1969



1969

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| |Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald |

| |#B-27527 |

| |Centinela State Prison, |

| |FC-2-110, |

| |PO Box 921, Imperial, CA 92251 |

| |Birthday: |

| |4-11-1949 |

Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald is a former member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party. He is currently serving 2 life sentences for the murder of a security guard and attempted murder of a CHP officer after originally being given a death sentence.

On September 7th, 1969, California

Highway Patrol pulled over a

Volkswagen with Romaine 'Chip'

Fitzgerald and two other members of the Black Panther Party (Robert Williams and Luxey Irvin). The men were stopped for a faulty taillight.

During the traffic stop a shooting broke out, leaving one officer and

Chip Fitzgerald injured. The three Black Panthers managed to escape from the seen, leaving the injured officer in possession of Fitzgerald’s driver’s license. Chip managed to escape arrest three times before his capture.

On October 9th. After being taken custody, he was informed that he was not only charged with the attempted murder of the CHP officer, but

was also being charged with the murder of a private security guard, Barge Miller. Chip denies involvement in this shooting. Furthermore the CHP officer has since admitted that he had orders to shoot to kill Black Panther Party members.

Words from Chip, March 2007:

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! THE PEOPLE ARE THE POWER!

On behalf of the 170,000 imprisoned sisters, brothers, and comrades for whom I do not speak for but I do speak with the, we embrace you in spirit of love and solidarity!

In the current atmosphere of neo-conservative Christian fascism and extraordinary rendition- where people are afraid to be labeled unpatriotic…or a terrorist for their progressive and radical beliefs and political dissent- to paraphrase my comrade Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party and who was assassinated nearly 40 years ago…I REMAIN A REVOLUTIONARY!

The prison system has mutated into a complex dysfunctional resource-wasting parasite of social control, political repression and revenge! Human beings are warehoused in these concrete and steel bunkers that destroy human sensibilities and the human spirit. Then following years of continuous antagonism and frustration at the hands of sadistic prison guards tortured souls are released on to an unsuspecting public to offend. There in is the cause and effect of an 80% recidivism rate.

The human warehouses destroy human beings like the Iraq war is mutilating young Americans. Prisoners are being de-sensitized…they are frustrated, angry and bitter and unprepared to become productive members of society. These tortured souls who are our families and loved ones, are paroled with little hope…this is why California’s recidivism rate is above 75%. The system is now designed to perpetuate itself.

We are again confronted with a parole setting body of individuals known as commissioners. Who are that racist and revenge oriented and operate as if they are exempt from the rule of law with the CCPOA (Prison Guards Union) and crime victims driving the policy of the CDC. The intent is to keep these prisons filled to capacity!

From a practical perspective of economic dollars and cents, there is no return on the dollars invested in the Prison Industrial Complex. It’s an enormous drain on the state budget, denying social services the people-health care insurance and increasing funding for education and social programs for our youth and young adults to prevent them from joining gangs and engaging in criminal activity.

The enormity of the problem may seem overwhelming…and we as individuals by comparison may seem insignificant and powerless but appearances can be very deceptive. In the words of Public Enemy…”Don’t Believe the Hype.”

What is to be done to solve the problem? Let us follow the example of the anti war movement. Let the politically conscious people of Cali, the progressive and revolutionary people rise up and seize the day! Organize to halt the perversion of justice and squandering of valuable resources by the Prison Guard Union (CCPOA) and the Prison Industrial Complex. Demand to be active participants in the sentencing/ prison reform process. Demand public transparency as guaranteed by the law. Register and vote out the legislators who have rewarded the campaign contributions of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association with CARTE BLANCHE to do

as they please in the California Department of Corrections- which has resulted in corruption, criminal mismanagement, thievery, brutality and even death!

The federal District courts have held the prison bureaucrats guilty and responsible for all of the above. So the people have an obligation to rise up and say to the public servants...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! BASTA! ALL POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE…WE ARE THE POWER!

SEIZE IT!



1969

|[pic] |Marshall Eddie Conway #116469 |

| |MD. Correctional Training |

| |Center |

| |18800 Roxbury Rd., Hagerstown, |

| |MD 21746 |

| |Birthday: |

| |4-23-1946 |

Marshall Edward ("Eddie") Conway is a former member of the Black Panther Party who was imprisoned for a crime he says he did not commit. Eddie was implicated in the murder of one Baltimore City police officer and the assault and attempted murder of two other officers. Eddie claims that not only is he innocent but that he was a target of COINTELPRO.

On April 24, 1970, two officers investigated a domestic abuse call at 1201 Myrtle Ave in Baltimore. During the investigation, three men opened fired on the patrol car, killing one officer and injuring the other. Shortly after the shooting, a police officer by the name of Nolan, engaged in a shoot out with a suspect who managed to escape. Police then apprehended two suspects a few blocks away from the incident. The day after the shooting a warrant was issued for Marshall Eddie Conway and he was arrested shortly after he reported to work at Baltimore’s Main Post Office. According to the testimony of the arresting officer, the warrant was obtained based on information provided by an informer.

Besides a tip from an informer, there is nothing to indicate Conway’s involvement in the shooting. In attempt to make their case against Conway, prosecutors reportedly made a deal with one of the other defendants. Eddie’s been in prison for over 30 years.



1970

|[pic] |Ruchell Cinque Magee |

| |# A92051 |

| |3A2-131 Box 3471, C.S.P. |

| |Corcoran, CA 93212 |

The following bio was written by Mumia Abu Jamal:

Ruchell C. Magee arrived in Los Angeles, California in 1963, and wasn't in town for six months before he and a cousin, Leroy, were arrested on the improbable charges of kidnap and robbery, after a fight with a man over a woman and a $10 bag of marijuana. Magee, in a slam-dunk "trial," was swiftly convicted and swifter still sentenced to life.

Magee, politicized in those years, took the name of the African freedom fighter, Cinque, who, with his fellow captives seized control of the slave ship, the Amistad, and tried to sail back to Africa. Like his ancient namesake, Cinque would also fight for his freedom from legalized slavery, and for 7 long years he filed writ after writ, learning what he calls "guerrilla law", honing it as a tool for liberation of himself and his fellow captives. But California courts, which could care less about the alleged "rights" of a young Black man like Magee, dismissed his petitions.

In August, 1970, Magee appeared as a witness in the assault trial of James McClain, a man charged with assaulting a guard after San Quentin guards murdered a Black prisoner, Fred Billingsley. McClain, defending himself, presented imprisoned witnesses to expose the racist and repressive nature of prisons. In the midst of MaGee's testimony, 17 year, Jonathan Jackson burst into the courtroom, heavily armed.

Jonathan Jackson shouted "Freeze!" Tossing weapons to McClain, William Christmas, and a startled Magee, who joined the rebellion on the spot. The four rebels took the judge, the DA and three jurors hostage, and headed for a radio station where they were going to air the wretched prison conditions to the world, as well as demand the immediate release of a group of political prisoners, known as The Soledad Brothers (John Cluchette, Fleeta Drumgo, and Jonathan's oldest brother, George). While the men did not hurt any of their hostages, they did not reckon on the state's ruthlessness.

Before the men could get their van out of the courthouse parking lot, prison guards and sheriffs opened furious fire on the vehicle, killing Christmas, Jackson, McClain as well as the judge. The DA was permanently paralyzed by gunfire. Miraculously, the jurors emerged relatively unscratched, although Magee, seriously wounded by gunfire, was found unconscious.

Magee, who was the only Black survivor of what has come to be called "The August 7th Rebellion," would awaken to learn he was charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, and that his co-defendant was Angela Davis, who faced identical charges. By trial time the cases were severed, with Angela garnering massive support leading to her 1972 acquittal on all charges.

Magee's trial did not garner such broad support, yet he boldly advanced the position that as his imprisonment was itself illegal, and a form of unjustifiable slavery, he had the inherent right to escape such slavery. Unfortunately, Magee's jury didn't agree, although it did acquit on at least one kidnapping charge. The court dismissed on the murder charge, and Magee has been battling for his freedom every since.



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|[pic] |Fred "Muhammad" Burton |

| |AF 3896 |

| |SCI Somerset |

| |1590 Walters Mill Rd |

| |Somerset, PA 15510 |

Frederick Burton is an innocent man who has diligently attempted to prove his innocence to the courts for the past 37 years. Prior to his incarceration, Fred worked for a phone company, was a well-respected member of his community and his wife was preparing to have twins, his third and fourth child when he was arrested. In 1970,Fred was accused and then convicted of participating in the planning of the murder of Philadelphia police officers. While the plan was allegedly to blow up a police station, what occurred was that a police officer was shot and killed allegedly by members of a radical group called "the Revolutionaries."

Only one witness, Marie Williams, corroborates the relationship between Fred and "the Revolutionaries." Fred was not accused of being at the scene of the crime. At Fred's trial, Marie Williams was compelled by order of the court to testify. She said she had heard someone in her basement, a floor below her, say, "Let's off some pigs." She did not accuse Fred of making those statements. The Commonwealth intentionally struck every African-American from the active jury. The all white jury unanimously convicted Fred after being purposefully misled by the Commonwealth and Marie Williams.

The testimony of the Commonwealth's star witness, Marie Williams, was marred by contradiction. Marie Williams initially claimed Fifth Amendment at the first two of three preliminary hearings and refused to testify. At Fred's third

preliminary hearing, Marie Williams

completely exonerated Fred. she

testified that she had no knowledge of "the Revolutionaries" or of Fred's involvement with that group. After the third preliminary, the case was held for trial. Marie Williams was then subjected to a closed immunity hearing and compelled to testify at trial.



The Omaha 2

|[pic] |Mondo We Langa (David Rice) |

| |#27768, |

| |Nebraska State Penitentiary, |

| |P.O. Box 2500, Lincoln, NE |

| |68542 |

| |Birthday: |

| |5-21-1947 |

| | |

|[pic] |Ed Poindexter # 27767 |

| |Nebraska State Penitentiary, |

| |P.O. Box 2500, Lincoln, NE |

| |68542 |

| |Birthday: |

| |11-1-1944 |

David Rice (who later changed his name to Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen We Langa) and Edward Poindexter were charged and convicted of the murder of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard, father of five. Minard died when a suitcase containing dynamite exploded in a North Omaha home on August 17, 1970. Officer John Tess was also injured in the explosion.

Poindexter and Rice were members of the Black Panther Party, and the case was very controversial. The Omaha Police withheld exculpatory evidence at trial. The two men had been targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO.

Poindexter was a community activist in North Omaha. He has published

plays, and has also published various materials educating and motivating prison inmates who are near release. While in prison, he earned his Master's degree.

In the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., racial

tensions in inner-cities across America were high. In March of 1968, riots in Omaha led to the shooting of a local high school student during an event in support of segregationist George Wallace's presidential campaign. In the summer of 1970, there was a rash of bombings in the Midwest. Five

bombings had occurred in neighboring Iowa, explosions occurred in

Wisconsin and Minnesota, and both a police precinct and the Component

Concept Corporation suffered bomb damage in Omaha. Members of the Black Panther Party were the prime suspects in these bombings.

In July, a warrant was issued to search Omaha BPP headquarters for bomb making materials. Luther Payne, a former BPP member, was arrested in Omaha for possessing dynamite. On August 17 a call was made to the police reporting a woman screaming at a vacant house near 28th and Ohio Street. Patrolman Michael Lamson and

five other members of the Omaha Police Department (OPD) responded to the call. They noticed a suitcase sitting in the front room. Shortly

afterward, Patrolmen Larry Minard and John Tess arrived. With Tess looking on, Minard picked up the suitcase. The resultant explosion killed him and seriously injured Tess. After hiding out for over a week, Duane Peak was arrested for the crime on August 28. He confessed to placing the bag and implicated six others, but mentioned neither Rice nor Poindexter.

In a later statement, Peak told police that Rice and Poindexter had made the bomb, told him to plant it, and to lure the police to the vacant house with an anonymous phone call.

This led to the charging of Poindexter and Rice with murder on August 31, 1970.

In an interview with the Washington Post on January 8, 1978, County

Prosecutor Art O'Leary admitted that he had made a deal with Duane Peak to prosecute him as a juvenile in return for his testimony. O'Leary

acknowledged that without Peak's testimony, the pair would not have been convicted.



|[pic] |William 'Lefty' Gilday |

| |#W33537 |

| |Box 1218 |

| |Shirley, MA 01464 |

William ‘Lefty’ Gilday is a 60s radical sentenced to death for his involvement in a bank expropriation while attempting to finance the

anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. Gilday is a former minor league baseball player from Amesbury, Massachusetts, who in

his early to mid-thirties was arrested on robbery charges and became radicalized in prison. Gilday

enrolled in Boston’s Northeastern University with a fellow inmate, Robert Valeri. William Gilday and

friends became involved in the radical group known as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and later moved into a militant

offshoot of SDS, known as the Weather Underground.

The members engaged in an expropriation of funds from the Bell Federal Savings and Loan Association in Philadelphia on September 1, 1970. They have also been connected with an assault on the National Guard armory at Newburyport, Massachusetts, on September 20, 1970, which left the armory heavily damaged by fire and explosions. Ammunition and a truck were seized

during this action but were later recovered by authorities.

On September 23, 1970, members of the group entered the State Street Bank and Trust Company in Boston with the intent to expropriate

funds to help finance the movement against the Vietnam War. The group retrieved $26,585. As they left, a Boston police officer who had been alerted by a silent alarm was shot and killed by a Thompson .45 caliber sub-machine gun. Shortly after the incident, Boston police obtained warrants for two college students,

Susan Saxe and Katherine Power, and former convicts Stanley Bond, Robert Valeri and William Gilday. The five were charged with murdering the policeman during the robbery.

The hunt for Gilday was the largest manhunt in New England history, with close to 3,000 police, game wardens, military troops and other personnel involved. For eight days, Gilday was successful in evading the authorities before being captured after a pursuit with police cruisers and a helicopter.

Michael Fleischer, who was responsible for the actual shooting death of the officer became a witness for the state. Fleischer had nine indictments totally dismissed after he testified against Gilday and Saxe six years later. With the help of the testimonies of Fleischer and Valeri, the government was successful in framing the murder charge on William Gilday rather than Michael Fleischer. Gilday was tried, found guilty and was sentenced to death. His sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.



1971

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| |Richard Mafundi Lake #079972 |

| |Donaldson CF, 100 Warrior |

| |Lane, Bessemer, AL 35023-7299|

| |Birthday: |

| |3-1-1940 |

Mafundi is a New Afrikan prisoner and prolific writer inside prison. Due to his strong political views he was isolated from other prisoners at various intervals during his incarceration. He is a powerful writer inside. The following was written by Mafundi on February 20, 1995:

As a person who has been involved in political struggle all of my life, primarily the African liberation struggle (I am now 55 years old), I can sincerely respect and appreciate all, and any, effort in behalf of the universal struggle for human rights and human dignity, and especially efforts in behalf of those who are in prison. I have been incarcerated 24 years out of my life’s 55 years.

