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Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, an associate professor at San Francisco State University, and Dr. Tomomi Kinukawa had scheduled an online open class to be held Sept. 23, 2020, featuring Palestinian hero Leila Khaled. But tech giants Zoom, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube caved in to Zionist pressure and shut it down just…

“We now ask for your intervention to end this silencing of Palestine and other narratives of resistance and justice.” Organizers of an April online event featuring Leila Khaled, which was shut down by private tech companies following Israel lobby pressure, respond.

The Black Panther Party Has Never Been More Popular. But Actual Black Panthers Have Been Forgotten. While the Panthers have become a staple of pop culture, former members of the group remain invisible. Warner Bros. "Judas and the Black Messiah," about the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. On October 7, 2020, Jalil Muntaqim exited the Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate New York a free man. A member of the Black Panther Party and...

A program in Muslim and Arab studies at San Francisco State is again attempting to present an online forum featuring a Palestinian militant who participated in two airplane hijackings, and is again running into roadblocks by internet companies and opposition from Jewish groups. On Thursday, a page for the forum was removed by Eventbrite, a San Francisco-based ticketing and event registration company. Facebook also reportedly took down its page for the forum, called “Whose Narratives? What Fre...

President-elect Joe Biden picks Kristen Clarke as DOJ nominee who in the past has called for partially defunding police. Ian Prior, former DOJ deputy affairs director under the Trump administration, provides insight. EXCLUSIVE: New findings obtained by Fox News revealed that President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division organized a conference that was used as a tool by radical anti-government activists to champion cop-killers and free violent cri...

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Featured in What an Abolitionist Exhibition Looks Like in a Carceral World At MoMA PS1, New York, Nicole R. Fleetwood curates a show that considers the artistic output of those irrevocably shaped by the conditions of the prison industrial complex ‘Mass incarceration’, a phrase that has gained much purchase in the last two decades, features prominently in the title of ‘Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration’, an exhibition at New York’s MoMA PS1 and a book...

Black Panther in struggle: The continued imprisonment of Russell Maroon Shoatz By Ted Kelly posted on December 23, 2020 Since 1972 — nearly half a century ago — Russell Maroon Shoatz has languished in a prison cell built on stolen land, poisoned and irradiated by the fossil fuel industry.  A Black Panther Party member and soldier in the Black Liberation Army, Shoatz was falsely accused of killing a cop in the Cobbs Creek area of Philadelphia in 1970.  His family, pillars of their commun...

‘Axios’ under fire for calling convicted terrorist Leila Khaled a ‘Palestinian activist’ ‘Axios’ under fire for calling convicted terrorist Leila Khaled a ‘Palestinian activist’ “There is a word for someone who has ‘taken part’ in two plane hijackings. That word is not ‘activist,’ ” tweets American Jewish Committee. By Aaron Bandler Spread the word. (December 20, 2020 / Jewish Journal) The news outlet Axios has faced criticism for referring to Popular Front for the ...

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