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Lynching Then and Lynching Now: The Roots of Racism and the Death Penalty in America 
Laney College, Room D200 - 900 Fallon Street, Oakland, near Lake Merritt BART....
Event Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 10:35am PST
Free Em All! Free Mumia! Benefit at the Humanist Hall, Oakland: photos and audio 
On the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, a packed house at the Humanist Hall in Oakland raised over $1000 to support Mumia Abu-Jamal with a benefit for Prison Radio. Carol Seligman, Pam Afrika, Fred Hampton Jr., Ramona Afrika, Jack Heyman, Richard Brown, Noelle Hanrahan, JR Valrey, Jack Bryson, and Adimu Madyun spoke at the event sponsored by Prison Radio, the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC)....
Posted: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 12:32am PST
FREE MUMIA - Pam Africa, Ramona Africa, others, Sunday the 21st Feb in Oakland Mumia Abu-Jamal is an innocent political prisoner, framed for a crime he didn't commit, and now in his 28th year of incarceration on death row. Recent Supreme Court rulings have upheld his fraudulent conviction in a grotesquely unfair trial, and sent him closer to execution. Pam, Ramona, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr and Jack Heyman discuss Mumia's case. Also, sneak preview: Small Axe, movie 70 min....
Posted: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 5:33pm PST
Gone But Not Forgotten - Justice for Oscar Grant! Community Gathering: audio & photos (audio/mpeg 67.8MB) On January 1st, 2010, the first anniversary of the murder of Oscar Grant III by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, family members organized a vigil at the Fruitvale BART station where Oscar was shot and killed. Community activists, organized as the General Assembly for Justice for Oscar Grant, planned for a rally at the Fruitvale station to commence at the conclusion of the vigil and a cultural gathering for the evening at the Humanist Hall in Oakland. This is the third of three posts on ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 7, 2010 2:27pm PST
Kevin Cooper: Victimized by American Injustice an innocent man on death row...
Posted: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 12:11pm PST
Kevin Cooper denied appeal by U.S. Supreme Court 
Press releases from the Kevin Cooper Defense Committee and from Kevin Cooper's attorneys on the breaking news that California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper has been denied by the U.S. Supreme Court....
Posted: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 9:20am PST
Video Interview With Kiilu Nyasha: America’s Supermax Prisons Do Torture (video/x-ms-wmv 63.0MB) Kiilu Nyasha is a San Francisco-based journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kiilu hosts a weekly TV program, "Freedom Is A Constant Struggle." This new video interview conducted in November, 2009 in San Francisco, is based on a recent article by Nyasha, entitled “America’s Supermax Prisons Do Torture.”...
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 8:31pm PST
Mumia’s Life Is On the Line: Mobilize Labor/Black Power to Free Him Now! The threat to Mumia Abu-Jamal's life is increasingly ominous. His lead attorney, Robert Bryan, warns: "There is an escalated effort by the authorities to see him die at the hands of the executioner. This is the most dangerous time for Mumia since his 1981 arrest." The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Jamal's two appeals. If it were to rule in favor of the prosecution's appeal, this would open the way for Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell to issue a third warrant of execution, which he has vo...
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 10:42am PST
The Arrest and Torture of Syed Hashmi --An interview with Jeanne Theoharis Jeanne Theoharis is the author of an April, 2009 article in The Nation, entitled “Guantanamo At Home,” which focuses on the arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of US citizen Syed Hashmi in a New York City prison with Guantanamo-like conditions. Hashmi’s trial will begin in New York City on December 1, and for the last few weeks, NYC activists have been holding vigils for Hashmi....
Posted: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 8:31pm PST
Confronting Human Rights Abuses in US Prisons --interview with Bret Grote of HRC/Fed Up! 
While covering a range of topics in this interview, Grote details how HRC/Fed Up! is documenting human rights abuses in Pennsylvania prisons, and using this documentation to fight back. For more information about HRC/Fed Up! go to their website: http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/fedup/...
