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Assata Shakur Speaks
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$1,000,000 Bounty for Assata Shakur
http://64.255.174.200/board/showthread.php?t=31658&highlight=assata
Assata Shakur's Bounty Raised to $1 Million
http://64.255.174.200/board/showthread.php?t=32652&highlight=assata
http://64.255.174.200/board/showthread.php?t=31658&highlight=assata
Assata Shakur's Bounty Raised to $1 Million
http://64.255.174.200/board/showthread.php?t=32652&highlight=assata
Dolemite said:
Ain't this the truth Willing to spen $1,000,000 to catch a 50 year old Cuban but can BARELY put out 100,000 to help the folks in NO. America needs to get its priorities straight.
Posted this last year
Or rather...in 2004
Or rather...in 2004
Re: Castro relinquishes power before surgery
Damn I didnt even think about that?? Hopefully she'll get to Venzuela b4 the CIA comes up wit a plan to get her.
DuB 6 said:
Damn I didnt even think about that?? Hopefully she'll get to Venzuela b4 the CIA comes up wit a plan to get her.
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Escaped Ex-Panther Assata Shakur
Still Being Convicted in Print by New York Media</font size></center>
BlackAmericaWeb.com,
By: Gregory Kane
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007
,
Media folks are doing it to Assata Shakur again.
This time around, it’s the editors and reporters at the New York Daily News, who, if I recall Shakur’s autobiography correctly, are primarily the ones who did it to her the first time.
In the early 1970s, Shakur -- formerly known as Joanne Chesimard -- was a member of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party. She left as a result of that beef between Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the party and its minister of defense, and Eldridge Cleaver, who was the party’s minister of information.
What Shakur did after that is in dispute. Some former Panthers who were members of what has been called the “Cleaver faction” of the BPP are reputed to have formed a loose-knit organization called the Black Liberation Army. After a series of robberies and cop shootings that were linked to the BLA, Shakur’s picture popped up in several newspapers above stories that labeled her the “queen of the BLA.”
Shakur says in her autobiography, “Assata,” that she first learned of her link to the robberies and shootings from newspapers. According to her version of events, she was forced to go underground.
In May of 1973, Shakur was in a car with Zayd Shakur (no relation to her) and Sundiata Acoli when New Jersey state troopers stopped them on the New Jersey Turnpike. A shootout ensued. When the bullets stopped and the smoke cleared, Zayd Shakur and trooper Werner Foerster were dead. Assata Shakur was wounded and one of her arms partially paralyzed.
No one knows who fired the first shots in that incident, least of all reporters and editors at the New York Daily News. But that hasn’t stopped them from calling Assata Shakur a “cop killer.” She was convicted of Foerster’s (and Zayd Shakur’s) murder in 1977. She escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in New Jersey two years later and surfaced in Cuba sometime later. She still lives on the Caribbean island.
Last December, Shakur’s name was in the news again, after her name was removed from a room at a student center on the City College of New York’s campus. Shakur was a CCNY student when she was a member of the Black Panther Party. In news stories about the controversy, editors and reporters at the New York Daily News were up to their old tricks.
One story -- written by columnist Michael Daly with the headline, “The Monsignor and the Militant” -- violated one of the most cherished principles of good journalism: The one that says reporters and editors aren’t supposed to convict defendants in the media.
In Daly’s story, a Msgr. John Powis claims -- over 30 years after the fact, mind you -- that the picture of Shakur in the New York Daily News from December of 2006 is a photo of the woman who robbed him in the early 1970s.
“When I saw the Daily News today,” Daly quotes Powis, “I said, ‘My God, it looks just like her.'”
Nowhere in Daly’s story does it even hint that eyewitness identifications like the one Powis made have been proven highly unreliable. Nowhere does it suggest that such identifications are even more unreliable as time passes. And nowhere does Daly point out that eyewitness identifications across racial lines -- Powis is white -- are the most unreliable of all.
Skeptical readers who know the pitfalls of eyewitness idenfication and who have access to a computer may have done a Lexis Nexis search and come across these information abstracts from The New York Times, both from 1977.
“Neurosurgeon Dr. Arthur Turner Davidson, testifying at Joanne Chesimard murder trial, says defendant would have had to have both hands raised over her head when wounded by state trooper during May ’73 shootout,” the first one reads.
The second one simply says “Dr. David Spain, testifying at Joanne Chesimard murder trial, says exam of defendant’s bullet scars and X-ray reports support claim that she was shot by trooper as her arms were raised.”
