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In late April 1970 Marshall “Eddie” Conway was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, for a murder he maintains he did not commit. Shortly before his arrest two Baltimore Police officers were shot while sitting in their patrol car. Officer Donald Sager was killed while Officer Stanley Sierakowski was critically wounded. Two suspects were arrested at the scene. A responding officer reported seeing a third man who got away. That officer identified Conway as the third man through a set of photos. Additionally a police informant testified that Conway made a jailhouse confession. At the time 24 year old Conway, a US postal service employee, belonged to the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party. As with Panther chapters around the country, the FBI was conducting undercover surveillance of the Baltimore members’ activities as part of the controversial COINTEPRO operation. Due to his political activities Conway and his supporters believe that he was either framed, or that as a target of the FBI he was unable to receive a fair trial. No physical evidence linking Conway to the scene of the shooting was ever presented and Conway denies ever confessing to the killings. In the forty years since his incarceration, in addition to fighting for his freedom, Conway has become an activist within prison walls. He formed the Maryland chapter of the United Prisoners Labor Union and works with the ACLU to improve prison conditions. Marshall “Eddie” Conway also co-authored his just-released memoir, “Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther.”

GUEST: Dominque Stevenson, co-author of “Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther

Find out more at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=2209403226 and http://www.freeeddieconway.org/

Dominique Stevenson will be speaking at the following events:

APRIL 13, 2011
UC Riverside, Dept of Ethnic Studies
*With Susan Rosenberg, former political prisoner*

APRIL 14, 2011
Eso Won Books at 7 pm
4331 Degnan Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90008

APRIL 15, 2011
Southern California Library at 12:30 pm
6120 S Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles CA90044

Special thanks to Thandisizwe Chimurenga