Feb. 3, 2012 Raleigh, North Carolina.

Feb. 3, Raleigh, North Carolina.

###

http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/restaurants?akid=2322.82305._JcHjO&rd=1&t=4

Jan. 2010 ROC protest at Andiamo's restaurant Dearborn, MI.

###

Madison, WI 3 pm, State St. and the Capitol, 2 E. Main Street

###

Mr. Mumia Abu-Jamal.

For a Revolutionary Black History Month

[col. writ. 1/21/12] (c) ’12 M. A. Jamal

As we once again approach February, the papers and TV stations will feature programming that shows more Black faces than usual. Some will show movies, some documentaries and some will feature history in celebration of Black History Month.

Undoubtedly, Martin Luther King Jr’s epic “March on Washington” speech will be samples, its grainy, black and white videotape the very symbol of a bygone era, and it’s key catchphrase….Thank God Almighty, we’re free at last!” ~ a haunting and ironic mockery of the real state of most of Black America.

One tape that invariably will not be shown is one of the final press conferences of the nation’s first (and perhaps only) Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, aged and ill, yet with the presence of mind to announce, “I’m still not free.”

For millions of Black Americans, this Black History Month, while perhaps rich in symbol, comes amidst the greatest loss of collective assets in our history, crippling joblessness, haunting home foreclosures, public schools that perform more mis-education than education, rabid police terrorism and perhaps the highest Black incarceration rates in U.S. history, and all that entails.

That we have Black History Month at all is due to the Black Freedom Movements of the ’60’s, and the dogged persistence of Black Historian, Carter G. Woodson, who began his efforts with Negro History Week, back in the 1920’s! Yet, it begins, as do all struggles for progress, with the Movement.

If Black mothers and grandmothers, and later Black schoolchildren, didn’t follow King, we wouldn’t know his name, except perhaps as an Historical footnote. For, without followers, there is no movement – and thus no progress.

The late, great Marxist Revolutionary historian, C.L.R. James, in his finest work, Black Jacobins, a History of the Haitian Revolution, illustrates how the leadership – including Gen. Toussaint L’Ouverture – tried repeatedly to betray the Revolution, on to face two immovable forces -the racist recalcitrance of the French government of Napoleon (who wanted to restore slavery), and the militancy of the Black soldiers, who pushed onward to Revolution.

The point? People make history, by mass movements, often ones which go faster and further than the leaders want. And masses make and sustain revolutions – often against ‘leaders’ whose every instinct is to betray them.

In a forward to one of the many editions of Black Jacobins, James reminds us, “…that it was the slaves who had made the Revolution. Many of the slave leaders to the end were unable to read or write” (James, xvi)

But they sure knew how to fight.

Africans, by the tens of thousands, broke their chains, and though penniless, hungry, and scarred by the ravages of bondage, found weapons and the will to fight for freedom against the defenders of slavery: France, Britain, and Spain. They beat them all, because their hunger for freedom was greater than anything.

ANYTHING.

And by so doing they changed world history.

They shattered French dreams of an American Empire; and enabled the U.S. to double in size after it’s purchase of Louisiana from Napoleon.

They also did what no ‘slave’ army had ever done in modern or ancient history. They defeated an empire.

That is Revolutionary Black History —and it deserves to be remembered during Black History Month.

(c) ’12 maj
==============
The Power of Truth is Final — Free Mumia!

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Radio Essays – Subscribe at the website or on iTunes and get Mumia’s radio commentaries online.
Audio of most of Mumia’s essays are at: http://www.prisonradio.org

Mumia’s got a podcast! http://mumiapodcast. libsyn.com/

Get your copy of the new book by Mumia and Marc Lamont Hill “The Classroom and The Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America,”
at
http://twpbooks.com/catalog/ theclassroomandthecell-p-208. html

###

International Day of Action Feb. 4, 2012

Actions in over 80 cities and growing

NO WAR, NO SANCTIONS, NO ASSASSINATIONS and NO INTERVENTION

The demonstrations have been called by a broad spectrum of U.S. based antiwar organizations and have invited anti-war forces in other countries to join and make this a GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION!

—–

Wisconsin Protests:

GREEN BAY

http://www.facebook.com/events/200343226728984/?ref=ts

12 noon outside Lambeau Field

1 p.m. march down towards the Army Recruiting Offices on South Oneida

———-

MILWAUKEE

http://www.facebook.com/events/124954187625910/

11:15 a.m. press conference at Peace Action, 1001 E. Keefe

12 noon E. Capitol Dr. Bridge, Just East of E. Capitol Dr. and N. Humboldt. Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

———-

RACINE

The Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice will join the National Emergency Demonstrations to Stop the U.S. War Against Iran.

