4strugglemag

LANCEMENT! LAUNCH PARTY!

le Calendrier Certain Days: 2008 Freedom for Political Prisoners
Legacy of the Panthers
www.certaindays.org

Mardi, 11 décembre 2007
Le Cagibi
5490 boul. St. Laurent
don volontaire

18h00 à 20h00

avec:
clip audio de Seth Hayes
musique par Alden Penner

Apportez des livres pour faire un don à Livres Accès Montréal:
dictionnaires, livres de langues, romans, etc. Les livres doivent avoir
une couverture souple.

info@certaindays.org

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Certain Days: 2008 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
Legacy of the Panthers
www.certaindays.org

Tuesday, Dec 11th 2007
Le Cagibi
5490 boul. St. Laurent
Admission by donation

6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

with: audio from Seth Hayes
music by Alden Penner

BRING BOOKS for Open Door Books: dictionaries, language
books, general fiction, and popular/pulp fiction. Books should be softcover.

info@certaindays.org

NYC, Friday, November 30, 7:00 p.m.: Defend the Legacy of the Black Panther Party

Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center, 310 W. 43rd Street (between 8th & 9th Ave).

Speakers include:
• Gil Noble (producer and host of ABC-TV’s Like It Is)
• Francisco Torres, Harold Taylor Ray Boudreaux, and Hank Jones, SF-8 defendants
• Soffiyah Elijah, lawyer on the SF-8 case
• Performance by alixa + naima/Climbing Poetree.
• Jamal Joseph and IMPACT! youth group
Learn more about this case from some of the SF-8 who were able to get bail—and welcome home defendant Cisco Torres, released on bail and now back with his family in Queens.
Sponsors (list in formation): Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition), Black Panther Commemoration Committee (NY), Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Center for Constitutional Rights, Frances Goldin, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC), Friends and Family of Daniel McGowan, Friends of David Gilbert, Gabriela Network USA, The Jericho Movement, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, NY State Taskforce for Political Prisoners, NYC Anarchist Black Cross, NYC National Lawyers Guild, ProLibertad, Resistance in Brooklyn, Safiya Bukhari-Albert Nuh Washington Foundation, and SEIU Local 1199.
For information: Local 1199 (Michael@1199.org), Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (mxgm.org), The Jericho Movement (thejerichomovement.com) or call (718) 254-8800 or (646) 246-0770. 246-0770.

NOV. 9: Certain Days Political Prisoners Calendar LAUNCH/Prison Book Access Project PARTY

www.certaindays.org

Friday, November 9, 2007
The Concord Cafe
937 Bloor Street West, Toronto

$5 or $15 with a calendar

doors at 8 p.m.

with DJs
Nik Red (Afrotransit, CKLN 88.1FM)
Syrus Marcus Ware (Resistance on the Sounddial, CIUT 89.5FM)
Saira Chhibber (Superfly, CHRY 105.5FM)
Haque (Rose from Lal!)

Brought to you by Certain Days, CKLN, and the Prison Book Access Project

BRING BOOKS for the Prison Book Access Project: dictionaries, language books, general fiction, and popular/pulp fiction. Books should be softcover, newer than 1995 and in good condition.

Ward Churchill - Toronto - October 17

(please post and forward!)

HOLOCAUST DENIAL AS ACADEMIC ORTHODOXY

A talk by Keetowah Cherokee Scholar and Activist WARD CHURCHILL

Wednesday October 17th
7pm
Room 3154 of the Medical Science Building at U of T
1 King's College Circle near the Queen's Park Subway stop
$5-20 Sliding Scale (No one will be turned away)

WHO IS WARD CHURCHILL?

Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is one of the most outspoken of Native American activists and scholars in North America and a leading analyst of indigenous issues. He was, until recently, a Professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado. Churchill served as Associate Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the institution. He is also co-director of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement and vice chair of the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council.

Churchill's many books include Pacifism as Pathology, Marxism and Native Americans, Fantasies of the Master Race, Struggle for the Land, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, From A Native Son, Critical Issues in Native North America, The COINTELPRO Papers, Indians R Us?, Agents of Repression, Since Predator Came, and A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas.

In his lectures and numerous published works, Churchill explores the themes of genocide in the Americas, racism, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, environmental destruction of Indian lands, government repression of political movements, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo.

