Friday, November 29, 2013

La Mesha Irizarry & the Idriss Stelley Foundation

The IDRISS STELLEY FOUNDATION [http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/idrissstelleyfoundation/]
A nonprofit organization created through the settlement of Idriss Stelley's vs. City & County and SFPD case and its allocation to his mother Mesha Monge-Irizarry. Her only child, 23 African American honor student was killed by SFPD at the SF Sony Metreon on June 13, 2001, 48 shots, 9 officers, as he stood alone in an empty theater. The Idriss Stelley's case is at the root of the 40-HR mandatory San Francisco Police Departments Mental Health Training.
La Mesha Irizarry knows and understands that the strategies of Martin Luther King and Gandhi are the only way to handle this. Do as "Grandma Says". Her foundation is linked in at this steroid blog:
"Police shootings, Brutality & Steroid Abuse" [http://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?38796-Roid-a-Cops-Police-shootings-Brutality-amp-Steroid-Abuse].

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Black August parade in Los Angeles

The expression of the New Afrikan identity is found in the symbol of the New Afrikan flag. Red Black Green. RBG. Liberation from colonization for the captive nation, with the Black Rider Liberation Party and allies [link]:



Thursday, August 1, 2013

2013-08-01 "Food Not Bombs thrives even as it faces repression"

by Keith McHenry, coordinator for Food Not Bombs  [keith@foodnotbombs.net] [http://blog.foodnotbombs.net/food-not-bombs-thrives-even-as-it-faces-repression/]:
The San Francisco Police Department made history on August 15, 1988 when they made the first arrests ever for sharing food with the hungry. Nine volunteers arrived at the entrance to Golden Gate Park with organic vegan food prepared to share with the several hundred souls that were making the dense wooded park their home. A reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle learned of the the department's plan to deploy 45 members of the Tactical Squad to Haight and Stanyan to arrest the cooks and shortly after noon the nine Food Not Bombs volunteers were captured, cuffed and driven off to jail. The activists sang "we will not be moved" as the police vans removed them from the scene.
After spending most of the night in a holding cell at police headquarters they were released to discover that the Chronicle had published a huge photo of riot police guarding the food from the hungry with a headline proclaiming "Nine Volunteers Arrested For Feeding the Homeless at Golden Gate Park." The Food Not Bombs answering service on Polk Street was swamped with calls from people wanting to help. Offers of food, legal support, help with cooking and even commitments to risk arrest if necessary flooded in. The August 15, 1988 arrests marked a change in American societies view of the homeless and sparked a global movement. The San Francisco Police made over 1,000 arrests for the "crime" of "making a political statement" by sharing food with the hungry in public. Remove the Food Not Bombs banner and literature and provide your meals inside the National Guard Armory on the edge of the city or be arrested on felony conspiracy charges.
Twenty five years after the first arrest the act of showing compassion and effort to encourage the redirection of resources from war to providing for our community is as threatening to the authorities as it was in the summer of 1988. In response to the impact of Occupy Wall Street and other occupations over 50 cities in the United States have banned or passed laws restricting the sharing of food in public. Authorities are currently threatening to stop Food Not Bombs meals in Seattle, Portland, Boulder and Detroit. Yes Detroit, just as the city is filing for bankruptcy and has unimaginable need to feed its hungry the authorities are threatening to arrest Detroit Food Not Bombs.
Hunger and poverty are on the increase yet so is the desire to respond to the crisis. New Food Not Bombs groups form every week. Volunteers from Umuahia, Nigeria and New Paltz, New York asked to have their chapters included on www.foodnotbombs.net today. Activists reported that there are over 100 groups in Indonesia and 30 chapters in the Philippines with the Davao City chapter posting photos of their 13th July 5th anniversary celebration on our Facebook last week. A new chapter started in the southern zone of Mexico City and groups in New Zealand announced their next Really Really Free Market.
The impact of the August 15, 1988 arrests continues to this day having inspired people to start the first wave of Food Not Bombs groups that in turn inspired others to start a chapter in their own communities so that there are volunteers recovering food, cooking vegan meals that they share with the public in over 1,000 cities around the world.
You can join this inspiring movement. The most important thing you can do is start or join an already active Food Not Bombs group in your community. To learn more you can visit www.foodnotbombs.net or call us at 575-770-3377.
You may want to get a copy of our book "Hungry For Peace" to learn more about Food Not Bombs. You could also participate with the Food Not Bombs Free Skool in Taos, New Mexico to gain more experience.
Another great way to make a difference is to invite Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry to speak at your school, cafe, book store or other community space. This is a great way to inspire your friends, family and classmates to join you in taking action.
Another way you can build interest is to invite the Autonomous Play House to perform their puppet show in your community. Their shows are sure to inspire participation in your community organizing efforts.
Finally you can help by contributing to the completion of the Food Not Bombs Free Skool Solar Pump House and support another season of gardening, education and organizing at the school in Taos, New Mexico. Check out the cool video about the construction of the solar pump house. The pump will be powered by a donated solar cell and our showers will be heated by the sun as will the entire building. We intend to complete our fundraising drive by the 25th anniversary of the first arrest of Food Not Bombs on August 15, 2013. Please share this email and ask your family, friends and classmates to support Food Not Bombs.
Thanks so much for your interest.
[signed] Keith McHenry - co-founder of the Food Not Bombs Movement

CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMPLETION OF THE SOLAR PUMP HOUSE BY AUGUST 15, 2013
- Thanks!!! [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/free-skool-solar-pump-house-taos]

SOLAR PUMP HOUSE PROJECT VIDEO by David Cortez in Taos, New Mexico
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJDCmFIhHS8]

Invite THE SMASHING HUNGER SQUASHING CAPITALISM TOUR with Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry to your community. [http://www.foodnotbombs.net/speaker.html]

THE AUTONOMOUS PLAYHOUSE [http://foodnotbombs.net/autonomous_playhouse_portfolio.php]

THE FOOD NOT BOMBS FREE SKOOL [http://fnb-freeskool.org/free_skool_photos.html]

Food Not Bombs
P.O. Box 424
Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 USA
1-800-884-1136
[www.foodnotbombs.net]
[http://foodnotbombs.net/dollar_for_peace.html]


2012-12-03 "Bring this inspiring presentation by Food Not Bombs cofounder Keith McHenry to your community"
Bring this inspiring presentation by Food Not Bombs cofounder Keith McHenry to your community.
FOOD NOT BOMBS AND THE ELECT TO END HUNGER AND POVERTY TOUR
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/speaker.html
"Hi Keith! It was an honor to meet you tonight! Thank you for your very inspiring talk and all of the work you have done to help people and animals over the years! "
Lesley - UMBC in Catonsville, MD
"I also wanted to say once again thank you for coming to Virginia Tech. The students that made it to your talk absolutely enjoyed it and we met up last week to discuss starting a FNB at VT!! We are meeting again tonight and I will let you know how things go. "
April - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry will share the story, principles and current activities of the movement including his work with the Sandy Relief effort. Keith will also invite the audience to participate with their local activist groups. This is a great way to inspire participation in your local social justice community.
Most people would elect to end hunger and poverty but many of those elected to political office have another agenda, cutting social services while transferring our tax dollars to wealthy military contractors and their corporate friends. Food prices are increasing as crops fail because of the climate crisis. Oxfam and the UN are reporting that hunger will be on the increase leading to civil unrest and violent police repression. The industrial food system is not only causing millions of animals to suffer but is directly responsible for an increase in hunger and climate change gasses.
Food Not Bombs is responding to the economic, ecological and political crisis by recovering, preparing and sharing vegan meals and groceries with the hungry in nearly 1,000 communities. Food Not Bombs also provides meals at protests and provides literature at their regular meals. Many have expressed that the presentation was an inspiration saying that they were moved to participate in efforts like Food Not Bombs, Food Not Lawns, Homes Not Jails, the Food Not Bombs Free Skool and other exciting projects. Sponsoring student groups also report an increase in participation by those attending the presentation.
Email us at menu@foodnotbombs.net today and schedule a 60 minute presentation on the history, principles, Food Not Bombs work to provide food and supplies to the survivors of Sandy and introduce this summer's Food Not Bombs Free Skool in Taos, New Mexico plus show the 15 minute video about Food Not Bombs in Africa. Keith will also have copies of his new book "HUNGRY FOR PEACE available at each presentation.
FOOD NOT BOMBS
P.O. Box 424
Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 USa
1-800-884-1136
[http://www.foodnotbombs.net/speaker.html]
ASK STUDENT CLUBS ON YOUR CAMPUS TO SPONSOR THE PRESENTATION
[http://www.foodnotbombs.net/steps_to_booking_the_tour_at_schools.html]
THE ELECT TO END HUNGER AND POVERTY TOUR with Food Not bombs co-founder Keith McHenry
[http://www.foodnotbombs.net/speaker.html]
PLEASE SUPPORT THE WINDCALL RESIDENCY SO OTHER ACTIVISTS CAN BENEFIT
[http://www.razoo.com/story/Keith-Mchenry-Fundraising-For-Windcall-13-000-In-130-Hours-For-Resilient-And-Transformative-Organizing]
Please forward to any one that might want to bring this vital presentation to their campus this spring.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

National Brown Berets de Aztlan (Modesto, Califas chapter)

[209-782-8161] [brownberetsmodesto@gmail.com]
[facebook.com/ModestoBrownBerets]
[modestobrownberets.com]
[brownberets.blogspot.com]


Photo on the cover of "Turning the Tide" newspaper, 2013-10, showing the historic march to the Compton City Hall for Black and Brown Unity! Black Riders - New Generation Black Panthers reconnects with the National Brown Berets.


