* Prison Dispatch from Leonard Peltier *
* November 5 Update

For information on the November solidarity action on behalf
of US political prisoners, prisoners of war and exiles visit
<http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/411.htm>.

* Time for AI to Step Up the Pace *

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20101020/86d4e141-26cc-4d1f-b488-41a6bb3a34ba


Lawyer: No evidence student shot by cops broke law

An urgent message from the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.Please forward, post and distribute widely:

Oscar Grant & Mumia Abu-Jamal - Mass Mobilizations!



TWO RALLIES, SAME FIGHT!

Against racism, injustice and official murder of the innocent!

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN for full information

1. OAKLAND, October 23rd 2010:

PORT SHUT DOWN FOR OSCAR GRANT!

Rally: 12 Noon, City Hall, 14th and Broadway

MICHAEL CETEWAYO TABOR ...
ex-political prisoners/Panther21,NYC.
Born 12/13/46 Harlem, usa
Died 10/17/10 Zambia, Africa

Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide
By Michael Cetewayo Tabor, 1970
Black Panther Party, amerikkka 

I. The Problem.

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Click here for the full story.

The US's exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing
economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their
children and taxpayers as a whole, a new study finds.

Dear Allies,

The
California Department of Corrections (CDCR) is pushing forward with
plans to execute Albert Brown on September 29th at 12:01am.

Despite the
fact that there are multiple unresolved legal issues surrounding the
lethal injection procedure, the state of California is pushing to rush
and restart executions next week.

Oral Arguments with three-judge panel on November 9, 2010
in Philadelphia

from Mumia's Lead Counsel Robert Bryan:

There is a major new development regarding my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the journalist and author who has been on Pennsylvania's death row for nearly three decades. My quest for a hearing has been granted.

September 17, 2010
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
For full article, click here.

Nearly nine years after a federal judge ordered California to protect mentally disabled inmates in state prisons, those inmates are still being beaten, robbed and deprived of food and sanitation, the judge said Thursday in refusing to lift the decree.

13 September 2010

Tens of thousands of detainees held without trial in Iraq, many of whom were recently transferred from US custody, remain at risk of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, Amnesty International said in a new report launched on Monday.

New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful detentions and torture in Iraq details thousands of arbitrary detentions, sometimes for several years without charge or trial, severe beatings of detainees, often in secret prisons, to obtain forced confessions, and enforced disappearances.