Friday, May 30, 2014

In honor of Imamu Fahiym Olugbala Ali, warrior of the Republic of New Africa

Also known as Fahiym "RBG" Ali, he was a Pan-African organizer working on uniting the vanguards of New Afrika. Fahiym overstood that you ride together in peace against the enemy, or you are alone without allies.

Posted 2014-05-27 by Fahiym "RBG" Ali at [www.facebook.com/fahiym.r.ali]:
LETS DO THE WORK:
Agitate until we create a stable society that benefits all our people.
Instigate the nation until we remedy the injustices of society.
Motivate our people to set a meaningful path for the coming generations.
Educate our people to free our minds and develop an Afrikan consciousness.
Connect with The Republic of New Afrika [www.pg-rna.com]
Free The Land, New Afrikans, Land is the basis of Independence! Abibifahodie is The Way! Revolution is The Solution! Panther Luv wrapped in Black Power! Uhuru!
- quotes from Amos Wilson:
To manipulate history is to manipulate consciousness; to manipulate consciousness is manipulate possibilities; and to manipulate possibilities is to manipulate power.
Laws in and of themselves will not protect us; laws are words written on paper; laws protect no one… Ultimately, it means that we can only protect our rights and interests as people, not through laws written by other people and laws enforced by other people, but through the power to prevent other people from having their way with us.
We must understand the tremendous value of the study of history for the regaining of power. If our education is not about gaining real power, we are being mis-educated and misled and we will die “educated” and misled.
The study of history cannot be a mere celebration of those who struggle on our behalf. We must be instructed by history and should transform history into concrete reality, into planning and development, into the construction of power and the ability to ensure our survival as a people. If not, Black history month becomes an exercise in the inflation of egos; it becomes an exercise that cuts us further off from reality.
There are those of us who are made ashamed of our history of enslavement, who are made ashamed by the distorted presentation of Afrikan history, are made to think that prior to slavery we were essentially culturally invisible and savage and only achieved visibility and civility when the European came on the scene. Many of us attempt to repress any knowledge of our slave experience. But we should heed the fact that a person and people who suffer from social amnesia live lives that are determined by fear, anxiety, terror and trauma. When we attempt to escape our history because we are afraid of it, when we escape knowledge because it terrifies and makes us feel ashamed, then it is terror and fear and shame that determines our lives. We then live, not in terms of reality and in terms of the integration of our reality but in terms of what we are afraid of, i.e., what we are ashamed of, what we are trying to hide, what we are trying not to confront ourselves with. Life is then lived in terms of denial, in terms of escape and addiction. Many of the murders, deaths and much of the destruction that we see in our communities today are the result of people trying to escape history, and reality.
- All Power Thru The People! Revolutionary Luv!



"In Memory of Fahiym RBG Ali"
Posted 2014-05-27 by Ali علي Fate Harris at [www.facebook.com/676551612/posts/10152495541266613]:
You work with some group or organization on the mission? If so, yes, continue to fight. If not, join onto a group on the mission. Make it more than words in this mans, among many, honor. To speak on this means its gotta be more than sweet words. Works#
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NEW PANTHERS STUNNED BY VIOLENT DEATH OF FAHIYM RBG ALI, THEIR MUCH LOVED MINISTER OF INFORMATION!!

