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	Prison Radio Show - August 8, 2013
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	In our monthly segment on birthdays of North
	American political prisoners, we share with our listeners
	those birthdays which
	are in the month of August. This
	information is obtained from sources in the US. Many
	political prisoners in the
	US
	have languished inside for years, often decades.



	The 38th Prisoner s Justice Day takes place on
	this August 10th. We have a Prisoners Justice Day message
	from
	prisoner Peter Collins, who is incarcerated in Bath
	Prison, in Bath, Ontario.



	Known as the people s lawyer, Lynne Stewart was jailed for
	the 'crime' of defending her client, Sheik Omar Abdel-
	Rahman, also known as the
	blind Sheik. Lynne
	is now a political prisoner and she is dying in prison of
	stage-four cancer. The
	warden where Stewart is incarcerated has approved her
	compassionate release;
	however the Federal Bureau of Prisons has so far refused
	to grant it. We have
	an update on her case including some audio from a
	demonstration on July 31, in
	front of the Federal Court in New York City, demanding
	her release.



	We have some updates on the prisoner hunger strike in
	California which is now into its fifth week. We have
	learned that two prisoners,
	who are presently in solitary confinement in the state of
	North Carolina, have
	joined the hunger strike as of July 16th.



	We have an
	update on the case of political prisoner Herman Wallace
	of the Angola 3 who,
	like Lynne Stewart, is asking for compassionate release
	since he has been
	diagnosed with terminal livercancer.




	Date Published: 2013-10-17 18:46:18
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