https://www.gofundme.com/f/jay-chase-of-the-nato3-is-free

We are happy to report that Jared (Jay) Chase has finally been released from prison after eight+ hard years. Jay was one of the NATO 3, arrested in 2012 in Chicago, Illinois in an entrapment scheme organized by the Chicago police department.

This was the first time the state of Illinois charged people with conspiracy to commit terrorism, and it was simply for protesting NATO. Thanks to many awesome people on their legal team, and broader community support, they were found not guilty on all terrorism related charges Jay and his two codefendants were convicted on one felony. Jay was sentenced to the longest time, 8 years.

This sentence was beyond terrible but especially awful because Jay Chase has Huntington’s disease. He was diagnosed with it back in 2013 and the disease has been progressing since then. Huntington’s is a terminal disease that affects his motor skills and cognitive ability.

Jay is out, but he has a long fight ahead of him with this disease. There is no cure for Huntington’s but there is treatment that can slow symptoms and prolong life. Jay did not receive proper health care in Illinois state prisons but we want to get him proper care now that he is free.

Donations will be used to:
1) get Jay set up with basic necessities people need,
2) medical care, and
3) housing.

Leonard Peltier is a Native American political prisoner and American Indian Movement (AIM) activist, serving two consecutive life sentences for a crime he was framed for— the 1975 killing of two FBI agents on the Oglala Sioux reservation. After the acquittal of his codefendants and being extradited form Canada under false pretenses, Peltier was convicted by an all white jury 12 in a hostile town. Peltier has appealed his sentence many times and has sued the FBI for withholding thousands of pages of important legal documents from FOIA requests.

He is an accomplished painter and writer, having published his memoir, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance, in 1999. Peltier has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize multiple times. His defense campaign continues to advocate for executive clemency and his transfer close to home. More information: whoisleonardpeltier.info

Leonard Peltier #89637-132
USP Coleman I
Post Office Box 1033
Coleman, FL 33521

Birthday: September 12

Info was taken from NYC ABC’s Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners.
More PP addresses here.

Bill Dunne is an anti-authoritarian sentenced to 90 years for the attempted liberation of comrades from Seattle’s King County Jail in 1979 and for attempting to break himself out of Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1983. Bill was charged with possession of an automatic weapon, auto theft, and aiding & abetting the escape. Charges further alleged the operation was financed by bank expropriations and facilitated by illegal acquisition of weapons and explosives.

Bill and his codefendant, Larry Giddings, were accused by police of being “members of a small, heavily armed group of revolutionaries,” associated with the Wellspring Communion. Dunne has made the rounds of the federal prison system–including a stint at the infamous Control Unit in Marion, Illinois, where he assisted prisoners with political & academic education. Bill also organizes solidarity runs in conjunction with the Anarchist Black Cross Federation’s Running Down the Walls and has edited & written for 4 Struggle magazine.

Bill went before the parole board in the winter 2014, was rejected and given a 15 year ‘hit’ (meaning he cannot go back to the board for that time period).

Write:
Bill Dunne #10916-086
FCI Victorville Medium I
Post Office Box 3725
Adelanto, CA 92301

Birthday: August 3

Info was taken from NYC ABC’s Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners.
More PP addresses here.

Kamau Sadiki is a former member of the Black Panther Party and was convicted of a 30-year old murder case of a Fulton County Police Officer found shot to death in his car outside a service station.

Kamau Sadiki* #0001150688
Augusta State Medical Prison
3001 Gordon Highway
Grovetown, GA 30813
*Address envelope to Freddie Hilton.

Birthday: February 19
More information: bit.do/ KamauSadiki

Info was taken from NYC ABC’s Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners.
More PP addresses here.

Download the latest PP/POW Updates and Announcements.

One part of NYC ABC‘s every-other-week Political Prisoner Letter-Writing Dinners is presenting updates and announcements. These typically relate to PPs, POWs, or are especially relevant to folks in NYC. Since February 2011, we’ve been printing and mailing hard copies of the updates and announcements to about a dozen imprisoned comrades.

In April 2013, along with Denver Anarchist Black Cross and Sacramento Prisoner Support, we expanded printing and mailing to include all U.S. held political prisoners and prisoners of war. As of September, 2014, that work has diffused over several support crews, collectives, and individuals. On this page you will find an archive of what we’ve compiled since mid-March 2011. Please download and mail the current edition to prisoners with whom you correspond and share links with those who might be interested in doing the same.

https://itsgoingdown.org/prison-break-nov-2020/
Check out the latest “Prison Break” column by the Certain Days calendar collective.

We’re being told that the fate of democracy itself is at stake, that by casting our votes this week we can return to the cruel yet familiar U.S. hegemony we know so well. While some may hold their noses and cast their votes against fascism, we all know that if voting changed anything it would be illegal. Abolitionists and freedom fighters will not stop until we have crafted something better upon the ashes of the old.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS RALLY
November 23rd
Outside Cuomo’s office, 633 3rd Avenue (between 40 and 41st Street)
5:30pm

Pathetic NY Governor Cuomo has one of the worst prison release records of all Governors across the country when it comes to clemency. There are 36,500 people in 54 state prisons. Over 6,000 of them have applied for commutations but in ten years, Cuomo has only granted 20 commuted sentences. Almost 20 people have died during the COVID-19 pandemic in NYS prisons.

Join Release Aging People in Prison on Monday, November 23 to demand #ClemencyNow

Register for in-person rally: https://t.co/AB0N81iYzk?amp=1
Register for Zoom: http://bit.ly/holiday-rally-zoom 

Our friends with the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoner calendar crew have released their 2021 calendar and its now back from the printer. Lay your hands upon the 2021 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar! This is our twentieth edition and we are so excited to share them with you.

How to order:

In the United States via Burning Books
https://burningbooks.com
(Use BULK discount code for 10 and more!)

In Canada
1-9 copies via Kersplebedeb at https://www.leftwingbooks.net/certain-days-2021
10+ copies via https://www.certaindays.org/order/

Prisoner copies are just $8 and can be ordered at https://www.certaindays.org/order/prisoners/
(you buy them and we ship them!)

#1

Police Brutality is state brutality,
it’s the media calling a protest “violent”
after pigs fired weapons and toxins,
into crowds of people exercising their “rights”.

If the knee hadn’t strangled George,
the “justice “system would have.
He would have been arrested
for trying to exchange non sanctioned paper
placed into federal custody.
He would have waited months
before being sent to federal prison
stripped of his “rights”, dignity, family contact ….for YEARS.

Police brutality is more than guns and sprays,
it is scanning every single piece of Mail you receive.
Its preventing you from speaking to your mom, post-surgery.
It’s convincing you that  YOU’RE the reason
for how THEY TREAT YOU.
It’s the longing for your partner’s touch,
while knowing,
your captives make six figures
to hold you in a fucking box

#2

Police brutality is state normalcy.
It’s knowing that protests are popping off
not 5 minutes away
and the only thing stopping you from joining them
is 5 janky doors

It’s the sadness,
thinking that those in the streets,
overlooked the fact that we in here,
suffering the existence of police brutality
mentally, physically, existentially
EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY

It’s the indoctrination,
being taught
that we deserve this,
and there is no way out
except through their rules
and the goodness of their hearts.

That the days of Bill Dunne, Assata are over,
picket signs don’t bend steel.

Police normality,
is convincing us
that those arrested
deserve their treatment.

Those five doors may as well be 500

More on Eric King at supportericking.org