Early on Tuesday evening, May 27th, the New Black Panther Party was stunned beyond words to learn that their promising and much loved national minister of information Fahiym ‘RBG’ Ali had been senselessly gunned down in his Florida community.
Apparently, Ali was gunned down in a drive-by after having had a minor altercation earlier with a stranger! Emergency medical personnel were unable to save the stalwart consciousness-raising warrior at a nearby hospital.
Imamu Fahiym Olugbala Ali was also serving as the chairman of the People’s Convention Center of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika and as a New Afrikan Legionnaire at the time of his death.
He was only 41.
“I would like to believe that the person who did this had no idea who our brother was, or else he likely would not have done it,” said Zayid Muhammad, the Party’s national minister of culture, who is also a gun violence survivor.
“The loss of our brother to this senseless violence should serve as an indicator to all that no one is immune to this plague.
“Most upsettingly is that we truly need young men like Fahiym in the trenches of our communities, using their survivals, their courage and their knowledge to turn this thing around,” finished Muhammad.
Ali was among the soldiers of the New Black Panther Party who withstood physically provocative Texas Rangers in Jasper, Texas just weeks ago protesting the lynching of Alfred Wright.
It must also be noted that Ali was slain on the birth anniversary of Emmitt Till, the Chicago teen whose savage lynching in Mississippi in 1955 actually became a galvanizing factor in the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement. Ali was working with the Panthers on a special demonstration to be held at the U.S. Justice Department on August 28th, to mark the anniversary of Till’s lynching.
"Our flag will be at half mast for this brother whom we loved," said Krystal Muhammad, the Party's national chair...
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2012-10 photograph with Fahiym "RBG" Ali at a local gathering in Miami with the "Peoples Collective", a non-denominational group For Upliftment of The People. Citizens in the collective come from all schools of KOS, so its a "COLLECTIVE" that makes up a mastermind, for neighborhood book ciphers, neighborhood clean-ups, and various hands-on community outreach projects. It's an honor to be in such a cipher.

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2014-05-25 with NBPP cadre in Miami

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With Black Rider Liberation Party - Miami chapter.



2014-06-02 message from E Da Ref, Min. Public Relations for the Black Riders Liberation Party - Oakland Chapter [https://www.facebook.com/e.d.ref/posts/10202929237205771]:
On May 27th 2014 The Minister of Information of The New Black Panther Party (NBPP) and Chairman of the Peoples Convention Center of The Provisional Government Republic of New Afrika (PCC PG-RNA), Fahiym Olugbala Ali was brutally assassinated in the streets of Miami, FL.
He recently held down the front line in a standoff and physical altercation with the pig ranger sheriffs in front of a pig department on Highway 190 West in Jasper TX during The National Rally for Justice for Alfred Wright demonstration.
He also helped organize and launch numerous community outreach missions with a few of our comrades the Miami Chapter of The Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP) through some of the roughest Miami neighborhoods like; Overtown, Liberty City, Pork N’ Beans Projects and Little Haiti.
He was allegedly gunned down in a drive by shooting after a minor altercation. The Emergency medical personal was unable to save the brother at a nearby hospital. However we don’t think this explanation is that simple in this situation. We don’t think the murder of Bro. Fahiym Ali is a coincidence. We will not be naïve enough to fall for the fallacy being portrayed which leads some of us to come to a false assumption/conclusion that this incident was just simply Black on Black genocide as usual. We don’t buy it!
We believe this is a vicious repressive COINTELPRO attack against the new generation African Liberation Movement commonly known as the RBG movement. Whenever someone with a revolutionary charged background dies, let alone murdered, we should never write it off as a common coincidence. Our assassination alarms should instantly sound off in our psyche.
Let’s not forget just 3 months ago, Veteran Elder Vice President of RNA and Mayor elect Jackson MI; Chokwe Lumumba, just passed away of a mysterious death by “unknown natural causes”. You can call it a conspiracy if you wish. We call it a continuous constructed connection of counter-revolutionary attacks and attempt to neutralize the struggle for African Liberation.
Bro. Fahiym was a fierce fighter for New Afrikan Nationalism and Independence. He was also very interested in developing an understanding of Black Riders Ideology of Revolutionary African Inter-Communalism to come to a common ground and achieve common objectives in our struggle for total liberation and self-determination of African communities all over the globe.
“LETS DO THE WORK:
Agitate until we can create a stable societythat benefits all our people. Instigate the nation until we remedy the injustices of society.
Motivate our people to set a meaningful path for the coming generations.
Educate our people to free our minds and develop an Afrikan consciousness.” –Imamu Fahiym Olugbala Ali
Our brother, warrior, and comrade in the struggle has transitioned to the realm of eternity. The furious lashing out of our enemy shows their fear and weakness. It just shows us how effective the methods we are using to liberate ourselves are. Let the spirit of his Revolutionary Ideas and commitment live on in the minds and hearts of the people. As he joins our ancestors in the afterlife, let not the blood, sweat, tears, struggle and sacrifice go in vain. ASE!
RISE IN POWER FAHIYM ALI!
FREE THE LAND BY ANY MEANS NESSASARY!!!
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE WHO DON’T FEAR FREEDOM!!!

