I’d like to publicly express my prayers and condolences to Mr. Marshall “Eddie” Conway and family in light of the passing of his mother. Mr. Conway is Maryland’s longest serving political prisoner incarcerated 40 years ago while serving in Baltimore’s Black Panther Party. Activists and concerned citizens from Baltimore have been contacting the appropriate...
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Longtime Political Prisoner & “Model Inmate”, Marshall “Eddie” Conway prevented from attending Mother’s funeral
We pour libation to: Fred Hampton & Mark Clark
On this day in 1969, the headquarters of the Chicago Black Panther Party was targeted in a pre-dawn raid by the Chicago Police Department in partnership with J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation. The “law” enforcement officers emptied their guns on every brown body in the building and when the smoke cleared they...
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Nelson Mandela: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
Well, according to the United States he was a terrorist, but now he is a highly respected international diplomat. Mandela was on the United State’s Terror Watch List which made sure he had to jump through extra hoops to gain entry into the U.S. I’m sure his name being on that list also authorized...
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Guest Commentary: Symbols vs. Substance by Mumia Abu-Jamal
SOURCE: PRISON RADIO SYMBOLS VS. SUBSTANCE (Click here to listen to Mumia Abu-Jamal recite this powerful essay himself.) (c) ’08 Mumia Abu-Jamal Our national politics is largely the stuff of illusion. It is the stuff of spin. It is the manipulation of images to pluck the heartstrings, or to stoke the...
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Freedom Ain’t Free – A Message from Dominique Stevenson
Hello People, I am writing this to convey to all of you something that I have been thinking about recently. Freedom Ain’t free. As I spent the day pissed off about being ripped off by AT&T, it occurred to me that my problem was minor.  Eddie Conway (pictured above) has been ripped off by...
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A night with Chairman Fred Hampton
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you can’t kill a revolution!” Those are the words of Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, who was assassinated by an axis of evil – the Chicago Police Department, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, and the FBI on December 4,...
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“Big Brother” is doing more than watching
If the conviction of Scooter Libby (aka Bush, Cheney, and Rove’s “fall guy”) isn’t evidence enough that the United States Government has run amuck and is being led by gangsters in suits, then perhaps you’d be interested to know that this past weekend another big story broke. On Friday, March 9, 2007 Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, admitted during a...
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