"My name is Assata ("she who struggles") Shakur ("the thankful one"), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government's policy towards people of color. I am an ex political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984. I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in various struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights movement, and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I joined the Black Panther Party. By 1969 the Black Panther Party had become the number one organization targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO program. because the Black Panther Party demanded the total liberation of black people, J. Edgar Hoover called it "greatest threat to the internal security of the country" and vowed to destroy it and its leaders and activists.”
"My name is Angela Davis, I am a radical black activist and philosopher, was arrested as a suspected conspirator in the abortive attempt to free George Jackson from a courtroom in Marin County, California, August 7, 1970. The guns used were registered in my name. HOWEVER I was eventually acquitted of all charges, but was briefly on the FBI's most-wanted list as I fled from arrest.
I'm often associated with the Black Panthers and the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. I joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. And was very active with SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) before the Black Panthers. I also ran for U.S. Vice President on the Communist Party ticket in 1980, Never stop fighting for what you believe in".
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