Prisoners of Conscience

Remember those people who live inside cages 
 Denied basic rights and no hope for parole. 
 Prisoners who gave their lives for revolution 
 Surrounded in silence, does anybody know? 

 Their family is gone, their friends are dead 
 Forced to concede they have no control. 
 They’re given no respect, their dignity stripped 
 Does anybody know? 
 In moral innocence, will they die alone? 
 will anybody know? 

 They’d seen the sign of truth out there 
 They let the people know 
 of mindless terror everywhere 
 does anybody know? 

 body bound,body dragged 
 Broken skin, broken bones 
 Tortured inside a cement cell 
 Where Nobody will know. 
 stolen life,  a living hell 
 Does anybody know? 

 The Black Panthers, A.I.M, and MOVE 
 Struggling for dignity, fighting racial oppression 
 Black Liberation Army, FALN, and RATF 
 Working towards autonomy, against imperialist expansion 
 Earth Liberation Front,  Animal Liberation Front 
 Fighting to stop the continued destruction of life on this planet 
 When a so-called democratic systems ignore the voices of conscience 
 Direct action is the only recourse for developing opposition. 

 The New York 3, The Move 9, The Panther 21, Adolpho 
 Matos , Alberto Rodriguez,Alejandrina Valentin, Bill 
 Dunne, Larry Giddings, David Gilbert, Mutulu Shakur, 
 Dylcia Pagan, Edwin Cortes, Alicia Rodriguez, Tom 
 Manning, Anthony Bottom, Bashir Hameed, Hanif Bey, 
 Leonard Peletier,  Laura Whitehorn, Marshal Conway, 
 Linda Evans, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Luis Rosa, Mark Cook, 
 Pat Moloney, Juan Segarra Palmer, Ida Luz Rodriguez, 
 Jihad Abdul Mumit, Ray Luc Levasseur, Shaka 
 Shakur,Pavel Koupa, Eric Wildcat Hall, Ted Kaczynski, 
 Helen Woodson: 

 These people are currently serving sentences for their conscious  political activities, they have sacrificed their 
 freedom to build a revolutionary movement in support of a free existence based on mutual aid, justice, and respect. 

 They’re in a cage this very night 
 life sentence or a death sentence. 
 Their spirits live while their body’s bound 
 Does anybody know? 
 Everyone remember that they’re still there 
 Everyone should know.