6th Annual Black Panther Film Festival

BLACK PANTHER POLITICAL PRISONER WERE VICTIMS OF COINTELPRO

Many conscious of our history know that COINTELPRO was not only illegal, immoral and absolutely off DA hook

in its making a mockery of democratic rights. The government denies it. Yet today there are more than 69 people

locked up in U.S. Prisons because of their political actions or beliefs. (17were members of the Black Panther Party)

The U.S. alone among the world’s governments maintains the fiction that it holds no political prisoners. The official

position is that all those jailed for politically motivated actions are “criminals.” (If they were just criminals based on

time served plus good time they would be back in the community and to their families)………By labeling political prisoners

as criminals, the U.S. Government has also been able to shield from, view serious human rights violations against them.

PANTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS;

ANTHONY ‘JALIL’ BOTTOM,

ABDULLAH MAJID, SEKOU ODINGA, ED POINDEXTER, HERMAN BELL, JOSEPH BOWEN,  KENNY ZULU WHITMORE, VERONZA BOWERS JR, JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN,SUNDIATA ACOLI,  ROBERT ‘SETH’ HAYES, RUSSELL”MAROON” SHOATS, FREDDIE (KAMAU SADIKI) HILTON, MUMIA ABU JAMAL, ROMAINE ‘CHIP’ FITZERGALD, MONDO WE LANGA (DAVID RICE),  http://www.thejerichomovement.com

 

The Sixth Annual Black Panther Film Festival

 THIS YEAR’S THEME: REMEMBERING OUR POLITICAL PRISONERS OVER 800 YEARS IN CAPTIVITY

Yuri Kochiyama was our beloved comrade and stanch supporter of BPPP

We would like to invite you join us as we Honor and Remember Yuri on

Saturday

 

 

10/04/14

 

 

 

 

 

@4pm Li

 

 

ne-up:

 

 

“Yuri

 

 

Kochiyama:

 

 

Passion for

 

 

 

Justice”

Film by Pat Saunders and Rea Tajiri

Yuri Kochiyama was a Japanese American civil rights activist whose family was sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, as were 130,000 other Japanese Americans. In the 1960s she became an activist after meeting and working with Malcolm X. For over 40 years she has dedicated her life to working for a better world, becoming involved in many causes including racial justice, human rights, advocating for the rights of political prisoners, nuclear disarmament, and reparations to Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II. Yuri Kochiyama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 as part of the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize project.

 

     “BUT YOU CAN’T JAIL A REVOLUTION”

A TV network investigation team visits a small Louisiana town to film racial profiling and the police killing of an unarmed grandfather on his porch. There they find out that the town is also home to the grave of Black Panther  Party Leader,Fred Hampton, and the dynamic Illinois State  Chapter Chairman. Hampton was killed in an illegal Chicago police raid in 1969. Activists around the world remember “Chairman Fred.” But so does the Klu Klux Klan. See the shocking details of the desecration of “Chairman Fred’s grave

“YOU CAN JAIL A REVOLUTIONARY, BUT YOU CAN’T JAIL THE REVOLUTION! YOU CAN KILL A REVOLUTIONARY, BUT YOU CAN’T KILL THE REVOLUTION!! ! “Fred Hampton