Watch IVAW northeast regional coordinator and featured Socialism 2008 speaker
ADRIENNE KINNE
on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! tomorrow, May 13, at democracynow.org.

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SOCIALISM 2008
June 19-22, Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare
"A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment."
http://www.socialismconference.org

Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests
By ERIK ECKHOLM

Thursday 7 p.m.
Independent Media Center

Kai Barrow will be at the IMC for an evening of information sharing and political strategizing.

Founded on the West Coast, Critical Resistance is now a national organization that seeks to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex.

Critical Resistance is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year in Oakland!

Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’
By ADAM LIPTAK

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

"Jails, Hospitals, and Hip-Hop," a one-man show by Danny Hoch, brings into the spotlight social injustice through the eyes of uncommon characters. With each new character, new issues are explored and another voice is heard on the matter. Yet so many voices at the University of Illinois are not heard.

Art for Life: Words and Music Against the Death Penalty
Wednesday, April 23, 7:30 PM at the University YMCA

Featuring Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins, of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights

Poetry by students in Speech Communication 396 and members of the Champaign County Jail Poetry Workshop

Soul-fulfilling Brazilian music by Desafinado

Informative handouts & free snacks!

March 2008    

Federal Court Reaffirms Frame-Up Conviction, Orders Life Behind Bars or Racist Legal Lynching

Internationalist Group contingent in March 28 Harlem protest the day after federal court decision against him.
Internationalist photo

On March 27, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. After previously rejecting Mumia’s request to present evidence of his innocence, as well as a host of issues showing that he was railroaded by a racist court, the Court turned down Mumia’s request for a new trial. It upheld the 2001 ruling by a federal district judge that ordered a new hearing on the sentence, but limited the “choice” to the living hell of life imprisonment without parole ... or execution.

“The (In)dependence of Puerto Rico”

Is Puerto Rico America's Colony?

Join law students and community members for a discussion of current legal issues in Puerto Rico, and the current status of Puerto Rican political prisoners in the U.S.

The public is more than welcome!

The United States is the world’s leading prison state.

Prisoners of Sentencing Politics
by Derrick Z. Jackson

With odious sanctimony, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice released the annual State Department human rights report. She praised people around the world who work “to hold their leaders accountable and to achieve equal justice under the law.”

UN Panel Finds Two-Tier Society

UNITED NATIONS - The United States government is drawing fire from international legal experts for its treatment of American Indians, Blacks, Latinos and other racial minorities.