The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons

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Back in the 1960s, even the NRA supported gun control to disarm the group

With each passing day, the debate for or against gun control rages on within the United States. And although the National Rifle Association (NRA) currently leads the charge for the rights of citizens to carry guns of all types with little to no interference from the government, the original gun rights advocates to take that stance were the Black Panthers.

Throughout the late 1960s, the militant black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of California’s gun laws to underscore their political statements about the subjugation of African-Americans. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for black people to arm themselves.”

The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.

“The law was part of a wave of laws that were passed in the late 1960s regulating guns, especially to target African-Americans,” says Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms. “Including the Gun Control Act of 1968, which adopted new laws prohibiting certain people from owning guns, providing for beefed up licensing and inspections of gun dealers and restricting the importation of cheap Saturday night specials [pocket pistols] that were popular in some urban communities….”

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Armed members of the Black Panther Party standing in the corridor of the Capitol in Sacramento protesting a bill that restricted the carrying of arms in public, 1967. (Credit: Walt Zeboski/AP Photo)

Appleton, WI August 10, 2019: On the 2nd Anniversary of Charlottesville, Act Against White Supremacy! Stop the Massacres!

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𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 (𝗔𝘂𝗴. 𝟭𝟬-𝟭𝟭), 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿: 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 – 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀! Honor those massacred in El Paso, Dayton, Gilroy, Charleston, Orlando and too many other locations! 

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Protest at Houdini Plaza, 111 W College Ave., Appleton: August 10 at 2 pm central time

Vigil at Houdini Plaza,  111 W College Ave., Appleton: August 10 at 7 pm central time

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We hold in our hearts the memory of anti-racist activist Heather Heyer and the dozens injured by the fascists in Charlottesville. While it was a Nazi thug who murdered Heather, it is the bigot-in-chief Donald Trump, endorser of the “very fine” Nazi and Klan scum, who has enshrined their genocidal ideology as his national policy against the disabled, the LGBTQ+ community, and all People of Color.

Migrants at our southern border, who are “engaged in a federally protected activity” of seeking asylum, are having their babies ripped from their parents arms, their children kidnapped and placed in cages, women forced to drink out of toilets. Cages are so crowded that no one can even lie on the floor. Food, soap, even toothbrushes are denied them, all on the orders from Trump because of their “race” and “national origin.” This meets the very definition of a federal hate crime multiplied thousands of times.

Trump is showing off his brutality “stripes” to his rich friends on Wall Street, to show them how tough he’ll be to those who oppose their cutbacks, like the dismantling of Obamacare. We’re supposed to fight over the scraps that they grant us. That’s why they’ve poured more than $100 million into Trump’s re-election campaign. We demand that Congress immediately impeach Trump for hate crimes and dump his whole gang of rich bigots!

We ask that organizations who agree with this message organize and publicize an activity within their community on these dates. Message us to have your group’s name added to this call.

Main event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2729618263733359/?event_time_id=2729618270400025

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Southfield, MI, August 8, 2019: Palestinians refugees across Lebanon are demanding to live in dignity! Protest Apartheid Labor Laws!

We are holding a rally tomorrow Aug 8, 11 am in front of the Consulate General of Lebanon, 1000 Town Center Suite, Southfield, MI

Palestinians refugees across Lebanon are demanding to live in dignity!

We stand with striking Palestinians as well as Syrians and migrant workers in Lebanon against the restrictive and discriminatory new labor law. This law restricts legal work to those who hold a work visa and was accompanied by a scapegoating campaign against Palestinians and Syrians in the country and raids on their places of work and several shutdowns. This has led to an ongoing uprising and strike in the Palestinian camps demanding a repeal of the law and the resolving of their legal status. Syrian refugees have largely avoided rising due to the continuous threat of deportation to Syria. The Lebanese political class continues to scapegoat and threaten both groups.

Our protest in Michigan comes in response to and affirmation of calls by rising Palestinians in Lebanon to hold protests and shows of solidarity across Europe and North America in support of their demands.

#تجويعي يخدم الصفقة

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Stop a Modern Day Lynching – Don’t let PA DOC Murder MOVE Member Delbert Africa!

The MOVE ORGANIZATION is calling for people to join us this Friday August 9th at 9:00am at Geisinger Hospital 1000 East Mountain Blvd. Wilkes-Barre, Pa 18711.  If traveling from Philadelphia meet at 6AM at JFK Blvd and 30th St. for rides.

We will be holding a demonstration exposing this out right PLANNED MURDER of DELBERT AFRICA by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.

Meanwhile call PA DOC Commissioner John Wetzel – 717-728-2573; SCI Dallas Superintendent Kevin Ranson – 570-675-1101 x 351; and Geisinger Hospital – 578-808-7300 to Demand that Delbert Orr Africa, #AM4895, be allowed to call his MOVE family and let them know what is going on.

The MOVE ORGANIZATION would like to update people on what is going on right now as it relates to Delbert Africa. We received word from an anonymous source that Delbert is in fact urinating blood, his bladder is impacted and compromised and colon is starting to show wear and tear from the pressure/over worked kidneys. Fluid is still being drained but not rapidly enough. He is awake, conscious, and talking but weak.

