Kamau Franklin
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The real work is on the block not on social media. Support
@CommunityMvt
community organizing, safety/cop-watch walks, community house/garden, cooperatives, mutual aid & rent fund 4 local residents. All w/ a Black radical politic or
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As James Baldwin said "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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Breaking News: Albert Woodfox, veteran Black Panther Party member, was held in solitary confinement longer than any person in US history, survived 43 years in a 6ft x 9ft cell, has died at age 75.
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Breaking News: The New Jersey State Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Sundiata Acoli, the former Black Panther Party member will be released from prison. Free Em All!!!
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Assata Shakur said it best “People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
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Black Panther Party member "Lil" Bobby Hutton was murdered on this day in 1968 by the Oakland Police. He was the first person to join the party, the 1st treasurer, and the 1st member to be murdered by the racist police. Rest in Power.
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Breaking News: The official autopsy is released showing Tortuguita the forest defender didn't have gunpowder residue on their hands and had at least 57 gunshot wounds in their body, including the hands, torso, legs and head. This is Murder.
#StopCopCity
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Sean Bell was murdered on this date Nov. 25 in 2006 by NYPD. The police shot 50 times killing Bell in his car and severely wounding two of his friends. They were all unarmed. Bell was 23 years old and was killed the morning of his wedding. The cops were all found not guilty.
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The police propaganda machine is in full swing. The National Police Assoc. is running a campaign called Stop Filming & Start Helping. A better campaign might be to just Stop Killing Us
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A revolutionary act does not need to be grand in scale to be meaningful, as long as it touches on the material conditions of the people, food, clothing shelter, safety. Then moves on to the next act.
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Don't know who needs to hear this but just remember in the capitalist economy hard work is not rewarded it is exploited
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BREAKING NEWS: Mutulu Shakur, movement veteran, member of the Black Liberation Army, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, was paroled & will be released after 36 years behind bars, to spend his final days outside of prison walls. Mutulu has been diagnosed w/ terminal cancer. Free Em All
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White supremacy is not a fringe ideology in the US it is the foundational core belief system. It may operate differently during different times but it is always there.
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No support for renters but there will be plenty for the cops/sheriff's when they ask for more money to do all the new evictions
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Breaking News: Sundiata Acoli, 85, veteran of the Black Panther Party, comrade of Assata Shakur was released yesterday after 49 years in prison. He is now a former Political Prisoner.
@BlackPowerMedi1
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How the media works in Black and white
Louisvile Bank shooter kills 5 in mass shooting is humanized in headline
Homeless and suffering mental health crises is murdered on NYC subway and criminalized in headline
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Derek Chauvin will probably be convicted of murder or manslaughter for killing George Floyd. To do otherwise should result in mass rebellions on a natl scope. Remember the system will sometimes sacrifice its own, but that is not the system changing that's it saving itself
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Jan 18th is the anniversary of the assassination of Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran. An Indigenous, queer & non-binary forest defender. Murdered by Georgia State Troopers in their tent w/ hands up protecting their face because they wanted to
#StopCopCity
& save the Weelaunee forest
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Noam Chomsky on the US party system “In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies."
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Even capitalist don't believe in pure capitalism, they are always securing resources/contracts, tax breaks and favorable policies from the state. The only time they want to shrink the state is when poor and working class people might benefit.
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Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb. 21, 58 years ago. The state killed him via his own people & took credit for it in COINTELPRO documents because he was a revolutionary. He was organizing in the US & abroad, from a UN petition to talks w/ Che to support insurgencies in the Congo
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"We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.“
- Nina Simone
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Black Panther Party member "Lil" Bobby Hutton was murdered on this day in 1968 by the Oakland Police. He was the first person to join the party, the 1st treasurer, and the 1st member to be murdered by the racist police. Rest in Power.
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BREAKING NEWS: Mutulu Shakur passed away last night. New Afrikan movement veteran, member of the Black Liberation Army, stepfather of Tupac Shakur. He spent 36 years behind bars as a political prisoner/prisoner of war. Rise in Power. Free Em All
@BlackPowerMedi1
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Brittany Martin is a political prisoner - She is pregnant & serving a 4-year bid in S.C. for chanting at police at a 2020 protest. Her charge is "breaching of the peace." She's been hospitalized twice for pregnancy complications. Sign the Petition & more!
