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align="left"><span style="color:black;
font-family:impact,sans-serif; font-size:12.0pt">“We have a
common oppressor …Once we all realize that we have a common
enemy, then we unite, on the basis of what we have in common…"<span>
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<span style="color:black; font-family:impact,sans-serif;
font-size:12.0pt">Malcolm X—<em>Message to the Grass Roots</em></span></div>
<div style="text-align:center" align="left"><span class="aBn"
data-term="goog_862848610" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><br>
April 4, 2016</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align:center" align="left"> </div>
<div style="text-align:center" align="left"><strong><span
style="font-size:14.0pt">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align:center" align="left"><strong><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif; font-size:12.0pt">MALCOLM
X COMM CMTE STMT ON<br>
PASSING OF POLITICAL PRISONER ABDULLAH MAJID!</span></strong></div>
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style="font-family:times new roman,serif; font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span><strong><em>Fifty
years</em></strong> 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.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>Let the historical
record clearly reflect that <strong>Abdullah Majid</strong> was
one of those young people who was molded in that environment. </span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>Tall, fearless,
humble and selfless, we are proud to unequivocally say that he
would come to embody the best of the Black Panther Party. </span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>Unfortunately, it
would also make him and his comrades obsessive targets for
COINTELPRO repression.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>Majid passed away
suddenly, yesterday, April 3<sup>rd</sup>, in an upstate NY
prison, on what incredibly was the anniversary of Malcolm
delivering his revolutionary classic ‘The Ballot Or The Bullet.’</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>He was 66 years old.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>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. </span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>Majid was in his 33<sup>rd</sup>
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.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>“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.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>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.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>“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.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>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.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>Organized by his
wife Dequi, Sekou keynoted that moving performance benefit held
in October to mark the 49<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
Party’s founding.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>“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.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>“Because if we come
up short on this front, it costs them their lives.”</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>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 <strong><em>Janazah</em></strong>, the Arabic term for a
Muslim funeral.</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;
font-size:12.0pt"><span> </span>Please donate at:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif; font-size:12.0pt"><span>
</span>If you have PayPal you can also email donations to
Majid’s Burial Expenses PayPal account at: </span><a
href="mailto:expenses@abdullahmajid.com" target="_blank"
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