Churchill is also a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations (as a Justice/Rapporteur for the for the 1993 International People's Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians), and as an advocate/prosecutor of the First Nations International Tribunal for the Chiefs of Ontario.

FOR A MAP TO THE MEDICAL SCIENCE BUILDING

FOR MORE INFORMATION about Ward Churchill
Organised by:

CERTAIN DAYS calendar committee - www.certaindays.org
EXILE INFOSHOP – exilebooks.org
York GSA - www.yugsa.ca

January 17, Montreal: NO MORE PRISONS! Certain Days for Political Prisoners!

WHEN: Wednesday, January 17th 2007, 7pm
WHERE: Cafe Toc Toc, 6091 Parc (near Van Horne), MONTREAL
$FREE!

This event is bringing together prisoner support groups in Montreal. Community radio and letter-writing workshops will start at 7pm, followed by music and an open mic at 9pm. The Certain Days Calender for Political Prisoners and 4strugglemag will be available by donation.

ckutnews.wordpress.com / www.certaindays.org / www.4strugglemag.org

7pm->9pm -=- WORKSHOPS on Prisoner Support -=-

- Write to prisoners! -

Various prisoner support groups in Montreal will set up a letter-writing table, with information about different prisoners, addresses, and writing materials.

- Making Waves: Community News on CKUT 90.3fm -

Volunteers from Prison Radio and the Community News Collective at CKUT 90.3fm will offer a workshop on producing interviews for independent news reports. Participants will will be able to interview each other for the next broadcast of prison radio.

- Words for Justice: Literature Distro Table -

Everyone is invited to bring literature, 'zines, flyers, etc. to distribute. Volunteers with the Certain Days Calender Commitee will be there with the 2007 Calander, produced with and for political prisoners. Also, pick up the latest copy of 4strugglemag, edited by political prisoner Jaan Laaman.

9pm->11pm -=- Open Mic -=-

Volunteers: speak out about experiences with prisoner support;
Poets and rappers: give voice to the politics of oppression;
Musicians and Singers: hope that certain days will come...

performers can r.s.v.p. by e-mail -> turnthetide@ckut.ca
or phone -> 514 524 3452

--------------------! NO MORE PRISONS !-------------------
-----------! Certain Days for political prisoners !-------

made possible with the help and support of various volunteer-based organizations in Montreal.

For more information about Prison Radio and the Community News Collective at CKUT 90.3fm:
e-mail: news(AT)ckut.ca,
phone: 448 4041 x 6788
on-line: http://ckutnews.wordpress.com/, http://ckut.ca

About the Certain Days Calender Collective:
e-mail: info@certaindays.org
on-line: www.certaindays.org
mail: Certain Days c/o QPIRG Concordia /
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. O. / Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 / CANADA

About 4strugglemag:
e-mail: jaanlaaman@gmail.com
on-line: www.4strugglemag.org
mail: 4strugglemag / P.O. Box 42053 / Succ. Jeanne Mance /
Montreal QC CANADA / H2W 2T3

April 1 Benefit film screening for Montreal Anarchist Bookfair

SATURDAY, APRIL 1
5:00 pm

Benefit film screening for Montreal Anarchist Bookfair and Books to Prisoners Montreal

Sliding scale $3-5
de Sève Cinema at Concordia University – 1400 de Maisonneuve O.

MOVE (2003, USA, 53, in English)
Dir. Benjamin Garry & Ryan McKenna

This documentary covers the full controversial history of the radical movement, MOVE, in Philadelphia that was created by John Africa in the 1970's. The story is told through interviews with actual MOVE members including Ramona Africa, the MOVE 9 prisoners, and MOVE supporters and analyzed by its neighbors, Philadelphia journalists and other outside opinions. Howard Zinn, author of "The People's History of the United States" narrates this interesting and informative documentary.

Eyes in the Back of Your Head (2003, Canada, 33 min, in English)

Federal women ex-prisoners take photographs at the recently closed Prison 4 Women in Kingston, Ontario. The women are members of Womyn 4 Justice, a group of prisoners and ex-prisoners who are currently organizing to build a transition house for women leaving prison.
Telltales Media Production, Dir: Clarke Mackey, Produced with Kingston Insights Project.