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Haiti just had another big earthquake but don't start w/ that Haiti is cursed bullshit. Haiti suffers from western dominance & an internal elite that steals money that could go for infrastructure to offset the impact of these disasters. Haiti needs to be liberated not pitied
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The Cop City RICO indictments allege the date when George Floyd was murdered by the police as the start of the "racketeering enterprise." Let that sink in.
The day a movement to abolish the police took on new life is the day for them a criminal enterprise was born.
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Remember Fannie Lou Hamer who passed on this day.
"If this is a great society, I'd hate to see a bad one."
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When they say "Haitians" are asking for US military "assistance" what they really mean is that the Haitian political and economic elite want protection from the masses who want them gone
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Just remember the reason the Black Panther Party and other Black radical organizations were destroyed was because they were effective. The reason we were pushed into electoral politics as a central strategy was because it was not. You can't vote your way out of oppression.
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Stop Cop City Breaking News. The police have killed a protester in the forest. The police narrative should be questioned. We need an independent investigation on the killing of this protester. Why are SWAT teams in the forest w/ Georgia State troopers clearing a forest.
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America is a police state. It spends more money in individual cities on police (domestic military arm) than most/many nation states spend on their entire military budget. The only purpose of this is to control the population (mostly the Black population)
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Breaking News: it is w/ the deepest regrets that I report that legendary Black Panther Party member Thomas “Blood” McCreary has passed. A veteran of the Party, the Black Liberation Army, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and former Political Prisoner. Rest In Power
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Black Panther Party Illinois Chairman Fred Hampton was assassinated by the Chicago Police & the FBI. The police are not here to "protect us" or to "fight crime" they are here as an arm of the state to stop us from organizing for our freedom.
@BlackPowerMedi1
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The logic of settler-colonialism is that they stole the land fair and square by mass killing and ethnic cleansing and if you dare fight back you are are not only a terrorist but will be subject to more mass killing and ethnic cleansing.
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Breaking News: It is with great sorrow that I report that legendary Black Panther Party member Sekou Odinga has passed. Sekou was a member of the Black Liberation Army and former Political Prisoner. He literally helped free Assata. Rest In Power
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Labor day is a stand-in for a more radical May Day to stop the popularity of an international workers day & to dim the memory of the Haymarket massacre, a rally in May where workers fighting for an eight-hour work day were killed by police and a dynamite blast killed others
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Remember Oscar Grant. Murdered in the early hours of January 1, 2009, by Bay Area Rapit Transit Police when he was shot in the back as he lay face down on the Fruitvale station subway platform.
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Capitalism creates poverty then criminalizes the poor
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Black Panther Party Illinois Chairman Fred Hampton was assassinated by the Chicago Police & the FBI. The police are not here to "protect us" or to "fight crime" they are here as an arm of the state to stop us from organizing for our freedom
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This society will pay people to throw you out of your home but we won't pay to keep you in one. A million possible evictions is a jobs program for more law enforcement.
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This is the Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran, the young, queer, Afro-Venezuelan forest defender killed by police yesterday in their raid to clear the forest so they could build Cop-City. Don't let the media criminalize them.
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The Creole Slave Revolt - On this date, Nov. 7 1841 the most successful revolt of enslaved Africans in the US took place. The US slave ship "Creole" was seized by the 128 Africans on the way to New Orleans & forced to sail to the Bahamas where slavery was abolished.
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A must read the official Black Panther Party position on supporting the Palestinian liberation struggle against zionism. How can so much wisdom and honesty be lost over the years...because it was wiped out and replaced with Black celebrity culture and bourgeois misleadership.
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Black Panther Party member "Lil" Bobby Hutton was murdered on this day in 1968 by the Oakland Police. He was the first person to join the party, the 1st treasurer, and the 1st member to be murdered by the racist police. Rest in Power.
