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Letâs not forget Zulu!
January 2, 2021
by Annabelle Parker, Chairperson, Free Zulu European Team
I recently heard that Brother Jalil Muntaqim, aka Anthony Bottom, was released from a New York plantation â prison â after serving nearly 50 years for a 1971 double police murder in Harlem, N.Y., in 1971. His co-defendant, Herman Bell, was released on parole in 2018. Other political prisoners, including the Move 9, have also been freed after decades.
This got me thinking about our beloved brother Kenny Zulu Whitmore, who is himself one of those Black Liberation Radicals convicted in the 1970s. Zulu has been incarcerated for 46 years as of Oct. 24, 2020, being falsely accused of a political murder of the mayor of a small rural community in the parish of East Baton Rouge, La.
Black Panther in struggle: The continued imprisonment of Russell Maroon Shoatz
By Ted Kelly posted on December 23, 2020
Since 1972 nearly half a century ago Russell Maroon Shoatz has languished in a prison cell built on stolen land, poisoned and irradiated by the fossil fuel industry.
A Black Panther Party member and soldier in the Black Liberation Army, Shoatz was falsely accused of killing a cop in the Cobbs Creek area of Philadelphia in 1970.
His family, pillars of their community, have tirelessly fought for his release and carried Maroon’s revolutionary message through the years, whether in solidarity with MOVE, Mumia Abu-Jamal, George Floyd, Walter Wallace Jr., or other struggles demanding justice.