A week ago MOVE political prisoner Delbert Orr Africa was taken out of SCI Dallas and transported to an outside hospital where he has since been held incommunicado. Delbert has not been allowed to call his MOVE Family or blood daughter.  Prison and Hospital officials will not release any information to any of us on Delbert or his condition.

When Delbert was taken from SCI Dallas he had swelling from a fluid buildup.  We are now hearing from two different sources that Delbert has no more than 72 hours before he dies.  Delbert’s daughter, MOVE family members and even his lawyers are being denied access for communication, visitation, contact, and access to documents from prison and hospital officials.

Delbert is scheduled to go before the PA Parole Board this September.  MOVE members believe that the government wants to kill Delbert before he can be paroled, and there is evidence that clearly shows this.  This government does not want to give ground and parole another innocent MOVE Member, that’s why they are working in conjunction with Prison and hospital officials to murder Delbert.

It would be a feather in the cap for officials to see Delbert DIE. What’s more of a slap in the face is that they are trying to kill him to celebrate on August 8, 1978 –  41 years to the day that Delbert and other MOVE people were kidnapped by this government being innocent and railroaded to prison .

We are highly suspicious of what’s going on here. In 2015 our MOVE 9 Brother Phil Africa was taken to an outside hospital from SCI Dallas with a minor stomach virus. He was held incommunicado for a period of 5 days and upon returning to SCI Dallas he was placed in hospice care only to die a day later.

In March of 1998 after recovering from a stomach virus at SCI Cambridge Springs, MOVE 9 Sister Merle Africa was told by prison officials she was dying only to die a couple of hours later.

The same pattern is repeating itself here.

On Aug. 8, 1978 Delbert was arrested during the Philadelphia police assault on the MOVE house in Powelton Village. Police officer James Ramp died during the 1978 police assault, likely struck by one of the tens of thousands of rounds fired by his fellow officers that day.  He was brutally beaten and assaulted by police following this attack.

Nine MOVE members were all found guilty of firing the same bullet and were convicted of murder, assault and conspiracy by the late Judge Edwin S. Malmed. The MOVE 9 were subsequently sentenced to 30 to 100 years in prison.” (onamove.com) Despite serving over 40 years of a 30-to-100-year sentence, Delbert Africa remains unjustly imprisoned.

The MOVE ORGANIZATION is calling for people to join us this Friday August 9th 2019 at 9:00am At Hospital 1000 East Mountain Blvd. Wilkes-Barre, Pa 18711.

If you are traveling from Philadelphia meet at JFK Blvd and 30th St. at 6AM for rides.

FOR more info call
Carlos Africa 215 385 2772
Sue Africa 215 387 4107
Janine Africa 610 724 4504

The MOVE ORGANIZATION

Milwaukee, August 16-17, 2019: GarveyFest 30th Anniversary

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, please call: (414) 702-2698

AFRICANS ON THE MOVE TO CELEBRATE 30TH ANNUAL GARVEYFEST IN MILWAUKEE AUGUST 16-17, 2019

All are invited to come and participate in the 30th GarveyFest Celebration here in Milwaukee sponsored by Africans on the Move (AOM).  This year’s GarveyFest theme is “Celebrating Thirty Years of GarveyFest:  We Couldn’t Have Done It without You!”  AOM is very thankful that GarveyFest will be held at the historic Wisconsin African-American Women’s Center (WAAWC), 3020 W. Vliet Street.

This year’s theme, “Celebrating Thirty Years of GarveyFest:  We Couldn’t Have Done It without You!” celebrates those who have consistently supported GarveyFest for many years, including organizations and institutions such as Running Rebels, Urban Underground, N’COBRA, The Milwaukee Times, Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin African-American Women’s Center, the Nation of Islam and many more.

It is a two-day celebration.  On Friday, August 16, 2019, the Pan-African Social will be held from 6-9 p.m. inside the Wisconsin African-American Women’s Center.  The Pan-African Social is a family party/gala with conscious music, dancing, conscious Karaoke and Hors D’Oeuvres.  Let’s dress in African attire, if we can.  Children, Teens, Adults—all are welcome.

Bring your lawn chairs on Saturday, August 17, 2019.  The celebration will take place from 1-5 p.m. on the grounds of the Wisconsin African-American Women’s Center. Long-time supporters of GarveyFest will be honored and attendees will enjoy a cultural showcase, demonstrations, conscious fashion show and more.  Experience the delicious foods for sale and the many products offered by a variety of vendors at our African Marketplace.  It’s a family affair!  Bring the children to our Children’s Arena for science, art and history activities as well as free snacks and school supplies.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!  In case of rain, the Saturday event will be held inside the Wisconsin African-American Women’s Center.

Africans on the Move is a non-profit, community organization.  It provides cultural and educational programs and information concerning people of African descent.  AOM is proud to be organizing our 30th GarveyFest celebration here in Milwaukee.  AOM also sponsors the Watoto Uhuru Shule (Children’s Freedom School), a free weekend school for children, providing free vegan meals for each child.

For more information, please call: (414) 702-2698. ###

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