From Family & Friends of Mutulu Shakur: Nov. 10, 2022: In order to bring Mutulu home to his family in California safely and comfortably, we must raise funds to cover several urgent costs. These costs include Mutulu’s ground transportation from the prison to the airport, medical air transport from Kentucky
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Kersplebedeb: The Resounding Right of Mutulu Shakur to Die in Freedom [CounterPunch.org]
Mutulu Shakur and his codefendant Marilyn Buck at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan, 1987. Photo: Trella Laughlin. [This article was originally posted to Counterpunch.org on July 31, 2022.] Anyone with a loved one in prison carries around the silent, ceaseless terror that the person so loved will die
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NEW ISSUE: Re-Build! A New Afrikan Independence Movement Periodical, Summer 2022
The Rebuild Collective has a new issue of their newspaper out for Summer 2022. You can read it online on their website here! You’ll also find lots of news and resources from the New Afrikan Independence Movement, past and present at RebuildCollective.org. The Rebuild Collective is a New Afrikan Independence Movement Formation founded
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Interview with Akinyele Umoja on Kuwasi Balagoon [Black Agenda Report]
[This interview is mirrored from Black Agenda Report, where it was originally posted on June 8, 2022. Akineyele’s article and other writings by and about Kuwasi can be found in A Soldier’s Story: Writings by a Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchist.] BAR Book Forum: Interview with Akinyele Umoja Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin’s “Anarchism and the Black Revolution” [Black Agenda Report]
[This post is mirrored from BlackAgendaReport.com] Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor 13 Oct 2021 In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. Ervin is an American writer, activist and black anarchist. He is a
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NEW: Re-Build! A New Afrikan Independence Movement Periodical, Special Commemorative Issue, Black August 2021
The Rebuild Collective has a new issue of their newspaper out. You can read it online on their website here! The Rebuild Collective is a New Afrikan Independence Movement Formation founded by New Afrikan Nationalists inspired by the thought of Movement theoretician Atiba Shanna and committed to winning the struggle for Independence and Socialism. This issue is dedicated to
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971 [mirrored from BlackAgendaReport.com]
Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches. [This article was originally posted by Black Agenda Report on August 18, 2021. For more on the Attica Rebellion, check out the book A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt. For audio with the words of participants and fellow
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Kevin Rashid Johnson — Transferred to Ohio and Facing Bogus Charges! [RashidMOD.com]
[Kevin “Rashid” Johnson has been imprisoned for over 30 years. His original conviction stemmed from lumpen activity, but he became a revolutionary New Afrikan early in his time inside. He is the author of Defying the Tomb (2010) and Panther Vision (2015), and the Minister of Defense for the Revolutionary
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Birth, Meaning, and Practice Of Black August (Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 2021)
[Kevin “Rashid” Johnson has been imprisoned for over 30 years. His original conviction stemmed from lumpen activity, but he became a revolutionary New Afrikan early in his time inside. He is the author of Defying the Tomb (2010) and Panther Vision (2015), and the Minister of Defense for the Revolutionary
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Decades of torture, hundreds of men, weeks of starvation – and still we aren’t free! [SFBayView, Nube Brown]
Paul Redd (PR) [Reposted from SFBayView.com. Originally published July 16, 2021.] Interview with Paul Redd and Ruben Jitu Williams by Editor Nube Brown This is my interview with two incredible men who represent hundreds of others who have survived the torture of decades of solitary confinement and psychological abuse in
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NEW: Re-Build! A New Afrikan Independence Movement Periodical, Summer 2021
The Rebuild Collective, has a new issue of their newspaper out for Summer 2021. You can read it online here! The Rebuild Collective is a New Afrikan Independence Movement Formation founded by New Afrikan Nationalists inspired by the thought of Movement theoretician Atiba Shanna and committed to winning the struggle for Independence and Socialism. Table of Contents -Gardening
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Re-Build! Vol. 2 #2 is Now Available Online!
The Rebuild Collective is a New Afrikan Independence Movement Formation founded by New Afrikan Nationalists inspired by the thought of Movement theoretician Atiba Shanna and committed to winning the struggle for Independence and Socialism. The Rebuild Collective maintains a website with a number of important New Afrikan Independence Movement documents and links to related works and websites, and
Continue readingKersplebedeb: “Decisively breaking with both worker elite mythology and male leftism”: An Interview with Bromma
Bromma is the author of Exodus and Reconstruction: Working-Class Women at the Heart of Globalization, The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy”, and a contributor to Full Body Scan: Imperialism Today and Ctrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right. More of his writings on kersplebedeb.com are available here.
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Talking Nonsense Solves No Problems: Reply to an Open Response Letter Allegedly Written by the Amazons-August Collective and NAPLA to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party
The following is an essay Kevin “Rashid” Johnson just sent me and asked me to post. -k I recently received an “open letter” purporting to be from the Amazons-August 3rd Collective (AA3) and New Afrikan Peoples Liberation Army (NAPLA), which claims to respond to an article I wrote elaborating the New
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: An Open Response Letter to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party with regard to it’s Position Paper titled: Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism
An Open Response Letter to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party with regard to it’s Position Paper titled: Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism (from The Amazons-August Third Collective; NAPLA) Revolutionary Greetings! We are aware of no less than ten (10) responses already written
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Video Interview with Sanyika Shakur
In this interview, New Afrikan Communist Sanyika Shakur discusses his personal social development, his time in Pelican Bay-SHU, the 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strikes, the effects of long-term isolation torture, New Afrikan nationalism, communism, and the struggle against gender oppression. In a biographical note written while in PB-SHU, Shakur explained:
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Pathology of Patriarchy: A Search for Clues at the Scene of the Crime
Another excellent essay by Sanyika Shakur, who was released from Pelican Bay SHU last August. As he wrote before his release: i was born Nov 13, 1963. Raised in South Central Los Angeles, by a phenomenal single, working-class, mother. Cut my teeth in the hostile gang culture in South Central
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