Motion shreds DOJ case attacking black free speech rights – The Burning Spear
By Spear Staff, August 3, 2023
The future of the first amendment of the U.S. constitution and the right to engage in peaceful activism and free speech activities hangs in the balance with the case of the Uhuru 3 that includes African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
African People’s Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel, two white organizers for reparations under the leadership of the APSP, were also indicted in the case.
On July 17, 2023, attorney Leonard Goodman filed a Motion to Dismiss the widely denounced, politically motivated U.S. department of justice (DOJ) indictment of fabricated charges that Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the Uhuru Movement, who have been fighting for 50 years for reparations to African people, are “Russian agents.”
This filing was in response to April 2023 indictments of the Uhuru 3 on federal charges that came nine months after the July 29, 2022 violent multi-city FBI raids on seven Uhuru Movement homes and offices.
The Motion to Dismiss reads, “This case is about pure political speech and the right to advocate dissenting views. The Overt Acts charged in the indictment all relate to political speech and peaceable assembly. Every one of these charged offenses are protected political speech under the First Amendment….”
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