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“Our resistance, insurrection, and rebellion was seditious, in as much as it was acts of war against an oppressive and unjust authority.”

🖤#BlackAugustResistance! Today, we honor the revolutionary legacy of Black revolutionary and former political prisoner #RussellMaroonShoatz. In the mid-1960s, Russell became active in the New Afrikan/Black liberation movement – as a founding member of the Black Unity Council, former member of the Black Panther Party, and soldier in the Black Liberation Army. Under massive police and political repression through Police Chief Frank Rizzo, Russell was captured in January 1972. He was convicted of the attack on a police station and sentenced to life. Shoatz escaped prison in 1977, and again in 1980, earning the nickname “Maroon.”

After 49 years in prison and a fierce campaign for his freedom, Russell Maroon Shoatz came home under compassionate release. Russell Maroon Shoatz transitioned on December 17th, 2021, just 52 days after his release. Learn more about Russell Maroon Shoatz and order “I Am Maroon” (@_iammaroon)! #BlackAugust #FreeEmAll by @mxgmnyc

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Sometimes

being seen

is enough

to make something in us

open.

A glance.

A knowing.

Then laughter

rising from somewhere

older than the moment.

May we never forget

the sound of ourselves

recognizing ourselves.

May we remain

a people

who give one another

reason to open.

To soften.

To overflow with revolutionary love.

Witnessed. Part 15.

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✊🏿🐉 On this #BlackAugust Flea Day, we lift up and honor the revolutionary spirit and practice of #GeorgeJackson. On this day, George Jackson, Field Marshal for the Black Panther Party and co-founder of the Black Guerilla Family was assassinated in 1971 by San Quentin prison guards in a deliberate attempt to eliminate his revolutionary leadership.

Sentenced to 1-to-life on armed robbery charges for stealing $70 from a gas station as a teenager, George Jackson became politicized under the mentorship of fellow incarcerated revolutionary W. L. Nolen. He studied Marx, Lenin, Mao, and Fanon, led study sessions to raise the political consciousness of his peers behind the walls, and organized those imprisoned in the racist, oppressive, and repressive California prison system.

While at Soledad State Prison, George Jackson witnessed the assassination of W. L. Nolen, Cleveland Edwards, and Alvin Miller by a Soledad prison guard after an altercation with members of the Aryan Nation. Black prisoners staged a hunger strike in response to the murders, demanding an investigation. The prison guard was exonerated, causing uproar inside Soledad State Prison. In the uprisings, another prison guard was killed. George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Cluchette were charged in the murder of the prison guard, becoming known as the Soledad Brothers.

While incarcerated for 11 years, of which 7 and a half were in solitary confinement, George Jackson published two revolutionary texts: “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson” and “Blood in My Eye”. Long live the spirit of George Jackson! Long live the spirit of Jonathan Jackson! #BlackAugustResistance by @mxgmnyc

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📣Happening Today from 7-8:30PM EST! We commemorate the 55th anniversary of theRNA-11 by bringing together a virtual roundtable of New Afrikan Writers and Activists.

RealTalk w/ Revolutionary Writers Pt. IV will feature Akinyele Umoja (@akumoja) Nkechi Taifa (@nkechitaifa), Paula Senior and Aynda Jackson, daughter of Mama Tamu moderated by Dr. Ed Onaci (@onaci7)!

Join us for a powerful conversation on the history of the fight to #FreeTheLand and the need to #FreeEmAll!

Register: by @mxgmnyc

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✊🏿🐉 #BlackAugustResistance and #FreeTheLand! Today we honor the New Afrikan revolutionaries who survived the coordinated attack from the FBI and the Jackson Police on August 18th, 1971 – the Republic of New Afrika 11. After being under intensive surveillance and in confrontations with local police and white supremacist forces, the Jackson Police Department and the FBI together, without warning, raided the Republic of New Afrika’s headquarters before dawn in Jackson, MS. The police opened fire on the RNA house, firing over 300 rounds into the residence. As a result, in an act of self-defense, some RNA members returned fire. One police officer was killed and two were wounded. The police and the FBI beat and abused the members of the PGRNA, including a pregnant member.

The PGRNA defined the RNA 11 as prisoners of war. We lift up the organizing of the PGRNA to build a United Nations plebiscite on independence in the identified Kush District for the New Afrikan Nation! We continue to call for our human rights to self-determination and self-defense!

Free The Land! Free The Land! Free The Land! By Any Means Necessary! by @mxgmnyc

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✊🏿🇭🇹 Today, we honor and lift up the Bois Caïman Ceremony – held on the night of August 14th, 1791, the Bois Caïman Ceremony is a symbol of Black resistance and decolonial struggle for Black liberation. Presided over by Dutty Boukman, a prominent enslaved African leader and Houngan, and Cécile Fatiman, a mambo, the Bois Caïman Ceremony inspired and readied hundreds of enslaved Africans to lead the mass rebellion in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. A few days later, on the evening of August 21st into the 22nd, plantations in the north were engulfed in flames – the #HaitianRevolution had begun.

