Today in Labor History, February 17, 1942: Huey Newton was born. Together with Bobby Seale, he cofounded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, in Oakland, 1966. They did armed patrols of African American communities to defend them from police violence. They started free breakfast programs for children that became the model for federal programs that came later. Despite accusations that he was a rapist, he was also a fierce critic of sexism, and homophobia, and called on the Panthers to give full support to both the Feminist and LGBTQ movements.

For a really great book on the Panthers' house band, The Lumpen, check out Party Music, by Ricky Vincent.

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Trump's G Men to SF Primer
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Trump is just making obvious what Huey knew all along
https://archive.org/details/pra-BB5413B [26:00]
"police are extensions of the military" and are
"local armies"

Secret Police, Blue Cities "made their own bed"
Creating the Problem to Solve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smfNgR_jPEc
287G Federal Deputize
https://www.ice.gov/identify-and-arrest/287g

Mark Neocleous
https://enainstitute.org/en/publication/mark-neocleous-capitalism-was-created-by-the-police-power-interview-at-ena-institute/
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The wild true-ish story of #HueyNewton smuggling himself out of America with the help of a Hollywood producer who wanted to be Warren Beatty. #AlessandroNivola, Tiffany Boone, and PJ Byrne talk The Big Cigar, the real Black Panther legacy, and the joke that PJ still loves: “I hated Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid!”

https://www.lpm.org/music/2024-06-22/the-big-cigar-cast-on-the-black-panthers-what-they-cared-about-was-bettering-their-community

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INTRODUCING BLUEPRINT 1:1 – DAWUNA

Did an #interview with Ian Mugerwa, aka #dawuna about navigating life as an artist, #selfproducing music with limited resources, and how #literature informs his perspective.

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https://www.fromheretillnow.com/zine/dawuna-interview

Today in Labor History April 15, 1986: Author Jean Genet died on this day. Genet was a novelists, political activist and petty criminal. His book, The Thief’s Journal (1949), relates his experiences as a young prostitute and thief. That same year, the authorities tried to sentence him to life in prison for his ten convictions. Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Picasso successfully petitioned the government on his behalf. In 1968, Genet was censored in the U.S. and expelled from the country after they refused him a visa. But he returned in 1970, upon an invitation by the Black Panthers. He stayed three months, giving lectures and attending the trial of Huey Newton. Later that year, he went to Palestine and visited refugee camps. He supported U.S. political prisoners Angela Davis and George Jackson. He also supported the anti-prison, anti-police brutality work of Michel Foucault, in France.

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Song of the Day February 17 2024

In remembrance of the birth of Huey Newton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._Newton

Huey P. Newton Interviewed in Jail during the John Frey trial

https://youtu.be/0_bDYXtnYKs?si=0ynQY-M8hvfHKIXk

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