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Robert F Williams at Lewis Business College - Part 1 Robert F Williams at Lewis Business College - Part 1
Year: 1996Call Number: RFW 060Format: Mini DVCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Appearance of RFW at Lewis Business College, Detroit sponsored by NAPO (New African People's Organization). Part 1
Robert F Williams at Lewis Business College - Part 2 & Rosa Parks speaking at Robert Williams memorial Robert F Williams at Lewis Business College - Part 2 & Rosa Parks speaking at Robert Williams memorial
Call Number: RFW 061Volume Number: 1996 + 10/22/1996Format: Mini DVCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Appearance of RFW at Lewis Business College, Detroit sponsored by NAPO (New African People's Organization). Part 2 + Rosa Parks speaking at RFW memorial
Aminata Umoja on Radio Free Georgia Aminata Umoja on Radio Free Georgia
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: JG/ 124BFormat: Cass BProgram: Round MidnightCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Aminata Umoja, educator, freedom fighter and member of the New Afrikan People’s Organization, answers questions from callers on WRFG Radio Free Georgia FM. Topics include the importance of political and economic education for Black communities, as well as the presence of Black teachers in the school system, desegregation and busing.
New Afrikan Declaration of Independence New Afrikan Declaration of Independence
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationFormat: MonographCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Reproduction. The New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, a profile of the New Afrikan Peoples Organization (NAPO), the text of the founding statement of NAPO, why we use the term New Afrikan, why we say free the land, New Afrikan creed, Principles and Programme of Action of NAPO, Message from the Chairman Chokwe Lumumba, Who Are the New Afrikan Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War.
Arm The Spirit Arm The Spirit
Publisher: Regional Young Adult ProjectFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Cover Story: Message from the Editors; The Current Situation in the Political Prisoner Unit AKA Management Control Unit at California State Prison at San Quentin
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1982Volume Number: Vol. 6-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Defend the October 20th Freedom Fighters! P. 1 - Editorial: Palestine Will Be Free! P. 8 - Building Strategic Alliances:National Liberation inside the U.S. Imperialist State, Ahmed Obafemi, Natl Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters p. 17 - They are watching Assata's Daughter (poem) p. 24 - Mexico and Revolution in the Americas p. 26 - Lessons of Lares, Jose Lopez, Natl Coordinator, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional p. 33 - "We Are a Nation at War" Interview with NAPO p. 43 - Build the National Conference Against Repression and Fascism, Denver (inside back cover)
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 16-1 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Goodbye, Columbus: Thoughts on Western Civilization, Jimmy Emmerman p. 1 - El Salvador: the Road Ahead, interview with FMLN Representative Ramon Cardona p. 4 - A Feminist Guide to the Galaxy, Judith Mirkinson p. 9 - Backlash: the Undeclared War on American Women by Susan Faludi, reviewed by Sally Thomas p. 15 - De Ambiente, interviews with the Nicaraguan Movement of Lesbian Feminists and Gay Men p. 17 - Will Postmodernism Kill the Movement? Les Gottesman p. 24 - Black Women and AIDS: the Second Epidemic, Judy Gerber p. 32 - Supermax: Control Unit Prisons, Nancy Kurshan p. 40 - Can\'t Kill the Spirit: Political Prisoners Update p. 46 - Write Through the Walls p. 47
Support the NAPO Centers for Black Survival Support the NAPO Centers for Black Survival
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationFormat: PamphletCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
A pamphlet about day to day survival programs at the Centers already established in Los Angeles, Detroit, and the newest center in Atlanta.