United Panther Party - Intl

"The laws of war — a phrase itself that is oxymoronic — which are generally codified in the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter, all of which were spearheaded, written and ratified by the United States, mandate essentially that lawful wars can only be defensive and must be proportional to the threat posed or the harm already caused.

Stated differently, treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory restrain the president from killing persons in other countries with which the U.S. is not lawfully at war."

When Presidents Kill History is littered with examples of tyrants using the powers of the state to kill for no moral purpose, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano Antiwar.com Sometime before he withdrew from the presidential race, President Joe Biden secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed and

Columbus and his crew were brutal monsters.

This is just the tip of the monstrosity iceberg.

The US heroification of figures like Columbus, starting when we are young, is a way to indoctrinate and emotionally manipulate us into defending them and their actions, so that their modern day counterparts can continue to plunder the majority of the planet so that a tiny minority of humanity can live like royalty.

Only a chump believes this propaganda and eagerly participates in such a system. So giving the aforementioned privilege helps them feel some power over others - even if they never get as lucky as those at the top of the Capitalist Pyramid Scheme, whose boots they lick in fealty.

Earth and the majority of it's inhabitants have said ENOUGH.

The Imperial Boomerang is coming home. Expect it. Take precautions. Build strong community defenses.

Always examine the history and material conditions when you investigate current events!

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Britain's Illegal Fly Tipping Gangs: Exposed...

Unloved and Forgotten - China's 'Children of Shame'...

BLACK PANTHER PARTY COMMUNITY SURVIVAL PROGRAMS
1967 - 1982*
The Black Panther concept of "revolutionary intercommunalism" involved the strategy of building community service programs or "survival programs", programs meant to develop positive institutions within the community to help individuals meet their needs. The Panthers developed over 60 such community programs.

The concept centered on Black self-determination, Black people getting themselves organized together so that they could survive outside the municipal, state or federal systems, which were already under-servicing the Black community. It was not a new idea: minority communities across America had done this in previous decades to support new immigrants through communal associations and political machines.

A list of some of the 60 +
Black Panther Survival Programs:

1. Alameda County Volunteer
2. Benefit Counseling
3. Black Student Alliance
4. Child Development Center
5. Consumer Education Classes
6. Community Facility Use
7. Community Health Classes
8. East Oakland CIL (Center for Independent Living) Branch
9. Community Pantry (Free Food Program)
10. Disabled Persons Services/Transportation and Attendant
11. Drug/Alcohol Abuse Awareness Program
12. Drama Classes
13. Drill Team
14. Employment Referral Service
15. Free Ambulance Program
16. Free Breakfast for Children Programs
17. Free Bussing to Prisons Program
18. Free Clothing Program
19. Free Commissary for Prisoners Program
20. Free Dental Program
21. Free Employment Program
22. Free Food Program
23. Free Film Series
24. Free Furniture Program
25. Free Health Clinics
26. Free Housing Cooperative Program
27. Food Cooperative Program
28. Free Optometry Program
29. Community Forum
30. Free Pest Control Program
31. Free Plumbing and Maintenance Program
32. Free Shoe Program
33. GED Classes
34. Geriatric Health Center
35. GYN Clinic
36. Home SAFE Visits
37. Intercommunal Youth Institute (becomes OCS in 1975)
38. Junior High and High School Tutorial Program
39. Legal Aid and Education
40. Legal Clinic/Workshops
41. Laney Experimental College Extension Site
42. Legal Referral Service(s)
43. Liberation Schools
44. Martial Arts Program
45. Nutrition Classes
46. Oakland Community Learning Center
47. Outreach Preventative Care
48. Program Development
49. Pediatric Clinic
50. Police Patrols
51. Seniors Against a Fearful Environment
52. SAFE Club
53. Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation
54. Son of Man Temple (becomes Community Forum in 1976)
55. Sports Program
56. Senior Switchboard
57. The Black Panther Newspaper
58. Teen Council
59. Teen Program
60. U.C. Berkeley Students Health Program
61. STD Preventative Screening & Counseling
62. Visiting Nurses Program
63. WIC Program (Women’s, Infants & Children)
64. Youth Diversion and Probation Site
65. Youth Training and Development



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U.N. expert says Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, calls for arms embargo...

GAZA GENOCIDE EXPOSES TWO AMERICA’S & CULTS OF WHITE SETTLER-COLONIALISM

As the American-financed proxy, Israel, invaded and bombed Al Shifa hospital in Gaza, we in the USA continue to witness this horrific genocide live. They have saturated our airwaves, our social media spaces with doublespeak while forcing us into complicit witnesses to the most horrific indiscriminate slaughter of innocents in real-time. Currently, over 11,000 Palestinians have been mercilessly killed. Out of those shocking numbers, over 6,276 of them are children.

You have been conditioned to never take non-white life seriously unless it affects you directly. Americans grew up watching “Cowboys and Indians'' and there has never been a positive image of an Arab or Muslim in American media throughout American history. Racism and xenophobia run deep in American society. The American government always needed an “eternal” enemy that can be the proverbial “boogeyman” of sorts and Arabs/Muslims fit that bill. This is not a new phenomenon whatsoever. The pioneer in this field was the renowned scholar, Jack Shaheen. His work analyzed Hollywood's depictions of Arabs and Muslims and its impact on American society. Old films would have exotic women in hijabs, caricatures of lecherous sheikhs to modern day media always portraying hijackers and terrorists as Arabs and Muslims. Jack Shaheen was inspired by the Palestinian scholar, Edward Said’s work on Orientalism, exposing how orientalism was not just a thing of the colonial past but heavily shaped how Western media portrayed Arabs and Muslims into American homes and brains. Government propaganda intentionally worked with Hollywood to instill Islamophobic and Orientalist notions to Americans. There is a strategic reason Hollywood glorifies the American military and constantly has Arabs and Muslims as the enemy. This enables the subtle acceptance by the American masses to attack, invade, plunder Arab lands and massacre Muslims and Arabs around the world.

How was the Biden administration able to give Israel the green light to invade Al Shifa hospital without any outcry from the American public? After years of conditioning, the American public view all Arabs as terrorists allowing dehumanization, orientalism and Islamophobia to interplay. When Bush jr. invaded Iraq in 2003, he used the same tactics as Netanyahu - dehumanization of the Iraqi Arabs in which he also called them terrorists. Americans flocked to the military to “avenge” the USA for 9/11 and root out bad guys (even though Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction and had nothing to do with 9/11). American soldiers were literally told to think of Iraqis as animals and to kill as many as they could. The US government used these same tactics in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, and Palestine. It scarily doesn’t matter to the American government that a hospital was bombed, where over 3000 Palestinians were seeking refuge from Israel's incessant airstrikes because of the Israeli propaganda claiming Hamas “terrorists” were hiding there.

The unarmed Palestinians who were in Al Shifa hospital were seeking sanctuary from heavily American-armed Zionists. The IDF started off as snipers outside the hospital, shooting at anyone trying to even help. On top of all that, there are American soldiers in Gaza helping Israel kill innocent Palestinians. It wasn't bad enough they shut off all fuel & electricity to the hospital, Palestinians suffering in the ICU & babies in the NICU died. They entered the maternity ward and shot at anyone they saw. The bloodbath that ensued is beyond human comprehension that even the WHO called Al Shifa a “death zone”.

We wept when our brothers & sisters were killed in Iraq & the American government & people had the audacity to celebrate! We weep as the US government proudly sends weapons, troops & money to help Israel massacre our brothers & sisters in Palestine.

We weep as we see Palestinians lose their homes, limbs, children blown up into pieces, generations of Gazan families wiped out...We weep deeply & at the same time are outraged.

But alas, I am hitting deaf ears as many Americans & Europeans are still drinking Zionist and Western imperialist Kool-Aid.

What does it matter to people whose ancestors were colonizers if colonized peoples are massacred by other colonizers?

As many pale-colored people tell me daily, it has nothing to do with them and they prefer to keep living in their individualistic bubbles.

When asked, do you know your tax dollars have been used for the last 75 years to fund the Israeli apartheid oppressive regime in its yearly massacres of Palestinians?

The average white person shrugs and carries about their day.

We are outraged at the silence & indifference of so-called fellow Americans (especially white America). Americans who choose to willfully play ignorant & literally justify genocide as they know thousands of our children were killed mercilessly. You call this "the land of the free & home of the brave" but for who & at whose expense?! We believe that we already know the answer. Your silence is as unforgettable as it is deafening.

All Power to The People.

Assata Shakur and the History of Cuban Internationalism

As the United States re-designates Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” for “repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists,” we need to look at the personal history of Assata Shakur (originally named Joanne Chesimard), one of those mentioned by the State Department’s press release.
https://cl.usembassy.gov/u-s-announces-designation-of-cuba-as-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur

By looking at Shakur’s individual trajectory, we can understand that the U.S. is not concerned about terrorism; it is only concerned about the strength of the Cuban revolution, which proved to the entire world that oppressed peoples can make their own history.

A Popular Black Activist

On November 3, 1979, headlines announced the prison break of Shakur, a former Black Panther and a member of the organization’s clandestine offshoot, the Black Liberation Army, or BLA. Convicted in 1977 by an all-white jury for murdering a New Jersey State trooper, with no physical evidence indicating that she had been the shooter, Shakur’s trial had been widely covered in Black media as a symbol of police and FBI efforts to violently repress radical Black movements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Liberation_Army
https://www.amazon.in/Inadmissible-Evidence-African-American-Defended-Liberation/dp/1556521847

On hearing the news of the escape, one of New York’s oldest Black newspapers, the New York Amsterdam News, elatedly wrote: “they say three brave brothers and a sister went to fetch Assata Shakur from the cold confines of steel and stone where she had been held fast against her will. Who the four were, I know not. But, every Black person knows them and have met them in the collective unconscious mind of the race.”
http://amsterdamnews.com/

Listed at the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list, Shakur was extremely popular among poor Black communities. Supporters in New York City and Los Angeles pasted notices on the windows of their homes: “Assata Shakur is welcome here.” However, Shakur was not found for the next five years. In an October 1987 report from Cuba, it was revealed that she was living in Havana, where she had been granted political asylum by the government of Fidel Castro.
http://www.granma.cu/reflexiones-fidel

Cuba: A Haven for Left-Wing Political Refugees

Shakur’s sanctuary in Cuba was in line with earlier episodes in which Black activists had found asylum there. Many had taken refuge on the island since the early 1960s, including members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, the Black Panther Party, BPP, and the Republic of New Afrika, RNA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_New_Afrika

Speaking at Havana’s Chaplin Theater in October 1965, Fidel contrasted Cuba’s status as a haven for left-wing political refugees with the emigration of rich Cubans to the U.S., who were seeking shelter from the radical changes brought about by the revolution. “Although it is true that certain citizens educated in those ideas of the past and in that system of life of the past prefer to go to the United States,” Fidel argued, “it is also true that this country has become the sanctuary of the revolutionaries of this continent.”
https://walterlippmann.com/fidel-castro-speech-october-3-1965/

He continued: “The revolutionaries of the continent have a right to consider themselves our brothers, and they are worthy of this right. This includes North American revolutionaries, because some leaders, like Robert Williams [leader of the NAACP chapter in Monroe, North Carolina, who had formed a Black gun club to help local residents defend themselves against violence from the Ku Klux Klan and white vigilantes], fiercely persecuted there, found asylum in this land. Thus, just as he, so can those being persecuted by reactionaries and exploiters find asylum here. It does not matter if they speak English and were born in the United States. This is the fatherland of the revolutionaries of this continent.”

Shakur greatly admired the internationalist spirit of the Cuban revolution, noting that the Caribbean nation had “a long history of supporting victims of political repression … not only of people in the United States, like Huey Newton, Robert Williams, Eldridge Cleaver … but also people who were victims of political repression in other places, like Chile, the apartheid government of South Africa, Namibia. I felt this was a place that held the principle of international[ism] very close to heart.”

Persistence Amid U.S. Pressure

When New Jersey’s governor announced a $100,000 reward for Shakur’s capture in 1998, Cuba’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, citing the country’s right as a sovereign nation to provide political sanctuary to foreigners, countered that she was not a criminal but a “well-known civil rights activist” who had fled from state-sponsored violence. As the FBI indefatigably tried to apprehend her, Shakur characterized herself as “a 20th century escaped slave” and described Cuba as “one of the largest, most resistant and most courageous palenques [communities of formerly enslaved people] that has ever existed on the face of this planet.”

While Fidel has not publicly named Shakur, he once defended Cuba’s provision of political asylum to an unnamed fugitive accused of shooting a New Jersey police officer (undoubtedly Shakur). He characterized the individual as a victim of “the fierce repression against the black movement in the United States” and “a true political prisoner” who had sought protection against persecution. “They wanted to portray her as a terrorist,” Fidel charged, “something that was an injustice, a brutality, an infamous lie.”

As U.S. foreign policy became hysterically fixated on terrorism, the FBI added Shakur to its “most wanted terrorists” list in May 2013 and increased the reward for her apprehension to $2 million, the “bounty” for Shakur becoming among the highest of any fugitive in the world. Despite this, Cuba has not budged from its principled position.
https://www.npr.org/2013/05/07/181914429/fbi-most-wanted-terrorists-list-who-is-assata-shakur

Since the revolution of 1959, Cuba has ended its ossified dependence on the United States, attempted to steer its societal structures toward socialism and actively supported anti-imperialist liberation movements. This cohesive political agenda has always angered the U.S. empire, whose dictatorial co-conspirator Fulgencio Batista was forced to flee to Rafael Trujillo’s Dominican Republic. Ever since then, the U.S. has initiated an economic war, intended to disrupt and sabotage Cuba’s economy. Contemporary sanctions need to be understood in that history of imperialism which has disguised itself in the outfit of “War on Terror” and propagandistically maligned revolutionaries such as Shakur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Trujillo

ALL Power to The People.

