Mutulu Shakur had a stroke at the end of February and is having trouble obtaining the follow-up medical care that he needs. Please call the warden at Victorville and ask that Mutulu receive the medical care that he needs.
5/19/2013
People out here I want some contacts, I have not received any consultation on the concerns deriving from the stroke. I understand folks have been contacting the region and central office from medical follow- up which is a required recommendation for after-care.
Greeting Citizens of the World,
We have watched with dismay as a great injustice is being committed by the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT in the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp.
Imagine your Father, Your Brother, Your Husband Arrested
Sold for a bounty.
Black bagged and sent away to a foreign country.
Tortured for years on end.
Accused of being a terrorist.
No trial or charge is given.
No lawyer is brought in.
No one is allowed to see him.
With no end in sight.
With no hope for justice, over 100 men who have been held and tortured for years have gone on a hunger strike. On May 18th, it will have been 100 days since they have eaten voluntarily. Prisoners have died suddenly, violently, and suspiciously. All inmates in Guantanamo Bay have been locked in solitary confinement. Some are being force fed, an international crime. These men face the prospect of a terrible death in prison despite many of them having been cleared for release years ago. One defense attorney has already committed suicide.
It is time for the Obama administration to admit that this is a disgrace for any civilized country which upholds the rule of law. Guantanamo Bay must be closed at once, and the prisoners should be either returned to their home countries or given a fair trial in a federal court. Guantanamo Bay is an ongoing war crime. Anonymous will no longer tolerate this atrocity.
We are outraged. We, the people and Anonymous, will not allow the most expensive prison on earth to be run without any respect for international laws. We stand in solidarity with the Guantanamo hunger strikers. We will shut down Guantanamo.
On May 17 to May 19, to coincide with the 100th day of the hunger strike, we urge everyone to join global actions on the ground and hacktivist protests as well as twitterstorms, email bombs, and fax bombs, in 3 days of nonstop action.
JOIN US:
Call the White House: 202-456-1111, 202-456-1414
Call the U.S. Southern Command: 305-437-1213
Call the Department of Defense: 703-571-3343
Call your senators & representatives: http://congresslookup.com/
Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/CloseGTMO
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We are Everywhere.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect us.
A moment ago I received a call from Lynne Stewart’s husband, Ralph Poynter, that the warden at FMC Carswell prison in Fort Worth Texas has recommended immediate compassionate release for government frame-up victim and renown attorney for the damned, Lynne Stewart.
Stewart was sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of conspiracy to aid and abet terrorism because she issued a press release on behalf of her client the “blind” sheik, Omar Abdel Rachman.
The Carswell warden stated that he could not deal with the over 11,000 petitions he had received to date and recommended to the Justice Department that Lynne be released to the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the world class hospital where Lynne first underwent surgery for breast cancer some three years ago.
Today that cancer has metastasized to both lungs and her back. She has been diagnosed by Forth Worth hospital doctors as having Stage 4 lung cancer and is receiving chemotherapy in a nearby, but inadequate Forth Worth hospital. Lynne’s white blood count fell to almost zero, forcing doctors to send her to an isolation unit to prevent Lynne’s succombing to bacterial infestations that her body’s immune system is incapable of defending against.
Lynne’s case will now pass through a series of hurdles – from the Justice Department and the original sentencing Judge John Koeltl to perhaps President Obama himself.
The international campaign to win compassionate release must now shift to the national government, including the Obama administration. But the first victory has been achieved due to the mass of protest letters to the warden and innumerable acts of solidarity from well know figures across the globe.
The petition for Lynne can be found at LynneStewart.org
Sign now and distribute it widely!
If you have already signed the petition, please also send letters Re: Lynne Irene Stewart, #53504-054 Compassionate Release to the following:
Mr. Charles E. Samuels, Jr., Director Federal Bureau of Prisons, 320 First Street NW, Washington, DC 20534
District Judge John G. Koelte, United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl St., New York, NY 10007-1312
Lynne Stewart Defense Organization, 1070 Dean St., Brooklyn, NY 11216 or ralph.poynter@yahoo.com
At this time, Jalil has an Administrative Appeal pending from his last parole denial. The Parole Board has until August 9, 2013 to make a decision.
This is all the more urgent because Jalil had a minor stroke in February. The first doctor he saw at Attica wanted to send him to the hospital immediately, but the head doctor, Dr. Rho, said that they first needed to get permission from Albany to take Jalil to the hospital.
So, finally, on Monday, April 8, 2013, Jalil was shackled and had the black box put on and taken to ECMC in Buffalo, where he had a CAT scan. This all occurred in the morning, and he was back at Attica by about 10:30 a.m.
The neurologist who reviewed the CAT scan called Attica and requested that Jalil be admitted to the hospital. The CAT scan revealed that Jalil has damage to his upper right cerebral hemisphere. Shortly thereafter, an ambulance arrived. However, the escort team from Albany had already left by this time.
