by Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu Iyapo, Baridi Yero and Ifoma M. Kambon Due to the litany of contradictions that we as an oppressed people are confronted with, it is easy for us to focus solely on the problem and lose sight of formulating concrete solutions to our problems. The current discussions that are centered around the revisions to the gang […]
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“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 […]
Published on May 5, 2013 Assata Shakur in Her Own Words|HANDS OFF ASSATA !!! http://www.scribd.com/doc/139590109/A…
thejerichomovement.com It is imperative that people and organizations involved with advocating human rights, community development, and educating and organizing around social/political issues, and addressing various aspects of the prison industrial complex (viz. mass incarcerations, special housing units, solitary confinement, etc.) understand the need to support all campaigns to free political prisoners. The struggle […]
by Hans Bennett Ramona Africa is the sole adult survivor of the May 13, 1985 massacre of 11 members of the MOVE organization. The FBI and the City of Philadelphia dropped a C4 bomb on MOVE’s Osage Avenue home in West Philadelphia. Both Ramona and Birdie Africa (the only 2 survivors) report that as the MOVE family […]
“I am a Political Prisoner of War! What war? The war of National Liberation that has been going on since Afrikans were first kidnapped and brought to the Americas and enslaved. Some of us have never agreed to be American and have struggled to free and build the Republic of New Afrika. Under international law, […]
by a comrade of SAMAEL December 2012 permalink I’m responding to ULK 29, “Less Complaints, More Agitation and Perspective.” While most of the position is on point, I believe that important considerations were left out by both this comrade and MIM(Prisons)’s response. I agree with the broad definition of political prisoners as announced in MIM […]
by ernesto The shocking true story of Leonard Peltier, American Indian leader locked away for life, convicted of the alleged murder of two FBI agents during a bloody shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. NYC Event: Riverside Church 91Claremont Avenue, New York, NY (120-122 Streets) Room 10T Film “Warrior: The Life of Leonard […]
Source: http://sketchythoughts.blogspot.com/ Another excellent essay by Sanyika Shakur, who was released from Pelican Bay SHU last August. As he wrote before his release: i was born Nov 13, 1963. Raised in South Central Los Angeles, by a phenomenal single, working-class, mother. Cut my teeth in the hostile gang culture in South Central from the mid-70′s […]
