Kevin Powell needs support

A group called the Friends of Kevin Powell Support Committee is assisting Kevin's family (mom Sandy and brother Peter).  There will be things the community can do down the road but there is an immediate need. This Friday, July 1st Kevin will appear in Judge...

Sundiata Sadiq on Mumia

PHILADELPHIA IS FRANZ FANON’S “BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS” IN REAL TIME The white ruling class strategy since the end of the ruthless reign of Frank Rizzo, as former chief of police and then mayor of Philadelphia, is to replace white faces with black...

Jalil Muntaqim update

Jalil Muntaqim is a political prisoner being held at Auburn Correctional Facility in NY as a member of the Black Liberation Army and victim of COINTELPRO. Recently denied release on parole for the third time, as well as release by pardon or commutation of sentence,...

The Gutted Writ

The Gutted Writ: On Habeas Corpus Robert Perkinson The Nation January 10, 17, 2011   On a lazy afternoon in February 1961, Wilbert Rideau decided to rob a bank in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Rideau, a smart but impulsive eighth-grade dropout from a violent home, had...

Update on Lynne Stewart

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!!! January 2, 2011 Hi everyone!     Lynne Stewart's most recent situation is discussed in this audio report with Ralph Poynter (Lynne's husband) interviewed by "Taking Aim's" Mya Shone and Ralph Schoenman:...

Lynne Stewart being transferred

  Greetings   It is official. Lynne Stewart, our shero and people's lawyer is at this very moment in transti to the Oklahoma prison complex which is a transit point for the prison system. We still have no confirmation as to where they will send...