PO Box 1000, Lewisburg, PA 17837
Birthday: September 12, 1944

Pinell, Hugo "Dahariki" # A88401
SHU D3-221, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95531-7500
Birthday: March 10, 1945

Poindexter, Ed # 27767
Nebraska State Penitentiary, P.O. Box 2500, Lincoln, NE 68542
Birthday: November 1, 1944

Powell, Reverend Joy #07G0632
Bedford Hills CF, P.O. Box 1000, Bedford Hills, NY 10507-2499

Rodríguez, Luis V. # C33000
Mule Creek State Prison, P.O. Box 409000, Ione, CA 95640

Shabazz Bey, Hanif (Beaumont Gereau) #295933
Keen Mountain CC, P.O. Box 860, Oakwood, VA 24631
Birthday: August 16, 1950

Shakur, Mutulu #83205-012
USP Florence ADMAX, PO Box 8500, Florence, CO 81226
Birthday: August 8, 1950

Shoats, Russell Maroon #AF-3855
SCI Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Birthday: August 23, 1943

Taylor, Harold #1005420
Out on bail, but can be reached at: Ctte for the Defense of Human Rights,
P.O. Box 90221, Pasadena, CA 91109, (415) 226-1120

Torres, Carlos Alberto #88976-024
FCI Pekin, P.O. Box 5000, Pekin, IL 61555
Birthday: September 19, 1952

Torres, Francisco 2307534
Out on bail, but can be reached at:
Committee for the Defense of Human Rights
P.O. Box 90221, Pasadena, CA 91109, (415) 226-1120

Tyler, Gary # 84156
Louisiana State Penitentiary, ASH-4, Angola LA 70712

Wallace, Herman #76759
Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, 6925 Highway 74, St. Gabriel, LA 70776
Birthday: October 13, 1941

Waters, Briana 36432-086, FCI Danbury, Route 37, Danbury, CT 06811

Watson, Gary #098990
Unit SHU17, Delaware Correctional Center,
1181 Paddock Road, Smyrna, DE 19977

Woodfox, Albert #72148
Camp D, Eagle 1, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola LA 70712
Birthday: February 19, 1947

Zacher, Joyanna #36360-086
FCI Dublin, 5701 8th St, Camp Parks, Unit F, Dublin, CA 94568 ]]> Moorbey http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40324-introducing-black-unity-s-political-prisoners-pen-pal-movement.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40279-call-pa-parole-board-move-9-tomorrow.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:37:35 GMT Posted by: "icffmaj@aol.com" icffmaj@aol.com
Tue Nov 3, 2009 5:44 am (PST)



Parole Board/ DC for Mumia/ Weekly ICFFMAJ Meetings in Philly
The campaign for the release of the MOVE 9s is still in full force! Each Wednesday call the PA Parole board at (717) 787-5699 to state your DEMAND for their parole and release! This campaign is longterm and our consistency speaks VOLUMES!

Also, write your letters to the parole board in conjunction with this action. We still have not received a decision on Chuck, and everyone else is eligible for parole again next year (except Eddie who got a two year hit, meaning he's eligible in 2011). We need to keep the pressure ON!

Pennsylvania Board of Parole and Probation
Office of Board Secretary
1100 Front Street, Suite #1500
Harrisburg, PA 17104

Also, there are important upcoming actions for Mumia Abu Jamal. Read on!

URGENT! WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW!

SAVE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12TH FOR THE DELIVERY OF THE LETTERS, CALLING FOR A CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL'S CASE, TO ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER !!!

MARCH IN WASHINGTON DC

11 AM PRESS CONFERENCE (location TBA)
& MARCH TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
1 PM DELIVERY OF LETTERS TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

AT THIS CRITICAL MOMENT IN MUMIA'S CASE, A CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION COULD MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH FOR HIM. IT COULD ALSO OPEN THE DOOR FOR MUMIA'S ULTIMATE RELEASE.

There is right now a very dangerous converging of forces committed to the execution of Mumia. Lynne Abraham, the current District Attorney in Philadelphia, is calling loudly for the Supreme Court to reinstate Mumia's death sentence so that Governor Ed Rendell can do what he has repeatedly promised to do: sign the death warrant. The US Supreme Court is currently reviewing a death penalty case that could have serious implications for Mumia. A ruling on Mumia's case could come anytime.

To cover up the obscenity of their trying to murder an innocent Black man, a great thinker and revolutionary, they now have a Black man, Seth Williams, leading the race for those running to replace DA Abraham. Williams, who is expected to be the next DA of Philadelphia, has stated that he believes Mumia is guilty and should be executed. He is being actively supported by the Fraternal Order of Police.

Finally, on December 9th, the 28th anniversary of the original incident that led to Mumia's incarceration and death sentence, a new film, a hit-piece, called "The Barrel of a Gun" also produced by a Black man, will premiere both in the US and Germany.

PLEASE JOIN US. YOU CAN DO ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. Organizations: co-sponsor the November 12th event at the Justice Department, and please, send us whatever financial contributions you can. We are asking for at least $50 from each organization. Checks should be made out to the FMAJC/IFCO and sent to FMAJC, PO Box 16, College Station, New York, NY 10030, or you can make a contribution on www.freemumia. com

2. Organizations and individuals: help us get the word out. Mobilize. Raise and contribute money. Forward this letter to your lists. Fliers are ready.

Free Mumia and All Political Prisoners! Abolish the Death Penalty! Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex!

Ona Move!
Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Suzanne Ross, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition

Call 212-330-8029, 215-476-8812 OR www.freemumia. com

This and every Monday night: ICFFMAJ Organizing Meeting at the A-Space at 7 pm. The A-Space is located at 4722 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia. Plenty of parking for bikes & cars, located on the south side of Baltimore ave, between 47th & 48th on septa #34 green line surface trolley. ]]> Moorbey http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40279-call-pa-parole-board-move-9-tomorrow.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40138-bop-increases-heat-puerto-rican-political-prisoner-carlos-alberto-torres.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:32:00 GMT BOP increases the heat on Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres The Federal Bureau of Prisons has upped the ante in its efforts to derail the Parole Commission from adopting the hearing examiner’s recommendation that Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto... BOP increases the heat on Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has upped the ante in its efforts to derail the Parole Commission from adopting the hearing examiner’s recommendation that Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres be released in April of 2010.

