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Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears End
Peppe, Matt
http://dissidentvoice.org/2017/01/political-prisoners-remain-behind-bars-as-obamas-term-nears-end/Date Written: 2017-02-12 Publisher: Dissident Voice Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20331 In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen. Abstract: - Excerpt: Many journalists working in the American mainstream media see themselves as being on the same team as their own government, safely staying on the side of U.S. power by acting as a mouthpiece to promote the government's own narrative and only opposing those countries and leaders that the U.S. government declares adversaries. As the corporate press refuses to acknowledge that the U.S. has political prisoners, it is left to grassroots groups to demand justice. Recently, separate petitions calling for clemency for López Rivera and Peltier were created through the White House's We the People web site, where citizen petitions that receive 100,000 signatures receive a response from the White House. Subject Headings |