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abolitionmedia<p><strong>Nuestra América and the Black Radical Peace Tradition</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong>The Revolutionary Foundations of Our Americas</strong></strong></p><p>On April 8, 1804, a few months after leading Ayiti (Haiti) to independence after a bloody 13- year revolutionary war against European enslavers and colonists, the new nation’s leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, articulated the most radical vision of freedom in history. In the proclamation, ‘Liberty or Death,’ Dessalines pronounced “I have avenged America,” <a href="https://blackagendareport.com/proclamation-liberty-or-death-jean-jacques-dessalines-1804" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">decrying the barbarity and violence</a> of racist Europeans. At the same time, he delineated a vision of a new Ayiti, and the world, based on sovereignty, dignity, and respect.</p><p>On January 1,1891, 87 years after Dessalines’s proclamation of an independent Haiti, and exactly 62 years before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, José Martí <a class="" href="https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Marti_Jose_Our-America.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">published his famous work </a>: <em>Nuestra América </em>or “Our America.” In this, Martí called for Latin America to unite against ongoing colonialism and in protest of U.S. domination through the <a class="" href="https://monthlyreview.org/press/james-boggs-the-american-revolution-pages-from-a-negro-workers-notebook-black-agenda-report-excerpts-chapter-6/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monroe </a><a class="" href="https://monthlyreview.org/press/james-boggs-the-american-revolution-pages-from-a-negro-workers-notebook-black-agenda-report-excerpts-chapter-6/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Doctrine </a>.</p><p>On December 10, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan, Malcolm X delivered his “Message to the Grassroots” speech where he criticized the Civil Rights Movement’s appeals to U.S. white supremacist foundations, individualism over grassroots organizing, and the failures of Black/African peoples in the U.S. to unite with the anti-colonial movements of the Global South. Significantly, Malcolm demanded more than “civil rights” for Black/African peoples in the U.S.; he called for true and complete <a class="" href="https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1964-malcolm-x-s-speech-founding-rally-organization-afro-american-unity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">human rights </a> that would be the basis for the liberation of all African peoples globally. In this sense, Malcolm also urged us to reject the idea that the political identity of Black/African people is tethered to the U.S. settler project, proclaiming “[we are]… not ‘Americans’. We are victims of Americanism.”</p><p>All three of these visionaries died waging the struggle for liberation in the Americas. Dessalines was betrayed and assassinated two years into Haiti’s independence, a victim of the unresolved contradictory ideologies that fractured the nascent nation with tragic consequences. Martí, the writer and organizer, would die in battle in the struggle for Cuban independence. While Cuba would win flag independence in 1902, it would not escape the direct neocolonial chokehold of the U.S. and its corporate vultures until the revolution of 1959. Malcolm was slain by reactionaries and counterintelligence operatives in 1965, crippling the movement for Black/African liberation within the U.S.</p><p>In the ensuing years, and despite continuing resistance through individual and mass struggles, the promise of liberation has yet to be realized. Moreover, Malcolm would likely be disappointed with our failures, especially in the U.S., to carry on the vision of a Black/African struggle that is <a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/malcolm-x-presente" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">anti-colonial, </a><a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/malcolm-x-presente" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black nationalist, and </a><a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/malcolm-x-presente" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">internationalist</a>.</p><p>Yet Malcolm’s words on that cold December day in Detroit still ring true. Like Martí, who called for Latin American unity, Malcolm argued for unity against a common enemy, calling for a revolutionary anti-colonial struggle of all African and colonized and oppressed peoples against white supremacy and imperialism:<a href="https://blackagendareport.com/nuestra-america-and-black-radical-peace-tradition#_ftn1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>[1]</span></a></p><blockquote><p><strong>We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy — the white man. He’s an enemy to all of us…In <a class="" href="https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/perspectives-global-african-history/asian-african-bandung-conference-fact-and-fiction/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bandung </a> back in, I think, 1954, was the first unity meeting in centuries of Black people. And once you study what happened at the Bandung conference, and the results of the Bandung conference, it actually serves as a model for the same procedure you and I can use to get our problems solved…These people who came together didn’t have nuclear weapons; they didn’t have jet planes; they didn’t have all of the heavy armaments that the white man has. <strong>But they had unity….They began to recognize who their enemy was. The same man that was colonizing our people in Kenya was colonizing our people in the Congo. The same one in the Congo was colonizing our people in South Africa, and in Southern Rhodesia, and in Burma, and in India, and in Afghanistan, and in Pakistan. They realized all over the world where the dark man was being oppressed, he was being oppressed by the white man; where the dark man was being exploited, he was being exploited by the white man. So they got together under this basis — that they had a common enemy.</strong></strong></p></blockquote><p>It is this perspective that would, towards the end of his life, push Malcolm to form the Organization for Afro-American Unity, a Pan-Africanist revolutionary project.</p><p>Malcolm’s understanding of militant grassroots struggle, self-defense, and uncompromising principles are key to the <a class="" href="https://blackallianceforpeace.com/principles-of-unity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Radical Peace Tradition </a> that underlies the work of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP). While we take inspiration from the struggle of these heroic ancestors, we know that this struggle is far deeper and broader than the actions of individual men. This work is fundamentally about building collective power to oppose and defeat the militarization, repression, destabilization, subversion, and permanent war against our peoples. As our ancestor, and former Black Panther and political prisoner <a class="" href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/7/3/402/394907/Pedagogy-of-RemembranceSafiya-Asya-Bukhari-s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Safiya Bukhari reminds us </a>, in order to engage in the battle against imperialism and build a new society, we must also revolutionize our collective practices and consciousness through our political programs.</p><p>In building collective power, we see it as critical to link the unifying compass of Martí’s “Nuestra América” with the militant struggle of the Black Radical Peace Tradition, and the fire of Dessalines call to avenge the Americas. “Nuestra América” is the call of revolutionary forces in the Americas to rally all the historically oppressed peoples of the region against colonialism and imperialism by claiming one contiguous land mass stretching from Canada to Chile. In understanding the political, social, and economic position of working class Black/African peoples in the United States as united with the working peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America, we take inspiration from “Nuestra América” and push for the liberation of “Our Americas”.</p><p>Our first step is to recognize that working class Black/African and Brown peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean, and within the U.S. have a common enemy that seeks to exploit and dominate the region. Our joint struggle is to defeat this enemy by attacking its various forms of domination – (neo)colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism. The second step is to organize ourselves to build meaningful alternatives to this domination that are based on popular sovereignty, collective self-determination, and human dignity. Both steps require an Americas-wide consciousness toward collective, grassroots, anti-imperialist struggle.</p><p><strong><strong><em>De facto</em> Colonialism in the Americas</strong></strong></p><p>In the first month of Donald Trump’s second term as President of the United States, he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio proclaimed that U.S. will recapture the Panama Canal and annex Greenland and Canada; publicly threatened Mexico, Colombia, and Canada with tariffs; and all but declared war on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua – calling them “enemies of humanity” for refusing to capitulate to U.S. interests. Rubio also visited Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic on a tour aimed to strong-arm these nations into strengthening ties with U.S. corporate and military interests and severing developmental agreements with China.</p><p>But the brute tactics of the Trump regime, in trying to ensure U.S. “Full Spectrum Dominance” in the region, are not exceptional. “Full Spectrum Dominance” is the bipartisan doctrine articulated clearly in the <a class="" href="https://pentagonus.ru/doc/JV2020.