Over the years I learned about many political prisoners both in the U.S. and some held in other countries around the world. I learned about Oscar Lopez Rivera and was very confused. I didn’t know the U.S. had political prisoners. As I learned more about Mr. Lopez Rivera I also learned about the historical relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico. I learned about the forced sterilization of one-third of Puerto Rican women of childbearing age. I learned about massacres and I learned of other political prisoners e.g. Lolita Lebron, and Rafael Cancel Miranda. I also learned about experiments conducted on Puerto Ricans and I learned about the bombing of Viejes and of the horrible treatment of Puerto Rican leader, Pedro Albizo Campos.
Move
I learned all about John Africa’s Move Organization and all the sad stories, I learned about the Move 9. I learned about the bombing of the home on Osage Avenue on the 10th of May, 1985, and how the city and police murdered eleven members of the Move family including children. I also learned how Ramona Africa was arrested after surviving the bombing. I also learned about the popular Philadelphia journalist who later join the group Mumia Abu Jamal, who is still in prison for a crime, no one believes he truly committed.
Peoples Movements
I learned about various people’s movements including the American Indian Movement, and the Black Panther Party, and about the measures that the U.S. government took to destroy these people’s movements, e.g. the counterintelligence program, COINTELPRO. I honestly learned a lot and the more I read the more I wanted to learn about how this world really works, and how some people are not allowed to choose alternative lifestyles or ideologies, or even free to choose a different path for their people. Nor are BIPOC people free to defend their people, or speak out against police or government violence committed against their people. In other words, I learned just how free, we BIPOC people living in the so-called Land of the Free really aren’t.
Free Them All
I want all these human beings that have been separated from their families for political motives, to be immediately released and reunited with their families. We need a better, fairer world. No child should have to go to bed hungry, nor have to flee their home due to war, or be afraid because of violence. All this has to stop. We need to unite against the class war that has us all fighting one another while a select few benefit from this evil. End wars! Free all political prisoners!
“A better world is possible.” – Oscar Lopez Rivera
- Free Mumia Abu Jamal
- Free Sundiata Acoli
- Free Ruchell Magee
- Free Xinachtli/Alvaro Luna Hernandez
- Free Rev. Joy Powell
- Free Byron Chubbuck (Oso Blanco)
- Free Veronza Bowers
- Free Ed Poindexter
- Free Mutulu Shakur
- Free Leonard Peltier
- Free Kevin Rashid Johnson
- Free Jamil Al-Amin
- Free Kenny Zulu Whitmore
- Free Kamau Sadiki
- Free Julian Assange
- Free Marius Mason
- Free Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
- Free Aron Atabek
- Free Nûdem Durak
- Free Julian Assange
- Free All the Political Prisoners incarcerated worldwide
- Free All the children imprisoned worldwide
- End For Profit Prisons and For Profit Immigration detention
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