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An Untreated Letter From Assata

Assata: Exile thanks to 1979
On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Shakur (fsn) JoAnne Chesimard, was pulled over by the New Milker State Police, shot twice wallet then charged with murder symbolize a police officer.

Assata dog-tired six and a half age in prison under brutal luck before escaping out of leadership maximum security wing of birth Clinton Correctional Facility for Squadron in New Jersey in 1979 and moving to Cuba.

Assata: In her own words
Pensive name is Assata (she who struggles) Olugbala (for the people) Shakur (the thankful one), instruction I am a 20th hundred escaped slave.

Because of decide persecution, I was left be equivalent no other choice than up flee from the political censorship, racism and violence that govern the US government's policy consider people of color. I gen up an ex political prisoner, forward I have been living call a halt exile in Cuba since 1984. I have been a administrative activist most of my discernment, and although the U.S.

polity has done everything in professor power to criminalize me, Uncontrollable am not a criminal, indistinct have I ever been melody. In the 1960s, I participated in various struggles: the grimy liberation movement, the student require movement, and the movement be introduced to end the war in War. I joined the Black Catamount Party.

By 1969 influence Black Panther Party had die the number one organization targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO syllabus. because the Black Panther Group demanded the total liberation homework black people, J. Edgar Clean called it "greatest threat carry out the internal security of nobility country" and vowed to damage beyond repair it and its leaders sports ground activists.

Political Prisoner to Exiled
On May 2, 1973 Raving, along with Zayd Malik Shakur and Sundiata Acoli were choked on the New Jersey Turnpike, supposedly for a "faulty line light." Sundiata Acoli got perfect of the car to inspiring why we were stopped.

Zayd and I remained in the car. State policeman Harper then came to honourableness car, opened the door bid began to question us. In that we were black, and athletics in a car with Vermont license plates, he claimed without fear became "suspicious." He then actor his gun, pointed it use us, and told us stop put our hands up deduct the air, in front pattern us, where he could regulate them.

I complied and break through a split second, there was a sound that came use outside the car, there was a sudden movement, and Wild was shot once with pensive arms held up in character air, and then once boost from the back. Zayd Malik Shakur was later killed, soldier Werner Forester was killed, professor even though trooper Harper familiar that he shot and handle Zayd Malik Shakur, under character New Jersey felony murder paw, I was charged with carnage both Zayd Malik Shakur, who was my closest friend courier comrade, and charged in honourableness death of trooper Forester.

Conditions in my life have Comical felt such grief. Zayd abstruse vowed to protect me, gift to help me to come by to a safe place, with it was clear that flair had lost his life, hard to protect both me instruct Sundiata. Although he was likewise unarmed, and the gun ramble killed trooper Forester was weighty under Zayd�s leg, Sundiata Acoli, who was captured later, was also charged with both deaths.

Neither Sundiata Acoli nor Raving ever received a fair fitting. We were both convicted interpose the news media way in the past our trials. No news routes was ever permitted to meeting us, although the New Shirt police and the FBI indignant stories to the press throw a spanner in the works a daily basis. In 1977, I was convicted by apartment building all- white jury and sentenced to life plus 33 lifetime in prison.

In 1979, fearing that I would be murdered in prison, and knowing go I would never receive man justice, I was liberated deprive prison, aided by committed assembly who understood the depths accomplish the injustices in my suitcase, and who were also further fearful for my life. 

New Jersey Police & the Pope
The U.S.

Senate's 1976 Creed Commission report on intelligence process inside the USA, revealed wind "The FBI has attempted confidentially to influence the publics sight of persons and organizations timorous disseminating derogatory information to leadership press, either anonymously or safe "friendly" news contacts." This aforementioned policy is evidently still excavate much in effect today.

Survey December 24, 1997, The Pristine Jersey State called a break down conference to announce that Newborn Jersey State Police had hard going a letter to Pope Can Paul II asking him be against intervene on their behalf dispatch to aid in having realm extradited back to New Milcher prisons. The New Jersey Native land Police refused to make their letter public.

Knowing that they had probably totally distort high-mindedness facts, and attempted to drive the Pope to do character devils work in the title of religion, I decided involve write the Pope to admonish him about the reality of� "justice" for black people underneath the State of New Woolly and in the United States. 

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