All Charges against Ojore Lutalo Have Been Dropped
It’s official – all charges against Ojore Lutalo have been dropped. Details will follow.
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Former BLA Prisoner of War Ojore Lutalo… In Prison Again
It has been just four months since Ojore Lutalo left the prison gates, “free” after over a quarter century behind bars. A combatant with the Black Liberation Army, Lutalo (like so many other POWs and political prisoners) had been subjected to isolation-torture, an attempted depivation of all social contacts meant …
Zolo Agona Azania and David Gilbert, Two Teachers Out of Prison
David Gilbert – NO SURRENDER: writings from an anti-imperialist political prisoner. Arm The Spirit/Guillen. 2004. 284p. Paperback book. $20.00 Zolo Agona Azania – Money & Power: Hook or Crook. Kersplebedeb. 2004. 53p. Pamphlet. $3.95 In the 1960s it was common for protesters on the streets to get their ideas right …
The War Before: Events and Book Launches Across Amerika
The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind Black Liberation Army member, vice-president of the Republic of New Afrika, prisoner of war, comrade, activist, mother, grandmother. Safiya Bukhari was all of these things and many …
The Vancouver 5: armed struggle in Canada, by Jim Campbell
Linking anarchism to deliberate acts of violence might seen very natural to most people if they think about anarchism at all. But for most younger anarchists, it must be difficult to imagine that in the early 1980s, armed struggle in Canada not only seemed possible, but a small group coming …
Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier’s Story, a review by Steve Swart, from Active Transformation
Since my arrest in Philadelphia during the RNC I have been trying to read more about people who have lived and endured incredible sacrifices in hopes of contributing to revolutionary social change. It has really allowed me to put my situation in perspective, and gain a lot of strength to …
No Surrender: Writings from an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner, by David Gilbert, Reviewed by Michael Novick, Editor, Turning the Tide
You may know David Gilbert from his appearance in the recently popular, award-winning documentary “Weather Underground,” which has played in art houses around the US and is now available on DVD. If so, you know he is a warm, engaging, committed, optimistic and insightful person, capable of unflinching self-criticism but …
Anti-imperialism, internationalism: Good “Anti-authoritarian” and “armed struggle now” demagoguery: Bad
Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier’s Story reviewed by International Minister, MIM Notes 230, March 15, 2001 This pamphlet comes from the better section of anarchists. We have the political prisoners from the Black Liberation Army — e.g. the Panther 21 — and people like J. Sakai writing supplementary material to the material Balagoon …
Kuwasi Balagoon 1946-1986
Kuwasi Balagoon New Afrikan Anarchist Revolutionary December 22, 1946 – December 13, 1986 available from leftwingbooks.net “Without freedom, there isn’t any big deal in living since to accept fascism is to forfeit life.” Kuwasi Balagoon was a defendant in the Panther 21 case in the late sixties, and a member of the …