Info: anarchistbookfair@taktic.org or 514-859-9090

SAMEDI LE 1ER AVRIL 2006
17h00
Cinéma De Sève de l'Université Concordia, 1400 de Maisonneuve ouest

Une projection de film au bénéfice de « Books for Prisoners » - Montréal et du Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal

Entrée : 3-5$
Pour information : anarchistbookfair@taktic.org ou (514) 859-9090

Les films :

MOVE (2003, Etats-Unis, 53', en anglais)
Réal. Benjamin Garry et Ryan McKenna

Ce documentaire relate l'histoire contreversée du mouvement radical MOVE de Philadelphie, créé par John Africa dans les années 1970. Cette histoire est racontée par le biais d'entrevues avec des membres de MOVE dont Ramona Africa, les 9 prisonniers de MOVE et des sympathisants, et est analysée par des voisins, des journalistes de Philadelphie et d'autres personnes à l'extérieur du mouvement. Howard Zinn, auteur de « L'histoire populaire des Etats-Unis », est le narrateur de ce documentaire aussi passionnant qu'instructif.

Eyes in the Back of Your Head (2003, Canada, 33', en anglais)

D'anciennes prisonnières du Fédéral prennent des photographies à la Prison 4 pour femmes de Kingston, Ontario, qui a été récemment fermée. Ces femmes sont membres de "Womyn 4 Justice", un groupe de prionnières et ex-prisonnières qui s'organisent en vue de mettre sur pied une maison de transition pour les femmes qui sortent de prison.
Une production de Teltales Media, réal.: Clarke Mackey, produit en collaboration avec Kingston Insights Project.

THE DEATH OF POLITICAL PRISONER RICHARD WILLIAMS

It is with great sorrow and loss that I need to let people know of the death of my dear comrade, long held political prisoner Richard Williams. Richard's liver failed and he passed on Dec. 7th, 2005, in a federal prison in North Carolina.

Richard Williams, who turned 58 only last month, was a life long anti-imperialist and socialist, one of the Ohio 7 who had been in captivity since 1984. Richard was a peace and justice activist, a revolutionary and a freedom fighter. He was the people's soldier, a friend and an ally of the poor and oppressed, of the working class around the world.

As a young man Richard was inspired by the life and words of Che Guevara, and in his own life he became a true example of proletarian internationalism.

Everyone is invited to post their remembrances of Richard Williams on 4strugglemag's discussion board, www.4strugglemag.org/board. The next issue, No. 6 out in February, will feature material on Richard and his life.

Jaan Laaman
Ohio 7 anti-imperialist political prisoner
Dec. 11, 2005
Walpole, MA

Montreal ABCF site move

Looking for something from our old site, www.montrealabcf.org? You'll find it here: PP/POW profiles in English and French, writings and artwork, plus photos from the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair and other events. If you have questions or want to know how to get involved, drop us a line at montrealabcf@gmail.com.

Don't forget to check out the Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. It's more beautiful than ever this year, and an invaluable resource. Get your copy now!

Ojore Lutalo

Free North American political prisoner Ojore Nuru Lutalo!

Remember, we’re still here

“Here we remain, yesterday’s urban guerillas, abandoned in captivity”

Recently released from a Management Control Unit (MCU) after spending years in solitary confinement, OJORE NURU LUTALO is still incarcerated in Trenton, New Jersey, for actions carried out in the fight for Black Liberation.

In Ojore's own words, he is "serving a parole violation sentence (we received 14 to 17 years) stemming from a 1977 conviction for expropriating monies from a capitalist state band (in order to finance our 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…

"After my parole violation term terminated in December 1987, I started serving a forty year sentence with a twenty year parole ineligibility (I was paroled in 1980, and I have been back in captivity since April 20, 1982) that I have received in 1982 for having a gun-fight 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 originally arrested with New Afrikan POW Kojo Bomani Sababu, and was struggling with comrade Andaliwa Clark up until the point that Andaliwa was killed in action within the confined of New Jersey's infamous Trenton State Prison after he shot two prison security guards in the repressive Management Control Unit on January 19, 1986 when they tried to stop him from escaping from captivity.

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. Prior to my involvement in the struggle, I was just another apolitical lumpen (bandit) here in Amerika.”

