TOMORROW --- A Day of Celebration & Education on The Liberation of Assata Shakur! @ UDC Law School
Naji Mujahid
A Day of Celebration & Education on
The Liberation of Assata Shakur!
In May of this
year, the FBI added Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorist list.
In addition, the state of New Jersey announced it was adding $1
million to the FBI’s $1 million reward for her capture. Shakur
becomes the first woman ever to make the list and only the second
domestic terrorist to be added to the list. This is indeed an
indictment against the freedom movements of a generation ago and a
threat to the freedom movements of the present day.
We say
HANDS OFF ASSATA SHAKUR!!!
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND
PRISONERS OF WAR!!!
and STOP NSA SURVEILLENCE!!!
CELEBRATE ASSATA'S
FREEDOM & DEMAND:
-That she not be
designated a terrorist
-That the $2 million bounty be
rescinded
-Respect for her political asylum & freedom under
Cuban sovereignty
-Freedom for all state & federal political
prisoners
Assata Shakur Day @ UDC Law School
4340 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Metro Accessible: Take the Red Line to Van Ness/UDC
The Program is from 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
and will include Speakers, Lunch, and Film....Pass the Word!!!
For questions call: (646) 271-2677, or e-mail:
Speakers will include Assata's attorney Lennox Hinds (bio here) who was also Nelson Mandela's attorney in the United States, Nkechi Taifa (bio here), and Jihad Abdul-Mumit, former political prisoner ,co-chair of The Jericho Movement, and Black Liberation Army (BLA) and Black Panther Party member. Also, Shahid Buttar, Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (bio here), Dr. Kokayi Patterson (student of Dr. Mutulu Shakur, BLA), Masai Ehehosi (former political prisoner and BLA member), and Steve Downs, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (www.civilfreedoms.org).
CLICK HERE TO HEAR: Assata Shakur’s attorney, Lennox Hinds, and Angela Davis on Democracy Now discussing the increased bounty for Assata’s capture.
AND: Assata Guilty of Survival (3:46) by Mumia Abu-Jamal
ABOUT
ASSATA
Assata:
Exile since 1979
On May 2 1973, Black
Panther activist Assata Olugbala Shakur (fsn) 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.
Assata:
In her own words
My
name is Assata ("she who struggles") Olugbala ( "for
the people" ) Shakur ("the thankful one"), and I am a
20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution,
I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political
repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government's
policy towards people of color. I am an ex political prisoner, and I
have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984. I have been a political
activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done
everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor
have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in various
struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights
movement, and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I joined
the Black Panther Party. By 1969 the Black Panther Party had become
the number one organization targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO
program. because the Black Panther Party demanded the total
liberation of black people, J. Edgar Hoover called it "greatest
threat to the internal security of the country" and vowed
to destroy it and its leaders and activists.