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pentagon’s “Joint Vision 2020” </a> paper that commits the U.S. to exercising military, political, and economic control across the globe to protect imperialist investments and interests – a stance that <a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/delusional-commitment-doctrine-full-spectrum-dominance-leading-us-and-world-disaster" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">requires aggressively countering</a> any threats, real or imagined, to its dominance. Trump’s regime, therefore, is building on the foundation laid by the U.S. duopoly’s economic and political agendas of exploitation and domination.</p><p>It was not Donald Trump who initiated the current U.S.-led occupation and <a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/caricom-regional-arm-core-group-sells-out-haiti-again" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">anti-democratic transition process in Haiti</a>, or who recognized (for a second time) <a class="" href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-govt-rejects-us-interference-ahead-of-maduro-inauguration-breaks-diplomatic-ties-with-paraguay/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a sham President of Venezuela </a>, or who provided <a class="" href="https://www.southcom.mil/MEDIA/NEWS-ARTICLES/Article/3657767/gen-richardson-meets-with-leaders-in-ecuador-as-part-of-us-delegation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S. military support </a> to the right-wing narco-capitalist government of Daniel Noboa in Ecuador. These violations of national sovereignty in our region, and more, occurred through the Biden White House and Blinken State Department. Just as it was also not the Trump regime that oversaw the repression of the <a class="" href="https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/gazatoalt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Cop City movement </a> and the Student Intifada in response to the U.S.-Israeli genocide on Gaza. Again, this was the Biden-Harris regime and the mayors of the U.S.’s largest cities, almost all of whom are Democrats. Even Trump’s decision to send deported immigrants to Guantanamo Bay, a military base which the U.S. has occupied in Cuba since 1903, is just making good on a <a class="" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/31/the-us-contingency-plan-send-haitians-to-guantanamo-again" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thr </a><a class="" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/31/the-us-contingency-plan-send-haitians-to-guantanamo-again" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">eat that Biden issued in 2024 </a>. And Biden’s declaration was simply a revival of Bush Sr. and Clinton’s <a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/guantanamo-bays-forgotten-history-detaining-haitian-migrants" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">use of Guantanamo to hold captive Haitian migrants</a>.</p><p>Nevertheless, the current actions of the Trump regime have a different character. The U.S. has reverted to its brazen call for colonialist expansion, including full military control of the hemisphere, aggressive economic coercion, and divide-and-rule tactics – all wrapped up in vulgar white supremacist nationalism. The U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination is now more open and defiant!</p><p>The tools of this Axis of Domination are clear: military domination through the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom); economic warfare through sanctions, tariffs and other unilateral coercive measures; continuation of corporate extractivism over national development; and usurpation of state sovereignty through policies as the <a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/document-prologue-global-fragility-act-april-2022" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Global Fragility Act</a>. And, of course, U.S. imperialism also depends on a captured class of neocolonial compradors (e.g., William Ruto in Kenya, Luis Abinader in the DR, Daniel Noboa in Ecuador, and Nayib Bukele in El Salvador) who work to uphold its Full Spectrum Dominance. Indeed, the Americas region remains under <em>de facto</em> colonial rule. And, despite years of anti-colonial resistance throughout the hemisphere, the current bold articulation of U.S. power seems calibrated to accelerate this full spectrum dominance while simultaneously attempting to paralyze and demobilize legitimate united resistance.</p><p><strong><strong>Black Struggle in the Heart of Empire</strong></strong></p><p>We understand that Black/African communities in the U.S. hold a unique position in the heart of empire. With a long and relentless history defined by enslavement, economic exploitation and underdevelopment, political subjugation, environmental degradation, and state violence, these communities suffer the brunt of domestic white supremacist domination. Black/African organizers and scholars have described the Black/African condition in the U.S. as akin to a colonial relationship. Robert Allen, for example, understood the colonial relationship in these terms: “[the] direct and over-all subordination of one people, nation, or country to another with state power in the hands of the dominant power.” In this case, white supremacist, capitalist power with direct control over Black/African peoples and communities. Economist <a class="" href="https://inctpped.ie.ufrj.br/spiderweb/dymsk_5/5.2-5S%20Tabb.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Tabb agreed </a> with this and outlined the conditions faced by Black/African people in urban ghettos in the 1970s: a lack of labor freedom, suppressed wages, disposability and vulnerability of labor, and dependency on external aid (welfare) and political power (patronage) at the price of comprising collective needs.</p><p>This analysis of the internal colonization of Black/African people comes from a long and rich tradition of struggle and scholarship, outlined comprehensively by many including <a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/essay-struggle-leninist-position-negro-question-united-states-harry-haywood-1933" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Haywood</a> and later <a class="" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/jones-claudia/index.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Claudia Jones </a>, <a class="" href="https://bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.middlebury.edu/dist/b/3218/files/2014/08/Carmichael-Black-Power.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kwame Ture </a>, and <a class="" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00064246.2005.11413289" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Allen </a>, as well as organizations as diverse as the Communist Party USA, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, the Republic of New Africa, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers<em>. </em>As scholar Charisse Burden Stelly <a class="" href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-red-scare-overlapped-with-another-state-sanctioned-panic-the-black-scare/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">details </a>in <em>Black Scare/Red Scare</em>, Haywood and other Black communist organizers conceptualized the Black Belt Nation Thesis in the 1920-40s, understanding Black peoples predominantly residing in the U.S. South (the “Black Belt”) as an internal colony with the right to national self-determination. After the second imperialist world war, Jones laid out the distinctions between Black populations in both the North and South, while furthering the analysis that all Black people represented a nation within the borders of the U.S. – a community of people with common language, economic life, and culture – all under assault by the racist U.S. state.</p><p>While the “internal colony” model is an important way to understand the position of Black/African communities in this white supremacist country, we must also acknowledge how class dynamics of the U.S. Black/African communities have continued to shift over years. Bruce Dixon, for example, <a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/are-us-blacks-internal-colony-or-just-analysis-analogy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">asked </a>us to come to terms with the reality that, “Today there are thousands of actual black people in the actual US ruling class…There are black lobbyists and corporate functionaries…the two dozen or so black admirals and generals…There are black media figures…and black near billionaires <a href="https://blackagendareport.com/content/are-black-success-stories-really-holding-us-back" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">success stories</a> are built on low wage viciously exploited black labor…”. We agree with Dixon in recognizing the Black compradors aiding and abetting U.S. white supremacist domination. Nevertheless, we think it imperative to assert that the majority of our Black/African communities are poor and working class, and bear the brunt of the domestic side of U.S. imperialist terror.</p><p>In 1969, Robert Allen predicted that, after the Black revolts of the late 1960s, a “neocolonial re-direction” would occur that would continue to subjugate the majority of Black people in the U.S. This re-direction would replace direct white rule and power over the internal colony with Black comprador intermediaries (e.g., national politicians, mayors, corporate executives and managers) who would be more palatable to the people they dominated. This follows the analyses of <a class="" href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nkrumah/neo-colonialism/introduction.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kwame Nkrumah </a>, <a class="" href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1966/weapon-theory.