About Linda Evans
After over 15 years in Federal prisons, Linda Evans is now a released (former) Political Prisoner. She continues her activism outside, having been active in the fight against imperialism since 1967. Linda was a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) regional organizer against the Vietnam War and to support Black liberation. She was also able to participate in the 1969 anti-war delegation to North Vietnam to recieve US POW's being released by the Vietnamese Army. Linda was arrested in 1970 for conspiracy and crossing the state line to incite riot while organizing for SDS's National Action, Days of Rage, in Chicago, and for conspiracy/transportation of weapons and explosives in Detroit. These charges were, however, eventually dropped because of government misconduct while collecting evidence using illegal wiretaps.
Linda later became active in a political guerrilla street theater group, an all woman's political band and a political women's printing and graphics collective in Texas. While active in the lesbian and women's communities, she organized support for Black and Chicano/Mexican grassroots organizations, fighting against the KKK, forced sterilization, and killer cops. Linda also fought racism/white supremacy and zionism as a member of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. She was also active in building solidarity for South African, Palestinian and Central American stuggles for self-determination by organizing material aid for these national liberation struggles and to oppose U.S. intervention. She also organized support for Black/New Afrikan, Native and Puerto Rican PP/POW's.
Some
time after this, Linda began working to develop clandestine resistance capable
of conducting armed struggle as part of a multi-level overall revolutionary
stategy. Linda was arrested on May 11, 1985 and charged with acquisition of
weapons, ID, safe houses, finances, political and military training and actions
to bring the war against U.S. imperialism home to America. Targets of these
activities include the U.S. Capitol Building, National War College, Navy Yard
Computer Center and Navy Yard Officers Club, Israeli Aircraft Industries,
the FBI office and New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. She received
a 40 year sentence, which was commuted by President Clinton January 20, 2001.
At FCI Dublin, she led AIDs education and other inmate support. She also helped to initiate an art show by political prisoners in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Writings by Linda
- The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy, with Eve Goldberg
- Support for KPFA