Harlem Demonstration against U.S. $2 million bounty on LIFE OF ASSATA

Thursday, MAY 9 from 5 to 7 pm

Front of Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building:

125th St. & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. (7th Avenue)

The Black is Back Coalition (BIBC) and a coalition of left and progressive forces will demonstrate against the State's $2 million 'dead or alive' bounty on the life of Assata Shakur, a former political prisoner who was granted political asylum in Cuba in 1984. 

In addition, BIBC will denounce the FBI placing Shakur on its most wanted domestic terrorist list.

Shakur was among hundreds of Black political freedom fighters selectively targeted by the FBI COINTELPRO campaign.

After her arrest in 1973, New York & New Jersey indicted Shakur on ten counts that resulted in 3 dismissals, 3 acquittals, and 1 hung jury before her conviction by an all-white jury.

In 1979 an international body of jurists representing the United Nations Commission on Human Rights placed her in a class of victims of FBI misconduct through the COINTELPRO strategy and other forms of illegal government conduct. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!!

Endorsements: The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee, Occupy Harlem, Peoples Organization for Progress (New Jersey), Glen Ford (Black Agenda Report), International Peoples Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) â€"NYC Diop Olugbala â€" nPDUM President, African Peoples Socialist Party â€" Newark, NJ, Students United for a Free CUNY, Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) - Sumumba Sobukwe, Lisa Davis - Chair of Black is Back Healthcare Committee, Stop Stop and Frisk Freedom Fighters, International Action Center, The Peoples Survival Program, Workers World Party (Partial list).