Friday, July 19, 2013
STATEMENT FROM DR. MUTULU SHAKUR TO ABENA MAKINI OWUSU AND FAMILY
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Towards A New Amerikan Revolution - Jalil Muntaqim
In 1776, North American’s became independent of the British Empire, creating the United States confederation that existed until 1789, after which the United States evolve into a Union. In 1865, the United States enacted the 13th Amendment to end chattel slavery of Afrikans. Approximately three years later, the enactment of the 14th Amendment in 1868, was not only to impose citizenship on Afrikans brought to this country against their will and used as chattel slaves, but also to impose Federal corporate control on sovereign states not made part of the Union as result of the civil war. Naturally, the ending of the civil war and Afrikan chattel slavery resulted in the need to rebuild the economy, thus in 1871 members of the U.S. Congress and the then President of the United States formally incorporated the United States as a for-profit commerce enterprise.
The Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia, Section 34 of the Forty-First Congress of the United States, Session III, Chapter 61 and 62, enacted on February 21, 1871, states: The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a corporation, whose jurisdiction is applicable only in the ten-mile-square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia and to what ever properties are legally titled to the UNITED STATES, by its registration in the corporate County, State, and federal governments that are under military power of the UNITED STATES and its creditors.” 1 (Emphasis added) 1 Since April 15, 1861, every succeeding so-called President has issued an Executive Order proclaiming a national emergency virtually extending federal military powers and control of the United States, Inc. The introduction to Senate Report 93-549 (93rd Congress, 1st Session, 1973), states in part: “A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule… And, in the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crisis have - from, at least, the Civil War - in important ways, shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency.” See, also, November 14, 1994, Executive Order No. 12938, by then so-called President William Jefferson Clinton, where he states: “…Therefore, in accordance with Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing the national emergency declared in Executive Order No. 12938.” The United States, Inc., comprises a 10-mile radius of Washington, D.C., in accordance with Article 1, Section 8, clause 16 & 17 of the U.S. Constitution, and the corporation adopted the U.S. Constitution as its Articles of Incorporation and bylaws. Hence, as early as six years after the ending of chattel slavery, in 1871, the U.S. Corporation formally began the process of forging economic corporate interest as the foundation for building the nation. It is extremely important to know these historical facts are not taught in schools.
The majority of Americans are unaware that the United States is a for-profit corporate commerce enterprise, and this corporation considers Americans as commerce property of a Federal corporation according to the 14th Amendment of its constitution and bylaws. As such, Americans have relinquish their sovereignty as human beings, and have virtually made a contract with a corporate-governing body to expend their rights and lives as they deem necessary to fulfill the corporate interest of the United States, Inc., as wage slaves.2 Often there are debates about the importance of the Madison and Jefferson papers being the principle architects of both the Declaration of Independence and the Article of Confederation evolving into the Constitution of the U.S. Corporation. However, what is often neglected in any discussion about these Federalist is their disdain for private banking, the control of the United States, Inc. wealth by a private corporate interest. In fact, in 1802, Thomas Jefferson warned: “If American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks… will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people. To whom it properly belongs.” James Madison had warned: “History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” In 1881, then, President James A. Garfield held: “Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.” In his Inaugural Address, Garfield stated: “The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender.
The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept. Yet, the United States, Inc., as a capitalist system utilizes the financial institutions and private banking of the Federal Reserve System,3 which is obligated to fulfill its mandate as established by the March 9, 1933, U.S. Senate, House Joint Resolution (HJR) 192, 73rd Congress, 1st Session, Chapter 1, page 83, 1st paragraph, third sentence states: “Under the new law the money is issued to the banks in return for Government obligations, bills of exchange, drafts, notes, trade acceptances, and banker’s acceptances. The money will be worth 100 cents on the dollar, because it is backed by the credit of the nation. It will represent a mortgage on all the homes and other property of all the people in the nation. The money so issued will not d) On June 5, 1933, this same Congress at Chapter 48, stated: “The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual socalled “ownership” is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere “user” and use must be in acceptance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State.”
This language for all practical purposes implies a socialist notion of government control of property in negation of the espoused democratic ideal about private ownership of property rights. However, as one example, eminent domain, virtually denies the existence of ownership of private property when a member of the plutocracy, and/or corporate entity via the application of state or federal law, decides to take possession of specific property/real estate despite the 5th Amendment proclaiming this should not be done without just compensation. As further verified by the following quote from the “Civil Servants Year Book, The Organizer” of January 1934, informing: Capital must protect itself in every way, through combination and through legislation. Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law, applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the people, we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.
Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been generally planned and successfully accomplished.” Subject to the above, the U.S., is a for-profit corporate enterprise, utilizing a private banking system, the Federal Reserve Bank, to control the wealth and property of the nation, it is not difficult to understand how the housing market is utilized to upend the economy and how easily corporations are able to outsource jobs overseas (NAFTA CAFTA, GATT, APEC, etc). Although U.S. currency is printed by the Treasury Department, the currency is purchased at cost of printing, procured and distributed by the Federal Reserve Bank.4 Thus, Americans do not own real estate property, houses or cars for as long as they have to pay taxes to the government, rather they are leasing such tangible items from the government, the bankers and corporate interests. If an American is delinquent on their payments of taxes, fees, corporate interests, etc., the government will seize their property(s) and assets, impose a fine and possibly incarcerate them depending on the amount of property and taxes that is unpaid. U.S. citizens by virtue of the 14th Amendment, are considered no more than commerce property, of whom are not to own tangible property, but are duped in the illusion of being able to do so, resulting in permitting the extremely rich and powerful to maintain their quest for capitalistimperialist global hegemony. For example, on February 17, 1950, Senate hearings held concerning the U.N. and its organization, James P. Warburg testified that: “We shall have world government, whether or not we like The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or conquest.
