Prisons: tear them down

Love and liberation for Lynne Stewart

By Dolores Cox and Sara Flounders New York -- Some 500 people gathered here at St. Peters “Jazz” Church on…

February 19, 2014

North Carolina burning

They call it Moral Mondays and in North Carolina this means a movement of civil disobedience led by the Rev.…

February 15, 2014

Press conference, protest challenge Fox News over Abu-Jamal case

On Jan. 17, dozens of people gathered for a press conference and protest outside Fox News in Philadelphia to denounce…

January 21, 2014

After 41 years in solitary, free Albert Woodfox NOW!

By Anne Pruden and Gloria Rubac New Orleans, Jan. 7 — Angola 3 supporters, numbering over 100, braved the unusual,…

January 16, 2014

Lynne Stewart: Free

Taken from a Jan. 2, 2014, audio column at prisonradio.org. By the time you read this, Lynne Stewart, New York’s…

January 15, 2014

Message from Lynne Stewart & Ralph Poynter: ‘The movement has persevered’

The following message was emailed on Jan. 4. To the International Movement to Free Lynne Stewart: We are elated to…

January 9, 2014

Struggle frees people’s lawyer Lynne Stewart

New York, Jan. 1 — There she was standing, then walking slowly towards us, unshackled, without handcuffs or belly chain, and…

January 3, 2014

Another link in the chain of mass incarceration

In September 1990 — two weeks after the wrongful conviction of three defendants in the rape of a jogger in…

January 3, 2014

Why not amnesty here?

In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an amnesty for some 20,000 prisoners — including the Greenpeace protesters, the Pussy…

January 1, 2014

CeCe McDonald to be released

CeCe McDonald, the 24-year-old African-American transwoman who courageously defended herself and friends from a vicious, racist, anti-lesbian-gay-bi-trans-queer attack, will be…

December 30, 2013