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Daniela Klette, germany, political prisoners, RAF, Red Army Faction - April 13, 2025

Daniela Klette: It’s a Settling of Accounts with This Particular History of Resistance

Trial statement at the Verden Regional Court, March 25, 2025. I agree with the defense motion to dismiss. I would, however, like to add a few things. After the RAF [Red Army Faction] ended its urban guerrilla project in April, twenty-seven years ago, Burkhard Garweg, Volker Staub, and I were confronted with the BKA’s ongoing public manhunt for the alleged “last former RAF militants.”[1] In fact, Burkhard Garweg was only dragged into this public manhunt after the RAF had disbanded. The state’s response to the RAF’s self-dissolution was consistent with Bad Kleinen—the shooting of Wolfgang Grams—and the continued heavy sentences...

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Keith LaMar, political prisoners, prisoners - February 25, 2025

Keith Lamar & Molly Crabapple: The Injustice of Justice, A Short Film

Keith LaMar, a wrongfully-convicted Black man in The United States, teams up with world-renowned artist Molly Crabapple to share the story of how he was framed and sentenced to death following the Lucasville Prison Uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in 1993. Keith has been fighting for his liberation from solitary confinement, where he has been held for over 30 years! Scheduled to be executed on January 13, 2027. Keith and his supporters intend to stop Ohio officials. A message from Keith LaMar on January 13, 2025: With today marking two years until my proposed execution date, as time...

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poetry, political prisoners, Terry Bisson - January 18, 2024

RSVP to the FBI [Terry Bisson, April 1985]

Last week, the world lost sci-fi author and lifelong anti-racist, anti-imperialist activist Terry Bisson at age 81. Terry and his family asked that gifts made in his honor go to the Abolitionist Law Center for their work in defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Here is the link: https://secure.everyaction.com/7NqPPSxbgkWuJaBjNSV8PQ2 We wanted to share this poem Terry wrote after being jailed alongside 5 other members of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee for refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury investigating the armed underground in 1985. RSVP to the FBI Thank you for handing me this invitationto talk to youBut...

Sekou Odinga, Black liberation fighter and former political prisoner, passes at 79

Sekou Odinga, a former United States political prisoner for 33 years stemming from his involvement in the Black liberation movement, passed away on January 12. Odinga was a part of several of the most impactful organizations in US Black liberation history, including Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity, the Black Panther Party, and the Black Liberation Army. Odinga is also known for his role in the escape of fellow political prisoner Assata Shakur, who lives free in Cuba to this day.

Virginia Prisoners Hunger Strike at Red Onion State Prison

On Tuesday, December 26, 2023, several prisoners confined at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike to protest the continued use of long-term solitary confinement within the institution.Despite critical concern, outcry from the public and prisoner populations in the state, incarcerated people are still subjected to this brutal practice which has been renamed “restorative housing” since July 1, 2023 when measures were passed to limit its use in the state. Leading these prisoners in this effort is longtime prison activist, revolutionary writer and artist, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson. Rashid has stated that no one will take any food at...

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