Since the illusion of democracy disguises the reality of a plutocracy, the rich continues to control the seats of government, and write the legislations that preserves their wealth at the expense of common folks.6 Americans are deluded in their belief of living in a democracy is exacerbated by the ideal of one man-one vote electoral process. However, again, this ideal was blatantly exposed as fraudulent when the 2000 presidential election was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court selection of George W. Bush as president in negation of the popular vote. When consideration is given to the fact the total cost of the 2004 congressional and presidential election was $4 billion, an increase
of one billion from the 2000 election, and it is projected the 2008 candidates for the House, Senate and president will double spending to $8 billion dollars to win their elections, affirms the reality that the rich rules.7 In “Towards an American Revolution: Exposing the Constitution and Other Illusions,” Jerry Fresia informs, “Never has a U.S. president been elected by a majority of the nation’s adult citizens.” Given that fact, neither the capitalist economic system or electoral politics benefits the majority of Americans, but rather serves the interest of corporate entities that according to law are persons, as Americans are considered commerce property, there is no wonder there is a need for a new American revolution.
The Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia, Section 34 of the Forty-First Congress of the United States, Session III, Chapter 61 and 62, enacted on February 21, 1871, states: The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a corporation, whose jurisdiction is applicable only in the ten-mile-square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia and to what ever properties are legally titled to the UNITED STATES, by its registration in the corporate County, State, and federal governments that are under military power of the UNITED STATES and its creditors.” 1 (Emphasis added) 1 Since April 15, 1861, every succeeding so-called President has issued an Executive Order proclaiming a national emergency virtually extending federal military powers and control of the United States, Inc. The introduction to Senate Report 93-549 (93rd Congress, 1st Session, 1973), states in part: “A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule… And, in the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crisis have - from, at least, the Civil War - in important ways, shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency.” See, also, November 14, 1994, Executive Order No. 12938, by then so-called President William Jefferson Clinton, where he states: “…Therefore, in accordance with Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing the national emergency declared in Executive Order No. 12938.” The United States, Inc., comprises a 10-mile radius of Washington, D.C., in accordance with Article 1, Section 8, clause 16 & 17 of the U.S. Constitution, and the corporation adopted the U.S. Constitution as its Articles of Incorporation and bylaws. Hence, as early as six years after the ending of chattel slavery, in 1871, the U.S. Corporation formally began the process of forging economic corporate interest as the foundation for building the nation. It is extremely important to know these historical facts are not taught in schools.
The majority of Americans are unaware that the United States is a for-profit corporate commerce enterprise, and this corporation considers Americans as commerce property of a Federal corporation according to the 14th Amendment of its constitution and bylaws. As such, Americans have relinquish their sovereignty as human beings, and have virtually made a contract with a corporate-governing body to expend their rights and lives as they deem necessary to fulfill the corporate interest of the United States, Inc., as wage slaves.2 Often there are debates about the importance of the Madison and Jefferson papers being the principle architects of both the Declaration of Independence and the Article of Confederation evolving into the Constitution of the U.S. Corporation. However, what is often neglected in any discussion about these Federalist is their disdain for private banking, the control of the United States, Inc. wealth by a private corporate interest. In fact, in 1802, Thomas Jefferson warned: “If American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks… will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people. To whom it properly belongs.” James Madison had warned: “History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” In 1881, then, President James A. Garfield held: “Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.” In his Inaugural Address, Garfield stated: “The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender.
The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept. Yet, the United States, Inc., as a capitalist system utilizes the financial institutions and private banking of the Federal Reserve System,3 which is obligated to fulfill its mandate as established by the March 9, 1933, U.S. Senate, House Joint Resolution (HJR) 192, 73rd Congress, 1st Session, Chapter 1, page 83, 1st paragraph, third sentence states: “Under the new law the money is issued to the banks in return for Government obligations, bills of exchange, drafts, notes, trade acceptances, and banker’s acceptances. The money will be worth 100 cents on the dollar, because it is backed by the credit of the nation. It will represent a mortgage on all the homes and other property of all the people in the nation. The money so issued will not d) On June 5, 1933, this same Congress at Chapter 48, stated: “The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual socalled “ownership” is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere “user” and use must be in acceptance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State.”
This language for all practical purposes implies a socialist notion of government control of property in negation of the espoused democratic ideal about private ownership of property rights. However, as one example, eminent domain, virtually denies the existence of ownership of private property when a member of the plutocracy, and/or corporate entity via the application of state or federal law, decides to take possession of specific property/real estate despite the 5th Amendment proclaiming this should not be done without just compensation. As further verified by the following quote from the “Civil Servants Year Book, The Organizer” of January 1934, informing: Capital must protect itself in every way, through combination and through legislation. Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law, applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the people, we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.
Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been generally planned and successfully accomplished.” Subject to the above, the U.S., is a for-profit corporate enterprise, utilizing a private banking system, the Federal Reserve Bank, to control the wealth and property of the nation, it is not difficult to understand how the housing market is utilized to upend the economy and how easily corporations are able to outsource jobs overseas (NAFTA CAFTA, GATT, APEC, etc). Although U.S. currency is printed by the Treasury Department, the currency is purchased at cost of printing, procured and distributed by the Federal Reserve Bank.4 Thus, Americans do not own real estate property, houses or cars for as long as they have to pay taxes to the government, rather they are leasing such tangible items from the government, the bankers and corporate interests. If an American is delinquent on their payments of taxes, fees, corporate interests, etc., the government will seize their property(s) and assets, impose a fine and possibly incarcerate them depending on the amount of property and taxes that is unpaid. U.S. citizens by virtue of the 14th Amendment, are considered no more than commerce property, of whom are not to own tangible property, but are duped in the illusion of being able to do so, resulting in permitting the extremely rich and powerful to maintain their quest for capitalistimperialist global hegemony. For example, on February 17, 1950, Senate hearings held concerning the U.N. and its organization, James P. Warburg testified that: “We shall have world government, whether or not we like The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or conquest.