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amilcar Cabral </a>, <a class="" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-studies-review/article/abs/fighting-two-colonialisms-the-womens-struggle-in-guineabissau/3A43D1CE3E965C0380854E79D154BA0C" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephanie Urdang </a>, and others on neocolonialism on the African continent. Allen argued that regardless of colonial or neocolonial rule, only a true and comprehensive anti-colonial struggle could lead to liberation for Black people in the U.S. This would require an economic program on a national level and the proliferation of international solidarity with ‘Third World’ peoples to defeat imperialism. For Allen, like for Malcolm, this would be a Black struggle that is anti-colonial and internationalist<a href="https://blackagendareport.com/nuestra-america-and-black-radical-peace-tradition#_ftn2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>[2]</span></a>:</p><blockquote><p><strong>[T]his struggle would aid materially in breaking black dependency on white society…The establishment of close working relationships with revolutionary forces around the world would be of great importance. The experiences of Third World revolutionaries in combating American imperialism could be quite useful to black liberation fighters. For the moment, mutual support between Afro-American and Third World revolutionaries is more verbal than tangible, but the time could come when this citation is reversed, and black people are well advised to begin now to work toward this kind of revolutionary, international solidarity.</strong></p></blockquote><p>In this sense, we link the struggles of the Black/African poor and working masses both to other marginalized communities in the U.S., and to all colonized and marginalized peoples’ globally.</p><p>This means the need to join the other liberation struggles of the colonized in the U.S., including Native peoples and lands, as well as the people of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The framework of internal colonialism helps us see that the Black/African liberation struggle is not simply against racism or a pursuit of state-sanctioned civil “rights.” Instead, together with the global majority, we are engaged in a struggle for self-determination and sovereignty against a common enemy. We have a common struggle of liberation against empire.</p><p>For BAP, like for Malcolm, ours is a struggle for liberation, comprehensive human rights, and dignity – or what we call <a class="" href="https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">People(s)-Centered Human </a><a class="" href="https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rights </a><a href="https://blackagendareport.com/nuestra-america-and-black-radical-peace-tradition#_ftn3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>[3]</span></a>. This is, for us, an anti-colonial struggle, and a movement of solidarity, and collective resistance.</p><p><strong><strong>Where do we go from here?</strong></strong></p><p>In outlining necessary actions for Black radicals in 1969, Robert Allen asserted that “the continuing main task for the black radical is to construct an interlocked analysis, program, and strategy which offers black people a realistic hope of achieving liberation.” Any road to liberation requires challenging, disrupting, and defeating imperialism, domestically and globally. In terms of building a program to support radical and revolutionary struggle in “Our Americas”, we learn from freedom fighter <a class="" href="http://www.assatashakur.org/message.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Assata Shakur and the BLA </a> who knew that any revolutionary struggle in the U.S. must engage in meaningful material solidarity with the struggles of the peoples and nations of the Global South.</p><p>In this moment, we aim to help advance this solidarity and struggle through the development of the <a class="" href="https://zoneofpeace.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas Network </a> – a mass-based, people(s)-centered, anti-imperialist structure to support the development of an Americas-wide consciousness, facilitate coordination of our unified struggles and build from the grassroots a ‘<a class="" href="https://zoneofpeace.org/about-us-sobre-nosotros/foundations-fundaciones/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zone of Peace </a>’ in Our Americas. Along with BAP’s recently inaugurated <a class="" href="https://blackallianceforpeace.com/north-south-project-for-peoples-centered-human-rights" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights </a>, the Network and the broader Zone of Peace campaign are efforts that consciously joins the Black/African liberation movements with the struggle for true popular sovereignty, self-determination, and decolonization in the Americas and globally.</p><p>This Network is a component of the collective <a class="" href="https://blackallianceforpeace.com/zoneofpeace" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas </a>, which calls for an activation and coordination of grassroots movements and organizations to <a class="" href="https://zoneofpeace.org/about-us-sobre-nosotros/demands-of-the-zone-of-peace-campaign-exigencias-de-la-campana-de-zona-de-paz/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">expel from our region the structures of U.S.-led imperialism </a> that generate war and state violence—colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism. This campaign’s vision of “Peace” follows BAP’s <a class="" href="https://blackallianceforpeace.com/principles-of-unity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">principle of the Black Radical Peace Tradition </a><a class="" href="https://blackallianceforpeace.com/principles-of-unity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">: </a></p><blockquote><p><strong>Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the achievement by popular struggle and self-defense of a world liberated from the interlocking issues of global conflict, nuclear armament and proliferation, unjust war, and subversion through the defeat of global systems of oppression that include colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.</strong></p></blockquote><p>Achieving a lasting, <a class="" href="https://www.academia.edu/94876425/W_E_B_Du_Bois_Against_U_S_Capitalist_Racism_Durable_Peace_and_the_Fulfillment_of_People_s_Centered_Human_Rights" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">durable peace </a> in Our Americas requires deepening our coordination, internationalizing our grassroots struggles, resourcing our efforts toward effective solidarity, and growing our capacities for resistance.</p><p>We know that advancing the revolutionary consciousness of the people of Our Americas is a necessary foundation for the grassroots struggle for our sovereignty, self-determination, and dignity. We know that struggling in Nuestra América through the Black Radical Peace Tradition necessitates centering the ongoing resistance of the people of Haiti, defeating the neocolonialism that has co-opted unity and integration in the Caribbean, and supporting those nations fighting to assert their sovereignty and determine their destinies, particularly Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. We know that we can establish the collective power to oppose the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination.</p><p>For our own survival, and the survival of the oppressed masses of the world,<strong> we must avenge Our Americas. The time is now.</strong></p><p><a href="https://blackagendareport.com/nuestra-america-and-black-radical-peace-tradition#_ftnref1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>[1]</span></a><span>El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz [Malcolm X]. (1963). Message to the Grassroots. BlackPast. <a href="https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1963-malcolm-x-message-grassroots/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">blackpast.org/african-american</span><span class="invisible">-history/speeches-african-american-history/1963-malcolm-x-message-grassroots/</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://blackagendareport.com/nuestra-america-and-black-radical-peace-tradition#_ftnref2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>[2]</span></a><span>Allen, Robert L. (1969). Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytical History. DoubleDay, New York.</span></p><p><a href="https://blackagendareport.com/nuestra-america-and-black-radical-peace-tradition#_ftnref3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>[3]</span></a> <span>“People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR) are those non-oppressive rights that reflect the highest commitment to universal human dignity and social justice that individuals and collectives define and secure for themselves and Collective Humanity through social struggle.” <a href="https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peoplescenteredhumanrights.com</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></span></p><p>source: <a href="https://blackagendareport.com/nuestra-america-and-black-radical-peace-tradition" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Agenda Report</a></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17502" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">17502</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-alliance-for-peace/" target="_blank">#blackAllianceForPeace</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-liberation/" target="_blank">#blackLiberation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-power/" target="_blank">#blackPower</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/internationalism/" target="_blank">#internationalism</a></p>