Friday, May 23, 2014

Defend Etana and Mecca Shakur! (Black Rider Liberation Party - Los Angeles chapter)

Black Rider Liberation Party (Los Angeles chapter) [link]

"These sisters were proven innocent and not guilty after trial for the trumped up charges of assault and battery on a single pig police officer, trespassing, resisting arrest, and obstructing justice, after they successfully defended themselves and our people."
Picture of BRLP - LA Minister of Information, (left) Mecca Shakur and BRLP - LA Minister of Community Programs, (right) Etana Shakur:



"ALL CHARGES HAVE BEEN DROPPED! TOTAL VICTORY IS WHEN OUR PEOPLE ARE FREE..."
(text adapted from 2014-05-23 statement from Mecca and Etana Shakur, issued by the Black Riders Liberation Party, "New Generation Black Panthers")
Revolutionary Greetings! Black Power! All Power to the People!
We would like to thank all of our supporters, ancestors, and God for all the love and strength that was given to us. There is no way we could be walking the streets today if it was not for that righteous POWER backing us up. Now we must all pick up the fight and deliver our people from the hells of racist AmeriKKKa. As long as the evil forces of white supremacy, capitalism, and U.S imperialism still run rampant on the planet, we can never truly be free. We on the streets are in nothing but minimum security while those of us behind bars in concentration camps are in maximum security! Just like Malcolm X taught us years ago. "AMERIKKKA IS A BIG PRISON FOR BLACK PEOPLE!" Also, Black Women are the fastest growing prison population in the racist Empire.
We are asking now that you support our other comrades who have fought diligently against the oppressors like General T.A.C.O, Comrade Jihad, and all of the numerous brothers (males) that still face highly charged political trials for their Revolutionary beliefs and actions for 18 years now!
We must never forgive or forget the brutal murders of people like Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, and many many more. MALCOLM X said," I DON'T CALL IT VIOLENCE WHEN IT'S SELF-DEFENSE, I CALL IT INTELLIGENCE!!!"
Also, to our house negro political haters and racist enemies who try to slander and smear, harass, jail, or KILL US: WE WILL NOT GIVE UP THE FIGHT! ! !
Black Men and Women have a right to say "NO" to racist attacks! BLACK POWER! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! BLACK WOMEN ARE PANTHERS TOO!
BLACK MEN AND WOMEN MUST UNITE AND PROTECT OUR CHILDREN FROM THE RACIST PIGS! DEFEND SELF-DEFENSE!
BLACK POWER TO BLACK MEN, BLACK POWER TO BLACK WOMEN, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! WE WILL WIN! Africa and Africans on the planet will be FREE!
ASE' THANK YOU! ... SUPPORT BLACK RIDERS... COMING TO A HOOD NEAR YOU!!!
SINCERELY YOURS,
[signed] MECCA SHAKUR AND ETANA SHAKUR... RBG 4 LIFE!
P.S. Our Shero and example is Assata Shakur, who is in exile in Cuba. HANDS OFF ASSATA!!!
Women are strong leaders and teachers in our organization! Here's a clip from the Chief Of Staff Laalaa Shakur breaking down deep knowledge taught to us by General T.A.C.O.
DON'T POLITICALLY HATE, JUST CONGRATULATE!
IF YOU WANT TO JOIN AND BE DOWN, INBOX OR EMAIL US AT blackriders1996@gmail.com
Fred Hampton Sr. said, "YOU CAN JAIL A REVOLUTIONARY, BUT YOU CAN'T JAIL THE REVOLUTION! YOU CAN KILL A REVOLUTIONARY, BUT YOU CAN'T KILL THE REVOLUTION!!!"


