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--Angola 3 News is a new project of the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3. Their website is www.angola3news.com where we provide the latest news about the Angola 3. We are also creating our own media projects, which spotlight the issues central to the story of the Angola 3, like racism, repression, prisons, human rights, solitary confinement as torture, and more.

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Guest: The Inspiring Life of Eddy Zheng – A Bay Area Community Leader Facing Deportation – A Video Interview with Ben Wang

By Angola 3 News Guest Commentator

This video is an Angola 3 News interview with filmmaker Ben Wang, focused largely on the book by and about Asian American prisoners that he co-edited with Chinese American community leader Eddy Zheng, published in 2007 and the issues presented in the book. Below is the video trailer from the latest film by Ben Wang…

This video is an Angola 3 News interview with filmmaker Ben Wang, focused largely on the book by and about Asian American prisoners that he co-edited…

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May 13, 1985 – MOVE And the Legalization of Murder

By Angola 3 News Guest Commentator

On May 13, 1985, a State Police helicopter dropped a C-4 bomb, illegally supplied by the FBI, on the roof of the MOVE Organization’s house at 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia. The bomb started a fire that was allowed to burn, and eventually destroyed 61 homes, leaving 250 people homeless: the entire block of…

On May 13, 1985, a State Police helicopter dropped a C-4 bomb, illegally supplied by the FBI, on the roof of the MOVE Organization’s house at…

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COINTELPRO and the Omaha Two –An interview with Michael Richardson

By Angola 3 News Guest Commentator

In 2007, veteran journalist Michael Richardson began writing a series of articles for OpEdNews.com about Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, who are two Black Panther political prisoners known as the Omaha Two. Richardson argues that they were framed for the 1970 murder of a policeman as part of the FBI’s notorious counterintelligence program, dubbed…

In 2007, veteran journalist Michael Richardson began writing a series of articles for OpEdNews.com about Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, who are two Black Panther…

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The Jena Generation – An interview with Jordan Flaherty

By Angola 3 News Guest Commentator

Jordan Flaherty is a journalist, an editor of Left Turn Magazine, and a staffer with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring the story of the Jena Six to a national audience and audiences around the world have seen the television reports he’s produced for Al-Jazeera, TeleSur, GritTV, and Democracy Now.…

Jordan Flaherty is a journalist, an editor of Left Turn Magazine, and a staffer with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring…

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