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On A MOVE
May 6th
Howard Zinn narrates this documentary ‘MOVE’, an organization formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 by John Africa (born Vincent Leaphart) and Donald Glassey.
To Learn More Visit John Africa’s On the MOVE Orginization
Eugene V. Debs, Anti-War Speech
Feb 27th
From ICH
” It is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional right of free speech in a country fighting to make democracy safe in the world…..
These are the gentry who are today wrapped up in the American flag, who shout their claim from the housetops that they are the only patriots, and who have their magnifying glasses in hand, scanning the country for evidence of disloyalty, eager to apply the brand of treason to the men who dare to even whisper their opposition to Junker rule in the United Sates. No wonder Sam Johnson declared that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.†He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people…..
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These autocrats, these tyrants, these red- handed robbers and murderers, the “patriots,†while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims—they are the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.
Eugene V. Debs – The Canton, Ohio, Anti-War Speech. June 16, 1918
Filiberto Ojeda Rios Interview
Nov 19th
From: PR Nationalist Youth-NY
‘THE EMPIRE’S ATTACK ON OJEDA-RIOS AND INDEPENDENCE’
Copyright ‘05 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The September 23rd, 2005 attack and armed assault on Puerto Rican nationalist, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, left the family and his island without his proud and noble presence, but it did not achieve its real desired objective.
The armed agents of Empire attacked the home and family of the 72-year old revolutionary, shot him, and left him to bleed to death for hours in his home in Hormigueros, in the island’s mountainous regions.
Dr. Hector Pesquera, president of the Hostosiano independence movement, nailed it when he said, of the heavily-armed FBI assault, “They did not come to arrest Filiberto Ojeda, *they came to kill him*.”
Nor was it mere coincidence that the date the FBI chose to raid the Ojeda home was the island’s day of national historical significance. Sept. 23rd was the 107th anniversary of “El Grito de Lares”, when thousands of Puerto Ricans annually mark a day of resistance against the Spanish colonizers.
Today, it remains a colony of the Americans.
There is only one real response that can bring change.
Broad, deep, mobilization of the people against this neoliberal nightmare.
Resistance. Resistance. And More Resistance! -Mumia Abu-Jamal
Residente Calle 13 – Querido F.B.I
Jun 13th
Residente Calle 13 – Querido F.B.I a message to the fbi about the murder in Puerto Rico of Filiberto Ojeda RÃos leader of the Boricua popular army “Los Macheteros”
THE EMPIRE’S ATTACK ON OJEDA-RIOS AND INDEPENDENCE
by Mumia Abu Jamal
Filiberto Ojeda RÃos (April 26, 1933 – September 23, 2005)
The September 23rd, 2005 attack and armed assault on Puerto Rican nationalist, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, left the family and his island without his proud and noble presence, but it did not achieve its real desired objective.
The armed agents of Empire attacked the home and family of the 72-year old revolutionary, shot him, and left him to bleed to death for hours in his home in Hormigueros, in the island’s mountainous regions.
Dr. Hector Pesquera, president of the Hostosiano independence movement, nailed it when he said, of the heavily-armed FBI assault, “They did not come to arrest Filiberto Ojeda, *they came to kill him*.”
Nor was it mere coincidence that the date the FBI chose to raid the Ojeda home was the island’s day of national historical significance. Sept. 23rd was the 107th anniversary of “El Grito de Lares”, when thousands of Puerto Ricans annually mark a day of resistance against the Spanish colonizers.
Today, it remains a colony of the Americans.
By the slaughter of Filiberto Ojeda Rios, the issue of Independence has arisen like a flame within the hearts of Puerto Ricans.
When word arrived of his assassination, I flashed, almost immediately, back to Dec. 4, 1969, when Fred Hampton, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party chapter in Illinois, and Peoria’s Black Panther Capt. Mark Clark were assassinated in their home in Chicago.
The FBI was behind those murders also. And just like that assassination, the government reacted to their political assassinations with lies.
But, again, the objectives of the Empire was to extinguish the fires of freedom and independence from the heart of the nation. If reaction to Ojeda’s murder is any indication, then they have failed miserably.
There are events in the life of a people, that marks them. That sparks them. That moves their minds and hearts from acquiescence to resistance.
This may prove just such a moment.