Hands off the Black Riders' Mecca & Etana Shakur!
(All text adapted from May 12th message by BRLP founder Gen. TACO) Defend Mecca & Etana Shakur and their human right to self defense against police abuse and political repression! They stood up for you -- stand up for them! They defended themselves and the human right to self-defense against a racist police assault -- defend them against racist political repression!
Keep these two revolutionary Black moms, community leaders and freedom fighters Mecca & Etana Shakur FREE! You can donate on a new GoFundMe page set up for their defense and community education efforts: [http://www.gofundme.com/939rw0]. All donations will go to the BRLP to help keep Mecca & Etana free or to deal with the consequences if these two revolutionary Black moms are imprisoned. For more information, go to [facebook.com/BlackRidersLiberationParty], or contact the BRLP of LA at [323-289-4457] [blackriders1996@gmail.com].

A NATION CAN RISE NO HIGHER THEN IT'S WOMEN!
COME OUT AND SUPPORT THESE SISTERS IN THE STRUGGLE!
HELP US STOP THIS LEGAL LYNCHING!
On the day after Mother's Day (May 12th), the Ingleside KKKourt trial continues as the Jury is still trying to figure out if the LAPD "officer" had notified Etana of her arrest before he assaulted her, and whether Mecca allegedly "jumped in" with intent to harm the "officer". What will be the verdict?! Will the criminal "injustice" system slap Black People in the face again like in the cases of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis?! On May 6th, the original trespassing charge was dropped by the judge. If the probable cause for the initial arrest was proven false, then logically one would think all the charges would be dropped! But the racist law of the dominant nation is insane, crazy, and illogical. It would exterminate all Black People! Other Black Riders in L.A. and Oakland are also facing political trials in the coming weeks. Drop all charges!! Not guilty!!!
According to a recent report from Women’s Justice Center of Sonoma, racist police officers in the U.S.A. commit routine violence against women of color without proper reporting, accountability, or consequences.
Late 2013, just a few days after the Black Riders Liberation Party were honored by Kathleen Cleaver and other elders of the original Black Panther Party for service and dedication to revolutionary struggle [link], Etana and Mecca Shakur were physically assaulted by a (single) Inglewood male pig Roger Zeller as they attempted to leave a grocery store while carrying copies of the BRLP newspaper. Etana and Mecca Shakur successfully defended themselves against the assault by saying "NO!", and bringing attention from community members in the vicinity to act as witnesses to an illegal kidnapping. Both were arrested and suffered three days of jail time for nothing, and were released...
Now, during their KKKourt trial stemming from the incident, both women are facing further incarceration, isolation from their community, and separation from their children, all for their political belief that women have the right to stand up and say NO to physical attack.
These strong Black Women are high-ranking members of the BRLP leadership, and highly respected in the community. Etana Shakur is Minister of Community Programs; Mecca Shakur is Minister of Information and a member of the local station board of KPFK Pacifica free speech community radio. These mothers helped to create the George Jackson Freedom School, which provides self-defense and African cultural awareness classes to young Black Children in South Central LA.
Both Mecca and Etana are mothers facing separation from their children if this state attack succeeds.
We're calling on all revolutionary and progressive people to come out to support these two strong sisters!
All Power to the People who don't fear freedom!!! We will be free by any means necessary!
(2013 photo showing Gen. TACO, Etana Shakur and Mecca Shakur  leading a march for community liberation!)




