Thursday, April 7, 2011

Robert H. King on the Angola 3 and His Autobiography, "From the Bottom of the Heap"



Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, November 28, 2008.

Our guest, Robert Hillary King, (aka Robert King Wilkerson), one of the "Angola Three" (members of a prison chapter of the Black Panther Party), along with Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, was serving a life sentence at Angola State Penitentiary. In February 2001, after 31 years of imprisonment and 29 continuous years of solitary confinement, King walked out of the gates of Angola a free man. King continues to struggle for the release of his comrades and all political prisoners. He has also written a book, From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King, with an introduction by Terry Kupers, M.D., M.S.P. (PM Press).

For more information, visit www.kingsfreelines.com, www.angola3.org, and www.angola3news.com

(This show begins with commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal)

RELATED ARTICLE: The Case of the Angola 3 --A review of the new film “In The Land of the Free...” (Nov. 22, 2010)

Pierre Labossiere on Haitian Disasters & Ramshackle Infrastructure



Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, November 21, 2008.

Pierre Labossiere, a Haitian national, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, has been a long-time social-justice activist and advocate for the Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, currently exiled in South Africa. Pierre has also been active in the campaigns to free political prisoners in Haiti and the U.S.

Learn more at: www.haitisolidarity.net and www.haitiemergencyrelief.org

(This show begins with commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal)

RELATED EPISODES: Pierre Labossiere: Revolutionary Haitian History (Oct. 12, 2007), Pierre Labossiere: The Kidnap & Exile of President Aristide (March 14, 2008), Pierre Labossiere on Haiti's 2008 Hurricanes (Sept. 19, 2008), Pierre Labossiere: Haiti's Heroic History (Aug. 14, 2009), Emiliano Echeverria & Pierre Labossiere: Coups in Honduras and Haiti (Oct. 23, 2009), Pierre Labossiere on the Disastrous Response to Haiti's Earthquake (July 23, 2010)