journalspectre.bsky.social
Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist. https://linktr.ee/spectrejournal
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@journalspectre.bsky.social“On the morning of April 2, 1969, more than 150 NYPD officers executed a mass arrest of sixteen members of the New York [Black Panther]chapter…” 21 Panthers were charged with plotting to kill cops, bomb police stations, rail stations, department stores, government offices etc. #history
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Show PostThe FBI, the CIA, and the police tracked DC wherever he traveled; eventually, a 1969 court order limited his movements to New York and San Francisco. After a warrant for his arrest on a conspiracy charge over the killing of an informant in Baltimore, he had to get out or get under.
Show PostNext year they were joined by the man who would become a personal hero of mine: Don Cox, the head of the Panther military establishment. He was Afro-sensational, tall, handsome, intelligent. We called him DC.
Show PostSome of the Panthers’ executive members had arrived with a load of literature about themselves and Black America to distribute to the teeming crowds that gathered at the Panther storefront.
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