NYC Sat Nov 8th, New Afrikan Anarchism! A Benefit for Ojore Lutalo!

New Afrikan Anarchism, Yesterday and Tomorrow

To benefit the release fund of New Afrikan Anarchist Prisoner of War,
 Ojore Lutalo!

Saturday November 8th

7:30pm at the Sixth Street Community Center
638 E 6th St, between Avenues B and C, in Manhattan
sixthstreetcenter.org
8-10$ Suggested Donation

with Kazembe Balagun, writer, activist, teacher, and biographer of 
the late New Afrikan Anarchist freedom fighter Kuwasi Balagun

Screening of FRAME-UP: THE IMPRISONMENT OF MARTIN SOSTRE (1973)

Refreshments will be served

This is event is brought to you by NYC Anarchist Black Cross and 
friends and is part of the fundraising weekend for Ojore Lutalo 
called for by the Anarchist Black Cross Federation.

Longtime New Afrikan Anarchist Prisoner of War, Ojore N. Lutalo, is 
set to be released after 26 years of confinement in the New Jersey 
State Prison, having completed the maximum amount of time the State 
of New Jersey could hold him. While his exact release date is not 
finalized, it will most likely be late November or December. Money is
 needed to help Ojore secure housing, food and clothing. This 
financial assistance will allow Ojore to make the transition more 
smoothly, knowing that money and housing isn't an immediate pressing 
matter and giving him the needed time to adjust to the outside world 
he hasn't seen since 1982. The ABCF, anarchists and many PP/POW 
activists who have maintained contact and supported Ojore over the 
years have benefited immensely from the example that he has set as 
what it means to be a revolutionary. His untiring advice and 
criticism have helped many of us and our organizations grow 
politically and deepen our commitment to the struggle to free 
political prisoners and prisoners of war, as well as the broader 
struggle of building of a revolutionary movement.   It's our 
revolutionary duty to ensure Ojore has all the support he needs when 
hits the streets!
Frame Up! follows the story of Afro-Puerto Rican political activist 
Martin Sostre who served time in Attica prison during the early 
1960s. There, Sostre embraced doctrines as diverse as Black Islam, 
Black Nationalism, Internationalism, and finally anarchism. Arrested 
on July 14, 1967, at his Afro-Asian bookstore in Buffalo for sale and
 possession of narcotics, riot, arson, and assault--charges later 
proven to be fabricated and part and parcel of a COINTELPRO program 
in full swing--he was convicted and sentenced to serve forty-one 
years and thirty days.  Sostre became a jailhouse lawyer and 
regularly acted as legal counsel to other inmates, including winning 
two landmark legal cases involving prisoner rights: Sostre v. 
Rockefeller and Sostre v. Otis. According to Sostre, these decisions 
constituted "a resounding defeat for the establishment which will now
 find it exceedingly difficult to torture with impunity the
thousands  of captive black (and white) political prisoners illegally
held in  their concentration camps."

Ojore Lutalo is locked down in Trenton, New Jersey, for actions 
carried out in the fight for Black Liberation. In Ojore's own words, 
he is "serving a parole violation sentence (we received 14 to 17 
years) stemming from a 1977 conviction for expropriating monies from 
a capitalist state bank (in order to finance our activities) and 
engaging the political police in a gun battle in December 1975 in 
order to effect our departure from the bank, and to ensure success of
 the military operation..."

Ojore was a comrade of the late Kuwasi Balagoon, a New Afrikan 
anarchist P.O.W. "I've been involved in the struggle, the war against
 the fascist state since 1970. I've been an anarchist since 1975 
without any regrets. Prior to my involvement in the struggle, I was 
just another apolitical lumpen (bandit) here in Amerika."



*Get Involved at the 1-2-3 Community Space!
123 Tompkins Ave btw Myrtle and Vernon, Bedstuy BK
123communityspace.org

NYC ABCF
Post Office Box 110034
Brooklyn, New York 11211

nycabc[at]riseup[dot]net
myspace.com/nycanarchistblackcross
http://www.abcf.net/

Free all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War!
For the Abolition of State Repression and Domination!