2013-05-01 message from the Black Rider Liberation Party (BRLP) - Oakland Chapter [link]:
YESTERDAY, TUESDAY APRIL 30, 2013, AT APPROXIMATELY 230PM, BLACK RIDERS LIBERATION PARTY COMRADES MECCA AND ETANA SHAKUR WERE HARASSED, ASSAULTED AND ARRESTED BY THE INGLEWOOD PD WHILE SELLING NEWSPAPERS AND POLITICKING WITH THE PEOPLE ON CENTURY AND CRENSHAW IN INGLEWOOD, CA IN FRONT OF THE FOOD FOR LESS.
THIS ATTACK COMES IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE PARTY BEING HONORED BY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WITH THE “CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE” AWARD.
THIS AWARD WAS PRESENTED AT A FUNDRAISING EVENT FOR ELDER FREEMAN’S TRIP TO CUBA TO FIGHT CANCER.
THE B.R.L.P., BEING ONE OF THE FIRST GROUPS TO SERIOUSLY PUSH A HARD LINE IN OAKLAND AND L.OS ANGELES FOR SUPPORT OF ELDER FREEMAN, WAS IN ATTENDANCE TO ASSIST WITH SECURITY AND PERSONAL ESCORT FOR KATHLEEN CLEAVER.
KATHLEEN CLEAVER PRESENTED THIS AWARD TO GENERAL T.A.C.O. AND THE B.R.L.P. FOR 17 PLUS YEARS OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY.
THE RECOGNITION AND SUPPORT FROM THIS AWARD SOME MIGHT SAY IS LONG OVERDUE AND IS SOMETHING THE ENEMY OCCUPYING POLICE FORCES HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SUPPRESS FOR SOMETIME NOW.
THE TORCH HAS BEEN PASSED AND THE GENERATIONAL GAP BETWEEN THE ELDERS AND THE YOUTH IS BEGINNING TO BE FILLED WITH MUTUAL RESPECT AND COOPERATION, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THE STATE FEARS AND WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO PREVENT FROM CONTINUING.
COMRADES MECCA AND ETANA SHAKUR ARE HIGH RANKING CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS, MOTHERS AND SERVANTS OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY ORGANIZING MANY REVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE LOS ANGELES AREA.
COMRADE MECCA SHAKUR IS THE B.R.L.P.’S MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND COMRADE ETANA SHAKUR IS THE MINISTER OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS.
THESE SISTERS ARE WARRIORS WHO HAVE PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE COUNTLESS TIMES FOR THE PEOPLE AND ARE IN NEED OF SUPPORT.
THEIR COURT DATE IS TOMORROW MAY 2, 2013 FOR THEIR TRUMPED UP CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY OF A PEACE OFFICER.
THESE CHARGES ARE COMPLETELY BOGUS BEING THAT THE PIGS VAMPED ON THEM WHILE THEY WERE EDUCATING OUR BLACK BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE COMMUNITY AND SELLING THE AFRICAN INTER-COMMUNAL NEWS SERVICE PAPERS..
WE ARE RAISING LEGAL FUNDS AND AWARENESS.
WE ARE GATHERING WITNESSES AND LEGAL SUPPORT AS WE SPEAK AND WILL KEEP EVERYONE UPDATED AS TO WAYS WE CAN SUPPORT OUR COMRADES. MORE INFORMATION TO BE REPORTED SOON.
ALL POWER 2 THE PEOPLE WHO DON’T FEAR FREEDOM!
[signed] FIELD MARSHALL SHANGO, BRLP OAKLAND
Black Riders Liberation Party Update (May 2 at 4:57pm): Mecca and Etana have been released!


"Justice for Etana and Mecca Shakur"
2013-07-31 posted at [http://www.kpfk.org/eventcal.html?task=view_detail&agid=3431&year=2013&month=7&day=31]:
People will pack the Inglewood Courthouse, at One Regent Street in Inglewood (one block south of Florence between La Brea and Fir) on Wednesday, July 31 at 8:30 AM, in courtroom 02A, to demand Justice for Etana and Mecca Shakur, two Black Riders Liberation Party comrade sisters, who defended themselves against assault by the Inglewood PD while doing community work, and are falsely charged with alleged assault and Battery on a police officer.
The Hands Off Africa Movement, initiated by the BRLP, is demanding Hands Off Etana and Mecca Shakur, drop all charges! The campaign, which is on-going, is organizing for Justice for Trayvon, support for the prison hunger strikers, to free all political prisoners, and to withdraw all racist US/NATO forces from Africa. They also demand Hands Off Assata Shakur and Cuba.
For more information, contact the BRLP at 323-289-4457, or BlackRiders1996@gmail.com. Endorsed by the Council of Ujima and the Inter-communal Solidarity Committee.