Sister comrades Mecca and Etana Shakur, members of the Central Committee of
the Black Riders Liberation Party will be back in court in Inglewood on Friday
November 1, facing charges of battery on a police officer and trespassing,
growing out their defending themselves against a racist, sexist, repressive
assault on the two women while they were campaigning with their newspaper
outside a supermarket on Century and Crenshaw. This will be their third court
date, and people are again invited to pack the courtroom starting at 8:30 AM
at One Regent Street (1 block south of Florence, between La Brea and Fir in
Inglewood CA). Dozens of people have come out to support the two Black Riders
in their previous appearances, defying attempts by bailiffs and deputies to
block the Black Riders and their supporters from entering the courthouse.
The following day, Saturday November 2 commemorates the liberation of another
revolutionary woman political prisoner, Assata Shakur, from prison -- she was
broken out by a unit of the Black Liberation Army along with some European-
descent comrades and eventually made her way to Cuba, where she is still the
target of repression and threats by Obama's FBI. The Black Riders will mark
the occasion with a showing of the new documentary "Let Um Hear You Coming,"
about the Black Riders, new generation Black Panther Party for Self-Defense,
at Fernando's Hide-Away (F Square Printing) in downtown L.A. at 7 PM. It's
located at 519 S Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013, near the Pershing Square
Metro Red Line station and served by many buses on Fifth and 6th Streets,
Broadway, etc. A collection will be taken for the defense effort for the two
sisters.
For more information, call the Black Riders at 323-289-4457.
- Via: Michael Novick antiracistaction_la@yahoo. com
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