Kudos to the remarkable creative energy that has kept the Angola 3 beautifully visible in so many ways. The efforts of Bondage for Freedom, artists Jackie Sumell in the U.S. and Carrie Richards in the U.K., graphic designer Maria Hinds, and a host of provocative interviews by our new Angola 3 News project are all featured below. As we continue to wait for the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on the lower US District Court's overturning of Albert's conviction and for the wheels to start turning in the federal review process for Herman, we are uplifted by the brilliance of talent and inspiration used to make the travesty of this injustice visible to the world.In the spirit of the season and the spirit of justice, we hope that many of our supporters will raise their voices for Leonard Peltier once again. See the action alert for Leonard below.
Zerofee Wins Eye Magazine Award
Congratulations to the London based studio, Zerofee, for the award given to their entry project entitled "None of us are free: The Angola 3broadsheet." The Zerofee website explains:
A blogger in the UK named Lauren Pope writes:
I must have walked up and down this street hundreds, if not thousands, of times since I moved to Brighton, but the other day I noticed something I'd never seen before. Low down, at street level, just below the window frame of an emptyshop, there's a little plaque, positioned so you have to bend down to read it.
It says 'Who is Herman Wallace?'
Read the full article here.
Herman Wallace Birthday Event in New Orleans
Angola 3 supporters in New Orleans set up a slide show with cupcakes and information to commemorate Herman's 37th Birthday in solitary confinement. The slide show was projected out into the street. Passersby, and on occasion, driversby were welcome to a handmade cupcake decorated with "37/68" and information on the Angola 3.
View the photos here.
Angola 3 Postcards
Longtime Angola 3 supporters Jackie Sumell of House that Herman Built fame and Maria Hinds, graphic designer extraordinaire, created these cards last year and they're available to download and use and share and send!
Download the cards here.
New Video Interviews with Emory Douglas and Colonel Nyati Bolt
Our new project Angola 3 News has released two new video interviews. Our exciting new video series is just getting started. Along with the story of the Angola 3, we are also focusing on all the issues central to their story, like racism, repression, prisons, human rights, solitary confinement as torture, and more. There is much more to come, so please stay tuned at www.angola3news.com and at our You Tube page for the very latest. If you have any advice for good websites to post our videos on, please write with your suggestion to: angola3news@gmail.com
Interview with Emory Douglas: The Angola 3, the Prison-Industrial Complex, and Abolishing Solitary Confinement
Emory Douglas first served as the art director for the Black Panther Party's newspaper, and later served as Minister of Culture until 1980. Throughout these years, Douglas' iconic artwork was published in the BPP newspaper and beyond. His artwork is featured in the new book entitled "Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas." For more information about Douglas, please click here.
Douglas was interviewed in San Francisco by Angola 3 News in October 2009. This is the first segment of our interview to be released. In this segment, Douglas speaks about the Angola 3, the prison-industrial complex, and abolishing solitary confinement.
Watch the video and read the full article here.
The Assassination of George Jackson -- an interview with Colonel Nyati Bolt
This new interview features Colonel Nyati Bolt, who was an inmate at California's San Quentin Prison at the same time as George Jackson (Sept. 23, 1941 - Aug. 21, 1971), the legendary Black Panther Party Field Marshal, and author of two books written behind bars: Soledad Brother and Blood In My Eye. The story of George Jackson and his legacy today will be the focus of many of our upcoming videos.
Stay tuned for part two of our interview with Bolt, talking about his experience later at Angola.
Angola 3 News interviews author/activist Victoria Law
Victoria Law is a longtime prison activist and the author of the new book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press), which was recently reviewed at Alternet. In this interview, Law talks specifically about how women are affected by solitary confinement and other forms of torture in US prisons, and what women are doing to fight back. Exposing solitary confinement as torture has been the focus of recent campaigns in Maine, Pennsylvania, and around the US.
Read the full interview here.
December 4 Will Mark 40th Anniversary of the Murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark
The SF Bay View Newspaper announces that November 7-13:
Prisoners of Conscience Committee Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. will be hitting Northern Cali with the "You Can Kill a Revolutionary But You Can't Kill the Revolution" tour to talk about the 40th anniversary of the assassination of his father, Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton of the Illinois Black Panther Party, and his comrade, Defense Captain Mark Clark, by the U.S. government on Dec. 4, 1969, on the West Side of Chicago. He will be aided in his mission by former Minister of Culture Emory Douglas and Elbert "Big Man" Howard, formerly of the Black Panther Party, Boots from the Street Sweepers Social Club and the rap group the Coup, Hip Hop journalist Davey D, and Queen Nandi from Poor News Network.
Read more here.
New Book Chronicles the Legal Battle to Expose the Murders:
On November 1, Lawrence Hill released the explosive new book entitled The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther, by Jeffrey Haas. A review of Haas' book is featured at the Toward Freedom news website.
On the morning of December 4, 1969, lawyer Jeffrey Haas received a call from his partner at the People's Law Office, informing him that early that morning Chicago police had raided the apartment of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton at 2337 West Monroe Street in Chicago. Tragically, Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark had both been shot dead, and four other Panthers in the apartment had critical gunshot wounds. Police were uninjured and had fired their guns 90-99 times. Throughout the assault Hampton had remained unconscious (strong evidence emerged later that a paid FBI informant had given Hampton a sedative that prevented him from waking up) and after police forced his 8-month pregnant fiancee, Deborah Johnson, out of the bedroom, two officers entered the room where Hampton still lay unconscious. Johnson heard one officer ask, "Is he still alive?" After two gunshots were fired inside the room, the other officer said, "He's good and dead now."
Read the full article here.
This Week! Tell The White House That We Support Leonard Peltier!
Please call Obama several times this week and ask for clemency for Peltier. If you can't make it to D.C. to march and lobby for Leonard on Thursday, November 5, it is vitally important that you call in and voice support for Leonard before Thursday, on Thursday, and even after Thursday!!!!!!! This is not the time to be quiet, it is time to act - and right now.
Take action here.
Albert & Herman
Herman Wallace
#76759
Elayn Hunt Correctional Center
Unit 5, D-Tier
PO Box 174
St Gabriel, LA 70776
Albert Woodfox
#72148
CCR, Lower A5
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Angola, LA 70712
#76759
Elayn Hunt Correctional Center
Unit 5, D-Tier
PO Box 174
St Gabriel, LA 70776
Albert Woodfox
#72148
CCR, Lower A5
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Angola, LA 70712
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