Zakiya Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Parent Advocate and Executive Director of Racial Justice NOW

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Zakiya Zakiya Sankara-Jabar is a Parent Advocate and Executive Director of Racial Justice NOW! Racial Justice NOW! (RJN) is a community based organization made up of educators, parents, youth, clergy, and grassroots activists. RJN is dedicated to fighting institutional and systemic racism. By focusing on human rights, RJN seeks to empower other grassroots activists to challenge systemic racism by organizing and holding people in power accountable. Through her advocacy at RJN! Zakiya trains and acts as an advocate on behalf of other parents at suspension and expulsion hearings and at IEP meetings.

In addition, Zakiya does policy work at the local and state level pushing for systemic changes in school discipline codes of conduct and state law changes around “zero-tolerance”. Zakiya is also a Co-Chair of the Dignity in Schools in Campaign which is a national coalition of youth, parents, educators, lawyers and advocates working to ensure children are treated with dignity and fairness in schools.

As we focus on Ohio tonight, we want to remind people that the two remaining members of the United Freedom Front who were also known as the Ohio 7, are still in prison. Those two political prisoners are Tom Manning and Jaan Laaman.

 During the second segment we will speak with Russell Shoatz III about his father and political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz. There are no political prisoner birthdays this week.

The Omaha Two & Mumia Abu-Jamal Health Update w/ Noelle Harrahan

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This week we have one political prisoner birthday. One half of the two revolitionairies known as The Omaha Two, Mondo we Langa, then David Rice, will spend one more birth date unjustly inprisoned by the state of Nebraska. Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa (formerly known as David Rice) was born in Omaha on May 21,1947. He has been a political prisoner in the Nebraska State Penitentiary since 1970.

5-17-2015 4-25-12 PMMonda we Langa along with his co-defendant Ed Poindexter were framed by FBI COINTELPRO operations to frame, discredit and murder activists, particularly those engaged in the Black power movements of the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's with the assistance of local and state police departments around the country.

During the second segment, we will get an update on the health of political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal from Noelle Harahan, director of Prison Radio, which produces pieces from inmates by going into prisons and via phone. We will ask her about the recent ruling by a federal judge to strike down Pennsylvania's “Revictimization Relief Act,” aka Silence Mumia Act.

Armed resistance to racist violence is to engage in self respect

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Armed resistance to racist violence is to engage in self respect. Happy Birthday to Political Prisoner Alvaro Luna Hernandez. Political Prisoner Radio is live every Sunday and it 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.