From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:07 PM Subject: Breakdown FM: Black Panthers Still In Effect After 40 Years!
click here to listen to Interviews http://odeo.com/audio/2180391/view pt 1 http://odeo.com/audio/2180907/view pt 2 http://odeo.com/audio/2181833/view pt 3 This past weekend, the city of Oakland came alive as several hundred rank and file members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense came to town to celebrate their 40th anniversary. The atmosphere and overall mood was electric and moving. One can't help but have a greater appreciation for the types of sacrifices the Panthers made on our behalf. Keep in mind many of their members were 18, 19 and 20 years old when they joined and fearlessly went up against the police to put an end to police brutality. At the same time they selflessly served the community by setting up free health clinics and serving free lunch and breakfast in schools. In these interviews we caught up with well known panthers like Bobby McCall who joined the Philadelphia chapter in 1970 when he was 20 years old. McCall who is father to Digital Underground member Money B noted that his son was just 6 months old when the Panther headquarters were raided under the leadership of police commissioner Frank Rizzo who he described as a racist fascist. He noted that the Panthers were made to strip naked on the sidewalk and were brutalized in front of the community. This backfired and caused the community to solidly get behind the Panthers. McCall noted that incident inspired him to join. He explains the inner workings of the chapter and talks about the programs they launched. He also talks about the Panthers' connection to Hip Hop. He recounts how he and others went out to raise money for the New York 21 which included 2Pac's mom Afeni Shakur. Bobby talked about remembering how she was pregnant at the time with Pac. We sat down and spoke with Tareka Lewis who was the first female to join the Black Panthers. Tareka gives in in-depth run down of the intense racism that the Panthers were up against. She talks in detail about the Ku Klux Klan and their ongoing activities in Oakland. She talks about how the Klan used to hold meetings in Oakland and as time went on many of those rascists and their supporters were recruited and joined Oakland and neighboring police departments. She also talks in great detail about the systematic dismantling of Oakland's and San Francisco's historic Black downtown districts under eminent domain laws around the time the Panthers formed. We spoke with Ronald "Elder" Freeman out of Los Angeles and he talked about the brutal conditions and police force that existed in LA that lead up to the forming of the Panthers and the infamous Watts Riots. He also talked about the formation of LA's gangs and how they were born in reaction to white gangs like the Spook Hunters which used to terrorize Black folks living in South Central. He talked about how the Panthers worked to politicize the gangs. We spoke with former panther Ayanna Adae to get an update on the plight of 2Pac's godmother Assata Shakur who is exiled in Cuba and has a one million dollar bounty over her head. We talked about the reasons the US government has been so relentless in pursuing Panthers 30 years after the fact. http://odeo.com/audio/2180391/view pt 1 In part 2 we interview former Panther Malik Rahim out of New Orleans about the work he's done in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as well as the history of the Panthers in New Orleans. We start off the segment with a speech from H. Rap Brown http://odeo.com/audio/2180907/view pt 2 In part 3 we talk with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr of the POCC about the current state of politics and how we should be honoring the Panthers. We also get an in-depth breakdown about the Panthers on the East Coast. We speak with several members of the Boston, New Bedford, and New Haven chapters http://odeo.com/audio/2181833/view pt 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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