Since the illusion of democracy disguises the reality of a plutocracy, the rich continues to control the seats of government, and write the legislations that preserves their wealth at the expense of common folks.6 Americans are deluded in their belief of living in a democracy is exacerbated by the ideal of one man-one vote electoral process. However, again, this ideal was blatantly exposed as fraudulent when the 2000 presidential election was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court selection of George W. Bush as president in negation of the popular vote. When consideration is given to the fact the total cost of the 2004 congressional and presidential election was $4 billion, an increase
of one billion from the 2000 election, and it is projected the 2008 candidates for the House, Senate and president will double spending to $8 billion dollars to win their elections, affirms the reality that the rich rules.7 In “Towards an American Revolution: Exposing the Constitution and Other Illusions,” Jerry Fresia informs, “Never has a U.S. president been elected by a majority of the nation’s adult citizens.” Given that fact, neither the capitalist economic system or electoral politics benefits the majority of Americans, but rather serves the interest of corporate entities that according to law are persons, as Americans are considered commerce property, there is no wonder there is a need for a new American revolution.
The FBI's Murderous Targeting of the Shakurs - John Potash
On May 2, the FBI held a press conference announcing that they were putting the first woman on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List: Joanne Chesimard, better known as Assata Shakur. Few knew that the rap icon Tupac Shakur maintained a similar social justice agenda as his godmother Assata. Evidence supports that U.S. intelligence targeted Tupac Shakur using many similar tactics that they used against Assata, Tupac’s Panther leader mother Afeni, and Tupac’s extended family of Black Liberation leaders.
The Shakur family was involved in many black leftist movements. Abbah Shakur worked with Marcus Garvey’s UNIA and was a close associate of Malcolm X. Abbah’s son Lumumba Shakur started the Harlem Black Panthers. Lumumba’s brother, Zayd, was a Minister of Information for the Bronx Black Panthers, before he was chased underground and co-founded the Black Liberation Army. Lumumba’s wife, Tupac’s mother Afeni, helped lead the Harlem Black Panthers.
The undercover intelligence agent who first arrived at Malcolm X’s body, Gene Roberts, infiltrated and helped frame the New York Panthers as part of the FBI’s Counter-intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) against leftists activists. The New York Panthers, dubbed The New York 21, were jailed for two years before they were acquitted in 1971. (Lumumba divorced Afeni when she got pregnant with Tupac while out on bail.)
The FBI had stepped up its COINTELPRO tactics around the time of the New York 21 trial. One of their tactics involved what was dubbed an “East Coast versus West Coast Panther War.” The FBI created fake letters and sent them between Afeni’s New York Panthers and Huey Newton’s Oakland National Panther Office.
Bronx Black Panther Joanne Chesimard, in fear for her own life after having fellow activists framed and killed, followed her close friend Zayd underground. Out of respect for Zayd and the Shakur family, she changed her name to Assata Shakur while in hiding in 1971.
That same year, Afeni named her new son Tupac Amaru Shakur after the last Incan leader and raised him to be a “black prince of the revolution.” Afeni named her close comrade, Los Angeles Panther leader Geronimo Pratt (later changed to Ji Jaga), Tupac’s godfather, Assata was named Tupac’s godmother—Tupac grew up calling her Auntie Assata. By the mid-1970s, Afeni had moved in with Lumumba’s adopted brother Mutulu. Mutulu was assistant director of Lincoln Detox in the Bronx and a co-founding member of the national activist group, the Republic of New Afrika.
The FBI started a propaganda campaign against Assata Shakur, calling her “the revolutionary mother hen” of the Black Liberation Army. They accused the BLA of murdering a number of New York City police officers (most of these accusations came with little evidence and few valid convictions). The FBI conducted a nationwide manhunt for Assata in 1972. Posters with her face appeared in police precincts and banks that cited her involvement in serious criminal activities, putting her on the FBI’s most wanted list; and to all levels of police she became a shoot-to-kill target.
In May 1973, New Jersey police pulled over Zayd and Assata Shakur’s car. Police Police fatally shot Zayd, while wounding Assata and former Panther 21 member Sundiata Acoli. Shots from one of the three killed a police officer. Assata said that police proceeded to beat her at the scene and torture her in a hospital. She said that in the hospital, she was only saved from more torture when a nurse intervened. But, she said, prison officials used torturous tactics on her thereafter.
New Jersey police charged Assata with killing the police officer. The case didn’t reach trial for four years because prosecutors brought Assata to trial six times for alleged involvement in a half dozen other major criminal actions from 1971 to 1973. They failed to gain a conviction at any of those hearings.
By 1976, Assata’s trial lawyer, Stanley Cohen, reported several breakthroughs in her case. He was found dead from a physical attack soon after with all his papers stolen.
At the trial, William Kunstler, Lennox Hinds, her Aunt Evelyn Williams, and Assata’s other lawyers presented tests and medical experts to prove her innocence in court. For example, Assata’s fingers tested negative for gun residue. That test and doctors’ findings supported that police shot Assata while she was in a seated position with her hands raised. They said the bullet immediately severed a median nerve that wouldn’t have allowed Assata to pull a gun trigger. Nonetheless, prosecutors won a conviction against her for killing the police officer.
In 1979, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. Mutulu Shakur, Silvia Baraldini, former Panther Sekou Odinga and Weather Underground member Marilyn Buck were charged with helping Assata’s prison break. Mutulu was also charged with “conspiracy” involvement in a Brinks Bank robbery and went into hiding. Several days before Mutulu was captured in Louisiana in 1986, Lumumba was found dead nearby. Despite the judge finding the FBI using illegal COINTELPRO actions against Mutulu, he and Odinga are still serving as political prisoners
Early Police Attacks
While Tupac was still in his late teens, the New Afrikan Panthers elected him as their national chair, according to his business manager. By the age of 20, Tupac left his Panther leadership, realizing he could add money and influence to his activism as a rapper. Police attacks ensued. First, police choked Tupac unconscious and pounded his head against the curb several days after his MTV video debut in 1991.