This month, BOP officials notified Carlos Alberto that he has been assigned a “Security Threat Group” [STG] status of “Domestic Terrorist Associate”* not insignificant timing, given his 29 years of conduct as a model prisoner. But the timing is not at all odd, for the BOP’s purposes of derailing his parole.

For the BOP’s efforts, timing has been everything. First, on the eve of his January parole hearing, the BOP leveled false disciplinary charges. The hearing was postponed; the charges were expunged. At the rescheduled May parole hearing came the recommendation of release in April of 2010. Within days, the BOP renewed the same false disciplinary charges. The Parole Commission then issued an order postponing for 90 days its decision whether to adopt the recommendation for release in April of 2010. Before the 90 day period expired, and while awaiting the adjudication of the false disciplinary charges, the BOP surfaced the STG status.

In addition to trying to impact the parole decision, the BOP’s efforts are also calculated to destabilize Carlos Alberto. As a result of the false disciplinary charges, the BOP held him completely incommunicado for 60 days, cutting off all telephone calls and visits. Though he was supposed to be able to communicate by way of mail, officials significantly delayed his outgoing and incoming Spanish language mail, due to a new translation policy, applicable solely to him. Their vigorous application of the new policy penetrated even his confidential legal mail, as officials confiscated privileged legal materials in the Spanish language. Thus, added to the uncertainty as to his future is the insecurity as to his ability to communicate, even with his attorney.

Protest letters to the warden and the director of the BOP are available at:
National Boricua Human Rights Network Lead Story Political Prisoners Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres: parole bid foiled by Bureau of Prisons.


Jan Susler
October 23, 2009
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Chronology of Federal Bureau of Prisons Intervention in
Puerto Rican Political Prisoner
Carlos Alberto Torres’ Bid for Parole

Carlos Alberto Torres has served 29 years in prison for his commitment to the independence of his country, Puerto Rico, serving a 70 year sentence. His release date is currently set for December of 2024. His conduct in prison has been above reproach. In 1994, he appeared before the U.S. Parole Commission, seeking release on parole. The commission denied parole and set him for another hearing in 15 years. That hearing was scheduled for January 22, 2009. The following events demonstrate the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ attempts to intervene in and derail his efforts to win parole:


November 2008
There is a disturbance in the prison population at FCI Pekin. Prison officials mismanage the incident. Officials then lock down the entire population for a month.

December 2, 2008
As a result of the disturbance, FCI Pekin officials transfer all the prisoners from the housing unit where Carlos had been assigned to a two man cell, and place him in Illinois 1 unit, cell A09, a ten man cell where the other occupants had been living for many months.

December 2008
Carlos makes more than one request for a cell change to a two man cell, but his requests are rebuffed.

January 14, 2009
Prison staff serve Carlos with an Incident Report: “On January 14, 2009 at 3:00 p.m., while conducting a shake down of A09 in Illinois 1 unit, I found three shanks concealed in a light fixture in the bathroom area of the cell. This area is considered common area, and inmate Carlos Torres #88976-024 is assigned to this cell.”

January 16, 2009
At his Unit Disciplinary Committee [UDC] hearing, Counselor Gebur tells Carlos that another inmate had assumed responsibility for the weapons.

Maurice Wilkins, one of the occupants of the cell, told the UDC that the weapons were his, and that neither Carlos nor the other cell occupants had any responsibility for them.

Lieutenant Haynes, who investigated the Incident Report, tells Carlos that he had no information pointing to his guilt, and no information indicating that Carlos had any knowledge of or involvement with the weapons; and further, that he had information implicating Maurice Wilkins as the guilty party.
January 22, 2009
The disciplinary hearing officer finds Carlos guilty, stating, “Although inmate Torres indicated he had no knowledge of the weapons, they were found in a common area of the cell. His contention the owner of the weapons was to come forward and claim them, does not diminish his responsibility for them, as no one inmate in the cell was given sole responsibility for possession of the weapons. Therefore, since the weapons were found in a common area of the cell, they are considered to be in his possession.”

Stating that, “Although not directly related to the infraction, privileges were taken to deter the inmate from this behavior in the future,” disciplinary hearing officer imposes punishment: 60 days forfeited commissary; 60 days forfeited visiting; 60 days forfeited use of telephone; 30 days disciplinary segregation, suspended if there is clear conduct for 180 days; and 41 days forfeited statutory good time.

The finding of guilt is a departure from the norm. Routinely, when one cell occupant accepts responsibility, the other cell occupants are found not guilty.

January 31, 2009
Maurice Wilkins, one of the occupants of the cell, makes a sworn statement accepting sole responsibility for the concealed weapons, stating, inter alia:
* “no one living in cell A09 other than me had any knowledge of the shanks found. The shanks were mine, and mine alone. I am the one who made the shanks and hid them in the light fixture undeknown [sic] to any other person who lived in the cell.”
* “the shanks were mine and mine alone, and no one other than me had knowledge of them.”

February 2009
The National Boricua Human Rights Network, the Comité Pro Derechos Humanos de Puerto Rico, and other groups and individuals commence an ongoing letter writing campaign to support Carlos’ bid for parole and denounce the Bureau of Prisons’ efforts, sending hundreds of letters to the warden and the director of the BOP.

April 30, 2009
BOP regional director, in response to Carlos’ administrative appeal of the guilty finding, admits a “procedural error,” and returns the incident report to the prison “for reconsideration.”

May, 2009
FCI Pekin staff inform Carlos the Incident Report has been expunged.

