Prisons: tear them down

Texas death penalty is the REAL crime

In just one week in September, several events surrounding the death penalty in Texas go to the heart of its…

September 26, 2013

Urgent appeal for Herman Wallace

The United States has imprisoned so many people that some politicians and judges are finally questioning the laws that have…

September 24, 2013

Cuban 5 book penetrates Miami NPR

On Sept. 20, a liberal media voice in Miami, National Public Radio station WLRN, aired a “news” discussion about the…

September 23, 2013

Yellow ribbons & a new book to free the Cuban 5

Cubans festooned their island with yellow ribbons on Sept. 12, marking the 15th anniversary of the arrest of five Cuban…

September 19, 2013

Support for California prison hunger strike

At a short rally before the march to Oakland’s city jail, Janetta Johnson, representing the Trans GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project,…

September 4, 2013

On 15th anniversary of imprisonment, demand freedom for Cuban Five

Fifteen years ago on Sept. 12, 1998, Miami FBI swat teams arrested five Cuban men in early morning raids. These…

August 27, 2013

Ralph Poynter visits Mumia Abu-Jamal

He's still glowing, days later. On Aug. 10, Ralph Poynter, spouse of "the people's lawyer," Lynne Stewart, visited Mumia Abu-Jamal…

August 25, 2013

Caracas conference honors Chávez, fights to free Cuban 5

Caracas, Venezuela — The 7th Continental Conference in Solidarity with Cuba was held in Caracas, Venezuela, from July 24 to July…

August 25, 2013

Fight to free Chelsea Manning

It was no surprise, but no less a crime of U.S. military injustice, that Pvt. Chelsea Manning was sentenced to…

August 22, 2013

Former death row inmate Kelvin X. Morris: Justice delayed is justice denied

According to the Pennsylvania Moratorium Coalition, a federal district court’s vacating of Kelvin X. Morris’s death sentence in July 2007…

August 19, 2013