Abolition Media<p>Nuestra América and the Black Radical Peace Tradition</p><p>The Revolutionary Foundations of Our Americas<br>On April 8, 1804, a few months after leading Ayiti (Haiti) to independence after a bloody 13- year revolutionary war against European enslavers and colonists, the new nation’s leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, articulated the most radical vision of freedom in his</p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17502/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/175</span><span class="invisible">02/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackAllianceForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAllianceForPeace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackPower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internationalism</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>Celebrate International Working Women’s Day by Joining the Struggle Against Imperialism!</strong></p><p></p><p>International Women’s Day (IWD) was founded by working-class women who staunchly opposed war and fought for labor rights, peace, and equality. Rooted in the anti-war and socialist movements of the early 20th century, IWD emerged as a day to challenge oppression and demand justice. However, IWD has been co-opted by intersectional imperialists—women of diverse cultural backgrounds who unite under the banner of the U.S. empire, perpetuating violence and destabilization across the globe. This betrayal of its radical origins demands a reckoning.</p><p>The U.S. empire, draped in the language of feminism and empowerment, has weaponized IWD to justify its gangsterism. In Gaza, U.S.-backed Israeli forces have killed and displaced thousands of women and children, destroying homes, hospitals, and schools under the guise of “security.” In Sudan, U.S.-aligned forces and foreign interventions have fueled a devastating civil war, displacing millions and leaving women vulnerable to sexual violence and starvation. In Haiti, U.S. imperialism has propped up corrupt regimes and destabilized the nation, leaving women to bear the brunt of poverty, violence, and systemic collapse. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Black women in cities like Chicago and rural areas like the Mississippi Delta face systemic neglect, police violence, and economic exploitation. These are not isolated incidents but the direct consequences of Western imperialism, which prioritizes profit and power over human lives.</p><p>The celebration of IWD by those complicit in these atrocities is a grotesque distortion of its founding principles. True solidarity with women worldwide means opposing the systems that exploit and destroy their lives. It means standing against the U.S. empire’s wars, sanctions, and interventions that disproportionately harm women in the Global South. It means reclaiming IWD as a day of resistance against imperialism, capitalism, and patriarchy.</p><p>For the Black Alliance for Peace, the task is reclaiming International Women’s Day as a day of struggle, not of celebration—a day to dismantle Western imperialism and fight for a world where all women can live in freedom and dignity.</p><p>source: <a href="https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/working-womens-day-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Alliance for Peace</a></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17463" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">17463</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-imperialism/" target="_blank">#antiImperialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-alliance-for-peace/" target="_blank">#blackAllianceForPeace</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-liberation/" target="_blank">#blackLiberation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/feminism/" target="_blank">#feminism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>If We Abandon Our Political Prisoners We Abandon Ourselves: — Palestine Shows Us Why</strong></p><p></p> <p>“Most of the time, the people inside the banks weren’t afraid at all,” former political prisoner Jihad Abdulmumit tells me, describing the experience of doing ‘bank expropriations’ to gain funds for the Black Liberation Army during the 1970s.</p><p>“In fact we would receive rounds of applause and cheers a lot of the time from the bank customers, sometimes the bank tellers too,” Abdulmumit says. “One time I remember we dropped some of the cash and a customer on the ground eagerly helped us put it back in the bag!”</p><p>The Black Liberation Army (BLA) emerged as an underground organization, waging guerilla warfare in response to the U.S. imperialists’ bloody assault on Black liberation. Composed of former Black Panther Party and Republic of New Afrika members forced to take their work underground, the BLA was a logical response to the FBI’s monstrous COINTELPRO operation, which waged brutal, bloody, all-out war on every aspect of the Panthers’ movement.</p> <p>As Panthers across the country were being assassinated, framed, incarcerated, maligned in the media, and hunted by armed agents of the colonial state, the extreme violence by the imperialists had to be met with a material response—not victimhood.</p><p>“In the Panthers, I helped form a free community health clinic in Plainfield,” said Abdulmumit. “We had free breakfast programs, distributed newspapers, and helped run the gangs and drug dealers out of the neighborhoods. This is what the government was so afraid of, why they went to war with us.”</p><p>Jihad was just 16 years old when he joined the Black Panther Party in Plainfield, New Jersey, during an explosive political climate that resembled our contemporary moment: militancy permeated the air from the Plainfield Rebellion of 1967, massive anti-Vietnam War protests swept cities, coupled with nonstop Black, Indigenous, and Chicano uprisings. Images of strong Black brothers and sisters in leather coats and berets toting weapons strongly contrasted the colonial oppression, victimhood, and daily state violence that otherwise surrounded them. Jihad like many more only wanted to be one thing: a revolutionary.</p><p>One of the tactics the BLA developed was to rob banks, more accurately called ‘bank expropriations’, in order to fund the underground movement. “We knew that the money in those banks was built off our backs anyways, and if we could use it for the liberation of our people, then we had to try.”</p><p>When the people know without a doubt that your acts of resistance are on the behalf of their liberation, he tells me, then they will support you. This is why his comrades and him would receive ovations of applause inside the banks. Jihad would eventually be caught and serve 23 years in federal prison, but he “thought of escape, revolution, and liberation” every single day.</p><p>The problem, however, was that Jihad and his comrades were not the illusive “perfect victims” as Mohammed El-Kurd explains in his new book, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/perfect-victims-mohammed-el-kurd/21498541?ean=9798888903155&next=t&affiliate=109860" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal</a></em>. As El-Kurd illustrates the many ways that Palestinians must make appeals to “humanity” and fit into a narrow category of ‘perfect, peace-loving citizens’ to be humanized, these Black liberation fighters, too, failed the categories of victimhood.</p><p>As such, they received virtually no support from the wider movement around them. There were no legal defense teams ready to work pro bono for their release, no sweeping movements in the streets to demand the liberatory bank robbers’ freedom, and few comrades of the movement, even, that wanted to associate with the image of an armed insurgent cast behind bars. Contrasted with the popular global outcries for academic temporary political prisoner Angela Davis, the framed Panther 21 in New York, and other ‘above ground’ activists, Jihad says that many BLA comrades were on their own those initial years of imprisonment.</p><p>“Palestinians must denounce certain affiliations, determined by the West, to be considered worthy of living,” El-Kurd writes in the third chapter of his book. Discussing the insidious logic of ‘innocence’ and the implications of even well-meaning “liberals” distancing themselves from armed Palestinian resistance in order to make appeals to the humanity of the colonizers, El-Kurd illuminates the shortcomings of this approach: “Bombs do not discriminate on the basis of political ideology.”</p><p>Like Palestinians who are forced to perform absolute innocence to receive any ‘condolences’ or sympathy, our political prisoners are often abandoned if their resistance doesn’t conform to colonizer-approved methods of struggle. Last month, I watched as the West Bank erupted in crowds of celebration when <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/first-prisoner-exchange-brings-scenes-of-celebration-to-west-bank-streets/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">90 Palestinian hostages</a> were freed in the first prisoner exchange, a result of the ceasefire agreement the <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/senior-hamas-leader-says-israeli-ceasefire-violations-aim-to-continue-genocide-through-other-means/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zionists have now broken dozens of times</a>.</p><p>Photos of loved ones emerging to tender crowds, strong embraces, and Palestinian flags waving contrasted with just how battered many appeared. Palestinian scholar and PFLP leader, <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/hamas-qassam-brigades-release-three-israeli-captives-as-prisoner-swap-kicks-off" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Khalida Jarrar</a>, emerged from the Zionist dungeons appearing as if she’d aged a decade in just one year, while others who had <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ8kOiUkS5c&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">spent decades inside</a> were finally freed. Stirring videos of the resistance fighters receiving teary hugs and admiration have also filled popular social media feeds and international news, though little is shown across U.S. media.</p><p>This process has not only been about individuals coming home from Zionist gulags, though that is probably the primary cause of excitement. This was a display of a community reaffirming their commitment to their freedom fighters in every sense of the term: those in the prisons, those on the frontlines, and the many more simply caught in between a colonial system designed for their destruction and a liberation war.