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? […]
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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 […]
Assata Shakur (Joanne Chesimard) First Woman Added to List 05/02/13– On the 40th anniversary of the cold-blooded murder of a New Jersey state trooper, the fugitive convicted of the killing, Joanne Chesimard, has been named a Most Wanted Terrorist by the FBI—the first woman ever to make the list. Officials from the FBI and the […]
Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney “You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution.” -Fred Hampton “History is important. If you don’t know history it’s as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything and you have no way of checking […]
Since 1981, right-wing extremists are the only ones who have run up a body count. April 12, 2013 | Sixties radicals may grow old, but they never seem to go out of style. In a trailer for Robert Redford’s recently released film, The Company You Keep, we are informed: “In 1969, a group of […]
THE HARLEM PEOPLES SURVIVAL PROGRAM (PSP) WOMYNS HERITAGE MONTH 2013 FILM & DISCUSSION SERIES CONCLUDES ON MONDAY, MARCH 25TH WITH A FREE SCREENING OF GLORIA ROLONDO’S: EYES OF THE RAINBOW: THE STORY OF ASSATA SHAKUR “Eyes of the Rainbow” deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison […]
by CHRIS GEOVANIS Advocates of open access argue that information should be free, especially when public dollars and public consent, however torturously that consent is extracted, lie at the root of the creation of that information. Yet we live in an age of mounting government secrecy and a relentless push to privatization: of not just […]
by Alan Goodman | revcom.us I know you’re workin’ for the CIA / They wouldn’t have you in the Ma-fi-a… ” In 1975, the band War had a hit single with that line. It pretty much summed up what anyone who claimed to have any consciousness, and anyone who had a conscience, had to […]
Peoples’ Justice for Community Control & Police Accountability Police Violence Weekly Digest, Volume 15 December 20, 2012 Happy hollerdays PJ fam! Just in case the world ends tomorrow, we wanted to send out our final police violence weekly digest of 2012! In all seriousness, let’s hope the Mayan calendar is correct & that 2013 brings […]
By Arturo Garcia August 20, 2012 A video published Monday by the Center for Investigative Reporting reveals that the man responsible for arming and training members of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s did so while acting as a federal informant. According to reporter Seth Rosenfeld, Richard Aoki was approached by FBI […]