"Brown Berets de Aztlan: New Modesto Chapter"
announcement from “Xicano Vince”, posted at the "Revolutionary Hip-Hop Report" [rhhr.org/2011/12/07/brown-berets-de-aztlan-new-modesto-chapter/]:
As the original Brown Beret organization, the Brown Berets de Aztlan are the only Berets who have been organizing for 40+ years. We are, and have been, a Revolutionary group of Chican@s and Mexican@s that stand up for the rights of our people in any way we can.
We are currently setting up a new chapter here in Modesto, Califas. Groups like the Brown Berets de Aztlan are needed now more than ever with the ongoing oppression that our people are facing on a daily basis such as police brutality and harassment, I.C.E raids and deportations, the struggle for farmworker’s rights, educating the youth on their true history and true enemies, as well as many other issues on a national scale. If this sounds like something that you would like to be involved in, give us a call, or email, JOIN UP! THE TIME IS NOW! STAND UP FOR YOUR GENTE!

Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. Soy chicano en todas partes. No tengo que asimilarme a nada. Tengo mi propia historia.” — Carlos Fuentes, founder

Brown Berets de SacrAztlan (Autonomous chapter)



Designed by Greg Irons, who offers them as posters to fundraise for the Brown Berets of SacrAztlan [https://www.facebook.com/G.I.MediaDesign] (2013-12-19).

Friday, June 28, 2013

Redwood Nation Earth First!

This page is not affiliated with the Redwood Nation Earth First!, and is created as an extension of the Northbay Uprising Radio News program [northbayuprising.blogspot.com].

Redwood Nation Earth First! media contacts:
* [contactefhum@gmail.com]
* Freddie Long [707-459-5267]
* Jamie Chevalier [707-354-4796]


Save Little Lake Valley! 
[northbayuprising.blogspot.com/2013/02/occupy-willits-bypass-save-little-lake.html]

Save Richardson Grove! 
[northbayuprising.blogspot.com/2012/07/ecology-action-save-richardson-grove.html]

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Defend Jihad Mujahid Muhammad of the BRLP (Oakland Branch)

Donate and support a defender of the People!Send solidarity donations here [www.youcaring.com/other/defend-jihad-/156844].
Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP) - Oakland Chapter [2ServeThaPeople.wix.com/brlp].
Bay Area Solidarity BRLP page [link].
Support "Break the Lock", a program administered by the Inter-Communal Solidarity Committee [www.facebook.com/BreakTheLockProgram] [BreakTheLockBayArea.org], for political prisoners.

Comrade Jihad, Minister of Spirituality for the Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP), was kidnapped by state security agents (including FBI) while he was copwatching in deep E. Oakland, protecting the People from threats of human-rights abuse by local racist police agents, March, 2013. After having a year of his life taken from him in prison, Comrade Jihad was immediately re-incarcerated upon release, facing 2 more charges atop the original, and the state, with it's inhumane "3-strikes" sentencing law, promise to take a many more years of life away from our People's Comrade!!!
Currently (2014-06), he is out on bail, and back in the community that he protected, but at any moment, while the people await the verdict of the state overseers at the court, the fascist agencies may attack again! DEFEND JIHAD, COMRADE OF THE PEOPLE!!
Defend the BRLP [link]


Message from Muhammad, posted 2014-05-29 at [www.facebook.com/GUERILLAZINTHATRUNKENT7]:
Tired of being a slave to this. ..#getfreeordietrying
OFF TOO COURT TO FIGHT THE FASCIST AND CAPITALIST in the morning.
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T FEAR FREEDOM
---
REPRESSION IS REAL...
THA FASCIST OFFERED ME 17 YEARS
Who knows a great political lawyer?

June 4th, 2014, Minister of spiritual affairs, Comrade Jihad Mujahid Muhammad is back on the streets...
Pushing community programs at the REVOLUTIONARY CAFE SUNDIATA...
"COME SEE US MEET THE UNIQUE PEOPLE IN THE WHO ARE ALL ABOUT THE UPLIFTMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY"




BULLET PROOF LOVE AND SOLIDARITY TO ALL THA COMRADES AND SUPPORTERS


Black Riders Repression Report for 2013-06-25
by E Da Ref:
On March 21, 2013 Comrade Jihad Mujahid Muhammad of The Northern California Chapter Oakland Branch was vamped on, assaulted and arrested by the Oakland Pigs. A week before the incident, he launched a major Watch-a-Pig operation that got the whole community involved. He was letting the people know their rights when the pigs raided the neighborhood harassing everyone. In fear of the resistant spirit growing within the community, the pigs had the whole spot under surveillance. Later on that week a tracking device was discovered on the car of a close associate of his from the area.
This is right down the street from where 4 years ago, on this same very day, the warrior Lovelle Mixon corrected four pigs in a gun battle in response to the average aggressive police terrorist harassment and racial profiling by the Oakland Pigs, just months after Oscar Grant was brutally murdered execution style by the Bart Pig Johannes Meserle on the Bart platform while he was hand cuffed laying on his stomach. He defended his life with his life and made the ultimate sacrifice to resembling an act of resistance. This day plays a reminder in the minds of these pigs that they bleed just like we bleed!
He later gained Intel that some pigs were staked out in the area so he went to go take recognizance in a militant manner. As soon as he came out to the open he was bombarded by plainclothes and military camouflage fatigued pigs armed with AR-15 Assault Rifles and other high powered weapons. He was a threat because he has the ability to use his street ties to create unity amongst the warring rival tribal factions in the community with the potential to organize educate and unify them against the common oppressor, the fascist pigs. When they arrested him they taunted him with comments like, “Who do you think you are, Lovelle Mixon?” “Talk That Black Panther shit now!”
When he was incarcerated in Alameda County Jail (North County) we received an anonymous call saying that Comrade Muhammad was assaulted in Santa Rita jail. This turned out to be false information because he was not fully processed and transferred to Santa Rita yet. He was still in the North County jail because he was still going through the court process. This was a COINTELPRO Tactic to make us react off impulse and emotion. Although they made it extremely difficult to locate him so we can communicate. We still were able to contact him and he's doing just fine. They quickly transferred him out of Santa Rita county Jail where he now is incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison. The charges and sentencing information will be withheld for legal purposes.
I Send my bullet proof love and solidarity to all my fellow lumpen proletariats (god willing) all is well for The Black Riders. I am now being held captive in San Quentin state prison/colony/hidden university. There is so much repression here, especially for those of us who are conscious and spiritually aware” – Comrade Jihad Mujahid Muhammad.
FREE EM ALL!!!

THE DAY OF JIHADS ARREST (Video from PNN) [www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm0zApe-HcA]:
 
(Note: PNN interviews a Lady in pink who mentions Oscar and Anita. Both are victims of police murder from years past. She is making a reference to the potential for another extra-judicial murder during this incident)