10-11 am, on the NW comer of Highways 20 and 31, Racine

###

INFORMATION ON IRAN AND OPPOSING U.S./ISRAELI/NATO WAR THREATS

International Action Center
http://iacenter.org/

Stop War On Iran
http://stopwaroniran.org/

Book: ‘In Defense of Iran,’ by Phil Wilayto
http://www.defendersfje.org/dpi/id12.html

###

JOBS & HOUSING NOT RACISM & WAR!!

June 2010 during the opening march of the United States Social Forum (USSF), Detroit.

###

http://www.facebook.com/oneyearstrongerwi?sk=info

Flier: https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/madison_week_of_action_flier_2.pdf

11 x 17 Poster: https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/madison_week_of_action_11x17_poster.pdf

The Wisconsin Uprising One Year On: What Happened and What Next?

Thursday, February 9; 7-9pm @ MATC-Downtown Room D240 (211 N. Carroll St. in Madison)

Wisconsin Day! Rally to Kick-off a Week of Action

Saturday, February 11; 11am-1pm @ the Wisconsin State Capitol- State Street side

Rallying is for Lovers: I Still ♥ UW

Tuesday, February 14; 12:15pm.  Meet at Memorial Union @12:15; Join the Solidarity Singalong at the Capitol @1pm; Rally for UW to follow

Capitol Occupation Documentation Station

Tuesday, February 14, Wednesday February 15th; 10-6pm @ the Wisconsin State Capitol

One Year Later – Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising

Thursday, February 16; 7-9pm @ UW-Madison’s Memorial Union, Check “Today in the Union”

WisConvocation Public Planning Session
Sunday, February 19; 2-5pm @ Tamarack Gallery in Madison (849 E. Washington Ave. Ste. 102)

———-

For more information: organizerbrian@gmail.com / infostationmadison@gmail.com.

Feb. 18, 2011. The people take over Madison WI.

Feb. 18, 2011 at the state capitol in Madison, WI.

###

https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/save-reads-drug-store.pdf

###

http://www.facebook.com/events/223023271125424/?ref=notif&notif_t=event_invite

Jan. 16, 2012 Dr. King day Milwaukee, WI.

###

https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/wi_bopm_uw_parkside_statement.pdf

WI Bail Out The People Movement Condemns Racist Attacks On Students of Color at UW Parkside

To Scott Walker: Denounce Attacks and Punish Those Responsible

Feb. 3, 2012

The Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement condemns the attacks on students of color at the University of Wisconsin Parkside. We stand in solidarity with students of color, their communities and allies in opposing this latest racist attack.

Late Wednesday, Feb. 1, a noose fashioned from rubber bands was found in Pike River Suites (Dorms) at UW Parkside in Kenosha County. Early Thursday morning, Feb. 2, the person who reported the incident received a threatening note students and their allies are referring to as a “hit-list.” Later in the day, other threatening notes were discovered.

These despicable racist attacks are directly related to the climate fostered by the Scott Walker administration and the racist right-wing in Wisconsin including but not limited to abolishing affirmative action in the state’s construction industry, the union-busting laws that affect workers of color most directly, the attack on Voter ID laws, the attack on Native people with the proposed mine in the the Penokee Hills of northern WI, the attacks on affirmative action within the UW System and draconian tution increases which affect students of color most directly along with the historical racism in the state. This attack on people of color at UW-Parkside is also just months after the attempted Nazi September recruitment rally in West Allis and the ongoing Tea Party activities in the state.

We stand against racism and oppose these latest attacks on students of color and their communities and we stand ready to assist those fighting back against this terrorism aimed at people of color.

We call on Scott Walker to denounce these racist attacks and to punish those responsible for them.

###
—

Carlos next court hearing is Wednesday, February 8, 2012. Carlos Montes has declared himself “not guilty” on 6 felony charges, dealing with an alleged 42-year old arrest and firearms code violations.Montes’ arrest is part of the FBI attack on 23 other antiwar and solidarity activists.

Please take the following steps to the support Carlos Montes and the 23 Midwest activists facing FBI repression:

Sign the national petitionsupporting Carlos Montes
Sign the Pledge to ResistFBI and Grand Jury Repression
Join a local support committeeof the CSFR or organize one in your town
Donate to the legal defense fund
Get your organization to sign a Solidarity Statement

Join the national call-in day, Feb. 8

— President Obama at 202-456-1111 and
— Attorney General Holder at 202-514-2001
Demand: “Drop the charges against Carlos Montes. There is no evidence!”
Contact us and let us know how your calls went: info@stopFBI.net

If you are in the L.A. area…
Join us and at the Court!
Tuesday, Feb. 8
8:00 AM

Criminal Courts Bldg.
211 West Temple St.
LA, CA corner with Broadway
Dept. 123 on the 13th floor.

###