Search Results
Jalil Muntaqim interview (3 of 4)
Middle of his story from end of tape 2 about creating a national movement around freeing political prisoners. Met a white guy named Commie Mike who told him about the UPU, United Prisoners Union, formerly run by Popeye Jackson, who was just killed at the time. Contacts Sundiata Acoli about representing the E. Coast. Tremendous response from prisoners throughout the country (political and non) about UN appeal for clemency for political prisoners//prisoners of war. UPU was overwhelmed and so Prairie Fire Organizing Committee produced a pamphlet and brought attorney Katherine Burke from Amnesty International onto the case. Jalil taught her about domestic revolutionary struggle and she taught him about international law. Two different dynamics on the W. and E. Coast. W. Coast was progressive/revolutionary white folks and E. Coast was black folks in the Black Panther Party/RNA/APP and other revolutionary nationalists. Katherine went to Geneva and there was a huge international response given that the US always uses human rights against each other, but never discusses their own domestic HR abuses. So that racial tension caused a lot of sectarianism/factionalism thus an overall lull in the movement. Jalil has always written about political prisoners. Talks about Andrew Young, a US ambassador to the UN who was fired for acknowledging that the US has political prisoners - probably thousands - during a visit to Paris, France. Jalil has tried to get a prisoner exchange between US and Cuba - trade political prisoners for some Cuban held US CIA operatives. Discusses how although COINTELPRO was found illegal, there was no remedy/redress for victims. Believes that Jericho needs to push COINTELPRO.
Courageous Women of Colombia
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 543Format: VHSProducers: Green Valley Media, Women's International League for Peace, Freedom, Colombia Support NetworkCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Testimony from Colombian women showing that "war on drugs" actually a war against the poor. An international delegation meets with displaced women and women from coca-growing regions, then travels to refugee camps in Northern Colombia to investigate questions raised by Amnesty International about US involvement in human rights abuses.
Voices on and of Prisons
Date: 2/1/1996Call Number: PM 417AFormat: Cass AProducers: WMVA AmherstProgram: UndercurrentsCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Steve Whitman on: The basics of imprisonment rates, racial hysteria and its beginnings, what kind of people are in control units and how control units are used against political prisoners, as well as the Amnesty International investigation into control units violations of human rights.
Marion Appeal Press Conference
Date: 3/1/1988Call Number: PM 431Format: CassetteProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Press conference on the appeal of Bureau of Prisons decision to keep the Marion Lock down, they're treatment of prisoners in violation of Human Rights standards and the 8th Amendment, and the classification of prisoners or lack thereof. Speakers include Dr. Steve Whitman and Attorney Jan Susler.
NPR Report on Marion Lockdown
Date: 10/1/1986Call Number: PM 435AFormat: Cass AProducers: National Public RadioCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Jacki Lydon reports on the 3rd year of the Marion lockdown. Describes conditions, who is imprisoned and why, and allegations of ill treatment and Human Rights violations. Includes interviews with administration and inmates.
Transcript is available for download: http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC3_scans/3.inside.marion.008.pdf
Today's Legal Repression Session 2
Rachel Rosen Degolia on the government's war on the bill of rights and the Freedom of Information Act. Maryann Corley on the Sanctuary movement and the use of prohibition laws to conduct illegal searches. Michael Deutsch on the fundamental use of repression by the state, especially in the last 10 years.
Today's Legal Repression Session 2
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: CD 823Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Rachel Rosen Degolia on the government's war on the bill of rights and the Freedom of Information Act. Maryann Corley on the Sanctuary movement and the use of prohibition laws to conduct illegal searches. Michael Deutsch on the fundamental use of repression by the state, especially in the last 10 years.
Today's Legal Repression Session 1
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: CD 820Format: CDProducers: CEMLCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Rachel Rosen Degolia on the government's war on the bill of rights and the Freedom of Information Act. Maryann Corley on the Sanctuary movement and the use of prohibition laws to conduct illegal searches. Michael Deutsch on the fundamental use of repression by the state, especially in the last 10 years.
Today's Legal Repression Session 1
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: PM 434Format: CassetteProducers: CEMLCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Rachel Rosen Degolia on the government's war on the bill of rights and the Freedom of Information Act. Maryann Corley on the Sanctuary movement and the use of prohibition laws to conduct illegal searches. Michael Deutsch on the fundamental use of repression by the state, especially in the last 10 years.
The Death Penalty in Georgia and in General
Date: 8/2/1996Call Number: JG/ 160BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber plays recordings of speeches by two men Pierre Sonay, the secretary general of Amnesty International, and Steven Bright, the director for the Southern Center for Human Rights. Both men speak out against the death penalty and both choose to relate the death penalty in Georgia to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Less than 40 miles away from the Olympic stadium, more than 100 men were being held on death row, which is ironic because the Atlanta Olympic committee purports itself as the capital of human rights. Pierre and Bright both cite evidence that the Georgia death penalty disproportionately targets black men, re-affirming the racist nature of criminal justice in the United States.