</p><p>What Palestinians fundamentally understand, from children to elderly, is that the movement does not abandon its own. The fight doesn’t end at the prison gate — prison is a continuation of struggle, not a conclusion — and the futures of those outside are deeply connected with those behind colonizers’ bars. And perhaps most important is the clear example of rejecting the perfect victimhood that we in the West often require of our solidarity, support, and movements.</p><p>Black organizers and revolutionaries in the U.S. must witness this dedication and take it to heart. Last August in Atlanta, the Black Alliance for Peace hosted the first CurbFest for Political Prisoners in Atlanta, a national event to raise awareness for our incarcerated fighters. Plastered across walls stood images of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Kamau Sadiki, Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Leonard Peltier, and others. But where were the crowds? Where was the eruption of community support that Palestinians show for their imprisoned every day?</p><p>Ruchell Magee spent almost all of ages 16 to 83 incarcerated, only to die from brutal prison conditions a mere 81 days after his release in 2023. Black Liberation Army warrior and acupuncturist Mutulu Shakur spent 37 years in imperialist dungeons, surviving only 8 months after his 2022 release. Brother Jalil Muntaqim spent 49 years locked down, and upon his release in 2020, must witness a Black “movement” quicker to mobilize <em>against</em> puppet presidents than <em>for</em> his locked-up comrades.</p><p>Whether longtime fighters like Ahmad Sa’adat, youth defying U.S. weapons by throwing rocks, or countless others swept away in mass arrests, Palestinians show us how to refuse letting prison walls disappear their people. Their names are spoken. Their stories are told. Their freedom is demanded at every turn, on every tongue and in every chant.</p><p>Even in the absence of their successful freedom, the narratives of their extreme resistance from the inside fill the voices of Palestinians. I was filled with emotion the first time I learned about <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/06/walid-daqqah-the-story-of-a-nation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Walid Daqqah</a> from a comrade of mine, who shared that despite him being imprisoned, he’d smuggled out his seed, to have a daughter with his wife and carry on his legacy. Such resilience is baked into the DNA of how Daqqah is memorialized, and is the substance of aspiration for those of us on the other side of the prison walls.</p><p>Under a fundamentally racist, colonial, and genocidal system, the conditions of imprisonment are inherently political. If we don’t build a movement strong enough to bring them home, we signal to the state that its war on Black liberation has worked—that prisons have broken our backs and souls. What the Palestinians have done, above all, is to make the prison struggle a popular struggle; one that saturates the mainstream and the popular consciousness of most Palestinians. We have ultimately failed to do the same.</p><blockquote><p>The Palestinian movement also makes it clear: a revolutionary movement that abandons its political prisoners abandons itself.</p></blockquote><p>The Palestinian movement also makes it clear: a revolutionary movement that abandons its political prisoners abandons itself. Struggle brings repression, and for those who truly dare to fight for freedom, prison is perhaps as inevitable as death. It is suicidal to not see ourselves reflected in the faces of our political prisoners and organize accordingly.</p><p>Today, Jihad Abdulmumit is the National Co-Chair of the Jericho Movement for Political Prisoners, an organization founded in the 90s by former political prisoners themselves, Jalil Muntaqim and Safiya Bukhari. It is one of the only legacy organizations in the U.S. that has carried the fight for political prisoners, and all prisoners, as its chief mission for almost 30 years now. Before it, no such organization truly existed in its form.</p><p>The support we give to the Jericho Movement today is the support we build for ourselves and our comrades tomorrow; the infrastructure for freeing our political prisoners, for popularizing their struggles, is also the infrastructure we build for ourselves as revolutionaries. Our loud denunciations of the <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/samidouns-coordinator-speaks-out-on-the-us-and-canadas-targeting-of-the-group/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">targeting of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network </a>are rehearsals for defending our own organizations, defending our own solidarity networks. Every community event that you hold to write letters to and raise funds for political prisoners, builds the muscle memory for when we might need those letters and funds ourselves. And the people we rally to the streets may become the acid that melts away the prison bars that we would otherwise die behind.</p><p>We have allowed our political prisoners to become ghosts, within a movement claiming to want radical exorcism of oppressive systems. Until we rectify this, learning from our Palestinian siblings the need for a popular movement, we impair our ability to walk forward. The path ahead is clear: we must reject the “perfect victim” narrative that has caused us to abandon our most dedicated fighters, which leads us to leave our most voracious freedom fighters unspoken, and instead build a movement that, like Palestine’s, fights as fiercely for those behind the walls as for those in front of them.</p> source: <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/if-we-abandon-our-political-prisoners-we-abandon-ourselves-palestine-shows-us-why/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mondoweiss</a> <p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17447" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">17447</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-liberation/" target="_blank">#blackLiberation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/jihad/" target="_blank">#jihad</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/solidarity-palestine/" target="_blank">#solidarityPalestine</a></p>
Abolition Media<p>If We Abandon our Political Prisoners we Abandon Ourselves: —PalestineShows us Why</p><p>“Most of the time, the people inside the banks weren’t afraid at all,” former political prisoner Jihad Abdulmumit tells me, describing the experience of doing ‘bank expropriations’ to gain funds for the Black Liberation Army during the 1970s.</p><p>“In fact we would receive rounds of applause and cheers a </p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17447/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/174</span><span class="invisible">47/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jihad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jihad</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SolidarityPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolidarityPalestine</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>Phone Zap! Get Malik Out of Solitary!</strong></p><p></p><p>Political prisoner Malik Muhammad is facing repression and has been thrown in solitary confinement again! Show him support by calling the prison and demanding his release!</p> <p>Malik was thrown in solitary without reason or clear rationale. He is once again being deprived of his communications, books, contact with other prisoners, and basic human needs.</p><p>Malik has been unapologetic about his principles. As punishment, Oregon Department of Corrections transferred him across state to keep him far away from regular in-person visitors and his legal representation, and has now placed him in solitary. This horrendous pattern shows that ODOC is far more concerned with shutting down political prisoners with opinions than ensuring safety, justice or reform.</p><p>But if ODOC thought this would stifle his determination, diminish his support, or deter his attorney from making trips out to Eastern Oregon, they were very much mistaken.</p><p>As much resilience as Malik continues to show, he needs our support. Being thrown in the hole is a strategy of psychological torture, cutting him off from support, essential resources and activity to fill his time.</p> <p>Call Snake River Correctional with the following demands:</p><ul><li>Return Malik to general inmate population;</li><li>Restore communications rights and mail;</li><li>Return all books and possessions immediately;</li><li>End the persecution now!</li></ul><p>Master Control: 541-881-5018<br>Superintendent: 541-881-5002<br>Inspector: 541-881-5081<br>Chaplains: 541-881-4624, 541-881-4625, 541-881-4626, 541-881-4686<br>General Line: 541-881-5000</p> <p>Please write to Malik and let him know you stand with him!</p><p>Malik Muhammad <a class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/tag/23935744/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#23935744</a><br>Snake River Correctional Institution<br>777 Stanton Blvd<br>Ontario, OR 97914-8335</p><p>*Note*: Please include page numbers and return addresses on each page because the prison typically does not give inmates the envelopes.</p><p><a class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/tag/freethemall/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeThemAll</a> <a class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/tag/firetotheprisons/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FireToThePrisons</a></p><p>source:<a href="https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/09/phone-zap-get-malik-out-of-solitary/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Mailk Speaks</a></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17430" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">17430</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-liberation/" target="_blank">#blackLiberation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/malik-muhammad/" target="_blank">#malikMuhammad</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/political-prisoners/" target="_blank">#PoliticalPrisoners</a></p>
