Jericho Amnesty Movement meetings Sat and Sunday at SCL

The Jericho Amnesty Movement to free all political prisoners will be
having its national meeting here in Los Angeles this weekend. There
are two major public activities associated with this, both held at
the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120
S. Vermont Avenue between Slauson and Gage in south LA.

Saturday evening from 7-9:00 PM there is a cultural-political event
featuring Danza Cuauhtemoc, theater by Jihad Abdulmumit, national
co-chair of Jericho and a former political prisoner, Son Real
(afro-mexicano jarocho music), Puerto Rican slam poet Hector Rivera,
a former grand jury resister, and rap/hip-hop from Black Guerrilla
Nation and the Black Riders Liberation Party. There will also be a
tasty dinner for an additional donation. This is a fundraiser for
Jericho locally and nationally.

https://www.facebook.com/events/274514782622496/

Sunday, February 19 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, also at the Southern CA
Library, 6120 S. Vermont, there is a regional gathering, with the
participation of national members of Jericho, focusing on building
California and West Coast campaigns to free political prisoners,
particularly those being held in this state and region, such as
Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald of the Black Panther Party, Hugo "Yogi"
Pinell, one-time member of the San Quentin, an Afro-Nicaraguan held
in solitary for decades and recently part of the SHU prisoners'
hunger strike, General T.A.C.O. of the Black Riders, still forced to
wear a 21st century slave shackle (ankle GPS device) and facing
return to state prison at any point, Patrice Lumumba Ford, framed up
by Homeland Security, the new COINTELPRO, Joyanna Zachar, political
prisoner of the Green Scare repression of radical environmentalists,
and others. Nationally Jericho includes such important former
political prisoners as Ed Mead, a member of the George Jackson
Brigade and founder while in prison of Men Against Sexism to combat
prison rape; Ashanti Alston, "Anarchist Panther" and former BLA
political prisoner/POW; Ray Luc Levasseur of the Ohio 7, Laura
Whitehorn, one of the Resistance Conspiracy defendants who led
AIDS-education peer counseling while incarcerated, and many others.
Don't miss this important opportunity to engage with the key movement
uniting struggles to free particular individuals such as Mumia
Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier and others with the current day struggles
against the prison-industrial complex and for a new world.

https://www.facebook.com/events/163375793778209/

In addition, on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 4:00 PM, members of national
Jericho and the local chapter of Jericho Amnesty Movement will
participate in a Black History-themed General Assembly of Occupy Los
Angeles on the west steps of City Hall (Spring between First and
Temple). All are welcome. (That's the last GA on the west steps;
starting Monday 2/20, the General Assembly will move to Pershing
Square so that many of the occupiers who were arrested during the
eviction, and who have been restricted from getting near City Hall,
will be able to participate again.)

Jericho Amnesty Movement national meeting in Los Angeles, Feb. 18-19

The national meeting of the Jericho Amnesty Movement to free all
political prisoners will take place in Los Angeles CA this year, on
the Sat. and Sunday of the presidents' day weekend, at the Southern
CA Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120 S. Vermont Ave. On
Saturday afternoon, Jericho will be presenting at the Occupy Los
Angeles General Assembly at a themed GA on Black History Month, at
4:00 PM on the west steps of City Hall, Spring St. between Temple
and First St. At 7 PM, there will be a political/cultural event at
the So Cal Library, featuring Danza Cuauhtemoc, theater by Jihad
Abdulmumit, music and hip-hop/spoken word. Dinner will be available
for an additional contribution. On Sunday from 10 Am-5 PM, there will
be a regional meeting at the Library, 6120 S. Vermont, focusing on
building support to free political prisoners held in CA and on the
west coast.

For more information, contact

jerichoamnestylosangeles@gmail.com or call 323-901-4269.

LA Jericho Black August program, 8-27, 6 PM

The Jericho Amnesty Movement to free all political prisoners will be
holding a Black August commemoration on Saturday, August 27 from
6-9:00 PM at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and
Research, 6120 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles (between Slauson and Gage).

