RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly...
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RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose: This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.
This Zine is Peoples guide to arguably the "Greatest Rap Music Group of All Times", PE. A Public Enemy guide with photos, videos, links, feeds, news, comments, group blog and forum. Also providing the latest news on our Freedom Fighters (PP and POW) as the PE logo represents.
Public Enemy, better known by fans as PE, is a seminal hip hop group from Long Island, New York known for their socio-politically conscious lyrics, criticism of mainstream /coporate media and active interest in the issues and concerns of the African American community. Their latest LP, a collection of unreleased tracks, "Beats and Places," was released on the 8th of November 2005.
They will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
They are ranked #44 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and in the near future, should be one of the first rap artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Help us document their history and journey with your photos, videos, links, feeds, news and comments. Share with the community in our PE group blog and discussion forums.
In the interest of being ture to the PE message and Logo this wikizine will also keep the community up to speed on those socio-political issues and topics their music so powerfully speaks to. This will and should include issues and current events involving the present day Black Power Movement and our Nu Afrikan Political Prisioners and Prisoners Of War.
From: XXPANTHAXX Organizer Joint Statement from the San Francisco 8 We, the San Francisco 8, would like to send this joint statement extending our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all our friends and supporters. As many of you know, this COINTELPRO persecution has been on-going for nearly 36 years. However, in the last few years, in accord with the implementation of the Patriot Act, state and federal authorities initiated plans to stifle political dissent, particularly... Read Full Story
All Out for Mumia Abu-Jamal! Join Danny Glover, Cynthia McKinney and many others in Philadelphia! Thurs • May 17 9:00 a.m. in front of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 6th and Market Streets Selections from Prison interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal Click Download flyer Click Download PSA Rainbow Flags for Mumia Call to Action for May 17th What you can do to help get the word out: We are asking everyone to contact the media and ask them to cover the events of May 17 -- don't let them... Read Full Story
http://www.pslweb.org/ News and Analysis Assata Shakur: A woman warrior Friday, May 4, 2007 By: Alina Serrano 'Hands off Assata!' The writer is a student at City College of the City University of New York. This article first appeared in the February 2007 issue of Socialism and Liberation.org. In December 2006, a gain won 17 years ago by City University of New York’s City College students came under sudden attack. A right-wing media campaign prompted CUNY chancellor Matthew Goldstein and the... Read Full Story
( Please See: h ttp://freemumianow.blogspot.com/ A blog with the latest information on the case.) Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist who chronicles the human condition. He has been a resident of Pennsylvania’s death row for twenty-five years. Writing from his solitary confinement cell his essays have reached a worldwide audience. His books "Live From Death Row", "Death Blossoms", "All Things Censored", “Faith of Our Fathers” and the recently released “We Want Freedom” have sold... Read Full Story
DECLARATION OF ARNOLD BEVERLY Link back for Audio and Video I, ARNOLD R. BEVERLY, state that the following facts are true and correct: I was present when police officer Daniel Faulkner was shot and killed in the early morning hours of December 9, 1981 near the corner of Locust and 13th Streets. I have personal knowledge that Mumia Abu-Jamal did not shoot police officer Faulkner. I was hired, along with another guy, and paid to shoot and kill Faulkner. I had heard that Faulkner was a problem... Read Full Story
Who we be? P.O.C.C.! What's our call? Free 'em all! Companion Audio: KPFA.org Flashpoints Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 About this program: Reporting in a Time of War Minister of Information JR speaks with Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. on U.S. politics, Chicago Mayor Daly's twenty years in power, and the war waged on the domestic front during a time of foreign invasion. Also, Flashpoints Special Correspondent Dahr Jamal speaks in the Parachute Journalism versus Journalism Of Depth panel at the... Read Full Story
Artist depicts solidarity of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Shaka Sankofa Companion asset: Regarding Mumia "Freedom or Death" May 17th is the Date June 2000 Shaka Sankofa's final statement Nothing more than state sanctioned murders, state sanctioned lynching, right here in America, and right here tonight. This is what is happening my brothers. Nothing less. They know I'm innocent. They've got the facts to prove it. They know I'm innocent. But they cannot acknowledge my innocence, because to do so would... Read Full Story
Omali Yeshitela, formerly known as Joseph Waller, was born in 1941 in St. Petersburg, Florida . In December 1966, as a SNCC organizer, Yeshitela led a group of young African people into the St. Petersburg City Hall and ripped down from the walls a demeaning racist mural that had hung for thirty years on the first landing. For removing the painting, Yeshitela was given a five-year prison sentence, of which he served two years. While in prison in 1968 Yeshitela formed JOMO, the Junta of... Read Full Story
AKA: BlackBodyGuard Once again, we find our city in the throes of yet another reason why we cannot trust law enforcement. A Harris County Deputy shoots an unarmed kid in the foot after firing 3 shots ?? okay, the key word in this incident is KID... in every corner of america; politicians, clergy, parents, corporations, and society-large, recognizes KIDS as the whole meaning of our being.. this KEY WORD is used, reused, and re-reused to establish, bring home, and justify to every audience... Read Full Story
Bulletin From: HANDS OFF ASSATA! Date: Mar 20, 2007 10:19 PM Brothers and Sisters: Early Monday morning, Dr. Mutulu Shakur was snatched from sleep and transfered from Federal Corrections Complex in Coleman (FCC Coleman), Florida to USP Pollock in Louisiana. As many of you know, Mutulu was effective in organizing programs in FCC Coleman, making a life changing impact on the transformation on hundreds of men, particularly youth from a criminal mentality to liberation consciousness. As he had... Read Full Story
