by Leonard Peltier Leonard Peltier is a political prisoner who has spent over 40 years in prison in the US. He was active in the American Indian Movement and the broader New Left. He was targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO and was falsely convicted for the murder of […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage A small group of people waited outside Utica’s Cornerstone Community Church the evening of Wednesday, November 16 for a scheduled activist meeting leading up to the Expect Resistance – Post Election Rally. The rally was planned weeks earlier to protest disastrous ongoing […]
by MV Freedom School 4/1 – COINTELPRO: The War on Civil Rights, taught by Alicia McWilliams and Derek Scarlino This is the final class on the Civil Rights Movement unit (rescheduled from 3/25). Alicia and Derek will talk about COINTELPRO, the FBI’s ‘counterintelligence program’ headed by J. […]
by MV Freedom School The Mohawk Valley Freedom School will have three classes on the Black Freedom (Civil Rights) Movement during the month of March. Local activist and Freedom School educator Alicia McWilliams will be teaching the classes. The dates and subject matter are as follows: March 11th […]
by Jalil Muntaqim/FreeJalil.com Contrary to the refrain from the tragic Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown, we know that keeping your hands up does not mean you will not be shot. Assata Shakur had her hands up when she was shot on the New Jersey turnpike by a […]