It is impossible for anyone who has never been in prison to comprehend the horrors and realities of life within prison. Prison is a very negative environment. There is nothing good that can be said about prisons. Prisons can not be reformed (made better). Prison takes a toll on everyone regardless of how physically strong or mentally tough a prisoner might be. Prison effects different people in different ways, but the dehumanizing and destructive nature of prisons will have a profound and everlasting effect on all who enter prison. Nobody remains the same in prison or after prison. Prison is truly the test of a person’s strength, character and resourcefulness. The strong is not always strong in prison. Paradoxically, the strong upon entering prison will often become weak and the weak often becomes strong. So many prisoners who are supposed to be strong and good people are broken in prison and become agents for the state inside and outside of prison. Political people should be careful about ex- prisoners being accepted among their ranks based solely upon their character and reputation before they went to prison. The state does excellent recruitment from within the prisons/jails and the military. Especially among prisoners with past good reputations. Personally, I distrust anyone who prison custodians trust and speak well of - and regardless of what that prisoner might be. Political prisoners of any degree of integrity and intelligence will not allow themselves to be played like that. Political activists/organizers/ revolutionaries should guard their integrity/ credibility with a passion because it is the most important thing they have.

One of the fundamental weaknesses of the prison struggle is that it is so fragmented by elitism , regionalism, egoism, etc. There is no real attempt among enough people to solidify the prison struggle. There is a serious lack of political maturity and political principles within the prison struggle. How can we save Mumia, free Gary Tyler, Pratt, Sundiata and all the other political prisoners and prisoners of war without the pressure and mobilization of the masses? This will take a massive undertaking. No individual or small group of individuals will be able to make it happen. The primary function of revolutionaries is to mobilize the masses. Unfortunately, some of the so-called revolutionary elements within the prison struggle do the most to retard the prison smuggle and undermine any real attempts to solidify the prison struggle. In fact, a lot of so- called revolutionary groups are no more than “elite social clubs” or “regional cults.” It is a shame that there are so many political individuals and groups out there who have allegedly been doing political studying for decades and still don’t understand a damn thing about political principles and political organizing. It is our ineptness that gives the system its aura of invincibility. The system ain’t shit.

There are hundreds of prisoner support groups throughout the country but very few have working relationships with each other - or even know about each other.

Political prisoners and prisoners of war have a vested interest in encouraging their families, their defense committees and their supporters to bond together with other political prisoners’ and prisoners’ of war families, defense committees and supporters in order to more effectively work for the common good. They should also encourage them to work with other reputable political groups regardless of what the primary focus of the group/individual might be.

We all have a common enemy and it’s about time we all start acting like it. The struggle is not about who we like personally. We are not engaged in a personal struggle or a popularity struggle! We are engaged in a political struggle… A revolutionary struggle!

|[pic] |Joseph "Joe-Joe" Bowen |

| |#AM-4272 |

| |1 Kelley Drive |

| |Coal Township, PA 17866-1021 |

| |Birthday: |

| |1-15-1946 |

Joseph "Joe-Joe" Bowen is one of the many all-but-forgotten frontline soldiers in the liberation struggle. A native of Philadelphia, Joe-Joe was a young member of the "30th and Norris Street" gang, before his incarceration politicized him. Released in 1971, his outside activism was cut short a week following his release when Joe-Joe was confronted by an officer of the notoriously brutal Philadelphia police department. The police officer was killed in the confrontation, and Bowen fled.

After his capture and incarceration, Bowen became a Black Liberation Army combatant, defiant to authorities at every turn. In 1973, Bowen and Philadelphia Five prisoner Fred "Muhammad Kafi" Burton assassinated Holmesberg prison's warden and deputy warden as well as wounded the guard commander in retaliation for intense repression against Muslim prisoners in the facility. In 1981, Bowen led a six-day standoff with authorities when he and six other captives took 39 hostages at Graterford Prison as a freedom attempt and protest of the prison conditions at Graterford.

Much of his time in prison has been spent in and out of control units, solitary confinement and other means of isolating Joe-Joe from the general prison population. However, he is legendary to many prisoners as a revolutionary. "I used to teach the brothers how to turn their rage into energy and understand their situations," Bowen told the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1981. "I don't threaten anybody. I don't talk to the pigs. I don't drink anything I can't see through and I don't eat anything that comes off a tray. When the time comes, I'll be ready."

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|[pic] |Russell Maroon Shoats |

| |#AF-3855 |

| |SCI Greene, 175 Progress Drive,|

| |Waynesburg, PA 15370 |

| |Birthday: |

| |8-23-1943 |

Russell Maroon Shoats is a political prisoner being held in the control

unit of SCI Greene, a super-max prison in western Pennsylvania. Russell was a founding member of Philadelphia’s Black Unity Council which eventually merged with the Black Panther Party. In 1972 while a member of the Philadelphia chapter Russell was arrested and tried for the murder of a police officer. He received an unfair trial, and without adequate legal representation he received two life sentences. Russell has spent twenty-three of his twenty-seven years in prison in a lock-down sensory deprivation unit in retaliation for his political activities and escape attempts in the early 70's. He is confined twenty-three hours a day. His family only gets one-hour visits with him, and they must drive twelve hours just to see him. Visitors must talk with Russell through a glass wall while his hands are shackled to his belt. Before and after visits he gets a full body cavity strip search, although the visits are non-contact. Russell has not received a disciplinary write-up in twenty-one years.



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| |Hugo "Dahariki" Pinell # |

|[pic] |A88401 |

| |SHU D3-221, P.O. Box 7500, |

| |Crescent City, CA 95531-7500 |

| |Birthday: |

| |3-10-1945 |

Hugo Pinell is a Nicaraguan prisoner convicted in 1965, at the age of 19, of assault in connection with the kidnapping and rape of a young woman in San Francisco. He turned himself in, and received a sentence of 18 months in state prison.

While Pinell was imprisoned in San Quentin State Prison he made contact

with revolutionary prisoners such as George Jackson, one of the Soledad

Brothers and W.L. Nolen.

On August 21st, 1971, there was a prisoner uprising in Pinell's housing unit at San Quentin, led by George Jackson. At the end of the roughly 30 minute rebellion, guards had killed George Jackson, and two other prisoners and three guards were dead. Of the remaining prisoners in the unit, six of them,

including Pinell, were put on trial for murder and conspiracy. Pinell was convicted of assault on a guard. Although Pinell was convicted

of assault, and another of the San Quentin Six had a murder conviction,

only Pinell remains. By 1998, all of the men except Pinell had been set

free. In 2009 the California Parole Board held a parole hearing for Hugo Pinell (Yogi) on January 14 at which they denied him parole and scheduled him to return to the board in 15 years!



1972

The Angola 3

[pic]

Wallace, King, Woodfox

Herman Wallace #76759

Elayn Hunt Correctional Center

Unit 5, D-Tier

PO Box 174

St Gabriel, LA 70776

Albert Woodfox #72148

CCR Upper B Cell #14, Louisiana State Pen, Angola LA 70712

Birthday:

2-19-1947

Robert King

c/o Kings Freelines

2008 New York Av. #B

Austin, Texas 78702

email: kingsfreelines AT gmail DOT com

Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace arrived to Angola on unrelated armed-robbery convictions, they were both sentenced on questionable evidence by all-white juries, and they both came to the prison having already earned reputations as political activists.

Woodfox and Wallace were escorted into an institution that Collier’s magazine had just dubbed “The Bloodiest Prison in America.” Inside its walls, violence was so commonplace that inmates slept with lunch trays or bibles strapped to their chests in case they were stabbed as they slept. Because of a serious shortage of guards, “trusty” inmates were permitted to carry guns and guard other prisoners. Murders were a near daily occurrence.

Woodfox and Wallace immediately began peacefully organizing their fellow inmates against racial segregation, sexual slavery, rampant violence and systematic brutality inside a prison that would soon be under federal investigation for its abhorrent conditions. Their methods included hunger strikes and escorting weaker inmates through the prison yard to offer them protection.

Shortly after their arrival, a white prison guard named Brent Miller was found stabbed to death in one of the black inmate buildings. Woodfox and Wallace were immediately identified as suspects, despite no witnesses or any physical evidence to link them to the crime. They were transferred into solitary confinement cells that same day. Thirty-five years later, that is where they remain.

Just after the US Supreme Court struck down the death penalty in 1972, citing racial disparity in its implementation, the men were convicted of the guard’s murder by all-white juries and sentenced to life in prison. The administration at Angola has determined that they will spend that sentence confined to the hell of solitude. Over three decades later, they are longest known survivors of solitary in the history of the United States.

Over the past 35 years, attorneys and investigators have turned up a mountain of evidence to indicate that not only were Woodfox and Wallace not guilty, but they were set up by an Administration that openly admitted it benefited from the sexual slavery rings. Woodfox and Wallace were working to stop prison rape, and they had also founded the first and only Black Panther chapter inside a penitentiary. The all-white staff, most of who actually lived on the prison grounds, did not appreciate this. Angola is the only prison in the country that has a residential neighborhood within the gates of the penitentiary.

Among the evidence that seems to exonerate Woodfox and Wallace are the bloody fingerprints which were found at the crime scene. They failed to match the state’s chosen suspects – so authorities never bothered to run them against anyone else, despite the fact that they had the prints of every inmate and every employee of Angola on file and readily available. After Woodfox and Wallace were already in solitary confinement, “eye-witnesses” started popping up. Each testified with a wildly different story – and it has recently been verified through prison documentation that each was handsomely rewarded for their statements, with cigarettes, cushy jobs and pardons. Every living eye-witness has now recanted their testimony and provided an affidavit that they felt pressured to lie.

Two days after Brent Miller’s murder, a friend of Woodfox’s and Wallace’s, Robert King Wilkerson, arrived at Angola, also bringing with him a reputation for activism. He was immediately placed under suspicion for the killing, even though he could not possibly have participated in it, and sent to his own solitary cell. A year later, he would be charged with the murder of a fellow inmate, despite no physical evidence and the repeated confessions of another prisoner who insisted he had acted alone. A Louisiana state court judge ordered that Wilkerson be shackled and his mouth covered with duct tape during his trial. He also was convicted of murder by an all-white jury and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Robert King Wilkerson’s conviction was overturned in 2001, after spending almost 30 years in solitary confinement, and he walked out of Angola to a throng of supporters who had gathered around the gates of the remote prison. He addressed them and said simply, “I may be free from Angola, but Angola will never be free from me.” It was his vow to work on behalf of the release of his friends. It is a vow that he has kept.

Woodfox and Wallace have a support network that includes the ACLU, a Dame of the British Empire, exonerated political prisoners, a few rock stars, Amnesty International, and support organizations in five U.S. cities and half a dozen foreign countries.

On November 7, 2006, after almost 35 years of solitary confinement, a Louisiana State Court Commissioner recommended to overturn Wallace’s 1972 conviction. He still has many legal hurdles before he can join his friend Robert King Wilkerson in freedom, but this is a remarkable victory and Wallace believes he has his “foot on the stairway to freedom.”

Albert Woodfox’s last state appeal was denied by the Louisiana Supreme Court ten days after Wallace’s hearing concluded. He now has the opportunity to present his case in federal court and Woodfox is optimistic that this is his best chance for a fair and impartial court ruling.

UPDATE: Late March 2008 the two were moved from solitary confinement into a special dormitory created for maximum security inmates. The men's lawyers, who have recently captured national attention with the Angola Three's story, said they were taken by surprise with the move.



1973

Virgin Island 5

|[pic] |Hanif Shabazz Bey (Beaumont |

| |Gereau) #295933 |

| |Keen Mountain CC, P.O. Box |

| |860, Oakwood, VA 24631 |

| |Birthday: |

| |8-16-1950 |

|[pic] |Malik Smith |

| |#295935 |

| |P.O. Box 759 |

| |Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 |

| |Wallensridge Supermax |

"Virgin Island Five" are a group of

activists accused of murdering eight

people in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The murders took place during a turbulent period of rebellion on the islands. During the 1970's, as with much of the world, a movement to resist colonial rule began to grow in the U.S. occupied Virgin Islands.

From 1971 to 1973, there was a small scale Mau Mau rebellion taking place on the islands. The media downplayed this activity, for fear that it would damage the tourist industry, which the island's survival depends on.

Then on September 6th, 1972, eight American tourists were gunned down at the Rockefeller-owned golf course on the island of St.Croix. Quickly the colonial authorities picked up over one hundred blacks for interrogations, and the U.S. colonial troops carried out a

series of repressive acts of violence against the black community. The F.B.I. and the United States Army troops led a 300-man invasion force into the islands and did house to house searches of the low income areas. The island was put under virtual martial law, and eventually five men, Ismail Ali, Warren (Aziz) Ballantine, Meral

(Malik) Smith, Raphael (Kwesi) Joseph, and Hanif Shabazz Bey were apprehended and then charged with the attack. All the men were known supporters of the Virgin Island independence movement.

The five were charged after being subjected to vicious torture, in order to extract confessions. They were beaten, hung from their feet and necks from trees, subject to

electric shocks with "cattle prods", had plastic bags tied over their heads and had water forced up their noses by the police. The judge (Warren Young) overlooking the case prior to being placed on the federal bench worked as Rockefeller's private attorney and even handled legal matters for the Fountain Valley Golf Course. Eventually, the five went to trial in what became known as the "Fountain Valley" murder trial. This was an obvious Kangaroo Court and a mockery of any sense of a fair trial.

• The court refused to excuse juror member Laura Torres, former wife of detective Jorge Torres, one of the arresting officers.

• Nine jurors testified that during the deliberations they were threatened with F.B.I. investigations on themselves and members of their families, and also threats of prosecution.

• The jury deliberated for nine days, and told the judge that they were "hopelessly deadlocked", yet he still refused to dismiss them and call a mistrial which worked to compel a guilty verdict.

On August 13, 1973, each of the five men convicted and sentenced to eight(8) consecutive life terms.

Today, Meral (Malik) Smith, and Hanif Shabazz Bey are currently confined in federal prisons. Warren (Aziz) Ballantine has been transferred to a prison facility

in the Virgin Islands. His address is unknown. Ismail Ali was liberated to Cuba via an airplane hijacking in 1984. Raphael (Kwesi) Joseph was granted a pardon by the Virgin Island governor in 1992. Six years later Kwesi was mysteriously found dead of a poison-laced drug overdose, after it was said that he was about to reveal evidence that would have

exonerated at least one or more defendant.

In 2006, the three remaining Virgin

Island political prisoners were notified by a team of attorneys from the islands that they were putting together a campaign for clemency. In January 2007, the Virgin Island prisoners received news that their clemency request was rejected. In recent writings, Hanif Bey has indicated that there are other Virgin Island political prisoners being held in Wallenridge. Little information has come out regarding these prisoners.

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|[pic] |Sundiata Acoli |

| |(C.Squire) |

| |#39794-066 |

| |USP Allenwood |

| |P.O. Box 3000 |

| |White Deer, PA 17887 |

| |Birthday: |

| |1-14-1937 |

Formerly a member of the Black Liberation Army. Acoli was convicted in May 2, 1973, along with the now-escaped Assata Shakur, of inciting a gun battle with New Jersey State Police during a routine traffic stop. In the battle, State Trooper Werner Foerster and a third man, Zayd Malik Shakur, who was traveling with Acoli and Assata, were killed. The trooper who made the stop, James Harper, and Assata were injured. Acoli was sentenced to life in prison plus thirty years for the assisted murder of State Trooper Foerster and Zayd Malik Shakur.



|[pic] |Veronza Bowers |

| |#35316-136 |

| |U.S. Penitentiary - Atlanta |

| |P.O. Box 150160 |

| |Atlanta, GA 30315 |

Former member of the Black Panther Party, Veronza Bowers Jr., was convicted of the murder of a U.S. Park Ranger on the word of two government informers, both of whom received reduced sentences for other crimes by the Federal prosecutor's office. There were no eye-witnesses and no evidence independent of these informants to link him to the crime. At his trial, Veronza offered alibi testimony, which was not credited by the jury. Nor was testimony of two relatives of the informants who insisted that they were lying.