May 26, 2009
Parole hearing at FCI Pekin via videoconference with hearing examiner for U.S. Parole Commission; hearing examiner recommends release on April 3, 2010.

June 10, 2009
FCI Pekin Warden Smith approved the unit team’s request to process the re-written Incident Report.

June 2009
At the second UDC hearing, Carlos restates his innocence and provides the committee with Maurice Wilkins’ sworn statement accepting sole responsibility and absolving Carlos.

July 2009
At the second DHO hearing, Carlos restates his innocence and provides the committee with Maurice Wilkins’ sworn statement accepting sole responsibility and absolving Carlos. Additionally, Maurice Wilkins testifies in person and tells the DHO that he was solely responsible and that Carlos had nothing to do with, and did not know about, the weapons. Regardless, the DHO finds Carlos guilty once again.

During the hearing, Carlos asks the DHO what information he needs to affirm Wilkins’ statement and prove his innocence. The DHO tells him “a UDC investigation.”

Carlos’ efforts to obtain such an investigation have been for naught, with officials telling him there is no such thing.

July 27, 2009
U.S. Parole Commission issues Notice of Action, stating: “Defer decision for up to 90 days to determine the outcome of the pending disciplinary report for Possession of a Weapon. Upon disposition by the DHO, a copy of the misconduct report and DHO findings should be submitted to the Commission for review.”

September 2, 2009
The bilingual prison intelligence officer--- who has been translating Carlos’ Spanish language mail for more than a year, and who continues to translate other prisoners’ Spanish language mail* informs Carlos that he will be subject to a new procedure for screening his Spanish language mail* that henceforth his mail must be sent to a translator outside the prison, which will delay for a month the delivery of his incoming and outgoing mail. The officer also tells Carlos that the order comes from higher up, and that “they” are watching Carlos’ every move. The officer provides Carlos with nothing in writing.

The initial response to Carlos’ grievance indicates only that “the change in mail handling procedures is to ensure the safety and security of the institution.”

October 9, 2009
The warden’s response to Carlos’ further grievance about his mail informs Carlos, for the first time, that “you are on enhanced mail monitoring status due to your STG assignment of Domestic Terrorist Associate. This STG assignment requires translations to be completed by a certified linguist. Currently, there are no staff members at FCI Pekin that are a certified linguist for Spanish.”1

No one provided Carlos with any documentation of such status, or with the criteria for placement on or removal from such status.

October 10, 2009
Prison staff violate Carlos’ confidential attorney-client mail, confiscating legal materials written in the Spanish language, telling him they must copy and translate the privileged materials.

October 25, 2009
The Parole Commission’s 90 day deferral expires.

October 23, 2009
Jan Susler
Attorney for Carlos Alberto Torres
People’s Law Office
1180 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60642
773/235-0070 x 118
jsusler@aol.com


1It is believed that STG stands for Security Threat Group, but the BOP has not provided Carlos with any definition.




Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

415 863-9977

Freedom Archives Home ]]> Moorbey http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40138-bop-increases-heat-puerto-rican-political-prisoner-carlos-alberto-torres.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40040-keep-up-momentum-call-pa-parole-board-move-9-a.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:46:09 GMT The campaign for the release of the MOVE 9s is still in full force! Each Wednesday call the PA Parole board at (717) 787-5699 to state your DEMAND for their parole and release! Also, write your letters to the parole board in conjunction with this action. We still have not received a decision on... The campaign for the release of the MOVE 9s is still in full force! Each Wednesday call the PA Parole board at (717) 787-5699 to state your DEMAND for their parole and release!

Also, write your letters to the parole board in conjunction with this action. We still have not received a decision on Chuck, and everyone else is eligible for parole again next year (except Eddie who got a two year hit, meaning he's eligible in 2011). We need to keep the pressure ON!

Pennsylvania Board of Parole and Probation
Office of Board Secretary
1100 Front Street, Suite #1500
Harrisburg, PA 17104 ]]> Moorbey http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/40040-keep-up-momentum-call-pa-parole-board-move-9-a.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/39872-watch-video-fridays-rally-support-francisco-torres.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:24:37 GMT Video of the rally for Francisco Torres is up at Free the SF8: Drop the Charges! : Indybay (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/12/18625220.php) Inline Attachment Follows: 4057722289.txt _______________________________________________ Please support these brothers by sending a donation.... Video of the rally for Francisco Torres is up at
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Free the SF8 - Committee for the Defense of Human Rights ]]> Moorbey http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/39872-watch-video-fridays-rally-support-francisco-torres.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/39846-statements-u-s-political-prisoners-support-palestine.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:12:25 GMT On the Occasion of A Commemoration of Black September And Palestinian Political Prisoners, Boston, September 17, 2006. Rafael Cancel Miranda Puerto Rican nationalist and former political prisoner for 28 years, who, along with Andrés Figueroa Cordero, Irvin Flores and Lolita Lebrón, protested... On the Occasion of A Commemoration of Black September And Palestinian Political Prisoners, Boston, September 17, 2006.

Rafael Cancel Miranda

Puerto Rican nationalist and former political prisoner for 28 years, who, along with Andrés Figueroa Cordero, Irvin Flores and Lolita Lebrón, protested the criminal nature of the U.S. colonial domination of Puerto Rico by opening fire on the U.S. Congress in 1954. He was sentenced to eighty-four years for “an attempt to overthrow the government by force and violence.” As a result of pressure from the Puerto Rican Independence movement and the international community, he was released without conditions in September of 1979.

Translation of Solidarity Message from Rafael Cancel Miranda:

The Palestinian and Puerto Rican people have a lot in common. We are two nations under attack, who face the same aggressor, though he may be called by different names.

