Chairman Omali Yeshitela to participate in ‘No to NATO; Yes to Peace’ Festival!

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Washington, DC—On Wednesday, April 3, 2019, Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will be speaking at the ‘No to NATO; Yes to Peace’ Festival, an event which the Coalition has officially endorsed. The ‘No to NATO; Yes to Peace’ Festival is a weekend of activities that are being held by World BEYOND War to unwelcome the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as they meet in D.C. on this same weekend to mark 70 years since their creation. In an email requesting the Black is Back Coalition to endorse the festival, World BEYOND War stated: “NATO is the largest military alliance in the world with the largest military spending and nuclear stockpiles. While claiming…

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The New Abolitionist Movement requests your help! 2,000 men in Angola prison serving 10-2 sentences will die in prison

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Louisiana Jim Crow Law Overturned --click on these links  for the full story n-unanimous jury scheme: The men at Angola State Penitentiary take a stand https://sfbayview.com/2018/12/the-men-at-angola-state-penitentiary-take-a-stand/ Non-unanimous jury scheme: The men at Angola State Penitentiary take a stand--Referred to during the election campaign as “the shame of our state,” the non-unanimous jury scheme will no longer be used in Louisiana courts, but it was not applied retroactively. So the approximately 2,000 people serving 10-2 sentences will die in prison unless the law can “get all the way right,” ... The state is not cooperating and is sealing all jury polling records to hide the truth of the Black lives unjustly taken and still incarcerated by the non-unanimous jury scheme.------ Non-unanimous jury scheme: The men…

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The Black is Back Coalition endorses No To Nato Apr 4th, DC

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) plans a summit, or at least a “celebration” in Washington, D.C., April 4, 2019, to mark 70 years since its creation on April 4, 1949. We plan a peace festival to advocate the abolition of NATO, the promotion of peace, the redirection of resources to human and environmental needs, the demilitarization of our cultures, and the commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech against war on April 4, 1967, as well as his assassination on April 4, 1968. While Donald Trump once blurted out the obvious: that NATO is obsolete, he subsequently professed his commitment to NATO and began pressuring NATO members to buy more weapons. So, the notion that somehow NATO is anti-Trump and…

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