Law and Legal Cases

Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage. Imagine the United Farm Workers called in to defend these laborers against such exploitation by management. Now, imagine that the farm workers are black children and adults and that the managers are Shirley Sherrod, her husband Rev. Charles Sherrod, and a host of others. But, it’s no illusion; this is a fact.

Revered by revolutionaries and the common people on all five continents, Lolita Lebron died on Ausust 1 in her beloved Puerto Rico at the age of 90.

HOUSTON – On Saturday July 24 2010, about 200 people gathered at Emancipation Park in Houston’s 3rd Ward to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of People’s Party II Chairman, 21-year-old Carl B. Hampton.

On the morning of July 22 at around 11:30 15-year-old James Rivera was assassinated in premeditated murder, according to his family and witnesses.

On Thursday, July 22, 2010 the police in London, England in the African community of Brixton, in broad daylight raided the Mosque of the Nation Of Islam. The international counter-insurgency of white power has used the decades old "war on drugs" as an excuse to wipe out and attack any notion of African people struggling for self-determination. This is the excuse, a search for a "marijuana farm", the police used in this attack on the NOI in Brixton in an attempt to criminalize any organizational effort for black freedom. The African Socialist International Stands in Solidarity with the Nation of Islam to fend off these attacks by the criminal British government who along with the U.S. Government sees virtually the entire Islamic world as "terrorist." But the U.S. and Britain are the real terrorist. HANDS OFF!! NOI-BRITAIN!

NEW YORK - The Iroquois Nationals, the national lacrosse team of the Indigenous Iroquois nation, on July 17, exhausted all efforts, short of denouncing their sovereignty, to enter Britain on legally issued Haudenosaunee passports from the Iroquois Confederacy, their own government.

African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) stands in solidarity with the Iroquois’ struggle to declare their sovereignty.

Editors Note: Whether sporting events like NBA Basketball or FIFA Football should be important to the masses of our people is highly questionable. But the fact is that they are. Hence, they deserve some sort of African Revolutionary spin or explanation to them. The effort by blackfood.org to address this question is commendable.

"We could not even get six hours of deliberation. My son was murdered! He was murdered! He was murdered!” – Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant.