[Pnews] Former Panther and US Political Prisoner Abdullah Majid transitions

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Malcolm X—/Message to the Grass Roots/

April 4, 2016
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!*
*MALCOLM X COMM CMTE STMT ON
PASSING OF POLITICAL PRISONER ABDULLAH MAJID!*
*/Fifty years/* ago, the Black Panther Party boldly proclaimed 
themselves to be “heirs of Malcolm.” That would manifest itself with 
great organic uniqueness with the legendary New York chapter of the 
Party. Many of those brave young men and women were actually touched by 
his work before his fateful assassination. Many others were pulled in by 
the work of his comrades like the late Herman Ferguson, our incredible 
founding chairman, who dared to launch the Jamaica Rifle and Pistol 
Association, in the aftermath of his leader’s death and made that a 
training ground for many who would ultimately make up and drive the work 
of what is now that legendary chapter of the Party’s history.
Let the historical record clearly reflect that *Abdullah Majid* was one 
of those young people who was molded in that environment.
Tall, fearless, humble and selfless, we are proud to unequivocally say 
that he would come to embody the best of the Black Panther Party.
Unfortunately, it would also make him and his comrades obsessive targets 
for COINTELPRO repression.
Majid passed away suddenly, yesterday, April 3^rd , in an upstate NY 
prison, on what incredibly was the anniversary of Malcolm delivering his 
revolutionary classic ‘The Ballot Or The Bullet.’
He was 66 years old.
He wasn’t surrounded by his family, including his 91 year mother, the 
irrepressible Rose LaBorde, or his wife Nandi Majid who passed several 
ago from cancer working to secure justice for husband to her very end. 
Again, he was in an upstate NY prison.
Majid was in his 33^rd year of wrongful incarceration. He was the 
surviving Queens Two defendant, framed for killing a NY police officer 
in 1983. His co-defendant and comrade, the late Bashir Hameed, the NJ 
field secretary for the Party, passed away in prison several years ago.
“It was very clear from reading those trial transcripts that Majid was 
being railroaded,” said his young lawyer Moira Meltzer-Cohen at an 
October benefit held in his honor.
Majid was due to come before the Parole Board in June. To all around 
him, he appeared to be as strong as ever. MXCC was primed to do its 
share to help mobilize for that process.
“I am stunned and overwhelmed,” said a greatly pained Dequi 
Kioni-Sadiki, MXCC’s passionate chair, who had taken the reigns of 
reorganizing his Defense Committee.
Her husband, Sekou Odinga, who was released on Parole in November 2014, 
was silenced by his comrade’s passing. They were not only comrades in 
the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, they were friends 
from their youthful days in SouthEast Queens.
Organized by his wife Dequi, Sekou keynoted that moving performance 
benefit held in October to mark the 49^th anniversary of the Party’s 
founding.
“People don’t understand why we take the plight of our freedom fighters 
so personally,” said a shaken Zayid Muhammad, the organization’s 
founding press officer.
“Because if we come up short on this front, it costs them their lives.”
Compounding the tragedy the family’s resources are challenged by having 
had to bury another loved one suddenly shortly before Majid’s death. A 
Pay Pal account has been established to help cover the costs of his 
*/Janazah/*, the Arabic term for a Muslim funeral.
Please donate at:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=UQE4527PGEPXS 
<http://jerichony.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0aca83ec057f583557dec5ce0&id=1cab24b8f7&e=e9f3d86b9a>
If you have PayPal you can also email donations to Majid’s Burial 
Expenses PayPal account at: expenses at abdullahmajid.com 
<mailto:expenses at abdullahmajid.com>...
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