Dylcia Pagan, former Puerto Rican political prisoner, wrote, within hours of the slaughter:
“What occurred was a political assassination of a Puerto Rican warrior orchestrated by a US FBI Federal Task Force. Even the municipality mayor Pedro Garcia in a radio interview stated that this occurrence was not a coincidence. The initial strategic firing by the FBI took place at 3:00 pm; at 6:00 to 6:30pm another follow-up firing occurred. The president of the Utier Union, Roberto Santos, that represents the electrical workers of Puerto Rico, called a major radio station to inform the Puerto Rican people that he had been informed by the FBI that all electrical power to the municipality of Hormigueros would be cut off. It took two days for all of us to know their justification which was that they needed to utilize their [infra]-red equipment for security measures. Hormigueros has been under federal seizure for the last four days. All of the Puerto Rican Press has not been allowed to bring their cameras into Filiberto’s residence ….”
Pagan adds: “In 1898 El Grito de Lares was a fight against Spanish colonialism. Today in 2005 a new Grito de Lares emerges against US colonial rule over our nation, Puerto Rico.”
The spirit that led to the assassination of Filiberto Ojeda Rios is precisely the spirit that led to the brutal, and illegal invasion and occupation in Iraq. It is capitalism run wild. It is imperialism in its nakedness.
It is the spirit that wishes to crush all expressions of human freedom, while doing so in the name of “Freedom!”
It is state terrorism, pure and simple, against the very idea of freedom and true independence.
There is only one real response that can bring change.
Broad, deep, mobilization of the people against this neoliberal nightmare.
Resistance. Resistance. And More Resistance!
Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Fred Hampton
Jun 6th
Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was a radical African American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. He was killed in his apartment by tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Many activists consider his killing to have been extrajudicial punishment.
KRS-One speaks at Stacks
Jun 2nd
KRS-One speaking for about 50 minutes in 2004
at Stack Vinyl to promote Keep Right.
Dropping bombs: KRSONE shares his experience coming up in the South Bronx and hiphop, past present and beyond.
Lies about the war on
May 31st
Description: Award winning journalist
Pilger speaks up. 100 x more heroin is produced in Afganistan.
People are living under horrible conditions.
Thanks to Dalibor
Lord Jamar – the 5% Album
May 31st
BRAND NUBIAN’S LORD JAMAR MAKES SOLO DEBUT ALBUM REVEALING THE 5% PERCENT MESSAGE WITH GUESTS FROM THE WU TANG CLAN
If you know LORD JAMAR it will probably be from his work with golden age Hip Hop legends BRAND NUBIAN, so let’s just cap that in a short bit with words from the man himself. For Jamar, Brand Nubian has a solid place in Hip Hop history. I feel we’re respected. From his inner perspective he sums up the bands greatest moments thus “ Our first great moment was when I was walking through Harlem and our first album had just come out. I realized that every car going by, that was playing loud music, was playing one of our songs from the album. The second great moment would have to be when we played at the Syracuse Homecoming. One of my Hip Hop Idols, Run DMC & Jam Master Jay, where headlining the show, but because we were so hot at the time, they let us close the show! The third great moment was realizing we had become Hip Hop Legends in our own right .†It’s not for nothing that Jamar closes with a sentence that includes the word “legends “ but that’s not to say his ego is out of check. Nubian is still active after all and still pushing forward and one of the few groups worthy of the name. Some have said in the past that the groups’ intense in your face message was racist towards white people or homophobic – Jamar squashes those criticisms immediately “The duty of the civilized, is to teach Freedom, Justice, & Equality to ALL HUMAN FAMILIES of the planet earth. I would also tell them we’re living in a time that if you disagree with power structure, you will be negatively labeled. If you say you’re against the war you’re “UN-AMERICAN.” If you say the word ‘faggot’ in a song, no matter what the context, you’re “homophobic.” It’s easy to tell that Lord Jamar is not afraid to stand up and speak his own personal truth; and it’s a truth that rings true for many both in his community and within his field of contemporaries. That’s what made Brand Nubian special back in the day and when Jamar openly states that he’s “always had the desire to “tell the real deal.” Nothing has changed for me as far as that is concerned†it’s easy to conclude that his outspoken nature is also going to play a crucial role in the record before you now….cont
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