Dear friends, Wednesday Feb 21st
Nationally Syndicated Radio series, Making Contact is releasing a radio version of the video by Freedom Archives “Legacy of Torture. The War Against The Black Liberation Movement” on the torture in ‘73 and grand jury ’05 of former Black Panthers. Given the January arrests of SF8 etc. this is especially timely! MP3s etc at http://radioproject.org/archive/2007/0807.html
In the bay area it should air on KPFA 94.1FM on Friday Feb 23 at 1:30pm. See airtimes for other locations ***** or suggest to your local station that they play it as a special, (it’s free!) if they don’t already carry Making Contact every week. Nat’l & Internat’l Airtimes at http://radioproject.org/listen/
Legacy of Torture #08-07
In 1971, John Young, a San Francisco police officer was killed. Members of the Black Panther party were arrested, charged and then tortured by San Francisco and New Orleans police. Since the police used torture to extract their confessions, eventually, the charges were dismissed. Now more than 35 years later, the case has been reopened. On January 23rd, 2007, some of those same men were arrested again.
In this special documentary from the Freedom Archives, we hear from some of the accused men themselves. They describe the torture and how they were targeted for their political activities.
Featuring: Ray Boudreaux, John Bowman, Richard Brown, Hank Jones, former Black Panther and Harold Taylor, former Black Panthers; Soffiyah Elijah, attorney.
For more information:
Committee for Defense of Human Rights (CDHR) (Defend the San Francisco Eight) P.O. Box 90221 Pasadena, CA 91109
626-345-4939
http://www.cdhrsupport.org
The Freedom Archives
522 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-863-9977; info@freedomarchives.org
http://www.freedomarchives.org
Center for Constitutional Rights
Report on these recent arrests and torture:
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=ktRDgqT2La&Content=927
OR
http://www.cdhrsupport.org/CCR.html
“A Legacy of Torture: From Cointelpro to the Patriot Act”
by Ron Jacobs
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/jacobs050107.html
“Arrest of Former Black Panthers Aims to Erase Revolutionary Legacy,” by Sérgio Ramires http://cdhrsupport.org/erasing_legacy.html
DemocracyNow!
³Murder Charges Against Former Black Panthers Based on Confessions Extracted by Torture² http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1559250
“John Bowman remembered at the African American Art and Culture Complex,” by Wanda Sabir http://www.cdhrsupport.org/John_Bowman_tribute.html
Profile of Richard Brown and Richard O’Neal (ABC News story)
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4964954
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The Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 863-9977
www.freedomarchives.org