source url: http://www.globalresearch.ca/whats-behind-the-renewed-attacks-on-african-american-activist-assata-shakur/5334214 Exiled Black Panther Party veteran has lived in Cuba for three decades By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research, On the 40th anniversary of the shooting and capture of Assata Shakur, the FBI and the State of New Jersey has now placed the African American revolutionary on the most wanted terrorist list. This latest provocation against Shakur, 65, […]
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https://soundcloud.com/truthuniversal/truth-universal-hands-off On the 40th anniversary of the New Jersey Turnpike incident–Thursday May 02, 2013–which the U.S. government alleges Black Liberation Army members, Sundiata Acoli , Assata Shakur and Zayd Malik killed State Trooper Werner Foerster in a shootout–the FBI again calls for the extradition of exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur. In an obviously politically motivated move, she […]
source: http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/activism You remember. You remember because the tragedy that day touched everyone it reached. What did it teach you? Tell someone. Write a poem, short story, rhyme, or snapshot. What did it mean? What did you learn? What are you going to do? Saturday, May 11, 2013 • 12-4 pm Drexel University, West […]
I want to thank my komrade Tazeinmirzasaad @ http://www.transcendingbordersblog.wordpress.com 4 nominating me 4 Tha Versatile Blogger Award. If u have not had an opportunity to check out Transcendingbordersblog please do so. Thank u so much 4 an amazing beautiful blog. THE RULES: 1-Thank and link back to the person who awarded you. 2-Nominate 15 bloggers for The […]
Mondo we Langa We received this beautiful poem by Mondo We Langa from our friend Alina Dollat, who works with Amnesty International in France. ALL THE CHILDREN by Mondo We Langa i was a witness to your statement i heard the words expressing grief over the deaths especially of the children the slaughtered innocents who […]
HANDS OFF ASSATA SHAKUR! WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE & COMMUNITY/STUDENT RALLY IN HARLEM WHEN: THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013 @ 11:00AM -12:00 NOON WHERE: ASSATA SHAKUR-GUILLERMO MORALES COMMUNITY & STUDENT CENTER @ CCNY - ROOM 3-201 (NAC BUILDING) USE AMSTERDAM AVENUE ENTRANCE (BET.137TH & 138TH) WHY: TO DEMAND THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT & STATE OF NEW JERSEY RESCIND IT’S $2 MILLION “DEAD OR ALIVE” […]
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 […]
source url: http://4strugglemag.org/2013/05/02/prison-life-drugs-drinking-a-revolutionary-and-political-prisoner-perspective/ By JAAN LAAMAN Rashid Johnson’s foregoing article on his traumatic and dangerous experience with accidentally getting high, then trying to hurt himself, all while being in the control of prison authorities, is a cautionary tale indeed. I don’t know Brother Rashid personally, but his long time work with 4sm and his leadership in the New African […]
source url: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/02/guan-m02.html By Bill Van Auken At least 100 detainees being held at the Guantanamo prison camp remained on hunger strike Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama told a White House press briefing that he would “re-engage Congress” on closing the facility. A spokesman for the US prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval […]
If you’re not familiar with Mumia’s case, he is a political activist and journalist who was framed for killing a police officer in 1981. Learn more: http://www.FreeMumia.com Ta