The event will feature conscious entertainment and spoken word, and a
presentation by Comrade LaaLaa of the Black Riders Liberation Party,
who is the National Youth Coordinator for the Jericho Amnesty
Movement, on the recent founding conference in Washington DC, called
by Jericho, of a National Confederation to Free Political Prisoners
and the Unjustly Incarcerated. The conference was held this past
weekend and brought together many groups and organizations that have
been involved in efforts to free political prisoners and
defense/support committees around particular cases, to create a
structure of accountability and concerted action.

The Black August event is free, but a nutritious meal will be
available for a donation, and people will have the opportunity to
write to the political prisoners. A collection will also be taken to
support the ongoing work of the Jericho Amnesty Movement Los Angeles
chapter, which is developing a Family Transport to Prisoners program
for this area, in the spirit of the survival programs of the Black
Panther Party for Self Defense applied to 21st century conditions of
oppression and mass incarceration.

Black August is a month of fasting, study, physical training and
collective development dedicated to martyrs of the struggle and high
points of the resistance in the Black freedom struggle, particularly
behind the walls. There will also be a report on the prison chapters
that are being built which were involved in the recent, and possibly
continuing, hunger strike against isolation torture. There will also
be a report from the state-wide mobilization this week to Sacramento
on behalf of the prisoners' demands. People can also learn about the
upcoming visit of Puerto Rican former political prisoner Carlos
Alberto Torres, who will be in L.A. in October as part of a national tour.

Jericho Amnesty Movement LA chapter seeks financial support for delegation to DC

The date is fast approaching for the founding meeting in Washington
DC of a National Confederation to Free Unjustly Incarcerated and
Political Prisoners. The Los Angeles chapter of the Jericho Amnesty
Movement is seeking financial support to help send a delegation from
our area to this important national gathering, which is seeking to
unite all forces involved in the struggle over political prisoners
and for justice in a principled united national formation with an
accountable work plan and timetable.

Comrade Laalaa of the Black Riders Liberation Party, a member of the
local Jericho Amnesty Movement chapter, is the national youth
coordinator of Jericho and it is vital to ensure her participation at
the National Confederation meeting. We would also like to send
another member of the BRLP, along with Lawrence Reyes of the Puerto
Rican Alliance, Guillermo Suarez of the Movimiento de Liberacion
Nacional Mexicano, and Michael Novick of Anti-Racist Action
(ARA-LA/PART) to the founding meeting in DC. But to do so, we
urgently need financial contributions (or possibly the donation of
frequent flyer to cover one or more tickets. Air fare is
approximately $400 per person round trip. Transportation and frugal
accommodations in the DC area for the 3 day gathering will be
provided by the hosts.

If you can help in any way with a donation toward this cause, please
get in touch ASAP via email, or call 310-890-7104. This conference is
an opportunity to bring significant national momentum to bear on the
cases of political prisoners here in CA, including Ruchell Magee,
Hugo Pinell and Romaine Chip Fitzgerald, some of the longest held
political prisoners in the world, Gerardo Hernandez of the Cuban 5,
Comrade Noor and General T.A.C.O. of the Black Riders (Noor was sent
back to state prison after resisting police abuse outside the trial
of killer cop Johannes Mehserle; T.A.C.O. is still forced to wear an
electronic GPS ankle monitor [21st Century slave shackle] off a
frame-up conviction). Numerous of the prisoners involved in the
hunger strikes at Pelican Bay, Corcoran, Tehachapi and other CA
prisons have been in communication (before and since) with LA Jericho
and its constituent groups, particularly the BRLP. Please help us
bring their message of unity, solidarity and struggle to the National
Confederation founding meeting in D.C. Aug 19-21 by making a generous
financial contribution today. We know that all grassroots peoples'
organizations are strapped for funds these days, but we believe this
significant initiative for justice and liberation merits your
support! Thanks in advance.

