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An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!
The 9 class-war prisoners described below
receive monthly stipends from the PDC.
[Up to date as of September 2026]
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a former
Black Panther Party spokesman, a well-known
supporter of the MOVE organization and an
award-winning journalist known as "the voice of
the voiceless." Framed up for the 1981 killing
of a Philadelphia police officer, Mumia was
sentenced to death explicitly for his political
views. Federal and state courts have repeatedly
refused to consider evidence proving Mumia's
innocence, including the sworn confession of
Arnold Beverly that he, not Mumia, shot and
killed the policeman. In 2011, the Philadelphia
district attorney's office dropped its
longstanding effort to legally lynch Mumia,
condemning him to life in prison with no chance
of parole. Ever since, the state, including Philly's "progressive" D.A. Larry Krasner, has fought tooth and nail to keep Mumia buried in prison for life. Mumia's appeals continue to be denied even after the D.A.'s office discovered six boxes of new exculpatory evidence in 2018. Mumia's health has deteriorated in the past few years, primarily due to medical neglect and poor prison diet, added to his aging.
Leonard Peltier is an
internationally renowned class-war prisoner.
Peltier's incarceration for his activism in the
American Indian Movement has come to symbolize
this country's racist repression of its Native
peoples, the survivors of centuries of genocidal
oppression. Peltier was framed up for the 1975
deaths of two FBI agents marauding in what had
become a war zone on the South Dakota Pine Ridge
Reservation. The lead government attorney has
admitted, "We can't prove who shot those
agents," and the courts have repeatedly denied
Peltier's appeals while acknowledging blatant
prosecutorial misconduct. On January 20, 2025, his life sentences were commuted to home confinement. He still remains in the clutches of the capitalist state, and we continue to fight for his complete freedom.
Benjamin "Champagne" Song, Maricela Rueda, Autumn Hill, Ines Soto, Meagan Morris, and Joy "Rowan" Gibson are six Prairieland defendants, anti-ICE activists convicted in March 2026 of "material support to terrorism," "conspiracy" and other bogus charges. They were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 100 years in prison. This travesty of justice stems from a 4 July 2025 nighttime "noise" protest outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. After Trump issued an executive order declaring "Antifa" a terrorist organization federal prosecutors sought a new indictment falsely charging that the defendants belong to a "North Texas Antifa Cell," to make this a test case for a broader attack on left and labor organizations. Judge Reed O'Connor declared the outrageous sentences were meant to "send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology." The Prairieland case is the front line in the government's war to outlaw protest. It is urgently necessary for the left, anti-deportation activists, trade unionists and all of Trump's perceived enemies to take a stand against this witchhunt. Free the Prairieland Defendants!
(Xinachtli) Alvaro Luna Hernandez
is a Mexican American initially framed up in the
1970s for a murder he did not commit. He was
politicized in prison where he helped lead a
movement for prison reform and became an
effective jailhouse lawyer. Xinachtli spent
nearly a decade in solitary confinement. After
the frame-up was exposed by the
Houston Post, Xinachtli was freed in
1991, but the state continued to target him for
his activism on behalf of Mexican Americans. He
founded the National Movement of La Raza and led
a successful campaign to free Ricardo Aldape
Guerra, a Mexican national framed for killing a
Houston cop, from Texas' death row. In 1996, the
Brewster County Sheriff attempted to arrest him.
When Xinachtli challenged the legality of the
warrantless arrest, the sheriff pulled a gun
compelling him to disarm the sheriff in
self-defense. Xinachtli was railroaded for
"aggravated assault" and outrageously sentenced
to 50 years. He has now been
continually confined in solitary for more than
20 years in Texas dungeons.
Contribute now! This is
not charity but an elementary act of
solidarity with those imprisoned for their
opposition to racist capitalism and
imperialist depredation. Send your
contributions to: PDC, P.O. Box 99, Canal
Street Station, New York, NY 10013; (212)
406-4252.
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