source url: http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2004/71/churchill.html In 1975, an investigating committee headed by Senator Frank Church found that COINTELPRO had, from start to finish, been no more than “a sophisticated vigilante operation…fraught with illegality.” Ward Churchill Issue #71, December 2004 In 1980, former FBI Director L. Patrick Grey and Edward S. Miller, one-time head of Squad 47, the […]
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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thenancylockhartshow/2013/05/16/assata-shakur-fbi-terrorist-list-2-million-dollar-bounty “Twenty-eight years ago, in a highly disputed trial, an all-White jury convicted former Black Panther Assata Shakur of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. In 1979, while serving a life sentence, she escaped from prison and eventually resurfaced in Cuba, where she was granted asylum and has lived ever since. But the U.S.. government […]
The lines between the military and law enforcement have blurred even further. May 15, 2013 | The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the […]
Sign this petition Dear President Obama: We write to urge you to overrule the FBI’s decision to put Assata Shakur, aka Joanne Chesimard, on the “Most Wanted Terrorists List, with $1 Million FBI Reward Offered for Information Leading to Her Capture and Return,” as phrased by the FBI’s May 2, 2013 announcement. This $1 million combines […]
Wed, 05/15/2013 – 00:12 — Glen Ford A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford These days, a radical label can get you killed. In National Security Speech, “it is clear that to ‘radicalize’ means very much the same as to ‘weaponize’; the radicalized person has been transformed into a weapon.” Under […]
source url: http://www.workers.org/2013/05/07/assata-shakur-is-a-modern-day-harriet-tubman/ By Monica Moorehead on May 7, 2013 Assata Shakur with Monica Moorehead in 1997. I had the distinct honor of meeting Assata Shakur in person at the 1997 World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba. I was all the more surprised when she recognized me as the 1996 presidential candidate for Workers World Party. Assata has […]
I don’t know why, given where we are with dronefare, but I didn’t expect the man making the announcement about Assata Shakur being the first woman “terrorist” to appear on the FBI’s most wanted list to be black. That was a blow. I was reminded of the world of “trackers” we sometimes get glimpses of in history […]
Seemingly out of nowhere the FBI announced that fugitive Black activist Assata Shakur was now declared a “terrorist” on their Most Wanted list. In addition, a bounty for her capture was raised from $1 million to $2 million. There are several questions that immediately arise but the most important is perhaps this: why now? […]
Bruce A. Dixon by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Assata Shakur could not have been named “most wanted terrorist” without the explicit approval of the first black president and his attorney general. In doing so, they have declared open war on the black liberation movement, something that J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO were only able […]
source url: http://sfbayview.com/2013/fbi-calls-political-exile-assata-shakur-a-terrorist/ by Laura Savage The federal government is at it again! They have placed the legendary Black Panther leader, Assata Shakur, on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list. Yes, you read correctly: terrorist. Shakur has been living in political exile in Cuba since 1984 after her escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in […]
