Category Archives: Black August
by Sundiata Acoli The following is the outline (fleshed out) of a speech i would have delivered for BLACK AUGUST had not Hurricane Irene shut down the Compound. 1. BLACK AUGUST originated in the California prisons to honor the fallen FREEDOM FIGHTERS: GEORGE JACKSON, JONATHAN JACKSON, WILLIAM CHRISTMAS, JAMES McCLAIN and KHATARI GAULDEN. All/most were […]
Black August has come & gone once again but i was in the mood to listen to a Black August Commemoration, August 26,2006 — where you’ll also hear the voices of George Jackson, Hugo Pinell, Ruchell Magee and other freedom fighters. Even if you just play it in 1/2 chunks, it’s very much worth it. […]
Johnny Spain All Power to the People! It’s been a long time coming! [Applause} I look at the people in the room, particularly the people who were in the Black Panther Party, and I think that there is alot of power in this room. And yet, I think we all know, as […]
Black Panthers Speak about Criminal Injustice This newsreel footage features interviews with Huey P. Newton (from Alameda County Jail), Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale. The footage also includes scenes from a Black panther rally at Hutton Memorial Park demanding the release of Mr. Newton. In this film, Huey Newton discusses the police brutality that so […]
August 3, 2011 from the cell of Comrade Bobby Dixon, Minister of Justice, NABPP-PC Editor’s note: Bobby Dixon called as the Bay View was going to press to say that he and some comrades at CMF are still on hunger strike. They are planning to commemorate this Black August more seriously than ever and are […]
Black August August 10, 2009 BY MARILYN BUCK Would you hang on a cliff’s edge sword-sharp, slashing fingers while jackboot screws stomp heels on peeled-flesh bones and laugh “let go! die, damn you, die!” could you hang on 20 years, 30 years? 20 years, 30 years and more brave Black brothers buried in US koncentration kamps […]
Black August August 10, 2009 BY MARILYN BUCK Would you hang on a cliff’s edge sword-sharp, slashing fingerswhile jackboot screws stomp heelson peeled-flesh bonesand laugh“let go! die, damn you, die!”could you hang on20 years, 30 years? 20 years, 30 years and morebrave Black brothers buriedin US koncentration kampsthey hang onBlack light shining in torture chambersRuchell, Yogi, […]
Women of the Black Panther Party – Education 101, Parts 1 & 2 …. by Malaika H Kambon on Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 3:05pm 7 August 2011 While respecting and commemorating 7 August 2011 as the 41st year after the Marin County Courthouse Rebellion, we may also reflect upon the strength of AFRIKAN […]
we begin this issue with our celebration of Black August 2011. 4sm dedicates Black August and this entire issue as a tribute to geronimo ji-jaga, who passed of a heart attack on June 2, in Tanzania. geronimo, who was 63 (and chose to write his name without capitalization) was a major leader of the Black Panther Party and a founder of the Black