Abolition Media<p>Phone Zap! Get Malik Out of Solitary!</p><p>Political prisoner Malik Muhammad is facing repression and has been thrown in solitary confinement again! Show him support by calling the prison and demanding his release!</p><p>Malik was thrown in solitary without reason or clear rationale. He is once again being deprived of his communications, books, contact with other prisoners,</p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17430/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/174</span><span class="invisible">30/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MalikMuhammad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalikMuhammad</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NorthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalPrisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPrisoners</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>Our Burning Memory: Social War & The Combatants for Black Liberation</strong></p><p></p><p>“I had rationalized the world and the world had rejected me on the basis of color prejudice. Since no agreement was possible on the level of reason, I threw myself back toward unreason.”<br>– Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Masks</p><p>Our history is a history of names of the dead.</p><p>Oscar Grant, Kimani Gray, Alton Sterling, Freddy Gray, Brionna Taylor, Mike Brown, Timothy Green, Kajeme Powell, Vonderitt Myers, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sean Bell, Rekia Boyd, Sonya Massey, Ta’Kiya Young, and on, and on, and on….</p><p>Since about 2015, when I first found people who were keeping track, the average number of people killed by police every year is about 1,500 people. 1,500 unique individuals whose lives were snuffed out, whose absence ripples across a whole constellation of relations – relatives, friends, loved ones, communities, etc. That, of course, is only explicit murders, not a variety of different forms of death in custody that are also murders, not harassment, not brutality, not sexual assault and rape.</p><p>So great are our dead, and at every turn they should be honored and remembered. Who remembers them and honors them better than our fighters? But…who are our fighters? Who makes note of and remembers them?</p><p>Our history is a history of defeat, and that defeat has us adopting the worldview of the enemy, has us accepting the limits of our chains. The left wing of capital, the self professed revolutionaries and yes even many anarchists, have adopted a stance of self victimization. In shock from the violence of oppression, the daily blood quota to keep a system of racial caste domination functioning, many will flee from what is asked of us, talking about <em>safety</em> before talking of fire and gunpowder – if they ever do. They will say “White Bodies To The Front!”, “Dismantling White Supremacy is White People’s Work!” as if someone could ever fight in place of us. They will tell people to stay out of the streets, to stay in line, to not come out before ever thinking of picking up a rock and a stick. They will talk infinitely about the strength of the police, but will never talk of their weaknesses.</p><p>When those few brave individuals, no longer accepting the daily misery and humiliation, no longer accepting the limitations thrust upon us by the color of our skin, strike out in displays of ferocity and courage, the activists and revolutionaries rush in to spit upon their memory. They’re adventurists. Individual action doesn’t do anything. Your actions are going to bring repression upon us. You’re making us look bad. You’re a fed. That was a false flag. They’re not affiliated with us, we’re the good ones. We’re the docile ones. We’re the cowardly ones who never dare to strike against our chains.</p><p>This tension is notable in looking at <em>who is worth remembering</em>. We talk of the innocent, the unarmed killed by the police and vigilante. If the innocent deserve our support, the guilty do doubly so. So much breath is wasted in trying to justify why so and so isn’t a criminal, was innocent, didn’t deserve to die. As though all our other kin deserve death. All the while the dominant order continues to stack our bodies because they see crime not in the action but in the origin – the birth in black skin.</p><p>I do not identify with this mythical figure of innocence – a white figure, an appeal to white morality. In the figure of the shoplifter, the drug dealer, the prostitute, the carjacker, the shooter I will always see more of myself. I know <em>what is done</em> is incidental, irrelevant, an excuse to play out fantasies of violence against black people, a desire to punish the Black Other to affirm the Goodness of White.</p><p>In an act of reclaiming the memory of the guilty, of uplifting our fighters I wish to talk about two particular individuals – Christopher Monfort and Korryn Gaines.</p><p>Our Memory Is A Burning Fuse</p><p>“My intentions are the best for the city and the country. The things I’m accused of are selfless acts. I didn’t get anything out of them.”<br>– Christopher Monfort, <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/accused-seattle-cop-killer-christopher-monfort-loner-obsessed-by-ideology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seattle Times Interview</a></p><p>October 22nd. Smoke rises from the Seattle City Maintenance Facility – multiple cop cars have burst into flames. A note is left at the scene referencing the video of King County Sheriff Paul Schene repeatedly punching 15 year old Malika Calhoun who is held in custody.</p><p>The perpetrator gets away, the attack remains unsolved.</p><p>10PM on the 31st, a cold Halloween night, and a vehicle drives through the streets of Seattle’s Central District. It pulls up next to an SPD patrol car and the window rolls down. The officers turn their heads to look over and from the darkness of the vehicle they are greeted not with a face, but with a barrel of a rifle. It opens its mouth to speak.</p><p>KRAK KRAK KRAK.</p><p>This exchange of speech in a language the police know so well lasts less than a minute before the rifle disappears into the darkness of the car. The vehicle quickly turns around and speeds off from the direction it came.</p><p>A look back over the scene: An SPD patrol car riddled with bullets, one pig slumped in his seat dead, the other injured.</p><p>“And when we die there ain’t no fireworks or fuckin parades”<br>– Bambu, Since I Was A Youth</p><p>November 6th, the armed death cult of SPD hold a public memorial – a procession through the city they occupy, a show of force. Around the same time out in Tukwila a snitch, a cop without a uniform, calls in a suspicious vehicle that matches the description of the vehicle that opened fire on the occupying army. The enemy encroaches on an apartment complex, a man brandishes a 9mm Glock and flees up the stairwell. The enemy approaches, the man pops out from the corner putting the gun into the cops face and pulls the trigger – click – he forgot to chamber a round. He goes down in a hail of gunfire into his head and stomach.</p><p>The enemy enters the man’s apartment. They find a small armory – a bolt action rifles and 2 semi-auto rifles, a shotgun, another .45 handgun, homemade explosives and firebombs and booby traps.</p><p>Ballistic and DNA forensics identify this man – Christopher Monfort – as the arsonist and gunman. Despite all odds he survives, now paralyzed from the waist down with a bullet lodged in his spine and with brain damage.</p><p>“So when the system seems to break down what do we do? We march, we protest, we form groups and the police scowl at us on the sides of the road and talk about the overtime they’re getting. If you stand close enough you can hear them. They have no intent on listening to a thousand or ten thousand people marching for police to stop their brutality. When you see a couple police officers brutalizing or murdering someone there’s always a few, maybe half a dozen, of their friends around them. They’re not gonna tell on their buddies. They’re not crossing the blue line.”<br>-Christopher Monfort, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YDP9buYVHg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Final Statement to the Court</a></p><p>Despite everything, Chris was able to speak for himself. He was sentenced to life in prison. He died in 2017 in his cell at Walla Walla State prison, allegedly from overdose. Anarchists continued to support him until his death.</p><p>—————————————————————-</p><p>“’She always was a little radical, and she was hardcore about certain stuff. She did a lot of research … laws of the land,’ Rhanda [Korryn’s Mother] said. ‘And right after Freddie Gray got killed, it amplified because he was a neighbor to us. We used to see him.’”<br>– <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/twenty-three-years-of-resisting-police-brutality-the-life-and-death-of-korryn-gaines/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Interview with the Mother of Korryn Gaines</a></p><p>March 10th, 2016. A woman is pulled over for driving a vehicle with a piece of cardboard where a license plate should be. She is ordered out of her vehicle as a cop threatens to taze her. “You are not going to kidnap me, you are going to have to kill me.”</p><p>She is arrested for a disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She is held for two days in isolation with neither food nor water.</p><p>August 1st, police come to her door to serve a warrant for missed court dates. The door is opened, the the cops are greeted with a shotgun to their face. They retreat and call for back up and a 6 hour standoff ensues.