Let Freedom Ring

A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners

Matt Meyer

• Publisher: PM Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781604860351
• eBook ISBN: 9781604861495
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Advocacy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical movements that have most challenged the U.S. empire from within: Black Panthers and other Black liberation fighters, Puerto Rican independentistas, Indigenous sovereignty activists, white anti-imperialists, environmental and animal rights militants, Arab and Muslim activists, Iraq war resisters, and others. Contributors in and out of prison detail the repressive methods—from long-term isolation to sensory deprivation to politically inspired parole denial—used to attack these freedom fighters, some still caged after 30+ years. This invaluable resource guide offers inspiring stories of the creative, and sometimes winning, strategies to bring them home.

Contributors include: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Dan Berger, Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Bob Lederer, Terry Bisson, Laura Whitehorn, Safiya Bukhari, The San Francisco 8, Angela Davis, Bo Brown, Bill Dunne, Jalil Muntaqim, Susie Day, Luis Nieves Falcón, Ninotchka Rosca, Meg Starr, Assata Shakur, Jill Soffiyah Elijah, Jan Susler, Chrystos, Jose Lopez, Leonard Peltier, Marilyn Buck, Oscar López Rivera, Sundiata Acoli, Ramona Africa, Linda Thurston, Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and many more.

Index

1-9: PAGE REFERENCES

1-9: REFERENCES TO A TEXT WRITTEN BY THE SUBJECT

9/11 704. See also ; See also USA PATRIOT ACT; See also BUREAU OF PRISONS: POST-911 MEASURES

subsequent repression 39–41, 675, 679–683, 693, 716, 723–724, 726, 741–747

1968 Democratic Convention 24, 103, 776

1972 Democratic Convention 8

1993 World Trade Center bombing 719

1999 Seattle WTO protests 37, 501, 507, 519, 522–524, 558, 704

2004 Republican National Convention 780

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Abbey, Edward 38

Abdel-Rahman, Omar 680, 682, 724

Abdul-Mumit, Jihad 193

Abiodun, Nehanda 6

Abolitionists (slavery) 442, 465–475, 478, 480, 519, 553, 556, 562

Abraham, Lynne 623

Abu-Jamal, Mumia XIX, 4, 11, 65–66, 159, 165, 173, 192, 230, 244, 256, 387, 403, 413–414, 416–417, 418, 422–423, 442, 481, 489, 492, 494, 498, 501, 506–507, 510–513, 514, 589, 592, 628, 633, 648, 677, 689, 691, 763, 765, 768, 770, 774, 776, 790, 804, 814, 816

support campaign 11, 388, 391–393, 403–412, 416–421, 429–430, 432–437, 438–439, 440–454, 455–456, 478, 481, 482, 498, 505, 520, 555, 600, 621, 778, 779, 787, 806, 816–818. See also ART AND WRITINGS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY

Abu-Jamal, Wadiya 403

Academics for Mumia 405, 408, 409, 434

Acoli, Sundiata 5, 79, 96, 165, 193, 194, 197, 198, 230, 248–249, 429–430, 485, 492, 509, 566, 605, 635, 654, 656, 657, 678, 679, 762–763, 778, 781, 798, 818

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Let Freedom Ring: An Introduction
• Gearing Up: A Guide to This Collection
• The Real Dragons: A Brief History of Political Militancy and Incarceration: 1960s to 2000s
• Section I • Putting Political Prisoners on the Map
• Section II • Int’l Tribunal on Political Prisoners/P.O.W.’s in the U.S.A.
• Section III • The Quincentenary: Diss’ing the “Discovery”
• Section IV • Campaigning to End Colonialism in Puerto Rico
• Section V • Resisting Repression: Out and Proud
• Section VI • Pulling Out the Stops to Free Mumia Abu-jamal
• Section VII • john Brown and Beyond
• Section VIII • Critical Resistance and the Prisoner Rights Movement
• Section IX • At War: The U.S. Government’s Illegal and Ongoing War Against the Black Liberation Movement
• Afterword
• After the Afterword
• Contributor Profiles
• Political Prisoner Support Organizations
• Index
• Footnotes