police and prisons
WHEN POLICE RIOT (Cincinnati Police Assault on Cincinnati Copwatch Block Party)
Submitted by onion on Sat, 2010-03-06 11:58
Mumia Legal Update re US Supreme Court from Robert Bryan
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2010-01-19 18:52
Dear All:
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court issued the long-awaited ruling in the case of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, which we have been litigating for 15 months. The decision was as we expected. Mumia's case has been sent back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, for further proceedings consistent with the decision last weak in another case:
Mumia Rally/Supreme Court Decision
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2010-01-19 16:21
Monitor http://www.freemumia.com/ and http://abu-jamal-news.com/ for news, analysis and emergency response plans
The Supreme Court has tossed out a lower court ruling that nullified the death sentence for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. The appeals court now has the option of re-imposing the death sentence or ordering a new federal trial to hear other claims of injustice raised by Abu-Jamal.
queer prisoner letter writing night
Submitted by clarissa on Tue, 2010-01-19 01:30
this wednesday, january 20th, 7pm.
come write letters to queer people in prison. bring a snack, bring a stamp, or bring a friend. sponsored by queers against prisons philly. also check out: www.blackandpink.org
Call these numbers to protest police murder!
Submitted by onion on Wed, 2009-11-25 16:22
from Wooden Shoe Books:
Billy Panas, a young 21-year-old man was recently murdered by off-duty Seargent Frank Tepper, an officer with Civil Affairs at the Philadelphia Police Department. The shooting occured on the 2700 block of East Elkhart street in Port Richmond, Philadelphia.
Beyond Attica: The Untold Story of Women's Resistance Behind Bars
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2009-11-24 17:53
By Hans Bennett
"When I was 15, my friends started going to jail," says Victoria Law, a native New Yorker. "Chinatown's gangs were recruiting in the high schools in Queens and, faced with the choice of stultifying days learning nothing in overcrowded classrooms or easy money, many of my friends had dropped out to join a gang."
"One by one," Law recalls, "they landed in Rikers Island, an entire island in New York City devoted to pretrial detainment for those who can not afford bail."
Law shares this and other recollections in her new book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press). At 16, she herself decided to join a gang, but was arrested for the armed robbery that she committed for her initiation into the gang. "Because it was my first arrest -- and probably because 16-year-old Chinese girls who get straight As in school did not seem particularly menacing -- I was eventually let off with probation," she writes.
What I Learned At The WTO Protests In Seattle...
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2009-11-24 16:59
by Pete Tridish
A Ruckus I Couldn’t Miss
I first heard about the Seattle Protests at a Ruckus Society training camp about 6 months before the WTO was scheduled to come to town. Ruckus is a group famous for the dramatic and daring banners they hang from cranes and buildings and towers; they focus on human rights and environmental issues. The speaker there representing the anti-WTO organizers, after making an eloquent case for the connections between all the globalization issues and for a coalition of activists of all stripes, said “We will lie down on the airstrips and stop the delegates planes from landing. If they get past that, we will block the highways leading from the airport to the city. If they get past that, we will block the hotels they are staying in, we will block the streets, and we will block the doors of the convention center and we will not let them make another another free trade deal that week in Seattle.” How could I not help with such a plan? In that moment I committed to go.
Rally Against Prison Abuse in PA
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2009-11-24 16:48
On August 12th, the Philly chapter of the Human Rights Coalition pulled together their first rally against prison abuse in PA. Though not a huge crowd, the rally by all accounts was a huge success. Gathering just across the road from CFCF prison on State road, the protest set up shop next to the bus stop where people visiting prisoners and the just released waited for rides back into the city. Representing at the rally were the various HRC chapters from Philly, Chester and Pittsburgh, the NAACP’s PA prison project, Fight for Lifers as well as friends and relatives of prisoners, ex prisoners and various other anti-prison organizers, many sharing first hand accounts of their dealings with a brutal prison system.
The protest was in response to demands for street protests from imprisoned members of the HRC, some of whom have within the last year faced brutal attacks, been thrown in the hole and denied crucial medical treatment, conditions which are all to familiar to the millions now locked up in US prisons.
For more info check out
http://hrcoalition.org