</p><p>Initially they try to frame the situation as a kidnapping but have to roll it back as a Facebook livestream of the stand off goes viral, with her calmly in her home and the occasional shot of her children in the background eating and playing. She talks about the situation while friends and followers cheer her on and tell her to hold strong.</p><p>In part of the video, Gaines asks her 5 year old son “Who is outside?” He answers “The police.” She asks why; “To kill us.” He responds.</p><p>Toward the end of the standoff, the Baltimore Police – with compliance from Facebook – gain access to her account, shut off the live stream and deactivate the account. Within moments of the live stream going down, the cops shoot through the wall, killing Korryn and wounding her child.</p><p>“’Officer shot through a wall and couldn’t even see nothing,’ Rhanda said. She describes the sentiment of the officer as, ‘Nerve of this little Black girl to stay in this house when we said to come out!’”<br>– <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/twenty-three-years-of-resisting-police-brutality-the-life-and-death-of-korryn-gaines/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Interview with the Mother of Korryn Gaines</a></p><p> </p><p>The Black Liberation Army Is A Living Tension</p><p>“…our final consideration is whether or not these masses must centralize their organizing (not to be confused with the obvious need to coordinate their efforts!). To that I answer with an emphatic, ‘no!’ and further, I contend that such centralization will only make it easier for our oppressors to identify and level repression upon us – prolonging the crisis our generation must deal with.”<br>– Russell Maroon Shoatz, The Dragon and the Hydra</p><p>These two stories are a drop in the ocean – there’s a thousand stories like these. Hidden, buried, choked out by our enemies and the cowards who enable them. Names and acts we will never know. The point in recounting and connecting these stories, beyond the inspiration of individual action, is to describe a living tension.</p><p>Once is an act of insanity. Twice is a lone wolf. A thousand times begins to look like an army.</p><p>While revolutionaries waste their ink and breath talking of conditions, of “the people” not being ready, the past two decades has been the informal spread of practices and the development of ad hoc fighting formations. The shooters, the rock throwers, the looters, the arsonists, the getaway drivers. A black liberation army – a de facto informal network of fighters across the territories dominated by the american state – has been building and fighting right before our very eyes.</p><p>Many look at this and see disorganization, a child needing the strong hand of the Patriarch to guide them, whether in the form of the vanguard party or the leader, to the <em>real</em> means of freedom that these chaotic and ungrateful negros will never grasp on their own. But any closer look shows that we are very obviously organized and coordinated – perhaps <em>the</em> most organized forces in these territories and perhaps it’s the revolutionaries who need a lesson in organization.</p><p>Or better yet, the revolutionaries need to be pushed out of our way.</p><p>Yes, the organization, the coordination, the fighting spirit is all there. What is needed is for us to consciously recognize this – that we aren’t fighting alone, that to some degree or another we have built upon the ideas, strategies and practices of others, refined in the forge of street combat. This consciousness has been developing over the past 20 years and through bitter and bloody experience will continue to develop is greater and lesser degree, in different ways, in different territories.</p><p>I don’t have a plan or a great analysis to give you to beautifully close this out. All I can offer is this; I see tensions that need to be pushed, memories that need to be reclaimed, and developing practices that need to be analyzed. Through writing, through video, through music, performance, crime, and practice in the instances of street combat to come I seek to spread and clarify these and be in dialogue with the development of the black liberation army, walking alongside it as an anarchist and developing it as a participant.</p><p>If nothing else has been made more clear to me, I can clearly see that many individuals in many different territories see a similar trajectory and, like me, awkwardly stumble towards it. Just as I develop and dialogue with local and regional tensions, I hope to dialogue with you all, sharing our ideas, sharpening our practices.</p><p>I cannot say what the future holds, victory or defeat. All I can say for certain is that no savior from on high will deliver us from the position we find ourselves in; that our destiny is in our hands alone, so let’s make sure our hands are armed.</p><p>In Memory Of Our Fallen; Let us turn their cities into funeral pyres.<br>In Memory Of Our Fighters; Let us honor your names with fire and gunpowder.<br>Peace By Piece<br>(A)</p><blockquote><p><a href="https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/our-burning-memory-social-war-the-combatants-for-black-liberation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Our Burning Memory: Social War & The Combatants for Black Liberation</a></p></blockquote><p></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17424" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">17424</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anarchist/" target="_blank">#anarchist</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-police/" target="_blank">#antiPolice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-liberation/" target="_blank">#blackLiberation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-liberation-army/" target="_blank">#blackLiberationArmy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/police-violence/" target="_blank">#policeViolence</a></p>
Abolition Media<p>Our Burning Memory: Social War & The Combatants for Black Liberation</p><p>“I had rationalized the world and the world had rejected me on the basis of color prejudice. Since no agreement was possible on the level of reason, I threw myself back toward unreason.”<br>– Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Masks</p><p>Our history is a history of names of the dea</p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17424/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/174</span><span class="invisible">24/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antipolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antipolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackLiberationArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberationArmy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NorthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliceViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceViolence</span></a></p>
Demo Ticker Berlin<p>💥Announcement! Wednesday 05.03.2025💥</p><p>🎬 Black liberation cinema in Rigaer 94! 🎥</p><p>Wednesday, 05.03.2025 | 08:00 pm | Rigaer Straße 94 10247 Berlin</p><p>Arrival: U5, M10, M21 Frankfurter Tor | M10, M21 Bersarinplatz</p><p>📣 Call: <a href="https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10182" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10182</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> - @rigaer94</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/b0503" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b0503</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a></p><p>Black liberation cinema in Rigaer 94!</p><p>Every day there is food at 08:00 pm and film starts at 08:15 pm</p><p>05.03.2025 - All power to the people<br>English</p>
Demo Ticker Berlin<p>💥Ankündigung! Mittwoch 05.03.2025💥</p><p>🎬 Black liberation Kino in der Rigaer 94 🎥</p><p>Mittwoch, 05.03.2025 | 20:00 Uhr | Rigaer Straße 94 10247 Berlin</p><p>Anreise: U5, M10, M21 Frankfurter Tor | M10, M21 Bersarinplatz</p><p>📣 Aufruf: <a href="https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10182" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10182</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> - @rigaer94</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/b0503" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b0503</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a></p><p>Black liberation Kino in der Rigaer 94!</p><p>Jeden Tag gibt es um 20:00 Essen und um 20:15 beginnt der Film</p><p>05.03.2025 - All power to the people<br>Englisch</p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BostonReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BostonReview</span></a> book talk</p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/SamKlug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamKlug</span></a> in conversation about his book <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/TheInternalColony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternalColony</span></a> with Prof. Chad Williams</p><p>"Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance of global <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decolonization</span></a> to the divergence between mainstream liberalism and the <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackFreedomMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackFreedomMovement</span></a> in postwar America." </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/rBmNJh5w_3w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/rBmNJh5w_3w</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/internalColonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internalColonization</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/racialCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/decolonialStruggles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decolonialStruggles</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
