Monday, April 29, 2013

Angela Davis: Free Angela And All Political Prisoners



Watch the video clip from Free Angela and all Political Prisoners produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, then click the link below to see more about Angela Davis and other Black political prisoners...

Monday, April 22, 2013

Black Panthers - The History Of The Black Panthers

Black Panther Party for Self Defense


They called their brand-new company the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. It varied from various other black rights teams of the time, which were nearly all non-violent, in that it promoted armed protection and self-reliance for the liberation of American blacks. Declining this concept, Seale and Newton responded to that blacks ought to rather concentrate on fixing the disparity in power, political and monetary, that existed in between whites and blacks.




To that end, Bobby Seale, along with a little team of fully-armed fans, marched on the California State Legislature in May of 1967 in order to protest a firearm control costs that would have restricted blacks' capability to prepare themselves against authorities and government brutality. The Party relabeled itself the Black Panther Party and brand-new branches started forming all throughout the nation. Quickly, the Panthers had their own paper, modified by Eldridge Cleaver, the Party's Minister of Information.

Considering that the U.S. government had not been interested in offering for any of the Panther's needs, they, in the spirit of self-reliance, chose to offer the black area with some of the programs themselves. The supposed "Survival Programs" of the Black Panthers were grassroots efforts to effect the genuine life issues of inadequate blacks and consisted of ground breaking programs such as cost-free morning meal for inner-city kids, cost-free clothes drives, health care facilities, occupant lease strikes, and projects for neighborhood control of schools, authorities, and firearm and medicine physical violence. They likewise formed the Liberation School for grade-schoolers and the first ever before healthcare facility program to deal with sickle cell anemia, an illness that influences black kids disproportionately.

These consisted of sowing internal dissent within the celebration with covert operatives, creating papers, killing members in raids on Party workplaces and homes, and locking up the leadership of the celebration, consisting of Huey and Seale. The FBI even pitted the Black Panthers, with secret agents and created letters, against various other black nationalist teams, such as United States (United Slaves) and a black group called the Blackstone Rangers.

The tradition of the celebration lives on primarily in the impact it has actually had on social programs. The ten-point program's needs were never ever satisfied, the Black Panthers assisted stimulate the government on to a more detailed therapy of the ill results of poverty and revealed simply how effective little innovative teams can be in the U.S.