‘Demonstrate! Support New Afrikan Freedom Fighters! Stop the Attacks on Sekou Odinga!’, Coalition to Defend the October 22nd Freedom Fighters, 1982.
Opening Day of the Kuwasi Balagoon Liberation School in New York.
Saturday, April 1st 4pm
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Targeted by law enforcement as the “soul” of the militant Black Liberation Movement, accused (and acquitted) of participating in a slew of bank robberies, Assata Shakur was imprisoned in New Jersey following her 1973 arrest. Assata’s co-defendant Sundiata Acoli, previously one of the NY Panther 21, remains in prison serving a sentence of life plus 30 years. A third comrade, Zayd Shakur, was killed by police during the 1973 arrest. In 1979, Assata escaped from prison.
In 1982, radicals from the Black Liberation and white anti-imperialist movements were indicted for allegedly helping Assata escape. Sekou Odinga and Mutulu Shakur remain in prison today. In 1984, Assata surfaced in Cuba and received political asylum. She is a beacon of hope and power for the international movements for Black liberation and to free all U.S.-held political prisoners.
Poster from: http://justseeds.org/project/cph/