None of this information is in Daly’s column. The fact that both pieces of information come from The New York Times information abstracts and not the New York Daily News bolsters Shakur’s claim that some media outlets had convicted her in the press before she even went to trial.
In Daly’s case, he convicted Shakur of a crime for which she hadn’t even been charged, much less convicted. That’s called reckless journalism, if it can be called journalism at all.
I didn’t get to interview Shakur when I was in Cuba last week. I was dying to know what her reaction was to Daly’s column and the continuing vendetta the editors of the New York Daily News have against her.
But I think I already know what her reaction would be.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane222
Escaped Ex-Panther Assata Shakur
Still Being Convicted in Print by New York Media</font size></center>
BlackAmericaWeb.com,
By: Gregory Kane
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007
,
Media folks are doing it to Assata Shakur again.
This time around, it’s the editors and reporters at the New York Daily News, who, if I recall Shakur’s autobiography correctly, are primarily the ones who did it to her the first time.
In the early 1970s, Shakur -- formerly known as Joanne Chesimard -- was a member of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party. She left as a result of that beef between Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the party and its minister of defense, and Eldridge Cleaver, who was the party’s minister of information.
What Shakur did after that is in dispute. Some former Panthers who were members of what has been called the “Cleaver faction” of the BPP are reputed to have formed a loose-knit organization called the Black Liberation Army. After a series of robberies and cop shootings that were linked to the BLA, Shakur’s picture popped up in several newspapers above stories that labeled her the “queen of the BLA.”
Shakur says in her autobiography, “Assata,” that she first learned of her link to the robberies and shootings from newspapers. According to her version of events, she was forced to go underground.
In May of 1973, Shakur was in a car with Zayd Shakur (no relation to her) and Sundiata Acoli when New Jersey state troopers stopped them on the New Jersey Turnpike. A shootout ensued. When the bullets stopped and the smoke cleared, Zayd Shakur and trooper Werner Foerster were dead. Assata Shakur was wounded and one of her arms partially paralyzed.
No one knows who fired the first shots in that incident, least of all reporters and editors at the New York Daily News. But that hasn’t stopped them from calling Assata Shakur a “cop killer.” She was convicted of Foerster’s (and Zayd Shakur’s) murder in 1977. She escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in New Jersey two years later and surfaced in Cuba sometime later. She still lives on the Caribbean island.
Last December, Shakur’s name was in the news again, after her name was removed from a room at a student center on the City College of New York’s campus. Shakur was a CCNY student when she was a member of the Black Panther Party. In news stories about the controversy, editors and reporters at the New York Daily News were up to their old tricks.
One story -- written by columnist Michael Daly with the headline, “The Monsignor and the Militant” -- violated one of the most cherished principles of good journalism: The one that says reporters and editors aren’t supposed to convict defendants in the media.
In Daly’s story, a Msgr. John Powis claims -- over 30 years after the fact, mind you -- that the picture of Shakur in the New York Daily News from December of 2006 is a photo of the woman who robbed him in the early 1970s.
“When I saw the Daily News today,” Daly quotes Powis, “I said, ‘My God, it looks just like her.'”
Nowhere in Daly’s story does it even hint that eyewitness identifications like the one Powis made have been proven highly unreliable. Nowhere does it suggest that such identifications are even more unreliable as time passes. And nowhere does Daly point out that eyewitness identifications across racial lines -- Powis is white -- are the most unreliable of all.
Skeptical readers who know the pitfalls of eyewitness idenfication and who have access to a computer may have done a Lexis Nexis search and come across these information abstracts from The New York Times, both from 1977.
“Neurosurgeon Dr. Arthur Turner Davidson, testifying at Joanne Chesimard murder trial, says defendant would have had to have both hands raised over her head when wounded by state trooper during May ’73 shootout,” the first one reads.
The second one simply says “Dr. David Spain, testifying at Joanne Chesimard murder trial, says exam of defendant’s bullet scars and X-ray reports support claim that she was shot by trooper as her arms were raised.”
None of this information is in Daly’s column. The fact that both pieces of information come from The New York Times information abstracts and not the New York Daily News bolsters Shakur’s claim that some media outlets had convicted her in the press before she even went to trial.
In Daly’s case, he convicted Shakur of a crime for which she hadn’t even been charged, much less convicted. That’s called reckless journalism, if it can be called journalism at all.
I didn’t get to interview Shakur when I was in Cuba last week. I was dying to know what her reaction was to Daly’s column and the continuing vendetta the editors of the New York Daily News have against her.
