The following update from the Ottawa Movement Defense, supporting the individuals facing charges related to the firebombing of a Royal Bank branch in April: UPDATE – Friday, August 13th ROGER’S BAIL REVIEW ADJOURNED UNTIL AUGUST 25TH Unfortunately, Roger’s bail review ran out of time again today. Due to scheduling conflicts …
Marilyn Buck died yesterday, surrounded by friends in Brooklyn. As comrade Judy Greenspan tells us: Marilyn died today not in the hospital but at Soffiyah Elijah’s house, her close friend and attorney with her friends around her. The federal bureau of prisons and the U.S. Criminal injustice system killed Marilyn …
Another update from Ottawa Movement Defense, providing information about the Ottawa comrades who were arrested in relation to the bombing of a Royal Bank earlier this year: //////////////////////////////Ottawa Movement DefenseUPDATE & STATEMENT FROM J18 DETAINEESFriday, July 16th, 2010////////////////////////////// Sunday, June 18th marks one month since our friends were arrested and …
The following is an update from Ottawa Movement Defense about the conditions and how to support the three individuals who were arrested on June 17th, on charges related to the bombing of a Royal Bank in Ottawa in April of this year. Please forward widely. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Ottawa Movement DefenseUPDATE & HOW …
“Prisons are a fundamental pillar of state power. Their main function is the suppression of all internal threats to the State.” – Sundiata Acoli Jericho reports the following, from Sundiata Acoli: July 14, 2010Greetings All, Received a letter today from the Board advising that the 3-Member Panel gave me a …
As detailed previously on this blog, a month ago Ojore Lutalo was arrested and accused of making terrorist threats while traveling home on the train from an anarchist bookfair on the west coast where he was speaking. The story floated was that someone had overheard him having a suspicious phone …
It’s official – all charges against Ojore Lutalo have been dropped. Details will follow.
It has been just four months since Ojore Lutalo left the prison gates, “free” after over a quarter century behind bars. A combatant with the Black Liberation Army, Lutalo (like so many other POWs and political prisoners) had been subjected to isolation-torture, an attempted depivation of all social contacts meant …
David Gilbert – NO SURRENDER: writings from an anti-imperialist political prisoner. Arm The Spirit/Guillen. 2004. 284p. Paperback book. $20.00 Zolo Agona Azania – Money & Power: Hook or Crook. Kersplebedeb. 2004. 53p. Pamphlet. $3.95 In the 1960s it was common for protesters on the streets to get their ideas right …
The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind Black Liberation Army member, vice-president of the Republic of New Afrika, prisoner of war, comrade, activist, mother, grandmother. Safiya Bukhari was all of these things and many …