General Defense Committee

Day 19 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series While the United States commemorates Harriet Tubman today, in her lifetime her struggle for the liberation of enslaved Africans had her in the crosshairs of the state. Tubman was a revolutionary military strategist and guerrilla fighter who was a…

Day 18 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Black tenant farmers in the 1930s had all the reason in the world to resist capitalism. As anti-capitalist struggles took hold globally, these ideas found fertile soil in the hearts and minds of Black farmers in the southern United…

Day 17 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Jalil Muntaqim was born in 1951 in Oakland, CA and as a teenager joined the Black Panther Party. After the assassination of MLK he came to believe that armed resistance was the only way to achieve Black self-determination, and subsequently…

Day 16 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Joshua Williams is a political prisoner who protested and fought back against police terrorism during the Ferguson uprising of 2014. His favorite color is red and his album at the time was Lil Durk’s “7220.” A deeply communal and…

Day 15 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Safiya Bukhari is legendary in the movement to free Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. When she transitioned to the ancestors in 2003, Mumia Abu-Jamal referred to her as the Lioness for Liberation. She was a leader in the Black…

Day 14 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Sekou Odinga was a Black revolutionary and political prisoner, born in 1944 in New York City.  “My name is Sekou Odinga. Some of us have never agreed to be American and have struggled to free and build the Republic…

Day 13 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 Born 1962 in Brooklyn NY, Reverend Joyce Blake Powell is a Pentecostal pastor, activist, organizer, mother, writer and poet. A black woman targeted by the state because of her activism. The cousin of Kamau Sadiki who served as an introduction…

Day 12 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Born in 1953, Kamau Sadiki is a loving father, grandfather, Muslim, veteran Black Panther and member of the New Afrikan Independence movement. He has been unjustly imprisoned since 2001.    At the age of 17, Sadiki joined the Black Panther…

Day 11 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series The Jericho Movement aims to recognize and amplify the existence of political prisoners, prisoners of war, and politicized prisoners within the United States. A political prisoner is someone who is imprisoned for their political beliefs that go against the…

Day 10 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Born in 1949 in Chicago, Gil Scott-Heron was a jazz poet, singer, musician, author, rap pioneer, and spoken-word performer. Best known for his album, “Pieces of a Man,” released in 1971 which included the widely praised and renown song,…