Prisons: tear them down

Beyond Central Park

Taken from an April 18 audio column on prisonradio.org. The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville,…

May 12, 2013

René González reunites with family in Cuba

The global movement to free the Cuban 5 is feeling great joy. On May 3, Miami federal trial judge, Joan…

May 12, 2013

‘Long Distance Revolutionary’: #1 documentary in Philadelphia

Philadelphia — In one of many milestones in the decades-long movement to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, the documentary film "Long…

May 7, 2013

Assata Shakur is a modern-day Harriet Tubman

I had the distinct honor of meeting Assata Shakur in person at the 1997 World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba.…

May 7, 2013

Lucasville prison uprising revisited

Activists, former prisoners and attorneys at the “Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising Conference” at Columbus [Ohio] State Community College on the…

May 5, 2013

PayPal blocks funds earmarked for Cuban 5 mobilization

Issued by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five on April 26. One day after a matching-fund…

May 1, 2013

Lynne Stewart tells supporters to keep up pressure for release

On April 26, the warden at Carswell Federal Medical Center told political prisoner Lynne Stewart that he had passed her…

May 1, 2013

Protest at women’s prison: ‘Overcrowding equals death’

Chowchilla, Calif. — Over 400 anti-prison activists marched and rallied on country roads in front of two Chowchilla prisons on Jan.…

January 31, 2013

Mass movement demands U.S. release Aafia Siddiqui

  In support of continuing efforts to pressure the U.S. government to repatriate Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan, former U.S.…

December 20, 2012

Bring Peltier home in 2012!

Harry Belafonte and Pete Seeger hosted a full house at the “Bring Leonard Peltier Home in 2012? concert Dec. 14…

December 19, 2012