But I think I already know what her reaction would be.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane222
FBI adds first-ever woman to ‘Most Wanted
FBI adds first-ever woman to ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ list
The Ticket - 23 mins ago
This is not the kind of barrier-breaking people typically cheer: The FBI announced Thursday that it has added the first-ever woman to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists, where she joined the ranks of extremists such as al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
Joanne Chesimard—she may be using the name Assata Shakur—was convicted of several charges, including the murder of a New Jersey state trooper during a May 1973 traffic stop. She was sentenced to life in prison, but escaped and ultimately surfaced in 1984 in Cuba, where she received asylum, the FBI said in a statement.
The FBI has offered a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to her arrest. The state of New Jersey has independently offered another $1 million.
The State Department lists Cuba among state sponsors of terrorism, along with Iran, Sudan and Syria. Critics of the designation, which dates back to 1982, say it reflects Cold War-era opposition to Fidel Castro more than any ongoing support for violent extremism. The State Department says Cuba has harbored members of the Basque separatist group ETA.
While the department does not list Chesimard's case specifically, the country listing for Cuba says the Castro government "continued to permit fugitives wanted in the United States to reside in Cuba and also provided support such as housing, food ration books, and medical care for these individuals."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...?.b=index&.cf3=&.cf4=2&.cf5=The+Ticket&.cf6=/
FBI adds first-ever woman to ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ list
The Ticket - 23 mins ago
This is not the kind of barrier-breaking people typically cheer: The FBI announced Thursday that it has added the first-ever woman to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists, where she joined the ranks of extremists such as al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
Joanne Chesimard—she may be using the name Assata Shakur—was convicted of several charges, including the murder of a New Jersey state trooper during a May 1973 traffic stop. She was sentenced to life in prison, but escaped and ultimately surfaced in 1984 in Cuba, where she received asylum, the FBI said in a statement.
The FBI has offered a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to her arrest. The state of New Jersey has independently offered another $1 million.
The State Department lists Cuba among state sponsors of terrorism, along with Iran, Sudan and Syria. Critics of the designation, which dates back to 1982, say it reflects Cold War-era opposition to Fidel Castro more than any ongoing support for violent extremism. The State Department says Cuba has harbored members of the Basque separatist group ETA.
While the department does not list Chesimard's case specifically, the country listing for Cuba says the Castro government "continued to permit fugitives wanted in the United States to reside in Cuba and also provided support such as housing, food ration books, and medical care for these individuals."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...?.b=index&.cf3=&.cf4=2&.cf5=The+Ticket&.cf6=/
The allow these right wing militias to do whatever they want but go after a black woman....they're treating her like she's Al Quaeda....
Fugitive in Cuba: Joanne Chesimard, First Woman on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List
Fugitive in Cuba: Joanne Chesimard, First Woman on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List
By Christiane Amanpour, Mary-Rose Abraham, David Miller and Arthur Niemynski
Thu, May 23, 2013
For the first time, a woman has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list: Joanne Chesimard. The FBI and the state of New Jersey are now offering $2 million for information leading to her capture.
Chesimard was already wanted for several felonies, including bank robbery, when she was accused of killing New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster execution-style 40 years ago this month. She was convicted in 1977 and served prison time but escaped in 1979 by using a prison van in a dramatic jailbreak. By 1984, she surfaced in Cuba and was granted asylum by Fidel Castro. She remains there to this day.
To her supporters, Joanne Chesimard is Assata Shakur, unfairly targeted and convicted by the United States government. She has also become something of a cultural hero. Not only is she the step-aunt and godmother of rapper Tupac Shakur, but she has written an autobiography and was featured in a documentary while in Cuba. Hip-hop and rap artists have sung about her cause, including “A Song for Assata” by the rapper Common.
“It’s unfortunate that someone involved in the murder of an officer, kidnappings, hostage takings and robberies in a 14-year span is revered by a segment of society,” said Aaron Ford, the special agent in charge at the FBI’s Newark division, in an interview with Christiane Amanpour.
“For us, justice never sleeps, justice never rests,” Ford continued. “We’re looking to bring her to justice because she committed a heinous act. She is a member of an organization which espoused hate against the U.S. government.”
The FBI describes Chesimard as a revolutionary extremist and a member of the Black Liberation Army, a left-wing militant group. Though Cuba has sometimes cooperated with the U.S. in criminal matters and agreed to extradition, Chesimard’s residence there for the last three decades has apparently been protected.
“We absolutely still consider her a threat,” said Ford. “She is a menace to society still. She has connections and associations from members of that party she belonged to years ago. They are still espousing anti-government views.”
Not only is Chesimard the only female on the terrorist list, she is only the second domestic terrorist to be added. The others are alleged members of overseas Islamic terrorist organizations.