Tupac’s manager, Tyehimba, confirmed that Tupac starting hiding his radical leftist politics behind a gangsta rap façade around this time in order to appeal to gangs and then politicize them. This was part of his Panther family’s work in extending peace truces between the Bloods and Crips that started in Los Angeles. Many of these gang members quit dealing drugs and got into community activism.
In 1993, police watched as gunmen shot at Tupac at a public event. Instead of arresting the shooters, they only arrested Tupac and his stepbrother, Mutulu’s son Mopreme. This occurred in the California Bay area where FBI chief Richard Held still presided and was caught covering-up Newton’s murder.
Attacks Increase
U.S. intelligence-linked attacks continued against Tupac Shakur with witnesses saying that allegedly off-duty Atlanta cops ran up to Tupac’s car, broke his window with a gun, and shot at him in 1993. While Tupac grabbed a guard’s gun, shot back and hit them, he wasn’t found guilty as it also came out in court that the cops used a gun stolen from an evidence locker. A police officer said this is commonly known as a throwaway gun that could easily be discarded for an illegal police murder.
A few weeks later in 1993, evidence supports that undercover agents set up a sexual abuse conviction that landed him in jail. Tupac’s New York trial lawyer for that case was Michael Tarif Warren, renowned for his work freeing the Central Park Five and as a European spokesperson for the Free Mumia campaign. Warren found strong evidence that Tupac’s codefendant, Haitian Jacques Agnant, was a police agent who had set up the situation as part of a frame-up.
Murderous attacks on Tupac Shakur continued in New York. Gunmen went into a Times Square recording studio lobby and put two bullets in Tupac’s skull that miraculously missed his brain. A studio guard tried to give police a security video of the gunmen but police refused it, calling it a random mugging and halted their investigation. Similar to the divisive tactics used on the Panthers, people tried to convince Tupac that his friend and fellow rap star, Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, had a connection to his Times Square shooting. The media-dubbed this feud the East versus West rap war.
Death Row Cops Attack
U.S. Intelligence had a number of undercover agents working in the music industry. For example, a high-level white police detective, Russell Poole, found dozens and dozens of his fellow cops at all levels of Death Row Records. One of Poole’s superiors said these cops could be seen as “covert agents.”
Police reports found that Death Row was also involved in trafficking drugs and guns. Death Row’s Suge Knight and his moonlighting Los Angeles police employees further tried to end the Bloods versus Crips peace truce on which Tupac and his extended Panther family had worked. This was coordinated by Death Row’s head of security, “former” police officer Reggie Wright Jr. Wright’s father headed the Compton, California police department’s gang division. Compton was one of the first Los Angeles neighborhoods where the Bloods and Crips called peace truces and turned to activism.
While Tupac had been in prison, corrections officers used Penal Coercion techniques on him. This and Death Row manipulations led Tupac to produce his most negative lyrics. Ten days before Tupac was fatally shot, he finalized his leaving of Death Row by firing his lawyer, Death Row founding owner Dave Kenner. One of Tupac’s bodyguards was FBI agent Kevin Hackie. After Tupac’s death, Hackie said he had documents proving that other FBI agents were in cars following Tupac when gunmen murdered him in Las Vegas. Las Vegas Sun police reporter Cathy Scott also said that the FBI presence was widely known.
Besides evidence supporting that Los Angeles police officers working for Death Row aided in Tupac’s murder, these undercover police agents appeared to have the goal of ending the gang peace truce. They did this through starting conflicts among gang members in Death Row. Part of the evidence around the FBI’s targeting of Tupac Shakur was a Justice Department worker saying Tupac had over 4,000 pages in his FBI file. While only 99 pages were released, CIA documents, court documents, hundreds of personal interviews and thousands of articles and books show how U.S. intelligence targeted him.
The cover-up, through media censorship and many more killings, has appeared to go on even longer than his adult life. Since Tupac’s death, other linked murders included Tupac’s backup singer Yafeu Fula, the son of Bronx Black Panther cofounder Sekou Odinga, and Tupac’s business partner, Yasmynn Fula. Fula was the top witness to Tupac’s murder, saying he thought he could identify the shooter.
Another murder linked to Tupac’s was Tupac’s former rap star friend, Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace. Police Detective Russell Poole was assigned to Biggie’s murder investigation and said that he found his fellow police officers murdered Biggie to cover up their murder of Tupac. They hoped to make it look like part of the East/West rap war.
Along with other linked murders, Tupac’s bodyguard in the car behind Tupac’s, Frank Alexander, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on April 28, 2013, four days before the FBI announced they were putting Assata Shakur on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List. Alexander had co-produced the film, Tupac: Assassination, and a sequel released in 2009 that incriminated the Los Angeles Police officers working at Death Row. Police told the Huffington Post that the death is being investigated as a suicide, without giving an explanation of why they weren’t also investigating it as a possible homicide.
Reference: John Potash is the author of The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders. Potash did his graduate studies at Columbia University where he published an award-winning national social work school newspaper, Social Justice Action Quarterly. He has also published articles in Covert Action Quarterly, Z Magazine, The Baltimore Chronicle, The Baltimore City Paper, and Rock Creek Free Press. He has been interviewed on dozens of radio programs throughout the U.S. as well as programs in England and New Zealand.
http://www.zcommunications.org/the-fbis-murderous-targeting-of-the-shakurs-by-john-potash
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
We our own liberators - Jalil Muntaqim
My machete is adorned, draped in red
and green, sharpened with the blood
of a patriot whose life beckons.
Viejo, I hear you from a distant land,
your words of liberation, freedom and
independence cut the wind of tyranny,
the howling ravishing wolves of the
U.S. neo-colonialism and exploitation.
The ancestors speak through you on this
137th anniversary of El Grito de Lares,
telling our youth NOW is the time to
restore and rebuild our nation.
Their echoes reverberate into chords of
African drums and coquitos "Libertad, Libertad,
Libertad, Libertad, Libertad"
We will not forgive or forget!
We will heed the call!
We will champion the Patriots!
We will free our nation.