Posted: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 3:52pm PST
VIDEO: Rebecca Doran speaks about Kevin Copper 
Rebecca Doran spoke on behalf of the Kevin Cooper Defense Committee, and explained that San Quentin death row prisoner Kevin Cooper has filed his last appeal to the US Supreme Court. Last week, the state responded with their filings, arguing that Kevin should be executed. A decision is expected from the US Supreme Court as early as the end of November....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 10:42pm PST
VIDEOS: SF Demands A Civil Rights Investigation For Mumia Abu-Jamal (video/x-ms-wmv 87.8MB) We have just released new videos from the Nov. 8 event in San Francisco held in solidarity with the Nov. 12 press conference at the Justice Dept in Washington DC that will feature Amnesty International, the NAACP and more. Please help spread the word!
For the latest on the campaign seeking a civil rights investigation for Mumia, and the Nov. 12 press conference, please visit here....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 12:12am PST
Mumia Abu-Jamal faces new execution threat -- SF Event Nov. 8 
Pennsylvania prosecutors, twice rejected in their efforts to impose the death penalty on Mumia (in 2001 and 2008), may have found new support in the U.S. Supreme Court.
SF EVENT FOR MUMIA, KEVIN COOPER, AND TROY DAVIS -- Sunday, NOVEMBER 8TH AT 2PM: Centro Del Pueblo, 474 Valencia Street (between 15th and 16th Streets) San Francisco (read more at bottom of article)...
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 12:03pm PST
Justice for Oscar Grant Event Faces Venue Change Order, RPS Gallery, Oakland, 10/16/09: audio and video 
Throughout the month of October, the Rock Paper Scissors Collective is hosting an art exhibit presented by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty featuring the works of Kevin Cooper, James P. Anderson and Eddie Vargas, all condemned by the state of California to death row or life sentence at San Quentin prison. Several related events have been held this month at the RPS Gallery on Telegraph Avenue, including an evening looking back at the case of state-executed Stan Tookie Williams and anoth...
Posted: Sat, Oct 24, 2009 10:53pm PDT
Torturing Women Prisoners --An interview with Victoria Law 
Victoria Law is a longtime prison activist and the author of the new book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press). In this interview, Law talks specifically about how women are affected by solitary confinement and other forms of torture in US prisons, and what women are doing to fight back. Exposing solitary confinement as torture has been the focus of recent campaigns in Maine, Pennsylvania, and around the US....
Posted: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 9:56pm PDT
The Assassination of George Jackson -- an interview with Colonel Nyati Bolt (video/x-ms-wmv 23.2MB) This new interview features Colonel Nyati Bolt, who was an inmate at California’s San Quentin Prison at the same time as George Jackson (Sept. 23, 1941 - Aug. 21, 1971), the legendary Black Panther Party Field Marshal, and author of two books written behind bars: Soledad Brother and Blood In My Eye. The story of George Jackson and his legacy today will be the focus of many of our upcoming videos....
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 10:37am PDT
Mumia Event in Berkeley Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall
1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 6:56pm PDT
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Dan Berger on Political Prisoners in the United States 
This interview with author/activist Dan Berger is mostly based on Berger's essay in the book "Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners," Oakland's own PM Press, in 2008.
Berger focuses on several stories from the SF Bay Area, including the SF 8, George Jackson and the San Quentin Six-- which includes Hugo Pinell, who is the last of the Six remaining behind bars, who has been in continuous solitary confinement since at least 1971....
Posted: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 1:55am PDT
Kevin Cooper: Will California Execute An Innocent Man? 
Author J. Patrick O'Connor was recently interviewed in San Francisco about his research into the case of San Quentin death row prisoner Kevin Cooper, whose appeal at the Ninth Circuit Court was recently denied, with Judge William Fletcher writing a stinging dissent, declaring that the "State of California may be about to execute an innocent man.” This fall, Cooper will be appealing to the US Supreme Court, which is last chance to avoid execution....
Posted: Mon, Sep 7, 2009 11:34pm PDT
Live from Death Row with Kevin Cooper 
Rock Paper Scissors Gallery, Telegraph and 23rd Street, Oakland...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 7:02pm PDT