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Notes from the Unrepenitentiary
Pick up your trumpet, raise your voice: it's time to make noise. 1998 will see two important efforts to win the release of all u.s.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war. These efforts need the support of all justice loving people, all those who stand against the ever increasing repression …
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More from Laura Whitehorn:
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- Book Review: Breaking the Walls of Silence, Feb. 15, 1999
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- Prisoner Literacy Obscure & Outdated, Nov. 15, 1997
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