Despite letters of support from prominent attorneys, former high-ranking representatives of regional commissions, prison officials and a member of the U.S. Congress, Veronza has continually been denied release due to intervention by the U.S. Parole Commission. It is a sad fact that Vernonza may never see the sight of day despite having served his full sentence. Veronza's case deserves careful review.

In the 30-plus years of his confinement, Veronza has become a "model "prisoner. He is an author, musician, a student of Asian healing arts, has a strong interest in Buddhist meditation and "hands-on" healing techniques which he practiced at the various facilities in which he was incarcerated, and he is an honorary elder of the Lompoc Tribe of Five Feathers, a Native American spiritual and cultural group.



|[pic] |Robert Seth Hayes |

| |#74-A-2280 |

| |Wende CF, Wende Rd., |

| |PO Box 1187, Alden, NY |

| |14004-1187 |

| |Birthday: |

| |10-15-1948 |

Seth is in prison due to his activity in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He worked in the BPP’s free medical clinics and free breakfast programs.

In 1973, following a shootout with police, Seth was arrested and convicted of the murder of a New York City police officer, and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Seth has always maintained his innocence. Jailed for over 30 years, Seth has long since served the time he was sentenced to and while in prison he has worked as a librarian, pre release advisor, and AIDS councilor. Seth is repeatedly denied parole. His supporters suspect this is for having been a member of the Black Panther Party, and of having remained true to his ideals after 30 years behind bars.

Seth has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C and adult onset Diabetes since the year 2000. Unfortunately, despite his repeated requests Seth has not been receiving adequate health care from prison.

From Seth’s daughter:

Dear Friends of Robert Seth Hayes:

As you may know, this past winter, my father lost another parole hearing. He has now served twelve years above his twenty-five year sentence for a total of thirty-seven years. This is unacceptable. For this reason, we are making an urgent request for financial support in an effort to prepare for his next parole board hearing. We hope to raise somewhere near $2,500. If you decide to donate, you can write off your contribution next tax season.

To donate, please write IFCO/NYCJERICHO. They will collect the funds and send them to Cheryl Kates, his new parole attorney. If you need more information call Paulette at 718-853-0893 or cell 646-271-4677. All money should be mailed to Paulette at:

NYC JERICHO, P.O.Box 1272, NY, NY 10013

Make your check payable to IFCO/NYC Jericho and in the memo of your check be sure to include “Robert Seth Hayes.”

We really appreciate your help!



1975

| |Gary Tyler |

| |# 84156 |

| |Louisiana State Penitentiary,|

| |ASH-4, Angola LA 70712 |

In 1975, Gary Tyler, an African-American teenager, was wrongly convicted by an all-white jury for the murder of Timothy Weber, a thirteen-year-old white youth. Weber had been killed the previous year during an attack by a racist white mob on a school bus filled with African-American high school students in Destrehan, Louisiana.

Tyler's trial was characterized by

coerced testimony, planted evidence, judicial misconduct, and an

incompetent defense. He was sentenced to death by electrocution at the age of seventeen. He has since had his sentence changed to life in prison.



|[pic] |Sekou Kambui (William Turk) |

| |#113058 |

| |Box 56, SCC (B1-21), Elmore, AL|

| |36025-0056 |

| |Birthday: |

| |9-6-1948 |

Sekou Cinque T.M. Kambui (s/n William J. Turk is a New Afrikan political prisoner currently serving two consecutive life sentences. Sekou has already spent more than 29 years of his life behind bars on trumped up charges of murdering two white men in Alabama in 1975. He maintains his innocence.

Throughout the 1960s, Sekou participated in the Civil Rights movement, organizing youth for participating in demonstrations and marches across Alabama and providing security for meetings of the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

On January 2, 1975, Sekou was captured in North Birmingham for allegedly running a yield sign and/or speeding. During this stop, a 9mm pistol was found in the car lying between the front seats. Subsequent investigation by police on the scene discovered that the pistol was listed as stolen during a Tuscaloosa, AL murder. A wide-range investigation followed, At one point during the investigation, Sekou was told by one of the investigators, "We don't really give a damn whether you committed these crimes or not, but you should have because we are gonna hang your ass with them anyway…" Sekou was arrested and charged with the murders of two white men: a KKK official from Tuscaloosa and a multi-millionaire oilman from Birmingham.



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| |Kojo Bomani Sababu (Grailing |

| |Brown) #39384-066 |

| |USP Coleman 1, P.O. Box 1033,|

| |Coleman, FL 33521 |

New Afrikan Prisoner Kojo Bomani

Sababu has been imprisoned since 1975 after the state attacked and destroyed his Black Liberation

Army unit. He received a sentence of multiple life terms because he fought for self-determination. His unit engaged in bank expropriation and liquidated dealers bringing drugs into the Black community. He was convicted of conspiracy to escape along with Jaime Delgado, (a veteran independence leader), Dora Garcia, (a prominent community activist) and Oscar Rivera (leader of Armed Forces of National Liberation.)

Statement from Kojo:

Although it seems as if all is lost and we are in a period of stagnation, we should place our energy in the areas which produce tangible results as opposed to frustration.

What efforts are they is the question! Those efforts are still an attempt at building recognition for those who have long endured incarceration, constructing a sound organizational program for them, and not allow their contributions to humanity to be forgotten.

Currently, many political prisoners of war and political prisoners, are growing old, infirm, and have become mantelpieces for the fireplace. Our organizations have grown old in thought also and need reinvigoration from different ideas and approaches. In order to grow fresh and anew we need to accept first that we are stale and tasteless, otherwise we would have developed into a unique program counter to what is presently offered by the oppressor nation. To emerge from the ashes is to find new solutions to our problems because what we utilized in the past has either been useless, or met the test of time.

In the past, we were quick-witted and refused to listen to alternatives in our techniques at handling affairs. This attitude and character must change because we are at a standstill in our development. To listen and be attentive is to be informed and thinking. We have to build a thinking person to disarm a enemy which uses many devices to control our movements. Adaptability is probably the order of the day for our survival as internationalists and nationalists. We should definitely forsake becoming the oppressor, but in this technological world we must learn to fight with his tools. His major weapon nowadays is consistent propaganda. Techniques used are fax machines, radio, television, town meetings, etc., to disseminate their ideas that our approaches are complete failures at life. We must use these same weapons at our disposal to reverse this trend, in building support for our programs and those who are incarcerated. They have stolen the appreciation for struggle from us. We must fight to regain the love and honor of revolution in the hearts and minds of the oppressed.

I've been rather long-winded, so I shall cut this commentary short. But I sincerely believe if we step up our propaganda efforts and accept new ideas we will be better off and stronger going into the next century.

Revolutionary Love To All.

1977

|[pic] |Ojore Nuru Lutalo |

| |# 59860 |

| |PO Box 861, #901548, Trenton |

| |NJ 08625 |

| |Birthday:8-6 |

Recently released from a Management Control Unit (MCU) after spending years in solitary confinement, New Afrikan anarchist prisoner of

War, Ojore, is still incarcerated in Trenton, New Jersey, for actions

carried out in the fight for liberation.

In 1977, Ojore received a 14-year sentence for “expropriating monies from a capitalist state bank (in order to finance political activities) and engaging the political police in a gun battle in December 1975 in order to effect our departure from the bank, and to ensure success of the military operation…” He is currently serving a 40-year sentence for a 1982 gunfight with a drug dealer. “The overall strategy of assaulting a drug dealer is to secure monies to finance one's activities, and to rid oppressed communities of drug dealers.”

Ojore was a comrade of the late Kuwasi Balagoon, a New Afrikan anarchist POW. “I’ve been involved in the struggle, the war against

the fascist state since 1970. I’ve been an anarchist since 1975 without any regrets… I was…influenced and highly motivated by the Black Liberation Army (BLA) here in Amerika…From the inception of all revolutions, I feel that the people need armed combat units to check state sponsored acts of terrorism by the government’s security forces.”

Ojore has long been a powerful voice urging progressive groups and individuals to materially support PP/POWs. "Any political movement that does not support its political

internees is a sham movement!"



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|[pic] |Leonard Peltier #89637-132 |

| |USP Lewisburg, P.O. Box 1000, |

| |Lewisburg, PA 17837 |

| |Birthday: |

| |9-12-1944 |

Leonard Peltier is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations, an indigenous rights activist and member of the American Indian Movement.

In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two FBI Agents who died during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge

Indian Reservation. Peltier had fled to Canada after the incident believing he would never receive a fair trial in the United States. On February 6, 1976, Peltier was apprehended. The FBI knowingly presented the Canadian court with fraudulent affidavits, and Peltier was returned to the U.S. for trial. Numerous appeals have been filed on his behalf but none have been ruled in his favor. Peltier is currently incarcerated at the United State Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Peltier has been a key-figure in the movement for support of political prisoners. He is an accomplished writer and artist with the noteable work: Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance.

UDATE: Leonard had a parole hearing on July,28 2009 and eagerly awaits the outcome of said hearing.





1978

| | |

|[pic] |Luis V. Rodríguez |

| |# C - 33000 |

| |P.O. Box 409000 |

| |IONE, CA 95640 |

| |USA |

Luis V. Rodriguez is a Chicano-Native freedom fighter. As a youngster, he lived in Los Angeles for a period of time with a group known as the Brown Berets, a Chicano-Native American militant organization, which formed

against racism and other social injustices.

Luis interacted with the League of United Latin Americans (LULAC), the G.I. Forum, and other

Socio-political organizations. At age seventeen, he started Atzlan, a Chicano-Native American news magazine, which focused on politics, history, culture, and ethnic awareness. He was editor-in-chief, artist, and headed a small staff of other youths. He was a counselor at an Offender Ex-Offender program in Sacramento, a counselor in Los Angeles at the AYUDATE program, and a counselors’ aide at the

California Youth Authority Perkins Reception Center.

Luis V. Rodriguez and his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Margaret Klaess, were arrested on December 24, 1978 in Richmond California, for the alleged homicides of two California Highway Patrolmen. The deaths occurred on December 22, 1978 at about 3:30 a.m., alongside the Interstate Freeway I-80 in Yolo County, just outside of Sacramento, California.

Luis V. Rodriguez was arrested at a time when California´s Death Penalty

law had become reactivated and the political terms ´War on Crime´, ´ and ‘Tough on Crime´, were on a political roll. It was during a time when racial tensions and confrontations were at a peak between the Yolo County law enforcement and Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and African Americans. Apprehended on the basis of composite drawings related to a robbery, known travel plans, and allegations from police informants; the Richmond police took them into custody. At the time of their arrest, they placed Rodriguez on the ground spread-eagle, and placed two shotguns against his head, telling him that they ought to blow him away right there and save the taxpayers some money. While being processed through the Richmond County Jail, Rodriguez was choked and beaten by officers. The police and prosecutors had set up numerous news media people outside that door to intentionally have Rodriguez and Klaess photographed and to have their identities aired broadly to expose the faces of Rodriguez and Klaess to any and all possible persons who might want to become a witness against them and for them to be able to identify the alleged suspects in these crimes, thereby tainting all possible witness identifications against them.

For periods of time while in county jails, Rodriguez was held

incommunicado, unable to receive visits from attorneys, family or friends and unable to correspond or receive any correspondence. He was denied telephone access, personal hygiene necessities, such as

toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, comb, or even shoes. Immediately after being processed into the Yolo County Jail, Luis was deprived of sleep for almost three days while being questioned, photographed, and forced physically to submit to the takings of physical specimens, such as hair, saliva, blood, and fingernail clippings. Rodriguez´ food was brought inedible, cold, and dusty. He was taken to his arraignment within 72 hours after his arrest looking like a madman with

his hair disheveled, no shoes or socks, as well as showing the effects of having been deprived of sleep and nourishment.

Yet, Margaret Klaess, who had been charged with the same crimes and in the same jail, was receiving not only various cosmetics, but cigarettes and outdoor exercise, along with the privilege of taking her meals in the regular dining hall with other inmates. (Rodriguez had immediately been placed in a secluded isolation section of the jail where they had moved out all other inmates in order to completely isolate him). Additionally, Luis would later learn that Margaret had a television and radio in her cell, as well as access to newspapers. What Rodriguez didn´t know at the time was that Margaret´s attorney was already attempting to get Margaret to make statements against Rodriguez in order to implicate him in the homicides or to cast guilt upon him.

On January 1, 1979, Rodriguez received a surprise visit from a women he had previously had a relationship with. At the visit, the women attempted to give Rodriguez her address so that he could write to her.

The letter was intercepted and shown to Margaret. She began screaming and crying, yelling hysterically that, ´ Louis is a traitor,´ ´a lying son of a bitch!´ and stating, “He´s guilty, he killed those officers!”

Officers and prosecutors were quickly there to provide Margaret with a complete immunity deal and immediate release if she would continue to say Luis had committed the murders. With access to all of documents of the investigation she fabricated quite a convincing story implicating Rodriguez as the sole perpetrator in the killing of the two officers. To cinch the immunity deal with Margaret, the prosecutors requested she take a polygraph test. The polygraph test was given to Klaess using completely erroneous dates, making the entire test invalid and worthless. Yet, prosecutors knowing this, continued on with the immunity deal and simply hid the test results from Rodriguez and his attorneys for several years, until after he was convicted and on Death Row.

Margaret Klaess was released from jail on January 22, 1979, after

testifying in Rodriguez´ preliminary hearing. Klaess´ immunity deal

included absolution from numerous crimes ranging from the homicides to

robberies and a variety of drug charges, and later to include ongoing immunity for Klaess for any crimes she would continue to commit while waiting to testify against Rodriguez in his trial.

In July, 1979, County Jail officers allowed an incarcerated police

informant (an ex-death row prisoner who had previously been convicted for various counts of child molestation against his twelve year old step-daughter and assault with a deadly weapon against his wife), to

smuggle a tape-recorder into the jail in an attempt to record Rodriguez while attempting to engage him in incriminating conversations. The tape recording was fruitless and unsuccessful, the police and prosecutor still attempted to put him on the federal payroll as a federally protected witness for testifying against Rodriguez. This was not the only witness of this type that would come forward, offering false statements against Rodriguez in exchange for some type of reward, immunity, favors, or police protection.

At about the same time of these fabrications in July, 1979, the County Jail officers conducted an illegal search and seizure upon Rodriguez’ confidential attorney-client legal files which he maintained within his jail cell.

When Rodriguez attempted to complain about these actions, the jailers

placed him in complete incommunicado, turned off the water into his cell, threw food and liquids at him through the bars, and placed him on disciplinary status.

Other witnesses described seeing a man at the crime scene whose description was completely inconsistent with that of Rodriguez.





