Prisoners

VSN Denounces Trump’s Targeting of Venezuelan Migrants

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor El Salvador, Imperialism, Migrants, Prisoners, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, US Government Action, Venezuela

Statement by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network, March 2025 The Venezuela Solidarity Network (VSN) denounces President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against alleged members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization as an outrageous and illegal action that seeks to criminalize Venezuelan migrants in the context of an ongoing effort to bring about regime change in Venezuela. The VSN[…]

Protest Hits Another State-Sanctioned Lynching in New York

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, The War at Home

by special to Workers World, published Editor’s Note: Speaking of ‘impunity’, the 2 prisons where these murders occur are in the same town, and likely draw on the same community of guards. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul responded firing a large number of guards for participating in a strike to create more safety and better conditions for both guards[…]

Leonard Peltier is Going hHome!

January 20, 2025 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

from The Red Nation, January 20, 2025 After a half-century of unjust incarceration, Leonard Peltier is finally going home!“It’s finally over–I’m going home,” said Peltier in response to the news. “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.”For decades, the now elder[…]

Los Angeles Fires: The Santa Ana Blowback of Capitalist Climate Change Neglect

January 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Natural Disaster, Prisoners, The War at Home, War on the Poor

Black Alliance for Peace Statement, January 9, 2025 The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout that city and surrounding areas is fossil fuel production emblematic of runaway capitalism fueled by white “supremacy” ideology, patriarchy, and colonization. And while it’s easy to focus solely on the[…]

A call to free Leonard Peltier After 50 Years in Prison

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Lawfare, Native American Genocide, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home

by Phil Pasquini, published on Countercurrents, September 14, 2023 On Leonard Peltier’s 79th birthday, September 12 his family members along with hundreds of Native American activists and numerous supporters demonstrated at the White House calling on President Biden to grant him clemency so that he will not die in prison. Peltier, who was convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI[…]

Inside the High-Security “Black Site” Where Leonard Peltier Is Incarcerated

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home, Uncategorized

by Silja J. A. Talvi, published on Truthout, September 28, 2023 nbeknownst to most protesters who gathered at the White House on the occasion of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier’s 79th birthday, Peltier wasn’t able to celebrate, much less receive reports on how the well-attended event was progressing. That’s because Peltier, who is now spending his 48th year in[…]

Denial of Mumia’s Appeal: An Affront to Basic Justice and the Law

April 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, The War at Home

by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, April 3, 2023 Philadelphia Mumia Abu-Jamal, his family and his supporters around the world had every reason and right to hope that all their hard work would pay off in persuading Judge Lucretia Clemons from the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas to follow and apply the law, as has been done in[…]

“One less traitor”: Zelensky Oversees Campaign of Assassination, Kidnapping and Torture of Political Opposition

April 26, 2022 UNAC Editor False Flags, Fascism, Prisoners, Russia, Ukraine

by Max Blumenthal and Eshna Krishnaswamy, published onThe Grayzone, April 17, 2022 This is pretty gross. However it shows how the Ukrainian soldiers treat civilians and enemy soldiers. It also belies the claims of the brave young Zelensky. I guess I feel like you have to see it to believe it. [jb] While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky[…]

CCF Files Compassionate Release Motions for Two of Four Political Prisoners in Newburgh 4 Sting Case

December 25, 2021 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Prisoners, Propaganda, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 24, 2021 CONTACT: Leena Al-Arian, Executive Director, Coalition for Civil Freedoms (202) 627-0676, leena@civilfreedoms.org (Washington, D.C., December 24, 2021) CCF’s legal team, Kathy Manley and Steve Downs, just filed compassionate release motions for Laguerre Payen and David Williams, two of the four political prisoners in the Newburgh 4 case from 2009. The motions request that the two men[…]

Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is Free, But Others Languish

November 1, 2021 UNAC Editor Political Prisoners, Prisoners, Racism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 27, 2021 Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has been granted compassionate release after 50 years in prison. The length of his sentence is outrageous but it is hardly unique. The United States not only has the dubious distinction of being the country with the largest population of incarcerated people, but it also has[…]