by Robert Saleem Holbrook The inclusion of Assata Shakur, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Terrorists list last month – marking 29 years since her liberation from a New Jersey maximum security prison in 1979 by members of the Black Liberation Army – while aimed at Cuba’s leadership […]
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Counterpunch, May 17, 2013 FBI Twists History ‘Terror’ War Gets Stupider as Shakur is Added to the List by LINN WASHINGTON Jr. Federal authorities publicly plot encouraging bounty hunters to kidnap a fugitive black radical from a foreign country for return to prison in the U.S. to achieve long-delayed justice. This sounds like the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Who is the real terrorist? Behind the government attack on revolutionary Assata Shakur
Dueling narratives surround Assata Shakur, a political figure who found herself returned to the national spotlight after the FBI officially added her to their Most Wanted Terrorists list on May 2, 2013. To mainstream media, Joanne Chesimard murdered a police officer and fled to Cuba to escape justice. A New York Times article on the announcement […]
Desperately Seeking Assata by Kay Whitlock Why Assata Shakur? Why now, of all times? Last week, on May 2, 2013, 40 years to the day after a shootout in which Assata Shakur, a well-known Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army activist, was shot twice, and a fellow activist and a New Jersey state trooper were killed, […]
Assata Shakur in her own words, telling her life story to students at a workshop discussion group of the World Youth Festival held in Havana, Cuba August 3, 1997. Camera by legendary fighter for justice, Key Martin, April 10, 1943-March 18, 2000, founder of the Peoples Video Network: http://youtube.com/peoplesvideo
The International Petition Campaign to Free Lynne Stewart and Save Her Life is gratified to report that today, May 13, following urgent communications from former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and social activist Dick Gregory, that Federal Bureau of Prisons General Counsel Kathleen Kenney telephoned Ramsey Clark to advise that a recommendation of Compassionate Release for […]
We are now approaching 2,600 signatures, averaging 283 signatures per day. So far, this is a consistent petition drive thanks to your help! Every time someone signs this petition, a copy of the petition letter is emailed to President Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus. The more signatures we gather, the greater display of solidarity […]
