Political
Prisoners in the USA
The US holds over 150 political prisoners in its prisons, many framed for their activism, some in prison for their actions which were part of their struggle for a freer world.
For those of us who still enjoy a certain degree of freedom in this country, who share the struggle against a class society for freedom and who believe in a world based on solidarity, we owe these prisoners our support. Below are links for support websites for some who were sent down for their part in the struggle.
Craig
Marshall - Critter
Busted for an Earth Liberation Front action. Prior to his incarceration
for manufacture and possession of an illegal device and conspiracy to
commit arson, Critter was a dedicated activist in the Fall Creek Treesit
outside Eugene, Oregon.
Free-
Jeffrey Luers
In June of 2000 in Eugene, Oregon, 22 year old forest defense activist
Jeffrey "Free" Luers was sentenced to an astonishing 22.5 years in prison
for the burning of three SUV's and an attempted arson.
Sundiata
Acoli
Sundiata is a Political Prisoner, a brilliant mathematician, artist and
committed freedom fighter for the New Afrikan Nation. Ambushed on the
New Jersey Turnpike with Assata Shakur and Zayd Malik Shakur, Sundiata
has been unjustly incarcerated for 26 years. Assata remains exiled in
Cuba.
Mumia
Abu Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning African-American journalist, the author
of several books, and a political prisoner currently sitting on Pennsylvania's
Death Row. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the alleged murder
of a white policeman on December 9, 1981, in a trial defined by prosecutorial,
judicial, and even defense attorney misconduct.
Sherman
Austin
Anarchist webmaster, was sentenced on August 4, 2003, to one year in federal
prison with three years of strict probation. Austin was sentenced to this
despite entering a plea bargin with the prosecution who had asked that
Austin be sentenced to 4 months in prison.
Tom
Manning
Tom Manning is a Vietnam veteran, working class revolutionary and US political
prisoner. He militantly struggled against the war in Vietnam and supports
the right of self-determination of all oppressed peoples. Tom Manning
was captured in 1985 and sentenced to 53 years in federal prison for a
series of bombings carried out as "armed propaganda" against apartheid
and U.S. imperialism. He tirelessly fought against racist, genocidal capitalism
in the USA. Tom Manning was also wrongly sentenced to 80 years in prison
for the self-defense killing of a New Jersey state trooper.
Leonard
Peltier
Leonard Peltier, a
citizen of the Anishinabe and Lakota Nations, is a father, a grandfather,
an artist, a writer, and an Indigenous rights activist. He has spent more
than twenty-seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Amnesty
International considers him a "political prisoner" who should be "immediately
and unconditionally released."
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