“I was… influenced and highly motivated by the Black Liberation Army (BLA) here in Amerika. These sisters and brothers were New Afrikans just like me from the streets of the ghettos who took the initiative militarily, to start assassinating members of the state’s security forces who were murdering black people in our communities. 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. In addition, I feel that these armed combat units are necessary to show the people that fascist acts of state-sponsored terrorism… will be responded to militarily. In 1975 I became disillusioned with Marxism and became an anarchist (thanks to Kuwasi Balagoon) due to the inactiveness and ineffectiveness of Marxism in our communities along with repressive bureaucracy that comes with Marxism. People aren’t going to commit themselves to a life and death struggle just because of grand ideas someone might have floating around in their heads. I feel people will commit themselves to a struggle if they can see progress being made similar to the progress of anarchist collectives in Spain during the era of the fascist Bahamonde…”

Until recently, Ojore was locked down in an MCU in Trenton. “I’m encased in a cage of steel and concrete surrounded by high prison walls topped with gun towers and rows of razor wire while being watched by sadistic fascist pigs. Nevertheless, I’m not complaining because I have accepted the revolution, which is an armed struggle for me, and I have come to terms with the prospects of death and captivity… The vast majority of the Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners now being interned here in the concentration camps of North Amerika aren’t receiving any assistance (e.g. being liberated, assistance in liberating ourselves, financial assistance needed to obtain food packages, winter clothing, reading material and postage stamps) from the so-called progressive revolutionary organizations, groups and individuals here in Amerika. With our talents, we have been abandoned here the in the state’s numerous concentration camps and our MCUs by those out there in what we call minimum custody…

We don’t need moral support because we have purpose. We don’t need anyone to tell us to stay strong because we are going to remain steadfast anyway, because we have come to terms with the prospects of death and captivity.”

The Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) encourages everyone to be in contact with Ojore for more information. Be considerate and include a postal money order made out to Ojore Lutalo with his state number (59860) on it to cover his mailing costs.

Or you can contact the ABCF for information on what we do to support Ojore and the Anarchist Subsistence Program which sends funds and other materials to anarchist PP/POWs (like Ojore), or the non-partisan Warchest Program.

OJORE LUTALO #59860

SBI # 0000901548

P.O. Box 861

Trenton, NJ 08625 USA

Jaan Laaman

Free North American political prisoner Jaan Karl Laaman!

Check out the newest issue of www.4strugglemag.org.

WELCOME TO THIS SITE

Hey, how you doing? To all my friends old and new, fellow freedom fighters, political supporters, Human Rights activists, interested readers, late night surfers, and what the hell, yea my enemies too (all you CIA, FBI and other spooks and agents) -- allow me to extend a warm welcome (well not so warm to the FBI) to what I hope will be an informative and interesting, maybe even inspiring to some, interaction with this web site. Here you'll find information and links to the reality and struggle of political prisoners held by the U.S. government.

Recently with the Bush government's deadly invasion and continuing occupation of Iraq, the world saw hundreds of thousands of Americans out in the streets opposing this war, even before it began. Yes there is a progressive humane peace and anti-imperialist movement in America and it did not just materialize. The struggle for justice, peace, equality, and for revolutinary progress in the United States has been an active reality for the past 40 years and more. The political prisoners referred to in this site all come from this proud and ongoing effort.

This will hopefully be a growing and evolving, interesting and useful site for many people. There will soon be an updated news and editorial section. I hope to add more music and some video. In the future I hope to develop a magazine section dealing not only with politicial prisoner issues, but also with the overall Freedom Struggle (politics, culture, music, social issues). This magazine will primarily feature the views and insights of America's political prisoners.

Feel free to comment, make suggestions, criticize. Email (jaanlaaman@gmail.com) might take as long to reach me as standard Postal Mail

JAAN LAAMAN W41514

P.O. Box 100

South Walpole, MA 02071 USA

Volume of mail and cost of postage, (I make $5.25 a week at my prison job), may limit my ability to personally reply, but I'll try.

So go ahead, check out the site and keep in mind:

FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE!

AMANDLA!

Jaan Laaman -- Spring 2003

Sekou Kambui

Free North American political prisoner Sekou Cinque T.M. Kambui!

Sign our petition supporting Sekou's release! It's online here.

SEKOU CINQUE T.M. KAMBUI (s/n William J. Turk is a New Afrikan political prisoner currently serving two consecutive life sentences for crimes he did not commit. Sekou has already spent more than 28 years of his life behind bars on trumped up charges of murdering two white men in Alabama in 1975.

