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![Freedom Now Prison Event](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Note: Tape at 0331.
Muhjah Shakir hosts a Freedom Now event in commemoration of the Attica Uprising, the murder of George Jackson and the 21st year of Geronimo Ji-Jaga's imprisonment. The commemorative event is related to the ongoing conditions of the U.S. prison system and includes; updates on the lawsuit in behalf of Attica prisoners tortured after the uprising by Dennis Cunningham; recording of Leonard Peltier speaking on the Attica uprising, presented by Bobby Castillo; and an update on the conditions in the Special Housing Unit in Pelican Bay Prison by Corey Weinstein.
![Native American Political Prisoners](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: PM 389AFormat: Cass AProgram: Can't Jail the Spirit #4Collection: Native Americans
A discussion on Native American Political Prisoners hosted by Yvonne Swan Wanrow. Topics include: The case of Norma Jean Croy, interview with Dale Dione, and an update on political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
![Ward Churchill - American Indian Movement of Pine Ridge: Siege by FBI and US Marshalls](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/23/1991Call Number: CE 484Format: Cass A & BProgram: Alternative RadioCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Ward Churchill, author, activist, and former professor, speaks about the 71-day siege at Wounded Knee in which 200 or so Oglala Lakota and members of the AIM occupied Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation responding to the failure of impeaching the tribal president and to expose inhumane and corrupt conditions on Pine Ridge by the US Federal government through the tribal government. Churchill gives a succinct history of Lakota/US relations, including details of treaties, and discusses the role of COINTELPRO in neutralizing the AIM.
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