Having spent 28 years of my life in the Anglo prisons of the United States, I can easily understand the plight of the men, women and Children of Palestine who find themselves in Israeli prisons. As we all know, Israel is an Anglo spawn. It has often been said that societies are judged by the way they treat their prisoners. If that's the case, then we can conclude that the Anglo/U.S. and Israeli societies are extremely sadistic and demonic, given the crimes and tortures they've perpetrated against their prisoners. All the horror stories in the world are insufficient to convey the lack of humanity exhibited by these two aggressors, which are one and the same.

I admire the Palestinian people, because I know how much love and courage it takes to struggle with their determination. My people, the people of Puerto Rico are engaged in a similar struggle. I can say without fear of self deception that we will win; not only because truth and reason are on our side, but because we are ready to do whatever is necessary to secure the rights of our peoples.

Receive my strong embrace and solidarity with our brothers and sisters imprisoned in Palestine.

Palante

Rafael Cancel Miranda

San Juan Puerto Rico,

September 12, 2006


Russell “Maroon” Shoats



Russell “Maroon” Shoats

AF-3855

SCI Greene

175 Progress Drive

Waynesburg, PA 15370-8090



“My name is Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoats and I am a New Afrikan Political Prisoner of War, who at this moment is serving a prison sentence at the Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, state institution. … In response to the heightened repression of the New Afrikan liberation movement in general, and the unjustified killing of New Afrikan youth by the repressive police in the [Philadelphia] community, from August 1970 until January 1972, the date of my capture and arrest, I was active on the armed front of the New Afrikan Liberation Army.” –from “I am Maroon!”

To My Palestinian Comrades

From Russell “Maroon” Shoats, a New Afrikan/Black Political Prisoner, to the Palestinian Political Prisoners.

Having joined the ongoing struggle for self-determination for Afrikans born in the United States in 1967, i was then and still am now inspired by the valiant people of Palestine.

Since then i’ve clearly come to learn that both of our struggles are connected by our people’s equal desires to be free.

So when you suffer, we suffer; when you make progress, we make progress; and when you win your freedom, we will also celebrate! Because in our hearts we too are Palestinians!

Ever forward to victory!

“Straight Ahead,”

Maroon

September 7, 2006



Marilyn Buck



Marilyn Buck

#00482-285

5701 8th St. Camp Parks B

Federal Correctional Institution

Dublin, CA 94568



Anti-imperialist political prisoner who aligned herself with the Black Liberation Movement. In 1973 she was convicted of purchasing ammunition and was given a ten year sentence. She escaped after 4 years, and was underground until she was recaptured in1985 and tried for conspiracy in the successful escape of Assata Shakur. She was further convicted of conspiracy to commit "armed bank robbery" in support of the New Afrikan Independence struggle. In 1988 she was given another ten years for "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies (the invasion of Grenada, intervention in Central America) through use of violence" against government and military property.”

Greetings to all who stand for a fee, just, liberated Palestine. I was still an infant when Palestine was dismembered, hacked into pieces and driven off its land. It was 18 or 19 years thereafter before I heard that Palestine was alive, that there had not been the burial the imperialist and Zionist powers had hoped. Life coursed then as now through diaspora veins connecting the hearts of Palestinian people worldwide.

The will and resistance of the Palestinian people taught and inspired me along with other anti-imperialists and internationalists. I greet you and honor you who defend the Palestinian nation and its people. If only I could be present to embrace you, to stand beside you for your homeland.

Those who struggle for a lifetime are the bearers of the future!

Your sister in solidarity.

Marilyn Buck, U.S. anti-imperialist political prisoner



Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3



Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3

#72148

CCR UB #3

Louisiana State Penitentiary

Angola, LA 70712

Black Panther Party political prisoner who, along with Herman Wallace, organized the Black Panther Party at Angola prison, known as the most brutal prison in the US. Their political activism made them targets of the all-white prison administration which concocted murder charges against Woodfox and Wallace and placed them on permanent lockdown with sentences of life without parole. Later in 1972, Robert King Wilkerson arrived at Angola, also a member of the Black Panther Party and was subsequently charged and convicted for a murder he did not commit.

To my Palestinian brothers and sisters. Herman Wallace and myself greet you from the belly of the beast! (Prison.)

We would so much rather be there in person, to honor your courage and determination against the zionist state of Israel!

For the last 35 years, we have watched the Palestinian people resist the genocide of Israel against the Palestinians while the western world and media tries to make the world see you as a people unfeeling, without love of family, or people of the world.

Your fight for the destiny and control of the Palestinian people’s future is both inspiring and courageous! The world must not rest until the Palestinian people has their own state, with sovereign rights and East Jerusalem as its capital! I salute your courage, I salute your sacrifice, I salute your determination, I salute your victory!



Sincerely,

Albert Woodfox

Angola #3!



September 7, 2006

Debbie Sims Africa of the MOVE 9



Debbie Sims Africa, MOVE 9

#506307

451 Fullerton Avenue

Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238



The MOVE 9 are members of the revolutionary MOVE organization imprisoned since 1978 after a police assault on their headquarters in Powelton Village, Philadelphia. In 1985 the government dropped a bomb on the MOVE house on Osage Avenue in Philadelphia, killing 11 people, including 5 children.

Salute and solidarity to all our strong, loyal committed revolutionary sisters and brothers in Palestine.

The committed example that you continue to set in your country is being felt by all of us here in the USA too. The Move Organization is generating a united, revolutionary vibration to you and all political prisoners around the world through our unending fight for freedom and justice. We are linked together as one to confront and expose the demon intimidation tactics the oppressor uses to beat down and kill off the fighting spirit in all freedom fighters. We must keep fighting back, no matter what or how things may seem. We are obligated to show others the urgent need for change and guide them in the direction of revolution. We must never let ourselves be divided despite any so-call differences, because finally, we have the most important thing in common our fight against the enemy, the oppressor, the enslaver, this system, and any difference among us is secondary to that. What this system fears most is unity because they know unity is power. Power of the people is the key to bring this system to its knees.

