Political Prisoner Radio: Recent Episodes
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Tune in to Political Prisoner Radio for some of the latest in political prisoner and prisoner of war news in the United States. Featured speakers and commentary.
Tonight on Political Prison Radio our special guest will be Mike Africa Jr who was born a political prison when his mother Debbie Africa gave birth to him on a Pennsylvania prison plantation while his father Michael Davis Africa was also imprisoned as part of the political prisoner collective known today as the Move 9. Debbie Africa was last denied parole in June 2014. Planning is underway for the upcoming commemoration of the May 13, 1985 bombing of the Move Family by the City of Philadelphia and the U.S. government.
We will be joined by Grace North who works with support networks for hacktivist Jeremy and Jason Hammond. Jeremy Hammond is a political activist and computer hacker from Chicago. He was convicted and sentenced in November 2013 to 10 years in US Federal Prison for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing the leaks through the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
Tonight we will continue to review upcoming events and the latest news on various political prisoners and prisoners of war held by the US Government and various States.
NY attorney and educator MS. Moira Meltzer-Cohen to discuss Abdul Majid who is coming up for parole, and is likely to encounter resistance as a result of his BLA/PP activities. She also represents Marius Mason, who is a trans-prisoner, incarcerated during the green scare, who is being held in a control unit at FMC Carswell, which creates special barriers to him being able to access appropriate gender-affirming health care (or any meaningful health care) and is an inappropriate place for anyone to be kept, regardless of their needs or behavior. After speaking with Moira Meltzer-Cohen we will provide recent political prisoner case updates or relevant upcoming events on behalf of political prisoners and prisoners of war.
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