According to supportdaniel.org, Daniel McGowan is an environmental and social justice activist from New York City. He was charged in federal court on counts of arson, property destruction and conspiracy, all relating to two actions in Oregon in 2001. Following his arrest, Daniel was offered two choices by the government: cooperate by informing on other people, or go to trial and potentially spend the rest of his life in prison. His only real option was to plead not guilty until he could reach a resolution of the case that permitted him to honor his principles. After many months of litigation and negotiation, Daniel was able to admit to his role in these two incidents, while not implicating or identifying any other people who might have been involved.
Our guest tonight is Leslie Pickering former Earth Liberation Front spokesperson and owner of Burning Books in Buffalo, NY. According to the website lesliejamespickering.com, Leslie James Pickering was a Founder and Spokesperson for the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office, serving with the organization from early 2000 until the summer of 2002.
During this period the Press Office sustained two raids by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and local law enforcement agencies, responded to over a half dozen grand jury subpoenas, conducted public presentations, produced booklets, newspapers, magazines, and a video on the Earth Liberation Front and handled the public release of communiqués for dozens of the most vital Earth Liberation Front actions.
"I don’t think that slow progress is going to do it, though. This isn’t a quality-of-life issue that we’re dealing with, the environment. It’s not something that we can pretend will be solved with our nonprofit, tax-deductible donations. This is a global catastrophe, and if we don’t act accordingly, the planet’s going to be dead. It’s not going to matter how uncomfortable we are with arson, or sabotage, or property destruction, or violent revolution, when the planet is dead. It’s not going to matter." - Leslie James Pickering
Iranian activist Navid Nasr has worked in radio for over 12 years and is now a full time activist. His primary focus is on Imperialism/Foreign policy and the US criminal injustice system.
We have to get his thoughts on the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemnation of the Boston Marathon attacks while calling attention to the foreign policy of the United States.
The hunger strike protests by prisoners of war held in Guantanamo Bay facilities located on the Island of Cuba, alleging torture and other human rights violations.
We will ask his opinion on the United States government's "Drug War" and how it relates to mass incarceration and re enslavement.
Navid is the former co-host of "Your World News" radio program on We Act Radio and he is the current host of "Bullet Points" on "Voices of the 99 Percent Radio".
Political Prisoner Radio recently celebrated its 1 year of existence helping to bring information on our Political Prisoners to the masses. Inviting great guests from great organizations advocating for the release of the victims of COINTELPRO and US oppression of leftist movements. We have talked to those who are former political prisoners but still working to bring about justice and resist oppression in all its forms. Tonight we will hear from two ladies, Sis. Ameejill Whitlock and Sis. Marpessa, who have been a very important part of the program.
Guest Kali Akuno, a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement joins us tonight to discuss Every 36 Hours: Advancing the Organizing Drive for a Peoples’ National Plan of Action for Racial Justice and Self-Determination. Since MXGM issued its report last year on the extra-judicial killing of Black people by law enforcement, security guards and vigilantes every 36 hours, the slaughter has continued unabated. However, if any change is going to come, MXGM says that it will have to initiated by the oppressed.
Bro. Akuno blogs at Navigating the Storm and he is an "Organizer, Agitator, and trying to be an Organic Intellectual".
Bro. Lorenzo "Kom'boa" Ervin makes his second appearance tonight on Political Prisoner Radio. Bro. Ervin is a former political prisoner, former Black Panther, long-time Black anarchist organizer, author, and was recently involved in a counter protest against Police and the KKK which has received no national media coverage.
"1,200 primarily Black protesters rally against the Ku Klux Klan in the largest civil rights demonstration in the state of Tennessee since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, jr. in 1968 in Memphis. Yet, there is no mention in any news articles of this protest, in a deliberation cover-up by corporate controlled media. Send letters of complaint to: letters@nytimes.com, to demand that they report *all the facts, and not erase this mass people's protest against white supremacy." - Lorenzo "Kom'boa" Ervin.
Bro. Ervin also believes the Memphis NAACP Chapter President should resign for siding with the Klan to keep public parks named after Nathan Bedford Forrest and working as a paid consultant for the Memphis police which is linked to many shootings and in custody deaths of Black people.
