Back from Ferguson activists Rosa Clemente & Russell Shoats III

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Rosa Clemente, an activist and former Green Party VP candidate will speak to us about the police terrorism she and others suffered while protesting in Ferguson, Missouri on August 20,2014. She told Ebony online that "officers swooped in on us from all directions and locked us down. The threats, their eyes, postures, weaponry said it all: "We have the power, we don’t care how many cameras there are, we can do what we want and we will never have to be held accountable."

Russell Shoatz III speaks with us tonight about his father Russell Maroon Shoatz who is a political prisoner currently being tortured in prison after being convicted in a Kangaroo trial for killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1970. The Philadelphia police was notorious for its abuse of Black people in the city and worked directly directly with the FBI in its illegal COINTELPRO activities to frame, murder and otherwise eliminated members of Black liberation groups and others.

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Russell Maroon Shoatz was a community activist, a founding member of the Black Unity Council, a former member of the Black Panther Party and soldier in the Black Liberation Army. He has been held in solitary confinement since 1991 depsite a clean prison record and the United Nations designation that solitary confinement is a from of toruture. In 2013 Shoatz file a lawsuit in federal court demanding an end to solitary confinement. Read more at http://russellmaroonshoats.wordpress.com/

Ferguson’s political prisoners and police killings

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Tonight we will address the situation on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri sparked by the murder of Black teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson over a week ago. The murder and the inappropriate response by the police has sparked mass protests which was equally inappropriately responded to by the police. These conditions are creating political prisoners in Ferguson as we speak.

We will also be joined by family members and activists to discuss police murders in their communities.

Tawanda Jones will discuss the murder by cops of her brother Tyrone West. David Ortiz of AIM and Melissa Goodblanket will join us to discuss the murder of her son Mah hi vist GoodBlanket by cops.

History of Revolutionary Young Lords Party

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Tonight we are discussing the history of the Young Lords Party which started out as a Puerto Rican street youth gang as protection from violent racist attacks in white neighborhoods and police oppression. The street gang would evolve into a revolutionary Puerto Rican nationalist group that partnered with the Black Panther Party and worked in solidarity within communities of non-white people to administer survival programs for the poor. The organization like most of its time, fell victim to the FBI's illegal COINTELPRO. 

Political Prisoner Radio Weekly 8/3/2014

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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. It features former political prisoners, advocates, family members and organizations work to free these individuals. The program often discusses the historical political repression and social conditions that existed and still exist within the United States of America.