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Sandy Stone was an incarcerated woman who was treated with contempt and imprisoned in a men’s prison since she was a trans woman. Miss Major (director of TGI Project in San Francisco) and participated in the Stonewall Rebellion. She was politicized by Big Black (Frank Smith) of the Attica Defendants. He had been totally accepting of her gender expression. “Ms. Major not Mz major […] she is not yet liberated”
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Leonard Peltier (AIM).
Black Panthers: Mondo we Langa, Ed Poindexter, Sundiata Acoli, Herman Bell, Veronza Bowers, and Romaine Fitzgerald.
Ruchell Magee and Mumia Abu-Jamal are/were Political Prisoners.
Angola 3: Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox
Cuban 5: Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando and René González.
NJ 4: Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson, Venice Brown, and Terrain Dandridge.
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Black Panthers: Mondo we Langa, Ed Poindexter, Sundiata Acoli, Herman Bell, Veronza Bowers, and Romaine Fitzgerald.
Ruchell Magee and Mumia Abu-Jamal are/were Political Prisoners.
Angola 3: Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox
Cuban 5: Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando and René González.
NJ 4: Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson, Venice Brown, and Terrain Dandridge.
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Davus’ 2013 speech at Birkbeck University, London is an amazing resource to review the history of reparations. My takeaway is that all progress for the most marginalized results in rise in quality of life for everyone, exemplified by the case of white southern children receiving government funded (free) education for the first time after the civil war because of the work of Black Activism to gain education.
— Oct 22, 2026 10:53AM
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The prison company named G3 in 2014 was responsible for growing and operating the prison industrial complex in the United States, UK and Palestine
— Oct 22, 2026 10:20AM
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A fact to remember: that the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) was the first in the USA to endorse the BDS movement in April 2013.
— Oct 22, 2026 10:02AM
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“It’s important to prevent the term INTERSECTIONALITY from erasing essential histories of activism. There were those of us, who by virtue of are experience […] recognize that we had to figure out a way to bring these issues together. They weren’t separate in our bodies, but also they are not separate in terms of struggles” (Chapter One)
— Oct 20, 2026 11:59AM
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“Progressive struggles whether they are focused on racism, repression, poverty, or other issues are doomed to fail if they do not also attempt to develop a consciousness of the insidious promotion of capitalist individualism. Even as Nelson Mandela always insisted that his accomplishments were collective […] the media attempted to sanctify him as a heroic individual.” (Essay One)
— Oct 20, 2026 11:38AM