Sister Dequi Kioni-Sadiki will join us briefly to discuss an upcoming event hosted by The Sekou Odinga Defense Committee and The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home where recently released former political prisoner Sekou Odinga will give the keynote address. New Jerseyâ??s Supreme Court has stopped the parole of Sundiata Acoli along with Assata Shakur survived an assassination attempt by New Jersey state troopers in an alleged traffic stop over a broken taillight. The lower courts had ordered Mr. Acoliâ??s release after serving over 30 years for killing Werner Foerster, which he maintains he did not do because after being grazed by a bullet from one of the troopers he passed out. Also killed was Zayd Shakur who was riding in the car with Sundiata Acoli and Assata Shakur who was seriously injured in the assassination attempt. The US government is still trying to press the Cuban government for the return of Assata Shakur who escaped prison in 1979 and made her way to Cuba where Fidel Castro granted her political asylum. One of the last remaining members of the political prisoners known as the Angola 3 may be released soon according to a Feb 6th, 2015 A3 Newsletter