Defend Jihad, Minister of Spiritual Affairs for the BRLP!
DONATE HERE [http://www.youcaring.com/other/defend-jihad-/156844].
*UPDATE*
Thanks to the support of dedicated comrades like you we have come up with $2,000, enough to get him out.
BUT HE MUST COME UP WITH ANOTHER $5,7000 TO PAY THE BONDSMAN IF HE WANTS TO STAY OUT. He has a minimum monthly payment of $250. PLEASE KEEP DONATING GENEROUSLY TO KEEP THIS BROTHER OUT OF JAIL FIGHTING FOR THE PEOPLE!
Help keep this brother out of jail, he must come up with another $5,700 to finish paying off his bail!
As many of you know, comrade Jihad Mujahid Muhammad, Minister of Spirituality for the Black Riders Liberation Party, was scheduled to be released last week after being held captive for a year in San Quentin and Folsom Prison. On the day he was supposed to be release, he was transferred to Santa Clara county and arraigned on new trumped up charges. This incident continues the repression comrade Jihad has faced for his organizing. Jihad is a political prisoner/prisoner of war and an unrelenting advocate for the brothers and sisters off the block. He is being targeted for his work with the Black Riders Liberation Party, his influence in the community and his devout Muslim faith.
Comrade Jihad flourished within the ranks of the BRLP, with a fearless go hard or go home attitude when it comes to confronting the pigs!!! He was arrested on the 4th anniversary of Lovell Mixon Day, on the same block where Lovell Mixon was killed after killing four pigs in a gun battle. He put himself and his freedom on the line for Black people, always willing to accept the most dangerous missions without hesitation. He has been a shining example to a lot of brothers off the block of what political education, street smarts, discipline and scientific strategy can do to change the direction of the lumpenproletariate from self destruction to Revolutionary Afrikan Inter-Communalism.
One example of this is when comrade Jihad along with comrade Askari had to break up a fight and prevent a riot at Fremont High. While the teachers stood by and called the pigs, Jihad and Askari intervened to stop the fight. When the pigs arrived and attempted to illegally detain a young Xicano student, the comrades informed the youth of his rights which he demanded until the pigs reluctantly released him. The anger of the young people then turned toward the Occupying Army (OPD), and they hurled insults at the pigs until they were forced to retreat. The comrades along with over 150 students armed with knowledge and heart drove the pigs away.
During Comrade Jihad’s incarceration in San Quentin he had a stroke. He was involved in the Prisoner Hunger strike. He organized watch-a-pig operations with the pod workers to observe the COs when they would raid and thrash prisoner’s cells to search for contraband. Since it is the pod workers who would usually end up cleaning the mess left over from the COs raids, they were in the perfect position to make it extremely difficult for the COs to smuggle/plant any contraband on prisoners.
These actions of organizing and mobilizing led him to getting transferred to New Folsom State Prison where he would serve the rest of his time. He said they had him isolated for a while but they put him in general population. He was getting a lot of good studying in and sharpening his spiritual philosophy. He was doing a lot of training and getting his health up to par. He said he was around a lot of African revolutionary politically, spiritually and culturally conscious brothers.
On Friday March 21st 2014 he was supposed to be released but the California Department of Corrections claimed they made some kind of “miscalculation” of his release date and that he would be released Wednesday on March 26th 2014. On the second attempt to pick him up on his release date they said he was released to the Alameda County Sheriff and put a hold on his release because of a warrant for some unidentified trumped up charge. He was later transferred to Santa Clara County Jail for his arraignment for a felony burglary charge and some unidentified prison charge. He is possibly facing his 3rd striked. His bail is set at $110,000, but with a bond we can get him out for $7,700. The Black Riders Liberation Party seeks Legal & Financial support, access to independent media outlets, and solidarity.
PLEASE DONATE GENEROUSLY TO HELP GET THIS BROTHER OUT OF JAIL AND BACK ON THE STREETS, FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM FOR HIS PEOPLE!  ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T FEAR FREEDOME!!!!!!!!!  FREE EM ALL!!!!!!!


UPDATE: APRIL 10th
The BRLP have had a successful fundraising drive, and the community has responded to the call of KEEP JIHAD FREE!!! The BRLP writes, "Thanks to the hard work and generous donations of dedicated comrades all over, folks have come up with $2,000, enough for a downpayment on a bond. BUT WE MUST COME UP WITH AN ADDITIONAL $5,700 TO KEEP THE BROTHER OUT OF JAIL, OR ELSE HE CAN BE REMANDED BACK INTO CUSTODY!!! We can't let the brother down now, let's keep this fundraiser going til his bond is paid in full!! All power to the people who don't fear freedom!!" Send solidarity here [http://www.youcaring.com/other/defend-jihad-/156844].
Jihad, out on bail, with E da Ref. "POWAHHH - Bro Jihad Free from Tha Plantation- the best part of this very hard day - Ase!", photo by Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia

"At tha people's Garden in Fruitvale", photo by Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia, with folks from Healthy hoodz repping DeGentrification Zones (DGZ), A CityWide Plan for Decolonization! [Facebook.com/DeGentrificationZones]


Free Jihad Fundraiser & film screening.
Live Performances, raffle prizes, free food, and guest speaker
at Qilombo liberated zone, 2313 San Pablo Ave., Oakland CA 94612
April 5th, 7pm to 12 midnight
- Film screening of BRLP documentary "LET UM HEAR YA COMING"
- Music and performances by Ras Ceylon, Shango Abiola, E Da Ref, Ms. Incredible, Fly Benzo, and more!
Special message from the BRLP:
WE NEED DONATIONS BECAUSE OF THE HIGH PRICE BAIL AND TO GET A LAWYER.
THE MORE MONEY WE RAISE, THE MORE THE COMRADE CAN GET OUT AND WORK ON PROVING HIS INNOCENCE. THIS FELONIOUS CHARGE COULD BE HIS 3RD STRIKE!!!
"Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order." - The Great General George Jackson.
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! AS ALOT OF YOU KNOW ALREADY, OUR MINISTER OF SPIRITUALITY, COMRADE JIHAD MUJAHID MUHAMMAD, WAS CAPTURED BY THE OAKLAND POLICE ON 77TH AND BLACK ARTHUR (AKA MACARTHUR) ON MARCH 21ST, 2013, WHICH ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF LOVELLE MIXON DAY, A DAY THAT LIVES IN INFAMY, TO NOT ONLY THE RESIDENTS OF OAKLAND, CA, BUT TO BLACK PEOPLE ALL OVER THE U.S. WHEN HE CORRECTED 4 PIGS IN A GUN BATTLE ON THE SAME BLOCK COMRADE JIHAD WAS ARRESTED ON.
("The Ghosts of March 21", a new documentary film reexamines the evidence about the death of Lovelle Mixon, a warrior of New Africa [link]. The film is on tour across the nation, and will be sponsored by Minister of Information JR Valrey, host of Block Reportin' radio.)
COMRADE JIHAD WAS TARGETED FOR HIS INFLUENCE IN THE COMMUNITY, BEING A DEVOUT MUSLIM, AND HIS ORGANIZING AS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK RIDERS LIBERATION PARTY. AS A FORMER PARTICIPANT IN SELF-GENOCIDE, COMRADE JIHAD IS A SHINING EXAMPLE TO ALOT OF OTHER BROTHERS OFF THE BLOCK OF WHAT POLITICAL EDUCATION, STREET SMARTS, DISCIPLINE AND SCIENTIFIC STRATEGIES CAN DO TO CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF THE LUMPEN PROLETARIAT FROM SELF DESTRUCTION TO REVOLUTIONARY AFRIKAN INTER-COMMUNALISM.
COMRADE JIHAD INSTANTLY FLOURISHED IN THE RANKS OF THE B.R.L.P. WITH A FEARLESS "GO HARD OR GO HOME" ATTITUDE WHEN IT COMES TO BANGING ON PIGS! HE HAS PUT HIMSELF AND HIS FREEDOM ON THE LINE FOR BLACK PEOPLE ALL OVER THE BAY AREA, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA... ALWAYS WILLING TO ACCEPT THE MOST DANGEROUS MISSIONS WITHOUT HESITATION.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE ONE TIME HIM AND COMRADE SGT. ASKARI HAD TO BREAK UP A FIGHT AND PREVENT A RIOT AT FREMONT HIGH, SOME OF THE TEACHERS WERE QUICK TO CALL THE POLICE AND SIT BY, HANDS OFF ON THE SIDE OF THE SCHOOL, WHILE THE MISGUIDED YOUTH ATTACKED EACH OTHER. AFTER BREAKING UP THE FIGHT, THE COMRADES THEN HAD TO PROCEED TO CONFRONT THE FASCIST OAKLAND PIGS WHO WERE TRYING TO ILLEGAL DETAIN AND ARREST A YOUNG CHICANO STUDENT. THE COMRADES INSTANTLY SPRUNG INTO ACTION INFORMING THE YOUNGSTER OF WHAT TO LEGALLY SAY, TO FIND OUT IF HE WAS BEING ARRESTED OR DETAINED AND IF NOT, TO INFORM THE POLICE THAT THEY NEED TO LET HIM GO.
THE YOUTH REPEATED AFTER THE COMRADES, AND THE FRUSTRATED PIGS RELUCTANTLY RELEASED THE YOUNG MAN.
AS COMRADE ASKARI SPOKE TO THE YOUTH, COMRADE JIHAD STOOD POSTED UP AT READY, IN CASE THE PIG DIDN'T COMPLY. THE YOUTH WHO WERE JUST FIGHTING EACH OTHER 5 MINUTES AGO NOW TURNED THEIR RAGE TO THE ENEMY OCCUPYING ARMY (OAKLAND POLICE) AND WERE HURLING INSULTS AND TELLING THE POLICE " WE DON'T WANT YOU ON OUR CAMPUS"!
THE COMRADES, BACKED BY OVER 150 STUDENTS ARMED WITH KNOWLEDGE AND HEART, DROVE THE PIGS AWAY. THE SITE OF THESE NEW GENERATION PANTHERS' GENUINE CONCERN FOR THEIR WELL BEING INSPIRED COURAGE IN THESE YOUNGSTA'S THAT NORMALLY ARE NOT DIRECTED AGAINST THE POLICE. THE COMRADES THEN WAITED FOR THE DETAINED YOUNG MAN'S MOTHER TO ARRIVE TO INFORM HER OF WHAT HAPPENED. SHE THANKED THE COMRADES WITH TEARS IN HER EYES. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT ORDEAL WE HAD TO MOUNT UP AND MOBILIZE AT CITY HALL TO PROTEST THE HIRING OF KILLER BILL BRATTON'S AS A FASCIST CONSULTANT FOR THE OPD FOR 2 WEEKS AT $250,000. THIS WAS ALSO THE NIGHT OF THE 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE MURDER OF RAHEIM BROWN.
THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF OUR COMRADE JIHAD'S DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT TO THE LIBERATION OF AFRIKAN AND ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE. WE HAVE MANY, MANY MORE. AND AFTER SERVING TIME IN SAN QUENTIN AND FOLSOM (YET AGAIN), HIS RESOLVE HAS NOT BROKEN. HIS LETTERS ARE STILL IN HIGH SPIRITS WITH FAITH IN ALLAH (GOD), THE STRUGGLE, AND THE PEOPLE!
HE IS NOW BEING HELD ON TRUMPED UP CHARGES OF BURGLARY AND AN UNIDENTIFIED PRISON CHARGE. THE WARRANT FOR THIS CHARGE WAS ISSUED ON HIS ORIGINAL DATE OF RELEASE FROM NEW FOLSOM MARCH 21ST, 2014. INSTEAD OF BEING RELEASED HE WAS TRANSFERED TO SANTA CLARA COUNTY WHERE HE IS CURRENTLY BEING HELD.
DURING HIS INCARCERATION, COMRADE JIHAD PARTICIPATED IN THE AUGUST HUNGER STRIKE WHILE HE WAS BEING HELD AT SAN QUENTIN, BEFORE BEING TRANSFERRED TO NEW FOLSOM
WE NEED SUPPORT, IN NOT JUST DONATIONS AND FUNDRAISING SUPPORT, BUT LOGISTICS FOR FUNDRAISING, AS WELL.
IF YOU CAN HELP WITH THIS ENDEAVOR, WE GREATLY APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT IN ADVANCE. LETS SHOW COMRADE JIHAD THAT THE MOVEMENT SUPPORTS AND TAKES CARE OF ITS OWN, AND THAT WE APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT HE AND THE B.R.L.P. ARE DOING IN THE COMMUNITY. THIS IS NOT CHARITY, THIS IS AN INVESTMENT IN THE END TO BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE COMPLETE LIBERATION FROM KKKAPITALIST OPPRESSION. BY SUPPORTING COMRADE JIHAD, WE OUR SUPPORTING OURSELVES BECAUSE HE IS A PROVEN LEADER AND FREEDOM FIGHTER, AND WE WILL SURELY CONTINUE THE FIGHT REGARDLESS OF THE OBSTACLES. 
THE ONLY ANTIDOTE TO THE MENTAL SICKNESS OF "BLACK ON BLACK" TRIBALISM IS BULLETPROOF BLACK ON BLACK LOVE AND AFRIKAN INTER-COMMUNALISM THROUGH UNITARY CONDUCT AND REVOLUTIONARY INTER-COMMUNAL SOLIDARITY.





