The Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP), a new generation Black Panthers
formation, has faced down non-stop repression for a decade and a half and
continued to educate, agitate and organize militant efforts to free Black
people, and all oppressed people, based on a program of revolutionary African
Intercommunalism. They recently scored another victory by defeating state
efforts to violate the parole of General T.A.C.O. (Taking All Capitalists
Out) AKA Wolverine Shakur, a member of their central committee who was framed up
on conspiracy charges several years ago in the Black Rider 3 case. This the
second time the state has tried unsuccessfully to send TACO back to state prison. He
was picked up on a parole hold the night before the verdicts came down on
killer cop Mehserle, the Oakland BART cop tried in L.A. for killing Oscar Grant.
That time, TACO was released after a few days in a futile effort to prevent the
Riders' revolutionary response to the Mehserle case. This time, TACO was
arrested on the street in L.A.'s Crenshaw district, moved from jail to jail
in L.A. County as the state attempted to railroad him back to prison on trumped
up gang charges. The Black Riders are not a gang, but they seek to unite Crips
and Bloods around a revolutionary consciousness to confront the real racist
enemies.
This is the threat the LAPD fears, to the extent that LA police chief Charlie
Beck sent a letter to TACO's parole hearing urging he be returned to state
prison. Despite these repressive efforts, the state was again unsuccessful,
as broad support, including from the OccupyLA encampment, came out for TACO.
After holding him for weeks, the parole hold was vacated and TACO was released. Yet
the very next day, the parole officials sought to violate TACO's parole again
by sending him false information about when to appear to have a new GPS-tracking
device -- 21st century slave shackle -- installed on his ankle. The Riders
managed to defeat this ploy as well. But the authorities are seeking to
disrupt the BRLP, whose members live communally in many cases, by seeking to restrict
who General TACO may live with, forcing other members to move. They are also
fomenting other COINTELPRO type campaigns via paid agents in the community,
since they have never been able to infiltrate or turn members of the BRLP
itself. The Party is in urgent need of solidarity and various forms of
material aid including funds, transportation, housing, etc. They continue to build
their organization, including behind the walls, where comrades working on the Black
Riders prison chapter have been involved in the recent SHU hunger strikes.
For more information, contact the Black Riders at PO Box 8297, Los Angeles CA
90008, 323 289 4457 or blackriderslp@yahoo.com
- Urgent need for solidarity with Black Riders Liberation Party, Michael Novick, 10/27/2011
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