We have committed our lives to revolution. Our men, women, children, our infants have lost their lives, they were murdered by this system. We know all of you have lost family, loved ones, and comrades too. The MOVE 9have been unjustly imprisoned for almost 30 years, we are innocent. But despite our innocence, we’ve been beat jailed and had family members murdered, not because we are guilty of any crime but because we stand up against this rotten, corrupt government and fight for what is right and because we expose these government officials, judges, and police for the diabolical monsters they are. We know all of you have suffered injustices there, the stories we’ve heard affect us personally and pushes us to fight harder, cause while we are located in different parts of the globe we understand and can relate to what you are going through. Stay strong my brothers and sisters and know that we will not let the lives of our family, your family, any freedom fighter be in vain. We will never stop fighting this system. The seed for this revolution is planted, and though we may not cross paths in our life time, our roots will be planted in the same soil. LONG LIVE ALL FREEDOM FIGHTERS LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!

To quote John Africa

“Solidarity is unity, without unity you can’t have revolution…Revolution is organization just as solidarity is togetherness … The word people should be a symbol of identity which should unite people and dispel war but to call everybody a person and go to war against people is to say that people are compelled to conflict making peace hopeless and everything people are striving to make, to have, to be … If we expect to accomplish the defeat of oppression, we are going to have to understand the power of assertion, a single mind is an assertive mind, when we think as one we are as no other, when we think as one another we’re defeated because one is one and another is something other than one.”

LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA FOREVER



Ona Move, MOVE [Sent by Debbie Sims Africa, Sept. 2006]

Bill Dunne



Bill Dunne

#10916-086

U.S.P. Big Sandy

PO Box 2068

Inez, KY 41224:



“My name is Bill Dunne. I fell in 1979 as a result of an effort to effect the armed liberation of a comrade from jail. My politics fall in the anarcho-communist realm: radical socialism somewhere between rigid and hierarchical vanguard parties and disorganized and scattered non-parties. They aim at an egalitarian and democratic social organization in which all people will have the greatest possible freedom to develop their full human potential.”

To Boston Jericho’s Black September Memorial

Salutations and solidarity to the participants in this commemoration of Black September, a landmark event in the history of popular resistance to exploitation and oppression!

The brutal suppression of the Palestinian people’s aspirations to self-determination by the Jordanian monarchy in September of 1970 is only incidentally an illustration of the inhumanity of the ruling class. History has shown us ad nauseam there is no limit to the murder and mayhem agencies of repression will inflict on the people in furtherance of their masters’ interests. Nor is the event more than incidentally a defeat. People were killed and injured and forced to leave their homes and communities and cast into poverty, and the objective of Palestinian liberation was not attained. The courage of the Palestinian people, however, was indelibly written in blood and their will was not broken.

The point, then, of remembering Black September is not to mourn the losses and condemn the oppression, though doing so goes without saying. It is to celebrate the spirit of the Palestinian people who would rise up for freedom nothwithstanding their long odds against armor and artillery and aircraft, who rise up in resistance to the depredations of king and capital, who rise up in continuing struggle against imperialist thuggery from one generation to another and yet another. Memory must not dwell on the price of pursuing life, liberty, and happiness. Instead, it must focus on affirmation of the indomitable consciousness that impels people to that pursuit and to accept nothing less. So acknowledge the tragedy of Black September, but commend and support the Palestinian commitment to justice and protracted struggle it represented. And let us hope it is contagious!

Moreover, we must extend that recognition and support to the Palestinian people’s current resistance to Israeli aggression. Their cause is our cause, ‘cause what is visited on them will eventually be visited on others of the oppressed class as soon as the oppressor class wants something they have. If we, through our silence, allow the visitation to be legitimized on Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanon and the West Bank and the people with and among whom they’ve made their homes, we will hasten the time when those tactics are used against us.

The Palestine plight is not some far-away issue affecting only some “foreign” group. Contemplating my first thunderstorm in years as it raged across the patch of sky visible from the federal transit camp’s hole 7500 miles west of occupied Palestine, I could not escape images of the human-made thunder and lightening raining down on the people of South Lebanon and the much bloodier consequences thereof. Just because they were only images and not reality to me did nothing to ameliorate the atrocity—induced anger and sadness—or the uncomfortable knowledge I was and remain in the hands of the same government of little Eichmanns that enables and supports the slaughter of Palestinians and Lebanese by the Israeli military whose signs and sounds disturbed me in that remote dark concrete corner. That discomfort is only the thin edge of the wedge.

And I must also recognize you, who took time from your lives and your own struggles with the vagaries of life under late capitalism to recognize and support Palestinian resistance to oppression. Such is the way to realizing our human commonality, our rights as humans and the deprivation thereof. Such is the path to building true international solidarity against exploitation and oppression. Such is the road to revolution.

The future holds promise!



Bill Dunne

USP Big Sandy

7 September 2006

Byron Shane Chubbuck



Byron Shane Chubbuck # 07909-051
USP Beaumont
P.O. Box 26030
Beaumont, TX 77720



Byron Shane Chubbuck is a Cherokee/Choctaw political prisoner, captured in 1999 for robbing banks to support the Zapatista Rebels of Chiapas. He is serving an 80 year sentence in federal prison.



Greeting Brothers and Sisters of Earth

we are all connected we

are all related!

I love the Palestinian

people because they have the guts

and heart to stand up

against the greatest source of lies

on earth.

“The Zionist”

Tribesmen of Cain.

Those “brood of vipers” who

Seek to destroy sovereignty

on a global level. And fully

intend on destroying the will

of all arab peoples who refuse

to obey the World Banks, Central

Banking madness.



Stay Strong



warriors!

Fight tooth and

nail like

American Indian

Movements always have.

Stop at nothing

Time is very

limited now.



Love and respect

Oso Blanco de Aztlan.