Thursday, May 23, 2013

Defend General T.A.C.O. and the Black Rider Liberation Party (BRLP)

BRLP: Los Angeles chapter [link]; Oakland chapter [link]
* Defend Jihad Mujahid Muhammad! (BRLP - Oakland chapter) [link]
* Defend Etana and Mecca Shakur! (BRLP - Los Angeles chapter) [link] (update 2014-05-23)

General T.A.C.O. calls for Unity, featuring King Samir and the N.B.P.P.
[www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=740970155954655]


THIS IS WHY US SISTA'S RIDE WITH GENERAL T.A.C.O...


"THE RACIST U.S. GOVERNMENT WAR AGAINST THE BLACK RIDERS"
originally published 2012-09 "African InterCommunal News Service" Vol.4 N.1, official newspaper for the BLACK RIDERS LIBERATION PARTY, New Generation Black Panther Party for Self-Defense [antiracist.org/?page_id=239]:
For Black youth throughout the US, especially in Watts and South Central LA, Wolverine Shakur, AKA General T.A.C.O. of the militant Black Riders Liberation Party is a leader, a strong father and husband, a bold warrior, a ghetto hero and a down brother. Black people identify with the battle he has fought against the evil forces of white racism and reaction. They identify with this principled revolutionary struggle against the capitalist system that inevitably spells misery, suffering, and genocide for the mass of Black people held captive in Amerikkka. The Black Riders played a pivotal early part in unleashing the new wave of Black militancy that’s been taking place. In 1996, General T.A.C.O. (Taking All Capitalists Out, AKA Wolverine Shakur) came together with other former Bloods and Crips in unity and created the groundwork for the resurrection of the Black Panthers, under the official name Black Riders Liberation Party. We are the new generation, and we consider ourselves to be faster, stronger, smarter and upgraded. They formulated a basic Black Commune program while in YTS prison (calling for many points as in the original 10-point program of the BPP for Self Defense, like full employment, housing, education and an end to police terrorism, and some new points, such as demanding proper medical care for AIDS victims and an immediate end to white capitalist smuggling crack cocaine into the Black community). They were eventually released to the streets and took action. Their first step was an attempt to deal with one of the most immediate and injurious symptoms of oppression – police brutality!
Armed with law booklets, video cameras, camouflage fatigues and Black karate skills, bats, knives and any other legal weapons, they created the Watch-a-Pig program and began to patrol Watts and South Central L.A.’s poor Black community -- monitoring the police, observing arrests and educating brothers and sisters of their armed self-defense rights. Their determined resistance to police terrorism produced a decrease in police harassment in areas they patrolled. Panther Power to the Black Riders!
The increasing influence of the Black Riders in the poor Black neo-colony and our fierce defense of the human rights of our people caused hysterical reactions in the police forces and government. Gov. Schwarzenegger and Brown, LAPD chiefs Bratton the Butcher and Charlie Beck, and buster ass homeland security overseers like Tom Ridge made no secret of their hostility toward the Black Riders. They see our efforts to change brothers’ and sisters’ criminal mentality into a positive revolutionary mentality as a threat to their capitalist system. Black unity has always been seen by pigs and racist politicians as a threat to their control.
In April 2002, our National Spokesman Comrade Bulldog delivered a strong speech in front of San Francisco City Hall and denounced Pres. Bush’s USA PATRIOT Act as racist. In his speech, he urged Blacks to defend themselves and oppose the imperialist so-called War on Terrorism. 45,000 anti-war demonstrators were present. Six months after the speech, Comrade Bulldog was assassinated by a mysterious undercover hit squad. Nobody was ever charged with his execution-style murder, despite appeals by his family to the so-called authorities. He was only 20 years old.
In this paper, it’s impossible to even scratch the surface of the legally sanctioned paramilitary police attacks on the Black Riders Liberation Party. A simple catalog of all the martyrs of the movement, or those wounded or presently incarcerated on trumped-up charges as political prisoners or prisoners of war would take volumes. We will focus here on attacks against one leader of the BRLP, General T.A.C.O.
As General of the Black Riders, T.A.C.O. has delivered many fiery analytical speeches in Black ’hoods (communities) throughout the US and internationally on the Internet on the period in which intense urban rebellions occurred in major cities throughout the nation mainly because of some form of police brutality and oppression. Even though 30 years ago, the government’s own Kerner Commission affirmed that white racism had to be held responsible for the rebellions, General T.A.C.O. was singled out as inciting Black people to revolt. His life has been disrupted by recurring official attempts to silence him forever. Despite many death threats on his life by racist pigs, this “Weapon of Allah (God)” has refused to give up on the new Black Power struggle. He will continue to “bang on the pigs” for life.
In Feb. 1998, LA County sheriff’s deputies from the Lennox station and FBI agents raided General T.A.C.O.’s home. He was arrested for allegedly having a legally registered SKS assault rifle. Even though the charge was dismissed, he spent a year in prison on a parole violation. His wife, comrade Aryana Shakur, also was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer. During the raid, Comrade Aryana was slightly wounded, but recovered quickly. She was released two weeks after the raid.
In January 2000, after a major raid at our headquarters in Watts, General T.A.C.O. and 20 Black Rider warriors marched inside the 108th Precinct at 10:00 PM at night. He was arrested for allegedly assaulting two police officers. The case against him was dismissed after just four days, but he spent six months in prison on a parole violation resulting from the incident. This confrontation left General T.A.C.O. severely wounded, but he emerged out of political imprisonment stronger and put forth a renewed call for the release of all political prisoners of war. If there is no conflict, there will be no progress!
In August 2002, General T.A.C.O.’s home was raided by the Lennox sheriff’s deputies on a search and destroy mission, but he was not home. After a six-hour armed stand-off with the pigs, three comrades were detained for an hour in pig cars. The Party’s chief legal counsel James Simmons was called to the tense scene and forced the pigs to abide by the law during the standoff. Therefore, no bloodshed occurred. Comrade Aryana Shakur was arrested for allegedly possessing an M-1 carbine assault rifle. After a year of legal battles, the case was dismissed.
In August 2003, General T.A.C.O. was arrested for allegedly assaulting a Lennox sheriff’s deputy, after the officer tried to brutalize a 16-year-old comrade. The trumped-up charges were later dismissed. In late August, General T.A.C.O., Minister of Public Relations Aryana Shakur, Chief of Security Nur Bey and Captain Nadia Shakur were all arrested. This clash happened after two white male deputies from the Lennox sheriff’s station jumped out of their car and began to frisk Aryana Shakur. This aggressive search led them to fondle her private parts in clear view of her husband, General T.A.C.O. The officers repeatedly refused to bring a female officer to do the pat down. The trumped up charges this time were inciting a riot, assault on a police officer, and interfering with an officer’s duty. This confrontation also left Capt. Nadia Shakur wounded. All four were released on their own recognizance three days later, and the frame-up charges were drastically reduced to a single misdemeanor. Aryana and Nadia Shakur’s cases were both dismissed by the judge. The police responded with hostility, and stepped up helicopter surveillance and harassment of all Black Riders. We also had to pay an excessive fee for our impounded vehicle.
In February 2004, after helping Daude Sherills successfully organize the 100,000 Man March to call for an end to Black on Black violence between Bloods, Crips, Muslims, and Christians, General T.A.C.O. and four other comrades were arrested, for allegedly possessing two bulletproof vests and a box of 9 MM bullets.
This case was dismissed within three days because of an illegal search and seizure and lack of evidence, because of the criminal tactics the police used to capture us. We are proud that none of these arrests were made due to infiltration or informants snitching inside the organization.
Despite these attacks, the Black Riders began to increase in size, membership and influence, and to spearhead more survival programs to meet the needs and desires of the people. These included the Kourt Watch program with free legal aid, the BOSS Black on Black violence prevention and intervention program, a petition for community control of the police, a Black Power Cultural Mountain boot camp, gang truce football games, the Squeeze the Slumlord project, and free food giveaways to homeless children and adults. The Watch-a-Pig program is still being implemented regularly because it is perfectly legal and necessary. The Black Commune is the vehicle for the ultimate drive-by against the fascist state. We must continue to confront the real enemy, educate the people about the nature of the system, and take the struggle to a higher level.
August, 2007, the FBI, LAPD and sheriff’s deputies launched a military-style raid on Black Riders HQ in the Inland Empire with armored vehicles and two TANKS, with intentions to assassinate General T.A.C.O., but he wasn’t there. He was arrested 3 hours later on traffic violations and held three days before being released.
Nov. 2007, General T.A.C.O., Mecca Shakur and comrade Stress were arrested in separate coordinated raids in northern and southern CA, for allegedly conspiring to possess machine guns, part of a supposed plot – never formally charged – to shoot up four police stations. After a massive campaign to “Free the BR3”, the Black Riders defeated, by a judge’s order, a prosecution attempt to impose a gang injunction and enhancements on the Riders. General T.A.C.O. sacrificed himself to gain his comrades’ release, and he was sent to Corcoran State Prison for 1.5 years. He was released May 12, 2009. In June, the state strapped a GPS tracking device on his ankle.
July 2010, parole officers and police raided Gen. T.A.C.O.’s home. He was arrested for associating with other Black Riders, and told he was being arrested for ordering them to go to support Oscar Grant’s family when killer cop Mehserle was on trial (the day before the verdict was expected). Released after two weeks, he was told he hadn’t violated parole.
Sept. 15, 2011, Gen. T.A.C.O. was arrested again for associating with other Black Riders while driving down Crenshaw. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck issued a memo to the head of the Parole Board in Sacramento to try to stop his release. In the memo, Beck stated that Gen. T.A.C.O.’s “leadership of the party has caused numerous assaults on police officers and is an organized attempt to kill, harass or injure police officers.” Meanwhile Occupy LA, Occupy the Hood and others mobilized to the court to demand T.A.C.O.’s release. Beck’s memo failed because he sent it in too late, and T.A.C.O. was again released, with strict stipulations against political speech and association, shackled with the GPS modern day slave shackle. We consider this racist memo a shocking reminder and exposure, akin to the J. Edgar Hoover memo describing the Black Panther Party as the greatest threat to internal security. We have become racist Amerikkka’s worst nightmare!
The court system in this country is increasingly becoming an important tool of repression on behalf of the exploiters. It’s being used to try to crush the struggle for liberation of peace-loving poor oppressed people, not only to crush the conscious revolutionary, but to attempt to break the rebellious spirit of Black people, Chicano/Mexicanos and Puerto Ricans in general. This foul system of government is designed to oppress, exploit and intimidate all people who are not from the white Anglo-Saxon ruling class. From the violent responses of the police forces, systematic and undoubtedly calculated, it can easily be understood that the Black Riders, as opponents of this rotten system, are victims of an official conspiracy to destroy our leadership and organization. The oppressor must be harassed until his doom! He must have no peace by day or night! Free all political prisoners of war! When the prison doors are opened, the true dragon will fly out!
BLACK POWER! ! ! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ! !
SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION! ! ! BLACK RIDERS!