Dr. Rho once again intervened, and said that the outside neurologist had told him that, since Jalil had no symptoms, he could be treated on an outpatient basis, once again requiring permission from Albany. Jalil is not sure that Dr. Rho is telling the truth about this. He thinks they are deliberately denying him adequate medical care.
Jalil is asking people to call the NYS Division of Parole in Albany at 518-473-5424 to urge the Parole Board to reverse its denial and release him immediately. We can include a demand for compassionate release, since he is being denied adequate medical care.
You can also write to the Board at:
Attn: Parole Board-Medical
Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
State Campus Bldg #2
1220 Washington Avenue
Albany NY 12226
With the parole board, you must refer to Jalil as Anthony Bottom #77A4283, currently at Attica Correctional Facility. Be polite, but firm and let us know what kind of response you receive.
NYC Jericho Movement
nycjericho@gmail.com
718-512-5008 and 718-325-4407
Join the worldwide campaign on Twitter at 2PM CST on Wednesdays to demand the release of Samer Issawi.
Check @samerissawi1 for the hash tag to use. Follow “The Free Samer Issawi Campaign” page on Facebook!
Israeli authorities detain Issawi without charges. He was released from prison in October 2011 as a part of the Shalit prisoner swap, but was detained again without charge on July 7, 2012. Issawi has refused food since August 2012 to protest his detention.
Former Black Panther Russell Maroon Shoatz has been held in torturous conditions of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons for the past thirty years. He has not had a serious rule violation for more than two decades. Maroon’s role as an educator, human rights defender, writer, and critical intellectual of liberation movements is widely renowned.
From April 8 to May 10, 2013, the Campaign to Free Russell Maroon Shoatz is calling for an intense call-in and write-in campaign to bring pressure on the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PA DOC), to release Maroon from solitary confinement and into the general prison population. This is the first major phase of a coordinated political-legal campaign, beginning with Maroon’s attorneys sending a “Demand Letter” to the PA DOC on the morning of April 8, 2013. The letter, outlining the legal and humanitarian reasons why an immediate release from solitary is needed, gives the PA DOC an opportunity to correct the grave injustices being carried out on a daily basis before litigation begins.
*April 8*—Begin flooding the office of PA Department of Corrections (DOC) Secretary John Wetzel with phone calls, letters, and faxes: PA DOC Secretary John Wetzel, 1920 Technology Parkway Mechanicsburg, PA, 17050; *Phone number* 717-728-4109; *Fax number:* 717-728-4109.
Send a copy of that letter, or address a similar letter, to the office of SCI Mahanoy Superintendent John Kerestes: 301 Morea Road, Mahanoy, PA, 17932 *Phone number:* 570-773-2158 *Fax number:* 570-783-2008.
*If you have contact with media in your area, consider suggesting that they cover this story, including the April 8 – May 10 pressure campaign. *Help publicize the campaign* in schools, workplaces, churches, and communities nationwide.
Talking Points:
This morning, just days after his latest article, “Court Documents Prove I was Sent to Communication Management Units (CMU) for my Political Speech,” was published on the Huffington Post Daniel was taken back into custody on false legal grounds.
The latest twist in the saga of Daniel McGowan, an environmental activist who was convicted of arson linked to the Earth Liberation Front, has his lawyer exasperated with the Bureau of Prisons, which is now conceding it cannot stop him from blogging for The Huffington Post.
McGowan was taken from his Brooklyn halfway house by marshals and put in jail last week in response to a blog post he wrote that was critical of the Bureau of Prisons. After his lawyers complained that his rights were being infringed upon, he was re-released to the halfway house where he had been serving out the final months of his term.
But there was a twist: Upon being released, McGowan was forced to sign a documentstating that “writing articles, appearing in any type of television or media outlets, news reports and/or documentaries without prior BOP approval is strictly prohibited.” Violating that agreement, which he signed under duress, might mean going back to jail.
It was, said Rachel Meeropol, his lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a form of “fast and loose retaliation.”
When HuffPost contacted the Bureau of Prisons’ regional office in Philadelphia, however, they quickly backtracked on the agreement.
“He’s not prohibited from doing that, and we’re going to address it with the (halfway house) contractor,” said Lamine N’Diaye, a BOP public information officer. If McGowan wrote another HuffPost blog today, said N’Diaye, “he’s not going to be punished.”
The BOP’s new position may be on firmer legal ground than the contract McGowan was forced to sign: as the CCR pointed out when they fought for his rerelease, a federal judge ruled in 2007 that attempts to prohibit inmates from writing articles under their own byline are unconstitutional.
“This chain of events is so ridiculous, it is almost laughable,” said Meeropol. “What is sobering, however, is the impact of these repeated ‘mistakes’ — a dedicated activist is being chilled from sharing important information with the public in violation of the First Amendment and the Bureau of Prison’s own regulations.”
And while we are on the subject of holding the BOP accountable, Tell the Department of Justice to Uphold Due Process in Federal Prisons.