Move 9

|Charles Simms Africa #AM4975 |

|SCI Graterford, Box 244, Graterford PA 19426 |

|Birthday: April 7, 1956 |

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|Debbie Sims Africa #006307 |

|451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238 |

|Birthday: August 4, 1956 |

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|Delbert Orr Africa #AM4985 |

|SCI Dallas Drawer K, Dallas, PA 18612 |

|Birthday: June 21, 1951 |

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|Edward Goodman Africa #AM4974 |

|301 Morea Road, Frackville, PA 17932 |

|Birthday: October 21, 1949 |

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|Merle Africa-died in prison |

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|Janet Holloway Africa #006308 |

|451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238 |

|Birthday: April 13, 1951 |

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|Janine Phillips Africa #006309451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs,|

|PA 16403-1238 |

|Birthday: April 25, 1956 |

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|Michael Davis Africa #AM4973 |

|SCI Graterford Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426-0244 |

|Birthday: October 6, 1955 |

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|William Phillips Africa #AM4984 |

|SCI Dallas Drawer K, Dallas, PA 18612 |

|Birthday: January 1, 1956 |

| |

From the Move Website written by a member of MOVE- The MOVE 9 are innocent men and women who have been in prison since August 8, 1978, following a massive police attack on us at our home in Powelton Village (Philadelphia). This was seven years before the government dropped a bomb on MOVE, killing 11 people, including 5 babies. The August 8, 1978 police attack on MOVE followed years of police brutality against MOVE and was a major military operation carried out by the Philadelphia police department under orders of then-mayor, Frank Rizzo, whose reputation for racism and brutality is well known; it followed him up thru the ranks of the police department to the police commissioner's office to the mayor's office.

During this attack, heavy equipment was used to tear down the fence surrounding our home, and cops filled our home with enough tear gas to kill us and our babies, while SWAT teams covered every possible exit. We were all in the basement of our home, where we had 10 thousand pounds of water pressure per minute directed at us from 4 fire department water cannons (for a total of 40 thousand pounds of water pressure per minute). As the basement filled with nearly six feet of water we had to hold our babies and animals above the rising water so they wouldn't drown. Suddenly shots rang out (news reporters and others know the shots came from a house at 33rd and Baring St., not our home, because they actually saw the man shooting) and bullets immediately filled the air as police through-out the area opened fire on us. Officer James Ramp, who was standing above us on street-level and facing our home, was killed by a single bullet that struck him on a downward angle. This alone makes it impossible for MOVE to have killed Ramp, since we were below street level, in the basement. MOVE adults came out of the house carrying our children through clouds of tear gas, we were beat and arrested. Television cameras actually filmed the vicious beating of our brother Delbert Africa (3 of the 4 cops that beat Delbert went to trial on minor charges). Despite the photographic evidence, the trial judge (Stanley Kubacki) refused to let the jury render a verdict and himself acquitted the cops by directed order.

Nine of us were charged with murder and related charges for the death of James Ramp. Within a few hours of our arrest, our home (which is supposed to be the "scene of the crime" and therefore evidence) was deliberately destroyed, demolished, by city officials when they were legally obligated to preserve all evidence, but we were held for trial anyway. We went to trial before Judge Edward Malmed who convicted all nine of us of third degree murder (while admitting that he didn't have "the faintest idea" who killed Ramp) and sentenced each of us to 30 - 100 years in prison. Judge Malmed also stated that MOVE people said we are a family so he sentenced us as a family; we were supposed to be on trial for murder, not for being a family. It is clear that the MOVE 9 are in prison for being committed MOVE members, not for any accusation of crime. Three other adults that were in the house on August 8th did not get the same treatment as those that this government knows are committed MOVE members. One had all charges dismissed against her in September of 1978 with the judge saying that there was no evidence that she was a committed MOVE member when the issue was supposed to be murder. The second one was held for trial but released on bail; she was acquitted. The third one was held for trial with no bail, convicted of conspiracy and given 10-23 years; she was paroled in 1994. It is obvious that everything depended on whether or not the courts thought it was dealing with a committed MOVE member, court decisions had nothing to do with the accusation of murder.

It has been 25 years since the August 8, 1978 police attack on MOVE, 25 years of unjust of imprisonment, but despite the hardship of being separated from family-members, despite the grief over the murder of family-members (including babies), the MOVE 9 remain strong and loyal to our Belief, our Belief in Life, the Teaching of our Founder, JOHN AFRICA. We have an uncompromising commitment to our Belief, which is what makes us a strong unified family, despite all this government have done to break us up and ultimately exterminate us.



1979

|[pic] |Bill Dunne #10916-086 |

| |USP Big Sandy, P.O. Box 2068,|

| |Inez, KY 41224 |

| |Birthday: |

| |8-3 |

The following was written by Bill Dunne:

My name is Bill Dunne. I fell in 1979 as a result of an effort to effect the armed liberation of a comrade from jail. My politics fall in the anarcho-communist realm: radical socialism somewhere between rigid and hierarchical vanguard parties and disorganized and scattered non-parties. They aim at an egalitarian and democratic social organization in which all people will have the greatest possible freedom to develop their full human potential.

I was made a prisoner of the state on October 14, 1979 in Seattle, Washington. Late that evening, I was picked up by paramedics while under the influence of police bullets near a shot-up and wrecked car containing some weapons and a dead jail escapee. According to the ensuing state and federal charges, I and a codefendant and unknown other associates of a San Francisco anarchist collective had conspired to effect a comrade’s armed liberation from a Seattle jail and attempted to execute the plot on October 14, 1979. The charges further alleged the operation was financed by bank expropriation and materially facilitated by illegal acquisition of weapons, explosives, vehicles, ID and other equipment.

After long subjection to atrocious jail conditions and three sensationalized trials, I got a 90 year sentence in 1980. I subsequently got a consecutive 15 years as a result of an attempted self-emancipation in 1983…

…I have contested my imprisonment legally, and recently filed another challenge. Contrary to applicable law, my federal conspiracy prosecution constituted double jeopardy, secret government information was used in imposing the sentence, and the written sentence is 50 years longer than the controlling oral sentence. That challenge languishes in federal court in Seattle.

My political motivation is without reservation radical left up to and including the left of people’s revolution by any means necessary. I know of no single ideology whose name adequately defines my politics.



1981

|[pic] |Oscar López Rivera |

| |#87651-024 |

| |U.S. Penitentiary, P.O. Box |

| |12015, Terre Haute, IN 47801 |

| |Birthday: |

| |1-6-1943 |

Oscar López-Rivera was a leader in the Armed Forces of National Liberation for Puerto Rican Independence, and was sentenced to 55 years for seditious conspiracy, which included the bombing of 28 targets in the Chicago area.

He was born in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico on January 6, 1943. At the age of 12, he moved to Chicago with his family. He was a well-respected community activist and a prominent independence leader for many years prior to his arrest. Oscar was one of the founders of the Rafael Cancel Miranda High School, now known as the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School and the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center. He was a community organizer for the Northwest Community Organization (NCO), ASSPA, ASPIRA and the 1st Congregational Church of Chicago. He helped to found FREE, (a half-way house for convicted drug addicts) and ALAS (an educational program for Latino prisoners at Stateville Prison in Illinois).

He was active in various community struggles, mainly in the area of health care, employment and police brutality. He also participated in the development of the Committee to Free the Five Puerto Rican Nationalists. In 1975, he was forced underground, along with other comrades. He was captured on May 29, 1981, after 5 years of being pursued by the FBI as one of the most feared fugitives from US justice.

He was convicted of conspiracy to escape along with Jaime Delgado, (a veteran independence leader), Dora Garcia, (a prominent community activist) and Kojo Bomani-Sababu, a New Afrikan political prisoner.

Oscar was one of 12 FALN Puerto Rican prisoners offered clemency by the Clinton Administration in the fall of 1999. He denied clemency. Now he faces at least 20 more years in prison.



| |Mutulu Shakur #83205-012 |

|[pic] |USP Florence ADMAX, PO Box |

| |8500, Florence, CO 81226 |

| |Birthday: |

| |8-8-1950 |

Dr. Mutulu Shakur is a New Afrikan prisoner. Mutulu Shakur was born on August 8, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland as Jeral Wayne Williams. Shakur's political and social consciousness began to develop early in his life. His mother suffered not only from being black and female, but was also blind. These elements constituted Shakur's first confrontation with the state, while assisting his mother to negotiate through the maze that made up the social service system. Through this experience Shakur learned that the system did not operate in the interests of Black people and that Black people must control the institutions that affect their lives.

Since the age 16, Dr. Shakur has been a part of the New Afrikan

Independence Movement. During the late sixties Dr. Shakur was also politically active and worked with the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a Black Nationalist group

which struggled for Black self-determination and socialist change in America. Dr Shakur also worked very closely with the Black Panther Party supporting his brother Lumumba Shakur and Zayd.

In the 70’s Shakur became a certified and celebrated acupuncturist. From 1978 to 1982, Dr. Shakur was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and the Harlem Institute of Acupuncture. By the late 1970's Dr. Shakur's work in acupuncture and drug detoxification was both nationally and internationally known and he was invited to address members of the medical community around the world.

Dr. Shakur has furthermore been a dedicated worker and champion in the

struggle against political imprisonment and political convictions of Black Activists in America. He was the founding member of the National Committee to Free Political Prisoners.

In March 1982, Dr. Shakur and 10 others were indicted by a federal grand jury under a set of U.S. conspiracy laws called "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization" (RICO) laws. These conspiracy laws were ostensibly developed to aid the government in its prosecution of organized crime figures; however, they have been used with varying degrees of success against revolutionary organizations. Dr. Shakur was charged with conspiracy and participation in a clandestine paramilitary unit that carried out actual and attempted expropriations from several banks. Eight incidents were alleged to have occurred between December 1976 to October

1981. In addition he was charged with participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, who is now in exile in Cuba. After five years underground, Dr. Shakur was arrested on February 12, 1986 and sentenced to 60 years in prison. Dr. Shakur is the father of six children including Tupac who was assassinated in 1996. Dr. Shakur is eligible for parole in 2017.



|[pic] |Mumia Abu-Jamal |

| |#AM 8335 |

| |SCI-Greene |

| |175 Progress Dr., Waynesburg, |

| |PA 15370 |

| |Birthday: |

| |4-24-1954 |

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a renowned journalist from Philadelphia who has been in prison since 1981 and on death row since 1983 for allegedly shooting Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He is known as the “Voice of the Voiceless” for his award- winning reporting on police brutality and other social and racial injustices. Mumia has received international support over the years in his efforts to overturn his unjust conviction.

Mumia Abu-Jamal was serving as the President of the Association of Black Journalists at the time of his arrest. He was a founding member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Black Panther Party as a teenager. Years later he began reporting professionally on radio stations such as NPR, and was the news director of Philadelphia station WHAT.

Mumia’s case has been a unifying point for many social struggles because it concentrates issues vitally important to our future, such as the rise in prison populations, police brutality, the death penalty, persecution of political dissent, and the continuation of white supremacy and racism in the U.S. From death row, Mumia has continued to speak out for all who are oppressed through his journalism. He has published four books, and his weekly columns are published throughout the world.

On March 27, 2008 the Federal Court has ruled to uphold Mumia's conviction while granting a re-sentencing hearing. Mumia’s current legal status now leaves him with either an execution or life in prison without parole. Though Mumia's attorneys are appealing, Mumia is currently bound to either an execution or permanent life in prison.



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|[pic] |Abdul Majid (Anthony Laborde) |

| |#83-A-0483 |

| |Drawer B, Green Haven CF, |

| |Stormville, NY 12582-0010 |

| |Birthday: |

| |6-25-1949 |

Abdul Majid, also known as Anthony LaBorde, was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. Majid was convicted of the murder of New York City police officer John Scarangella, and the attempted murder of Scarangella's partner, Officer Richard Rainey. Officer Scarangella was murdered on April 16 1981, after he and his partner pulled over a van carrying Majid and Hameed. Majid and his co-defendant were both convicted, and Majid was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

During Majid's imprisonment, he was beaten by prison guards, and was awarded $15,000 in compensation. In 2006, Vivian Scarangella, widow of Officer John Scarangella, initiated a lawsuit against Majid to block him from receiving the $15,000 award, a challenge brought under New York State's Son of Sam Law, which prevents a convicted murder from profiting off of his crime.

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|[pic] |Zolo Agona Azania |

| |#4969 |

| |Indiana State Prison, |

| |P.O. Box 41, Michigan City, IN |

| |46361 |

| |Birthday: |

| |12-12-1954 |

New Afrikan Prisoner, Zolo Agona Azania is on death row for the alleged murder of a police officer during a 1981 bank robbery. The Gary, Indiana police officer was fatally wounded in an exchange of gunfire with three men who fled from the bank. Zolo was not arrested at the bank, but while walking miles away from the scene.

For more than 26 years Zolo has been imprisoned on Indiana's death row and has been fighting for his life. Twice he has been sentenced to die and twice the death sentence has been reversed on appeal due to suppression of favorable evidence by the prosecution, ineffective assistance of counsel, and systematic exclusion of Blacks from the jury pool. On May 10, 2007 the Indiana Supreme Court reversed Boone County Superior Court ruling that barred the state of Indiana from pursuing the death penalty in the case of Zolo Azania. Zolo did not receive a fair trial and has always maintained his total innocence of any involvement in the crime.

Zolo uses the written and visual art as instruments of political struggle — not merely to call attention to himself, but to raise the political awareness of his people, and to draw the attention of the world to their fight for self-determination and independence from U.S. control and domination.

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| |Sekou Odinga #05228-054 |

|[pic] |USP Florence ADMAX, P.O. Box |

| |8500, Florence, CO 81226 |

| |Birthday: |

| |6-17-1944 |

Sekou Odinga, in Can't Jail the Spirit, 4th edition, March 1998:

"My name is Sekou Mgobogi Abdullah Odinga. I am a Muslim and a POW. I was born in Queens, N.Y., on June 17, 1944. I was raised in a family of nine — Father, Mother, three brothers, and three sisters. I was kicked out of school in the tenth grade for defending myself against an attack by a teacher.

At age 16 I was busted for robbery and sentenced to three years as a

'Youthful Offender.' I spent 32 months at Great Meadows Correctional

Institution (Comstock) in upstate New York, where I finished my high

school education. In 1961-63 Comstock was very racist. No Blacks worked in any capacity at the prison. One of the sergeants working at Comstock was the head of the kkk. My first political education came at Comstock. In 1963, I was caught in a serious race riot at Comstock.

The teachings of Malcolm X, who was then with the Nation of Islam, became a big influence on me at that time. After my release, I became involved in Black political activity in New York, especially revolutionary, nationalist politics. In 1964, I also became involved in the Cultural Nationalist movement. By 1965, I had joined the organization of African American Unity, founded by El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X). I began

to move with and among many young African Nationalists. My political

consciousness was growing daily. I was reading and listening to many

Afrikan Nationalists from Africa and the U.S. and became convinced that

only after a successful armed struggle would New Afrikans gain freedom and self-determination. I also became convinced that integration would never solve the problems faced by New Afrikans.

After Malcolm's death, the OAAU never seemed to me to be going in the direction I desired. By late '65 or early '66 I hooked up with other young Revolutionary Nationalists to organize ourselves for the purpose of implementing what we felt was Malcolm's program. We organized the

Grassroot Advisory Council, in South Jamaica, New York. We were all very

young and inexperienced and got caught up in a local anti-poverty program.