Video showing pigs raising General T.A.C.O's house
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THOSE "PEOPLE" WERE KICKED OUT THE PARTY YEARS AGO AND ARE NOW TRYING TO SABOTAGE AND DESTROY IT... SUPPORT BLACK RIDERS! YOU DON'T WANNA MISS THIS... Now presented for the WORLD to see!
GENERAL T.A.C.O SPITS FIRE ON THE FAKE ALLEGATIONS!
(This letter was delivered to the Panther Elders and the "so-called" committee! Released publicly, May 29th)
Black Riders - New Generation Black Panther Party for Self-Defense!
Revolutionary Greetings,
Black Power! All Power to the People!
I/WE write this letter to all sincere Panther Elders and others. I/WE write this out of sheer respect, loyalty, and love for all that care. I/WE love our people so much, that I/WE are willing to try to explain ourselves, even though it is hard to do so under the extreme restraints based on the Black Riders Liberation Party’s need for security, especially at a politically charged moment like this. We humbly consider ourselves to be the New Generation Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. We never officially got permission to do so from you all but we were sincere in our desire to resurrect and advance our peoples struggle against the racist pigs, Capitalism, and Imperialism. We also set out to do the seemingly impossible task of bringing unity to the Bloods and Crips, the most hostile “gangs” in Amerikkka.
It is impossible in this brief letter to outline our ideology, theory and practice, or protocol on a day to day basis! This letter is also not to rationalize, justify, or excuse away the things you may have heard about me or Black Riders. If you have not heard anything about me or are simply convinced of what you’ve heard and don’t want to listen to what I/WE have to say on the matter, then I/WE respect that too.
If you do care, then please hear me out. I/WE are perfectly willing to talk to any objective sincere Revolutionary Panther Elders or other revolutionary Elders who are convinced about any of my actions, or the party’s. Of course, our organization is shrouded in secrecy because we are no fools when it comes to state repression based on the history of COINTELPRO and the history of counter insurgency on a global historical level. In our 18 year history of operating we have dodged and outmaneuvered the fascist states ability to ever infiltrate us with undercover agents and destroy our operations.
Because of these things we find ourselves, especially me, in a catch twenty-two, or damn if I/WE do or damn if I/WE don’t! If I/WE attempt to explain my side of the story, I/WE might expose myself and other comrades to the pig state and bring total destruction to what I/WE consider to be our strongest revolutionary force in this generation. Of course I/WE understand that many people feel that we can never ever be true Black Panthers. I/WE respect that too, if that is your position. You have the right to think such a thing.
I/WE believe I/WE am a victim of the most advanced COINTELPRO set up in our generation. It’s not just this new rumor campaign either. It’s been like that for years now! I/WE know for many of you this might all be hogwash and I/WE could be just lying to cover up things I/WE or the party has done. I/WE humbly disagree. Inside this package is a COINTELPRO type document (CHECK PIG CHIEF BECK MEMO SENT TO GENERAL T.A.C.O AND LAPD 'S CONVERGENCE STRATEGY ON LAALAA SHAKUR'S FACEBOOK PAGE) issued against me and the Party. I/WE prey to almighty Allah that you soften your hearts and read what has been done to me, my family, and the party. We believe it’s a sheer miracle that we even exist as a organization, or that more of us have not suffered life in prison or have been assassinated by the trigger happy L.A Pigs!
I/WE understand the history of Huey P. Newton’s drug abuse, authoritarianism, and some of the disagreements that former Panthers have with him and his leadership. I am light skinned, but I am not Huey! Also, of course, we do not operate in the same way as the Original Black Panthers either. This may have also led to some confusion and erroneous outlooks about our operations on a day to day level and/or ideology, theory and practice. We are not perfect but we are struggling to get better,
Tell no lies, claim no easy victory!!!!
I/WE respect revolutionary principles, community love, and accountability. I/WE am perfectly willing to talk out whatever contradiction we may have with some people in a NON-ANTAGONISTIC way. We will not stand in front of a kangaroo court by the state or individuals who are bent on my destruction or the party’s, without showing extreme revolutionary contempt. We do not respect UNPRINCIPLED open public critiques or UNPRINCIPLED facebook critics without proof, evidence, or especially dialogue. There is also such a thing as negative criticism and positive criticism. We also must make a distinction. We say we are not guilty but it’s hard to say much of anything when we don’t know the charges!
Also, our party is led by a collective called the Central Committee (that runs based on Democratic Centralism), so to charge me with any heinous crimes against the people, is to discredit and charge our whole entire organization. We refuse to allow any separation between the two! Hence, we define ourselves as I/WE for purposes of clarification in this letter. This is not an attempt to shift blame or responsibility on anyone else either. Also, I/WE would like to say that I am innocent of making any threats (on the committee). If you go to Laalaa Kimani Shakur on facebook and read my “Urgent Message to the movement and My political haters and enemies” you will see my statements were stripped out of context.
I/WE also know that my life is in more danger then ever. SO BE IT. If I am murdered or assassinated while speaking, breaking up a fight, sitting in the passenger seat of my car, or pop up with a brain aneurism, ALLAH (s.w.t)/GOD will be the only one who really knows the truth of my intentions, beliefs and practices as a revolutionary. So I/WE say to those who cast verbal stones or reactionary insults to shrink our base of support at a time when we are suffering massive raids by pigs, labeled a hate group by Southern Poverty Law Center ( and auxiliary federal pig agency) and face political trials in the near future, we will go down fighting the fascist state. We will never make the mistake of turning weapons on the people! I/WE am facing an enormous amount of time in prison in the near future for my political beliefs and actions. I/WE am prepared to go to the bottom of that hell for the rest of my life or until they kill me by hanging. My enemies will smile, yes, but no matter what, slandered, defamed of my revolutionary rank, reputation, practice, demonized by my own, I/WE will still fight back. I/WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP!
As George Jackson said… “This monster- this monster they’ve engendered in me will return to torment it’s maker, form the grave, the pit, the profoundest pit. Hurl me into the next existence, the descent into hell will not turn me. I’ll crawl back to dog his trail for ever. They won’t defeat my revenge, never, NEVER. I’m part of a righteous people, who angers slowly, but rage undamned. We’ll gather at his door in such a number, that the rumbling of our feet will make the earth tremble. I’m going to charge them for this, 28 years without gratification. I’m going to charge them with Reparations with blood. I’m going to charge them like a maddened, wounded rogue male elephant. Ears flared, trunk raised, trumpet blaring. I will do my dance on his chest, and the only thing he will see in my eyes is a dagger to pierce his cruel heart. This is one nigger who is positively displeased. I will never forgive, I will never forget. If I am guilty of anything, it’s not leaning on them hard enough. War without terms.”
Please side with the truth. Love and Revolution,
Sincerely,
General T.A.C.O(Taking All Capitalists Out)
Central Committee of the Black Riders Liberation Party
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(2014-05-29 note from Laalaa Kimanie Shakur)
General T.A.C.O will soon be coming out publicly to speak on the fake allegations!!
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND HELP US STOP THIS SMUT AND SMEAR CAMPAIGN ON OUR BELOVED ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL T.A.C.O! ! !
... SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION! ! !
HELP KEEP GENERAL T.A.C.O FREE ON THE STREETS! ! !