Though the FBI has named her a terrorist, that designation is not without controversy.
“We have to look at it in the context of what just happened in Boston,” said Lennox Hinds, Chesimard’s long-time attorney, in a May 3 interview on “Democracy Now.” “I think that with the massacre that occurred there, the FBI and the state police are attempting to inflame the public opinion to characterize her as a terrorist. Because the acts that she was convicted of have nothing to do with terrorism.”
But Ford disagreed: “Any time an individual or group uses force or violence to intimidate, coerce or change the mission of a government, that is terrorism and in this case, it’s domestic terrorism.”
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/around-...mard-first-woman-fbi-most-104224704.html?vp=1
Fugitive in Cuba: Joanne Chesimard, First Woman on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List
By Christiane Amanpour, Mary-Rose Abraham, David Miller and Arthur Niemynski
Thu, May 23, 2013
For the first time, a woman has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list: Joanne Chesimard. The FBI and the state of New Jersey are now offering $2 million for information leading to her capture.
Chesimard was already wanted for several felonies, including bank robbery, when she was accused of killing New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster execution-style 40 years ago this month. She was convicted in 1977 and served prison time but escaped in 1979 by using a prison van in a dramatic jailbreak. By 1984, she surfaced in Cuba and was granted asylum by Fidel Castro. She remains there to this day.
To her supporters, Joanne Chesimard is Assata Shakur, unfairly targeted and convicted by the United States government. She has also become something of a cultural hero. Not only is she the step-aunt and godmother of rapper Tupac Shakur, but she has written an autobiography and was featured in a documentary while in Cuba. Hip-hop and rap artists have sung about her cause, including “A Song for Assata” by the rapper Common.
“It’s unfortunate that someone involved in the murder of an officer, kidnappings, hostage takings and robberies in a 14-year span is revered by a segment of society,” said Aaron Ford, the special agent in charge at the FBI’s Newark division, in an interview with Christiane Amanpour.
“For us, justice never sleeps, justice never rests,” Ford continued. “We’re looking to bring her to justice because she committed a heinous act. She is a member of an organization which espoused hate against the U.S. government.”
The FBI describes Chesimard as a revolutionary extremist and a member of the Black Liberation Army, a left-wing militant group. Though Cuba has sometimes cooperated with the U.S. in criminal matters and agreed to extradition, Chesimard’s residence there for the last three decades has apparently been protected.
“We absolutely still consider her a threat,” said Ford. “She is a menace to society still. She has connections and associations from members of that party she belonged to years ago. They are still espousing anti-government views.”
Not only is Chesimard the only female on the terrorist list, she is only the second domestic terrorist to be added. The others are alleged members of overseas Islamic terrorist organizations.
Though the FBI has named her a terrorist, that designation is not without controversy.
“We have to look at it in the context of what just happened in Boston,” said Lennox Hinds, Chesimard’s long-time attorney, in a May 3 interview on “Democracy Now.” “I think that with the massacre that occurred there, the FBI and the state police are attempting to inflame the public opinion to characterize her as a terrorist. Because the acts that she was convicted of have nothing to do with terrorism.”
But Ford disagreed: “Any time an individual or group uses force or violence to intimidate, coerce or change the mission of a government, that is terrorism and in this case, it’s domestic terrorism.”
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/around-...mard-first-woman-fbi-most-104224704.html?vp=1
U.S.-Cuba Relations May Mean Prison for Assata Shakur
Amid latest changes in U.S. and Cuba's diplomatic relations, New Jersey state authorities are renewing their campaign to track down and bring Joanne Chesimard — widely known as Assata Shakur — to the states to finish serving her sentence after being convicted of killing State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1977. Shakur fled to Cuba in 1984.
"We continue to work closely with the FBI towards the capture of Joanne Chesimard, a convicted felon and fugitive who escaped from jail in 1979 and remains on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List, as well as New Jersey’s Most Wanted List," State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said, according to NJ.com. "We stand by the reward money and hope that the total of two million dollars will prompt fresh information in the light of the altered relationship."
The member of the Black Liberation Party was granted asylum by President Fidel Castro when she arrived in the country. Shakur escaped Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979 with help from other members of the Black Liberation Army.
In 2013, the FBI announced that Shakur was the first woman on its list of most wanted terrorists. The reward for her capture was set at $2 million.
President Obama addressed the U.S. and President Castro addressed Cuba Tuesday outlining details of a new diplomatic relationship that includes loosening previous travel and economic constraints between the countries that have been in place since the 1960s.
