Posts Tagged: prisoners’ rights
Chicago celebrates freedom for Oscar López Rivera
May 19, 2017
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Oscar López Rivera will always be celebrated as a hero.
Palestinian hunger strike leader to stop drinking water
May 18, 2017
With the announcement by its initiator and leader Marwan Barghouti that he will stop drinking water, the Palestinian mass hunger strike, now in its 32...
Mass Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike in 4th week
May 09, 2017
Today there are more than 6,300 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, while there are exactly zero Israeli prisoners in Palestinian jails.
Oscar López Rivera and Chelsea Manning to be freed! Free Leonard Peltier and other prisoners now!
Jan 17, 2017
In an exciting development on Jan. 17, two U.S. political prisoners, anti-war whistleblower Chelsea Manning and Puerto Rican freedom fighter Oscar Ló...
California propositions yield a mishmash of progress and reaction
Nov 15, 2016
Eight to nine million votes were cast on 17 different ballot initiatives that ranged from legalizing marijuana to maintaining Medi-Cal funding to spee...
Gloria La Riva and Dennis Banks hold San Quentin press conference
Sep 29, 2016
“The death penalty is an abomination and we call for its immediate abolition.”
Protest demands: Close Rikers Island
Sep 29, 2016
“Rikers Island is a hellhole. No man deserves to live in that hellhole.”
La Riva/Banks campaign confronts Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Sep 27, 2016
The La Riva/ Banks campaign will militantly join the battleground when anti-immigrant racists attempt to walk and speak freely.
End the racist, anti-worker death penalty!
Sep 26, 2016
California voters will have a chance to strike a serious blow against the death penalty in the United States.
Transcript: Attica Rebellion 45 years later
Sep 12, 2016
This month marked the 45th anniversary of the beginning of the Attica prison uprising in which over 1,000 prisoners took control of the facility in Ne...
Revisiting the theories of the state first developed by Marx, Engels and especially Lenin in his work "The State and Revolution."