Greetings All:
This news article appears to be accurate in giving up
details of this latest development, the release to an outside hospital of
Herman Wallace.
http://www.nola.com/crime/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2013/10/angola_3_herman_wallace_releas_1.html
While I'm certainly pleased that Herman Wallace will
not die in prison, but surrounded by his loved ones on the outside in a public
hospital, I take issue with people saying he's a "free man."
May I remind you of another longtime prisoner of
solitary confinement, Hugo 'Yogi Bear" Pinell (43 years in solitary to
date!) who has written (paraphrasing) they can't free me; that's not freedom
out there. they can only release me; I've found my personal
freedom. And since Yogi goes to board again this month, 10/22,
facing a 15-year hit (thanks to Prop. 9), I hope folks will find the time and
energy to support Yogi's last chance to be with his aging mother in San
Francisco and the rest of his family and friends, myself included.
Let us also not forget to rally around Albert Woodfox,
the last of the Angola 3, still suffering over 40 years of solitary
confinement. Let us make sure he does not wind up suffering a terminal
illness before he's out of there. Demand his immediate release now! www.angola3.org
Then, please don't forget about our Lynne Stewart, who
is terminally ill with cancer and fighting for compassionate release so as not
to die in prison. www.lynnestewart.org
All these tragedies are indicative of a failed prison
system that must be abolished. We need to get a prison abolition movement
going strong to begin to address the punitive mindset of the general public
resulting from this new form of slavery, the new plantation, so clearly
illustrated by Angola State Prison in Louisiana.
We have the power! We are the overwhelming
majority! The tiny fraction of 1% that calls the shots in this
"dollarocracy" is grossly outnumbered. But for our numbers to
count, we must unite!! And that's the hard part.
Power to the people. Abolish the prison system.
Release all political prisoners NOW!
"It
is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression
and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S.
imperialism."
People
of the world, unite!