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    Mumia Abu-Jamal | 05-21

    He built the local chapter into an office that was the pride of the state -- and the bane of the State. It was late summer, 1970, when city police attacked local Black Panther offices in North Philly, West Philly and Germantown in the wee morning hours. [...] The city raids were designed to deter people from attending the Revolutionary Peoples Constitutional Convention (RPCC), when people, mostly activists, would gather together to write a new revolutionary constitution for a new, revolutionary America.

    Audio Version from PrisonRadio.org | Philadelphia Tribune Obituary by Ayana Jones

    Photo: Reggie Schell (center) with Marcus Schell & Fred Hampton Jr. By Tayon Malik


News Briefs
  • Stephen Lendman | 05-20

    Through Monday, downtown residents live in occupied Chicago. Secret Service agents, NORTHCOM and National Guard forces, as well as thousands of state and local police seem everywhere. Getting around feels hazardous. Anyone may be stopped, searched, interrogated, even arrested. (2)
  • Decarcerate PA | 05-14

    On Tuesday May 15th, Governor Corbett is coming to the Prince Theater in Philadelphia to address the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. During his time as governor, Corbett has made massive cuts to education, medical assistance, and social services while he is spending $685 million on new prison construction. His recent budget alone proposes $264 million in cuts to higher education, $319 million in cuts to general assistance, and a funding change that cuts another $21.6 million from Philly's public schools. More recently the School Reform Commission, an entity created by Harrisburg when the state took control over Philadelphia's School District in 2001, has put forward a plan to close 64 public schools.
  • Stephen Lendman | 05-07

    Subjects named are Joshua Stafford, Anthony Hayne, Brandon Baxter, Connor Stevens, and Douglas Wright. On May 1, the FBI charged them with plotting to bomb a bridge 15 miles south of downtown Cleveland. It links two wealthy suburbs. Unknowingly, a sting operation entrapped them. Authorities called them "anarchists." An informant named CHS pressured them for months. He was wired to record conversations.
  • Decarcerate PA | 04-30

    Philadelphia, PA – In an open letter to Governor Corbett that was released today, the statewide coalition Decarcerate PA demands that the governor declare a moratorium on pending prison construction while the newly formed Justice Reinvestment Working Group assesses the state's bloated prison system. The coalition’s letter also calls on Corbett to include two key stakeholder communities that have been excluded from the Justice Reinvestment process: formerly incarcerated people and representatives from Philadelphia. (3)
  • FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE | 04-29

    May 2-6, 2012 RATHAUS SCHÖNEBERG (City Hall) John-F.-Kennedy-Saal, Kinosaal (cinema), Bibliothek (library) John-F.-Kennedy-Platz 1 10825 Berlin, Germany A COMPLEXION CHANGE - Transnational & Intercultural Diplomacy "View to the Future - The Flag still flies"
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