OscailtFormer Black Panther to Speak in DublinThe Anarchist Bookfair 2009 is being held in Liberty Hall on March 7th. This year, the Workers Solidarity Movement are proud to announce US Anarchist Ashanti Alston will be speaking. Ashanti was a member of the Black Panther Party in the sixties and early 1970's. As a political prisoner he spent over a decade in US prisons. Ashanti has since become an anarchist while still drawing on many of his experiences and ideas that spurred him on as a Black Panther activist.
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2009-02-02T10:38:27+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=90924http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifOld Panther Dochttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/90924#comment2446972009-02-02T10:38:27+00:00newsreel fan..Black Panthers, Dead Prez and movementshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/90924#comment2447072009-02-02T11:49:39+00:00migrationDead Prez on the ball again with samples from Black Panthers Dead Prez on the ball again with samples from Black Panthers Site security warninghttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/90924#comment2447242009-02-02T15:02:57+00:00Aragon[My puter wouldnt let me play the interview with Ashanti - Error code C00D11E4]....[My puter wouldnt let me play the interview with Ashanti - Error code C00D11E4]. <br />
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Noam Chomsky has said that he thought the COINTELPRO campaign was disgracefully neglected by the US media at the time and since. He feels that it was far more important than, for instance, the Watergate farce which he thinks was basically a hoo ha because Nixon upset some powerful corporate types i.e. a squabble about something relatively trivial in comparison to what was being done to the Black Panthers and other groups. Here's Chomsky challenging the BBC's then Senior Political Correspondent, Andrew Marr about it:<br />
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"Marr ...moved on to Watergate, generally assumed to be the classic example of how the free press can humble the powers that be. After all, Marr said, "This brought down a president." Chomsky, however, argues that Watergate is a perfect example of just how servile the press is to power. Watergate is, he has said elsewhere, "small potatoes" compared to what the state secret police - the FBI - had long been doing to socialist, black and women's movements under the COINTELPRO programme. "Sorry, you'll have to explain that," Marr chipped in. "Exactly!" Chomsky replied. He had to explain the meaning of COINTELPRO, whereas Marr knew all about Watergate.<br />
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What Marr did not know about was a huge campaign of political subversion that went all the way from bugging, theft and sabotage, to political assassination organized by the FBI under four administrations. By comparison, the Republican Watergate shenanigans were a side-show. The reason the latter became headline news was, as Chomsky explained, that one half of US political power started to mess with the other half, and that is not allowed - hence the fall of Nixon and widespread press coverage.<br />
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Watergate showed, not that the US has a free press, but that powerful interests in the US are capable of defending themselves against attack. By contrast, when minority movements without power are attacked, there is no way through the propaganda system and the facts go unreported. Thus, once again, in a way completely contrary to the common understanding, Chomsky argued that:<br />
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"There couldn't be a more dramatic example of the subordination of educated opinion to power in England, as well as in the United States." "<br />
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Ashanti the Anarchisthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/90924#comment2447752009-02-02T22:15:49+00:00anarcho-syndicalistAshanti is an Anarchist and FORMER Black Panther, check out his website, it is l...Ashanti is an Anarchist and FORMER Black Panther, check out his website, it is linked to a post above.What time is he speaking?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/90924#comment2454822009-02-11T13:46:32+00:00Tom..Timehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/90924#comment2465572009-03-01T11:26:14+00:00J.1pm, Saturday March 7th, Liberty Hall.
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