[ prisons -- issues -- political prisoners ]

Featured Items

"Attica to Abu Ghraib" Conference
Friday, April 22nd & Saturday, April 23rd, 2005, Berkeley, CA

Weather Underground? Want to know more of this history from political prisoner David Gilbert than the couple minutes of interview with him in The Weather Underground documentary? Read his brief history of SDS/WUO: Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground.

"The Reality of Political Prisoners in the United States: What September 11 Taught Us about Defending Them" an article by attorney Soffiyah Elijah from the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal, [August] 2002. Get it here (in PDF format).

Political Prisoner List

Click here for a list of political prisoners and their addresses, with web links.

Support for Specific Political Prisoners

• Websites in support of: Mumia Abu-Jamal (or in Italiano), Silvia Baraldini (or in Italiano), Leonard Peltier, and Marshall E. Conway

Black/ New Afrikan Political Prisoners

• Statements of Black Political Prisoners
• The Story of the MOVE Organization, from 20 Years on the MOVE
• A Brief History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle, By Sundiata Acoli
• The Black Panther Party and its Annihilation by COINTELPRO

Puerto Rican / Native Political Prisoners & POWs

• Clemency for 11 Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and POWs, September 1999
• Background on Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and POWs
• Native political prisoners, from Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty

Publications

• Wazo Weusi (Think Black): A Journal of Black Thought: This issue of WW is on "Schooling the Generations in the Politics of Prison." Political prisoners contributed most of the submissions, including the internationally known liberated prisoner, Assata Shakur.
• How CoIntelPro Helped Destroy the Movements of the 1960s. FBI domestic repression.

Other Links

• Refuse and Resist!
• Arm the Spirit: Autonomist/Anti-Imperialist Resource Page

Groups that are working to support political prisoners:

• The Jericho Movement for Amnesty for Political Prisoners and the SF Bay Area chapter
• Anarchist Black Cross Federation
• Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners
  3543 - 18th. St. #30
  San Francisco CA 94110
  
• Crossroad Support Network (New Afrikan)
  3021 W 63rd St.
  Chicago IL 60629
  Phone/fax: 312/737-8679
  email: crsn@aol.com