Daily Archives: April 13, 2012
Sundiata Acoli, political prisoner for 39 years, wins appeal and is up for parole...
Sundiata Acoli is preparing to go before the parole board again for his newly won 2012 parole hearing. He is now the longest held prisoner in New Jersey’s history of similar convictions. He sends his warmest shout out of solidarity and strength to all those participating in or supporting the California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike.
California, the land of the gulag
The Los Angeles-based Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law has filed a petition to the United Nations on behalf of hundreds of prisoners kept in solitary confinement in California prisons and subject to treatment amounting to torture and violating international human rights norms.
Take action to demand change now!
I really believe the time is ripe to force change – it can be done with peaceful protest type activity. But it will require direct action. Families and loved ones need to rally together for the common cause and make a solid, hard core stand to demand changes. “Rights” are not given; they are taken by the people!