Dhoruba Bin Wahad says Democrats "wrote your own obituary" by deploying the full force of the police and passing Congressional resolutions against students protesting the genocide in Palestine
Dhoruba Bin Wahad describes being asked to go to a youth direct action discussion in Brooklyn, and asking about the organizers and being told "they took over a weapons manufacturing plant..."
"Imperialism hasn't won a battle since the end of WWII when the French tried to go back and recolonize Vietnam... before that was Korea...in fact, the Korean war is still an active conflict... my point is every effort... from the west has met w/ failure over the last 50 years..."
A short documentary is explaining the history of the FBI targeting the Black Panther Party via COINTELPRO, including Dhoruba Bin Wahad - his conviction for allegedly shooting 2 NYPD cops in 1971 was later overturned due to hidden evidence & witnesses recanting their testimony
Pam Africa describes Dhrouba Bin Wahad’s battles with illness:
“We heard Dhoruba needs help, so… we put this event together in two weeks…I am so damn glad that this brother is alive and on the front line… it’s everyone’s duty to care for revolutionaries…”
Crystal Strong of BLM Philly says those in “Black Philadelphia” should appreciate their “incredible community of intergenerational revolutionaries…connected to our veterans behind the wall” and the importance of “actively struggling to free” prisoners & supporting them upon release
Sharif El-Mekki speaks to the importance of intergenerational ties to “sustain the legacy that was built on the sacrifices” of those who struggled in the heyday of the Panthers - “we have to be assets to our community wherever we are… a sense of rage, but organize with love.”
Dhoruba Bin Wahad travels back and forth from Ghana, where he lives, to receive ongoing medical treatment - costs that those in the States who recognize his contribution to the Black liberation struggle are trying to offset by organizing today’s event
"America has the leader that it deserves at this particular point in Empire. The Empire is coming apart at the seams - the last white supremacist settler project in 500 years... they're going to lose - they've already lost."
"We've had 85 million white Americans vote for a buffoon bogus millionaire... I can't help but remember the phrases from my youth that people get the leaders they deserve."
"At this particular historical moment, imperialism has moved into a whole new stage...the last stage of neocolonialism is what we have today... they call it globalization."
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), a division of German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG, makes nuclear Dolphin submarines for the Israeli Navy along with Sa’ar 6 corvettes, warships that have been used to bomb Gaza during the ongoing genocide.