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NYC circa 1987. The Days of Rage protest shut down NYC subways by marching on the tracks after Michael Griffith was killed by a white mob. Mass militant action is needed to get justice for Jordan Neely
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“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist."
- Dom Helder Camara on capitalist logic
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This is what solidarity looks like
Happening Now: South African dock workers have refused to offload an Israeli cargo ship and are now protesting at the harbour in support of
#Palestine
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#DockWorkersWithPalestine
#FreePalestine
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Fannie Lou Hamer was born today. She was fired as a sharecropper for registering Black folks to vote. She started coops and political parties. She had a limp & blood clot behind her eye from being beaten by police in a Mississippi jail. Fannie was a freedom fighter.
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38 years ago today, the Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb (an air strike) on the Move house, killing 11 people, including 5 children, destroying 61 homes and leaving 250 homeless.
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Since we on the topic of the correct use of violence
"Most societies in the West are not opposed to violence. The oppressor is only opposed to violence when the oppressed talks about using violence against the oppressor." - Kwame Ture -
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The Black Panther Party was part of the Black Community. They did not locate themselves downtown next to the politicians, they worked with the people in the hood and then confronted the politicians
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"Socialism is the People! If You're Afraid of Socialism, You're Afraid of Yourself"
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The Panthers understood the anti-colonial struggle, many so-called radicals today don't
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Yall say you love Malcolm, but Malcolm was a revolutionary, a freedom fighter, he wanted to overturn systems, he was a militant, nationalist, a pan-Africanist, & an internationalist. His comrades were socialists and communists. He was not a reformist, he was ready for revolution
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Malcolm X, assassinated on this day 57 years ago. The state killed him via his own people & took credit for it in COINTELPRO documents because he was a revolutionary. He was organizing in the US & abroad, from a UN petition to talks w/ Che to support insurgencies in the Congo.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self-defense; I call it intelligence Malcolm X
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Cop City Board and Cop city donor list:
Cox Enterprises,
Delta Airlines,
Arthur Blank,
Equifax,
Georgia Power,
Coca Cola Company
The Home Depot
Koch Brothers
Chik Fil A
Blackhall Studios
UPS
Norfolk Southern,
The Loudermilk Family
Waffle House
Bank of America
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Atlanta is what happens when there is no class analysis that accompanies a race analysis. Its a petit bourgeois playground.
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Happy Assata Shakur Liberation Day. 43 years ago today, Nov. 2nd 1979, she was liberated from prison in Clinton New Jersey by the Black Liberation Army and comrades. She later made her way to Cuba and was granted asylum.
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You can't love and admire Assata without loving and admiring Sundiata Acoli. Sundiata will be 85 on Jan. 14th and has spent nearly 50 years in prison from his arrest w/ Assata on the NJ turnpike. A Panther, freedom fighter, writer and a Political Prisoner. Free Em All.
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Today is John Brown's Birthday. "We need allies who are going to help us achieve a victory, not allies who are going to tell us to be nonviolent. If a white man wants to be your ally, what does he think of John Brown? You know what John Brown did? He went to war." Malcolm X
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The new face of US imperialism. Biden nominates Lt. Gen. Michael Langley to become the 1st Black four-star general in the 246 yr history of the Marines and the new head of Africa Command (Afro-com). We are going to represent ourselves right off the planet.
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BREAKING NEWS: Atlanta Police caught on scanner talking about how the Atlanta Solidarity Fund arrest was done to go after the movement and they're scared about June 5th.
@sally_yachts
for more info
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Racial capitalism can't always distinguish between the Black elite and the Black masses. You can't buy, dream or work your way out of being a subject of white supremacy
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The same Israeli police that just did this to Palestinians are coming on May 14th to train with Atlanta police on the same tactics and strategies.
#StopCopCity
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Today is John Brown's Birthday.
"We need allies who are going to help us achieve a victory, not allies who are going to tell us to be nonviolent. If a white man wants to be your ally, what does he think of John Brown? You know what John Brown did? He went to war." Malcolm X
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This is the best headline ever "Are moderate Democrats the lesser of two evils, or are they the sneakier fascists"
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Listen to Kwame Ture on liberals "The reason the liberal seeks to stop confrontation is that his role, regardless of what he says, is really to maintain the status quo, rather than to change it. He enjoys economic stability from the status quo"
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No justice on stolen land from Palestine to Turtle Island and on and on
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When artist were revolutionaries resistance was the culture as opposed to the celebrity culture we get today that imitates resistance
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The Atlanta Police is a para-military outfit. Cop City, if built, will be a military base. The people will be a continually occupied community. This is not about training. it's about control.
#StopCopCity
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On Huey's birthday remember the Panther Party did not just have a radical stance in the US, but it recognized how we were connected to international struggles against imperialism (Huey standing w/ Palestinian organizers)
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Under the theory of the StopCopCity RICO indictments, the entire Civil Rights Movement was a criminal conspiracy
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Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens called an emergency meeting at Morehouse after students protested against Cop City. He tried to convince Black students that Cop City, a militarized police training center was good for the Black community. He got called a "sellout".
#StopCopCity
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Haiti declared independence on this day in 1804, making it the 1st Black republic, the 1st nation in the western hemisphere to end enslavement, & eventually the only successful rebellion of the enslaved that led to freedom. The western world has sought to destroy them ever since
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Killer Mike said Cop City can't be fought cause the corps/city put $100 mill on it. We can't acquiesce based on a price tag. Slavery, mass incarceration & environmental degradation are billion $ investments. But our lives are at stake. Be revolutionary, fight against the odds
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BREAKING NEWS: Judge sets low bond amount in Atlanta Solidarity Fund bond hearing. After the DA gave a flimsy presentation on evidence, the Judge states "I don't find the evidence real impressive" 😂🤣Our friends and comrades will be out tonight!!!
#StopCopCity
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Today George Floyd would have been 49 years old. His murder by a cop inspired an international uprising against police terror, that is still unresolved and still occurring in our community. Rest in Power
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So Biden/Harris have said no to the Green New Deal, No to Ending Fracking, and No to Defunding the Police. Looks like the liberal left has them just where they want them
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Remember on this day Jan 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba the revolutionary Congolese independence leader was assassinated w/ the active support of the CIA/US government. Those who killed our leaders yesterday will not support our liberation today.
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From Atlanta to Gaza: Free Palestine & Stop Cop City!
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This is the seventh anniversary of Mike Brown's murder. Still for his family and our community no justice has been had.
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The NY Times
@nytimes
quoted the Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant saying “no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel” would be allowed into Gaza. Below is the full quote of him calling Palestinians "human animals" Somehow that part did not make it into the paper of record
Israeli Enemy War Minister Yoav Gallant: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we will act accordingly."
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Calling protestors "outsiders" and/or "outsider agitators" is the language of southern segregationist
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Kill a Black man, and the National Police Association rushes to your defense.
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Keep Juneteenth as a day of resistance, renewal, and the continued fight against oppression.
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The scraps we get are meant to feed the larger economy, i.e. corporations and the rich. This is how capitalism works, don't think they are doing you a favor
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Kwame Ture on being a revolution ary "When you see people call themselves revolutionary always talking about destroying, destroying, destroying but never talking about building or creating, they’re not revolutionary. They do not understand the first thing about revolution."
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George Jackson was born today, a revolutionary, Field Marshal for the Black Panther Party, writer and strategist, Read Blood in My Eye & Soledad Brother: Prison Letters & learn about the struggle for Black liberation
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The capitalist class through their institutions literally squeezes working people into debt, despair and early death
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Breaking News: fredom fighter and now ex-Political Prisoner Mutulu Shakur was released from prison today. He is on his way to see his mom.
@BlackPowerMedi1
Please support him here
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Found some old pics of one of my trips to Cuba, saw Mama Assata and Nehanda. Long live the Cuban Revolution for providing a home for our freedom fighters.
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Breaking News: Over 60 Spelman faculty have signed on to a letter denouncing Cop City
#StopCopCity
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