The Jericho Movement: Amnesty for Political Prisoners and POWs

Recent Jericho Events From Attica to Abu Ghraib – An Organizing Conference on Human Rights, Torture, and Resistance. April 2005, Berkeley. Info: www.attica2abughraib.com. Memorial for Safiya Bukhari Jericho and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement held a memorial gathering for Safiya Bukhari, co-founder of the Jericho Amnesty Movement; a number of the tributes read, plus an interview and recent writings by Safiya, are collected under: Remembering Safiya. September 2003, Oakland. National Mumia Conference at UC Berkeley The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, in coordination with ICFFMAJ, held a national conference on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the growing anti-death penalty movement, and the attacks on civil liberties and human rights. Berkeley, November 2002. Street theatre protesting illegal detentions & conditions of Afghan war prisoners . February 2002. Fall 2001 Film Series, including OUT!, Attica, LaFanmi Selavi (The Family is Life), and Briceland (on Judi Bari). May 12 Mobilization for Mumia's Bay Area march, S.F. May 6, Alice Arts, Oakland - Film-maker Gloria Rolando presented the Bay Area premiere of her new film,"Raíces de mi corazón" ("Roots of my Heart") Recently released political prisoner Robert King Wilkerson spoke and the film All Power to the People was shown in April 2001. Recently released political prisoner Linda Evans spoke with the film OUT: The Making of a Revolutionary, the story of former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn's life told in the framework of the liberation and justice movements of the 60's & 70's. March 2001. Seven Songs for Malcolm X-- In Honor of Malcolm X/El Hajj Malik El Shabazz - An homage to the inspirational New Afrikan leader on the 36th anniversary of his assassination on February 21, 1965. By Ghanaian filmmaker John Akomfrah, a collection of testimonies and reenactments with interviews with Dr. Betty Shabazz, Yuri Kochiyama, Hubert X, Dr. John Henrick Clarke and others. Special Guest Speaker: Yuri Kochiyama. Co-hosted by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the National Plebiscite Education Campaign for Self-Determination. February 2001. Tribute to Nuh Washington. April 2000, Oakland Civil disobedience for Mumia with photos. February 2000. Human Rights Day demo for Mumia. December 11, 1999. Eyes of the Rainbow - a film portrait of Black Liberation leader Assata Shakur, presented by the producer, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando. October 1999. Marches for Mumia. October 1999. Oct '99 - Free Mumia conference in Santa Cruz September '99 Mumia program August '99 march to free Puerto Rican independentistas Black Family Reunion Day July '99 Mumia demo in SF July '99 Mumia demo in Philadelphia Herman Ferguson reception June '99 March in Oakland, 1999 Black History program on the Black Liberation Army, February 1999 Film series on political prisoners, Winter 1999 March in Oakland, 1998

Jericho There are political prisoners and Prisoners of War who come from organizations and struggles like the American Indian Movement (AIM), the Black Panther Party, MOVE, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) and the Puerto Rican independence movement. There are also North American anti-imperialist prisoners jailed for acting in solidarity with these movements and fighting for changes in the current economic and political system. The U.S. government denies that they are political prisoners and calls them "criminals," but they are in prison because of their militant actions against racism, imperialism and injustice. Learn more about the goals of the Amnesty Movement and get involved: join Jericho.

Contact Us: Bay Area Jericho Movement P.O. Box 3585 Oakland, CA 94609 Home page: prisonactivist.org/jericho_sfbay

Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Freedom for Leonard Peltier.
Freedom for all our fighters who remain behind bars
for standing up to injustice.

Page updated May 31, 2005