The following document issued 2011-10 from the LAPD shows that the BRLP is a target of the Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau of the LAPD.


Los Angeles Police Department
Charles Beck, Cheif of Police
October 21, 2011
To: Mr. Robert Ambroselli
Director, Adult Parole Operations
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
P.O. Box 942883
Sacramento, Caliornia 94283-0001

Dear Mr. Ambroselli:
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is writing you to express its concerns regarding the parole status of parolee Mischa Culton CDC No. G029455. The LAPD has become aware that Mr. Culton is trying to show that the Black Riders Liberation Party is not a gang and that he should be allowed to associate with its members.
The LAPD has had numerous encounters with members of the Black Riders Liberation Party. They have assaulted our officers, and Mr. Culton's leadership of the Black Riders Liberation Party is not a simple association or exercise of the 1st Amendment, but an organized effort to kill, harass, and/or injure police officers.
The LAPD would like to remind the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that Mr. Culton is on parole status for attempted possession of a machine gun in violation of Penal Code Section 12020(a) P.C. Enclosed are three documents to demonstrate the mentality of this gang and its hostility towards law enforcement.
It is requested that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations maintain Mr. Culton's parole status and prohibit him from associating with the Black Riders Liberation Party or any other gang member as he is recruiting for his violent ideology.
Very truly your,
[signed] Charles Beck, Chief of Police
[signed] Michael P. Downing, Deputy Chief, Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau


ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Please read ALL these LAPD ALLEGATIONS...
THE CONVERGENCE STRATEGY! COINTELPRO REBORN...
"Policing Terrorism in the United States: The Los Angeles Police Department's Convergence Strategy"
by Michael P. Downing, Deputy Chief and Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Los Angeles, California, Police Department
[http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1729&issue_id=22009]:
Local law enforcement agencies around the world face an increasingly complex set of problems with the emergence of globally coordinated criminal networks and national security threats. Modern-day criminals have proved themselves to be transnational in reach, linked by sophisticated networks and highly adaptive in their thinking. In response, local police agencies such as the Los Angeles, California, Police Department (LAPD) are developing strategies that are equally adaptive and networked. The linchpin of these strategies is and must remain convergence.
The word convergence is used variously by different disciplines. In this context, the intent is to describe the process of bringing different elements together to achieve a result beneficial to all. As a real-world example, the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain Project (http://humanterrainsystem.army.mil/) puts anthropologists and other social scientists alongside combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq to help the military better understand local cultures.
This concept translates well to policing in the context of counterterrorism. To face a relatively new adversary, police have been required to bolster old strengths, such as investigative skills, while acquiring new information, such as specific knowledge of terrorist organizations. These developments are fostered often by collaborative, multidisciplinary environments, which can cast light on the way forward. This article highlights some of the efforts the LAPD has undertaken to achieve a high level of convergence in working to prevent terrorist activities on U.S. soil.
This point is not merely an academic one—it has operational consequences. By getting communities, including those that may be breeding grounds for violent ideologies, to buy into the idea that local agencies are operating in the communities’ best interests, these agencies foster an environment in which tips and leads can come from those same communities, increasing the ability to gather information. Ultimately, it is these communities—aided by law enforcement and other resources—that foster environments hostile to the proliferation of criminality in any form.

Recent LAPD Counterterrorism Cases -
The LAPD created its Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau in 2003. It now has close to 300 officers dedicated to counterterrorism, criminal-intelligence gathering, and community mobilization efforts.
The LAPD Counter-Terrorism Bureau’s mission has four goals:
Prevent terrorism by effectively sharing information aimed at disrupting terrorists’ operational capability and addressing the underlying causes associated with the motivational component
Protect the public and critical infrastructure by leveraging private-sector resources and hardening targets
Pursue terrorists and the criminal enterprises that support them
Prepare the citizenry and the city government for consequences associated with terrorist operations against the city
The LAPD has gained considerable counterterrorism case experience over the past few years. The following cases are but a sample of those that have come onto the LAPD’s counterterrorism investigative radar.
Hezbollah Funding Case: The arrest of a major terrorist funding group by a task force comprising members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the LAPD working alongside the FBI illustrated the interrelation of criminal acts and the funding of terrorism, as well as the increasing global reach of local cases. This group raised money for Hezbollah by selling narcotics. It then laundered a portion of the funds by selling counterfeit products such as clothing and cigarettes in the United States and Latin America.

Black Rider Case: The Black Rider Liberation Party, a spinoff of the Black Panther Party, threatened to take over four police stations in Los Angeles and shoot and kill as many police officers as possible in furtherance of its black separatist and antigovernment agenda. Traditional policing tactics, including surveillance (using both technical and nontechnical methods), source development, search warrants, and the introduction of an informant, resulted in the arrest and prosecution of this domestic terrorist group. Property recovered during the investigation included numerous large-caliber automatic and semiautomatic weapons; a military handbook on intelligence and interrogation; night vision goggles; bulletproof vests; knives; a crossbow; a police scanner; and manuals on police field operations, sniper procedures, and bioterrorism.

Black Rider Liberation Party (BRLP)

WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING NATION WIDE RECRUITS...
IF YOU WANT TO JOIN AND BE A MEMBER OF BLACK RIDERS, CONTACT US AT
BlackRiders1996 @)gmail.com
BLACK POWER! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! RBG 4 LIFE!
Defend General T.A.C.O. and the Black Rider Liberation Party (BRLP) [link]
Hands Off Etana and Mecca Shakur! [link] (updated 2014-05-23)
Also see:
* BRLP - Oakland chapter [link]
BRLP - Miami [link]
BRLP - New Zealand [facebook.com/BlackRiders.nz]

BRLP of LA leads a Liberation movement! (Photo 2013-07 in LA)




Black Riders' General T.A.C.O. writes:
* "4th of the Lie" message: BREAK FREE FROM THE NEW SLAVERY [link]
* ON THE WATCH-A-PIG PROGRAM, ARMED SELF-DEFENSE, THE PANTHER (S.F.) EIGHT, AND THE BRUTAL ASSASSINATION OF TOOKIE [link]

Defend Comrade Jihad Mujahid!  
Muhammad, Minister of Spiritual Affairs of the BRLP, and Hero of the People!

More info about his arrest, including a video, here [link]!

Comrade Jihad is out on bail, as of 2014-06, and going through trial against trumped-up charges designed to imprison him forever under California's Three-Strikes sentencing laws.

