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Herman Wallace: Black Panther, Political Prisoner, Unbroken and (At Last) Unchained
Angola 3 Newsletter, October 13, 2013:
We Speak Your Name
Yesterday, Herman Wallace was laid to rest after a memorial service befitting his liberation roots. New Orleans supporters, friends and family came together to create a magnificent send off for Herman, just the way he wanted it.
As a proud black man who struggled for justice for himself, his comrades, his people and all people, Herman wanted the remembrance to be in a community space and to provide a forum for many of his supporters to speak and most importantly to bring people together. As you'll see from the photos below, it was a memorable occasion. You can also read the statement that Albert Woodfox wrote for Herman, featured below.
Join Amnesty for the second line parade in honor of Herman in New Orleans on Saturday, October 19, at 2:00 pm, starting at St. Augustine Catholic Church, 1210 Governor Nicholls Street, and concluding at the Louisiana Supreme Court, 400 Royal Street.
Rest in peace and in power Herman Wallace – the struggle continues.
Posted in African-Americans, Black Liberation Movement, FBI, Government Repression, History of anti-imperialist/revolutionary movements, Political Prisoners, Prisons, Slavery, torture, U.S.	| Tagged Albert Woodfax, Angola 3, Herman Wallace, Political Prisoners | 1 Comment
"Black Panther Political Prisoner Herman Wallace's Conviction Overturned: Immediate Release Ordered"
Posted on October 1, 2013 by reed
Breaking News! — Tuesday, October 1, 2013
http://angola3news.blogspot.com/2013/10/herman-wallaces-conviction-overturned.html
Read today's court ruling here.Miraculous news this morning! Judge Jackson has overturned Herman's conviction, granting him full habeas relief based on the systematic exclusion of women from the jury in violation of the 14th Amendment.
Even more astonishingly, the Judge clearly orders that "the State immediately release Mr. Wallace from custody." No application for bail is required, and the State is given 30 days to notify Herman if they plan to re-indict him. Continue reading →
Posted in African-Americans, Black Liberation Movement, Government Repression, Political Prisoners, Prisons, Racial Profiling, U.S.	| Tagged Herman Wallace, massive political solidarity, political prisoner, solitary confinement | 2 Comments
Obama Visits Mandela's Old Cell, But Won't Free His Own Political Prisoners
Posted on July 3, 2013 by reed
Tue, 07/02/2013 -— Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
"Obama has no sympathy, however, for political prisoners of any race in his own country."
Barack Obama making a highly-publicised visit to Nelson Mandela's 1980's prison cell on Robben Island
President Barack Obama, a man of infinite cynicism, made a great show of going on pilgrimage to Nelson Mandela's old prison cell on Robben Island, where the future first Black president of South Africa spent 18 of his 27 years of incarceration. With his wife and daughters in tow, Obama said he was "humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down injustice and refused to yield…. No shackles or cells can match the strength of the human spirit," said the chief executive of the unchallenged superpower of mass incarceration, a nation whose population comprises only 5 percent of humanity, but is home to fully one-quarter of the Earth's prison inmates.
True sociopaths, like the commander-in-chief who updates his Kill List every Tuesday, have no sense of shame, much less irony. Obama feigns awe at Mandela's suffering and sacrifice in the prisons of apartheid South Africa, yet presides over a regime that, on any given day, holds 80,000 inmates in the excruciating torture of solitary confinement. During Nelson Mandela's nearly three decades of imprisonment by the white regime, he spent a total of only about one week in solitary confinement. The rest of the time, despite often harsh treatment, backbreaking labor, and unhealthy conditions, Mandela and other political prisoners at Robben Island and other South African jails were typically housed together. Indeed, Mandela and his incarcerated comrades called the prisons their "university," where they taught each other to become the future authorities over their jailers. Continue reading →
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The Louder My Voice the Deeper They Bury Me
Posted on April 11, 2013 by reed
Herman Wallace
Voices from Solitary: The Louder My Voice the Deeper They Bury Me
by Herman Wallace, who has been held in solitary confinement in Louisiana's prison system for almost 41 years, mostly in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola.
A Defined Voice
They removed my whisper from general population
To maximum security I gained a voice
They removed my voice from maximum security
To administrative segregation
My voice gave hope
They removed my voice from administrative segregation
To solitary confinement
My voice became vibration for unity
They removed my voice from solitary confinement
To the Supermax of Camp J
And now they wish to destroy me
I SAID, THE LOUDER MY VOICE THE DEEPER THEY BURY ME!
