Looking Back... How Newark welfare mothers brought about a necessary change in the community.

With No One To Help Us (1967)

Documantary demonstrating how the formation of a food-buying club by a group of
Newark welfare mothers brought about a necessary change in the community.
Nice images of African-American neighborhood in Newark.

This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Production Company: U. S. Office Of Economic Opportunity
Sponsor: Head Start Programs
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Keywords: need keyword
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

The Attica prison Protest and Massacre

Attica: A Political Broadcast (November 8, 2011)
Some very telling dialog here.

On Sept. 13, 1971, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller ordered armed state troopers to raid the prison in Attica, New York, ending a prison uprising to protest inhumane conditions at the facility. Troopers then indiscriminately shot over 2,000 rounds of ammunition, killing 29 prisoners and 10 guards. Recently released audio recordings provide a glimpse into the bizarre savage rituals of US federal and local rulers coming together.

"I think the combination of age and a greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing time."
--Sam Melville, from a letter written shortly before he was killed by troopers in Attica

Complete audio of Rockefeller-Nixon Attica dialogue available at:
http://www.archive.org/details/AtticaUprisingTheRockefeller-nixonTapes


This movie is part of the collection: Community Video

Producer: junya
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: attica; prison uprising; rockefeller; nixon; massacre
Contact Information: https://www.youtube.com/user/justJunya

Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal

Assata ... are there POWs in US Prisons?

In these times when people are planting bombs, committing mass murders, stealing billions of dollars at a clip from the economic system and trying to dissasemble our basic civil rights. Who exactly decided that Assata Shakur, isolated in Cuba as she is, can really be one of the ten most dangerous threats and how could they justify this? Excuse me, did I say most dangerous? I guess most wanted is a little different. How different do you think?

 Some people such as those in the following video, believe that the featured people have been subjected to political arrests and assassinations, do you think this is true?

Political Prisoners and POWs in the U.S


The lives and words of Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers, and the Puerto Rican Independentistas are the framework for the histories of Geronimo Pratt, Dylcia Pagan, Mumia Abu Jamal and Alejandrina Torres. The isolation, physical abuse and injustice endured by the young activists trapped by COINTELPRO twenty years ago make a mockery of United States human rights policies. With Assata Shakur and William Morales, they are powerful voices for justice and self-determination. Coordinating Producers: Ada Gay Griffin (NY, NY)

The Birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal April 24

FREE MUMIA!
Click here for link to see Who is Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Central Park 5 Delayed Justice

Audio: 

Buiding Bridges: The Central Park Five, Exonerated But Justice Still Denied!  

Building Bridges, National Edition

Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash 

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The Central Park Five, Exonerated But Justice Still Denied!

with

Yusef Salaam, exoneree

Sharonne Salaam, parent

Roger Wareham, attorney

A long-delayed $250 million NYC civil suit finally goes to trial this year â 

putting the reputations of some of the cityâs most powerful on the line. 

After 22 years the then teens, Kharey Wise, Kevin Richardson, 

Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, are no longer 

convicted felons or registered sex offenders, but theyâre still best known 

as the Central Park 5. Each served from 7 to 13 years in prison for a rape

they didnât commit, after Mayor Koch, the police, prosecutors and the 

media, along with mogul Donald Trump, who actively advocated for the 

death penalty for the youth, whipped the city into a racist lynch mob. Now, 

22 years and counting, after five convictions, and then one shocking 

confession that upended the lives of all involved the Central Park jogger 

case is about to break open again â pitting the cityâs most powerful 

crime fighters against each other and the teens they wrongly jailed for 

the attack, who still await justice.