2014 Black August Solidarity Statement for Political Prisoners in California from BRLP [link]

BRLP: New political prisoners of Black liberation in Los Angeles (Dec., 2007) [link]

The Break the Lock Program...
NATION WIDE STAMP DRIVE! 

Please read all of this and SEND STAMPS TO...
BLACK RIDERS-NEW GENERATION BLACK PANTHER PARTY 
P.O. BOX 8297 LOS ANGELES CA, 90008
In the book the New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander points out, "THERE ARE MORE BLACK PEOPLE TRAPPED IN THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (modern slavery), THEN IT WAS BLACK PEOPLE TRAPPED ON THE PLANTATIONS OF CHATTEL SLAVERY!"
Your stamps will go to:
1. Political Prisoners of War like ..
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Free Matulu Shakur
Free Russell Maroon Shoatz
Free Ruchell MaGee
Free Romaine Chip Fitzgerald
Free Jalil Muntaqim
Free Jamil Al Amin (H. Rap Brown)
AND MANY MANY MORE... Free Em' All!
2. Communicating to our 1000 STRONG nation wide Prison Chapter of Black Riders
3. Communicating to the Pelican Bay and Corcoran SHU Prison Hunger Strikers
4. Communicating to masses of people seeking knowledge of self and revolutionary political education to grow inside and help the community once they are released.
"Break the lock is a prisoner visitation, education, and communication program, working to achieve, publish and respond to prisoners letters, arrange family transport to prisoners, send BOOKS or Revolutionary educational material to prisoners, and conduct a California Clemency Campaign to free all Political Prisoners!!!"
OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BURIED ALIVE UNDER CONCRETE AND STEEL AND NEED YOUR SUPPORT...
PLEASE DONATE... EVERY STAMP COUNTS!!!
POINT "E" OF OUR UPDATED 10 POINT PROGRAM AND PLATFORM, NOW CALLED THE BLACK COMMUNE PROGRAM...
WE RIDE BECAUSE WE DEMAND THE CASES OF ALL BLACK PEOPLE HELD CAPTIVE IN JAIL AND PRISONS OF AMERIKKKA BE RE-OPENED, RE-INVESTIGATED, AND RE-TRIED BY MEMBERS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. We ride Because we feel that Black People living in incarceration have been tried unfairly by the RACIST u.s justice department. We have been denied the right of trial by ones peers resulting in guilty verdicts for an enormous amount of innocent Black People. We have been and are being tried by juries that have NO understanding of the "average reasoning man" of the Black Community. It is time that these cases be re-opened and re-tried by Black People so that the innocence of Black inmates can be determined by a jury of THEIR peers, as stated in the 14th amendment of the u.s. constitution. we as Black People shall then deal with our own people by granting freedom from incarceration to those whose re-trial has validated it, and deferring charges and sentences for those proven to be guilty by peers. We want amnesty for all Political Prisoners.


HOOD HEALTH...
OUR FREE MOBILE AIDS TESTING PROGRAM...


BLACK RIDERS...NEW GENERATION BLACK PANTHERS...
WE RIDE FOR FULL MEDICAL ATTENTION THAT SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ALL BLACK PEOPLE.
We Ride because we believe that AmeriKKKan capitalist economics is the blame for the high rates of disease in the Black Community. Black People suffering from life threatening ailments like AIDS should no longer be left to the mercy of low budget county hospitals. For whatever illness any member of the Black Community suffers, the federal government is obligated to send them to medical institutions that provide the best treatment.... (This is point K of our Black Commune Program, Our updated 10 point Platform and Program)
TO COMBAT (THE RACIST WHITE MAN CREATED) HIV/AIDS VIRUS, IS TO COMBAT OUR GENOCIDE...
DEFENDING AND SERVING THE PEOPLE MIND, BODY, AND SOUL.
THIS PROGRAM WAS ADAPTED FROM THE O.G PANTHERS FREE SICKLE CELL ANEMIA TESTING PROGRAM IN THE 1960'S



BRLP LA IS ORGANIZING NEW CHAPTERS ACROSS AMERIKKKA!
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE START UP OF THE NEW CHAPTER IN MIAMI!!
MALCOLM X BIRTHDAY 2014, THE BLACK RIDERS LIBERATION PARTY - MIAMI CHAPTER, N'COBRA, RNA, &THE PEOPLES KOLLECTIVE SMASHED. SEVERAL BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS HERE IN MIAMI ON UNITY REPARATIONS, BLACK ON BLACK MURDERS, AND GETTING OURSELVES FREE! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!

Saturday, May 11, 2013

ONYX Committee (Oakland)

Cat Brooks, ONYX co-chair


SAT. MAY 11th ONYX launches "Just the Facts Door Knocking" campaign and "Hands Off Assata/Welcome Home GP":
Many of you may know by now that this weekend, ONYX is hosting two events. The first is a door knocking training as preparation for our Just the Facts Door Knocking Campaign:
[https://www.facebook.com/events/168153720013310]
The Just the Facts Door Knocking campaign is designed to paint a clearer picture about policing in communities of color by presenting facts about recent abuse, corruption and murder by police. We hope to begin to shift the conversation away from cops as our only option for safety and start a conversation that is led by the people about alternatives. We will also begin to put information about police brutality into the hands of the people most impacted and grow the movement so that we have a mass of people demanding and ensuring that police brutality in our neighborhoods comes to an end.
Every 1st Saturday, ONYX will be conducting a door-to-door information campaign, talking to the people and empowering them with accurate information.
Join us Saturday from 2-4 at the Hold Out. The training will be led by our comrade and ally, MXGM member, Sanyika Bryant.
The second event is a Hands Off Assata/Welcome Home GP POT LUCK BBQ at Lil Bobby Hutton Park from 3-8. [https://www.facebook.com/events/469547976458339]
So many of you were so supportive of us and our comrade when the state locked him down - we would love for you to join us on this day of fellowship and continued resistance.
In solidarity and struggle, Cat

Monday, March 25, 2013

Racial Justice Allies (Sonoma County)

[http://www.racialjusticeallies.org]

2013-03-19 "Towards Collective Liberation" by Chris Crass, a book launch and panel discussion
Tuesday, 6:30pm until 9:00pm
The Arlene Francis Center [99 Sixth Street, Santa Rosa, California 95401]
 $5-$15 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds). Books will also be for sale.
 This event is wheelchair accessible.
    The Racial Justice Allies is excited to announce this one-time event with author and activist Chris Crass, who will be coming all the way from Knoxville, TN to speak about his new book, Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building.
 We are also delighted to have a panel discussion with local community organizers who are on the forefront of some of the struggles and movements that are discussed in Towards Collective Liberation.
 Co-Sponsored by: the Racial Justice Allies, the Black Student Union (SRJC), and the California Student Union (SRJC chapter).


Friday, March 22, 2013

Black Berets of San Jose





A Walk for Peace and Unity 
 Saturday, March 23 2013 @ 6 AM- 2 PM
Lincoln High School, 555 Dana Ave, San Jose 
This is an event to create solidarity among community organizers & to send a message for peace to the streets.
 We will begin with a sunrise ceremony (6 a.m.) at Lincoln High School site of the first Barrios Unidos conference during which we will have an opening prayer by a youth and an elder, a woman and man. The purpose of the sunrise ceremony is to focus our intent and prayer for peace, following the ceremony we will gather up for the walk. We plan on arriving at Mexican Heritage Plaza around noon where we will end the walk with a sacred pipe ceremony and some Mexica (Aztec) dance performed by Calpulli Tonalequeh. We will end the event with some speakers and performers during which we will provide food and refreshments; we hope to finish by 2 p.m.
 Start 6 a.m. Lincoln High School: 555 Dana Ave. San Jose, CA 95126
 End 12 noon Mexican Heritage Plaza: 1700 Alum Rock Ave San Jose, CA 95116
 This event is sponsored by The Black Berets por la Justicia

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Eastbay Solidarity Network

Boss or Landlord problems?
We are a mutual support organization of workers and tenants. Together we stand up to unjust bosses and landlords. We win through strategy, struggle, support and solidarity.
[http://eastbaysol.wordpress.com/] [evictionfreeoakland@gmail.com]





2012-03-07 "EAST BAY SOLIDARITY NETWORK AND OCCUPY OAKLAND HOUSING NETWORK FORESTALL FORECLOSURE FOR TWO OAKLAND FAMILIES"
by Jesse from "Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette" [http://occupyoakland.org/2012/03/oscar-grant-plaza-gazette-3712/]:
The stories of these two families run parallel to those of many Oaklanders these days: working people thrust by an economic crisis caused by the 1% have been denied loan modifications by the very same institutions bailed out by the federal government with billion dollar sums. Then these institutions did their best to foreclose and evict, “losing” reams of financial documentation that proved the families’ abilities to continue to pay on their mortgages at lower monthly rates.
After two account managers and a year of unreturned phone calls, Siaka Cisse turned to the East Bay Solidarity Network to keep his family of six in their Oakland home. Three days before the public auction of the house, Siaka and EBSol targeted the executive officers of Siaka’s lender with a concentrated blast of phone calls demanding that the auction be postponed and that every option be explored to avoid eviction. The next day, EBSol confirmed that the auction had been postponed until April 16th, and that Siaka had received a fresh loan modification package.
Ms. Katie, an Oakland grandmother who has lived in her North Oakland home for 35 years, fought Chase Bank for five years after financial hardship hit. Thanks to two well-attended and public actions organized by the Occupy Oakland Housing Network and Ms. Katie’s family, she is now negotiating a loan modification that will allow her to hold on to her home.
In the absence of ongoing pressure, the banks are likely to change their minds or offer unfavorable terms to the borrowers, terms that could land them in the same situation two years down the road. Both of these victories occurred last week, and both Siaka and Ms. Katie will need our support in the coming weeks to ensure a fair outcome in their negotiations. To get involved, email the East Bay Solidarity Network at Eastbaysol@gmail.com and the Occupy Oakland Housing Network at foreclosure@occupyoakland.org.

