The White North American Political Prisoners in the U.S. — Rita "Bo" Brown speech (Oct 3, 1992)

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Speech delivered by former George Jackson Brigade member Rita "Bo" Brown at the International Tribunal on October 3, 1992, surveying nearly thirty-five white North American political prisoners then held in U.S. prisons and jails. Brown — herself an 8.5-year veteran of federal women's prisons including the Davis Hall control unit at Alderson, held alongside Assata Shakur — names the Ohio 7 (Levasseur, Manning, Laaman, Carol Manning, Williams, Curzi, Gros), the Brink's defendants (Clark, Gilbert, Boudin, Buck), the Resistance Conspiracy defendants (Rosenberg, Blunk, Berkman, Whitehorn, Evans, Buck), the George Jackson Brigade (Cook, Mead), anti-authoritarians (Dunne, Giddings, Picariello), Plowshares (Lumsdaine, Kjoller), Sanctuary defendants, draft resister Gillam Kerley, Italian POW Silvia Baraldini, and the nine Irish Republican prisoners. Documents the use of control-unit prisons (Marion, Lexington, Marianna), preventative detention, sentencing disparities (Linda Evans got 40 years for buying weapons with false ID — longer than the KKK Dominica-invasion sentence), and medical neglect.