Update on Imam Jamil Al-Amin w/ Nancy Lockhart

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We were pleased to welcome activist and legal analyst Nancy Lockhart to the program. Nancy has been involved in efforts on the behalf of political prisoner Jamil Al-Amin formerly known as H Rap Brown. We will give you the latest update with his status and Nancy will share with us how she came to know him. She will also share information on a case she is currently working on behalf of a family in Georgia where a young Black man, Damien Wicks was convicted of a crime with no evidence and sentenced by a judge who made inappropriate comments to 40 years in prison. We will also share updates on upcoming events on the behalf of political prisoners.

We Need A New People's Army

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Tonight we will be discussing a piece written by Zak Brown days after the rebellions in Ferguson kicked off and the need to create a clandestine People's Army to combat police murdering members of the community and allowed to get away with those murders.

Will also have an urgent update to share about political prisoner Jamil Al-Amin also known as H Rap Brown who was a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and later the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

43rd anniversary of the historic Attica Prison Rebellion

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This weekend marks the 43rd anniversary of the historic Attica Prison Rebellion and tonight will share our thoughts and reports on the historic event when prisoners in New Yorks Attica prison of all ethnicities and religions stood together to protest the inhumane conditions they were forced to endure. We will also share a few updates on related political prisoner and other news.

UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls out USA on political prisoners

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Tonight we will welcome human rights activist Efia Nwangaza and Jihad Abdul-Mumit. Jihad Abdul-Mumit, a former political prisoner, is the National Chairperson of The Jericho Movement, which filed a complaint about political prisoners in the United States with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination at the United Nations. The Jericho Movement identified nineteen former members of the Black Panthers remain in prison following unfair trials who were targeted by the FBI's illegal counter-intelligence program which worked with law enforcement agencies across the country and police departments to assassinate, discredit and/or frame members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

The Jericho Movement also sponsored the trip of Efia Nwangaza who submitted a report to the UN Committee on behalf of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination.

Demonstrators have restarted their protests in Ferguson, Missouri in connection to the murder of Michael Brown by Ferguson cop Darren Wilson. Some of those demonstration announced that this is the beginning of a new human rights revolution in the United States.