They call me Zulu...
From a letter written to Jenka Soderberg...
30 miles from the nearest town,
hidden in the Louisiana hills, traveling along a long
twisting road at a dead end you will find Angola, a former plantation now a
prison the size of Manhattan which is unli...
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Friday April 24th: Political Prisoners in the USA
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On the birthday of Mumia Abu Jamal, KBOO presents this special on Mumia and
the many other political prisoners held in U.S. prisons including members of
the Black Panther Party, 1960s ...
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Since this statement was written, Merle Austin Africa joined the ancestors.
She died in prison, March 13, 1998.
Revolution is not a word but an application, it is not war but peace, it does
not weaken it strengthens, revolution does not cause separation it generates
toget...
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What the Corporate Media Didn’t Tell You about May 13, 1985!
The sole adult survivor of the May 13, 1985 massacre of 11 members of the
MOVE organization is Ramona Africa. The the City of Philadelphia and the FBI
and dropped a C4 bomb on MOVE’s 6221 Osage Avenue home in W...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal is a renowned journalist from Philadelphia who has been
inprisoned since 1981.
Mumia has been on death row since 1983 tried and convicted for allegedly
shooting Daniel Faulkner a Philadelphia police officer. Because of his his
award - winning reporting ...
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On 10/04/2002 Patrice Lumumba Ford was arrested along with 3 other suspects
of the Portland Seven in Portland, Oregon. He was accused of traveling
overseas in a conspiracy to wage war against the United States, provide
material support and resources to Al Qaeda and contrib...
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Sheriff Jack McDaniel of Alpine, Texas, On July 18, 1996 arrived to arrest
Alvaro at his home on a trumped up charge of aggravated robbery When the
unarmed Alvaro questioned the sheriff's action, the officer drew his weapon.
Before he could shoot, Alvaro disarmed him and f...
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Nov. 25, 2004 The Kansas City Star:
MARK MORRIS
"A 61-year-old peace activist was sentenced to fifty one months in prison
Wednesday for threatening federal officials and pouring red paint and
cranberry juice on a federal courthouse security station."
"Helen Wood...
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The Case of the Angola 3
Some 36 years ago, deep in rural Louisiana, three young black men were
silenced for trying to expose continued segregation, systematic corruption,
and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000-acre former
slave plantation called Ango...
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From a PICA Press Release... Oaks is acclaimed ambient electronic
experimentalist Ethan Rose’s third full-length, following on the 2006
release Ceiling Songs and the 2007 release, Spinning Pieces. Ethan’s music
was also featured in Gus Van Sant’s latest film, Paranoid Par...
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