Assata Shakur Liberation Day at UDC Law School ---- This SUNDAY 11/1 from 2-5p

[Naji Mujahid]

Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/858586317570637/

On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Olugbala Shakur (Joanne Deborah Chesimard), was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances before escaping out of the maximum security wing of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979 and moving to Cuba.

Sekou Odinga was one of the people athat assisted her escape and he will be the keynote speaker at our Assata Day program.

Sekou Odinga was a U.S.-held political prisoner imprisoned for over 33 years for fighting for the freedom of Black people and the building of the Republic of New Afrika. He was released Nov. 25, 2014 into the arms of family, comrades and friends. In 1965 he joined the Organization of Afro American Unity, founded by Malcolm X. In 1968 he helped found the Bronx Black Panther Party and later went underground with the Black Liberation Army. He was arrested in 1981 & charged with involvement in the liberation of Assata Shakur from prison and the Brinks expropriation. Convicted in 1984, he was sentenced to a consecutive 25 years to life state sentence and 40years federal. He is married to Dequi Kioni Sdiki and is the father of 8 children & 18 grandchildren.

Please join us at UDC Law School on Sunday 11/1 from 2-5pm in room 505.

UDC Law School is located at 4340 Connecticut Ave NW, which is two blocks from the Van Ness Metro station.

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UNLESS someone like you cares an awful whole lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not!  

--- The Lorax