Assata Shakur: Obama Administration Redefines Fighting for Black Rights as “Terrorism” By Barry Sheppard written for Green Left Weekly and Socialist Alternative (Australia) In the aftermath of the bombing of the Boston Marathon, the Obama administration is broadening its definition of “terrorism” to include fighters for Black rights in the U.S. Washington has already used the […]
May 5, 2013
intro: This is not, and does not pretend to be, an exhaustive history of the Cuban Revolution or a final answer on the meaning of the reforms in Cuba. As the Clash once said, the future is unwritten. Socialist Action on Cuba’s economic reforms — a contradictory and confused political statement Published earlier this year […]
May 4, 2013
to be updated Hands Off Assata! Assata Shakur: Obama Administration Redefines Fighting for Black Rights as “Terrorism” Barry Sheppard Op-Ed: Assata Shakur? How about these REAL terrorists living in the USA? Brett Wilkins Suuupppppreme Ttttttterrrrror Tttttthreat!! Raymond Nat Turner, Black Agenda Report (BAR) Defend Assata, Defend Ourselves: The Black Is Black Coalition Rallies in Harlem ,BAR Freedom Rider: […]
May 4, 2013
Guantanamo Hunger Strikers Choose Death Over Inhumane Conditions By Barry Sheppard Facing a massive hunger strike by desperate prisoners at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, President Obama has acknowledged that the prison should be shut down. He has said that before over four years ago when he was running for his first term, […]
May 4, 2013
HANDS OFF ASSATA! Intro: Below are posted links for a documentary, Eyes of the Rainbow, featuring interviews with Assata Shakur. This week, Assata was added to the “most wanted terrorist” list by the Federal Bureau of Intimidation. This designation, coming from a Federal agency that was neck-deep in COINTELPRO frame ups and assassinations of activists in the Black Liberation Movement […]
April 26, 2013
Government Using Boston bombings to Further Its Agenda By Barry Sheppard The horrific bombing of runners and onlookers at the Boston, Massachusetts, Marathon was a criminal act and must be condemned. Nothing justifies such an act. Children, adults, and elderly were murdered and terribly injured. Limbs and parts of limbs were torn off in the […]
April 20, 2013
Vampire Holiday: The Passing of Chavez A Short Version Mumia Abu-Jamal source: Prison Radio 3/11/13 The death of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez has brought out the malicious and carnal glee of the corporate press, who report, breathlessly, not only on his mortal passing, but an end to the Bolivarian Revolution. They are the voices of […]
May 9, 2013
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