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The Vancouver Five (aka Direct Action)

The Vancouver Five (aka Direct Action) One of my more vivid childhood memories was a car trip somewhere or another when the news came on the radio that a Litton Industries factory where a component for the U.S.’s new Cruise missile was being made had been blown up by a …

Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, Prisoner of War

Jalil Muntaqim was 19 years old when he was arrested. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. For the past 42 years, Jalil has been a political prisoner, and one of the New York Three (NY3), in retaliation for his activism in …

Kuwasi Balagoon: Anarchy Can’t Fight Alone

Of all ideologies, anarchy is the one that addresses liberty and equalitarian relations in a realistic and ultimate fashion. It is consistent with each individual having an opportunity to live a complete and total 1ife, With anarchy, the society as a whole not only maintains itself at an equal expense …

Zolo Agona Azania, Prisoner of War

Losing has never been an option to me. What has happened to me can easily happen to any poor person. Zolo Agona Azania, 2005 Who is Zolo Agona Azania? by Owusu Yaki Yakubu The imprisonment rate for African-American people in the U.S. is six times higher than for white people. …

Sanford’s son

Sanford’s son Rick Wormwood The Portland Phoenix, Dec. 17th-23rd, 2004 Activist Raymond Luc Levasseur has been labeled a terrorist by some, a martyr and hero by others. Back in Portland after 20 years in federal prison, he’s not about to drift quietly into history. Raymond Luc Levasseur is the second …

Exiled in Havana: Nehanda Abiodun

Exiled in Havana  Brett Sokol Miami New Times September 7, 2000 With the FBI in pursuit, black activist Nehanda Abiodun a decade ago fled to Cuba, where she still dreams of fomenting a socialist revolution in the United States Even a casual observer in Havana would notice the striking disconnect …

Remember the Fallen, by Judy Clark

Kuwasi. Now he’s gone. And its like his last loving joke on me, his last gentle bursting of my egotistic bubble. Because i was all ready for a long, lingering heroic battle against disease and death. Ultimately lost, but great tragic courage and sharing. And he did it his way. …

On Kuwasi Balagoon, by Ashanti Omowali (May 15, 2001)

THERE ARE CATS, AND THERE ARE CATS… THERE IS KUWASI BALAGOON In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful… Kuwasi Balagoon is dead. “Surely we are Allah’ and to Him we surely return.” The Quran tells us each soul shall have a taste of death and all too often …