#BlackAugust #BlackAugustResistance by @mxgmnyc

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Black August is a time for us to honor our political prisoners and to recommit ourselves to the struggle for Black liberation. @monifabandele of @mxgmnyc beautifully details the legacy and meaning of Black August and how you can participate in the work in @blackpressusa. Link in bio to read more! by @mxgmnyc

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✊🏿#BlackAugustResistance! Today is our 3rd #BlackAugust Flea Day! On August 13th, we commemorate the assassination of W. L. Nolen, Cleveland Edwards, and Alvin Miller by a Soledad State prison guard after an altercation with members of the Aryan Nation on January 13, 1970. Black prisoners staged a hunger strike in response to the murders, demanding an investigation. The prison guard was exonerated, causing uproar inside Soledad State Prison. In the uprisings, another prison guard was killed. George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo and John Cluchette were charged in the murder of the prison guard, becoming known as the Soledad Brothers. W.L. Nolen, a revolutionary and mentor to George Jackson, was instrumental in founding the Black Liberation Movement in California Prisons and co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family. Long live the revolutionary spirit of W.L. Nolen! by @mxgmnyc

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🖤✊🏿“My life represents a struggle. I’m not the first and I won’t as be the last …. I am not a person without faults. I’m a human being… But one thing is paramount: I have always struggled for justice and equality for everybody, in particular the New Afrikan Nation.” - Dr. #MutuluShakur

Today is Dr. Mutulu Shakur’s birthday. He spent his entire life, outside and inside the walls, committed to and organizing for the liberation and healing of Black/New Afrikan people. Mutulu was a founding member of the New Afrikan People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement — joining the New Afrikan Independence Movement at the age of 16.

Baba Mutulu Shakur was a revolutionary doctor of acupuncture, a healer, and human rights organizer fighting for our people’s right to self-determination and an end to the slow and calculated genocide of our people. He was a leader in the Black Liberation Army. Mutulu was targeted and captured by the FBI under the RICO Act — charged with expropriations and the liberation of our beloved #AssataShakur.

His call for “Stiff Resistance” and go “Straight Ahead” must be invoked in our fight for human rights, self-determination, and to #FreeTheLand and our political prisoners and prisoners of war. After 36 years in captivity and vigorous organizing campaigns, Dr. Shakur was released from federal prison in December of 2022. Baba transitioned 6 months later, a free man, surrounded by family and loved ones.

“Shakur” means grateful, and we are grateful for his freedom, for his ultimate sacrifice, for his embodiment of a true New Afrikan Revolutionary. We say Furaha Kuzaliwa Baba Mutulu Shakur! by @mxgmnyc

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“My name is Sekou Odinga. Some of us have never agreed to be American and have struggled to free and build the Republic of New Afrika. Under international law, oppressed people have that right... the right to be free of the oppression and to build a nation that will protect their right to be free and independent.” – Sekou Odinga

This #BlackAugustResistance, we salute the life of one of our greatest New Afrikans and conscious citizens of the Republic of New Afrika, Black Liberation Army combatant, and former political prisoner of war, Sekou Mgobozi Abdullah Odinga. He was our grassroots general, gentle giant, beloved comrade, devoted husband, father, and grandfather.

#SekouOdinga was a devoted Muslim, who understood that his political commitment to free the land was aligned with his faith’s call to stand against oppression and genocide. Sekou was a Black Liberation Army combatant in the New Afrikan Independence Movement for over a decade until his capture on October 23, 1981. In 1983, Sekou was convicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act for the BLA’s liberation of Assata Shakur, an armored truck expropriation for half million dollars which, authorities state went to “Black children, health care and political causes, including support to families and legal defense of political prisoners and the African liberation movement in Zimbabwe.”

Sekou Odinga made his return to Allah surrounded by family and comrades on January 12th, 2024. For months, he fought and resisted, like he did oppression, “an infection that doctors said most would not have survived.” In his moment of need, the community he fought for, fought by his bedside, raising over sixty thousand dollars for his care and coordinating support for dequi and his family.

His life will be remembered as an exemplar of what it means to be a Muslim and New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist. We who still believe in land and independence will look for you in the whirlwind. We love and miss you Baba Sekou. #BeSekou #FreeTheLand #FreeEmAll by @mxgmnyc

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“Prison - far from breaking our spirits - made us more determined to continue with this battle until victory was won.” – Nelson Mandela

#BlackAugustResistance! On August 5th, 1962, Nelson Mandela was captured and arrested near Howick in Natal province, South Africa on charges of leaving the country without a valid passport and inciting workers to strike. In the 1950s and 50s, Nelson Mandela was politicized as a young lawyer working with Black South Africans to fight against the racist apartheid laws and regime. Shortly after, he joined the struggle for the liberation of the South African people..

After the banning of the African National Congress in 1960, Mandela went underground in 1961 and became the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation” or MK), the armed wing of the Congress with Walter Sisulu. While underground, he travelled extensively to meet other African leaders and groups fighting for liberation — garnering support for armed struggle. Mandela’s work on MK’s domestic campaign came to a fold after the mass arrest of its leadership. After the Rivonia Trial, Mandela served 27 years in prison, 18 of which were in the notorious Robben Island. He was finally released on February 11th, 1990 after a long international campaign. In 1994, he was inaugurated as the first democratically, and Black, president of South Africa. While Nelson Mandela had a complicated presidency, his revolutionary spirit and the sacrifice made for his people cannot be erased. by @mxgmnyc

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🌱✊🏿“He who feeds you, controls you.” - Thomas Sankara

#BlackAugustResistance! Today, we lift up Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist, #ThomasSankara, who on August 4th, 1983 was named President of Burkina Faso from through a popularly supported coup. In a move to further oppose French colonial power, Sankara renamed the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso - “Land of Upright Man”.

In his short time as President, Sankara instituted significant economic, social, political, and environmental programs aimed at increasing the people of Burkina Faso’s self-determination and self-reliance. This included a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing access to education and health care, investing in national transportation infrastructure, empowering women and investing in African women’s leadership in revolutionary struggle, working to end government corruption, and combating environmental degradation. Thomas Sankara actively spoke about the need to end neo-colonial domination on the continent and opposed foreign economic aid aimed at keeping the people of Burkina Faso dependent on imperial powers. On October 15, 1987, Sankara was assassinated in another coup, cutting his revolutionary presidency short. Long live the spirit of Thomas Sankara! #BlackAugust by @mxgmnyc

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