Michael Novick for Jericho Amnesty Movement to free all political
prisoners, LA chapter

Jericho Amnesty Movement LA chapter mtg Sat, 2:00 PM at So Cal Library

The LA chapter of Jericho Amnesty Movement will meet tomorrow,
Saturday April 30 at 2:00 PM (following a noon meeting of the Peoples
Justice Conference planning committee) at the Southern California
Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120 S. Vermont Ave., Los
Angeles (between Slauson and Gage). The main agenda item is planning
for the Jericho workshop at the Peoples Justice Conference May 14 at
LA Trade Tech College, in the form of a "courtroom drama" style
People's Trial of the State for human rights violations and crimes
against humanity in the case of the political prisoners and
liberation movements.

here's the script outline:

Proposed Jericho People's Trial on Human Rights Violations against
Political Prisoners for Peoples Justice Conference

The proposal is to stage a mock trial of "The People vs. The State"
on charges of perjury, murder, torture, human rights violations, and
crimes against humanity. We would have a presiding judge or panel,
and a lawyer representing the People (perhaps Nana Gyamfi and/or
James Simmons? Guillermo Suarez?), a defense attorney for the State
(a ringer, perhaps Jim Lafferty or Colleen Flynn from NLG?), and a
series of witnesses for the People, plus one witness for the State
(someone in an Obama mask). (3-5 minutes to present indictments, cast)

Witnesses for the People:

Hank Jones or Ray Boudreaux or other Panther elder -testify about
torture, frame-ups, assassinations and shoot-out under direct
examination, relate to continuing attack on SF 8.
Cross-examination: Weren't you gun toting radicals? Defense of
self-defense plus explanation of other survival programs (10-12 minutes)

Lawrence Reyes - testify about Puerto Rican Nationalists, Young
Lords, Macheteros, etc, relate to Vieques and continuing struggles of
students, labor.
Cross examination: Weren't these people guilty of seditious
conspiracy to overthrow the govt of the US in Puerto Rico? Defense of
right to independence and self-determination (10-12 minutes)

Shorter testimony: Native (Corine of SB AIM?) re Peltier, other human
rts violations (5-7 min)
Chicano/Mexicano (Meztli of Brown Riders) re: Alvaro Luna Hernandez,
Ramsey Muniz, ICE raids (5-7 min)
Asians (Mo Nishida re Asian/PI prisoners) (5-7 min)
European descent (Michael Novick re: Dave Gilbert, Tom Manning,
Marilyn Buck, read from Daniel McGowan). Cross-examination: Don't
people have their constitutional right to remain silent?
Counter-attack on Grand Jury/FBI witch-hunt (5-7 minutes)

General T.A.C.O. - testify on impact on community of destruction of
BPP (drugs, criminal mentality, mass incarceration, unchecked police
terror), continuing attacks on freedom fighters (BR3, LA2, ankle GPS).
Cross examination: Aren't you crazy radicals who plot to attack
police stations? Defense of above-ground self-defense, watch-a-pig
programs. (10-12 minutes)

Prosecution rests.

Defense calls Obama: These are all sad events of the past for which
Bill Clinton has already apologized. I am proof that US is now a
post-racial democracy. Cross-examination: Aren't you just a front man
for empire? Remove Obama mask to reveal skull mask underneath it. (5 minutes)

Defense (State) summation: We did and do the same thing any state
does to protect its interests and profits. (1 min)

Prosecution (People's ) summation: Guilty or murder (Fred Hampton),
torture (SF8, Sekou Odinga), perjury (Geronimo, Mumia, Peltier),
crimes against humanity (MOVE bombing). (2 min)

Judge addresses audience: ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you
reached a verdict?:

All: Guilty as charged

Jericho Amnesty Movement meeting Sat 2-19 at 5 PM at SCL

The next meeting of the Jericho Amnesty Movement, Los Angeles
chapter, will take place Saturday, February 19 at 5 PM at the
Southern CA Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120 S. Vermont
Ave. in Los Angeles (between Slauson and Gage). Earlier in the day,
the film COINTELPRO 101 will be showing at the Pan African Film
Festival (1:45 PM, Culver Plaza Theater).

Topics on the agenda include the Jericho petition campaign (on-line
and on paper) for new COINTELPRO hearings and release of the
political prisoners; a focus on CA political prisoners such as
Comrade Nur of the LA 2 and General T.A.C.O. of the Black Rider 3
(Nur has been returned to state prison after having been attacked by
undercovers outside the Mehserle trial for the murder of Oscar Grant;
T.A.C.O. is still locked to a 21st Century slave shackle -- a GPS
ankle bracelet that monitors and restricts his movements).

We will also discuss national Jericho plans for Peoples' Tribunals on
Human Rights and Political Prisoners in the US as part of a May 13-15
Peoples Justice Conference, as well as the LA Jericho proposal
presented by the Black Riders Liberation Party for a national Jericho
march on Washington DC late this year. There will also be an
opportunity to write to the political prisoners.