For our machetes are adorned, draped in red
and green, sharpened with the blood of a
patriot whose life beckons.
“Scream Black:
Why must I scream to be heard?
Ellison claims I am an Invisible Man, not to be seen in
centers of power, allowing recognition of tokens as a
coin of exchange to represent my personal and political
selves. Wilderson claims I am Incognegro, to be seen
and not heard, towing the line of assimilation and
cultural annihilation even in my rebelliousness.
Ergo, my words must become bombs in a vest
strapped on my aged aching consciousness to blow
away the alleged eccentricity of my existence? The
blackness of my vocabulary must refuse to hide your
racism, an inconceivable miscarriage ill-form abortion
of humanity.
No longer capable or willing to whisper, rather charge
genocides from atop mounting graves of those who came
before me – Nat, Marcus, Muhammad, Malcolm, Medger
Martin and finally in full circle, Newton in self-defense.
Spewing molten volcanic ash of revolutionary ideas, casting
pregnant black clouds of notions, castigating institutionalized
white supremacy, bursting antacid rain and drenching my
descendants, inoculating them from your emasculating
dehumanization.
Why must I scream to be heard?
To call for Black men to stop gagging and choking on their
silence, to spit from the pit of their sour stomachs, to together
end the slow death of internecine urban fratricide and genocidal
incarceration screaming for liberation an reparations 
You need not atone, you need only to explode, reclaiming
your souls. Then, all else will come easy!
Remember: We Are Our Own Liberators!”
Jalil Muntaqim calls on the Black progressive forces in “A challenge to the Black Bourgeoisie” to take the lead in building national campaigns and mobilizations within a popular civil and human rights movement. “The struggle for the preservation and restoration of democratic and civil-rights must evolve towards a struggle for human rights, which in turn will take the class struggle for national unity toward the final and complete destruction of corporate-capitalist class exploitation and racist imperialist neo-colonial oppression.”
http://www.politicalmediareview.org/2011/01/we-are-our-own-liberators-select-writings-by-jalil-muntaqim/
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
U.S. World Slavery Crimes and Category of Violations(Reparations are due)
1.The invasion of the continent of Africa for criminal proposes : is a war crime and international crime against humanity.
2.The unlawful abduction of the African people : is an international crime against humanity.
3.The genocide of the humans not healthy enough to make the journey from Africa : is genocide a war crime and an international crime against humanity.
4.The act of slavery for hundreds of years : is an international crime against humanity.
5.Creating the market for slavery : is an international crime against humanity.
6.The unlawful behavior performed on slaves (example) general torture, whipping, burning, kicking, hitting, cutting, chaining, hanging, raping and murder; all act without any consequences : is genocide a war crime as well as an international crime against humanity.
7.The unlawful breeding of humans for criminal proposes : is an international crime against humanity.
8.Creating intentional psychological damage to a human : is a human rights violation.
9.Breaching many verbal and written contracts made by the slave owners :is business fraud and a human rights violation.
10.Segregation of a human because of their skin color : is a human rights violation.
11.The financial neglect from the government and lending institutions : is a human rights violation.
12.Allowing the actions and criminal activities of secretive hate organizations by the U.S : is a human rights violation.
13.The secret operations and medical experiments performed on African American by the U.S government:is genocide a war crime as well as an international crime against humanity.
14.The neglect of the government to act during voting and constitutional crimes : is a human rights crime and U.S constitutional violation.
15.The financial and psychological damage performed on African American by the United States in current time by not providing reparations to them, but providing it to many other groups in America : is a human rights violation. RB.. power to those who dont fear freedom,and refuse to remain freedumb... facebook.com/hakishakur twitter.com/haki_shakur Haki Kweli shakur(Antoine Martin)
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Tupac charges Amerikkka
Rev Greetings.. This is part of Tupac's song "Words of wisdom" off his debut album 2pacalypse Now his controversial political,social,economic material.. Being he was a son of a panther, and later in his teenage years became the leader of the New Afrikan Panthers it was that ground and principled back bone of him as you a see in this charge of Amerikkka!!!! Tupac's words in the quotations...
( "This is definitely ahhh words of wisdom
AMERIKA, AMERIKA, AMERIKKKA
I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault
For suppressing and punishing my people
I charge you with robbery for robbing me of my history
I charge you with false imprisonment for keeping me
Trapped in the projects
And the jury finds you guilty on all accounts
And you are to serve the consequences of your evil schemes
Prosecutor do you have any more evidence?
Killing us one by one
In one way or another
Amerika will find a way to eliminate the problem
One by one
The problem is
The troubles in the black youth of the ghettos
And one by one
We are being wiped off the face of this earth
At an extremely alarming rate
And even more alarming is the fact
That we are not fighting back
Brothers, sisters, niggas
When I say niggas it is not the nigga we are grown to fear
It is not the nigga we say as if it has no meaning
But to me
It means Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished, nigga
Niggas what are we going to do?
Walk blind into a line? Or fight?
Fight and die if we must like niggas..
NIGHTMARE that's what I am
Amerika's nightmare
I am what you made me
The hate and evil that you gave me
I shine of a reminder of what you have done to my people
For Four hundred plus years
You should be scared
You should be running
You should be trying to silence me
Ha ha
But you cannot escape fate
Well it is my turn to come
Just as you rose you shall fall
By my hands
Amerika, You reap what you sow
2pacalypse America's Nightmare,
Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob Amerika's Nightmare,
Above the Law Amerika's Nightmare,
Paris Amerika's Nightmare,
Public Enemy Amerika's Nightmare,
Krs-One Amerika's Nightmare, New Afrikan Panthers Amerika's Nightmare,
Mutulu Shakur Amerika's Nightmare,Geronimo Pratt Amerika's Nightmare, Assata Shakur Amerika's Nightmare) 
Women Need A World View: New Afrikan Amazon Butch Lee ch: 5
This is an Amazon training exercise. Because i come from political movements that failed at explaining the present or radaring the storms moving in from the future. (Let's leave aside the point that previous movements of rebellion often claimed "victories" that were really defeats). We didn't understand things as basic as winning & losing. Instead of seeing victory & defeat as parts of a contradiction, interdependent and interwoven, we were taught to believe that victories were only a straight line of stepping stones to even more victories. While defeats were something separate blamed on factors outside us, on conditions beyond our control or even on the enemy. That's no longer acceptable because it gets us nowhere. The limitation is not men's repression but within ourselves. Patriarchal histories left Harriet at the end of the Civil War, triumphant, her war finished. Ready to head back to her home in New York and a much-earned retirement. Like the happy ending of the Hollywood romantic comedy, this only works because of the audience's "willful suspension of disbelief." Forgotten is her original "home" on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where she often vowed to return a free woman. If Harriet had returned South then instead of heading North into permanent exile, she surely would have been murdered as so many New Afrikan activists were after the Civil war (as even her former husband was).