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, which included inquiries into his personal relationship with a white woman. 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 falsely arrested and charged with the murders of two white men: a KKK official from Tuscaloosa and a multi-millionaire oilman from Birmingham.

It’s not surprising that Sekou was found guilty of both murders in separate trials. Did Sekou have a chance of being found innocent? If one considers the nature of the case in that there was a Black man standing accused of killing two White men in Alabama in 1975, then the initial conclusion must be no. But when the Black man in question is considered an “Uppity Nigger” by the White power structure, it becomes a proven fact. On that basis alone, Sekou was presumed guilty. Despite immense pre-trial publicity, the court denied a motion for a change of venue. An appeals court later affirmed this decision, citing examples of ineffectiveness of the counselor. In fact, the nature of this case was so intense that during a 1985 investigation of the crime, persons in Tuscaloosa vividly recalled details of the murder, the accused (Sekou), and the entire issue of the killing. Major witnesses in both cases admitted during this same investigation that they had been forced to testify against Sekou and had repeatedly been visited by the Birmingham Police Department, as well as the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department.

Defense witnesses in the first trial were so terrified after continuous threats and racial intimidation by the Birmingham Police for providing alibi testimony that they fled Alabama, leaving Sekou without a defense for his second trial. To this day no direct evidence has ever been found to connect Sekou to the murders. The pistol that he was captured with has never been conclusively linked to the crimes. The Alabama Department of Corrections, through the seizures of legal material and mail, repeated retaliatory transfers and threats to interfere with impending parole dates have continuously thwarted Sekou’s legal challenges to both convictions. For over twenty-eight years now, Sekou has been held captive in the Alabama Department of Corrections. As a jailhouse lawyer, his legal reputation precedes him at every institution.

In fact, many prisoners owe their freedom to Sekou’s legal efforts on their behalf. He has won numerous other civil actions regarding medical malpractice, abusive treatment, abusive segregation and abusive prison conditions, all of which have earned him nothing but retaliatory transfers. Every attempt made to appeal his original conviction has been stymied by missing legal transcripts, illegal confiscation of law books and legal research/trial preparation materials, etc… In the last ten years, Sekou has been up for parole five times, and has been denied every time and set off. Prior to every parole consideration there has been a punitive transfer and escalation of harassment due to legal action taken by Sekou on behalf of other prisoners. He co-founded the Social Consciousness Development Group, which unites prisoners, families and outside supporters to struggle for prisoners’ rights.

SEKOU KAMBUI (W. TURK)

113058 / Box 56 SCC (B1-21)

Elmore, AL 36025-0056

Alvaro Hernandez

Free North American political prisoner Alvaro Luna Hernandez!

The territorial United States of America is composed of several enslaved indigenous internal colonies, subjugated through historical wars of colonial conquest and annexation. One of those oppressed internal colonies is the indigenous Chicano Mexicano Nation, which resulted in the annexation of sacred homelands and the birthplace o f the Aztec indians, known as Aztlan.

The Mexican-American War of 1845 ended with the signing of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that ended hostilities and ceded these rich lands to the U.S. colonial-settler government constituting over 50% of the Mexican homeland, now the Southwestern states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and parts of Nevada. The military border was set as the Rio Grande River.

In the fact of brutal repression, injustices and genocide, the heroic Chicano Mexican people have resisted the criminal, military occupation of their indigenous homeland to this very day, through acts of armed resistance and other political mass movement formations for their self-defense, self-determination and national liberation.

ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ is testimony of these relentless struggles and resistance of Chicanos Mexicanos in defense of their social rights and for their self-determination and national liberation. Alvaro was framed by the police and imprisoned in order to silence him and to suppress the movements he spearheaded. Alvaro lead community empowerment movements in Houston, Texas, including his status as a delegate of a nongovernmental organization before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in March 1993 in Geneva, Switzerland, and coordinated the defense committee which successfully lead the fight to free Mexican national RICARDO ALDAPE GUERRA from Texas’ death row after being framed by Houston police. Alvaro was in high demand as a public speaker at many colleges, universities and conferences throughout the U.S. He is known as a symbol of resistance to Yankee colonialism and to social and racial injustices committed against his people by the occupation government. Because of his militant resistance he became the target of the police in that he strongly opposed police brutality against Chicano youth.