Central Valley Coalition Against Police Violence

[wearealloscargrantcv.blogspot.com]

Modesto Copwatch

[http://www.myspace.com/473717185]

Young Workers United

[http://www.youngworkersunited.org]  [415-621-4155]  [youngworkersunited@gmail.com] 
P.O. Box 420963 San Francisco, CA 94142 
Young Workers United, formed in 2002, is a multi-racial and bilingual membership organization dedicated to improving the quality of jobs for young and immigrant workers. We raise standards in the low-wage service sector in San Francisco through worker and student organizing, grass-roots advocacy, leadership development, and public education.

People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER)

[http://www.podersf.org
474 Valencia Street Suite #125 San Francisco, CA 94103
[415-431-4210] [info @ podersf.org]
PODER is a grassroots, environmental justice organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District. PODER’s mission is to organize with Mission [San Francisco] residents to work on local solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities of color. PODER believes that the solutions to community problems depend on the active participation of all people in decision-making processes. Improvements to our neighborhood must be made through collective social action to bring about social, economic and environmental justice. 

Modesto Solidarity

[http://modestosolidarity.blogspot.com
[209-690-7319] [modestosolidarity@gmail.com] 
Unpaid wages? Denied deposit? Unsafe workplace? Refused repairs?  Don’t let bosses and landlords use and abuse you!  We are a network of working people and tenants who work to defend ourselves through direct action and mutual support. Modesto Solidarity will help you get back stolen wages and deposits, get repairs made, and stop evictions. To become involved or to let us know of a problem at your work or with a landlord, contact us!

Santa Cruz Solidarity

[http://scsolidarity.blogspot.com] [831-216-6321] [scsolidarity@gmail.com]
Santa Cruz Solidarity is a collective response to a common problem.
 We are a network of people fighting against mistreatment by bosses and landlords. We are tired of being taken advantage of silently and constantly dealing with every form of disrespect.
 We solve our problems through direct action, putting economic and social pressure on bosses and landlords to get what's ours. We use our power as a group to find solutions, instead of using lawyers or police to help us.
  We are a solidarity group. We've got each others backs, and we make it known that renter and worker abuse will not be tolerated. We aren't a legal group or social service.
 There is no leader of Santa Cruz Solidarity and we make decisions as a group. We are not funded.
 And our work doesn’t end here! We envision a world where power comes from within communities rather than being imposed from without. To this end we hope to unite people to become better at getting what we need.

Prisoners Literature Project

Volunteer With Us! We are currently holding Sunday volunteering sessions 2-5 at the grassroots house. Lets send books to prisoners!
Address: "The Grassroots House", 2022 Blake Street, Berkeley, CA
Please share with friends! [http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/donate]
Who are we? The Prisoners Literature Project is a grassroots organization that sends free books to prisoners in the United States. The project started in the early 1980’s in the back of Bound Together Books. PLP is run entirely by volunteers and funded by donations.
Why send free books? Most prisons do not allow prisoners to receive books directly from individuals. Instead, books must be sent through "pre-approved vendors" such as publishers or expensive bookstores like Barnes & Noble. In many cases, prisoners do not have anyone on the outside who is willing or able to send books via this route. And what about prison libraries, you ask? Some consist of mostly suspense or western novels, and even then, library access may be treated as more of a privilege than a right.
This is where PLP steps in. We believe that everyone deserves access to literature and educational materials, including people trying to work towards social change, self-empowerment or rehabilitation within the incarceration system. Through our affiliation with Bound Together Books, PLP is able to send free books to those inside.

Oakland "Stop the Injunction!" coalition




2012-03-07 "AGAINST STAY-AWAY ORDERS AND GANG INJUNCTIONS" from "Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette" [http://occupyoakland.org/2012/03/oscar-grant-plaza-gazette-3712/]:
 A collaborative document written by Occupy Oakland Anti-Repression Committee and Stop the Injunctions Coalition
The City of Oakland and Alameda County are actively trying to circumvent Constitutional due process protections in the established criminal “justice” system to target activists and communities of color. They are using the courts to impose “gang injunctions” against those they call “gang members”, and more recently against “occupy protesters” via “stay-away orders”.  Both types of court orders are police state practices, which misuse the court system for political purposes to criminalize individuals and communities, without actually proving any criminal violations.
 Gang injunctions and stay away orders are being used against a person or a group suspected of being involved in a gang, protest, or other state identified “nuisance”. While the gang injunctions and the stay-away orders are different in many aspects, they both serve to punish our community members and violate our rights to assemble without actually convicting anyone of any violation of the law. Gang injunctions use the civil courts and stay-away orders use criminal courts; both expand upon what is considered criminal, thus giving a corrupt police force further discretion and more power to arrest and harass people who have been enjoined or ordered to not be in certain areas or with certain people at certain hours. Because of the civil nature of gang injunctions, there is no attorney (such as the Public Defender) appointed on the defendant’s behalf, thus legal fees are placed on the defendant. If a civil gang injunction defendant lacks resources to hire an attorney, they risk a “default” and the injunction will take effect without allowing the defendant to legally defend themselves.
In the case of occupy protesters, Mayor Jean Quan’s “stay-away orders” are issued without factual findings and before many people have an attorney. The “stay-away orders” are being given as a condition of bail or release on “own recognizance” to restrict where people can be- in this case prohibiting them from being within 100 or 300 yards of Oakland City Hall. In the case of the North Oakland and Fruitvale gang injunctions, those named cannot be in large “safety zones” at certain times, nor can they be with other individuals named in the injunctions, among other restrictions. Both stay-away orders and gang injunctions unconstitutionally deprive our community members of liberty to engage in basic life activities, like associating with friends and family. Gang injunction curfews restrict defendants’ ability to work, and stay-away orders restrict defendants from airing grievances at city hall, taking BART from the 12th street station, or participating in civic life in the central public plaza.
In response to the Oakland gang injunctions, a large coalition developed to oppose the injunctions proposed by the City Attorney. Due to the massive campaign launched against the injunctions, only two of the eleven proposed have been able to be put into effect. The campaign also caused the City Attorney to reduce the number of people named by the injunctions, and make the injunctions somewhat less restrictive, though we see any “gang injunction” as a gross abuse of state power and a sanctioning of police abuse. The coalition has made clear that these injunctions are based entirely on the word of police/parole/probation officer intelligence, which is tainted by racist assumptions of Black and Brown “gang” culture and also specifically targets men who have won lawsuits against OPD for harassment. Also, numerous men targeted by gang injunctions have been incarcerated in the past, and this fact is used against them in court to prove that they need to be enjoined. Thus, the gang injunctions employ a type of double jeopardy, using past crimes as justification for limiting civil liberties when many of the targeted men are trying to get work and live healthy and sustainable lives in their respective communities.
Mayor Quan’s “Stay-Away Orders” are another gang injunction-like tool used to repress and punish those expressing dissent. The stay-away orders have specifically targeted more than twelve people who have been arrested at Occupy Oakland protests and are based purely on the word of OPD and the DA. These individuals have not been convicted of any “crime”, yet a judge has imposed orders that take away their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights. These orders represent the ongoing political persecution of people who are protesting against extreme economic inequality, corporate control of the government, and police state practices used to uphold this oligarchy. The stay-away orders and other political attacks on our communities show that instead of working to provide real solutions to economic disparity, racism and police brutality, the City uses fear tactics and repression to eliminate political dissent. City officials continue to talk out of both sides of their mouths, saying they sympathize with the occupy wall street movement’s goals of challenging corruption and economic inequality, while sicking riot cops and cruel weaponry on local occupy wall street protesters. City officials often speak in favor of alternatives to incarceration and repression such as “restorative justice”, while concurrently using the court and prison system to instill fear amongst protesters. It is clear however where their cards lie. We must learn from the fight against gang injunctions that the only way to stop stay-away orders in their tracks is to pack the courts and target those officials that are pushing for them for public shame. We cannot let the police, city and DA impose anymore gang injunctions or stay-away orders, and we must fight to eliminate ALL the existing gang injunctions and stay-away orders.

For More Information or to get involved:
[http://occupyoakland.org/generalassembly/committees/antirepression-committee] [antirepression@occupyoakland.org]
[http://stoptheinjunction.wordpress.com] [stoptheinjunction@gmail.com]