Free the Lucasville 5! (Program/Poem/Info)

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Monday Feb. 26, 7pm
The Cleveland Lucasville Five Defense Committe
@ C-Space

Come meet members of the Cleveland Lucasville Five Defense Committee. Hear
from family members what it is like to have a loved one on death row and
what helps keep their fighting spirit up. Find out about the exciting plans
coming up in March and April that you could take part in: a hearing to
present new evidence in mid-March in Dayton (it's van ride time again!),
former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown speaking on April 7, and a play
about the Lucasville uprising and the sham trials that followed on April 28.
Join this growing movement!

C-Space is located at:
4323 Clark ave (W.44th & Clark)
Cleveland, 44109
216.631.2233
www.clevelandspace.org


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Wake Up, America!
By Bomani Shakur (aka. Keith Lamar), Prisonersolidarity.org
Feb. 15, 2007

When bombs explode and
people give up life for paradise
it's time to wake up!
When the president is lying
about the reason our brothers
and sisters are dying, it's time
to wake up!
When the majority of the wealth
is stolen through trickery and theft,
it's time to wake up!
When prisons become warehouses
for the poor and underprivileged
and schools become battlefields,
while our kids are on ritalin, it's
time to wake up!
When those in power divide and conquer
and this is the system we love and honor,
it's time to wake up!
When 20 million live below the poverty line
and are viewed as criminals
while the richest 1 percent are lauded
as heroes, it's time to wake up!
Wake up, America!
Wake up, America!
America, wake up!

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Keith Lamar, # R 317-117
(aka. Bomani Shakur)
Ohio State Penitentiary
878 Coitsville-Hubbard Road
Youngstown, OH 44505-4635

Keith Lamar (a.k.a. Bomani Shakur) was sentenced to death for his alleged
leadership role in the brutal prison uprising of 1993, which occurred at the
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, Ohio. In his
recently self-published book, Condemned, Bomani (which means "mighty
soldier" in Swahili) argues for a general amnesty for all Lucasville
prisoners, drawing from the outcome of the prison uprising at Attica during
the 1970s as his model. "What happened there also happened at Lucasville,"
Bomani said during a 2006 interview with Prisonersolidarity, "and I believe
the governor should take a 'serious look' at the similarities and proceed
accordingly." Bomani Shakur is currently on death row at Ohio's
super-maximum security prison in Youngstown, and is appealing his sentence.
For more information about his case, read Staughton Lynd's book, Lucasville:
The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising. (Temple University Press, 2004).

When writing to Keith, please send him a pre-embossed stamped envelope so
that he can promptly answer your letter. He is not permitted adhesive
stamps, that is, regular stamps.