Police and Prisons

On June 10, 2010, the trial of Johannes Mehserle, former Bay Area Transit (BART) cop, opened in Los Angeles. Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant.

SEATTLE — On Tuesday, June 15, millions of people throughout the U.S. and probably the world, witnessed through media reports, a Seattle cop assault two African women.

The following is a press release sent to Uhuru News for immediate publication. Uhuru News calls on all our readers to support this MOVE initiated campaign to ensure the safety of Chuck Africa, one of many of the MOVE Africa family who have been unjustly imprisoned by U.S. authorities for over 25 years. Free Mumia Abu Jamal. Free Chuck Africa and all MOVE Africa family!

The crackdown on the Landless People's Movement in Johannesburg continues. Two LPM militants have been killed in recent days, and ten are currently in prison following the arrests of five others last night.

On June 19, 2010, a timely and necessary gathering of Raza activists will take place: Conference On Raza Prisoners and Colonialism. The conference aims to expose the role that police, courts and prisons play and have played in the continuing subjugation and terrorization of the Mexican community and other oppressed nations and peoples.

It has been 55 years since so-called Third World nations from Asia and Africa came together in Bandung, Indonesia to promote economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism.

On Saturday, May 1st, 2010, the people of Croydon saw a magnificent mobilization of the African community.

Editors note: As U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama makes war on the poor people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, while drinking with the police, black newspapers and online services, as routine reporting, are telling of more and more incidents where the police all over the US are, increasingly, firing their guns into the small and frail bodies of African children and young people.

LEBANON, TN—When a black man is caught alone on a darkened and foggy highway by the white police, his life is most definitely in...