[Byron Shane Chubbuck]



Jaan Laaman





Jaan Laaman (W87237)

Box 100

South Walpole, MA

02071



Anti-imperialist political prisoner, captured in 1984, in Cleveland, Ohio, with several comrades who came to be known as the “Ohio 7.” They were accused of being members of the United Freedom Front (UFF), a group that took responsibility for targeting the offices of the South African apartheid regime, U.S. military bases, and corporations profiting from war and apartheid.

Statement from political prisoner Jaan Laaman to the Boston 9/17/06 "Benefit for Palestinian Political Prisoners"

Freedom for Palestine

Solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners

I salute this Benefit and all of you in attendance this Sunday night, in support of the thousands of Palestinian Political Prisoners, with real enthusiasm.

The Palestinian People's heroic struggle for the right to exist, to end Israeli occupation, and to have their own independent nation has been going on for such a long time. As a young man in the 1960s, it was the liberation struggles of people in Vietnam, South Africa, Ireland and Palestine that inspired and informed me and many others then. Here we are in the 21st century, with all the multilayered changes and advances the world has seen, and still the Palestinian people live as occupied and oppressed people.

The over 10,000 Palestinian Political Prisoners, which includes dozens of young teenagers, at least 100s of women, as well as thousands of men, suffer the most of all Palestinians. The Zionist Israeli security forces have long been notorious for mistreatment and even torture against Palestinians.

The majority of Palestinian people today have only known of life under Israeli military occupation, and often living in refugee camps. For the past 4 decades, year in - year out, there have always been thousands upon thousands of Palestinians languishing in Israeli prisons. Presently there are over 10,000 in captivity. Israeli prisons are hard, but the spirit and strength of the Palestinian Political Prisoners, their desire to free their nation of foreign occupation, with all the injustice, humiliation, and terror that the Israeli Zionist state inflicts on all of Palestine, remains firm and brilliant.

Political prisoners in America have long supported and stood in solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners and we continue to do so today. We know that you will create an independent Nation of Palestine. We salute you. We hope for your survival and we encourage people here in America to support you and the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

Free All Political Prisoners in Palestine!

Free All Political Prisoners in America!

Jaan Laaman
anti-imperialist political prisoner
Walpole state prison
Sept., 2006

David Gilbert



David Gilbert

#83A6158

Clinton Correctional Facility

P.O. Box 2001

Dannemora, New York 12929



"In response to the murderous government assault on the Black Liberation Movement and the unending, massive bombing of Vietnam, the Weather Underground formed in the early 1970's. I spent 10 years in underground resistance. On October 20, 1981, I was captured when a unit of the Black Liberation Army and allied white revolutionaries attempted to take funds from a Brinks truck, with the unfortunate result of a shoot-out in which a guard and two policemen were killed.” David Gilbert from “Can’t Jail the Spirit,” 4th edition, March 1998

Israel’s apartheid-like occupation of Palestine is a most blatant and brutal violation of human rights. That reality combined with the courageous resistance there make the struggle a front-line in the world today. I urge everyone who is committed to humanity and to freedom to make support for Palestinian self-determination, including full and fair provisions for the needs and rights of all Palestinians in the diaspora, a top priority.



David Gilbert, 9/7/06

(Anti-imperialist political prisoner in the U.S.)



Jalil Muntaqim



Jalil Muntaqim

#77A4283

Auburn Correctional Facility

Po Box 618

135 State Street

Auburn, NY 13024

Black Liberation Army political prisoner who was captured along with Albert Nuh Washington in a midnight shoot-out with San Francisco police. (It has been alleged that Jalil and Nuh attempted to assassinate a S.F. police sergeant in retaliation for the August 21, 1971 assassination of George Jackson.) Subsequently, Jalil was charged with a host of revolutionary underground activities, including the assassination of NYC police officers for which he is currently serving a life sentence. He is one of the ten longest held Black political prisoners in the world and a founder of the Jericho Movement.

To: Jericho Boston—Solidarity with Palestine Independence Movement

Fr: Jalil A. Muntaqim (a. Jalil Bottom)

Re: Solidarity Means Struggle

Dt: September 17, 2006



Bismillah Ir Rahman Nir Raheem:



As Salaam Alaikum

Revolutionary Greetings Friends and Supporters:

It is my prayer this message finds all of you in the very best of health and continued high fighting spirits. Today, the Jericho Movement Boston Chapter joins with other progressive people and groups to acknowledge and honor the Palestinian Independence Movement in all of its various forms of struggle. For Jericho to join in sponsoring this event is to essentially extend the solidarity and support of all U.S. political prisoners, many of whom have been in prison over 3 decades. This solidarity speaks to an understanding of our fighting a common enemy, extending this understanding there continues to be a need to struggle in our mutual self-interest and political determination.

When different peoples, different oppressed peoples are fighting against the same enemy, then we need to recognize that solidarity means struggle. I can not truly be in solidarity with the Palestinian Independence Movement without being willing to engage and confront your enemy who is also my enemy. Our struggle is not divorced from yours, but rather our front line struggle is your rear front struggle, while your front line struggle is our rear front struggle. Hence, anti-imperialist and anti-zionist initiatives in the U.S. serve to free us from white supremacy and national oppression. Our fight against white supremacy and national oppression serves to free you of U.S. imperialism and proxy wars in support of zionism.

When we in North America fail to act, fail to confront and engage our common enemy we have betrayed you and our words of solidarity become empty and hollow. Therefore, it is the duty of political activist and progressive folks in this country to build a mass and popular movement that specifically challenges white supremacy and national oppression here. The struggle in the U.S. needs to grow and evolve in a consistent level of resistance that corresponds to—if not exceeds—the degree of oppression and reaction by U.S. imperialism. Unfortunately, that is not happening here, and because of this failing, more Palestinians are dying who could have possibly been saved. Harsh truths, but truths none the less, and it is far time that progressive forces in the U.S. come to terms with this reality.

