New York 3
The New York Three are Jalil Abdul Muntaqim
(Anthony Bottom), Albert Nuh Washington and Herman Bell. Victims of COINTELPRO activities to neutralize members of the Black Liberation Movement, all three were convicted of murdering two NYC police officers in 1971. Maintaining their innocence, Bell and Muntaqim are still incarcerated today, Nuh passed on in 2000.
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![Herman Bell interview (1 of 3)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
First of 3 interviews with Herman Bell in Clinton Correctional Facility. Interviewed by two NYC high school teachers, both presumably white and middle class. Discusses building a national campaign around political prisoners, defines/distinguished between political and social prisoners and who to prioritize in an amnesty movement, talks about the role of the church specifically in the black community, reparations and what the government owes to all black people, voting and representation, racism and incarceration rates, the growth of prisons and industry of incarceration, the Black Panther Party and their opposition to drugs and their success with the Free Breakfast Program, lack of economic control in the black community, need for land and self-determination, a large piece on Nuh Washington and how they met and Nuh’s personality, on missing his family and especially being absent while his children grow up, the wretched conditions of prison health care. Great stuff just avoid using questions/sound from interviewers.
![Herman Bell interview (all 3 tapes)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Compilation of Videos 74-76 (see those descriptions)
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