There are many more people who we could add to this list. Fighting for the freedom of our Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War has been a major priority of our movement for fifty years now. We can never forget about our freedom fighters who languish behind the walls. In fact, we must amplify our demands for their immediate release. The united states empire continues to hypocritically claim that other nations are human rights abusers while imprisoning more people than anyone else in the world and keeping people who actually fought for human rights locked up indefinitely. We must point out this contradiction before the whole world but especially here within the belly of the beast. The call remains the same: Free ‘Em All!!

DAVID GILBERT Nyeusi Jami “The starting point for me is identifying with other people. That solidarity, that tenderness, mandates standing with the oppressed—the vast majority—against the power structure…The Civil Rights Movement also showed me more of a sense of humanity and nobility of purpose than I found in the white suburbs where I grew up.”

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Born in 1944, David Gilbert grew up in a middle class Jewish family in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. He was deeply impacted by the news of the burgeoning sit-in movement, and the realities of racism, in his teens. At the age of 17, he joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Later that year, he entered Columbia University in New York City.

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