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“This whole thing is so twisted. You’ve got the victims—Sean and the other two with him that night—being attacked like they’re the criminals, and the criminals—the cops who killed Sean—being treated like they’re the victims. But you know, I’ve been at other trials of police who’ve murdered Black people and here’s the thing. It plays out pretty much the same way every time.”
This comment, made to me by a Black woman as she and I waited for a 15-minute recess at the Sean Bell trial to end, reflected the feelings of others who have come to the Queens, N.Y., courthouse almost every day since the trial began on Febrary 25, to hear testimony in the case of the three NYPD detectives indicted in the killing on November 25, 2006, of 23-year-old Sean Bell and serious wounding of two of his friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, in a lethal rain of 50 bullets, hours before Sean was to be married.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Statement from Assata Shakur
3/31/2008 6:29:06 AM by Assata Shakur
First of all, let me say thank you, to the many people who have helped me to celebrate my 60th birthday. Thank you for your beautiful birthday cards and for your warm and eloquent messages. Thank you for your activism, your radiant energy and most of all for your love. I am sincerely grateful for your support and for your commitment to social justice, truth and freedom.
It is somehow surprising for me to realize that I have lived on this planet for 60 years. I never imagined that I would live this long. Some of those years were very hard years, other years were happier, but I have never forgotten who I am or where I came from. For as long as I can remember, I was acutely aware of my oppression and of the oppression of my people.
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First of all, let me say thank you, to the many people who have helped me to celebrate my 60th birthday. Thank you for your beautiful birthday cards and for your warm and eloquent messages. Thank you for your activism, your radiant energy and most of all for your love. I am sincerely grateful for your support and for your commitment to social justice, truth and freedom.
It is somehow surprising for me to realize that I have lived on this planet for 60 years. I never imagined that I would live this long. Some of those years were very hard years, other years were happier, but I have never forgotten who I am or where I came from. For as long as I can remember, I was acutely aware of my oppression and of the oppression of my people.
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Fight State Repression: March in NYC on October 10th for Freedom for Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War
SAVE THE DATE!
FRIDAY OCTOBER 10th, 2008
March on the United Nations, New York City
Mobilization to Demand Freedom for Our Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War!
October 10th Coalition (list in formation):
Jericho Movement, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, NYC Anarchist Black Cross Federation, NYC Free Mumia Coalition, NYC Leonard Peltier Support Group, ProLibertad, Resistance in Brooklyn, Safiya Bukhari/Nuh Washington Foundation
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 10th, 2008
March on the United Nations, New York City
Mobilization to Demand Freedom for Our Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War!
October 10th Coalition (list in formation):
Jericho Movement, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, NYC Anarchist Black Cross Federation, NYC Free Mumia Coalition, NYC Leonard Peltier Support Group, ProLibertad, Resistance in Brooklyn, Safiya Bukhari/Nuh Washington Foundation
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