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Hands Off Assata - Deepa Fernandes AN OPEN LETTER TO NEW JERSEY
GOVERNOR WHITMAN: Real Audio Pacifica Interview - Dec 97? Protest Message to NBC from Italy Silvia Baraldini, imprisoned for helping Assata escape Marilyn Bucks, imprisoned for
helping Assata escape ERSEY
PANTHERS FETE ASSATA, SUNDIATA
Assata's
Daughters Hands Off Assata: a video
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| http://www.peoplesvideo.org/repress.htm#assata HANDS OFF ASSATA (long version). An historic talk given by Assata Shakur, former Black Panther and political prisoner, at the 1997 Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba. Assata Shakur was liberated from prison and has been living in exile in Cuba in the 1980s. She talks about why she was targeted in the context of the FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). She also talks optimistically about the future of revolutionary struggle. This is one of the few opportunities she has had to tell her side of the story to the American people. 90 minutes. $20 |
"Her name is
Assata Shakur. Assata “She who Struggles” Shakur “the Thankful”. They
call her JoAnne Chesimard, and they want her as an accomplice to murder.
I met Assata last New Year's Eve in Havana...."
For more, check out: http://www3.silas.unsw.edu.au/~greenlft/1998/334/334p14.htm
| Governor Whitman: Your grandstanding actions in seeking Assata Shakur's return by placing a $50,000 bounty on her head is an insult to all Black women and men who have devoted their lives to the freedom of Black people. In seeking her apprehension by methods that include "kidnapping," you have engaged in the kind of debased moralism that the former slave masters in this country resorted to when seeking the return of runaway Africans to slavery. For the rest of this letter see: http://www.iacenter.org/assata.htm |
| Click here to play: ASSATA
SHAKUR-FORMER BLACK PANTHER IN CUBA http://www.webactive.com/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn980122.ra&start="41:56" NOTE: THIS LINK IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE - IS PACIFICA CHANGING? |
The U.S. denies that it punishes people for their political beliefs. But Silvia fits every definition of a political prisoner. She received an incredible 40 year "racketeering" sentence for aiding in the escape of jailed Black Panther leader, Assata Shakur. Another three years were added when she refused to testify before a grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican independence movement.
Adventure Divashttp://www.adventuredivas.com/dest/cuba/assata.htm
Marilyn Bucks
Marilyn Buck, long-time activist for social justice, is a political prisoner in Federal
prison in Dublin, CA. From her teen involvement in anti-racist organizing in Texas, she
deepened her commitment to the Black Liberation movement and opposition to the Vietnam War
through SDS, Third World Newsreel, and work with the Black Panther Party. She is serving
an 80 year sentence for conspiracy and aiding the escape of Assata Shakur. She is a poet,
PEN award winner, and sculptor. In prison, she continues her activism, writing and
studies. Let's support her, she will be remembered as the folks who stood with John Brown
have been these many years.
See http://prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/buck.html, her official site
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