Campaigns

Some campaigns & projects well worth supporting….

Angola 3
The Angola 3 are Herman Wallace & Albert Woodfox, who have spent nearly 38 years in solitary serving life sentences in Angola for the alleged murder of Brent Miller, a white correctional officer. (Robert Hillary KingĀ  was freed in 2001 after 29 years in solitary).

Assembly for Solidarity (Athens, Greece)
The assembly for solidarity with prisoners in Greece meets regularly in Athens (Greek website). Updates on prisoners, including prison address info, can usually be found in English at Solidarity fund for prisoners in struggle. Letters & communiques from prisoners, along with other anti-state Greek news in English, can be found at Act For Freedom Now.

Bent Bars
The Bent Bars Project is a new letter-writing project for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, gender-variant, intersex, and queer prisoners in Britain.

Bristol Defendant Solidarity
Legal, defendant and prisoner support for people arrested during and after the Stokes Croft riots in April 2011.

Cage Prisoners
Cageprisoners Ltd is a human rights organisation that raises awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror.

Community Action on Prison Expansion
A network of campaign groups resisting prison & detention centre expansion in the UK, including the mega-prison in North Wales.

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