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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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 […]
Wed, 05/08/2013 – 10:00 — Margaret Kimberley by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Thanks to The First Black President and The First Black Attorney General, “the only people safe in speaking of or contacting Shakur are those who mean her harm.” To speak of Black liberation, its heroes and history, is […]
Who is the real terrorist? Behind the government attack on revolutionary Assata Shakur
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
“Obama uses Jay Z to Trap Assata Shakur”: Shades of FBI and Al Sharpton? -Kalonji Changa raps with Dhoruba Bin Wahad The FTP Movement has long taken the position that Black elected officials and Congresspersons should reopen the investigation into the counterintelligence program and what it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
