The governments Legal Aid and Punishment Act 2012 which came into effect in April 2013 represents one of the Tories most serious and vicious attacks on the poorest and most disadvantaged groups in terms of their relationship with an increasingly more repressive state, removing as it does the right to publicly funded legal redress for […]
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A transcript of a talk given by Ashanti Alsto at the Law and Disorder conference, held in Portland, Oregon from April 14 – 16, 2010. I want to get started off in a way that helps me get rid of the butterflies, and helps get us stirred as well. You know we always say, “Power […]
Two events that took place just hours apart 50 years ago serve as a metaphor for our nation’s struggle for racial equality. On June 11, 1963, John F. Kennedy gave a speech to the nation demanding that the federal government aggressively put in place measures to guarantee the constitutional rights of blacks. JFK was comprehensive in […]
by The People’s Minister of Information JR The literary work of Robert Beck, aka Iceberg Slim, has captivated the imaginations of ghetto-dwellers for decades. Much different from the writings of Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Richard Wright, who all hold up a piece of the American pantheon of legendary Black writers, the work of Iceberg Slim […]
Great Garvey Day, Today marks the 73rd year of the elevation of the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey into the ancestral realm. The Honorable Marcus Garvey Lives in the works, words and deeds of the UNIA-ACL government and his great legacy continue’s to move in the Whirlwind with countless ancestors, just has he said he would. Garvey’s […]
Written by Dr. Maulana Karenga The day of birth and welcome into the world of Al Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Min. Malcolm X, May 19, remains a special and sacred day of remembrance, marking and meditation for the advocates of our organization Us, not only because of how much our beginning was framed and founded in […]
Washington, Jun 7.- A panel of the U.S. House of Representatives today approved a bill that would hinder the intentions of President Barack Obama to close the controversial Guantanamo prison at the Naval Base. With a 59-2 vote, the Republican majority in the Armed Services Committee gave the green light to this legislation, which […]
by CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO “During the Special Period’s most difficult years, countless and creative solutions were found by our campesinos and agricultural science researchers. There was one objective and one priority: to recover our agricultural systems and produce what’s necessary to feed ourselves. However, we needed integrating and modeling concepts for the changes that were now indispensable, and we […]
“I am a Political Prisoner of War! What war? The war of national Liberation that has been going 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, oppressed […]
Robert Saleem Holbrook Published May 29, 2013 Saleem with his father The State of Pennsylvania’s attempt to execute Mumia Abu Jamal, former member of the Black Panther Party and Move supporter for the alleged murder of a Philadelphia police officer in 1981 galvanized an international coalition of supporters who worked tirelessly to save Mumia from the […]
