“Go to the people, organize the people, work among the people and tell no lies about what we want and what we’ve done and what we have accomplished. We have to build a strong bond of trust with the people and show them by example that we’re different from the politicians and corporate businessmen and […]
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50 Shades of BROWN: A personal examination of Black-Latino tensions – and why it must stop By: Katia Bolero Roma theCAMPUS December 10, 2012 http://www.ccnycampus.org “Ignorant Spanish bitch.” That was what he called me, and his cutting words hurt. Why didn’t this guy understand that one of the many rivers of blood flowing through my veins is […]
If one were to examine closely the hegemonic discourses of black American history, one would be surprised to find a long history of militant armed struggle. Slave rebellions, urban “guerilla” insurgencies, rural defense leagues, are all part of a tapestry of black militant rebellion to subjugation. Rashad Shabazz Issue #71, December 2004 If one were to […]
“You’ve got to be prepared to lose your life in order to gain your life.” Queen Mother Moore Queen Mother Moore, a long time revolutionary activist and fighter against the oppression of Black people, died on Friday, May 7 in Brooklyn, New York. Queen Mother Moore was one person about whom it could truly be […]
The attack on Sister Assata Shakur is an attack on the right of the Black masses and the Black liberation movement to resist oppression. The U.S. government and all of its branches have always persecuted, jailed, exiled and murdered Black activists and revolutionaries no matter their philosophies or tactics-communism, Pan Africanism, separation, revolutionary nationalism, integration; nonviolence, […]
source url: http://www.blackcommentator.com/516/516_ror_assata_shakur_shining_light.php School’s in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard: “I Saw Your Light/And It Was Shining” The FBI‘s systematic surveillance of and attacks on Black […]
All My life, all my entire life I’ve heard this phrase recited over and over and over again in regards to the critical condition, predicament, whatever-in-the-hell you want to call it, which most of Black America finds itself mired in; babies havin’ babies . . .havin babies. That’s been the rock-steady beat, the same beat, a […]
Dear Mayor Palmer: Let me introduce myself by saying that Assata Shakur is my sister, friend, and comrade in the struggle for human rights of all oppressed people. When three “Freedom Fighters” boldly took action in 1979 and entered the Clinton Correctional Facility and liberated Sister Assata from the chains and shackles of her jailers, I rejoiced. […]
“Like most poor people in the United States, I have no voice. The Black press and the progressive media, as well as Black civil rights organizations, have historically played an essential role in the struggle for social justice. We should continue and expand that tradition. We should create media outlets that help to […]
source url: http://4strugglemag.org/2013/05/02/the-us-government-war-against-the-black-riders/ BY THE BLACK RIDERS, the new generation Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Turning the Tide, antiracist.org For Black youth throughout the US, especially in Watts and South Central LA, Wolverine Shakur, AKA General T.A.C.O. of the militant Black Riders Liberation Party is a leader, a strong father and husband, a […]
