Post-Indictment Press Conference with Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel

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The Imperative of Political Education in a Miseducated Society

Jasmine Butler Table of Contents Introduction Anti-Intellectualism in Pop Culture Anti-Intellectualism in “Revolutionary” Spaces   My Experiences As an Educator Revisiting Pedagogy of the Oppressed Dialogue The Role of the Political Educator Overcoming Pessimism Sources Introduction Education is under attack. Book bans and ahistorical curriculum adjustments have been sweeping the nation yet again, ranging from…

McCarthyism Resurges: Radical U.S.-Based Organizations Condemn U.S. Indictments of African People’s Socialist Party Members

Julie Varughese Attendees of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) Plenary 2017. In the front row includes recently indicted defendants Gazi Kodzo (first from left with fist on chest) and Omali Yeshitela (third from left with red beret) / credit: The Burning Spear Activists on the left, as well as radical U.S.-based organizations, came out yesterday…

A Review of White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Kim Scipes  New York:  Public Affairs Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-5417-6829-1 (hardcover) Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social and economic development.  This especially pertains to sub-Saharan Africa, overwhelmingly populated by black people, thus fitting the trope of white supremists that black…

Secret COINTELPRO Plot to Infiltrate and Destroy the American Indian Movement

Jeremy Kuzmarov Wounded Knee Standoff 1973: Pine Ridge, South Dakota February 27 through May 8 marks the 50th  anniversary of the occupation by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of Wounded Knee on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the site of the last great massacre of the Indian Wars in December, 1890….

Omali Yeshitela: NATO’s War in Ukraine Accelerates McCarthyism

Omali Yeshitela joins the program to discuss the FBI’s raid of African People Socialist Party institutions in July 2022 and what it means amid the ongoing NATO war in Ukraine. Join the rapid response to support the organization should indictments be handed over: https://handsoffuhuru.org/emergency-r… Omali Yeshitela: The U.S. Government Plans to Indict and Put Me…