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‘Demand Justice, Strike Anywhere’
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“You can jail revolutionaries but you can’t jail the revolution”
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On December 4, 1969 Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, are murdered by the police in Chicago, Illinois. The two young revolutionary activists were shot in a police raid on a Panther residence on Chicago’s West Side during the infamous "search for illegal weapons" authorized by then-State's Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan. Their death came in the last month of a decade that saw the murders of other prominent civil rights leaders including Medgar Evers in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
"Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit." - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Prison Radio: http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia
Black Panther Inspired Asian American anti-cop poster from 1971
Poster designed by revolutionary prisoner Kevin “Rashid” Johnson.
More artwork and articles written by Rashid can be found on his website:
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“In Revolution one wins, or one dies”
Black Panther poster designed by Emory Douglas in 1969.
Classic Black Panther posters by Emory Douglass. Just as relevant today as when they were produced, almost 50 years ago.
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‘Avenge Fred Hampton! Carry Forward the Struggle for Working Class Revolution! ’, event sponsored by the Revolutionary Communist Party, Committee to Commemorate Fred Hampton, and Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, Chicago, [late 1970’s]. Thanks to Dennis.
Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. He was murdered while sleeping at his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the FBI. Hampton's murder was chronicled in the documentary film The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
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In memory of Fred Hampton, assassinated by the US government on December 4, 1969. [h/t]
“One of the reasons that Fred Hampton had to be assassinated was because he was bringing the Black Stone Rangers gang in Chicago, along with Disciples, another gang in Chicago which were rival gangs, together against the police.
Their energies are not correctly channeled. They’re channeled by the police. It’s the police who spawn gangs in America. It’s the police who bring drugs into the community. It’s the police who control the drugs in the community. It’s the police who organize Africans to sell drugs in the community making it look like they’re not involved in it.
We did a video with the leadership of the Crypts and the Bloods when they tried to come together two years ago before the rebellion. We told them the only way they will find unity is coming together to protect our community against racist police. I even told them then, “the very guns which the police give to you”-Police would get these guns, you understand? As a young man in SNCC I was carrying a gun since 1962.
So these gangs must be organized against the police because the police are the front liners of the organized gangs in the country.
What they want to do is to make the entire African community insecure among each other. When they saw the feeling of solidarity that was developing in the 60’s, you understand? They said, “We got to stop this quick. We’ve got to bring insecurity inside here so when they see each other they wont say ‘hey brother!’ they’ll say ‘are you going to kill me?’.”
That’s all, but it ain’t goin nowhere, Jack. It’s just going to make us stronger for the second round on them because victory is ours no matter which way they come.”
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
Poster by Richard Moore in 1970
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Images taken from “Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglass.”
“Clayborne Carson names Robert F. Williams as one of two central influences-the other being Malcolm X [top picture]-on the formation of the Black Panthers.”
Taken from the introduction of ”Negroes with Guns,” by Timothy B. Tyson (page xxx)
For Malcolm’s speeches and writings, go here:
And here for Robert F. Williams:
Second picture from the top reveals both Huey P. Newton (right side) and Bobby Seale (left side).
Third image from the top shows Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) on the left and Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) on the right.
For more on Kwame Ture go to:
For Jamil Al-Amin go to:
Image from fourth top row: Remembering George Jackson, author of Blood in My Eye and Soledad Brother, killed in 1971 in the prison yards at San Quentin.
For more on George Jackson:
Bottom picture is of Fred Hampton. For more on Fred Hampton visit:
Art by Emory Douglas, while he was Minister of Culture for The Black Panthers
Perhaps Emory’s most enduring legacy to American culture is driving home the association between “policemen” and “pigs”. As the poet Sonia Sanchez wrote in a poem which Emory was to illustrate, “A policeman / is a pig... and / until he stops / killing black/people / cracking open their heads / remember. The policeman / is a pig. (oink/oink).”
“Huey and Bobby had defined police as pigs.” Emory recalls and his job was to make that association in print. His illustrations began as simple pigs, bearing the badge number of whichever policemen were harassing and intimidating the community, but Emory developed the idea until his pig was stood up on two legs and dressed in a uniform, replete with badge, gun, snout and tail. “Thereafter it began to take off as a symbol in the community – symbolic of the oppression – and it soon transcended the community and went national.”