By 1967 I was thoroughly disillusioned with that, when I heard about the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Oakland, California. Myself, along with some of my closest comrades, decided this was the type of organization we wanted to be a part of. We decided that some of us would go to California,

investigate, and join the BPP if it was what it claimed to be. By the

spring of 1968, we heard that representatives from the BPP were coming to New York and there was a possibility of organizing a chapter. I attended the meeting and decided to join and help build the BPP in New York. I became the section leader of the Bronx section, sharing an office with the Harlem section.

On January 17, 1969, the day Bunchy Carter and John Huggins were murdered in Los Angeles, I went underground. I was told that Joan Bird, a sister in the party, had been busted and severely brutalized by the police and that the police were looking for me in connection with a police shooting. On April 22, 1969, I awoke at 5:30 AM to the sound of wood splitting around

my door. When I investigated, I found that my house was completely

surrounded with pigs on my roof, fire escape, in the halls, on the street, etc. I was fortunate enough to evade them and go deeper into hiding.

In 1970, I was asked to go to Algeria to help set up the International section of the BPP. After the split in the Party, caused by the COINTELPRO program, I decided to come back to the U.S. to continue the struggle. I continued to work until my capture in October of 1981.

I was charged with six counts of attempted murder of police, for shooting over my shoulder while being chased and shot at by police. I was also charged with nine

predicate acts of a RICO indictment. I was convicted of the attempted

murders and given twenty-five years-to-life for it. I was convicted of two counts of the RICO indictment (the liberation of Assata Shakur and

expropriation of an armored truck) and given twenty years and $25,000 fine for each RICO charge. All sentences run consecutively.

Prison life has been very difficult for Sekou. Upon Sekou’s arrival at USP Lompoc, he was immediately placed in a cell as dirty as the one he had just left at the county jail. His repeated requests for something to clean up the filth with were completely ignored. Mr. Odinga was placed in a section of the prison where there are no other prisoners. He was kept in his cell 24 hours a day; except Monday, Wednesday & Friday when he can take a shower.

Despite the fact that the shower stall was right next to his cell, he was taken there by 3 guards and a lieutenant and was completely shackled while they move him. Mr. Odinga got no exercise or recreation; no pen or paper; no reading material, except for a copy of the Koran; no visits nor phone calls. The order securing Mr. Odinga stated no human contact!! Odinga was supposedly brought to California by subpoena to testify at a grand jury investigation. The Government had been told by Mr. Odinga's lawyers that he would not testify before any grand juries. It is a political principle which he will not compromise on.

Sekou is now in super maximum security prison at Florence where according to Sekou, conditions are no better.

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|[pic] |David Gilbert #83A6158 |

| |Clinton Correctional Facility, |

| |P.O. Box 2001, Dannemora, NY |

| |12929 |

| |Birthday: |

| |10-6-1944 |

David Gilbert is a revolutionary organizer, author and militant currently imprisoned at Clinton Correctional Facility. Gilbert was a founding member of Columbia University Students for a Democratic Society and member of The Weather Underground Organization. After about 5 years of organizing in the above ground movement, David joined the revolutionary underground, spending a total of 10 years living clandestinely, actively resisting imperialism with arms. He was arrested in 1981, along with members of the Black Liberation Army and other radicals, after they killed three people in an armored car robbery. He was unarmed and did not personally hurt anyone. Two police officers and a security guard were murdered in the course of the robbery. Gilbert was tried and convicted for his part in their deaths and given a life sentence.

In the late 1970s or early 1980s Gilbert and other white activists took the name RATF (Revolutionary Armed Task Force), declaring their solidarity with the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1981, this group participated along with several members of the BLA in an attempt to rob a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall, near Nyack, New York. While Gilbert and Boudin waited in a U-Haul truck in a nearby parking lot, armed BLA members took another vehicle to the mall, where a Brinks truck was making a delivery. They confronted the guards and a shoot out ensued, almost severing the arm of guard Joe Trombino and killing his co-worker, Peter Paige. The robbers then took $1.6 million in cash and sped off to transfer into the waiting U-Haul. The truck was soon stopped by police. Gilbert and Boudin surrendered but when the officers tried to search the back of the vehicle BLA members emerged shooting. Two police officers Waverly L. Brown and Edward J. O'Grady died in the shootout. Gilbert fled the scene with other RATF and BLA members but was later caught by police, tried, and sentenced in 1983 to 75 years for three counts of felony manslaughter.

His extremely long sentence for participating in this action may be due to his decision not to participate in his trial, not recognizing the authority of the state to try him. Gilbert co-founded an inmate peer education program on HIV and AIDS in the Auburn Correctional Facility in 1987, and a similar more successful project in Great Meadows Prison in Comstock following his transfer there. He has published book reviews and essays in a number of small/independent newspapers and journals which were collected into the anthology No Surrender: Writings from an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner (Abraham Guillen Press) in 2004.



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| |Maliki Shakur Latine |

| |# 81-A-4469 |

| |Great Meadow CF, |

| |P.O. Box 51, Comstock, NY |

| |12821 |

Maliki Shakur Latine early on became involved with the Nation of Islam. It was during this time that he began on the path of confronting

society’s oppressive forces. In 1969, Maliki and his brother, Shaqwan, joined up with the Black

Panther Party for Self-defense. Maliki took political education classes offered by the Black Panther Party. He studied Chairman Mao, Franz Fannon, Lenin, Fidel Castro, Che, and many others. He was also involved in transforming the theoretical ideals of the BPP into daily practice.

Like many of the Panthers targeted by the US government, Maliki found himself behind prison bars, specifically in Riker’s Island. There he met one of the Panther leaders, Lumumba Shakur. Lumumba and 20 other Panthers (known as the Panther 21) were facing trumped up charges, which included a plot to blow up various locations in New York City. All of the Panther 21 would eventually be freed from

the charges. Maliki Latine was soon released from Rikers and returned to the Panthers, only to find that the government’s tactics against the organization forced many of them to go underground. Following their

lead, Maliki and his brother decided to follow suit. Maliki then spent two years training and studying and engaging in various actions.

At 4:45 on July 3rd, 1979 NYPD officers pulled over a Chevrolet Malibu on 148th Street, near 7th, in Harlem. Police believed the car to be stolen. With guns drawn, the two officers approached the car. A gun battle broke out, leaving one of the officers and one of the occupants

of the car injured. The four occupants escaped, but in the car the police found weapons and prints linking Maliki and others to the scene. Several hours after the shooting, after the police followed a trail of blood, Arkill Shakur was captured outside a building at 285 West 150th Street, with leg and ankle injuries he incurred in the gunfight. He was taken to the hospital and was later charged for his involvement in the altercation.

Just over 2-weeks after the shooting, on July 18, police and FBI raided the home of Dwight (Jamal) Thomas, arrested him, and charged him with the shooting.

A month later, on August 7, 1979, Maliki Latine was arrested in St. Albans, Queens, by a joint force investigating a series of bank expropriations. They charged him with the July 3rd incident. It wouldn’t be until six months later before the police would arrest their final suspect, Jose Saldana. Sixteen days after the capture of Saldana, Latine and three other prisoners, who were also accused of killing cops, attempted to escape from the special security area of Rikers Island. The men managed to get outside of the prison walls, but three of them, including Latine, were immediately captured. The fourth escapee’s body was discovered

days later, dead because of apparent

drowning.

Maliki Latine and Jose(Hamza)Saldana were indicted on charges of attempted first-degree murder, four counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal possession of stolen property. On October 1, 1981, the two were sentenced to 25 to life.

The U.S. Supreme court refused to hear any further appeals and denied him a writ of certiorari, even though his appeal is founded upon the mandate of the U.S. Supreme Court’s own rulings.

The following was written by Maliki Shakur Latine on December 20, 2007:

I am still maintaining my health and I am optimistic about being released on parole during the summer of ’08. At which time I look forward to being a valuable asset to the endeavors of liberation and progress. I’ve been following the political and socio-economic developments (or under-developments) occurring around the country. And, I’ve been closely monitoring the “Presidential Campaign” (with all its window-dressings and the usual clichés) offered for public consumption. The younger generation have a serious, huge and profound role to play in defining what the future (if there is one) of this country is to be. Each generation is solely responsible for the course and direction to be pursued in their

lives. They can readily choose, by virtue of their own “humanity,” the course, direction and reality already “defined” for them by the

Plutocracy (as led and headed by the “Skull and Bones”) or they can

determine, for themselves, what the reality of the future is to be,

by virtue of what they know and truly believe to be right, just and

humane as dictated by their own heart-felt conscience—as opposed to

that of any u.s. government “Party,” who are more determined to serve

that of “class interest”—than any kind of just rights of the entire

citizenry! Let the people of the “Resistance” know my message to

them as expressed above. They can make a difference, no matter how

difficult the challenges may appear, its all but a passing but dark

cloud—soon the light shall appear with its radiance of achievement

and splendor! Truth shall prevail!

In Solidarity, Strength, and Unity!

Maliki Shakur

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1984

|[pic] |Jaan Karl Laaman #W 87237 |

| |MCI Cedar Junction, Box 100, |

| |South Walpole, MA 02071-0100 |

| |Birthday: |

| |3-21- 1948 |

Jann Karl Laaman is an Anti-imperialist political prisoner and one of the Ohio-7. Jaan is imprisoned for being a member of the United Freedom Front (which carried out armed actions against apartheid, imperialism and war in the 80's), involvement in fire fights with police forces and weapons charges.

In the 1960's Jaan worked in Students for a Democratic Society, fought against the war and racism and did labor and community organizing. This included organizing youth along with the Black Panther Party and Young Lords (a revolutionary Puerto Rican Organization). Jaan also worked with the underground revolutionary forces. In 1972 he was charged with bombing Nixon's reelection headquarters and a New Hampshire police station. He was sentenced to 20 years. After winning an appeal and getting some of his sentence cut, he was released in 1978. In 1979, he and his comrade Kazi Toure helped to organize the Amandla Festival of Unity to support freedom in Southern Africa, which featured Bob Marley.

This activity along with the anti-racist and community security work he was doing led to increased police and Klan harassment, so Jaan went underground and joined the armed clandestine movement. He was captured in 1984 with other members of the Ohio-7(Tom Manning is the only other member still in custody. Richard Williams died in 2004 while in prison.) He was charged with seditious conspiracy. His sentence totals 98 years.



1985

|[pic] |Marilyn Buck #00482-285 |

| |Unit B, Camp Parks, 5701 |

| |Eighth Street, Dublin, CA |

| |94568 |

| |Birthday: |

| |12-13 |

Marilyn Buck is a self-proclaimed life-long anti-racist and anti-imperialist activist, imprisoned for her involvement in the 1983 U.S. Senate bombing and other militant political activities.

After organizing in support of Native American, Palestinian, Iranian and Vietnamese sovereignty, Buck joined Students for a Democratic Society in 1967. In 1973 she was convicted of purchasing two boxes of handgun ammunition for the Black Liberation Army. Three years into her unusually long, ten-year sentence for that crime, Buck was given a furlough from prison and went underground instead of returning.

Authorities believe Buck played a key role in the Brinks robbery of 1981, providing the robbers with a safe house and weapons. In 1983 Buck was recaptured and charged in the successful removal of Assata Shakur from a US federal prison. In 1985, she and 6 others were convicted in the Resistance Conspiracy Case of the bombing of the United States Capitol Building to protest the US invasion of Grenada and US intervention in Latin America in general. Two of those charged in the case have since been released from prison, one was never captured, and the remaining three are still in prison. Buck received an 80-year sentence which she is serving at FCI Dublin in California, United States.





1987

|[pic] |Thomas W. Manning |

| |10373-016 |

| |U.S. Penitentiary for Federal |

| |Prisoners - Hazelton |

| |P.O. Box 2000   |

| |Bruceton Mills, West Virginia |

| |26525 |

| |Birthday: |

| |6-28-1946 |

Tom Manning is known for killing a police officer during a routine traffic stop, and for his involvement with leftist militants who bombed a series of US military and commercial institutes in the 1980s.

As a youth, he shined shoes and raised pigeons, before finding work as a stock boy. He joined the US Military in 1963, and the following year was stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba before being transferred off to spend the following year in the Vietnam War. Some time shortly after 1965, he was sentenced to five years in prison for armed robbery and assault, serving the last ten months in Massachusetts Correctional Institution- Cedar Junction. He claims it was during these years that he became heavily politicized, through his interactions with other prisoners.

After his release in 1971, he married Carol and together they produced three children, Jeremy, Tamara, and Jonathan. Along with arrest for the bombings, Manning was also convicted for his role in killing New Jersey police officer Philip Lamonaco during a traffic stop on December 21, 1981. The killings launched the largest manhunt in NJ police history, and ended with the arrests of Raymond

Levasseur, Patricia Gross, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, and Barbara

Curzi on November 4th 1984, and Manning and his wife Carol on April 24, 1985. All of them were associated with the United Freedom Front.

He plead self-defense at trial, while defense counsel showed that Lamonaco had emptied his entire .357 Magnum clip at Manning and his associates. He was sentenced on February 19, 1987. In September 2006, the University of Southern Maine removed his art from an art presentation, and apologized for allowing him to be heralded as a

"political prisoner" by event organizers.

His art:

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1989

|[pic] |Haydée Beltrán Torres |

| |#88462-024 |

| |SCI Tallahassee, 501 Capitol |

| |Circle NE, Tallahassee, FL |

| |32031 |

| |Birthday: |

| |6-7-1955 |

Haydee Beltran Torres was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. When Haydee was 12 years old, her family moved to Chicago. Haydee attended the University of Illinois where she was an outspoken defender of Latino students’ rights.

Due to her political activities, was forced underground in 1976 and was captured April 4, 1989. She has been sentenced to life in prison on charges including seditious conspiracy. Haydee was the first POW to receive a life sentence. She was kept in total isolation from the other prisoners of war and was transferred to a special control unit, which limited visits. It was a years before she was allowed to see her family.

At the MCC in Chicago, she was classified as “no visitors allowed.” Haydee was subject to physical abuse in interrogations for refusing to implicate her comrades in unfounded crimes.



1996

| |Tsutomu |

| |Shirosaki |

| |20924-016 |

| |FCI Terre Haute |

| |P.O. Box 33 |

| |Terre Haute, IN 47808 |

| |Birthday: |

| |12-5-1947 |

Tsutomu Shirosaki is a Japanese national imprisoned as a political prisoner in the United States. He has been accused of being a member of Japanese Red Army and participating in several attacks, including a mortar attack against a U.S. embassy. He is currently serving 30-years in a U.S Federal prison.

Tsutomu Shirosaki was born on December 5, 1947 in Toyama, Japan. In the 1960s, he went to Tokyo University, where he received a degree in engineering. During his college years Tsutomu began participating in the student movement, and embracing a more left-wing philosophy. By the 1970s, Shirosaki participated in various underground activities, including a

string of bank and post office robberies. These actions were fund-raising activities for Japanese radical groups. In 1971, Shirosaki was arrested in Tokyo and sentenced to ten years in prison for an attack on a Bank of Yokohama branch office.

