Category: News
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2018 was a big year for Dr. Mutulu Shakur and there’s more in store for 2019!
After a long time coming, Mutulu, represented by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, the Post-Conviction Justice Project (USC Gould School of Law), the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the National Bar Association, filed a federal court case challenging the government’s interpretation and application of U.S. law by the U.S. Parole Commission…
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A Tribute to Imam Jamil Al-Amin
A’uudh billaachi minash shaitaanir Rajeem, which means I Seek Refuge of Allah From Satan the Accursed. But in my heart and mind, I think: I seek Refuge of the Creator, from this Insane Satanic System we’re forced to live in. Amin.It’s truly an honor to be within the midst of Supports of Imam Jamil Al-Amin…
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PFLP leader Ahmad Sa’adat attacked by Israeli guards in Nafha prison
Palestinian national political leader and political prisoner, Ahmad Sa’adat, was attacked and injured by Israeli prison guards at Nafha prison early morning Tuesday, 28 July. Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Palestinian left-wing political party, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was among 30 Palestinian political prisoners injured by the violent attack…
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Demand release of imprisoned Freedom Flotilla sailors
Original post: http://samidoun.net/2015/07/take-action-demand-release-of-imprisoned-freedom-flotilla-sailors/ UPDATE: On 2 July, Kevin Neish, Robert Lovelace and Herman Reksten were deported. Please keep up the action to free the remaining flotilla activists! The Freedom Flotilla to Gaza and its boat the “Marianne of Gothenburg,” sailed by international activists seeking to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Palestinian people of…
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Addameer: Administrative Detainees Boycott the Occupation’s Military Courts
1 July 2015, Occupied Ramallah – Addameer’s lawyers report today that more than 60 administrative detainees held in Ofer, Naqab and Megiddo prisons will boycott the Israeli Occupation’s military courts in protest of the administrative detention policy and the false trials they are subjected to. There are currently 401 administrative detainees held in the occupation’s prisons, including six…
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40th Anniversary of Oglala Shoot-out!
Greetings to you, my relatives and friends. This is the first time that my dear sister Roselyn will not be there for me, but I know she is there in spirit as she has gone on her journey. I have seen pictures of the gathering over the years and can still see her sitting there…
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3 Articles and Statement by Sundiata on Assata Shakur!
$1 million for Assata Shakur Read and sign the online petition authored by Rosemari Mealy and Joan P. Gibbs! www.PetitionOnline.com/assata/ Goals & Outcomes Go to full alert: www.assatashakur.org/1105.htm Feedback Go to www.assatashakur.org/1105.htm to take the Follow-up Poll News Coverage Share Your News Items If you have articles, photographs, video or other news coverage or commentary…
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22nd Annual Traditional Prayer Vigil and Feast For the Freedom of Leonard Peltier
The Toronto Council Fire First Native Cultural Center, in partnership with Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Canada (LPDCC) hosted the 22nd Annual Traditional Prayer Vigil and Feast Calling For the Freedom of Leonard Peltier: in commemoration of the 39 years of false imprisonment for American Indian Movement political prisoner Leonard Peltier, #89637-132 u.s.p. Coleman, Florida. The…
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“Some Reflections on Comrades, The Spirit of Resistance, Struggle and Death”
By Jaan Laaman 2015 is almost a month old and my overall outlook has been optimistic and energized. With a months long new movement in the streets, fighting against government repression and police killings of unarmed men, boys and women too, mostly of color, for me it has been a time of gathering information and…
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Sekou Odinga is Free!
Sekou Odinga together with wife and comrade Déqui Kioni-Sadiki. We ask that our comrades and friends help make Sekou’s return home a positive one by contributing monetarily to lighten his living and legal expenses. Send your contribution to the Sekou Odinga Defense Committee, PO Box 380-122, Brooklyn, NY 11238 or donate safely & quickly online.