National Political Prisoner Coalition
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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr's September 2023 indictment charged 61 Stop Cop City defendants with RICO conspiracy — a sweeping racketeering theory that treated movement orga...
Marius Mason — anarchist, environmentalist, trans man, longest-serving Green Scare political prisoner — entered 2024 in his sixteenth year inside on a 21-year-and-10-month federal...
Through 2024, U.S. local prosecutors escalated felony charges against pro-Palestine activists who blockaded weapons-manufacturing facilities across the country — Boeing in Pittsbur...
Ruchell Cinque Magee was released from California state custody on July 19, 2023 after 67 years in prison — making him, at the time of his release, the longest-held political priso...
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the journalist, MOVE supporter, and former Black Panther Party member convicted of the 1981 killing of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, spent all of 20...
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Year Two of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund Prosecution: The State Is Trying to Criminalize Bail Funds
Marlon Kautz, Adele Maclean, and Savannah Patterson — three organizers of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund — entered 2024 fighting state money-laundering and charity-fraud charges over...
Through 2024, U.S. federal and state prosecutors brought a series of charges against U.S.-based participants in the Wet'suwet'en-led resistance to Coastal GasLink — the Canadian fr...
Robert Malecki, the American anti-war activist who destroyed tens of thousands of draft cards during the Vietnam War and then spent more than half a century in exile in Sweden, die...
Daniel Hale, the former Air Force / NSA intelligence analyst whose leak of the Drone Papers documented for the public the actual lethality rate, civilian-casualty rate, and bureauc...
The National Political Prisoner Coalition has launched a billboard campaign in the greater Storrs, Connecticut area demanding that prosecutors drop all charges against the UConn 26...
On Leonard Peltier's 80th birthday, Indigenous nations, allies, and human rights organizations converge on the White House for what may be the last realistic clemency push of the B...
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The Merrimack 4: New Hampshire's Felony Charging of Pro-Palestine Weapons-Manufacturer Blockaders
On November 20, 2023, four pro-Palestine activists blockaded the Merrimack, New Hampshire facility of Elbit Systems of America — the U.S. subsidiary of the Israeli defense contract...