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Bunchy Carter and John Huggins: The Untold Truth Behind the Black Panther US Organization Conflict

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as AntiBlackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison

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Today is Day 1 in the 100 Day Local History Challenge over on my Patreon.

I’ll never forget sitting in class with one of my history professors told us “The civil rights movement looked different everywhere.” It was not until much later I soaked in his words and realized that he telling us that the many global freedom struggles of the futurepast were not fought and won by those we venerate as “the firsts” or “the faces of a movement” but by the many local collectives and communities who built solidarities of love and liberation.

An extension of my earlier series #KnowYourState, #ReadLikeAnAbolitionist is a call to community. A demand for steeping our everyday resistance, be that organizing collective boycotts and sit-ins against gentrification or genocide or crafting community pantries, freedom schools, or victory gardens that share nourishment, knowledge, and solidarity, or all of the above and beyond, the time is now to arm your minds, upRoot your miseducation, and recover the many tactics, traditions, and tapestries of freedom making that taught our communities how to resist, rise, reimagine, and rebuild.

Come learn with me this #BlackAugust and beyond with digital lessons, self-guided downloads, community workshops, and book recommendations (for days!) over at www.patreon.com/uprootedgarden.

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Black August: Our resistance is essential

By Gloria Verdieu

Black August is a month to commemorate and tell the history of those African men and women brutalized, locked up, and killed by the U.S. criminal justice system. Those courageous freedom fighters sacrificed their livelihood in the ongoing struggle for liberation and a better life for all humanity.

In San Diego, we highlighted historical markers of Black resistance in August past and present. We emphasized that historic acts of struggle, resistance, and courage occur every month of the year, every day of the week, every hour of every day by workers and oppressed people all over the world; our Resistance is essential.

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Assata: An Autobiograhy - Assata Shakur

Hello friends!

I’m incredibly excited for this week’s recommendation as we start Black August, a month dedicated to highlighting the history of revolutionary Black political prisoners and their comrades in and outside the US. I’ll be highlighting a crucial radical Black woman’s experience today: “Assata: An Autobiography” by Assata Olugbala Shakur.

While Assata needs no introduction, here’s a quick biography before delving into the text. Assata Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16, 1947, is a New Afrikan revolutionary and former member of the Black Liberation Army and Black Panther Party. She grew up between New York and North Carolina, experiencing the worst of Jim Crow, and was radicalized by the Vietnam War in college. After joining the BLA for a while, she was present in a shootout on a New Jersey Turnpike that left a state trooper dead in 1973. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, but she escaped in 1979 and fled to Cuba, where she was granted political asylum and lives in to this day.

There are too many aspects of Assata's storied history to highlight here, all of which deserve serious reflection. I'll start by noting her incredible bravery and fortitude throughout her harrowing encounters with white supremacy, patriarchal violence, and settler capitalism in and out of prison. As her name shows, she is one who thankfully struggles for the people.

Her position as a socialist revolutionary is important to highlight. She was a part of a militant black freedom struggle rooted in communist thought which sought to upend global imperialism and colonialism to free all peoples, especially black women as some of the most exploited Third World Women (seeing New Afrika as a colony). She also criticized white chauvinist elements of the Left which sadly still exist.

I also want to mention her solidarity with Lolita Lebrón, an incredibly important Puerto Rican nationalist, in prison when no one else would. She knew that decolonization for Puerto Rico was a part of a global struggle for liberation.

I highly recommend everyone read this book to gain first-hand insight into a Black revolutionary's struggle for freedom!