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#SNCC101: In McComb, MS, SNCC organizers were often subjected to brutal force, blatant racism, and various other forms of violence at the hands of police officers, white nationalists, and the local judicial systems.
Bob Moses was no stranger to these harsh conditions. He moved to McComb in 1961 after spending the summer as a field organizer throughout that region and discussing the potential for a mass voter registration with Amzie Moore, a prominent NAACP colleague.
He worked alongside a group of local adults, high school students, and youth who helped with canvassing and the voter registration campaign. On August 15, 1961, Moses and a group of hopeful registrants were pulled over by police after being denied the right to register. 
This #BlackAugust, in partnership with @MXGMNational we're calling for the freedom of 5 #PoliticalPrisoners:
❤️ Dr. Mutulu Shakur
🖤Mumia Abu-Jamal
💚 Kamau Sadiki
💛Imam Jamil Al Amin
🤎Ed Poindexter
Join us today to send them love, support, & hope: m4bl.link/PoliticalPriso…
❤️ Dr. Mutulu Shakur
🖤Mumia Abu-Jamal
💚 Kamau Sadiki
💛Imam Jamil Al Amin
🤎Ed Poindexter
Join us today to send them love, support, & hope: m4bl.link/PoliticalPriso…
Dr. #MutuluShakur is a father, grandfather, healer, & human-rights activist who has been in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for more than 35 years. He was targeted and victimized by the Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) as early as 1968.
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@MumiaAbuJamal is an internationally celebrated Black writer & radio journalist, author, and organizer. He is a former leader of the Black Panther Party, and supporter of Philadelphia’s radical MOVE organization who has spent the last 40 years in prison.
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FREE THE LAND! Edward Onaci (@onaci7) on the History of the Republic of New Afrika
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In this episode we talk to @onaci7 about the history of the New Afrikan Independence Movement, the development of key principles of New Afrikan Political Science and the PGRNA …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/free-the-land-…
.@onaci7 touches on contributions of key figures in the New Afrikan tradition such as Queen Mother Audley Moore, the Obadele Brothers, Chokwe Lumumba, Nkechi Taifa, Robert F. Williams and Mutulu and Assata Shakur and others …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/free-the-land-…
Hello and welcome back to #Fuck12Friday! It has been a HECTIC week with the shooting of #LatrellAllen, so we're going to be taking a step back and do some history on #BlackAugust and the Black radical tradition. Follow along!
#BlackAugust is now a 41-year-old tradition, started in 1979 by Black people incarcerated in California. These folks wanted to begin a movement that honored the radical history of prison protest #Fuck12Friday
Why August? George Jackson, Black Panther and co-founder of the Black Guerilla Family. Jackson was incarcerated at age 18 and radicalized in prison. On August 21, 1971, Guards murdered Jackson at age 29 in a prison escape #BlackAugust #Fuck12Friday
I’ve already posted by current reading list and am already several weeks and three books into this but I think it makes sense to reshare as a #BlackAugust reading list.
The specific topics I’ve been interested in are 1) black anticapitism (and by proxy black anti imperialism which I didn’t entirely know to fully seek or appreciate), and semi related topics of black cooperative economics and labor organizing ....
2) black relationship to education justice and neoliberal education reform particularly in Chicago, and
