List of Participants

Laura Whitehorn, former anti-imperialist political prisoner

Bill Ayers, educator and former member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Weather Underground

Fred Hampton, Jr., recently released political prisoner

Mutulu Olugabala, also known as M1, organizer and hip hop artist (Dead Prez)

Piri Thomas, author of Down These Means Streets and other books

Bonnie Kerness, from the American Friends Service Committee

Mesai Ehehosi*, former political prisoner

Ben Ramos, from ProLibertad

The NY3 Freedom Campaign

Prison Moratorium Project, NY

Michael Hames-Garcia, professor at SUNY Binghamton, Department of English

Juanita Diaz, professor at SUNY Binghamton, Department of Sociology

William Martin, professor at SUNY Binghamton, Department of Sociology

Ramona Africa, from the MOVE Organization

Reverend Luscius Walker, from IFCO-Pastors for Peace

Corey Finger, union organizer, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 471

Joshua Smith, from the Victory Gardens Project

Kelvin Santiago, professor at SUNY Binghamton, Department of Sociology

Maurice Geiger, from the Rural Justice Center

Donovan Williams, former prisoner

Daniel Meyers, one of the 5 lawyers that represented prisoners after the Attica rebellion

Victoria Law, representing the Missouri Prison Labor Union

Judith Trustone, works with prisoners at Graterford Prison in Pennsylvania

Rosalyn Payne, a family member affected by the prison industrial complex

* Our apologies to Mesai for misspelling his name.