--COMRADE YANIS IQBAL

How Black Colombia Helped to Bring the Left to Power

Although mainstream media focuses on a figurehead, Colombia’s historical moment is not just down to Gustavo Petro and his coalition’s efforts. Without taking from them what was an inspired campaign to win the electorate over with a principled program, a decisive factor in the victory was last year’s national strike.

The heroic mobilization of young racialized working-class youth brought the country to a standstill, bringing all of the radicals and progressives together with impassioned clamors for change. The consequences of the demonstrations are visible everywhere. There should be little doubt that without these mobilisations, where many lost their lives, we would likely not be in the historical moment we are in today.

To understand Colombia’s recent election results, we must understand the racial and class dynamics that have become somewhat obscured in more mainstream accounts. This is because we are often presented with a top-down perspective. The lowly masses, after all, are mere subjects of history, never its architects, so they will have us believe.

Last year’s mobilizations began as a narrow response to a government bill, gradually evolving into one with broader and more radical demands. The intolerable material and social conditions that racialized working-class Colombians face are what sparked the uprising and, in the process, pushed the leftist and progressive movement to accept more radical demands, and now what seemed impossible, a leftist government.

Historically, research into the roots of Colombia’s conflict has been rather narrow. Academics have often focused on a rigid ten-year timeline (1948 – 1958) and labeled this La Violencia – supposedly when the current conflict began. Further, it is often proposed this conflict arose from a feud between the liberal and conservative parties. This narrow view has played a role in shaping the situation in the country as unique – as if this conflict is innately Colombian, perhaps caused by something in our water.

In truth, we can trace the conditions that have given rise to violence and conflict to capitalist development, state formation, and, importantly, colonial legacies of power. In this broader context, the conditions of poverty, social unrest, and violence plaguing Colombian society are not unique. To some extent or another, conflicts are experienced anywhere that has been integrated into the capitalist world system.

We can trace the intensification of Colombia’s conflict to the integration of the country’s market into the world system from the middle of the 19th century. We can also trace the social relations between the different social classes to the relations of power inherited from the colonial era, which is well understood elsewhere and continues to have repercussions on social relations throughout the world today.

To put it differently, Black Colombians suffering the worst rates of poverty and violence today and racialized communities elsewhere facing similar conditions are part of the same global historical process.

In recent years in the Western world, we have seen a movement rising against the many colonial legacies in society. From the Black Lives Matter movement that exposes the way authorities target and even murder Black people to calls for statues and other symbols of the legacies of colonialism to be taken down and for this legacy’s social and economic consequences to be addressed. This movement to dismantle the legacies of colonialism has taken off in the Western world and globally.

In late April last year, young working-class Colombians went on a three-month national strike at the height of the pandemic. They, too, brought down several statues of Columbus and other colonialists. Colombia, absurdly, is named after Christopher Columbus, epitomizing the legacies of colonial domination up into the present – not just in name and symbols but in the social, economic, and political realities of these communities.

The Colombians who have borne the brunt of the inequality, violence, and oppression engulfing the country then are Black, Indigenous, and working-class mixed-race communities – particularly women. The fact that the most oppressed are racialized, and gendered communities are not incidental but a central factor.
Capitalism as a world system, after all, is not just about exploiting workers; historically, it is racialized and gendered communities that have fared worse.

Colombian academic Castriela Hernandez Reyez illustrates these communities’ historical and social realities using the example of La Toma, a majority Black town in the Cauca department. She writes that despite the government promising to address the country’s abandonment of Black communities, only twenty percent of La Toma’s population has running water, three per cent have sewage systems, and the majority cannot afford electricity.

On top of this, the town’s population has been struggling to defend their lands from government development projects that displace them using violent force, inviting foreign companies to set up shop.
In other words, the people of La Toma are statistically more abandoned by the state because they are black; their bodies are more likely to be perceived as legitimate targets for violence and forced displacement because they are black. And combined with this extreme racist attitude, their lands and resources are more likely to be taken from them because profit and business matter more than their historical claims to those territories. It is hardly a coincidence that Francia Marquez, Colombia’s vice-president-elect, forged her political prowess in this community.