Even more to the point, we don't live in a world where Harriets won. i mean, if Harriet won why was i sitting in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1961 with women who couldn't even vote and who lived under daily terrorism? That victory & defeat in 1865 changed everything. Changed the Black struggle, changed the u.s. empire, changed Harriet. And this principle isn't just about New Afrika. How come if women's liberation won in the 1970s--as we're told every single day--we watch with disinterest as 30 million women are dying of AIDS in a coldly deliberate mass murder in Afrika? A program of cutting-edge mass murder that even dwarfs the old Afrikan Slave trade and the Nazi death camps. Nor is any victory of women's liberation compatible with European rape camps and the exploding global sex slavery of millions of women. The known outcomes and how we've been ordered to think about reality aren't compatible. We have to relearn how to think, not as a philosophical luxury but as a necessity of life or death. We have to look at the military situation, then, the political-military situation if you will, at the end of the Civil War. On one day it all changed. Winning & losing had changed everything. The u.s. empire with its new industries and military, were suddenly freed from internal strife to gaze outward, to turn their attention towards colonial expansion in all directions. Especially towards finishing off their remaining problems with the Indian nations and peoples.
For so long estranged into two competing brother social systems--slave capitalism versus semi-slave capitalism--euro-amerikans were once again united in one settler empire. Northern Wall Street was king, but symbiotically needed its recent enemy, the Southern bourgeoisie, as its local manager over the New Afrikan labor that produced the cotton, tobacco and other valuable cash exports. Victorious white Abolitionism withered into dust as the Southern white terrorism of the defeated Confederates rose up and up. The New Afrikan freedom struggle had ended chattel slavery by its military alliance with the Federal government and the Union Army. But the next day this same alliance became the new chains that reenslaved. While the Black Nation of ex-slaves found itself with a class and gender hierarchy it had never experienced before. And Harriet, she won & lost on the same day. Because winning & losing changes everything. Let me repeat it, to double the stitch: this is an Amazon training exercise. If i can't learn to analyze victory & defeat in herstory, where all the forces & factors, hopes & outcomes are known, how can I decipher the chaotic present? The present, we are told, is all we need to focus on. Really, the present is so razor-thin a slice of reality that we teeter on it unable to keep our balance. Only by triangulating it with past & future do we know our ground. We don't study the present to learn the future.
It's the reverse: we reveal the hidden past and look out at the future to really understand our present That moment where Harriet won & lost on the same day is an example not simply of change but of the inner way that change happens. It was a nodal point, a point of complication where accumulating quantities of change suddenly crystalize into a change of basic quality. A sudden knotting and unknotting of change. For instance, the point where the ebbing of life in a body becomes death is one such nodal point. This is a basic process in all reality. Harriet always remembered that moment on her Northward escape when she knew that she had reached Pennsylvania, and was no longer a slave. "When I found that I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven." The step-by-step freeing of what had been a slave society resulted not simply in individuals who were legally free, but in a transformed Black society. Which in its turn reshaped how New Afrikans faced the unexpected challenges of the post slavery period called Black Reconstruction. Nor was that just their story alone, in isolation, or just white settlers' story. Both were part of a wave of world change, a new stage in the development of capitalism as a civilization. This is something we're not used to, which is why it's so hard. Searching beneath the surface of stories we never told, stories handed to us as subliminal orders, to find not only a deeper level but many overlaid levels of reality at once. To start with, there is the reality of winning & losing.
Don't dismiss this as so obvious Women have a real trouble sorting this out. Winning & losing doesn't mean merely that the winners get their way for awhile. Both victory & defeat change the players themselves. Change the very ground we stand on. This is more real than we've dealt with. Look at what happens to us, to women, whenever we are defeated. Even our bodies are changed. It isn't just old Chinese footbinding or the constricted, literally imprisoning clothing that white women were ordered to wear. Or the genital mutilation of millions upon millions of girl-children. It's also the deliberate downsizing of muscle + bone, the breeding out of women's physical strength and abilities. So that capitalism's socially idealized woman is weaker, smaller compared to men, less able, dis armed, dependent on men in men's world. Listen to how many euro-people say that Venus and Serena aren't physically like "real" women should be, because they're too powerful. Because the war with patriarchy isn't simply between women and men, in some linear way. Women's bodies are the land that the war has always been on (which is why the Barbara Kreuger pro-choice poster, "Your Body Is A Battleground"). We ourselves, whether we win or lose, whether we recognize it or not, are a military terrain. Which is why Amazon thinking is women's military thinking in a whole deeper logic.