Alvaro was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment on June 9, 1997, in Odessa, Texas, after trial by jury on the charge of aggravated assault against a police who tried to kill him. Alvaro disarmed the police and fled. Protests demanding his release have been staged in many cities during and after his trial. His case is currently under review by the federal court on his request for a new trial. Alvaro continues to struggle behind Texas prison walls and as punishment was recently placed in administrative segregation, or solitary confinement. For more information, see www.freealvaro.org, or you can write directly to Alvaro at:

ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ #255735

Huges Unit

Route 2, P.O. Box 4400

Gatesville TX 76597 USA

David Gilbert

Free North American political prisoner David Gilbert!

No Surrender, a NEW book of writings by David, is now available from AG Press! This insightful and inspirational book is a MUST-READ for all those who are committed to social justice! CLICK HERE to find some of his other writings on his Kersplebedeb page, too.

DAVID GILBERT is a North American Political Prisoner. The Civil Rights struggle of the 60s exposed David to the sham of US democracy and embodied the beauty of collective struggle.

In 1965 he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University in NY and became a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) there. In 1967, David authored the first SDS pamphlet on US Imperialism and participated in the Columbia Strike of 1968.

After about 8 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.

On October 20, 1981, he and other comrades were captured at Nyack, NY during an attempted expropriation by a unit of the Black Liberation Army and other white revolutionaries (known as the Revolutionary Armed Task Force, RATF). During the expropriation attempt, 3 officers were killed. Charged and convicted of felony murder, David is serving a 75 year (minimum) to life sentence.

David was a pioneering force in the prison struggle against AIDS from 1987 to 2001. He has remained a staunch opponent of oppression still dedicated to human liberation.

**NEW address:

DAVID GILBERT #83A6158
P.O. Box 2001
Clinton Correctional Facility
Dannemora NY 12929 USA

Marilyn Buck

Free North American political prisoner Marilyn Buck!

You'll find more information and some of Marilyn's wonderful writings at her Kersplebedeb page, including the new Freedom Archives CD Wild Poppies - a poetry jam across prison walls.

MARILYN BUCK is an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner. She is imprisoned for her anti-imperialist actions carried out in support of national liberation, women's liberation, social and economic justice.

In the 60's Marilyn participated in protests against racism and the Vietnam War. In 1967 she joined Students for a Democratic Society. Marilyn became part of a radical filmmaking and propaganda collective, showing the films at community meetings, high school groups, workers' committees and in the streets. She also participated in solidarity groups supporting the Vietnamese, Palestinians, and Native American, Mexicano and Black liberation struggles.

As a direct result of this activity, she became a target of COINTELPRO. In 1973, she was convicted of buying two boxes of bullets. Accused of being a member of the Black Liberation Army, she was sentenced to 10 years, the longest sentence ever given for such an offense at the time. In 1977 she was granted a furlough and never returned, joining the revolutionary clandestine movement. In 1985 she was captured and charged with conspiracy to free Political Prisoners and support the New Afrikan Independence struggle through expropriations. In 1988 she was indicted for conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence against government and military buildings and received an additional 10 years for conspiracy to bomb the Capitol. She is serving a total of 80 years.

MARILYN BUCK #00482-285
Unit B
5701 8th St. Camp Parks
Dublin, CA 94568 USA

Janet Hollaway Africa

Free North American political prisoner Janet Hollaway Africa!

MOVE 9 Political Prisoners, including JANET HOLLAWAY AFRICA, were all members of the MOVE organization. MOVE members follow the teachings of their founder, John Africa. It is an uncompromising commitment to their belief that makes them a strong, unified family despite years of hardship.

The MOVE 9 are innocent men and women who have been in prison since 1978, following a massive police assault on MOVE Headquarters in Powelton Village, Philadelphia (seven years before the government dropped a bomb on MOVE, killing 11 people, including 5 children).

During the raid, MOVE adults came out of the house carrying their children through clouds of tear gas and were immediately taken into custody. MOVE never fired any shots and no MOVE members were arrested with any weapons. All were viciously beaten. TV cameras filmed police brutally beating and kicking Delbert Africa (Three of the four police were brought to trial and acquitted despite irrefutable photographic evidence).

One police officer was killed by “friendly fire.” The MOVE 9 were wrongly convicted and each sentenced to 30-100 years for the death. Janet is currently imprisoned in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania.

JANET HOLLOWAY AFRICA #006308

451 Fullerton Avenue

Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238 USA