Black Women's Defense League prepares to launch "Million For Assata

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Press Release:

For Immediate Release: May 2, 2008 For more information Contact: BWDL7@aol,com

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Assata Shakur (born Joanne Deborah ...

The "Millions For Assata" Campaign for Justice. Freedom, & Self-Determination

Planning sessions are now underway and your support is requested for

The African World Peoples & Allies

"Justice/Injustice, Prison Industrialized Complex, and Human Rights" Conference

Mass Rally & Demonstration



Educate, Demonstrate, and Agitate

Focusing on the removal of the million dollar bounty on our sister. Assata Shakur and the release of political prisoners in the USA who are there as a result of Cointelpro and/or the struggle for African/Black freedom, justice, and self-determination, ( Liberation),

Other relevant topics such as Reparations, racism, hate crimes, Gulf Coast survivers, etc. will be presented for further plans of ACTION

November 2009 will mark the 30th anniversary of Sis Assata Shakur's liberation from the dungeons and grips of the American injustice system.

In recognition and support of Sis. Assata's continued freedom and the fight to have the million dollar bounty removed from her head, the Black Women's Defense League is launching an international campaign for all Peoples to "take a stand" and "make the demand" Hands Off Assata



From: assatashakur. org

Assata: Exile since 1979
On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Shakur (fsn) JoAnne Chesimard, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances before escaping out of the maximum security wing of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979 and moving to Cuba.

Assata: In her own words
My name is Assata ("she who struggles") Shakur ("the thankful one"), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government's policy towards people of color. I am an ex political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984. I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in various struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights movement, and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I joined the Black Panther Party. By 1969 the Black Panther Party had become the number one organization targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO program. because the Black Panther Party demanded the total liberation of black people, J. Edgar Hoover called it "greatest threat to the internal security of the country" and vowed to destroy it and its leaders and activists.

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