UpFront

Honoring political prisoners Jamil Al-Amin and Leonard Peltier and continuing to fight for their freedom

Imam Jamil Al-Amin and Leonard Peltier, both political prisoners in the U.S.

On this show:

0:08 – Jamil Al-Amin, a political prisoner, imam, former SNCC leader and formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is still serving a life sentence. We hear the latest on his case and his defense from Amir Abdel Malik Ali of the Oakland Islamic Community Center in East Oakland.

0:33 – We re-air our interview from Black August 2019 on the case of indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Larry Hildes is a civil rights lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild and lead counsel for Leonard Peltier.