Spirit of Mandela
Spirit of Mandela is a campaign to bring international attention to U.S. violations of the human rights of Black, Brown, and Indigenous People and U.S. held political prisoners.
ABOUT US
We are a coalition currently consisting of several organizations including (list in formation): National Jericho Movement (all chapters), Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (ILPDC), Lynne Stewart Organization, New Abolitionist Movement, North East Political Prisoner Coalition (NEPPC), ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, Resistance in Brooklyn, Root and Branch Collective, and Universal Zulu Nation.
CAMPAIGNS
Our coalition is working on holding an international tribunal on U.S human rights violations in 2021. As an example, the U.S. is violating international law in its deliberate refusal to provide adequate medical care to our political prisoners and all prisoners. Another example is the use of extended solitary confinement–in the case of Albert Woodfox for 40 years!
EDUCATION
We have the key legal international documents regarding the treatment of prisoners and political prisoners including the United Nations Nelson Mandela Rules, the 1979 Report of the International Commission of Jurists, the trifold containing the original proposal from Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim to bring back the international jurists and more.
Recent Posts
70 Years Ago Black Activists Accused the U.S. of Genocide. They Should Have Been Taken Seriously.
Paul Robeson and other members of the Civil Rights Congress submit a report on police brutality and systemic racism against Black people, accusing the U.S. of genocide, to the United Nations. | Daily Worker & Daily World Photo Collection, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Opinion by ALEX HINTON, 12/26/2021 07:00 AM ESTAlex Hinton is a distinguished professor of anthropology and director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers…
Pacifica Radio’s Covid, Race and Democracy Show
Co-hosts Bob Lederer, one of the producers of Out-FM covering anti-racist LGBTQ+ issues on WBAI in New York and Akua Holt, host of Pan African Journal on KPFT in Houston share excerpts of an historic people’s tribunal that happened from Oct. 22nd to 25th, 2021 in New York City. Hundreds of human rights activists gathered in-person and worldwide virtually for the International Tribunal on Human Rights Abuses Against Black Brown and Indigenous Peoples. It was organized by the In the…
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Panel of International Jurists Render Verdict that U.S. is Guilty of Genocide
Tribunal Charges Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous People Residing in the U.S. By: The Taifa Group LLC, WASHINGTON – Oct. 27, 2021 – PRLog — A distinguished panel of international jurists found the United States guilty of a variety of human rights abuses, including genocide, in the wake of an historic tribunal comprised of hundreds of human rights activists who gathered in-person in New York and worldwide on Zoom the weekend of October 22-25 for the “We…
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GUILTY on All Counts!
After hearing from over 30 witnesses and receiving hundreds of documents, the Panel of Jurists found the US government and its subdivisions GUILTY of Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations. The Executive Summary Verdict which follows is their preliminary report, with a detailed and cited ruling to appear in the near future. International Tribunal on Human Rights AbusesAgainst Black, Brown, and Indigenous PeoplesNew York, NY, Turtle Island, Lenape Land, USAEXECUTIVE SUMMARY VERDICT in the case ofBLACK, BROWN AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLESCharging…