Repression Breedz Resistance: The Black Liberation Army and the Radical Legacy of the Black Panther Party

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by Akinyele Omowale Umoja
Georgia State University

Abstract Recent scholarship argues the Black Panther Party (BPP) existed from 1966
to 1982. Many activists and scholars argue that the BPP only existed as a revolutionary
organization from 1966 until 1971, in the initial period of its existence. A significant
part of the BPP’s legacy is the development of and participation in armed resistance in
response to a governmental counter-insurgency campaign. As some BPP members
committed themselves to involvement in clandestine resistance, this radical response
accelerated the development of the armed movement called the Black Liberation Army.
The focus of this study is to examine the influence and participation of BPP members
and supporters on the revolutionary armed movement, the Black Liberation Army. This
study asserts the activity of the radical faction of the BPP through the form of the Black
Liberation Army existed just as long as the Oakland-based Panthers, perhaps…

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Politikal Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim iz in the SHU!

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Once again, Jalil is facing retaliation from the CO’s at Attica on a First Amendment issue of freedom of speech. Teaching true Black History should not lead to punishment and isolation in the SHU!

From Nate Buckley on 12/8/16: Greetings, I just got word from someone who visited Jalil today that he has been in the SHU since Monday night. He was teaching Black History on Mondays and was talking about the Black Panther Party, since he had reached the period of the 1960s and 1970s in his Black History course. The authorities didn’t like what he was saying, so Jalil was placed in the SHU with 5 charges. The specifics are unclear, but Jalil wanted to get the word out. He said he most likely will have a hearing in the next week. Jalil has also been having serious problems with tampering with his mail, so this makes the…

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M. Wesley Swearigen in FBI Secrets: An Agent’s Expose (1995)

Long Live the Spirits of Mark Clark and Fred Hampton!!!
Long Live the Legacy of the Black Panther Party!!!

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M. Wesley Swearigen in FBI Secrets: An Agent’s Expose (1995)

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There is a lounge at the FBI National Academy which sells low-alcohol beer in the evening after classes, but no hard liquor. Gregg York and I had finished a few pitchers of beer one night as we discussed old times. I don’t recall just how the subject of the Black Panther Party came up. I may have started the conversation by comparing the work on the Los Angeles racial squad to the bag jobs Gregg and I had done in Chicago.

I told York that some agents in Los Angeles had informants who had assassinated Black Panther members and I told him how Geronimo Pratt had been framed for murder and had been sentenced to life in prison.

York grinned and said he had a better story than that.

York told me about the December 1969 raid on the…

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