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Interview with Assata Shakur
Date: 5/26/1997Call Number: PM 051Format: DATProgram: Interview with Assata ShakurCollection: Assata Shakur
Assata talks about US imperialism and Cointelpro She discusses her 1979 escape, going to Cuba in 1984, relationship between political prisoners and the larger prison population, Mumia Abu Jamal, impor tance of studying and becoming conscious, women in prison, exile and the need to build movement for amnesty for all those targeted by Cointelpro. Copy from vhs original.
Interview with Assata Shakur
Date: 5/26/1997Call Number: CD 356Format: DATProgram: Interview with Assata ShakurCollection: Assata Shakur
Assata talks about US imperialism, Cointelpro, her 1979 escape, going to Cuba in 1984, relationship between political prisoners and the larger prison population, Mumia Abu Jamal, importance of studying and becoming conscious, women in prison, exile and the need to build movement for amnesty for all those targeted by Cointelpro
National People’s Congress - Attica Event
Includes an update on Leonard Peltier by the National People’s Congress, the American Indian Movement and the Bring Peltier Home Committee.
Keynote address is by Geronimo Ji Jaga, just released from prison three months previously. He recounts his own conditions and experiences in prison, how much of his own education was facilitated by his cellmates and the importance of education in the revolutionary struggle. He talks about creating the prison lawyers manual and assisting fellow comrades in filing suits and knowing and understanding prisoners’ rights. Geronimo also focuses on the importance of using international law to validate revolutionary activity, framing the struggle in an international lens and the necessity of continuing to approach the United Nations. Ji Jaga touches on solidarity and explains to the audience that all races can be comrades in the struggle… furthermore detailing how adept the “powers that be” are in creating fictitious organizations that perpetuate divisions. Finally, Geronimo speaks on the essential role that women have played in the struggle and gives updates on the status of various political prisoners being held around the United States.
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