"We continue to work closely with the FBI towards the capture of Joanne Chesimard, a convicted felon and fugitive who escaped from jail in 1979 and remains on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List, as well as New Jersey’s Most Wanted List," State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said, according to NJ.com. "We stand by the reward money and hope that the total of two million dollars will prompt fresh information in the light of the altered relationship."
The member of the Black Liberation Party was granted asylum by President Fidel Castro when she arrived in the country. Shakur escaped Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979 with help from other members of the Black Liberation Army.
In 2013, the FBI announced that Shakur was the first woman on its list of most wanted terrorists. The reward for her capture was set at $2 million.
President Obama addressed the U.S. and President Castro addressed Cuba Tuesday outlining details of a new diplomatic relationship that includes loosening previous travel and economic constraints between the countries that have been in place since the 1960s.
http://www.bet.com/news/national/20...ations-may-mean-prison-for-assata-shakur.html
New Jersey Authorities Want Assata Shakur Back
From Cuba to Finish Life Sentence
Now that President Obama has cooled the tension between the U.S.
and Cuba, the New Jersey FBI sees this as an opportunity to bring
back Shakur—formerly Joanne Chesimard—to finish serving her life
sentence for the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster.
SEE: http://www.theroot.com/articles/cul...r_back_from_cuba_to_finish_life_sentence.html
US Official:
Extradition of Assata Shakur From Cuba to States
Still Up for Discussion
Cuban authorities, however, have not confirmed this, and
Shakur’s attorney thinks it’s all spin by the U.S. government.
Mug shot of Assata Shakur, taken on May 2, 1973
Extradition of Assata Shakur From Cuba to States
Still Up for Discussion
Cuban authorities, however, have not confirmed this, and
Shakur’s attorney thinks it’s all spin by the U.S. government.
Mug shot of Assata Shakur, taken on May 2, 1973
The U.S. is not letting the matter of getting Assata Shakur extradited back to the States go gently into that good night, despite being told numerous times that Cuban officials have said that the topic is off the table.
According to State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke, now that President Barack Obama has moved the diplomatic ball further by taking Cuba off a list of nations that sponsor terrorism, the status of Shakur and other convicts who sought asylum in Cuba will be up for discussion, NorthJersey.com reports.
Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1977. She escaped prison and in 1984 was granted political asylum by Cuba, where she’s lived ever since.
On Wednesday the State Department said that talks with Cuban officials included mention of Shakur. However, Cuban officials have not responded to media inquiries about whether that’s true and, if so, what was actually said about the possibility of extraditing Shakur back to the U.S.
There is speculation that the State Department is giving greater weight to that possibility than what was actually discussed regarding Shakur.
Shakur’s lawyer, Lennox Hinds, a professor at Rutgers University, thinks that’s the case. “I think it is a spin being put out by the U.S. government. I have no reason to give any credence to it,” Hinds said. He told NorthJersey.com that Cuban authorities recently told him that Shakur’s political asylum would not be revoked.
Read more at NorthJersey.com.
According to State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke, now that President Barack Obama has moved the diplomatic ball further by taking Cuba off a list of nations that sponsor terrorism, the status of Shakur and other convicts who sought asylum in Cuba will be up for discussion, NorthJersey.com reports.
Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1977. She escaped prison and in 1984 was granted political asylum by Cuba, where she’s lived ever since.
On Wednesday the State Department said that talks with Cuban officials included mention of Shakur. However, Cuban officials have not responded to media inquiries about whether that’s true and, if so, what was actually said about the possibility of extraditing Shakur back to the U.S.
There is speculation that the State Department is giving greater weight to that possibility than what was actually discussed regarding Shakur.
Shakur’s lawyer, Lennox Hinds, a professor at Rutgers University, thinks that’s the case. “I think it is a spin being put out by the U.S. government. I have no reason to give any credence to it,” Hinds said. He told NorthJersey.com that Cuban authorities recently told him that Shakur’s political asylum would not be revoked.
Read more at NorthJersey.com.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/new...ing_assata_shakur_back.html?wpisrc=topstories
Tupac Shakur death was a dog whistle murder for Assata Shakur. No question, that if you kill a cop and get political asylum somewhere that your family will be targeted.
The government has planted fake informant reports, foster rivalries (Malcolm X, Bunchy Carter) and used other tactics to set people up for murder. This dog whistle resulted in Biggie murder to make it look like an East and West rivalry.
The government has planted fake informant reports, foster rivalries (Malcolm X, Bunchy Carter) and used other tactics to set people up for murder. This dog whistle resulted in Biggie murder to make it look like an East and West rivalry.
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