Shotgun SeamstressOct 1, 2025
Anyone else re-reading Assata’s autobiography or perhaps reading it for the first time? I’m revisiting the book for the first time in over 20 years. I’m at the part where she’s just given birth in prison. This woman’s strength was unbelievable and so is the cruelty she faced. I can’t imagine being jumped by prison guards and having to defend myself while 24 hours postpartum. #Assata
𝙉𝙤𝙖𝙝 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙛Sep 29, 2025

I missed the #news that #Assata #Shakur passed away a few days ago. I would say it's ironic that the fascists on the right are excoriating people mourning her death with the same breath they use to shout down anyone who has anything other than glowing praise to say about #CharlieKirk but there's no such thing as irony in the fascist ideology. Rules for thee but not for me.

Rather than post anything more on the topic, I thought I'd post a link to "A Song for Assata" by Common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqXrT9bU10

A Song For Assata

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Trans RitesSep 27, 2025

I just found out that Assata Shakur has passed away. Rest in Power.

This is one of my favorite quotes from her.

#assata

Show threadRonjaSep 27, 2025

Assata Shakur, black liberation activist exiled in Cuba, dies at 78
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm28yrz6502o

She was one of the few women to guide me through my young adulthood. She was someone I looked up to. Twenty years ago, I also worked in a collective bookshop called Assata.

Rest in Power
#Assata #AssataShakur #Cuba #BlackPanter #BLA #BlackHistory

Assata Shakur, black Liberation activist exiled in Cuba, dies at 78

She fled to Cuba after being convicted in the killing of a police officer but denied the shooting.

RonjaSep 27, 2025

Assata Shakur overleden.

R.I.P.

https://www.oneworld.nl/mensenrechten/waarom-je-voortvluchtig-activist-assata-shakur-1947-moet-kennen/

Als een soort eerbetoon aan haar is jaren geleden een info/boekenwinkel waar ik actief was naar haar benoemd. De boekenwinkel bestaat al lang niet meer maar zij leefde nog en dat gaf me altijd hoop.

Rest in Power.

#Assata #AssataShakur #Cuba #BlackPanter #BLA #BlackHistory

Waarom je de revo­lutio­naire activist Assata Shakur (1947-2025) moet kennen

Ze was de eerste vrouw op de beruchte FBI-lijst van gezochte terroristen, maar of dat terecht is? Activisten wereldwijd zien in de Zwarte revolutionair Assata Shakur – al meer dan veertig jaar voortvluchtig – een moedige inspiratiebron en slachtoffer van het racistische Amerikaanse politieke systeem.

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Renee SSep 26, 2025

It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.

― Assata Shakur

#RestInPower #Assata

Don Trueten Sep 26, 2025

#Assata #Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in #Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.

More on Assata Shakur

#BlackPantherParty #blackliberationarmy

Daytona SlimSep 26, 2025

A voice for freedom
She who never surrendered
Lives on forever
✊🏾
#Assata #Haiku

Rest In Power, Fellow Worker #AssataShakur

Sailor AnarresSep 26, 2025

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

#assatashakur #assata #shakur #rip

Sailor AnarresSep 26, 2025

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

#assatashakur #assata #shakur #rip