Join Albert Woodfox In Court
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on May 10, 2012
Topic :Human_rights
Albert Woodfox’s conviction has been overturned twice yet he remains in solitary confinement. An evidentiary hearing in Albert’s criminal case will be held at Baton Route Courthouse on Tuesday 29th May – this could lead to his release. Please join the Angola 3 Campaign at the courtroom in solidarity.
WOODFOX V. FOTI ET AL - Evidentiary Hearing Before Judge Brady
WHEN: Tuesday 29th May 2012, 9am – 10am
WHERE: 77 Florida St, Baton Rouge, 70801
Gross And Illegal Sweatshop Conditions – Update
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on May 8, 2012
Topic :Human_rights
On the 15th March we alerted you to Arcadia Group’s British Homes Stores’ label being made at the Chinese-owned Rosita and Megatex factories in North Bengal in Bangladesh and that every single labour law in Bangladesh was being blatantly violated in these factories – as well as the workers rights. The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights (IGLHR), who are tirelessly working to get these factories cleaned up and the legal rights of the workers protected, have sent us an update on their work which they wanted us to share with all of our networks:
For the last several months, we have travelled back and forth to Bangladesh to confront some of Europe’s and Australia’s most prominent retailers—including British Home Stores. They have excellent codes of conduct, which have for years been useless in assuring the rights of the workers. In fact, the high end retailers handed over their production, lock, stock and barrel, to the secretive South Ocean Group—(they do not even have a website)—which is one of the world’s largest knitwear manufacturers. South Ocean in turn, sent production to the Rosita and Megatex factories, located in the North Bengal region of Bangladesh.
Own Up And Pay Up Shell!
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on May 1, 2012
Topic :Human_rights
Anita, Gordon and The Body Shop were campaigning against Shell 20 years ago, after Anita became aware of the plight of the Ogoni people through the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation.
Please support Amnesty International’s campaign ‘Shell: Own Up and Pay Up to Clear Up the Niger Delta’ – it only takes a few minutes to complete the online action – and let’s push for Shell to start cleaning up its act! Oh and let’s boycott Shell products too – hit them where it hurts, in their pockets!
Watch Angola 3 Story On Democracy Now
Posted By Anita Roddick Team on April 19, 2012
Topic :Human_rights
On Tuesday, the 40th year that Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have spent in solitary confinement, Democracy Now aired their story along with guests – Robert King (the released member of the Angola 3) and Everett Thompson (Southern Regional Director of Amnesty International USA). We urge you to watch this show!!
Angola 3 In Today’s Guardian
Posted By Anita Roddick Team on April 17, 2012
Topic :Human_rights
Below is the article published in today’s Guardian on the Angola 3 – the most viewed article in the ‘World News’ section in the last 24 hours – above Anders Behring Breivik’s trial coverage:
Black Panthers’ 40 Years in solitary Louisiana prisoners believe life of isolation is payback for civil rights activism
Ed Pilkington, New York, Guardian
“I can make about four steps forward before I touch the door,” Herman Wallace says as he describes the cell in which he has lived for the past 40 years. “If I turn an about-face, I’m going to bump into something. I’m used to it, and that’s one of the bad things about it.”
