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Summer 2022 Information Action Kit
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Help Free Marvin “Shaka” Walker!
Marvin Pete Walker Jr. (aka Shaka Nantambu) was 19 years old in 1980, when he was charged with murder and sentenced to death. Since then, he has lived his whole adult life on death row… Read More
BELOVED COMRADE ALBERT WOODFOX, 2/19/1947 – 8/4/2022
Dear Friends and Family– With heavy hearts, we write to share that our partner, brother, father, grandfather, comrade and friend, Albert Woodfox, passed away this morning at Ochsner Baptist hospital in New Orleans from COVID-19-related complications. He was 75.… Read More
Murder Incorporated Book Trailer
Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny, our non-fiction narrative published and distributed by Prison Radio and Chicago Review Press — and all three books are going into their second or third printing (hardcover/softcover/eBook/Audible). Angela Davis, Chris… Read More
Native Lawmakers Ask President Biden to Release Leonard Peltier
On Tuesday, October 26, a group of lawmakers sent a letter to President Biden advocating for the release of Turtle Mountain Chippewa member Leonard Peltier. The group of lawmakers are all members of federally recognized… Read More
Write To Secretary Little To Demand A Cardiac Diet For Prisoners
In March of this year, after being denied care at the infirmary in SCI Mahanoy, Mumia was transferred to the hospital and diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He had emergency double bypass surgery. When Mumia’s Hepatitis-C,… Read More
Hunger Strike at SCI Phoenix
At least 13 prisoners at SCI Phoenix, the Pennsylvania prison with the largest population, began a 10-day hunger strike in late June that ended on July 4. Their action was in response to the Intensive… Read More
Running Down The Walls 2021
“Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It’s my job to do the work for them because they have no one.”—Mumia Abu-Jamal This year, 40 years ago, Mumia Abu-Jamal was… Read More
Indigenous Activist and Artist: Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier is a 76-year-old Indigenous prisoner and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who’s been unjustly held in detention for over 45 years. Authorities claimed that he was responsible for the murder of… Read More
An Open-Air Prison!
Lack of free mobility, lack of access to prompt medical care, near-constant surveillance, and a lack of access to resources. These are fixtures of prisons in the U.S. and are also the reality of life… Read More
Free Sundiata Acoli
Sundiata Acoli, born in 1939, is a New Afrikan political prisoner of war, mathematician, and computer analyst. Sundiata has been incarcerated since 1973, when he and two comrades, Zayd and Assata Shakur, were ambushed at the New Jersey… Read More
Women Prisoners Continue to Report on Inhumane Conditions
Naykima Hill’s April 14th call to Prison Radio opened the floodgates of commentaries documenting the appalling reality of daily life at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV) in Michigan. India Porter, Auroniece Jackson, Sharon Hinojosa,… Read More
Abusers of Justice Exposed!
Dear Friend, “The criminal justice system in America is one of the biggest abusers of justice,” – Izell Robinson, a 39-year-old correspondent who has been incarcerated for the last 8 years. He is currently located in MCF… Read More
Women Prisoners Expose Mold, Scabies, and Abuse
Dear Friend, An email is truly not enough space to describe the public health nightmare that is the women’s prison in Ypsilanti, Michigan (Women’s Huron Valley, WHV). The decrepit building hosts decades old ventilation systems,… Read More
Truth is the First Step
Dear Friend, On Sunday an Oscar was awarded to Daniel Kaluuya for his role in “Judas & The Black Messiah” which told the story of 21 year old Black Panther icon Fred Hampton and the… Read More
Urgent: Mumia to Undergo Heart Surgery
“We could not save Malcolm X, but we can save Mumia. We can save him, and we must save him, because we love our Brother, and we need our Brother to help us fight for… Read More
Breaking News Mumia’s Open Heart Surgery
Dear Friend, Tuesday April 20 9:34am: Mumia’s medical attorney’s have received word from the Open Heart ICU doctors. Mumia’s surgery was successful. There were no complications. He is receiving minimal oxygen and has one IV. … Read More
Professorial With a Touch of Pirate
Dear Friend, It is hard to write while crying. But let me try. Mumia Abu-Jamal is awkward and funny. He walks slowly, slew foot. Deliberately. Lumbering. He has a big broad and warm and… Read More
Emergency Press Update Conference Now 4 pm 4-15-2021
Dear Friend, Youtube live stream link for today’s press conference, starting in 15 minutes. Free Mumia!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqmN3o8lZ6U Prison Radio will record and archive this broadcast at www.prisonradio.org Attachments areaPreview YouTube video Mumia to Undergo Heart Surgery: Emergency… Read More
