We Demand an End to the Colonial Court and Prison Systems which have the Majority of African Men Incarcerated, on Probation or Parole, and the Immediate Release of all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War.

7. We Demand an End to the Colonial Court and Prison Systems which have the Majority of African Men Incarcerated, on Probation or Parole, and the Immediate Release of all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. We demand an end to the US colonial concentration camps which are used to criminalize and control the entire African population, keeping them oppressed and colonized. We recognize that as US colonial subjects all African workers in prison are political prisoners.

The US colonial prison system, with a prison rate for African men five times higher than South Africa’s, is a key component of the counterinsurgency. This attack is intensifying through the Crime Bill and current wave of “three strikes you’re out” legislation being passed in almost every state, as well as laws that give the death penalty to African children and countless other laws designed solely to attack, suppress and imprison the entire African population.

We denounce the torture, killings and degradation that Africans face in prison, as well as the slave labor worth billions of dollars to the colonial US economy that our people are forced to produce. We recognize that this slave labor and genocide against African people benefits the parasitic white power system and the white population, and is an underlying reason for the high incidents of imprisonment of African men, up to 70% of whom have been incarcerated during their lives.

We also denounce the wide spread tactics of house arrest and electronic “bracelets,” as well as mandatory death sentences, behavior modification units and massive lockdowns used to break down and kill African men and to commit genocide against the entire African community.

In addition, we demand the release of African political prisoners, prisoners of war and prisoners of conscience such as Sundiata Acoli, Mumia Abdul-Jamal, H. Rap Brown and others. The US government has no right to hold captive the courageous sons and daughters of Africa who through their patriotic deeds and struggle of defense of the national democratic rights of the African community have become political prisoners and prisoners of war. We believe, along with the majority of the people’s of the world, that it is the duty of colonized and enslaved African people to fight for freedom and liberation, and that those who do so are heroes and heroines and should be held in the highest esteem.

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