These two video’s were made by the Santa Clara Green Party, of speeches and the march in San Jose, for the Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March in Solidarity, August 19th, 2017:
“California Prison Focus with Rise Up for Justice organize a sister march, Millions for Prisoners Human Rights, a new Abolitionist Movement in San Jose, CA on 8/19/17. Co-Sponsored by the Green Party.”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByWc8GerU1U]
We hope that the movement to abolish legal slavery will from now on be on the agenda’s of those who are supposed to represent the people in the U.S.A., but we know a lot still has to be done.
Amend The 13th also has pilot plans to build stronger, more vibrant and resourceful communities, so that prisons will become obsolete. In the near future, we need help, volunteers, to build this new society together.
You can sign our petition too, if you haven’t already:
https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-the-members-of-the-u-s-congress-to-abolish-legal-slavery-in-america
Thank you so much!
Link to Heshima’s speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByWc8GerU1U
Link (in Dutch) to well-read progressive Dutch Newsblog ‘Krapuul’ about the 13th Amendment:
http://www.krapuul.nl/wereld/elders/amerika/noord/usa/2656291/schaf-de-slavernij-in-de-vs-af/
Join us and let’s make a better society with all, for all!
From the additional text accompanying this video with Robert King:
“Robert Hillary King was the opening speaker for the inaugural TEDx Alcatraz. In this talk, “Alone,” King takes us inside the mind of someone wrongly convicted of a crime, the consequence of which was an unfathomable 29 years of solitary confinement in Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. Arrested as a member of the Black Panther Party in the 1960’s, he quietly reflects, “I was going to be in prison, but wasn’t going to let prison be in me.” In this talk, King shares parallels between modern prison and African-American slavery of centuries before. Upon his release, he vowed that while he is free from Angola, Angola will never be free of him. Robert King has been featured in numerous print, media and film articles and interviews worldwide including CNN, National Public Radio, NBC and the BBC, as well as two films, Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation and Land of the Free.”
This is a video in which Robert King, one of the Angola 3, speaks on the prison-industrial slave complex in prisons in the USA. Robert King and Albert Woodfox have endorsed the Amend The 13th Movement. They know what it means, and how important it is to speak up on abolishing slavery for everyone, no exceptions.