It's not so much that we are ignorant, it's that women are still disoriented. In my EMT course we were told that to be disoriented is to be confused as to location, time, and identity (the reason ER doctors ask patients regaining consciousness if they know who they are, where they are and what day it is). This is us. Regaining consciousness but still disoriented as to location, time, and identity. We need to relearn how to think. There are two main kinds of thinking in the Western world. The first, in rough shorthand, we can call Aristotelian thinking, after the Greek philosopher. This kind of thinking sees things as having a fixed identity, belonging to rigid categories that are unchanging, bending if at all only under the pressure of outside forces. The second is dialectics, which sees everything as the flow of constant inner change of contradictions. Quick picture: dialectics is based on seeing that everything calls into existence its own opposite. Not as something external to it, but as something internal, an evolving unity of the original and its opposite. The old Southern system of slavery, for example, called into existence its polar opposite the Black Nation, and was of necessity composed of itself and this New Afrikan colony. One didn't have an existence without the other. Dialectics reveals how nothing is static or monolithic, but everything moves forward from the playing out of these internal contradictions. Change comes from within as the struggle of opposites, but these opposites always interpenetrate and recreate each other in new forms.
This is a global recognition of the non-linear, underlying wave pattern of reality, although in the West it is usually ascribed to the German 19th century philosopher Hegel and his more revolutionary disciple, Karl Marx. Hegel, however, was himself shaped by Taoism from China. Whether Taoism and Zen Buddhism in China and Japan or Jainism in India or radical philosophy in Europe from the time of the Greek philosopher Democritus onward, we can find in one rough shape or another this same recognition of dialectics. It is easier to crudely outline the yin & yang of it than it is to really learn it, but we can't make war successfully without tuning ourselves to it. Modern bourgeois classes may praise Aristotelian thinking, but their system itself tries not to use it. They couldn't stay on top if they did. In Aristotle's original theories, nature was composed of many species but no evolution. Society, too. His own Greek slaveowner class was considered eternally better, just as men had to forever rule women. That type of thinking has been used as ruling class ideology & propaganda for centuries but it isn't functional in a modern world. Even high capitalist military theory had to be hastily ripped apart after radical peasant guerrilla armies began defeating their suburban military in the 1950s and 1960s.
Amerikkka's one-sided advantage in "B-52 science" wasn't enough to win, even as the established global superpower with a two million man professional military using everything from helicopter-born army divisions to chemical weapons. Now, newer imperialist counter-insurgency theory uses dialectical thinking, and is based on finding internal contradictions to change the very nature of oppressed societies. Not simply brute outside force. Like empowering men in self-destructive gender-classes on a mass scale, freely arming them into rightist warlord gangs whether in Central America or South L.A. In the Internet, in art, in physics, in the biosciences, in field after field those responsible for making things work have pragmatically moved away from old modes of thinking. So modern international classes may deny dialectical thinking-- but they use it economically, militarily, scientifically. While they school us in this useless linear thinking from before the Middle Ages that isn't functional, that doesn't allow us to grasp the terrible opportunities of change.
In the 1960s the Palestinian liberation movement adopted the slogan "From One Generation To the Next--Until Liberation." It had a seeming power to it, not only of expressing mass determination but of inexorable struggle making progress inch by inch, year by year. Only problem, it 's not true. Because winning & losing changes everything, including all the players and all the sides. You don't have generation after generation, you only think you do. Especially here in amerikkka, women believe in constant "progress" for us. That no matter how disappointed we are today, that next year or next generation life will inexorably be freer for us no matter how little we do about it. Only because we have been systematically wiped clean of knowing that we don't notice the little rips and tears in this silly lie. That Iroquois women had more legal power over government in their society in the 19th century than college educated professional women today can even imagine having. That East German women had rights in 1970 that they don't have today. That abortion rights in the u.s. keep disappearing in hospital after hospital, county after country, area after area as the tide of men's neo-fascist politics spreads. Winning & losing changes everything. We need to remember this against the amnesia and drift of daily life in the world of men.
Even more to the point, we don't live in a world where Harriets won. i mean, if Harriet won why was i sitting in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1961 with women who couldn't even vote and who lived under daily terrorism? That victory & defeat in 1865 changed everything. Changed the Black struggle, changed the u.s. empire, changed Harriet. And this principle isn't just about New Afrika. How come if women's liberation won in the 1970s--as we're told every single day--we watch with disinterest as 30 million women are dying of AIDS in a coldly deliberate mass murder in Afrika? A program of cutting-edge mass murder that even dwarfs the old Afrikan Slave trade and the Nazi death camps. Nor is any victory of women's liberation compatible with European rape camps and the exploding global sex slavery of millions of women. The known outcomes and how we've been ordered to think about reality aren't compatible. We have to relearn how to think, not as a philosophical luxury but as a necessity of life or death. We have to look at the military situation, then, the political-military situation if you will, at the end of the Civil War. On one day it all changed. Winning & losing had changed everything. The u.s. empire with its new industries and military, were suddenly freed from internal strife to gaze outward, to turn their attention towards colonial expansion in all directions. Especially towards finishing off their remaining problems with the Indian nations and peoples.
For so long estranged into two competing brother social systems--slave capitalism versus semi-slave capitalism--euro-amerikans were once again united in one settler empire. Northern Wall Street was king, but symbiotically needed its recent enemy, the Southern bourgeoisie, as its local manager over the New Afrikan labor that produced the cotton, tobacco and other valuable cash exports. Victorious white Abolitionism withered into dust as the Southern white terrorism of the defeated Confederates rose up and up. The New Afrikan freedom struggle had ended chattel slavery by its military alliance with the Federal government and the Union Army. But the next day this same alliance became the new chains that reenslaved. While the Black Nation of ex-slaves found itself with a class and gender hierarchy it had never experienced before. And Harriet, she won & lost on the same day. Because winning & losing changes everything. Let me repeat it, to double the stitch: this is an Amazon training exercise. If i can't learn to analyze victory & defeat in herstory, where all the forces & factors, hopes & outcomes are known, how can I decipher the chaotic present? The present, we are told, is all we need to focus on. Really, the present is so razor-thin a slice of reality that we teeter on it unable to keep our balance. Only by triangulating it with past & future do we know our ground. We don't study the present to learn the future.
