Legal Process

On Eve of Trial Judge Limits Plowshares’ Seven Defense

October 22, 2019 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Featured, Nonviolence, Nuclear Agendas, Protest, Resistance

The Plowshares 7 are a group of peace activists have been jailed since April 4, 2018 for civil resistance to the US Nuclear Weapons program. They entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia to protest U.S. nuclear weapons on April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. Armed with hammers, crime scene tape and baby[…]

The fight to Free Mumia Enters Historic New Phase

October 2, 2019 UNAC Editor Political Prisoners, Racism

by Ted Kelly, Published on Workers World, September 20, 2019 For decades, the movement to release African-American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on the front lines in the fight against white supremacy and capitalist mass incarceration. Generations of new revolutionaries have grown up in this struggle, and Mumia’s longtime supporters have in turn become their mentors as the most[…]

Chelsea Manning jailed — again

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Whistleblowers

by Barry Sheppard, Published on Socialist Action, March 14, 2019 Chelsea Manning, a transgender U.S. soldier who blew the whistle on U.S. war crimes and spent 2013 to 2017 in an army stockade as a result, is back in prison again. This time, it is because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks that seeks to bring Julian[…]

Mumia Abu-Jamal Wins Major Court Victory (Update)

January 9, 2019 UNAC Editor Political Prisoners

by Jeff Mackler, from Socialist Action, January 2, 2019 On Dec. 27, Philadelphia Superior Court Judge Leon Tucker ruled in favor of Mumia Abu-Jamal, holding that the actions of former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Judge Ronald Castille had demonstrated a “lack of impartiality” and “the appearance of bias.” Tucker’s decision represents a major victory for Abu-Jamal, which opens the door to[…]