December 2011
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“You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight...”
– Fred Hampton, later murdered by the Chicago PD. (via rethinksocialism)
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The Roots... Undun
Undun is The Roots’ first concept album, and it tells the story of a man called Redford Stephens who died in 1999 at the age of 25. We hear Redford retelling his life post-mortem and attempting to deconstruct what led to his undoing. “At this point in our career we’d like for our work to have a unifying theme, and an experiential quality,” said drummer Ahmir...
“There can be no real freedom until the imperialist — world-enemy-number-one —...”
– Huey P. Newton, minister of defense of the Black Panther Party
my-africa-is-beautiful asked: Where is the link? The history of the N-word?
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THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF THE "N" WORD
THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF THE “N” WORD HAD A CONNOTATION CONNECTED TO THE GODS
The word “nig…” used to be the most revered and sacred word in the universe. It was the “devine epithet,” and the people who began using the mother of all words that originated from this word which was sullied by the British, were the ancient Egyptians or better, the ...
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Kim Il Sung & the NOI →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
From We Want Freedom by Mumia Abu-Jamal:
The 3rd Avenue El in the Bronx was a major thoroughfare in the borough, and as such was a prime site for one trying to sell The Black Panther. I had recently been assigned to the Bronx office and in an attempt to sell my 50 copies, I chose a stop on the line where the foot traffic would be quite heavy, as people descended from...
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Africa 2011: Year of mass upheaval, imperialist... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
December 17 marks the anniversary of a year of uprisings, strikes, government resignations and regime change on the African continent. A resource-rich and strategically located geopolitical region,…
California prison strikers propose 10 core demands... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
California prison hunger strikers at Corcoran SHU have drafted a set of 10 core demands that they are proposing be adopted by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. These demands, plus much motivating and enlightening information, were published on Dec. 6 in the San Francisco Bay View, a national Black newspaper. We reprint below the essence of these demands.
1. We want full...
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“My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my...”
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Life + Times: Lock My Body, Can’t Trap My Mind
Angela Davis, in her introduction to Mumia Abu Jamal‘s ’09 book Jailhouse Lawyers, called him one of the most important public intellectuals of our time. “As a transformative thinker,” she writes of Mumia, “he has always taken care to emphasize the connections between incarcerated lives and lives that unfold in the putative arenas of freedom.” In his newest book, The Classroom and the Cell:...
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Mugabe's speech at the 12th Zanu-PF Annual...
On behalf of our Party, the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front, I warmly greet and welcome you all to our 12th Annual National People’s Conference which is being hosted by the Bulawayo Province as unanimously agreed by our Party. This is an annual event which we deliberately set towards the end of every year so we have an effective, decision-making mechanism for running...
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NATO ADMIT THEY DELIBERATELY TARGETED...
Prof. Christian De Cock, Chief of NATO’s International Law Section … emphasized that his unit interpreted international legal concepts broadly. “We analyzed the guidance on ‘direct participation’ in hostilities. If you participate then you are part of the conflict; we felt that nonmilitary groups were legitimate targets. We disagree in the idea that [someone] ceases to be part of the...
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