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
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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, […]
“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 […]
http://www.boston.com/news/world/caribbean/2013/05/06/cuban-spy-renouncing-citizenship-stay-home/Wl3eFaOvDcLZGAZEcf0LlN/story.html HAVANA (AP) — A Cuban intelligence agent who spent 13 years in a U.S. prison said Monday he still has affection for America and hopes to see the two countries reconcile, but added that he does not regret for a moment his decision to spy for Cuba. Rene Gonzalez also told The Associated Press […]
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” […]
For Immediate Release May 3, 2013 The New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG-NYC) denounces the renewed attacks on Assata Shakur (s/n Joanne Chesimard) by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement authorities in the State of New Jersey. The FBI has designated the 65-year old former Black Panther Party member a “terrorist” […]
“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 […]
courtesy of the expresso stalinist Che Guevara on Poverty “Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger and disease; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money; with the stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and […]
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