Academics Sheila Gruner and Charo Mina Rojas have come to similar conclusions. According to them, violent conflict in Colombia has affected Black communities disproportionately, with over 70 percent of Black communities displaced from their territories due to violence and dispossession. They argue convincingly that the extreme violence that this community faces as part of the neoliberal capitalist project is part of the continuation of colonial violence. In other words, it must be understood within a race and class framework.

They demonstrate that Black and Indigenous communities are more likely to face displacement and violence, but women in these communities are primarily targeted. Gruner and Mina Rojas discuss a tendency to inflict brutal violence on women; “their bodies are used as weapons of war to infuse terror throughout their communities, with cases of extreme torture and gender violence targeting Afro-Colombian women especially.”

Displaced and terrorized from their lands by ‘development’, Black communities, especially Black women, are forced to flee to the country’s major cities, Bogota, Medellin, and Cali. Black women in cities, subsequently, form the absolute base of the most discriminated against in the labor market and society in general.
With the above as context, it is not surprising that the city of Cali was the epicenter of the national protests last year and where statistics show that state violence and repression against protesters were more likely to lead to death and disappearance. In a report released by CODHES and the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN), they show that during the protests, most of the violence took place in Cali and particularly in its Black neighborhoods.
Colombian authorities are already known to repress protests violently. However, the data from last year’s protests highlights that Black and racialized people taking part was a factor in amping up the intensity of the violence and repression.

We must point out that it was not just the state and the traditional conservative elites eager to stamp out the protests and the movement built around them. Liberals and even some more left-leaning progressives in official positions were uninterested. The union leaders who organized the strike started to call for people to abandon the protests as, in their view, it was getting out of hand. In their view, the protests were too chaotic, disruptive, and violent, and there was no proper leadership or organization.

Some went as far as to claim that criminal gangs led the sustained strike. The young, mostly Black, and impoverished mixed-race communities, who were protesting, argued back that you must be well organized to sustain a strike for the many weeks they did; and repeatedly voiced their political demands.

It was not that the protesters were disorganized or that they lacked serious demands; these demands were too radical to be heard by those in power and those who formed part of the official opposition to that power.

The ideological differences that came to the fore during the protests can be partly explained by the massive material and social disparities observed in the country. Black, Indigenous, and impoverished communities who came out onto the streets have less to lose from a radical transformation of the existing political and economic structures. Middle-class liberal progressives, especially those with official roles, are betting solely on institutional arrangements and official negotiations, explaining their hesitancy towards radical protests and demands.

Despite the lack of support, it is not far-fetched to argue that those who protested last year pushed the country to break with two centuries of uninterrupted elite rule. Francia Marquez, now the Vice-President-elect, joined the protests and was one of the leaders that best articulated the demands of the young racialized youth. Her political ability to garner the support of those traditionally uninterested in electoral politics is a decisive factor.

None of this should be seen as a coincidence. Marquez has lived the conditions of the most oppressed communities and therefore embodies the urgency for the radical transformation of the country. In fact, the never-before-seen turnout in majority Black and Indigenous areas of the country, the forgotten and neglected regions, secured the victory of the country’s first leftist government.
Racism and classism in combination create the unliveable material and social conditions experienced by many, perhaps most Colombians. Those conditions and those who experience them are undoubtedly spearheading the radical transformation of the country. Unlike the more cautious professional politicians surrounding her, Marquez has drawn a line between the movement towards change and neoliberal opportunists scrambling to jump on the bandwagon.

Ultimately, the surest way the new progressive government can repay the masses that brought them to power is to urgently address the historic racial and class divisions that continue to envelop the country. Anything less and those same unlivable conditions that inspired the youth to bring about today’s historic change in who governs will indeed show at the next elections, perhaps sooner.

ALL Power to The People.

get strapped.

AMERICA'S VETERANS ARE NOT HEROS
How can Americans continue to celebrate the armed forces? Do you ever think about what you are even "thanking" them for?!

In the USA, the obsession with the military is sick. People constantly treating them like heroes & forced to say, "thank you for your service".

The US military is a killing machine. It dehumanizes nonwhite people & in the name of "national security" "democracy" & "the war on terror" it has invaded, occupied & massacred millions across the world.

You are currently cheering & supporting GENOCIDE upon Palestinians.

I am born & raised in this nation & I will never support the US army as it continues to kill my people.

Our lives matter.

Vets are not heroes.

Palestinians are the real heroes.
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ALL Power to The People.

DISREPECT in an UNEVEN Power Dynamic is BULLYING.