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Friday, May 16 2008 @ 05:20 AM PDT

Support Rod Coronado!

Thursday, May 15 2008 @ 02:30 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 3

ELP has just learnt that our dear old friend, Rod Coronado, yesterday handed himself into prison. Rod is a well known American activist who over the years has been involved with a number of different groups including Earth First!, Sea Shepherd and the Animal Liberation Front. He is a former prisoner having been jailed for both ALF and Earth First! activity. He has also served time for an action protesting against the mascare, carried out against Native Americans, by General Custer.

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How you can help Green Scare Defendant Marie Mason Prepare for Trial

Thursday, May 15 2008 @ 02:39 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
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We have received word of a tentative trail date for Marie in early August. With the possibility of a trial only a few months away please keep in mind that time is of the utmost importance with the following request. Marie’s attorney has requested for articles pertaining to to the below subjects.

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VIDEO: Changing the rules to deny Mumia justice

Thursday, May 15 2008 @ 02:36 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
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On May 1, the day of his book's release, author J. Patrick O'Connor was interviewed at Philadelphia City Hall about "The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal." In part two of this interview, he discusses the March 27 ruling by the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals denying Mumia a new guilt-phase trial. In his book, O'Connor felt strongly that Mumia would be granted a new trial, and in light of the contrary ruling, he argues that the court made a political decision and actually went against court precedent to do this.

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L.A. city council wants former SLA member to remain in prison

Sunday, April 20 2008 @ 01:15 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 69

The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson to remain in prison for the remainder of her sentence. The resolution, approved on a 15-0 vote Wednesday, also calls for Olson to serve a potential parole term within the state, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Protective League.

Solidarity Statement for Mumia from Leonard Peltier

Sunday, April 20 2008 @ 01:09 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 88

To Mumia Abu-Jamal -- my brother in this Struggle; and your family, friends, and supporters. I offer you my warmest greetings. How appropriate, after so many years, that I now send you word from a cage housed in the very same state as yours. Perhaps it is destiny that we would find ourselves incarcerated so near, under similar circumstance, by similar forces, using similar excuses, for a similar love of our people.

Citizens group to monitor Omaha police

Wednesday, April 02 2008 @ 02:46 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 111

A group of community activists is organizing its own effort to watch the performance of local law enforcement. Willie Hamilton, a member of Omahans for Justice Alliance and Black Men United, said he and others are putting together a Copwatch program, which uses volunteers to monitor police. On March 19, Hamilton brought King Downing, the American Civil Liberties Union's national coordinator for the campaign against racial profiling, to speak to Omahans about community oversight of law enforcement.

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Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons

Wednesday, April 02 2008 @ 02:36 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 85

Imagine living in an 8-by-12 prison cell, in solitary confinement, for eight years straight. Your entire world consists of a dank, cinder block room with a narrow window only three inches high, opening up to an outdoor cement cage, cynically dubbed, "the yard."

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Court: Abu-Jamal deserves new hearing

Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 05:15 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 49

An appeals court Thursday upheld Mumia Abu-Jamal's conviction for murdering a police officer 27 years ago but rejected prosecutors' request to reinstate the death penalty for the former Black Panther. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that because the jury that sentenced Abu-Jamal to die was given flawed instructions in the penalty phase, he must either get a new sentencing hearing or be sentenced to life in prison.

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Peltier wants court to see FBI's papers

Sunday, March 16 2008 @ 03:28 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 51

American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier's 30-year battle against government charges he killed two FBI agents landed Tuesday in Minneapolis. Oral arguments before a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt with Peltier's attempt to get the FBI to release thousands of pages of documents about him that it has withheld. Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

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Record-high ratio of Americans in prison

Thursday, February 28 2008 @ 01:23 PM PST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 112

NEW YORK - For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the surge in inmate population and urging states to rein in corrections costs with alternative sentencing programs.

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Argentina: Anarchist demonstration in front of the prison of Devoto

Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 06:20 PM PST
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 92

This Sunday, February 24, 2008, a group of companions demonstrated in front of the prison of Devoto in solidarity with the anarchist prisoners on hunger strike and for the destruction of all the prisons. During this activity, flags with anti-prison markings were used and leaflets were given out to the people leaving the prison after visiting and were read to the prisoners who listened from the windows of their cells.

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Eric McDavid's Sentencing Moved

Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 06:13 PM PST
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 68

This is just a quick note to let you know that Eric's sentencing has been moved once again. Sentencing is now set for March 6. The new trial motion is still on calendar for February 28th at 9 am.

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Rendition: The Excuse That America Didn’t Tell Us Doesn’t Wash

Friday, February 22 2008 @ 10:47 AM PST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 58

Nearly three years and three foreign secretaries on from Liberty’s first call for an investigation into UK involvement in extraordinary rendition flights, the Government has admitted that US rendition flights did stop on UK territory.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejects Mumia Abu-Jamal’s PCRA appeal---critics say ruling is unjust

Thursday, February 21 2008 @ 02:24 PM PST
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 59

On Tuesday, February 19, in a ruling unrelated to the pending US Third Circuit Court decision, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal of a 2005 ruling by Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe, which denied Abu-Jamal’s Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) petition, on grounds that it was not “timely.” (See reports by The Associated Press and Philadelphia Inquirer)

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Houston ABC Celebrates Political Prisoner Albert Woodfox's Birthday

Thursday, February 21 2008 @ 02:21 PM PST
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 63

This Tuesday Evening we hosted an event marking the birthday of Albert Woodfox and supporting the struggle for freedom of the Angola 3. While the turnout was modest (we had to compete with Barack Obama for attendence), we had a great informational event which sets the stage for future collaboration between people struggling against the Death Penalty, in support of Political Prisoners and against the Prison Industrial Complex.

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