Our media-activist project, Angola 3 News, has just released this interview with Theresa Shoatz and Matt Meyer, timed to help publicize the 30-day action campaign launched this month by the Campaign to Free Russell Maroon Shoatz, demanding that Maroon be immediately removed from solitary confinement, wjhere he has now been held continuously for 23 years. As […]
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Friday April 19, 7:30 AM, Angela Davis at African American Museum in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Saturday, April 20, 5-7:00 PM, Jericho Amnesty Movement L.A. chapter meeting: Free Russell Maroon Shoatz, Southern CA Library, 6120 S. Vermont Ave., L.A. Sunday, April 21, 2 PM, Black Panther Alumni fundraiser for Elder Freeman with Kathleen Cleaver, Emory […]
Action Alert – Russell Maroon Shoatz: Call to demand his IMMEDIATE release from solitary confinement! Former Black Panther Russell Maroon Shoatz has been held in torturous conditions of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons for the past thirty years. He has not had a serious rule violation for more than two decades. Maroon’s role as an educator, […]
Greetings friends and comrades, The New Campaign for Russell Maroon Shoats’s Freedom is starting today. Please take the time to read the information Matt Meyers has sent from Maroon’s comittee, and do what ever you can to help bring him home. Thanks Paulette Jericho National Sec. attached is the full organizing packet – though for […]
Maroon by vagabond © Part three of the ongoing documentary web series on US held Black Unity Council, Black Panther and Black Liberation Army soldier Russell Maroon Shoatz. If you missed Parts 1 & 2 you can catch up on the series here… Please feel free to share the web series as the more […]
Russell Maroon Shoatz is a political prisoner who has been held unjustly for over thirty years, including two decades in solitary confinement. He was active as a leader in the Black Liberation Movement in Philadelphia, both above and underground. His successful escapes from maximum-security prisons earned him the title “Maroon.” This is the first published […]
