“I would like to leave behind me the conviction that if we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory… You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage […]
Tag Archives: Black August
Source URL: http://ri-ir.org/2011/08/21/40-years-on-george-jackson-lives-september-23-1941-%e2%80%93-august-21-1971/ 40 Years On, George Jackson Lives (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) August 21, 2011 · by revintcan Long live the black communist guerrilla! Long live the Panther! Long live George Jackson! This Black August, download and spread around George Jackson’s writings, Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye. Click the […]
by the Pelikan Bay First Amendment Rights Campaign: Abdul Shakur, Ifoma Modibo Kambon, Dadisi Yero Kambon, Raridi Yero, Abasi Ganda, Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu I-Yapo Many within society, and rightfully so, may find what I am about to allege very incredible and absurd, beyond the capacity of their comprehension, but the truth must be told if justice is truly to be served. “Lessons from […]
by Imara Mwasi aka De’anthony Chaney I am a 22-year-old young Black brotha currently housed in Corcoran SHU, arrived here Nov. 27, 2012, after the hunger strike. I came from Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) in Tracy, the Reception Center Ad-Seg – the hole – where I’d been since July 15, 2012. I received my first actual 115 disciplinary […]
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 […]
Source: http://sfbayview.com/2012/the-bay-view-has-been-my-strength/ by Rashad Mabu After 12 years I have finally made it to a halfway house. It is a blessing yet still a continuous struggle with the system because, as my dear bro Eugene Thomas says, they harass you more since they resent your ability to exercise certain forms of freedom. Rashad Mabu – […]
George Jackson and Black August are anathema to the overseers of California’s prisons. Any association with them and the liberating principles they stand for invites the most severe punishment the system can inflict. Hugo Pinell, the man who has been held in solitary confinement for 42 years – longer perhaps than anyone in the […]
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. […]
August 7, 2012 Commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion by Jonathan Jackson Jr. Jonathan Jackson I was born eight and a half months after my father, Jonathan Jackson, was shot down on Aug. 7, 1970, at the Marin County Courthouse, when he tried to gain the release of the Soledad Brothers […]
Contributed by: scission From behind the enemy lines of the California state prison system, from within the belly of the beast – that is the Amerikan injustice system – I greet you all and call your attention to the annual commemoration of Black August. I invite you, fellow prisoners and families throughout Amerika, to […]
