PLZ READ RE: OJORE REGISTRY, 12/18/09

FORWARD!

Our warmest holiday wishes and solidarity to everyone who has 
participated in helping Ojore settle into his new home and for your 
patience and perseverance with all of the problems.

Orders are still not reaching Ojore's apartment, they are still being 
returned to Target and being refunded. As far as we can tell this is 
not anyone's fault but some problem between UPS and Ojore's building.

SO PLEASE, don't give up. You've come this far. If you're 
participating, IF/WHEN YOU RECEIVE YOUR REFUND (AN EMAIL FROM no-
reply@target.com) PLEASE GIVE IT BACK AS A DONATION OF EQUAL OR 
GREATER VALUE.

Point your browser to
https://www.paypal.com/

and send your donation online to the email address 
"timABCF@aol.com" (Tim Fasnacht). Make sure to add in the notes 
section that your donation is for "OJORE LUTALO".  If you'd prefer to 
stay anonymous or are donating in the name of an organization, let us 
know.

If you still haven't participated in the gift drive, here's one last 
chance to be on the right side of history in regard to one particular 
warrior.

Direct questions and concerns to TimABCF [at] ABCF [dot] com. Unless 
of course something IS going on with the online registry that you 
want us to know about in which case you want to email nycabc [at] 
riseup [dot] net.

Thanks again!

Solidarity and Struggle!

Philadelphia ABCF
NYC ABCF



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REPOST FAR AND WIDE:

OJORE HAS MOVED IN

NOW IS THE TIME TO HELP WITH THE REMAINING ITEMS

HELP ex-POW OJORE LUTALO MAKE A NEW HOME ON THE OUTSIDE

In Northern Ireland, despite compromises and setbacks to the
revolutionary tradition, there is still an organization called, Teach
na Failte (Welcome Home), an ex-POWs organization for former
republican socialist prisoners that has helped with housing,
employment, and the many difficult transitions that prisoners, and
especially POWs, face when finally released to the minimum custody
here on the outside.

Unfortunately there is no such organization for New Afrikan and/or
Anarchist Prisoners of War held in the US. We, the movement
community, are the only support they have.

For anyone who aligns themselves with New Afrikan struggle,
Anarchism, anti-imperialism, or any of the above, Ojore Lutalo is a
warrior and comrade who has made conscious sacrifices and paid with
his freedom without compromise or regret.

Now they have finally released him, as he's served the maximum time
of his sentence and then some.

Now, more than ever, it is time to support him.

Help him put together his new home on the outside.

To make a donation without selecting an item from the gift registry,
checks or money orders payable to Tim Fasnacht can be sent to:

Philadelphia ABCF
Post Office Box 42129
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101

Solidarity and Struggle!

-- THE ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS FEDERATION (ABCF)

Registry Contact- nycabc [at] riseup [dot] net
(ABCF-NYC)

Donation Contact- TimABCF [at] aol [dot] com
(ABCF- Philadelphia)

ABCF.net


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Anarchist, New Afrikan political prisoner Ojore Lutalo was recently
released from prison. He served 26 years, most of it in isolation, or
"the hole," all in the service of revolutionary struggle. The NYC
branch of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation has set up a gift
registry to insure that of the challenges of shifting from prisoner
to civilian, having basic apartment furnishings is not among them.
New Afrikan Anarchist Political Prisoner, Ojore N. Lutalo, is out
after 26 years of imprisonment!

Ojore Lutalo was 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 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..." "After my parole violation sentence terminated
in December 1987, I started serving a forty year sentence with a
twenty year parole ineligibility (I was paroled in 1980, and I have
been back in captivity since April 20, 1982) that I have received in
1982 for having a gun-fight with a drug dealer. The overall strategy
of assaulting a drug dealer is to secure monies to finance one's
activities, and to rid the oppressed communities of drug dealers."

Ojore was originally arrested with New Afrikan prisoner of war Kojo
Bomani Sababu, and was struggling with comrade Andaliwa Clark.
Andaliwa was killed in action within the confines of New Jersey's
infamous Trenton State Prison after he shot two of the prison's
security guards in the repressive Management Control Unit (M.C.U.) on
January 19th, 1976 when they tried to stop him from escaping from
captivity. Ojore was a comrade of the late Kuwasi Balagoon, a New
Afrikan anarchist prisoner of war, and states, "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." "I was... influenced and highly motivated by the Black
Liberation Army (B.L.A.) here in Amerika.