Political Prisoner Radio w/ Janice Peak-Graham

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Tonight our guest will be Janice Graham, Executive Producer and Host of OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham. We will be discussing the Marissa Alexander case out of Florida.

Guests: Melissa Montero Padilla, Wayland Gray and John Potash

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Melissa Montero Padilla, Wayland Gray & John Potash.

Melissa Montero is an activist  filmmaker from Queens, New York. She’s worked at various networks such as NBC, A&E Television Networks, and HBO. She free-lanced as an Associate Producer working on various productions for television. In 2004 she began working on her documentary," Isabel Rosado: Nationalist". In the fall of 2005, the documentary became a fiscally sponsored project of Women Make Movies. In 2007 she was a fellow at NALIP’s Latino Producer’s Academy. Melissa is the recipient of The Eastman Fund, The Roy W. Dean, Latino Public Broadcasting, La Fundacion Francisco Manrique Cabrera, New York Community Trust and Firelight Media’s Next Step Fund grants. In 2009, she participated NALIP's Media Market. Melissa has a Bachelor of Arts in TV/Video from Hofstra University.  Oscar Lopez Rivera and her work in the Puerto Rican nationalist community..she is working on a film about Isabel Rosado (107 years) a famous Puerto Rican Nationalist.. 

Wayland Gray member of the Oklahoma Muscogee Creek Nation..is returning to discuss an update on his legal case..he along with 3 other men were arrested for protesting against the desecration of Hickory Ground a sacred site in Alabama that now has a casino built on it..http://savehickoryground.org

John Potash did his graduate studies at Columbia University where he concentrated in community organizing. He was founding publisher/editor of Social Justice Action Quarterly a national social work school newspaper that lasted four years and won four honors in the Campus Alternative Journalism Awards. He also received a certification in acupuncture drug treatment at Mutulu Shakur s former clinic, Lincoln Detox, in the Bronx. While mostly working as an addictions counselor, he has published articles (Z, Covert Action, Baltimore Chronicle), poems and short stories.

John is also the author of "The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders" contains a wealth of names, dates and events detailing the use of COINTELPRO style tactics by the FBI against a generation of leftist political leaders and leftist musicians. He has a new book "Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Leftists" set to publish in November 2014. You can pre-order on Amazon.

Political Prisoner Radio is a program that seeks to educate the public on the individual cases of political prisoners and prisoners of war being held by the United States government, many for decades under torturous conditions.

Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Noelle Hanrahan, Anne Lamb and Jenn Murnam

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Dhoruba Bin-Wahad is an author, activist, former political prisoner, former NYC Black Panther Party leader and a co-founder of the Black Liberation Army. After hearing about COINTELPRO, which was run by the F.B.I. with the intent to murder, frame and imprison Black and other leftist leaders, Bin-Wahad filled a lawsuit that led to the release of 300,000 pages of documents regarding COINTELPRO and helped to obtain his release. Recently, Bin-Wahad became a victim of police violence while attempting to move into a new home in Clayton County, Georgia that was videotaped. The taped shows Bin-Wahad sitting on his porch talking with deputies before being snatched up, slammed face first into the brick wall of his home, and wrongly arrested.

Bin-Wahad along with other Clayton County community leaders have formed a group to address the violence he suffered at the hands of deputies and the violence the community suffers at the hands of officers. It was recently discovered that Al Sharpton's National Action Network and the NAACP legal defense arm met with the county Sherriff behind the communities back and held a secret meeting without informing members of the community. We will talk to Dhoruba Bin-Wahad or a member from his camp tonight.

Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio joins us for her second appearance on Political Prisoner Radio. She is most responsible for distributing the commentaries of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. She will share information concerning political prisoner Kevin Rashid Johnson. Johnson is the Minister of Defense of a prison chapter of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, has been held in solitary confinement for decades, and is currently experiencing a medical emergency.

In addition, before we close out the program, we will speak with New York Jericho Chair Anne Lamb and political prisoner advocate Jenn Murnam. They will provide us updates on the parole situation of political prisoners Seth Hayes, Jalil Muntaquim, and Sekou Kambui.

We will hold a moment of silence in recognition of Yuri Kochiyama, the Japanese-American activist who was a victim of America's concentration camps during WWII. She would become a life long activist and was close to the Black liberation movement while living in public housing in New York. It was there that she met Malcolm X. She was present when Malcolm was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom and held his head in her lap as he lay dying from his gun shot wounds.

Ed Poindexter, Mondo we Langa, Abdul "Maumin" Khabir & Fahiym Ali Memorial Fund

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Sis. Tekla Ali of the Jericho National Central Committee and a longtime supporter of the Omaha Two will join us to discuss recent information surrounding the cases of Mondo we Langa and Ed Poindexter, both of whom are widely accepted as victims of COINTELPRO and former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

Joining in later in the broadcast will be Bro. Masai Ehehosi, Bro. Anton Kwatakye Kwame and the sister of Abdul "Maumin" Khabir to speak on his medical condition. Bro. Masai will also address the murder of Fahiym Ali and the passing of Elombe Brath.Check out Fahiym Ali Memorial Fund to make a donation to help the family cover burial costs.