Author: lindathurston

Linda Thurston is the Coordinator of WRL’s National Office, in which capacity she’s been the glue holding the office together — and keeping its computers and the website running— since 2007. But in the spare time that Herculean task allows her, she works, as she has done since her high-school years, against the prison-industrial complex and for the rights of all prisoners. Since the late ’90s, she’s done most of that work in the context of Critical Resistance, the grassroots prison abolition group, and also with the groups working in support of Pennsylvania prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal. This interview is adapted from Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners, edited by Matt Meyer (PM Press, 2008).