In this regard, and in terms of Jericho Amnesty Movement, I have recently proposed that for the 10th Year Anniversary of Jericho ’08, that Jericho organize a national conference, march and demonstration to be held in New York City. The theme of the national determination would be “When the U.S. Won’t—The World Will Recognize the Existence of U.S. Political Prisoners”. Ultimately, such a national determination will serve to demonstrate before the United Nations and the world the U.S. has political prisoners, and these political prisoners represent a legacy of struggle opposing U.S. imperialism, opposing white supremacy and opposing national oppression. By building and raising the issue of U.S. political prisoners onto the national debate and in the international community, we will be undermining and exposing U.S. imperialism and zionism, providing pragmatic support to those engaging U.S. imperialism around the world. Solidarity means struggle, and our struggle is united with those fighting our common enemy. But it will only be when we take responsibility, unite and fight for our own political prisoners, can we truly say we are in solidarity with any other peoples’ fighting our common enemy. We are on the front lines, and our captured and confined are front line activists which Jericho has sought to represent in a national determination.

Therefore, I ask all those attending this event to join with Jericho in support of this proposal for the 10th Year Anniversary of Jericho, to tell the world we join them in solidarity by continuing the fight here, asking them to condemn U.S. imperialism for its inhumane treatment of U.S. political prisoners.

When we strengthen our resolve and capacity to confront U.S. imperialism here, we will in essence be unified with the Palestinian peoples in their war against U.S. imperialism and zionism in Palestine. Let our solidarity be more than words or financial gratuity, when failing to provide same support for our own U.S. political prisoners. Rather, when we fight to free and liberate our own, we will weaken our common enemy ensuring our comrades overseas are better able to be victorious in their many and varied battles. That would truly be solidarity in the meaning of struggle.



Mas Salaam—

Remember—We Are Our Own Liberators!



Jalil A. Muntaqim

Hanif Shabazz Bey

Hanif Shabazz Bey

S/N Gereau #295933

Wallensridge State Prison

P.O. Box 759

Big Stone Gap, Va. 24219



September 13, 2006



I am a Virgin Islands freedom fighter who was involved in the movement for independence from U.S. hegemony during the early seventies.

I was ultimately convicted with four comrades in 1973 for the armed attack on the Nelson Rockefeller owned golf course in St. Croix, V.I. on September 6, 1972.

I was sentenced to eight consecutive life terms plus 99 years for the alleged killing of eight American tourists, and I have been exiled in U.S. prisons since 1973.

The recent Zionist aggression in which the world witnessed Israeli war planes drop cluster bombs on helpless Lebanese children was precipitated by the U.S. government’s greed for oil, as the attack was actually staged so the U.S. and Zionist Israel can secure control over the Eastern Mediterranean coastline for the shipping of millions of barrels of oil, now coming out of the recently inaugurated “BTC” pipeline.

The Balfour Declaration in 1918 was invoked to quench the imperialist thirst for land and oil, as was the European incursion in 1948.

The erecting of the Apartheid Wall in occupied Palestine, in an effort to stifle the economical livelihood of the Palestinian people is not seen as an emblem of power, but rather as a harbinger of weakness. It also shows the Zionist fear and lack of confidence, and serves as a reminder of the strength and resolve of the spirit within the Palestinian populace.

All the freedom loving people of the world are inspired by the Palestinian Resistance to imperialist aggression for the past 100 years. In time the world Intifada will escalate and drive imperialism from the face of the earth.

We stand with you and we support your efforts.

In solidarity,

Hanif Shabazz Bey

Herman Bell

Herman Bell

DIN 7960262

Sullivan Correctional Facility

P.O. Box 116

Fallsburg, New York 12733-0116

“In Support of Palestinian Political Prisoners”

by Herman Bell

To the Palestinian people, their political prisoners and detainees held in israeli jails. To our brothers and sisters in struggle, we u.s. political prisoners and prisoners of war extend greetings and solidarity and commend you for your stout-hearted resistance to zionist occupation of your land. Your dogged resolve to expel them is admired and respected more than ever. We recognize your plight and honor your historic resistance to this occupation and aggression.

Across the border from you—in Lebanon, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in mother Afrika, and in the belly of the beast itself, the same war against u.s. imperialist designs and its quest for global domination wages on. And at every turn babies cry, and mothers grieve; and sons, daughters, husbands and wives are martyred. In Gaza, a family of beach goers is cut down by zionist tank shells as they recline on a lonely stretch of sand to catch some sun and much needed respite from the stress of bombs, tanks, and overflying warplanes. On a war-torn street in the West Bank, captured by television before a global audience, the figures of a father and son are riddled with bullets as they huddled desperately behind the shelter of a wooden barrel from withering zionist firepower.

After a long train of abuses, people reject injustices and they eventually respond aggressively. This is what usually creates political prisoners and prisoners of war and is why we gather here at this time to honor and immortalize your implacable spirit in tenaciously resisting zionist occupation of your homeland. Therefore, as you have ably demonstrated, we categorically reject the prescribed reality of long suffering and acceptance of our plight served up by the forces of power and greed. Our vision is one that dank prison cells, truncheons, electrodes, waterboarding and the like cannot hope to alter or forestall. To coin a phrase: “we claim no easy victories and tell no lies.” And we shall remain a vigilant and firm supporter of our Palestinian brothers and sisters, as we stay the course in our own struggle ‘til victory is won.

In solidarity,

Herman Bell

Sundiata Acoli

Sundiata Acoli #39794-066

(Squire) P.O. Box 3000

USP Allenwood

White Deer PA 17887



Sundiata Acoli was born in 1937 in Texas and grew up there. In 1956 he became a computer programmer for NASA in California and later programmed computers for various corporations in New York.

During the Civil Rights era of 1964, Sundiata traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters. In 1968 he joined the Harlem, NY Black Panther Party and was arrested in the New York Panther 21 conspiracy case. After 2 years in jail he and all co-defendants were acquitted of all charges. Upon returning to the streets COINTELPRO and its stepped-up police provocations drove Sundiata underground where he joined the Black Liberation Army (BLA).

