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HISTORY 0F BLACK AUGUST
GONCEPT AND PkoaRAM

Black August originated in the California penal system in the
19705. Many significant events in the New African Nation’s
struggle for justice and liberation have occurred in August. The
commemoration of Black August particularly hails the advances
and sacrifices of Black Freedom Fighters.
Following are several pages of authentic information on Black
August provided by Doc Holiday, an original comrade of George
Jackson and a longtime figure in the Black Liberation and prison
straggle. Doc is presently in prison in Marion, Illinois.
The month of August gained special significance and importance
in the Black Liberation Movement beginning with a courageous
attempt by Jonathan Jackson to demand the freedom of political
prisoners/prisoners of war which the Soledad Brothers’ case were
the center of attention.
On August 7, 1970 Jonathan Jackson, Willinm Christmas, James
McClain, and Ruchell Magee were gunned down outside the
Marin County Courthouse,

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Ruchell Cinque Magee remains the sole survivor of that
liberation, he also remains 8 POW at Folsom prison d
Though this rebellion was put down by gory pigs and their
agents it was internalized within the hearts and minds of the
people on the outside in the larger prison as well as those in the
concentration camps (prison), internalized in the same fashion ns
we honor other heroic African Freedom Fighters, who sacrificed
heir lives for the peopie and the liberatio
On August 21, 1971, almost exactly a year following the slave
bellion at Marin County Courthouse, George L. Jackson (older
brother of Jonathan Jackson as well as one of the Soledad
Brothers) whose freedom was the primary demand of the Marin
rebellion, was assassinated at San Quentin prison in un alleged
escape put forth by prison administration and the state to cover
its conspiracy. Comrade George Jackson was a highly respected
and purposely influcntial leader in the Revolutionary Prison
Movement. Jackson was also very popular beyond prison, not
only because he was a-Soledad Brother, but also because of the
book he authored appropriately entitled “Soledad Brother.” This
book not only revealed to the public the inhumane and degrading
conditions in prison, he more importantly, correctly pointed to
the real cause of those effects in prison as well as in society, a
decadent Capitalist system that breeds off racism and
oppression.

On August 1, 1978 brother Jeffery “Khatari” Gualden, n Black
er of War, captured within the walls
im of a blatant assassination by

capitalist-corporate medical politics. Khatari was another

popular and influential leader in the Revolutionary Prison
Movement.

An important

(e must be added here and that is, the Black
pt and Movement that it is part of and helping to
ited to our sisters and brothers that are currendly

t a doubt it is inclusive of these sisters and brothers
and moving toward a better understanding of the nature and
relationship of prison to oppressed and colonized people.

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30 it suouid be clearly understood ihat Binck August is 2
reflection and commemoration of history; of those heroic
partisans and leaders that realistically made it possible for us to
survive and advance to our present level of liberation struggle.
People such as: Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Gabril Prosser,
Frederick Douglas, W.E. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, P
Roberson, Rosa Parks, M.L. King, Malcolm X, and numerous
others in our more contemporary period. It must be further
clarified that when we speak of “Culture Development,” we are
not advoeating Cultural Nationalism and/or merely talking about
adopting African names, jewellery, dashikis, etc. Our primary
interest lies not only in where we came from, but the nature of
“WHY” we were forcefully brought here, understanding the
character of “CONTINUOUS” struggle with the recognition that
itis a Protracted struggle and developing the necessary lifestyles
to guarantee its success.

August 20, 1619—TFirst born Afrikan captives were brought to
England’s North Amerikan colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
August 16, 1768—Charlestown, South Carofinn rebellious Afrikan
slaves (known as maroons) engaged British military forces in bloody
battle defending their camp which was a haven for fugitive slaves.
August 21, 1291—Hiti slave uprising for independence.
August 30, 1800—Day set for Iaunching Gabrier Prossers revoit.
On this day over 1000 armed slaves gathered to endeavor to secure their
liberty, however bad weather forced them to postpone the revolt and
betrayal ultimately led to the erushing of their physical force.
August 21, 1831—Slave revolt Isunched under the leadership of
Nat Turner which lasted four days and resulted in fifty-one slaveholders
and their loved ones being subjected to revolutionary People’s justice.
August 29, 1841—Street skirmish took place in Cincinnati
between Afrikan and Euro-Amerikan, wherein for five days Afrikans
waged valisnt struggle in defense of their women, children and property
‘against brutal racist terror campaigns.
August 14, 1842 There were at least three Seminole US wars and
one of them ended on August 14, 1842, Though some will ask, what does
an Indian American war have to do with Black August? Well that's
because the nature of the Seminole’s and the real reasons bebind their
raging wars with the Americans is hidden beneath the mists of history.
‘The very name Seminole derives from the American Spanish term for
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escapee, refugee or runaway. It stems from the term Semeron, which
was used by the Spanish to deaote Indian or African runsways from
slavery. The English in Jamaica called their runaways maroons from the
same root word. The Seminoles were once part of the Creek
Confederacy, but unlike many of their contemporaries they forge close
and lasting relationships with rusaway Africans and habitually refuse
British and American demands for the return of slaves to white service.
The American general who fought in the Seminole wars, Thomas Jessup,
put the question squarely when he declared, this, you may be assured, is
a Negro not an Indian war. General Jessup wrote those words because
of the hundreds of black warriors fighting on the side of the Seminoles
and because the Seminoles refused to sell men, women and children who
had become their kinfolk. It is noteworthy that of il the Indian wars
fought against the Americans the Seminole wars cost the most American
casualties. *
Kugust 22, 1843—Heary Highland Garnett called n general slave
strike.
Kugust 2, 1850 —Underground Raiiroad started.
[August 1854 —Delegates from eleven states met in Cleveland at the
National Emigration Conveation of the Colored People, to advance the
position that an independent land base (nation) be set up for the
absorption of captive Afrikans in Babylon who wanted to return to
Afrika.
August 1, 1856—North Carolina, fierce battle erupted between
fugitive slaves and slaveholders who sought their capture and re-
enslavemeat. Only recorded casualties was among slaveholders.
Nugust 30, 1856—When the name of John Brown (a white man) is
evoked the shadow of Harper’s Ferry arises in the mind. Of the small
group of rebels who tried, unsuccessfully, to seize an American armory
and ferment rebellion among the slaves. But years before Harper’s
Ferry, John Brown had waged war against pro-slavery forces in
Osawatomie, Kansas, after Missourians had sacked the town of
Lawrence, Kansas some three months earlier. The fighting in Kansas led
to excited reports about bleeding Kansas. What they were tough, nasty
border wars between anti and pro-slavery forces. Each trying to
dominate the other. Indeed; Brown was called Osawatomic Brown
before Harper’s Ferry marked him as a martyr for the sacred cause of
freedom. %
Hugust 1860 —Freedom (slave) conspiracy uncovered with the
discovery of an organized camp of Afrikans and Euro-Amerikan co-
conspirators in Talladega County, Alabama.

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August &, ABYD —virguua A statewide conierence of filty Atrikan
delegates met to demand that Afrikans in Virginia be granted legal title
to land occupied during the Civil War. Numerous off-pitch battles
ensued during this same month as terrorist mobs moved to evict
Afrikans from the land snd were met with resistance.
Rugust 8, 1879—Emiliano Zapata is born. Zapata later went on to
become the rebel leader who said "It is better to die on your feet than to
live on your knees." A former sharecropper, he organized and led
peasants during the battles of the Mexican Revolution, joining forces
with Pancho Villa and others to fight the government of Porfirio Diaz,
Zapata supported agrarian reform and land redistribution; his rallying
cry was "Land and freedom!"
August 17, 1887—Honorable Marcus Garvey, father of
contemporary Afrikan Nationalism was born.
August 15, 1900—Race riots erupt in NYC after 2 white NYC
policeman is killed during a fight with a black man of Afrikan heritage.
August 1906—Afrikan soldiers (in service of Babylon) enraged
behind racial slurs and discrimination struck out and wrecked the town
of Brownvile, Texas.
August 1906—Nisgara Movement met at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
and issued W.E. Marcus Garvey
DuBois’ historic manifesto against racist discrimination in Babylon
against Afrikans.
August 1, 1914—Garvey founds Universal Negro Improvement
Association, advancing the call for Land, Freedom, and Independence
for Afrikan people.
August 23, 1917—Afrikan soldiers in Huston engaged in street
skirmishes that left more than seventeen Euro-American racists dead.
Rugust 1, 1920—Gandhi launches the anti-colonil no cooperation
‘movement in Indin.
August 1920—Over two thousand delegates representing Afrikan
from the four corners of the earth gathered in New York for the
Internationsl Convention of the Negro People of the World, sponsored
by UNIA convention issue a bill of rights for Afrikans.
Rugust 10, 1942—The first Japanese American prisoners arrive at
4 concentration camp in Minidoka, Idaho.
August 1943—Slave revolt took place in Harlem as result of a K-9
shooting a brother defending the honor of Afrikan womanhood. More
than 16,000 military and police personnel was required to quell the
rebellion.
August 24, 1943—Birth of Russell "Maroon" Shoatz

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Nugust 30, 1948—Birth of the late Chicago Black Panther Party
Chairman Fred Hampton.

Nugust 8, 1949—Birth of Dr. Mutulu Shakur

August 29, 1961—Student Noaviolent Coordinating Committee
begins its voter registration drive.

Rugust 1963—190,000 Afrikans (250,000 people all tol) took part
in the March on Washington led by Dr. Martin Luther King to petition
for the extension of the rights and privileges due to them mandated by
the US. Constitution.

August 27, 1963—W.EB, Dubois dies in Ghana.

August 1964—Afrikan Isunched comparatively large-scale urban
slave revolt in the following cities: Jersey City NY, Paterson NJ,
Keansburg NJ, Chicago IL, and Philadelphia PA. These slave revolts
were for the most part sparked by either police brutality or disrespect
shown toward Afrikan womanbood.

Kugust 11-16, 1965— The fires of Watts, a black community in
Los Angeles, CA were markers for rebelfion for the generation of blacks
in the 1960s. These rebellions, staged in response to brutal police attacks
on people, cost the lives of 34 people and also almost 20 million dollars
‘worth of property damaged or destroyed. %

Kugust 16, 1965 Urban revolt took place in Northern
Philadelphia.

Rugust 7-8, 1966—Largescale urban revolt was launched in
Lansing, Michigan.

August 28, 1966—Waukegan, ilinois, urban slave revolt launched
in response to police brutality.

July 30- August 2, 1967 —Urban slave revolt launched in
Milwaukee.

August 19-24, 1967-Comparstively large-scale urban slave revolt
was launched in New Haven, Connecticut.

August 25, 1967—FBI circulates internal order to "disrupt”
Black Liberation groups, a program that would later be come known as
COINTELPRO.

Hugust 5, 1970—The Black Panther party’s minister of defense,
Huey P. Newton, spent some four years in prison before winning his
release on $50,000 bail on this date. It marked his physical retura to the
party at the time a period of great hope. %

Kugust 7, 1970—Jonathan Jackson killed in firefight while leading
the Marin County Courthouse raid.

Nugust 18, 197 1—Capital of Republic of New Afrika attacked by
the FBI and Mississippi police.

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AUGUSE 64, 434 A—UEVIES JACKSUI SIUL R UG 1L DA st
by tower guards.

August 28, 1971— Black Panthers Jalil Muntagim and Nuh
Washington captured after a midnight shoot-out with San Francisco
police.

Rugust 8, 1978—One of the earlier MOVE confrontations. Some
nine MOVE men and women were sent to prison for hundreds of years
stemming from a deeply flawed trial. MOVE members continue to fight
for the release of their imprisoned comrades. MOVE veterans of the
August 8 police assault have been in prison for 25+ years in dungeons
throughout Pennsylvania. They remain rebellious spirits who oppose a
repressive status quo. The spirit of Black August moves through
centuries of Black, Indian and multi-cultural resistance. It is an emblem
of the spirit of freedom, It is & long smoldering spark of the fire in the
hearts of a people, hearts burning and yearning for freedom. X
Rugust 5, 1987—23 conscientious objectors deliver collective letter
of resistance to the apartheid policing by the South African Defense
Forces in Cape Town.

August 22, 1989—Black Panther Party co founder Huey P.
Newton murdered at the age of 47.

August 17, 1995—Mumia Abu Jamal scheduled for execution;
stopped by international peoples resistance.

August 17, 1998—An armed standofT in Gaspe, Canada, between
Micmac Indians and the Quebee government over timber rights ends
with a compromise.

Editors Note - Some of the original dates descriptions have been expanded and
additional dates not found in the original document relevant to the struggle
have been added by the editor.

Dates with a % at the end of the description are excerpts from a radio broadcast
by Mumia Abu Jamal on Black August given May 23, 2003.

PLACK AUGUST PROGRAM

Most standard history books tend to either play down or ignore
New African resistance as a factor in the destruction in the slave
economy. On the other hand, when one understands New
Africans are still an oppressed nation, the reason for such
deception becomes clear. Black August contends that not only
was such resistance a factor in the destruction of the slave
economy, but New African resistance to slavery continues to
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WHO / Only recently / got himself onto the prison mainline —

2.
For a much-needed change / From prison- sobit-tary ...
Sole Survivor.. of the Marin County shoot-out... 27 years ago...

‘WHEN .. THE .. SMOKE.. CLEARS...

Unforgotten... Are, The 3 siain brothers—
Two of them Prisoners from San Quentin ~( Bill Christmas/ And
James McClain.)
And one .. 17 year-old ... Man-child Jonathan ..

All killed / at the SAME M. August 7th, 1970,
‘Their heroic memory... Lives on.

WHEN .. THE .. SMOKE .. CLEARS...
We'll see, clearly.. 26 years ago..
Our fallen, prison Comrade at .. Q.
Killed-dead / by the state of California
And San Quentin Prison gUAIS....m..August 21st, 1971
WHEN.. THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS...

We are here... TodaY eS¢t 20th, 1997...
To remember...and pay our re-volutionary-respects..
To Comrade G... Whom Today we Re-vere in our hearts.
CCOMRADES' Spirit Lives — Inspiring.. Tens-of-Thousands of
prisoners, everyday—
Across the nation .. Who struggle —to stay alive

Struggle behind walls of instit-tu-tional hate and violence,
Behind // Bars and Barriers of two separate worlds

Don't Go There.

Behind / Barb-wire of their fraternal-cternal imprisonment--
Prisoners — for whom we must speak. We Say:

Never Surrender ! ... Never give up |

And In the name of Comrade G... and other fighters .. fallen

Fight on ! Unless, you Die Inside, Die of old age and neglect —
While in captivity... While Un-Free.

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explosion of previously pent-up National Consciousness took
place among New Africans.

‘The sixties was a further example of New African resistance to
national oppression. It should be emphasized here that that
struggle of non-violence was at that time a strategy of illegality,
of danger, of arousing New Africans to direct confrontation with
the colonial oppressor. Whether it was a sit-in at a segregated
lunch counter or bus station, the movement deliberately broke
the colonial law.

Inevitably the anti-colonial struggle moved to a higher level,
growing beyond the initial stage of non-violent civil rights
protest. Non-violent civil rights strategy was tried and discarded
by New Africans, who found that it was a failure, incapable of
forcing an entrenched settler’s colonial regime to change.

Black August purports that it is important to briefly mention
such events to counter the colonial propaganda that the riots of
the 1960s was due to anger brought on by over crowdedness and
summer heat. Black August asserts that in order for New
Afrricans to arise to the historical task of defending the Nation, it
is imperative that New Africans have a historical perspective of
themselves resisting colonial oppression.

Black August avers that at a time when the Black Nation is
experiencing the destruction of its community through planned
gentrification, at a time when the quality of New African life is
being blunted through unemployment, prison, drugs, high infant
mortality and poverty, the call of New African organization
should be one of resistance.

Biack August is the antithesis to “celebration” and empty
“homage.” Black August attempts to place struggle and sacrifice
on center stage. In this respect, Black August summons all
progressive people who identify with the legacy of resistance to
colonial oppression by actively participating in Black August.
‘Thus during the entire month of August in commemoration of
those Africans who have made the supreme sacrifice for the cause
of African Liberation and reflect upon the significance of those
contributions as well s to draw closer to the continuing necessity
for resistance, we embrace the following as tenets to be practiced
during Black August.

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4.
We urge you on... by any means — at your disposal.

VENCEREMOS... Overcome... So we can declare —
‘With Revolutionary -- Sincerity,
‘That We will Overcome.. some day... Venceremos...

~ Already Knowing, in our locked-up hearts..
That many Inside / Will forever remain / Inside —
Will not survive... and cannot continue to live .. much longer -

Comrades who remain Lost in a tomb. Who cannot escape
Whose cries are blotted-out.
— Prisoners .. Never again .. to see the light of day —

Nor the stars at night ... See you ... 00r L. on't Go
There.
It is a very dark place.

'WHEN ... THE... SMOKE... CLEARS...
Attica Is there. It has not gone away —

Atica still €ry's 0ut for JUSHEE.rvmumrsmmnnn SEPL. 13th, 1971,
26 years late.. If you were not born yet...
- Bless Your Heart.

ATTICA Looms up... On the horizon of our collective minds
— The state-massacre, that t00k pIACE tHere..uivwe: Only
yesterday..

And Which / We must not.. ever forget.

The Attica Comrades —
‘Who were beaten, tortured, shot and slain on National TV —
As we watched the horror-show ... of Life in America, during the
70's.

ATTICA Lives this moment.. within our minds.
‘The Attica families... Feel the same pain today -
- Same as When.. this State-atrocity.. Occurred.. And
Rockefeller
~-So What ! And we say:

ck You Back.

'WHEN... THE... SMOKE.. CLEARS ...
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Remember ... All the fallen Comrades from that time,
From Attica... From other times...

5.
From other prisons and places of confinement--
From Places nobody knows the names of — Nor where they are

Don't Go There.
To our imprisoned-comrades / Past and Present ~
We greet you all. Every single one of you...
GREETINGS... From our world to your world
GREETINGS... To you.. From our Hearts and Soul...
WHEN .. THE .. SMOKE.. CLEARS

Your memory is the printed word.. we read and write today,
‘Through.. those of us.. who carry on - Struggling to move
ahead.
Lest we too, ag:

Land in prison..... Never See The Light Of Day.
Die at the hands of the common oppressor ...

Die .for having remained silent too long -
For not... Fighting back. Fight Back !
State Power..... We challenge

State Power.....We seize
State Power .....That already has grown (00 much..
To our mutual, and utter.. det-tri-ment.

What Do We Say ?
FIGHT BACK ! Fight Back !

Corrupt State Power -
That has already killed us.. t00 much.

State Power.. Which has drunk our blood — Broken our Heads
and Bones.
Erased our lives.. / Elim--in—-ated our numbers—
Taken us to early graves..

State Power... Which gains.. unacceptable streagth. over us..
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— Tries, defeating us at every tur...
- And as explained .. In " Blood in my Eye."
Blood in My Eye. Written in the blood of Comrade G.

6.
'WHEN... THE... SMOKE... CLEARS...

Our recent.. collective-loss.. of Brother Nate —
Is still.. fresh in mind.

X-Prisoner and People's lawyer—
Fighting for Justice here.. in the Bay Area.

His loyalties and sympathy were always ~
With the oppressed masses, everywhere...
With Prisoners, everywhere—

‘With You and L.

'WHEN... THE... SMOKE.. CLEARS...

FROM US: From Myself: Sundiata, David, Dorsey, Thuh,
Michael, M'jumbe, Bill,
From Others... Un-mentioned here - But unforgotten...
‘Who grasped your hand.. one last time at the end ...
In Final Solidarity...

Solidarity Forever..
WHEN... THE... SMOKE... CLEARS...

" Rock-on " is remembered: This forgotten prison-brother... Was
there, with us —
August day when "Comrade G" was
Assassinated.
Louie Lopez.. Stood at the door of the AC —
Along with Yog, Suni .. and others —

‘While Comrade's blood ran out— Ran Out...

Ran out.... Onto the prison's asphalt.. On a Saturday afternoon...

" Rock-on " passed away.. in prison.. Last Father's Day.
And When-- in remembering... I was late t0 his funeral...
But .. You had my solidarity.. always.. You too this day are re-
‘membered.

At San Quentin.. that fi

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'WHEN .. THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS ...

Our hearts heave a sigh... Hurt inside.
For what has .. passed-us-by .. these many years --
20 - 30- Years .. in Past memory.. in Blurring.. Fading memory ...

1.
0ld soldiers.. Who slowly become old ... with UN-failing memory
For a Fallen Comrade... Remembering things... to remember....
Until Death Bites the Dust.

‘When / Many times.. we were unable to change the tide ..
Nor make much difference.. When solidarity..
Was all, we could ask and hope for.

Solidarity Forever ... Even after you Die.

For all those.. Who died in struggle and fell -
Fell by the wayside of indifference...

‘You made a Great Difference to each of us...

Each of us with his own memory ..
For those Who Died.. Forgotten and Unknown.

WHEN .. THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS...

In final.. Those prisoners ...Who were terminated by an enemy-
state
‘The enemy... who still, wars on us in the name of -

Law and Order. And Corrupt Power.
And because.. of racist hatred — Patriotic hypnosis...
And other things.. Unworthy...
Of our Mention... And Attention...

For those who die.. Each day in prison...
Or wait.. to die .. on Death-Rows across the nation...
You are not forgotten. You live on through us... Prison
Revolutionaries
For all the dead we speak —
For those alive... We salute you.

Stay Alive ! Continue the fight !
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Struggle day-to-day...
Fight ! Under the hard-won banner - Of Black August...
WHEN.. THE.. SMOKE .. CLEARS

8.
Black August.. Where and When - People gave their life
And From/ Where/ We've come .. Each of us..
Finding our way out of IMPRISONMENT.

Let Black August ... be inspiration for all--
Both inside and outside prison ..

When we must NEVER ‘Will never forget...

‘When standing Naked and Powerless...
— When Going through, the degrading motions ...
Of the thousands, of in-prison "strip-searches

And Which, is .. everyday prison life.. Undignified...
Dehumanizing ~
Something ... Never to FOrget........ Something We Will Never
Forget..
Don't Go There.

Become Prison Revolutionaries —
If you are to survive... Survive intact.. And walk with your head

up-
‘Within the Pofice State.
'WHEN ... THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS...

Comrade's spirit.. wil fortify and encourage us -- on.
‘Will guide us in moving forward-- even when standing alone--
In Solitary Confinement.

But Standing in Solidarity.

SOLIDARITY FOREVER.
- And against the common enemy.
WHEN .. THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS

For all Who resist —
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No matter our personal agenda.. Name., Race.. Color or
tion.

Tight-together.. Against the common encmy ..
And love your imprisoned brother.

9.
Stop the Killing and Come Together.
—Together... We will Overcome,

'VENCEREMOS... Never give up the struggle --

Or you die... Dying for nothing ... Anon-nymous-ly.

Break Out ! Stay alive to fight another Day !

Tn the spirit of our mutual Comrade —

Who gave up his life - For his revolutionary beliefs.
1a luta continu

WHEN ..THE .. SMOKE.. CLEARS...

In the name of prisoners, everywhere —

And Yet . to be born.
Yet to be taken by the state from
And from our homes..

communi

The struggle is never over | Never Don Never lost.

Venceremos. VENCEREMOS
Palante ! Palante | - as the Boriqua comrades and ~

" Prisoners-of-War " say - from their eternal-prison cells
across the land.

'WHEN., THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS

Palante ! Forward Comrades! —
‘The war of prison liberation has yet 10 be w
Has yet to be lost ... Is still being fought -

In every prison — in every dungeon hole -
In every locked-mind that cannot see the strat-te-gy

—Of Mass Struggle ! Venceremos...
Venceremos !
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10,
WHEN ..THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS

= Where the imprisoned spirit.. has yet to be broken by state
oppression,
Can be sustained and revived..

By you and L. And by SOLIDARITY.

By everyone here. We urged You on...
By OUR Common Revolutionary Beliefs...

1F YOU DIE YOU DIE ... But never Surrender ...
Never make the enemy stronger.. Who oppresses us all...

Never give up. Never Retreat.
Never roll-over. Never Debrief,

WHEN... THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS..

‘We Will Be There...
We will be there..

For those... Who no fonger are...
WHEN .. THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS..
To Ench.. His own contribution ... His own Consclence...
Never give up.. Never back down.

« t0 the struggle.. Your life's
work.

Make your personal contrib

And Stay strong.

'WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS...
‘WHEN.. THE.. SMOKE.. CLEARS ...
when the smoke clears ...

The cnemy has many masks and the ideologies that drive it are conturies
old now, the gluttonous appetite for money and power of those addicted.
1 will not give wp and it's not over until it's over. Speak, organize,
demonstrate, pray, help the poor and oppressed, be n good example, and
‘most of all "don't ever give up!"

Leonnrd Peltier #89637-132 Native American Political Prisoner

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REOQUIRED READING

NOT LISTED (N ANV PARTICULAR ORDER AND BY NO MEANS COMPLETE

1. Biood in my Eye By George Jackson

2, Live From Death Row By Mumia Abu Jamal

3, Assata By Assata Shakur

jucation of the Negro By Dr. Carter G. Woodson

5. A Peapl History of the United States By Howard Zinn

6. Soledad Brother By George Jackson

7, RevolutiBary Suicide By Huey P. Newton

8. The Cafffessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents By Nat Tarmer
9, Inciden@in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harrict A. Jacobs

10:Licy M Teacher Tokd Me : Everything Your American Hisory Textbook
G by James W. Loewen

1T This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown

12, In fhe &irit of Crazy Horse By Peter Maithicssen

13, AgentBOf Repression: The FBI's Secret War Again the Black Panther
Party & the American Indian Movement By Ward Churchill Editors Note -
Any Ward Churchill book s highly recommended, he has close to a dozen.
4. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American
‘West By Dee Alexander Brown
15. Haaling Up the Morning: Writlngs and Art by Political Prisoners and
‘Prisones of War in the United States By Tim Blunk & Ray Luc Levasseur
16. We are our own Liberators By former Black Panther Party/ Black
Liberation Army member Jalil Abdul Muntagim
17, A Lifetime in the Struggle By David Gilbert
18, Black Boy and Native Son both by Richard Wright
19, Juilbreals out of History - The rebiography of Harriet Tubman

. 20, Wretched of the Earth By ¥rantz Fanon

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