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episode 208: The Sundiata Jawanza Freedom Campaign, Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and Jailhouse Lawyering
This episode is focused on the campaign to free Sundiata Jawanza.
Sundiata Jawanza is a New Afrikan, abolitionist and human rights activist currently incarcerated in the South Carolina.
Today we have four guests, Audrey Bomse and Jenipher Jones both co-chairs of the Mass Incarceration Committee of the National Lawyers Guild, Darren Mack of Prison Lives Matter, and Roc, the Jailhouse Lawyers Speak Housing Program Coordinator.
In this discussion J shares a bit about the Sundiata Jawanza’s freedom campaign, a bit about the case itself, and primarily we focus on a political discussion of Sundiata Jawanza’s work in part discussing his individual contributions, but primarily through the political work that he and his comrades have done through Jailhouse Lawyers Speak. As part of that discussion, we also discuss the overall importance of jailhouse lawyers to the legal education and opportunities at freedom and defense of human rights within US prisons.
We want to ask all of our listeners to please get involved, to connect with Sundiata Jawanza, and to support his freedom campaign by writing the parole board on his behalf. Full details on how to do that can be found at SundiataJawanza.com.
To learn more about Jailhouse Lawyers Speak.
People can write JLS by mail at:
JAILHOUSE LAWYERS SPEAK
PO BOX 673
MERCER, PA 16137
Or email jailhouselawyersspeak@protonmail.com or outthemud.jls@gmail.com
Some prior episodes with (or in solidarity with) Jailhouse Lawyers Speak:
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak's 2020 Call To Action
“In The Spirit of Abolition” - Jailhouse Lawyers Speak Calls For Shut ‘Em Down Demonstrations
"Building Infrastructure: Identifying Tactics for Sustainable Formations": A Panel Discussion Supporting Jailhouse Lawyers Speak's #SHUTEMDOWN2021 Demos