• PatriciaLevesque

    Solitary confinement scares the hell out of me, when will these films be viewed in MN?  Are there any campaigns in the cities planned?

    • PatriciaLevesque good questions — i will see what i can find out

  • badphairy

    Thank you for continuing to keep this alive. Too many people get locked away and forgotten. Another reason to re-evaluate the cost-benefit equation of solitary.

    • badphairy Amen…good to see your Bad Self…

    • KayWhitlock

      badphairy Hi, badphairy.  Great to see you.

  • Thanks Kay and Nancy for all the support over the last few years and today for featuring our call to action, continuing the Angola 3’s commitment to fighting for everyone’s rights. The movement against solitary confinement has been gaining momentum, and it is important for so many different reasons, including how it exposes the US prison system for what it is: designed to break people, not to rehabilitate or help public safety.

    • Angola 3 News Thsnk you!! for your tireless work.. Yes the movement against solitary is gaining momentum — this case has been an important part of bringing this all to light

    • KayWhitlock

      Angola 3 News A3N, you are intrepid.  And we are making progress.  We are.  And we will never stop until solitary confinement is consigned to the dustheap of history as an illustration of inhumanity – a cautionary note to future generations.

    • The parallels between Guantanamo Bay and Pelican Bay must continue to be high-lighted.. Everywhere

      • nancy a heitzeg  Yes, it does. Another important aspect to the US National Security State’s history of torture that unfortunately does not get reported on much in the context of today’s Guantanamo-related discussions, is the long history of the School of the Americas (SOA) and the broader US sponsorship of torture-using police states throughout Latin America to create good ‘investment climates” for US-based transnational corporations, during the so-called “Cold War,” and through today, under the guise of fighting “drugs” and “terrorism.”
        The mostly faith-based group, “SOA Watch” has doen good work around this for decades.

        • Angola 3 News nancy a heitzeg exactly — one of our late CSJ’s did federal prison time for protesting at SOA
          http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1122-09.htm — rest in power

        • nancy a heitzeg Angola 3 News  Thanks for sharing her story. What is a CSJ?
          Radical Christians have done lots of excellent working documenting the US-sponsored atrocities throughout Latin America. And many know the story of Archbishop Romero who at first was kind of apolitical but got radicalized by the US-funded/armed/trained death squads’ reign of terror, and was eventually assassinated under Jimmy Carter’s presidency in 1979. One of the ARENA death squads favorite slogans was “be a patriot, kill a priest.”

        • Angola 3 News nancy a heitzeg  
          Sisters of St Joseph of Carondolet

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO1bn1qKu7A
    sigh — i have been in Camp J……………….

    • nancy a heitzegYou have been there. Was our interview with you about it the very first one we did with you?
      http://archive.truthout.org/visiting-a-modern-day-slave-plantation57098

      • Angola 3 News nancy a heitzeg Yes it was…that was the second time i was at LSP Angola — been there 5 times..
        Camp J happened a  couple of years ago — not on the regular tour of course.. Pretty horrific — we were just all of a sudden there w/out warning..
        Of course no wants to mention the Angola 3 — very reluctant ot discuss this when asked..

        the visiting area btw is named after Brent Miller :(

        • nancy a heitzeg Angola 3 News  Sounds chilling, but it is good you are able to share the story with people. The following interviews we did were also great, including the two parter we did with Kay.
          Part two of our report from you and you class’ Black Panther history tour should be out soon.

        • Angola 3 News nancy a heitzeg that is great — students and everyone was so appreciative of Part 1 — look forward to it

        • nancy a heitzeg  Great article, including the featured anti-lynching activist journalist Ida B Wells Barnett (wait, you mean white liberal men didn’t invent alternative media ten years ago?)
          How to Convey the Horror?
          These pages are written in no spirit of
          vindictiveness, of all who give the subject consideration must concede
          that far too serious is the condition of that civilized government in
          which the spirit of unrestrained outlawry constantly increases in
          violence, and casts its blight over a continually growing area of
          territory. .. No comment need be made upon a condition of public
          sentiment responsible for such alarming results….
          http://instruct.westvalley.edu/kelly/Distance_Learning/Online_Readings/Wells_Barnett.htm

        • Angola 3 News nancy a heitzeg  
           Ida B.. is the one —

          that quote says it all

  • KayWhitlock

    I know this story, and yet I am heartbroken, sickened, and furious every time I think about what has happened and what continues to happen to these men. 
    Huge thanks to Angola 3 News and to all who will never stop telling the story until some semblance of human decency takes hold and they are released.

    • KayWhitlock yes — the level of Louisianan’s investment in this known fraud and torture is stunning — by any measure

    • KayWhitlock Your comments are similar to this excerpt:
      Although the flame for justice for the Angola 3 continues to burn bright
      these many decades later, words cannot express the profound rage and
      frustration we feel commemorating one more year of Herman and Albert’s
      confinement….
      But, as it continues:
      …But we will not lose hope or forget how much we have already
      accomplished and just how close we are to winning both Herman and
      Albert’s release. Solitary confinement’s daily assault on Herman and
      Albert’s mind, body and spirit has not been able to deter them. Inspired
      by their heroic resilience on the frontlines of the struggle, we too,
      will never give up our fight for their release.

      • KayWhitlock

        Angola 3 News KayWhitlock Amen.  A million times amen.

  • Thank you as always Angola 3 News!
    41 years — hard to believe.. May the latest actions bring an end to this nightmare at last

    • KayWhitlock

      nancy a heitzeg Appreciate “take action” links.  I just signed.