Luigi<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackhitorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackhitorymonth</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackhistory</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blacklivesmatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blacklivesmatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackexperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackexperience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackpride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpride</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackliberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackliberation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackpositivy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpositivy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackexcellence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackexcellence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackcomumnity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackcomumnity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackamericanculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackamericanculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackandwhitephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackandwhitephotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/africanamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>africanamerican</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/africanamericanculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>africanamericanculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AfricanAmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanAmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagephotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a></p>
Luigi<p>Black Culture <br>"Let them talk, let them judge", Denzel Washington<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackhitorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackhitorymonth</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackhistory</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blacklivesmatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blacklivesmatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackexperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackexperience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackpride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpride</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackliberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackliberation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackpositivy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpositivy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackexcellence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackexcellence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackcomumnity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackcomumnity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackamericanculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackamericanculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackandwhitephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackandwhitephotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/africanamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>africanamerican</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/africanamericanculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>africanamericanculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AfricanAmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanAmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagephotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ScholarsCircle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScholarsCircle</span></a> author interviews</p><p>⦁ <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/DerekBlack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DerekBlack</span></a>, author of <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/DangerousLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DangerousLearning</span></a>: The South's Long War On <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiteracy</span></a> <br>⦁ <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/AshleyFarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AshleyFarmer</span></a>, author of <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/RemakingBlackPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RemakingBlackPower</span></a>: How <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackWomen</span></a> Transformed an Era </p><p><a href="https://scholarscircle.org/scholars-circle-book-author-interviews-the-fight-for-black-literacy-women-intellectuals-of-the-civil-rights-movement-february-23-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scholarscircle.org/scholars-ci</span><span class="invisible">rcle-book-author-interviews-the-fight-for-black-literacy-women-intellectuals-of-the-civil-rights-movement-february-23-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/contemporaryHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contemporaryHistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackStudies</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/WomensStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensStudies</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/SouthernHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernHistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Luigi<p>Malcolm X, 1964<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ResistRiseupMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistRiseupMovement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mobilize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mobilize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackExcellence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackExcellence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackPower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackPride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackPride</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackEmpowering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackEmpowering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PanAfricanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PanAfricanism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackCulture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ByAnyMeansNecessary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ByAnyMeansNecessary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>africa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/happyblackhistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>happyblackhistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MalcolmX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalcolmX</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/JVP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JVP</span></a> Albany event </p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/WeChargeGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeChargeGenocide</span></a>: Black, Palestinian, South African, and Jewish Solidarity | <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> </p><p>"The radical history of Black, Palestinian, South African, and Jewish Solidarity from the 1940’s to today" </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Lc7CsolTAlg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/Lc7CsolTAlg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/antiApartheidMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiApartheidMovement</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/PalestineLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/PalestineSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineSolidarity</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/intersectionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intersectionality</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/decolonialStruggles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decolonialStruggles</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/SouthAfricaVIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfricaVIsrael</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Demo Ticker Berlin<p>💥Announcement! Wednesday 26.02.2025💥</p><p>🎬 Black liberation cinema in Rigaer 94! 🎥</p><p>Wednesday, 26.02.2025 | 08:00 pm | Rigaer Straße 94 10247 Berlin</p><p>Arrival: U5, M10, M21 Frankfurter Tor | M10, M21 Bersarinplatz</p><p>📣 Call: <a href="https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10182" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10182</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> - @rigaer94</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/b2602" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b2602</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/b0503" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b0503</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a></p><p>Black liberation cinema in Rigaer 94!</p><p>Every day there is food at 08:00 pm and film starts at 08:15 pm</p><p>26.02.2025 - All power to the people<br>English</p><p>05.03.2025 - All power to the people<br>English</p>
Demo Ticker Berlin<p>💥Ankündigung! Mittwoch 26.02.2025💥</p><p>🎬 Black liberation Kino in der Rigaer 94 🎥</p><p>Mittwoch, 26.02.2025 | 20:00 Uhr | Rigaer Straße 94 10247 Berlin</p><p>Anreise: U5, M10, M21 Frankfurter Tor | M10, M21 Bersarinplatz</p><p>📣 Aufruf: <a href="https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10182" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10182</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> - @rigaer94</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/b2602" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b2602</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/b0503" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b0503</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a></p><p>Black liberation Kino in der Rigaer 94!</p><p>Jeden Tag gibt es um 20:00 Essen und um 20:15 beginnt der Film</p><p>26.02.2025 - All power to the people<br>Englisch</p><p>05.03.2025 - All power to the people<br>Englisch</p>
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