CAN WE DO LESS?
From the National Co-Chair, Jericho Movement
2004
has been a year of much drama and subdued expectations. Several political
prisoners were coming before the federal and state parole boards and there
was a feeling, shared by many, that surely some would be released. On the
average,
those eligible for parole had served in excess of thirty years and certainly
deserved some consideration. Two or three stepped off, but none of the Black
or Native American inmates were among that fortunate group.
Those of us who have been in the struggle around prison issues understand the
racism that permeates this society, and prisons across the country reflect
that fact of life. We must live with the ugly fact that the u.s. government
has literally
resentenced our freedom fighters to death behind the walls.
Proof of this dreadful reality can be seen in the recent
cases of Veronza Bowers, Sundiata Acoli, Jalil Muntaqim, and Marshall Eddie
Conway. All
had accumulated
exemplary records as they approached their almost mandatory release dates.
Those dates came and went and not one of them has stepped beyond the shadow
of his
prison wall. They are being held on some obscure legal technicality that
has no basis in law or common sense. In effect they are being held "hostages"
by
the prison system.
Much of the blame rests on our shoulders for this sorry state of affairs.
Unfortunately, we have yet to mount a community-based support network that
is committed to
bringing our pps home. Other than Mumia Abu Jamal none of these brothers
is well known
outside of a small circle of family members and in some cases a support
group that is too small to bring the type of pressure against the government
that
is necessary to solve this problem.
In a statement written for presentation at the Safiya Bukhari Human
Rights Weekend. Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim speaks to this
need for unified action. "It
is very important that all political activists working in behalf of u.s.
political prisoners understand the strength of our movement depends on
unity of purpose.
Although, it appears that our struggle is too diverse because of the many
different representatives of u.s. political prisoners, we must come to
terms that 'in
unity there is strength'". It can be done. The Puerto Ricans
got their pps out. Assata
is free in Cuba. It doesn't require the brains of rocket scientists to
realize we have got to really begin to think outside the box.
In the meantime the pps are not sitting on their butts waiting
for us to get our act together and bring them home. Many brothers are beginning
to take matters
in their own hands. Abdul Majid has followed up MXCC's April visit to
Albany, N.Y. to demand that state legislators introduce legislation that
will make
New York's archaic parole laws more friendly to pps and other inmates
who are at
the mercy of the capricious parole board.
Baba George Eng, a lifer who has specialized in fighting
through the courts to win some easing of the legal restrictions on the way
inmates
are arbitrarily
treated by prison authorities, has crafted legislation opening up the
opportunity for fair play to inmates who come before the parole board.
Marshall Eddie Conway has pushed to get a resolution before
the Baltimore, Md, City Council that calls for "a Congressional hearing into
the covert
operations of COINTELPRO; the impact of COINTELPRO on the organizations
and individuals
who were victimized over 30 years ago through the obstruction of
their human and civil rights; the impact of the more recently enacted usa
Patriot Act
on organizations and individuals who have come under similar scrutiny
and legal
redress for victims of both of these intrusive operations." He is
struggling to have his resolution adopted as a model for other city councils
and
state lawmaking
bodies.
These are just a few of the brothers behind the wall who are using
every legal means available to them to force a change in their situations
behind
the walls.
The extraordinary discipline this requires is almost unimaginable.
Hours spent in the law library pouring over musty legal books; poor
reproduction
equipment
with which to turn their long months of research into well framed
legal documents numbs the mind. The crafting of these resolutions
and laws
that are designed
to help the full prison population is superimposed on their more
immediate work of writing appeals and motions for their own personal
cases --
a task that would
challenge the physical and mental capacity of the most experienced
legal mind, Yet this work goes on -- unheralded; oftentimes sent
outside the
wall with no
assurance it will be read or acted upon; sustained by the ever present
hope that something will come of their exertions, a spark will be
lit; someone
else will
be motivated to pick up the torch.
Can we do less than these brothers? The numbing monotony
of prison life, the abnormality and unnaturalness of their daily existence
is almost
beyond comprehension.
Yet they soldier on -- refusing to bend or bow to the will of their
captors. CAN WE DO ANY LESS?
For more information call National Jericho:
718-949-3937 or NYC Jericho: 718-220-6004
www.TheJerichoMovement.com
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