tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post3843220099355000251..comments2024-03-06T12:16:49.012-05:00Comments on Fire on the Mountain: SomeThoughts on RepressionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-53852433367688787412006-12-06T09:38:00.000-05:002006-12-06T09:38:00.000-05:00y friend Dennis asked me to come and re-post an em...y friend Dennis asked me to come and re-post an email I circulated on Chairman Fred, so here it is. I appreciated your comments connecting Fred's murder with Oaxaca by the way.<br /><br />bryan<br /><br />> I stayed up late last night attempting to write an essay. I wanted to write a tribute to Fred Hampton on the eve of the 37th anniversary of his brutal murder by the soldiers of the Cook County DA’s office in Chicago. I wanted to connect the state’s taking his life with the recent murders of Kathryn Johnston, Sean Bell, Peyton Strickland, and too many others in the last few weeks, by the various police departments of cities across the country. I wanted to mark Chairman Fred and Mark Clark’s death so that we would remember their lives and connect our struggles with the struggles that they gave their lives for.<br />> It just broke my heart. I couldn’t make it happen.<br />> So instead, I spent two of my class periods today talking with my students about Fred Hampton’s life and showing them a documentary that was intended to be about his life, but ended up being about his death. I have included the link to the film below, and encourage y’all to take a moment to check out just a few moments of this beautiful revolutionary that was taken from us a few months into his 22nd year on this planet. Watching him for 2 minutes makes me know that the we're going to win, that this will all end one day.<br />><br />> As Fred said himself, “You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail a revolution. You might run a liberator…out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out the country. You might murder a freedom fighter…, but you can’t murder freedom fightin.”<br />> They might have murdered Fred and Mark Clark 37 years ago, but they cannot murder our struggle.<br />> Peace y’all<br />> Bryan<br />> http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=450Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15549801516145219182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-78702579084719007732006-12-06T00:04:00.000-05:002006-12-06T00:04:00.000-05:00Tami Gold got in touch to ask me to deliver two qu...Tami Gold got in touch to ask me to deliver two quick messages:<br /><br />First, the extremely powerful video LAND, RAIN & FIRE: REPORT FROM OAXACA that she and her colleague Gerardo Renique just completed can be ordered on dvd from Third World Newsreel at www.twn.org or 212 947-9277.<br /><br />Second, for those readers who are in the New York area should bend every effort to attend THE FIRST NYC MEETING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLES OF OAXACA, MEXICO<br /><br />Thursday, Dec. 14th, 7:30PM<br />Hunter College<br />Rm 436 North Building – 4th floor<br />(enter 69th street between Lexington & Park Avenues)Jimmy Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16032194600141427172noreply@blogger.com