It's the reverse: we reveal the hidden past and look out at the future to really understand our present That moment where Harriet won & lost on the same day is an example not simply of change but of the inner way that change happens. It was a nodal point, a point of complication where accumulating quantities of change suddenly crystalize into a change of basic quality. A sudden knotting and unknotting of change. For instance, the point where the ebbing of life in a body becomes death is one such nodal point. This is a basic process in all reality. Harriet always remembered that moment on her Northward escape when she knew that she had reached Pennsylvania, and was no longer a slave. "When I found that I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven." The step-by-step freeing of what had been a slave society resulted not simply in individuals who were legally free, but in a transformed Black society. Which in its turn reshaped how New Afrikans faced the unexpected challenges of the post slavery period called Black Reconstruction. Nor was that just their story alone, in isolation, or just white settlers' story. Both were part of a wave of world change, a new stage in the development of capitalism as a civilization. This is something we're not used to, which is why it's so hard. Searching beneath the surface of stories we never told, stories handed to us as subliminal orders, to find not only a deeper level but many overlaid levels of reality at once. To start with, there is the reality of winning & losing.
Don't dismiss this as so obvious Women have a real trouble sorting this out. Winning & losing doesn't mean merely that the winners get their way for awhile. Both victory & defeat change the players themselves. Change the very ground we stand on. This is more real than we've dealt with. Look at what happens to us, to women, whenever we are defeated. Even our bodies are changed. It isn't just old Chinese footbinding or the constricted, literally imprisoning clothing that white women were ordered to wear. Or the genital mutilation of millions upon millions of girl-children. It's also the deliberate downsizing of muscle + bone, the breeding out of women's physical strength and abilities. So that capitalism's socially idealized woman is weaker, smaller compared to men, less able, dis armed, dependent on men in men's world. Listen to how many euro-people say that Venus and Serena aren't physically like "real" women should be, because they're too powerful. Because the war with patriarchy isn't simply between women and men, in some linear way. Women's bodies are the land that the war has always been on (which is why the Barbara Kreuger pro-choice poster, "Your Body Is A Battleground"). We ourselves, whether we win or lose, whether we recognize it or not, are a military terrain. Which is why Amazon thinking is women's military thinking in a whole deeper logic.
It's not so much that we are ignorant, it's that women are still disoriented. In my EMT course we were told that to be disoriented is to be confused as to location, time, and identity (the reason ER doctors ask patients regaining consciousness if they know who they are, where they are and what day it is). This is us. Regaining consciousness but still disoriented as to location, time, and identity. We need to relearn how to think. There are two main kinds of thinking in the Western world. The first, in rough shorthand, we can call Aristotelian thinking, after the Greek philosopher. This kind of thinking sees things as having a fixed identity, belonging to rigid categories that are unchanging, bending if at all only under the pressure of outside forces. The second is dialectics, which sees everything as the flow of constant inner change of contradictions. Quick picture: dialectics is based on seeing that everything calls into existence its own opposite. Not as something external to it, but as something internal, an evolving unity of the original and its opposite. The old Southern system of slavery, for example, called into existence its polar opposite the Black Nation, and was of necessity composed of itself and this New Afrikan colony. One didn't have an existence without the other. Dialectics reveals how nothing is static or monolithic, but everything moves forward from the playing out of these internal contradictions. Change comes from within as the struggle of opposites, but these opposites always interpenetrate and recreate each other in new forms.
This is a global recognition of the non-linear, underlying wave pattern of reality, although in the West it is usually ascribed to the German 19th century philosopher Hegel and his more revolutionary disciple, Karl Marx. Hegel, however, was himself shaped by Taoism from China. Whether Taoism and Zen Buddhism in China and Japan or Jainism in India or radical philosophy in Europe from the time of the Greek philosopher Democritus onward, we can find in one rough shape or another this same recognition of dialectics. It is easier to crudely outline the yin & yang of it than it is to really learn it, but we can't make war successfully without tuning ourselves to it. Modern bourgeois classes may praise Aristotelian thinking, but their system itself tries not to use it. They couldn't stay on top if they did. In Aristotle's original theories, nature was composed of many species but no evolution. Society, too. His own Greek slaveowner class was considered eternally better, just as men had to forever rule women. That type of thinking has been used as ruling class ideology & propaganda for centuries but it isn't functional in a modern world. Even high capitalist military theory had to be hastily ripped apart after radical peasant guerrilla armies began defeating their suburban military in the 1950s and 1960s.
Amerikkka's one-sided advantage in "B-52 science" wasn't enough to win, even as the established global superpower with a two million man professional military using everything from helicopter-born army divisions to chemical weapons. Now, newer imperialist counter-insurgency theory uses dialectical thinking, and is based on finding internal contradictions to change the very nature of oppressed societies. Not simply brute outside force. Like empowering men in self-destructive gender-classes on a mass scale, freely arming them into rightist warlord gangs whether in Central America or South L.A. In the Internet, in art, in physics, in the biosciences, in field after field those responsible for making things work have pragmatically moved away from old modes of thinking. So modern international classes may deny dialectical thinking-- but they use it economically, militarily, scientifically. While they school us in this useless linear thinking from before the Middle Ages that isn't functional, that doesn't allow us to grasp the terrible opportunities of change.
In the 1960s the Palestinian liberation movement adopted the slogan "From One Generation To the Next--Until Liberation." It had a seeming power to it, not only of expressing mass determination but of inexorable struggle making progress inch by inch, year by year. Only problem, it 's not true. Because winning & losing changes everything, including all the players and all the sides. You don't have generation after generation, you only think you do. Especially here in amerikkka, women believe in constant "progress" for us. That no matter how disappointed we are today, that next year or next generation life will inexorably be freer for us no matter how little we do about it. Only because we have been systematically wiped clean of knowing that we don't notice the little rips and tears in this silly lie. That Iroquois women had more legal power over government in their society in the 19th century than college educated professional women today can even imagine having. That East German women had rights in 1970 that they don't have today. That abortion rights in the u.s. keep disappearing in hospital after hospital, county after country, area after area as the tide of men's neo-fascist politics spreads. Winning & losing changes everything. We need to remember this against the amnesia and drift of daily life in the world of men.
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