Free all political prisoners, prisoners of war, prisoner of consciousness.
Click here to listen to Herman Wallace read his poem.
for more about Herman Wallace: http://www.whoishermanwallace.com/
Source: http://solitarywatch.com/2013/04/11/the-louder-my-voice-the-deeper-they-bury-me/
Posted in African-Americans, Black Liberation Movement, Government Repression, Political Prisoners, Prisons, Racism, torture, U.S.	| Tagged administrative segregation, Angola 3, Herman Wallace, political prisoner, Political Prisoners, prisoner of consciousness, prisoners of war, solitary confinement | 1 Comment
Forty years in solitary: two men mark sombre anniversary in Louisiana prison
Herman's House – Trailer – Herman Wallace / Angola 3 Documentary 2012
Published on Mar 19, 2012 by HermansHouseTheFilm
Please sign the Amnesty Int'l petition to end the decades of isolation in Louisiana state prisons http://bit.ly/amnestyactionFor more information about our film please visit the website http://www.hermanshousethefilm.comThere are 2.2 million people in jail in the U.S. More than 80,000 of those are in solitary confinement. New Orleans native Herman Wallace has been there longer than anyone.In 1972, Herman was serving a 25-year sentence for bank robbery when he was accused of murdering an Angola Prison guard and immediately thrown into solitary. Many believed he was wrongfully convicted. Then in 2001 he received a letter from art student Jackie Sumnell, who posed the provocative question:"What kind of house does a man who has lived in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?"An inspired creative dialogue led to a collaborative art project: "The House That Herman Built." The exhibition has brought thousands of gallery visitors around the world face-to-face with the harsh realities of the American prison system.But as Herman's House reveals, the exhibition is just the first step.
Their journey takes an unpredictable turn when Herman asks Jackie to make his dream a reality. As her own finances dwindle, Jackie wonders if she will ever succeed. Meanwhile, the Louisiana courts consider Herman's latest appeal. Along the way we meet former "stick-up kid" Michael Musser; Herman's sister Vickie, a loyal and tireless supporter; and former long-term solitary inmate and fellow Black Panther activist Robert King.
With compassion and meaningful artistry, Herman's House takes us inside the lives and imaginations of two unforgettable characters–forging a friendship and building a dream in the struggle to end the "cruel and unusual punishment" of long-term solitary confinement.
They've spent 23 hours of each day in the last 40 years in a 9ft-by-6ft cell. Now, as human rights groups intensify calls for their release, a documentary provides insight into an isolated life
Ed Pilkington in New York,guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 April 2012
Herman Wallace, left, and Albert Woodfox in Angola prison in Louisiana. Robert King, the third member of the Angola 3, had his conviction overturned and was released in 2001.
"I can make about four steps forward before I touch the door," Herman Wallace says as he describes the cell in which he has lived for the past 40 years. "If I turn an about-face, I'm going to bump into something. I'm used to it, and that's one of the bad things about it."
On Tuesday, Wallace and his friend Albert Woodfox will mark one of the more unusual, and shameful, anniversaries in American penal history. Forty years ago to the day, they were put into solitary confinement in Louisiana's notorious Angola jail. They have been there ever since.
They have spent 23 hours of every one of the past 14,610 days locked in their single-occupancy 9ft-by-6ft cells. Each cell, Amnesty International records, has a toilet, a mattress, sheets, a blanket, pillow and a small bench attached to the wall. Their contact with the world outside the windowless room is limited to the occasional visit and telephone call, "exercise" three times a week in a caged concrete yard, and letters that are opened and read by prison guards.
A new documentary film takes us into that cell, providing rare insight into the personal psychological impact of such prolonged isolation. Herman's House tracks the experiences and thoughts of Wallace as he reflects on four decades banged away in a box.
The film is based on recorded telephone conversations between Wallace and the documentary's director Angad Bhalla. Wallace, a New Orleans native now aged 70, speaks with powerful understatement about his time in solitary.
"Being in a cage for such an extended period of time, it has its downfalls. You may not feel it, you may not know it, you may think you're OK, and you're just perfunctory about it." Continue reading →
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