Help Free The Longest Held Black Panther Political Prisoner...NOW!!!

Romaine Chip Fitzgerald, the longest held U.S. political prisoner is due for a parole hearing in the next few months. We are asking all comrades to support Chip by signing a petition on his behalf.

Chip is a former member of the Southern California Black Panther Party. He has been incarcerated since 1969 for altercation that took place with a CHP officer during a traffic stop. Chip and several Panthers defended themselves against an officer who later admitted he had orders to shoot and kill any and all Panthers. During the altercation, the officer was shot and Chip managed to flee.

When arrested for the incident several weeks later, he was informed that he was also being charged for a murder of a security guard during a robbery in a Vons market in Los Angeles. Chip has steadfastly denied the murder charge, but was sentenced to life in prison for both incidents.

Please support our comrade, sign the petition:
http://www.freechip.org/sign-petition.html

For more information:
http://www.freechip.org/about.html

In Solidarity with Chip,
LA ABCF

Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald, born and raised in Compton, California, joined the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party in early 1969, a teenager who had just been released from the California Youth Authority. In September of that year, as a dedicated member of the Party, Chip was arrested in connection with a police shoot-out and tried for assault on police and related charges, including the murder of a security guard. He was sentenced to death.

Ultimately, his sentence was commuted to life with parole. He has been in prison for nearly 40 years now.

Chip's dedication to the cause of the liberation of black and all oppressed people has not wavered through all the years of his brutal incarceration.