Sis. Dequi Kioni-Sadiki joins us tonight on Political Prisoner Radio. Sis. Kioni-Sadiki is married to political POW Sekou Odinga and is active in the struggles against police violence, criminal justice, and women's reproductive rights. She is a former member of the Black Panther Collective, the NYC Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, and now serves as co-chair of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee of which Baba Herman Ferguson serves as Chairman Emeritus.
She has served as national co-chair of the People of African Descent Caucus for the Washington, DC based United States Student Association, and currently works with the NYC Jericho Movement in the campaign to free political prisoners and prisoners of war being held by the United States. Dequi is an artist, poet, public speaker, educator for liberation and WBAI radio producer.
Lynne Stewart has breast cancer and it is spreading to her lungs and shoulders. She is not receiving the medical attention she needs which is unfortunately the norm for political prisoners and prisoners in general. The prison officials have known about her dire need for proper medical treatment since September of 2012. The denial of medical attention amounts to cruel treatment and tantamount to torture and violates her human rights as well as others finding themselves in similar situations.
Lynne Stewart is a human rights activist in her own right and a former attorney who represented poor and often marginalized defendants. Several members of Harlem CORE, both 'nationalists' and 'civil rights' types, have spoken very highly of her. She was convicted on trumped up charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005 and sentenced to 28 months in prison in a case involving her client Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric who many say was convicted on trumped up charges related planning terror attacks. The prosecutor in the case was unhappy with the 28-month sentence, appealed the decision, and now Stewart is under a 10-year sentence that many say was politically motivated.
Lynne’s husband and Harlem Core member Ralph Poynter joins us again to update us on the case.
Lynne’s supporters ask that you write a letter of support to Lynne Stewart- 53504 - 054, FEDERAL MEDICAL CNTR, CARSWELL, P.O. BOX 27137, FT. WORTH, TEXAS 76127. They are also asking people to share information about her case especially with lawyers because they should support her request to have her case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Politcal activist and son of a political prisoner,
Mike Africa Jr. joins us on this week's episode of Political Prisoner Radio. Mike Jr. was born inside a prisoner cell, his mother Debbie Sims Africa and his father Mike Afrika fell in love as members of the Philly based MOVE Organization. Both are still being held along with other MOVE 9 members.
The MOVE organization engaged in providing services to the community and helping their neighbors with odd jobs and pet sitting. They also provided drug addition counseling and helped recently released slaves meet their parole requirements to keep them off the plantation.
According to the San Francisco BayView,
"On Aug. 8, 1978, the Move Organization’s headquarters was attacked in a pre-dawn raid by several hundred Philadelphia cops and officials. Move members were charged for the assault and are still languishing in prison."
The Move 9 have been held as prisoners of the war on non-white people that has been waged on the North America continent since Columbus and his band stumbled upon it after cutting a bloody path through the Caribbean islands. As prisoners of war, they are not treated like other captives of the so-called prison system. Parole boards continue to deny parole to political prisoners like the MOVE 9 and the Federal Govt continues to deny the existence of political prisoners.
Dequi Kioni-Sadiki and Zayid Muhammad joins us tonight. The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee works to educate, agitate and organize to free all political prisoners & prisoners of war being held by the U.S Government which fails to acknowlege that it is holding political prisoners and prisoners of war.
We will discuss the legacy of Malcolm X and his influence on our freedom fighters.
They will also share information about the upcoming 17th Annual Dinner Tribute to the Families of our Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War. For details go to http://www.mxcc519.org/
Zayid Muhammad is a NY Panther Cub, the founding press officer for the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee and the National Minister of Culture for the New Black Panther Party.
Dequi Kioni-Sadiki is married to POW Sekou Odinga and is active in the struggles against police violence, criminal justice, and women's reproductive rights.
She is a former member of the Black Panther Collective, the NYC Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, and now serves as co-chair of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee.
She currently works with the NYC Jericho Movement in the campaign to free united states political prisoners and prisoners of war. Dequi is an artist, poet, public speaker, educator for liberation and WBAI radio producer.
Author and activist Dan Berger joins us to discuss the case of former Weather Underground member David Gilbert who is serving a 75 year sentence for three counts of felony murder resulting from an attempt to appropriate funds from a Brinks truck to fund revolutionary activity. There is speculation that his long sentence is in part due to David's non-participation in his trial because he did not recognize the authority of the state to try him.
During his period of incarceration, David Gilbert continued his activism helping to set up inmate peer education health programs. He has published book reviews and essays some of which were collected and published under the titled "No Surrender: Writings from an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner (Abraham Guillen Press) in 2004." Dan Berger is a writer, activist, and assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington at Bothell. He writes about race, media, prisons, and American social movements. Berger is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (AK Press, 2006) and co-editor of Letters From Young Activists . His latest book is The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism (Rutgers University Press, 2010). He is currently writing a book called Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era.
