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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b><big><big>America's
War Against Black Power<br>
<br>
</big></big></b>By <a href="http://www.twitter.com/SisCharlene"><span
style="color: blue;">Charlene
Muhammad</span></a> -National Correspondent-<br>
Updated Apr 3, 2014 - 8:36:39 AM<br>
<b><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/printer_10737.shtml">http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/printer_10737.shtml</a></small></small></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(FinalCall.com)
- Human rights
activists are calling on the government to grant amnesty and
unconditional
freedom to all political prisoners incarcerated because of <a
href="http://www.noi.org/cointelpro/"><span style="color: blue;">COINTELPRO</span></a>,
a
secret federal law enforcement program that destroyed Black and
dissident
organizations in the 1960s and 1970s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Men
and women who sacrificed their
lives so others could enjoy civil liberties and human rights in America
are now
aging and suffering failing health as they languish in prison, some for
40
years, and many in solitary confinement cells, unfit even for dogs,
said their
advocates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is
imperative that those they
fought for remember and fight for them, said the activists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">J.
Edgar Hoover, former head of the
FBI, began the covert, illegal <a href="http://www.noi.org/cointelpro/"><span
style="color: blue;">CounterIntelligence Program</span></a> in 1956 to
destroy
militant organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
National Jericho Movement, which
advocates for political prisoners inside the United States, wants
emergency
congressional hearings on the impact and continuing legacy of America’s
domestic war against soldiers in the Black Liberation Struggle. It also
wants
political prisoners released and some activists want the freedom
fighters
compensated for their unjust suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“The
effort to try to expose the
horrible impact of the FBI’s CounterIntelligence Program has been an
ongoing
thing,” said Jihad Abdulmumit, chair of the National Jericho Movement.
That
exposure undergirds Jericho’s push for the congressional hearings.
Although Mr.
Hoover announced in 1971 that <a href="http://www.noi.org/cointelpro/"><span
style="color: blue;">COINTELPRO</span></a> had ended after the
anonymous Citizens’
Commission to Investigate the FBI exposed the program, secret
government
operations, set-ups, stool pigeon operations and political
assassinations
continue today, activists warned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“COINTELPRO
by any other name is
still COINTELPRO. … Homeland Security as an institution of the United
States
security now, the Patriot Act, the Anti-Terrorism Effective Death
Penalty Act I
and II—all of this now has really led up to still what we have today as
a
CounterIntelligence Program and the War on Terrorism,” Mr. Abdulmumit
told The
Final Call.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
online petition, “Jericho:
Congressional Hearing on Cointelpro’s Legacy and Continuing Impact,” is
part of
Jericho’s attempts to educate people and have the U.S. government
revisit
COINTELPRO’s continuing legacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In
the future, the group plans to
deliver the petitions to Congressional Black Caucus members and the
record of a
2011 Peoples’ Tribunal Hearings on COINTELPRO. Organizers hope the
campaign
will inspire Black Caucus members to speak up for political prisoners.
They also
hope to send 100,000 signatures to the Obama administration before he
leaves
office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Time and What Must Be Done</span></b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In
the 1960s and 1970s era of
COINTELPRO, and actually going back to the 1930s, Black leaders,
activists and
the community knew they were under attack and fought back, often
through
self-help and independent education campaigns, according to Mr.
Abdulmumit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad
introduced a Black Self-Help Program and Economic Blueprint to promote
independence through pooling resources and building businesses. He
opened
schools to educate Muslims and children in the Black community. The
Black
Panthers started a free breakfast program for children and armed
self-defense
programs in response to deadly police brutality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Today
in the “age of Obama,” the
lines are blurred, Mr. Abdulmumit noted. The painful question Blacks
must raise
is how did they, after making so much progress in conscious and
collective
action, let that culture slip right from their hands? he noted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Black
leaders have become beguiled
by materialism, the former slave master’s system and they’ve taken
their eyes
off the future, said Mr. Abdulmumit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
plan by Senators Richard “Dick”
Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) sought $30 million to arrest and
imprison 18,000 so-called members of the Gangster Disciples street
organization
and were opposed notably by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan,
Rep.
Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina
Catholic
Church on Chicago’s Southside.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“That
you would marshal the forces
of the federal government, and come into our community and sweep 18,000
so-called members of the Gangster Disciples—and you’ve already carved
out a
prison that you could put them in? How many of you have ever sat down
to
think of how you can solve the problem by creating jobs and employment
for the
young people in the inner-cities of America, particularly Chicago and
Los
Angeles?” Minister Farrakhan asked. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
proposal out of Chicago
absolutely speaks to the evolution of COINTELPRO, Mr. Abdulmumit
argued. There
is no revolutionary culture as such in the U.S. as was in the 60s and
the 70s,
but there is still a massive powder keg and that’s Black youth today,
he said.
“The effort of the government and the forces that be has always been to
make
sure that this powder keg mass, its consciousness is never awakened, so
what’s
happened is that vacuum that’s been created is the demise of a lot of
these
revolutionary organizations either through death or imprisonment over
time.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We
want freedom</span></b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Some
political prisoners targeted by
COINTELPRO are more well-known than others, partly because of efforts
like the
FBI’s million-dollar bounty against Assata Shakur, who is exiled in
Cuba. Ms.
Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member, has been living in exile since
1984
after she escaped from prison in 1979. Ms. Shakur, formerly known as
Joanne
Chesimard was convicted of murdering a New Jersey State Trooper in
1977, but
she has maintained her innocence. Her supporters have denounced the
FBI’s $2
million bounty and listing her as an armed and dangerous terrorist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
late Geronimo “ji-Jaga” Pratt, a
Vietnam War veteran and high-ranking leader of the Black Panther Party,
served
27 years in prison and after a long-fought legal battle forced his
release in
1997. His wrongful conviction for murdering a White couple was shown to
be a
set-up tied to a government informant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There’s
Jalil Muntaqim, co-founder
of the Jericho Amnesty Movement, a former Black Panther Party and Black
Liberation Army member. He was convicted of killing two police officers
in New
York and has spent 42 years in prison. Supporters are pushing an online
petition to Tina Stanford, chairwoman of the New York Board of Parole,
seeking
his parole this year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There’s
Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
whom supporters argue was wrongfully convicted in the 2000 shooting of
two
Fulton County deputies, one died, in Atlanta. He is serving life in a
federal
Super-Max underground prison in Colorado. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
incarceration of Imam Al-Amin,
former Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown, represents COINTELPRO finally
“getting their man” in a ridiculous case where someone confessed to the
crime,
but the FBI will not acknowledge the confession, Mr. Abdulmumit said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Nearly
six months after his 70th
birthday, Russell Maroon Shoatz was recently released from solitary
confinement
under court order and after the involvement of United Nations
Rapporteur Juan
Mendez on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment and
Punishment. His release ended more than 22 consecutive years in
isolation. The former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
member was
convicted of murdering a cop in Pennsylvania and sentenced to life
imprisonment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On
December 7, 2011, prosecutors
announced they were dropping their quest for the death penalty for
Mumia
Abu-Jamal, a journalist and former Black Panther, convicted in 1981 on
charges
of killing a police officer in Philadelphia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mr.
Abu-Jamal was removed from death
row after his case was taken to the Supreme Court on appeal. He’s now
jailed
for life without the possibility of parole, but his supporters remain
vigilant
in their fight for his release and exoneration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Marshall
Eddie Conway, another
former Black Panther Party member, was recently released due to a
faulty jury
instruction after serving 44 years in prison in solitary confinement.
“An error
in the jury instructions is a far step away from saying that Eddie
Conway is a
freedom fighter, which he is in our book, and he should be released on
that
alone,” Mr. Abdulmumit said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Our
position is that we should be
released on the fact of we were political prisoners and victims of this
counterintelligence, victims of these conditions. We are freedom
fighters …
just like Nelson Mandela. Just like people are celebrating him as a
hero now,
that’s how our political prisoners should be treated.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Many
feel that’s naïve or
unachievable but it’s Jericho’s position and battle, and God knows
best, he
continued.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Activists
say getting fighters who
are dying in prison out remains paramount, especially cases based on
contradictions and injustices thanks to lawyers like Bob Boyle,
Soffiyah
Elijah, Lynne Stewart and others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Herman
Wallace, diagnosed with
terminal liver cancer, died at age 71, less than a week after being
released
from prison. He was one of the Angola 3 convicted of stabbing a prison
guard. He served more than four tortuous decades in solitary
confinement
in a Louisiana prison, but maintained his innocence until his death.
Mr.
Wallace and Albert Woodfox said they were targeted for helping to set
up a
prison chapter of the Black Panther Party at Angola State Prison in
1971.
International supporters of the Angola 3 are still fighting for Mr.
Woodfox’s
release.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Activist
Efia Nwangaza, director of
the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination in Greenville, S.C., feels
America
must not only remedy wrongs against political prisoners, but also
compensate
victims and survivors of government plots and targeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jericho’s
list includes hundreds and
many are Muslims, according to Mr. Abdulmumit. It also includes Native
American
freedom fighter Leonard Peltier, Oscar Lopez Rivera and other Puerto
Rican nationalists, as well as some White anti-imperialists, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“It’s
important that we keep that
challenge before the U.S. government kind of the way that the Jewish
community
keeps before the public the wrongs that it suffered at the hands of the
Germans
and its holocaust. We must be as vigilant in reminding our oppressors
of the
wrongs of our holocaust or Maafa as we call it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Unfortunately,
the often apathetic
response to U.S. political prisoners, the notion they must have done
something
wrong if they’re behind bars, is symptomatic of the pathology living
under
White Supremacy engenders, Ms. Nwangaza said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
what’s worse, she continued, is
most Blacks aren’t aware of COINTELPRO or the existence of political
prisoners.
Many are blinded by a harsh, daily economic, social and political
struggle to
survive, others embrace willful ignorance, she noted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“It’s
sort of like the question of
reparations. As we get generations away from the actual violation of
the
holocaust of enslavement, the less we know about it and therefore the
less we
are outraged by it and the less we feel entitled to compensation for
it,” Ms.
Nwangaza continued.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Most
aging political prisoners are
enduring excessive sentences, disproportionately held in solitary
confinement,
suffering from severe illnesses and prisons are not responding to their
needs,
activists added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There
must also be an investigation
into deaths that occurred during the COINTELPRO-civil rights-Black
Power era,
activists said. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Who
killed Bobby Hutton? And
whatever was done about that?” asked Ms. Nwangaza. Bobby Hutton was a
teenage
member of Panther Party killed in California. Likewise the 1969
killings of
Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and the relationship
to the
larger national campaign of the U.S. government must never be
forgotten, she
said. The dynamic leader Hampton and comrade Clark died in a hail of
bullets
fired into their West Side apartment. The Panthers were asleep, drugged
by a
sedative put in their drinks by an informant, activists have long
charged.
“While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police
who were
there to serve a search warrant for weapons, evidence later emerged
that told a
very different story: that the FBI, the Cook County state’s attorney’s
office
and the Chicago police conspired to assassinate Fred Hampton,” said
Juan
Gonzalez in a broadcast of the news program Democracy Now in 2009. The
program marked
the 40th anniversary of Black Panther Fred Hampton’s death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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