Even 30 years later the shock over the murder of Minneapolis Police Officer Jerry Haaf in a Lake Street pizza restaurant still reverberates throughout the Twin Cities and beyond. Now, one by one, four men convicted of Haaf’s murder are coming up for parole. One has been denied, the next one has a hearing in January.
We continue our series of interviews with the state's new hall-of-famers. Ronald Reed is being honored for his contributions to education, including his implementation of a disability civil rights law.
There are many ways to define what is a political prisoner. The most well-known cases are those the national security state framed-up, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for an offense because of their political activism, such as George Jackson. Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling class control results some