On September 28, 1977,five members of the Japanese Red Army hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 472 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. They demanded $6 million from the Japanese government and the release of nine prisoners held in Japan. The prisoners listed included radical activist and members of the Japanese Red Army. On October 2, six of the nine prisoners were released and taken to Dhaka. One of those prisoners released was Tsutomu Shirosaki. The released prisoners, the JRA hijackers and the remaining hostages then flew to Algeria, where the hostages were released. According to Shirosaki the released prisoners and JRA members eventually ended up in Lebanon. The Japanese Red Army assisted the freed prisoners in adjusting to the new region.

Despite the generosity of the JRA, Shirosaki has stated that he never joined the organization. Instead, he became a volunteer fighter in the Palestinian revolution with the

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine( PFLP.) With the Palestinian movement being so strong in Lebanon, Shirosaki did not need a

passport to stay in the country.

On May 14, 1986, two mortar-styled rockets were fired into the U.S. Embassy compound in Jakarta, Indonesia. Then, two rockets were fired from a hotel room toward the Japanese Embassy. Also that morning, a car bomb exploded in the Canadian Embassy parking lot causing injuries to three people. A group calling itself the Anti-Imperialist International Brigade(AIIB)claimed responsibility for the action. The

attacks were in response to the G7 summit in Tokyo. Seven weeks after the incident, the Japanese government announced that they had found a fingerprint of Tsutomu Shirosaki in the hotel room where the rockets were launched at the Japanese embassy. They also claimed the Anti-Imperialist International

Brigade was another named for the Japanese Red Army. During the time of the attack, Tsutomu Shirosaki was still in Lebanon. He was not in

Jakarta and was not a member of either the JRA or the AIIB. Shirosaki did not respond to the claims of his involvement because he felt they were so ridiculous. He was in Lebanon and thought that he was in a safe haven. After the Oslo Accords, it became difficult for the Palestinian armed resistance to exist in Lebanon, so Shirosaki decided to leave.

Using a false ID, he traveled to South Asia. On September 21, 1996, local police in Kathmandu, Nepal arrested Tsutomu Shirosaki after he tried to contact some friends, whose phone was tapped by the US National Security Agency. He was handed over to the FBI and extradited to the United States to stand trial. After arriving in the United States, Shirosaki stood before a 15-day trial and was sentenced to two concurrent 20-year terms and also given 10-year terms on other charges.

The 20-year terms were ordered to run consecutively to the 10-year terms for a total prison time of 30 years. Tsutomu Shirosaki never took the stand at his own trial. He has stated he had no part in the attacks in Jakarta or membership with the JRA or AIIB. He has argued that his fingerprint had been placed

at the scene.

On February 11, 2007, Tsutomu Shirosaki was informed that he was to be transferred out of USP Beaumont in Texas. For over two weeks Shirosaki was in mid-transfer before ending up at FCI Terre Haute in Indiana. Prior to the transfer, Shirosaki’s mail repeatedly was lost, delayed or returned to the sender. Such actions are an attempt to undermine support for Shirosaki.

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1997

|[pic] |Alvaro Luna Hernández #255735|

| |Hughes Unit,Rt 2, |

| |Box 4400, Gatesville, TX |

| |76597 |

| |Birthday: |

| |5-12-1952 |

Chicano prisoner, Alvaro Hernandez Luna was sentenced in Odessa, TX on June 29, 1997 to 50 years in prison for defending himself by disarming a police officer drawing a weapon on him (unarmed). Police informants were used to monitor Alvaro's organizing activities in the barrio. They knew among other things that he was working on police brutality cases in Alpine.

Alvaro was recognized nationally and internationally as the national coordinator of the Ricardo Aldape Guerra Defense Committee, which led the struggle to free Mexican national Aldape Guerra from Texas' death row after being framed by Houston police for allegedly killing a cop. Alvaro's human rights work was recognized in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico and other countries. His case is currently on appeal.



1999

| |Byron Shane Chubbuck |

|[pic] |# 07909-051 |

| |USP Coleman I |

| |U.S.Penitentiary |

| |P.O. Box 1033 |

| |Coleman, FL 33521 |

| |Birthday: |

| |2-26-1967 |

Byron is a wolf clan Cherokee/Choctaw raised in New Mexico, his Indian name is Oso Blanco and he became known by the authorities as “Robin the Hood” after the FBI and local gang unit

APD officers learned from a CI that Oso Blanco was robbing banks to send thousands of dollars with of supplies to the Zapatista Rebels of Chiapas on a regular basis during 1998 and 1999.

Chubbuck is now serving 80 years at the US Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, for bank robbery, aggravated assault on the FBI, escape and firearms charges. Byron engaged federal agents in a gun battle on August 13th 1999 at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although Chubbuck escaped, he was arrested later that day and sentenced to time in New Mexico’s state Penitentiary.

After serving just over a year in New Mexico, he escaped from a prison transport van and almost immediately began robbing banks. He was recaptured a short time later. Byron never used a gun in any bank robbery, but he has a long history of living by the gun and will not hesitate to use it on the agents of repression or the occupiers of Atzlan whom force false laws on the

true people of this land. Byron is not asking for monetary support, he’s only asking that people

become aware of indigenous people’s issues. On March 24, 2008 he was transferred to Coleman, Florida where Oso is at risk of violence from a gang who have problems with him. His outside support are trying to get him transferred somewhere else.



2000

|[pic] |Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap |

| |Brown) |

| |# 99974-555 |

| |USP Florence ADMAX, |

| |P.O. Box 8500, Florence, CO |

| |81226 |

| |Birthday: |

| |10-4-1943 |

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin came to prominence in the 1960s as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Justice Minister of the Black Panther Party.

In July 1967 Brown was arrested for inciting a riot at a civil rights rally in Cambridge, Maryland. At the event, Brown declared, “Black folks built America, and if America don’t come around, we’re going to burn America down.” He left SNCC and joined the Black Panthers in 1968, and became the minister of justice. He spent five years (1971-1976) in the Attica Prison after a robbery conviction. While in prison, Brown converted to Islam and changed his name to Jamil Abdullah al-Amin. In 2000, Jamil was arrested in Lowndes County, Alabama, following a four-day U.S.-wide manhunt. A grand jury in Atlanta indicted him for murder in connection with the shooting death of deputy Kinchen the previous month. He was indicted on one count of murder, four counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault and six other lesser charges.

From 1992 to 1997, the FBI and Atlanta police investigated him in connection with everything from domestic terrorism to gun-running to 14 homicides in Atlanta’s West End, according to police investigators’ reports, FBI documents and interviews. The FBI investigation ended in August 1997 without charging him of any crime. In his only public comment on his arrest, Al-Amin called it a ‘government conspiracy.’ In June of 2000, another man confessed to killing the police officer, but he later recanted. Jamil’s defense team was not informed of the confession. Jamil currently serves life without parole, but is attempting to appeal.

UPDATE: Jamil Al-Amin has been moved to what is known in prison as "the hole". He was strip searched and placed in a cell with no bed, no control over the lights and no shower. They have taken his Qur'an and all of his other personal property. No information has been given as to why this transfer was made, but nothing could justify this inhumane treatment.

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2001

|[pic] |Jeffrey Luers (Free) |

| |# 13797671 |

| |CRCI |

| |9111 NE Sunderland Ave |

| |Portland, OR 97211-1708 |

| |Birthday:12-5 |

In June 2001, 23 year-old forest defense activist Jeffrey "Free" Luers was sentenced to 22 years and 8 months in prison for the burning of three Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV's) in Eugene, Oregon. To make a statement about global warming, Jeff and his codefendent, Craig 'Critter' Marshall, set fire to 3 Sport Utility Vehicles at a Eugene car dealership. Their stated purpose was to raise awareness about global warming and the role that SUVs play in that process. No one was hurt in this action nor was that the intent. An arson specialist at trial confirmed that the action did not pose any threat to people based on its size and distance from any fuel source.

Despite the fact that this action hurt no one, caused only $40,000 in damages and the cars were later resold, Jeff was sent to prison for a sentence considerably longer than those convicted of murder, kidnapping or rape in the state of Oregon. Jeff is a political prisoner and continues to write and agitate for his release while imprisoned at Oregon State Penitentiary. His appeal was filed in January 2002 and oral arguments before the Oregon Court of Appeals were heard on November 30, 2005. Over a year later,on February 14, 2007 the Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Jeff's case would be reversed and remanded back to the Circuit Court for resentencing. On Feb. 28, 2008 Jeff’s sentence was cut to 10 years making his release date Dec. 2009.

Jeff “Free” Luers Statement for the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners (December 2006):

Around the world millions of people are suffering from the abuses of power that have become all too common in our human societies. In dozens of countries, generations of people have chosen to fight injustice rather than submit to it.

We honor those people today. We raise our voices and our fists to salute those who have fought to free their homelands, who have struggled for self-determination; those who have demanded human rights; those who have raided laboratories and liberated animals; and those who have fought to defend our earth.

Today we shout our praises and offer our respect to those captured in the line of duty, serving their cause. We thank them for refusing to submit even behind bars.

On this day we bow our heads in reverence to those people who made the ultimate sacrifice and gave their lives for freedom. We remember the price they paid and the loss that their family and friends still feel.

We offer more than our gratitude. We offer our solidarity. We make a promise to remember and honor those who have come before. We make a vow that the struggle will continue until all are free.

Too many people have had to fight for the freedom they should have been guaranteed at birth; too many have suffered the cruelty of capitalist exploitation.

The most important thing we can do today is to make a solemn oath: that ours is the last generation that will have to struggle; that we will apply pressure from all angles until these systems of oppression crack; that we will settle for nothing less than victory.

With the memory of those who have come before us; in solidarity with those still standing behind bars; while honoring those who gave their lives: We march forward to bring a new day with our heads high and our fists raised.

And I say to you that if we stand united with one voice and we act on our desire for liberation we will carry the day! We will win!

Some words on prisoner support (May 2004):

Prisoner support can be a very challenging issue. Any movement is only as strong as it's support for its fallen comrades. Any movement that fails to aid and support its political prisoners or prisoners of war will ultimately fail. Each prisoner's needs will vary depending on their case, length of sentence and where they are imprisoned. All prisoners, however, need emotional and monetary support.

Monetary support is an easy one. If you can afford to send a few bucks, it is always appreciated. Many prisoners have to pay for their own hygiene products, as well as food to supplement the prisoner's diet. These items are often 200%-300% more expensive than on the streets. So, every little bit helps.

Fundraisers (bake sales, shows, etc.) are an excellent way to raise money and spread information about prisoners and their cases. They are also a great forum for building support. Perhaps the hardest part of prisoner support is emotional support. It is never easy to write a prisoner for the first time. People are unsure of what to write and how their words will affect the prisoner.

As prisoners we experience the outside world through letters. There is nothing I love more than to get a letter describing a beautiful sunset or amazing wilderness someone saw. It is always great, whether you are a prisoner or not, to make a new friend. Getting to know someone through letters can be really fun. Sharing news from the outside, political ideas/views, personal experiences, really just about anything is good. Just getting mail raises the morale of prisoners.

Remember not to over commit yourself though. It is easy to want to write a lot of prisoners. But it is better to pick one or two that you can write to regularly (every 1-4 months) than to not be able to keep up with your letters.

When it comes to supporting individual prisoners (e.g. long term prisoners fighting for their freedom or life), the support needs to be tailored to fit with their campaign goals. It is important to know things they support being done on their behalf. Communicating with them, or in some cases, their designated support people, and starting a support group in your area is a good way to start.

Obviously, needs will vary from prisoner to prisoner. Some will be raising legal funds as a priority, others may simply be asking people to write letters of support to governors or prison officials. Still others may be asking for solidarity actions and/or demos.

Strong support networks and visible discontent with a prisoner's sentence and/or conditions will be the number one factor in obtaining justice. It is only through the word and dedication of people on the outside that all political prisoners and POW's will gain their release.

Having said this, I do not know of any prisoner, though I can only speak for myself, that would rather have energy directed toward us than to the causes for which we fought. The absolute most valuable support that any one person can do is to continue the struggle for which we came to prison. Never give up; never stop fighting until all are free: Earth, animal and human. Onward to a world without prisoners.



Cuban 5

|[pic] Rubén Campa #58738-004 |

|(envelope addessed to Rubén Campa, |

|letter addressed to Fernando Gonzáles) |

|FCI Terre Haute, P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808 |

|Birthday: August 18, 1963 |

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|Gerardo Hernández #58739-004 |

|U.S.P. Victorville, P.O. Box 5500, Adelanto, CA 92301 |

|Birthday: July 4, 1965 |

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|Jose Perez Gonzalez#21519-069 |

|CCM Miami |

|Community Correction Office |

|401 N Miami Ave. Miami, FL 33128 |

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|Antonio Guerrero #58741-004 |

|U.S.P. Florence, P.O. Box 7000, Florence CO 81226 |

|Birthday: October 18, 1958 |

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|René González #58738-004 |

|FCI Marianna, P.O. Box 7007, Marianna, FL 32447-7007 |

|Birthday: August 13, 1956 |

Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González, also known as the Cuban Five, are Cubans serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami, on June 8, 2001. The Five are falsely accused by the U.S. government of committing espionage and conspiracy against the United States as well as other related charges. Cuba sent the Five to Miami to monitor the terrorists.

The Cuban Five infiltrated the terrorist organizations in Miami to inform Cuba of imminent attacks. The Five pointed out vigorously in their defense that they were involved in monitoring the actions of Miami-based terrorist groups, in order to prevent terrorist attacks on their country of Cuba. The Five were illegally held in solidarity confinement for 17 months in Miami jail.

After seven years of unjust imprisonment, the Cuban Five won an unprecedented victory on appeal only to have that decision overturned a year later.



2002

|[pic] |James “Coyote” Anderson |

| |#67394-065 |

| |USP Lewisburg |

| |P.O. Box 1000 |

| |Lewisburg PA, 17837 |

I am thirty years old. I am part French, part Tsi la ki (Cherokee) Ani wa ya (Wolf Clan). I am a warrior for Mother Earth, for the Animal Kingdom, and most importantly for the Creator. It is my purpose and duty in life to do my part to protect the Earth and the animals and enlighten the people who stand in the dark, while sharing and spreading the love. I am an anarchist, yet I would refrain from being called a liberal. I am a musician and an artist, focusing on everything from painting, drawing, to tattooing and body modifications and piercings.

I was given a 92 month prison sentence in the feds for allegedly robbing 28 banks to help fund my cause. I like to write with openminded people that care to share, as well as receive positive energy. Write me if you wish. In a short version, my message is. People it is now 2009. Wake up! 2012 is almost here. Pollution is at an all time high, yet spirituality is at an all time low. We must remove the blinders that conceal our eyes, hearts and consciousness. Step away from the hypnotic tubes! Quit pampering yourselves and your children with honeybuns and material mechanisms. Now more than ever, they need love and discipline. We must teach our children love for the Creator (not fear), love for the Earth and Nature and Wildlife, respect, tolerance and love for others, and love for self. We must stop pasifing ourselves with the notion that the world will heal itself through media and political structures. Martial law is under our noses. Can you smell it? FEMA will not be there with tissue in hand! Are we to lay down and continue to allow oppression of Indigenous Peoples? How about for corporate/Industrial slavery, “so you can have what the Jones’ have?” It’s all so very irrelevant you see. The fact of the matter is you don’t get to pack a suit case when you leave. Understand!