Bring your positive energy and unity and build this important
component of the peoples' struggle.

There are two meetings earlier in the day at SCL:

The next planning meeting for the LA Housing and Hunger Crisis
Conference will take place Saturday Feb. 19 at 10 AM until noon at
the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120
S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles. The conference is bringing together
people at a grassroots level experiencing the ills of gentrification,
foreclosures, evictions, privatization of public housing, as well as
those struggling for human rights and food and water sovereignty.
Participants include GrassrootsKPFK, Union de Vecinos, Black Riders
and Brown Riders Liberation Party, Venice Justice Committee, the
Coffee Party, the MLK Coalition for Jobs, Justice and Peace, tenants
rights organizers from Lincoln Heights, and many others. The
conference is planned for early April at LA Trade Tech College and
will feature opportunities for people to learn about each others'
struggles, as well as concrete skills sharing and a cultural
component. For more information call 310-495-0299 or check with
grassrootskpfk@gmail.com or
housing.hunger.crisis.conference@gmail.com. There is a googlegroup
set up at h2c2@googlegroups.com

A planning meeting for a Peoples' Justice Conference in Los Angeles,
focused on issues of police abuse/racial profiling, political
prisoners/political repression, the prison industrial complex/mass
incarceration, juvenile justice and opposition to the death penalty
will take place on Saturday, February 19 from 12 noon-2:00 PM at the
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120 S.
Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles. The conference, incorporating efforts
initiated simultaneously by the GrassrootsKPFK coalition, the LA
Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant, the Justice Working Group of
the MLK Coalition for Jobs, Justice and Peace, and the LA chapter of
the Jericho Amnesty Movement to free political prisoners, is designed
to bring together people getting hit by and dealing with all the
different aspects of the so-called "criminal justice" system -- the
cops, the courts, the prisons, jails and juvenile halls, and various
forms of political repression and counter-insurgency by the state,
such as COINTELPRO, grand jury witch-hunts, immigration raids,
checkpoints and detention, etc. It is designed a working conference
building unity among grassroots forces facing and dealing with these
issues, aimed at developing solidarity and effective fight back and
organizing strategies. We want to look at issues like medical
mistreatment inside the prisons, isolation as torture in jails and
prisons, "ban the box" and other reintegration strategies for
ex-convicts, and abolition of the death penalty and the
prison-industrial complex. We want to build practical connections
between people trying to end the schools-to-jail pipeline and the
criminalization of youth with those resisting racial profiling and
police killings and those struggling to free political prisoners. We
invite the involvement of all dealing with these various aspects of
the system. For more information, call 310-890-7104. A list serve has
been set up at PeoplesJusticeConference@googlegroups.com

Los Angeles Jericho Amnesty Movement meeting Sat 1/22 at 5 PM at SCL

The next meeting of the Jericho Amnesty Movement, Los Angeles
chapter, will take place Saturday, January 22 at 5 PM at the Southern
CA Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120 S. Vermont Ave. in
Los Angeles (between Slauson and Gage) right after a meeting of the
MLK Coalition for Jobs, Justice and Peace at the same venue. (Michael
Novick of Jericho will be making a brief presentation about prisons
and political prisoners at the earlier meeting.)

Topics on the agenda include the Jericho petition campaign (on-line
and on paper) for new COINTELPRO hearings and release of the
political prisoners; a focus on CA political prisoners such as
Comrade Nur of the LA 2 and General T.A.C.O. of the Black Rider 3
(Nur is still locked down after being atacked by undercovers outside
the Mehserle trial for the murder of Oscar Grant; T.A.C.O. is still
locked to a 21st Century slave shackle -- a GPS ankle bracelet that
monitors and restricts his movements).

We will also discuss national Jericho plans for Peoples' Tribunals on
Human Rights and Political Prisoners in the US, the national day of
action Jan. 25 against FBI/grand jury repression, as well as the LA
Jericho proposal presented by the Black Riders Liberation Party for a
national Jericho march on Washington DC late this year. There will
also be an opportunity to write to the political prisoners.

Bring your positive energy and unity and build this important
component of the peoples' struggle.