* Urgent ACTION: please CALL now - POLITICAL PRISONERS can be FREED by OBAMA

[Jude Iam]

The lives of many principled and courageous men and women

in prison will only get worse under a Trump administration. Many will die there. It's up to President Obama to commute sentences before he leaves office January 20. With only a few days left in his administration, we need to help push Obama to act. Please call the Office of the Pardon Attorney at the Department of Justice at 202-616-6070and tell them to FREE THEM!! thank you, jude **************************************************************************************************************** President Obama has less than one week left as president. For people in prison fighting for clemency, his choices in the next few days could mark the difference between life and death. Advocates for Chelsea Manning, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal and Oscar López Rivera, to name a few, have made it clear that if President Obama does not act on their behalf, they are unlikely to survive in prison for Donald Trump’s term. It is vital that we act now. At The Nation, Atoosa Moinzadeh wrote about some of the most high profile people asking for clemency right now and outlined what you can do to help them. Read the post here and then click here to share it on Facebook. As Moinzadeh points out, President Obama has used sentencing commutations to help people imprisoned under the draconian “war on drugs,” but he remains stingy regarding pardons compared to his predecessors. There is some room for hope, however. NBC News reported earlier this week that Chelsea Manning was on the president’s short-list for a sentence commutation and a number of high profile people have called for the release of López Rivera and Peltier. Read our post on these cases and more to find out how you can take action. Then be sure to take a minute to share this vital information on Facebook.

[Moon]

Chelsea gets out May 17!!! Remember to thank Obama for that and for the release of so many non-violent drug "offenders" (who have offended no one but the liquor lobby, DuPont and the private prison industry.)