On May 2nd, 1973 while driving the New Jersey Turnpike Sundiata and two comrades, Assata Shakur and Zayd Shakur, were ambushed by state troopers. During the gunfire Zayd and a trooper were killed. Assata, Sundiata and another trooper were wounded. Assata was captured at the scene and Sundiata was captured two days later in the woods. Both were sentenced to life plus 30 years consecutive in separate trials. Assata was liberated in 1979 by a multinational BLA Task Force and lives in Cuba. Sundiata has been in prison since his capture. He has come up for parole twice since 1992 and each time was denied parole and given and extensive “hit” (time period) before he becomes eligible for a parole hearing again.



September 6, 2006

Greetings, Bros, Sisters and Comrades,

It’s good to see you all honoring Palestinian freedom fighters. They have long borne the main brunt of the fight against u.s. imperialism in the Mid-East. They are doing there what we who want freedom should be doing here—and one day will do here. Meanwhile i send my warmest solidarity to the Palestinian political prisoners and may we continue to struggle in solidarity until we and all oppressed people are free worldwide!

In struggle and solidarity,

Sundiata Acoli

Bashir Hameed

Bashir Hameed 82A6313

Great Meadow Prison Box 51

Comstock, New York 12821

Bismallah ir Rahman ir Raheem

As Salaamu Alaykum,

My name is Bashir Hameed. I was formerly known as James D. York. I am a former member of the Black Panther Party and one of the many political prisoners held by the u.s. government for my political activism.

I would like to express my solidarity with my Palestinian sisters and brothers around the world in memory of both Black September and their continuous heroic struggle being waged by them around the world.

Their intifadas and ceaseless struggle against the forces of oppression are an inspiration to us all and all peace loving people the world over.

I salute you all and I pray that Allah will continue to guide, bless and reward us all. Be well and continue to intensify our struggle.

In solidarity,

Bashir ]]> XXPANTHAXX http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/39846-statements-u-s-political-prisoners-support-palestine.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/39761-fax-jerry-brown-today-drop-charges-against-cisco-torres.html Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:07:22 GMT PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! FAX OR CALL JERRY BROWN - ALL DAY TODAY DEMAND ALL CHARGES BE DROPPED AGAINST FRANCISCO TORRES! FREE THE SF8! Dear friends, Once again we are asking for your help with a phone and fax campaign to demand that CA Attorney General Jerry Brown drop the charges against... PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

FAX OR CALL JERRY BROWN - ALL DAY TODAY
DEMAND ALL CHARGES BE DROPPED AGAINST FRANCISCO TORRES!
FREE THE SF8!

Dear friends,
Once again we are asking for your help with a phone and fax campaign to demand that CA Attorney General Jerry Brown drop the charges against Francisco Torres, the last of the SF8 still facing prosecution. Brown has not yet dropped the charges against Francisco Torres, but he knows there is no case against him. He needs to get the message from people all over the country that we will not give up this just demand!

**In order for this fax campaign to be a success, we need you to help spread the word and take a few minutes to make the call and send the fax. Please send as many individual faxes as possible. We want to flood his office! And please also send us an email when you have done so at FreetheSF8@gmail.com

**You can print out and use the attached letter to fax and/or use the phone
script below, all to Jerry Brown's office.

TO CALL:
916-322-3360 #7 for comments

I am calling to demand that Attorney General Jerry Brown drop all charges against Francisco Torres of the San Francisco 8. The state of California recognized that there was insufficient evidence to move forward with the case and dropped charges against four of the men. There is clearly no basis to prosecute Francisco Torres, the only remaining person facing charges in connection with this 38-year old case which is based on torture-coerced evidence. It is an incredible waste of money in this time of severe budget crisis to proceed with this case, and is a huge injustice to Mr. Torres and his family. Drop all charges immediately!

TO FAX:
916-323-5341

Dear Attorney General Jerry Brown:
Thousands of people around the U.S. and the world have joined the call to drop all charges against the San Francisco 8. On July 6th the state of California recognized that there was insufficient evidence to move forward with the case and dropped charges against four of the men. There is clearly no basis to prosecute Francisco Torres, the only remaining person facing charges in connection with this 38-year old case which is based on torture-coerced evidence. It would be an unconscionable waste of tax payer money and an egregious injustice to Mr. Torres and his family to proceed with this case. I urge you in the strongest possible terms to drop the charges against Francisco Torres immediately!

Sincerely,
Name
Address


COME SUPPORT CISCO IN COURT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9TH
8 AM RALLY, 9 AM COURT HEARING
850 BRYANT ST., SAN FRANCISCO

For more information go to Free the SF8 - Committee for the Defense of Human Rights
or call 415-226-1120

Thank you,
The Committee for the Defense of the San Francisco 8 ]]> Moorbey http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/39761-fax-jerry-brown-today-drop-charges-against-cisco-torres.html http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/our-prisoners-war-pow/39750-seth-hayes-getting-married-october-6th-seth-hayes-getting-married-october-6th.html Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:30:13 GMT hey folks,

I'm not sure how many people here know, but Robert Seth Hayes is
getting married to Sheila Prince, on October 6 of this year. Seth and
Sheila have known each other for almost 20 years, but their
relationship has been rekindled in the last year or so, and they have
decided to get married. Sheila lives in Buffalo, and visits Seth twice
a week. I was thinking that it would be really nice if we could all
send Seth and Sheila some cards in honor of their union. You can write
Seth at:

Robert “Seth” Hayes #74A2280, Wende Corr. Facility P.O. Box 1187 (3622
Wende Road) Alden, New York 14004-1187, USA

It's also Seth's 61st birthday on October 15th, so feel free to drop a
birthday card in the mail as well.

Thanks to everyone that helped raise funds for Seth's legal appeal of
his parole denial. I'm not sure of the exact amount (Nate has the
details) but we raised several thousand dollars, and the appeal is now
underway.

Take care,


Tom.
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