Black Panther and Former Angola 3 Prisoner Robert Hillary King to Speak

<img src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/13/cheekonhand300dpi.jpg" alt="king" border="1" align="left" style="padding:2px;" /> Come hear Robert Hillary King’s powerful story and learn about the campaign to free his Angola 3 comrades Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, who are still serving life sentences despite much evidence of their innocence. <br /> <br /> <b>What</b>: Robert Hillary King, Black Panther and former member of the Angola 3 <br /> <b>When</b>: Saturday, April 11, Doors open at 6:30 p.m. <br /> <b>Where</b>: First Universalist Church of Rochester, 150 S. Clinton Ave. <br /> <b>Free and Open to the public</b> <br /> <br /> In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King (also known as Robert King Wilkerson) of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. While locked inside Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation, he became a member of the Black Panther Party, organizing prisoners to improve conditions. In return, prison authorities beat him, starved him, and gave him life without parole after framing him for a second crime. He was thrown into solitary confinement, where he remained in a six-by-nine foot cell for 29 years as one of "the Angola 3." In 2001, the state of Louisiana grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free. <br /> <br /> <b>Additional Information</b>: <a href="http://www.angola3.org/">Angola3.org</a> | <a href="http://www.angola3action.org/">Angola3Action.org</a> | <a href="http://aidandabet.org/">Aid and Abet</a> | <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2009/03/angola-3-36-years-solitude">Angola 3: 36 Years of Solitude</a> | <a href="http://www.a3grassroots.org/">A3grassroots.org</a> | <a href="http://www.kingsfreelines.com/">Robert Hillary King's website</a> | <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989099">King's Candy: A New Orleans Kitchen Vision</a> | <a href="http://www.hermanshouse.org/">The House that Herman Built</a> | <a href="http://3blackpanthers.wordpress.com/">Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation</a> | <a href="http://www.realcostofprisons.org/">The Real Cost of Prisons Project</a> | <a href="http://www.prisonradio.org/">Prison Radio</a> | <a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/50663/">Life in Solitary Confinement: 12,775 Days Alone</a> | <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR511452007&amp;lang=e">USA: Amnesty International calls for immediate end to prolonged solitary confinement of Louisiana prisoners Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox</a> | <a href="http://www.prisonactivist.org/">Prison Activist Resource Center</a> | <a href="http://www.criticalresistance.org/">Critical Resistance</a> | <a href="http://www.incite-national.org/media/docs/7713_CR-INCITEstatement-2008discussion.pdf">The Critical Resistance - INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex</a> <p><a href="/newsite/node/6862">Read Full Article</a></p>

<p><img src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/13/cheekonhand300dpi.jpg" alt="king" border="1" align="left" style="padding:2px;" /> Come hear Robert Hillary King’s powerful story and learn about the campaign to free his Angola 3 comrades Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, who are still serving life sentences despite much evidence of their innocence. </p> <p> <b>What</b>: Robert Hillary King, Black Panther and former member of the Angola 3 <br /> <b>When</b>: Saturday, April 11, Doors open at 6:30 p.m. <br /> <b>Where</b>: First Universalist Church of Rochester, 150 S. Clinton Ave. <br /> <b>Free and Open to the public</b> </p> <p> In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King (also known as Robert King Wilkerson) of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. While locked inside Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation, he became a member of the Black Panther Party, organizing prisoners to improve conditions. In return, prison authorities beat him, starved him, and gave him life without parole after framing him for a second crime. He was thrown into solitary confinement, where he remained in a six-by-nine foot cell for 29 years as one of "the Angola 3." In 2001, the state of Louisiana grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free. </p> <p> <b>Additional Information</b>: <a href="http://www.angola3.org/">Angola3.org</a> | <a href="http://www.angola3action.org/">Angola3Action.org</a> | <a href="http://aidandabet.org/">Aid and Abet</a> | <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2009/03/angola-3-36-years-solitude">Angola 3: 36 Years of Solitude</a> | <a href="http://www.a3grassroots.org/">A3grassroots.org</a> | <a href="http://www.kingsfreelines.com/">Robert Hillary King's website</a> | <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989099">King's Candy: A New Orleans Kitchen Vision</a> | <a href="http://www.hermanshouse.org/">The House that Herman Built</a> | <a href="http://3blackpanthers.wordpress.com/">Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation</a> | <a href="http://www.realcostofprisons.org/">The Real Cost of Prisons Project</a> | <a href="http://www.prisonradio.org/">Prison Radio</a> | <a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/50663/">Life in Solitary Confinement: 12,775 Days Alone</a> | <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR511452007&amp;lang=e">USA: Amnesty International calls for immediate end to prolonged solitary confinement of Louisiana prisoners Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox</a> | <a href="http://www.prisonactivist.org/">Prison Activist Resource Center</a> | <a href="http://www.criticalresistance.org/">Critical Resistance</a> | <a href="http://www.incite-national.org/media/docs/7713_CR-INCITEstatement-2008discussion.pdf">The Critical Resistance - INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex</a></p> <p><a href="/newsite/node/6862">Read Full Article</a></p>