These freemasonic corporations and secret societies are now collecting in full. Don’t let them claim your soul too. The demonic forces have now (as some of you are aware) taken another power grid or energy vortex. They are on the prowl and will stop at nothing to get what they desire. Before it’s over, there will be a stage of immonate domaine all across the Earth, especially on Turtle Island. They have already taken the Appalachians, all in the name of coal. The mountains of where my ancestors roamed are now decimated, and we receive contaminated forest, lakes, rivers and sludge in our fishing holes while the elite get only richer. Our kin folk are across seas fighting a, “holy war”and coming back in boxes. Don’t get me wrong, I love the heart that the average soldier has, as they feel they are fighting for freedom against terrorism. However it breaks my heart to see how sudued and confused the masses are in regards as to what’s really going on.

The Earth is soon to cleanse herself. The revolution is in the near. Are you ready? Do you know the Creator? Are you gonna move on to the next level or remain stagnate standing in sludge? Do you love wildlife? How about your children or yourself? Is your heart the size of a pea or the size of the sun. Wake up! Start setting precedance for spiritual awakening and enlightment towards a new and higher consciousness, by standing on the foundation of your spirituality, on the foundation of love. Rise up Warriors! Preperation, training and prayer, all a must. “Revolution or Burst!”

Much Love,

Coyote



|[pic] |Tre Arrow |

| |c/o Oregon Halfway House |

| |6000 NE 80th Ave |

| |Portland, OR |

| |97218 Birthday: 1-9 |

Tre Arrow, (born Michael James Scarpitti in 1974), a Florida native, is an environmental activist and politician.

Arrow first came to attention of police and international media in July 2000 when he scaled a U.S. Forest Service building in downtown Portland, Oregon and lived on a nine-inch ledge for eleven days, to protest the plan to log near Eagle Creek, Oregon. His protest played an important role in reversing the Forest Service's plans to log the area. Arrow ran for Congress in 2000 and received 15,000 votes as a Pacific Green Party candidate.

In October 2001, he suffered a broken pelvis, broken ribs and a concussion when he fell 60 feet from a hemlock tree where he had perched to protest a logging sale in Tillamook County. Arrow's supporters blame his fall on the Oregon Department of Forestry's use of sleep deprivation techniques during Arrow's tree sit.

Arrow was wanted by the FBI in connection with the April 15, 2001 arson at Ross Island Sand and Gravel in Portland. Three trucks were damaged in the amount of $200,000. The ELF claimed this fire via a written communiqué. Another arson occurred a month later at Ray Schoppert Logging Company in Estacada, Oregon, on June 1, 2001. Two logging trucks and a front loader were damaged, resulting in $50,000 worth of damage. The ELF did not claim responsibility, but the explosions were similarly created by milk jugs filled with gasoline, and a fuse made from incense and a pack of matches.

Jacob Sherman, a 21-year-old Portland State University student, was subsequently arrested by the FBI and interrogated on four separate occasions. About four months after his arrest Sherman admitted to his involvement in both arsons. In order to avoid a potential life sentence in prison, Sherman named two others who had participated in the crimes: Angela Marie Cesario and Jeremy David Rosenbloom. Facing near certain conviction themselves because of Jake's testimony, Angela and Jeremy decided to enter plea agreements since Sherman had already implicated Tre Arrow. All three entered guilty pleas and while Sherman named the high profile activist Tre Arrow as the mastermind behind the arsons, Cesario and Rosenbloom disputed this and testified that Jacob himself was the mastermind.

Arrow was indicted by a federal grand jury in Oregon and charged with four felonies for this crime on October 18, 2002. He was listed on the FBI's December 2002 most-wanted list, and appeared on the America's Most Wanted television program.

Arrow fled to Canada, where he hoped to receive political asylum. In 2004, he was arrested in Victoria, British Columbia for shoplifting a pair of bolt-cutters. Arrow was extradited from Canada to Portland, Oregon on February 29, 2008 to face 14 counts of arson and conspiracy. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison.

Tre is a raw energy vegan - He has asked that his letters of

support are written on scrap paper or tree-free paper.

UDATE: On June 8th, Tre was joyously greeted by friends in the Portland International Airport. For the first time in nearly seven years, he shared food, embraced, danced, laughed and sang with people outside of jail. An entourage of bicycles brought him out into the sunlight and traversed the 2.5 miles to the Oregon Halfway House. This was Tre's first bike ride since before incarceration in 2004. He entered the halfway house with fresh spring water, bare feet, a healthy tan and the love of his friends and family all around him. Tre will be in the Oregon Halfway House for the rest of his sentence, though once he gets employed he could be moved to home confinement.



|[pic] |Freddie Hilton (Kamau Sadiki)|

| |#0001150688 |

| |Augusta State Medical Prison,|

| |Bldg 13A-2 E7 |

| |3001 Gordon Highway, |

| |Grovetown, GA 30813 |

Kamau Sadiki is a former Black Panther and BLA Member who was convicted of a 1971 murder of a police officer in 2003. He maintains his innocence. Allegedly Kamau shot a Fulton County Police Officer in his police car outside a service station. Kamau was arrested for a molestation charge that he denies.

His supporters believe this was a convenient way to keep him in jail so they could intimidate Authorities were desperately seeking information leading to the capture of Assata Shakur. He refused to cooperate and they put him on trial for the cop murder, 30 years after it had occurred. He has been seriously ill while in custody and apparently there has been a change where inmates are not allowed to sleep at least 8 hours on weekends or holidays.

Political_Prisoners/Kamau_Sadiki.html

|[pic] |Brendan Walsh, 12473-052, FCI|

| |Allenwood Low, Federal |

| |Correctional |

| |Institution, PO Box 1000, |

| |White Deer, PA 17887, USA. |

Brendan is an anarchist from Endwell. He plead guilty to a charge of attempting to damage or destroy a building by arson. On April 9, 2003 Brendan threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a local armed forces recruiting station in Vestal, NY, near Binghamton. He did this to show his opposition to the war in Iraq. He was also charged with attempted destruction of communication lines utilized by the U.S. Armed Forces, which carried a maximum sentence of 10 years. Walsh is also responsible for smashing the window of the recruitment center in the previous year.

Brendan was going to be released from prison to a halfway house on February 8th, 2008. He's in need of support from our movement more than ever as he faces his release.

During a visit with Brendan last week, he communicated a desire for Kansas Mutual Aid to collect monetary donations to help aid Brendan in buying clothes and other needed items once released.

Brendan's halfway house confirmation has been repeatedly delayed, so he has been under a lot of stress as he fights to ensure his release in February. He's in need of as much love and support as we can send.

Please consider sending Brendan some words of love and support during his last several weeks in prison.

2004

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| |Helen Woodson, 03231-045, FMC |

| |Carswell - Admin. Max. Unit, |

| |POB 27137, Ft. |

| |Worth, TX 76127, USA. |

Helen is a ploughshare prisoner serving 8 years & 10 months for a series of actions that focused the

interrelationship of war and the destruction of the natural world.

The actions included destruction of Government property (pouring a tin of red paint over the security desk of a federal court and making threatening communications. Prior to her arrest Helen had served 27 years for actions which included:

1) Using a hammer to disarm a nuclear missile silo. 2) Burning $25,000 on the floor of a bank whilst denouncing war, environmental destruction and economic injustice. During this action you told those around, “Money is evil. You don't believe in God; you only worship money.” 3) Mailing warning letters with bullets attached to Government & corporate officials.

2006

SHAC 7

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|Lauren Gazzola #93497-011, FCI Danbury Route #37, 33 1/2 Pembroke |

|Road, Danbury, CT 06811 USA. |

|Birthday: 5-1 |

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|Kevin Kjonaas #93502-011, FCI Sandstone, PO Box 1000, Sandstone, MN|

|55072 USA. |

|Birthday: 10-31 |

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|Jacob Conroy #93501-011 |

|FCI Terminal Island |

|Federal Correctional Institution |

|PO Box 3007 |

|San Pedro, CA 90731 |

|Birthday:2-3 |

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|Andrew Stepanian #26399-050 |

|c/o NYC ABC |

|Post Office Box 110034 |

|Brooklyn, New York 11211 |

|Birthday: 8-8 |

The SHAC 7 are 6 animal rights activists and the organization Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA (SHAC USA) who were convicted on March 2, 2006, under the controversial Federal Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The Act punishes anyone who "physically disrupts" an animal enterprise. The charges stem from these activists' alleged participation in an international campaign to close the notorious product testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Specifically, these activists are alleged to have operated a website that reported on and expressed ideological support for protest activity against Huntingdon and its business affiliates. For this they are charged with "terrorism" and face an aggregate of 23 years in Federal Prison.

The SHAC 7 case is the latest in an onslaught of attacks against domestic dissidents under the guise of fighting terrorism. Animal rights is a "fringe" issue and the government is banking on the broader social justice movement to turn a blind eye to those focusing on the “less important” issue of animals and expressing “extremist” views. But make no mistake - these activists are the canaries in the mine. This case is intended to pave the way for further silencing of activists involved in all issues.

UDATE: Josh, and Darius are free.

Andy is serving in a half-way house.



| |Nathan Block #36359-086, FCI |

|[pic] |Lompoc, Federal Correctional |

| |Institution, |

| |3600 Guard Road, Lompoc, CA |

| |93436, USA. |

| |Joyanna Zacher #36360-086, FCI |

|[pic] |Dublin, Federal Correctional |

| |Institution, |

| |5701 8th St - Camp Parks - Unit|

| |F, Dublin, CA 94568 USA. |

Exile (Nathan Fraser Block), and Sadie (Joyanna L. Zacher), both from Olympia, were indicted and arrested Thursday Feb. 23 (2006) in charges related to a May 2001 arson fire at Jefferson Poplar Farm in Clatskanie, Oregon, where experimental genetically altered poplars are grown. Exile and Sadie accepted plea agreements that did not incriminate persons other than themselves. They are each currently serving sentences of 92 months in federal prison. Judge Ann Aiken was dismayed that neither of the defendants expressed remorse for their crimes and sentenced them each to them to the full term requested by the prosecution, saying that they wanted to be known as "activist martyrs."



|[pic] |Olajidai Crenshaw #A519055 |

| |Ross Correctional Institution|

| |(RCI) P. O. Box 7010 |

| |Chillicothe, Ohio 45601 |

Olajidai Crenshaw and Lasandra Burwell were given harsh sentences for alleged crimes committed during their participation in a counter demonstration to a Nazi invasion of their community.

On October 15, 2005, the city of Toledo allowed a full detachment of uniformed Neo-Nazis to protest "black crime" at a largely black high school in a largely black working class community. To add insult to injury a largely white police force was sent to guard these Nazis. A peaceful counter rally was organized across from the high school by an ethnically diverse coalition of regional activists. The rally was well attended by several hundred mostly young community members and anti-racists from other areas of the Mid-West.

The rally was peaceful, but at a certain point an African American young person from the community threw eggs over the heads of the white police officers at the hate spewing Neo Nazis. Nearly instantaneously the police charged on horseback, into the crowd of protesters. This was accompanied by the officers raining tear gas onto the largely youthful, local crowd. Many of the elders of the community had been watching the protest from porches and windows. As the community witnessed its conscious, opinionated young people being attacked, they could not sit by. As the police arrested people at random the community reacted in the incident that came to be known in the media as the "Toledo Riot".

The police arrested over 110 people, many of them juveniles. In the course of the rioting, 17 year old Olajadai Crenshaw allegedly destroyed the lock on a local bar. Later, the bar was looted and burned to the ground by the angry community. Outrageously, he was tried as an adult and incarcerated.

Lasandra Burwell, was sentenced to 8 years in Ohio State Prison for throwing bricks at police and smashing a police cars windshield during the Nazi rally. She was released in March 2008 but is still subject to strict parole for 3 years.



2007

New Jersey 4

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Patreese Johnson # 07-G-0635

Bedford Hills Correctional Facility

P.O. Box 1000

Bedford Hills, NY 10507

Renata Hill # 07-G-0636

Albion Correctional Facility 3595 State Road Albion, NY 14411-9399

On August 18, 2006, seven young African American lesbians traveled to the West Village from their homes in Newark for a regular night out. When walking down the street, a male bystander assaulted them with sexist and homophobic comments. The women tried to defend themselves, and a fight broke out. During the resulting confrontation, Buckle first spat in Renata’s face and threw his lit cigarette at her, then he yanked another’s hair, pulling her towards him, and then began strangling Renata. A fight broke out, during which Patreese Johnson, 4 feet 11 inches tall and 95 pounds, produced a small knife from her bag to stop Buckle from choking her friend—a knife she carried to protect herself when she came home alone from her late-night job.

Two male onlookers, one of whom had a knife, ran over to physically deal with Buckle in order to help the women. Buckle, who ended up hospitalized for five days with stomach and liver lacerations, initially reported on at least two occasions that the men—not the women—had attacked him. What’s more, Patreese’s knife was never tested for DNA, the men who beat Buckle were never questioned by police, and the whole incident was captured on surveillance video. Yet the women ended up on trial for attempted murder. Dwayne Buckle testified against them.

Thus began the women’s nightmare for almost a year. Three of the women accepted plea offers. On June 14th, 2007 Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20), and Renata Hill (24) received sentences ranging from 3 ½ to 11 years in prison.

UDATE:- Venice got 26 months time served and 2 years post supervision. She doesn’t have to go back to jail!

- Patreese has gotten her GED! She plans to continue on to college and is looking forward to that. She thinks she might be moved to another facility shortly.

- Renata accepted a plea bargain and has 1.5 years left as of May, 2009.

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|[pic] |Daniel McGowan #63794-053 |

| |USP Marion |

| |U.S. Penititentiary |

| |P.O. Box 1000 |

| |Marion, IL 62959 |

| |B-day: 5-2-1974 |

Daniel McGowan is an environmental and social justice activist from New

York City. He has worked on projects such as the demonstrations against the Republican National Convention, counter military recruitment efforts, organizing free markets in his neighborhood, and supporting political prisoners such as Jeff "Free" Luers. Daniel was also earning a Master's degree in acupuncture and was working at , a nonprofit that helps abused women navigate the legal system, when he was arrested by federal marshals on December 7th, 2005. He was charged in federal court on counts of arson, property

destruction and conspiracy, all relating to two actions in Oregon in 2001.

Until recently, Daniel was offered two choices by the government:

cooperate by informing on other people, or go to trial and potentially spend the rest of his life in prison. His only real option was to plead not guilty until he could reach a resolution of the case that permitted him to honor his principles.

Now, as a result of months of litigation and negotiation, Daniel was able to admit to his role in these two incidents, while not implicating or identifying any other people who might have been

involved. Given a longer sentence than those who fully cooperated, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison on June 4, 2007 and began serving his time on July 2, 2007 at MDC Brooklyn. 



| |Jonathan Paul, #07167-085, FCI |

|[pic] |Phoenix, Federal Correctional |

| |Institution, |

| |37910 N 45th Ave., Phoenix, AZ |

| |85086 |

| |Birthday: 1-31 |

Jonathan has been an animal and environmental activist since the 1980s and a vegan for 25 years. He and his wife live with 5 companion animals off the grid, powering their home with solar panels. Jonathan is currently serving a 51 – month sentence in federal prison in Phoenix, Arizona for his role in the 1997 arson of the Cavel West horse slaughterhouse in Redmond, OR.

Jonathan has dedicated his life to protecting the earth and alleviating the suffering of animals, human and non-human. From 1999 until the time he reported to prison in October of 2007, Jonathan served his community as an Emergency Medical Technician and volunteer firefighter. Jonathan has received numerous awards for his community service. He deserves our support and we need to let him know how much we appreciate his sacrifices.



| |Grant Barnes #137563, San |

|[pic] |Carlos Correctional Facility, |

| |PO Box 3, Pueblo, |

| |CO 81002, USA. |

24 year old Grant Barnes, is serving a 12 year sentence for setting fire to a number of SUV vehicles. H was arrested by Denver police in connection with at least two fires involving Hummer sport utility vehicles. On one of the vehicles the letters ELF was spray-painted.An officer arrested Grant Barnes during a routine traffic stop about 11:30 p.m., after finding suspicious materials in his vehicle. He was in the same neighborhood as the arsons, police said.



SF 8

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Francisco Torres #2307534

out on bail.

Eight former Black Panthers were arrested January 23rd in California, New York and Florida on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Similar charges were thrown out after it was revealed that police used torture to extract confessions when some of these same men were arrested in New Orleans in 1973.

Richard Brown, Richard O'Neal, Ray Boudreaux, and Hank Jones were arrested Jan. 23, 2007 in California. Francisco Torres was arrested the same day in Queens, New York. Harold Taylor was arrested in Florida. Two men charged – Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim – have been held as political prisoners for over 30 years in New York State prisons. A ninth man -- Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth – is still being sought. The men were charged with the murder of Sgt. John Young and conspiracy that encompasses numerous acts between 1968 and 1973.

Harold Taylor and John Bowman (recently deceased) as well as Ruben Scott (thought to be a government witness) were first charged in 1975. But a judge tossed out the charges, finding that Taylor and his two co-defendants made statements after police in New Orleans tortured them for several days employing electric shock, cattle prods, beatings, sensory deprivation, plastic bags and hot, wet blankets for asphyxiation. Such "evidence" is neither credible nor legal.

UPDATE: Everyone is out of jail currently. At the end of July, Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim were sentenced to probation and time served, after Herman agreed to plead to voluntary manslaughter and Jalil to conspiracy to voluntary manslaughter. All charges were then dropped on Richard Brown, Hank Jones, Harold Taylor, and Ray Boudreaux, with the prosecution admitting it had “insufficient evidence” against them. Charges had already been dropped against Richard O'Neal last year.

Francisco Torres, of NYC, is the last person still with charges; he maintains his innocence and will appear in court on August 10.



2008

| |Eric McDavid |

|[pic] |X-2972521 4E231A, Sacramento |

| |County Main Jail, 651 "I" |

| |Street, Sacramento, CA 95814,|

| |USA. |

| |Birthday: 10-7 |

Eric McDavid was arrested in Auburn, CA on January 13, 2006 as part of the government’s ongoing Green Scare campaign. Eric was held in solitary confinement at the Sacramento County Main Jail since the day of his arrest.

He was arrested along with Zachary Jenson and Lauren Weiner and all three were charged with “conspiracy to destroy property by means of fire or explosives.” The government’s case is based on the word of a single FBI informant who was paid over $75,000 to fabricate a crime and implicate the trio. Both of Eric’s co-defendants have since caved under the threat of being imprisoned for 20 years and plead guilty to a lesser charge. In doing so, they also agreed to testify against Eric and cooperate in every way possible, including testifying in front of secret grand jury proceedings. Eric has been repeatedly denied bail. For over a year, he has only been allowed to leave his cell for a few hours per week and receives very little contact with the outside world. On September 7, 2007 Eric was found guilty of conspiracy and is waiting for sentencing. His sentencing date has been pushed back several times which is obviously difficult for Eric.



|[pic] |Michael Sykes |

| |#696693 |

| |Richard A. Handlon |

| |Correctional Facility |

| |1728 Bluewater Highway |

| |Ionia, MI 48846 |

Michael is a 17-year-old anarchist awaiting trial on charges in connection with some anti-development/sprawl arsons in Michigan. Police say that 17-year-old Michael Sykes torched two newly constructed homes in order to call attention to the problem of urban sprawl. The teen was arrested as he allegedly attempted to siphon gasoline from an unmarked police Jeep Cherokee near a new development. Detectives say that Sykes confessed to the arsons along with another at a Kroger supermarket in 2006, as well as a recent string of acts of vandalism including burning an American flag, damaging an 80-foot utility pole and painting an anarchy symbol.

Sykes was charged as an adult, and has pled not guilty. He is being held in Monroe County Jail in lieu of $1 million bond. His next hearing is scheduled for March 26. He loves nature and would like to receive books, especially ones about Native Americans, environmentalism, and field guides. He said that if people write him he can send them artwork and that he would also like visitors.



|[pic] |Avelino González Claudio |

| |09873-000 |

| |287 Bilton Road |

| |P.O. Box 665 |

| |Somers, CT 06071 |

| |Birthday: |

| |10-8-1942 |

Avelino is a recent Puerto Rican Independence prisoner. Avelino was born in the town of Vega Baja on October 8, 1942. Since his days as a student in the public schools of his country he established himself as a fighter for the freedom of his homeland.

Upon entering the University of Puerto Rico he became a member of the Pro-Independence University Federation (Federación Universitaria Pro Independencia –FUPI), a student organization founded in 1956 that has stood out for its struggle for university reforms to improve conditions at the university for our people. Avelino became its vice-president.

He moved to New York City where he lived until the beginning of the 1970’s. He worked in Wall Street in that city while he carried out political work with the Puerto Rican community and organized part of the resistance of the revolutionary forces that were beginning to organize themselves in “the belly of the Yankee beast” and had begun to stand out by the end of the 1960’s. Avelino became part of the leadership of the Vito Marco Antonio Mission of the Movemento Pro-Independence (MPI) in New York.

Avelino returned to his homeland to integrate into the political work where he stood out as one of its most capable and disciplined leaders. At the time of the arrests in 1985 he was known for his role in the administration of the operations of the political magazine Pensamiento Crítico (Critical Thought. For the past 22 years he alluded authorities as “Jose Ortega,” and was able to participate not only in the struggle for the peoples’ liberation but also as a worker and computer teacher where he realized work for the improvement of the services provided by the Department of Education of Puerto Rico.

In August of 1985, Avelino González, along with other Puerto Ricans and 2 North Americans, were accused of having participated in the planning and authorization of an operation to secure $7,117,000.00 from a Wells Fargo armored truck in Hartford, Connecticut on September 12, 1983. That operation was carried out by the then PRTP-Macheteros. They are accused of being part of the Central Committee and Political Commission of the PRTP-Macheteros. Avelino, his brother Norberto and Victor Gerena, the main person accused, could not be arrested at that time. Norberto and Victor remain underground to this day.

The charges against those arrested that year ended in a trial of a group of the accused (Carlos Ayes, Filiberto Ojeda, Juan Segarra, Norman Ramirez and Roberto Maldonado) in 1989 and finally led to a political-legal agreement in 1992 with the accused Orlando González, Hilton Fernández Diamante, Jorge A. Farinacci, Isaac Camacho, Elías Castro and Angel Días Ruiz and later led to another trial of the accused Ivone Meléndez Carrión. The legal agreement reached recognized the Macheteros as a political organization that fights for the independence of their homeland.

Avelino was arrested Feb 7, 2008 and his is held in a state prison in the city of Hartford in conditions of “maximum security”. 23 hours in isolation in a jail cell, with one hour to get fresh air, with no access to his family and denied communication by telephone with his family members, his lawyers or friends. They propose to judge him, as they have his comrades in struggle, faraway from his Puerto Rican homeland. His hearing is set for later this year.

UPDATE: Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Avelino Gonzalez Claudo is being denied medical treatment! Since his incarceration, he has developed a neurological condition. In November 2008, Avelino requested, several times, medical attention receiving only a “I do not know”, “I will read some books” answer from the Doctor assigned to his facility. 

Avelno has been mvoed to anew prison, so the campaign has a new target:  Peter J. Murphy, the Warden of Avelino's new prison, MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution



|[pic] |Briana Waters |

| |36432-086 |

| |FCI Danbury, Federal |

| |Correctional Institution, |

| |Route 37, Danbury, CT 06811, |

| |USA. |

Briana Waters is compassionate advocate for peace, and a devoted mother with a 3 year old daughter who is accused of participating in an arson at the University of Washington in May 2001. On March 15, 2006, she was falsely accused of participating in a politically motivated arson which took place at the University of Washington in May 2001. An informant testified that she was the driver and look out during the arson.Briana steadfastly maintains her innocence.

In 2001, she directed a powerful documentary, entitled Watch, which tells the moving true story of a peaceful campaign that built a coalition between environmentalists, loggers, and the residents of Randle, Washington to save the old-growth forest on Watch Mountain.

A federal jury found her guilty of two counts of arson on March 6, 2008. She is currently detained while awaiting sentencing. She faces a mandatory five-year minimum prison term, potentially subject to an enhancement of up to twenty years.



|[pic] |Rodney Adam Coronado |

| |#03895-000, FCI El Reno, |

| |PO Box 1500, El Reno, OK |

| |73036, |

| |USA. |

| | |

Rodney Adam Coronado is an American eco-anarchist and animal rights activist who has been convicted of arson, conspiracy and other crimes in connection with his activism. He is an advocate for the Animal Liberation Front and started several ALF cells. He was the spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front. He is also a former crew member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and was a member of the editorial collective of the Earth First! Journal.

Rod Coronado writes eloquently of his involvement in high-profile direct actions, most notorious was the sinking of two whaling ships in Iceland.

A former proponent of the use of direct action to end what he sees as cruelty to animals and destruction of the environment, Coronado was jailed in 1995 in connection with an arson attack on research facilities at Michigan State University. The incident, which caused $125,000 worth of damage and destroyed 32 years of research data, was part of the Animal Liberation Front's "Operation Bite Back," a series of attacks on animal-testing and fur facilities in the United States during the 1990s.

In February 2006, Coronado was arrested on a felony charge of demonstrating the use of an incendiary device at a public gathering in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego. Rod leaves his 4 year old son behind as he once again waits in a cell for his freedom.

|[pic] |Marie Mason |

| |On 24/7 House arrest until |

| |sentencing. |

| |Got Your Back Collective |

| |P.O.B. 23134 |

| |Cincinnati, OH 45223 |

Marie Mason of Cincinnati, Ohio is a long time environmental, social justice activist and loving mother of two. On March 10th, she was arrested by FBI, Homeland Security and local police on charges related to two Earth Liberation Front actions that occurred in Michigan, in 1999, and 2000.

Mason had previously experienced government repression when ELF actions occurred in her community. An easy target for the federal agents in their quest to criminalize dissent, Mason was an identifiable and outspoken critic of genetic engineering and destructive forestry practices.

Marie’s case is one of the latest developments in what many have dubbed the “Green Scare,” a recent wave of government repression aimed at disrupting and discrediting grassroots environmental activism and criminalizing dissent.



|[pic] |Bryan “Rat Dog” Lefey |

| |#38664-086 |

| |FDC SeaTac |

| |Federal Detention Center |

| |P.O. Box 13900 |

| |Seattle, WA 98198 |

| |USA |

On July 26 2008, Bryan Rivera, a.k.a Bryan Lefey, was arrest and remanded for his accused involvement in an ELF action eight years ago. 2 other defendants in the same case, Katherine Christianson and Aaron Ellringer, have both been accused of ELF actions, and appeared in court on Tuesday the 29th of July, where they both pleaded not guilty and were released on bail.

| |Bryan Riggins |

| |c/o Thurston County Corrections |

| |Facility |

| |2000 Lakeridge Drive SW |

| |Olympia, WA 98502 |

| | |

Bryan Riggins

Bryan Riggins, Tacoma-based anarchist started the demanded 73 day (lessened from the initial 120) sentence yesterday, Saturday 8/16. He has been kidnapped for the so-called "riot" during May Day 2008 in Olympia.Bryan Riggins, Tacoma-based anarchist started the demanded 73 day (lessened from the initial 120) sentence yesterday, Saturday 8/16. He has been kidnapped for the so-called "riot" during May Day 2008 in Olympia.

Bryan would appreciate books (must be ordered/shipped from publisher), zines, letters, and general support (vistation, donations, etc.). Especially literature pertaining to prison struggle, new anarchist/communist translations from Europe, and any introductory/basic anarchist texts.

James

| |Jesse James ForreyRC Correctional|

| |Facility |

| |297 Century Avenue South |

| |Maplewood, MN 55119 |

Jesse, was arrested at the RNC protests in the Twin Cities last September, and is fighting a felony charge of criminal damage to property in the first degree . He is from California and courageously waits to return to his home and family.

| |Kevin Olliff, #1300931, |

| |TTCF 161 D-Pod, |

| |450 Bauchet St., |

| |Los Angeles, CA 90012 |

| |USA |

| |Linda Greene, #1300927 |

| |Century Regional Detention |

| |Facility |

| |11705 S. |

| |Alameda Street |

| |Lynwood, CA 90262 |

| |USA |

two American animal rights activists have been remanded accused of stalking

| |William James Viehl |

| |Inmate #2009-05735 |

| |Davis County Jail |

| |800 West State St. |

| |Farmington, UT 84025 |

| |USA |

| |Alex Hall |

| |Inmate #2009-06304 |

| |Davis County Jail |

| |800 West State St. |

| |Farmington, UT 84025 |

| |USA |

On Thursday the 5th of March two Americans, William "BJ" Veihl and Alex Hall, were raided and arrested accused of raiding a mink farm in Utah, last August, and attempting to raid a second mind farm, in October 2008. Both are being held at Salt Lake County Jailed charged with Animal Enterprise Terrorism.

Both BJ and Alex are vegan, but both are being denied vegan meals (this is despite the fact their friends and supporters are being told, by the jail, they are getting vegan food!!!). People are working on assuring BJ and Alex get the food they require.

MATTHEW DEPALMA

14126-041

P.O. Box 420

Fairton, NJ 08320

| |William James Viehl |

| |Inmate #2009-05735 |

| |Davis County Jail |

| |800 West State St. |

| |Farmington, UT 84025 |

| |USA |

DePalma is an anarchist convicted of illegally possessing Molotov cocktails allegedly intended to be used at the Republican National Convention and against the police outside the convention. The government indictment stated that between August 22, 1008 and August 29, 2008, DePalma began to build roughly about five Molotov cocktails. Police started watching him during a CrimeThinc Convergence near Waldo, Wis. It was here where they claim he devised his plan to use explosives to disrupt the RNC at the Xcel Center. He was arrested on August 30, 2008 by agent of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force at a residence in Minneapolis. The plan involved tunnels near the center and using explosives to destroy cables and cause a power outage. As with the more recent arrests, a great deal of evidence against DePalma has come from the assistance of a paid informant. DePalma pleaded guilty on October 21, 2008. He pleaded guilty to 1 count of possession of destruction device.

In memory of...

Basheed/york

harold thompson

eddie hatcher

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