From ABC LEEDS:
Day of Action in Support of
John Bowden
Monday 11th June
John Bowden is a militant prisoner
who has been inside since 1980 (and in fact for most of his life
before then). He is serving time for a murder which happened 32 years
ago, but John’s two co-defendants have been free for 20 years. John
has been writing about, and fighting against, injustice throughout
his time behind bars, building up a huge and impressive portfolio of
articles about every aspect of the prison struggle. He has paid a
heavy price for speaking out though, spending years in the most
brutal segregation units, and being targeted for repression time and
time again. We do not define John, a good comrade, by the crime he
committed 32 years ago, and neither do the State. He is not in jail
for what he did then, but for what he has done since. If he did not
have anti-authoritarian politics, if he was not a man of integrity
who always comes to the defence of his fellow cons, John Bowden would
have been out years ago.