Two episodes into #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds and while it feels better than #Discovery (not a hard challenge), and there’s a welcome to return to episodic storytelling and exploration, I’m not sure I’m on board yet. I mean #Spock has more emotion than your typical Eastern European. #Uhuru and #Chapel might be interesting enough but are absolutely nothing like their original characters, so what’s the point?
Will still give it a bit more time.
The Uhuru G724X gaming headset is a decent budget option that does its job adequately and looks cool doing it.
#uhuru #gaming #gamingaccesories #headset #game #tech #review #blog
https://churapereviews.com/2024/11/19/uhuru-comfo-g724x-gaming-headset-review/
If you're looking for a fantastic budget gaming mouse, try the Uhuru WM-09. It is ultra-light, extremely responsive, and very portable.
#uhuru #gaming #gamingblog #tech #reviews #pc #pcgaming
https://churapereviews.com/2024/09/28/the-uhuru-wm-09-is-the-perfect-budget-gaming-mouse/
On September 12, 2024 a jury in the federal courthouse in Tampa, Florida repudiated the more serious charge of the U.S. government’s frame-up of the Uhuru 3 by finding myself, along with Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, NOT GUILTY of being agents of the Russian government.
The prosecutors unleashed a barrage of lies and distortions of the law, along with deliberately confusing jury instructions, to mislead the jury into returning an inconsistent verdict, convicting us on the lesser charge of “conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States,” which we intend to appeal and are confident we will win. But more importantly, the jury’s “not guilty” verdict on the “Russian agents” charge means that the jurors agreed with the legitimacy of our efforts to advocate for the liberation of Africa and African people.
We congratulate the jury for their ability to see through the U.S. government’s attempt to criminalize criticism by the African Liberation Movement of U.S. government treatment of African people in the United States.
The jury rejected the bogus charge that African people require leadership from Russians or groups characterized as “white” to define and lead our struggle to end domestic colonialism.
We salute the people’s multi-faceted and ubiquitous movement for anti-colonial free speech and democratic rights whose tireless and heroic organizing contributed profoundly towards this massive victory.
The U.S. government did not intend to lose their case on the charge that the Uhuru Movement was working for the Russians. Their political goal was to use the “foreign agent” charge to deny the legitimacy of the Black Liberation Movement when we criticize the U.S. government for its treatment of African people. Their charge that we are “foreign agents” was meant to mute the significance of our criticisms of the killings of Black men and women by police, the mass incarceration of our people, the gentrification and other forms of colonial terror in our communities, by saying that it was actually the “Russians who told us to say it.”
The U.S. government expended a tremendous amount of resources, at least tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of FBI agents and other government personnel to carry out this sham trial. They stole from our properties at least 13 terabytes of data, the equivalent of two and a half million books’ worth of information. They put 14 witnesses on the stand to present their “evidence,” all of them FBI agents except for two “expert witnesses” who admitted they knew nothing about our case and claimed they couldn’t remember how much the government had paid them to testify.
We defeated them without calling any witnesses to the stand. Instead, our incredible legal team used their opening and closing arguments along with their withering cross-examination of the government’s witnesses to educate the jury about who we are and what our struggle is about. Our attorneys told the jury that Chairman Omali Yeshitela is a revolutionary who is not for sale. We showed evidence of Burning Spear newspapers and other political documents by our Party dating back to the 1970s illustrating that we have fought for more than 50 years for the liberation of our people.
Under cross-examination one FBI agent after another was forced to admit that there was no evidence that we ever agreed to work under the “direction or control” of Russia. The lead investigator from the FBI even had to admit, under oath, that the FBI and the DOJ knowingly lied to the people when they indicted us for “election interference” despite the fact that not a shred of evidence of anything of the sort was ever identified.
The jury saw right through it and was able to declare that the African People’s Socialist Party and Chairman Omali Yeshitela have never worked for the Russians; we have always worked for Black people.
This was a political trial. The colonial State’s goal was bigger than simply convicting me and putting me in prison; their failed efforts to convince a jury that we are “foreign agents” was part of a larger political goal to forever discredit speech by Black people and other colonized peoples against our oppression at the hands of the U.S. government.
The U.S. government told the jury that when we demanded reparations to our people, it was the Russians who told us to do that. The jury said no. They told the jury that when we fought to expose and end the genocide against African people in the U.S. and around the world, it was the Russians who told us to do it. The jury said no. They told the jury that when we go around the world to win friends and allies to our struggle for freedom, it was the Russians who made us do that. The jury said no.
The U.S. government lied, and they lost. We told the truth, and we won.
The jury saw the evidence, presented both by the prosecutors and by our attorneys, of our more than five decades of consistent, revolutionary work to free our people from colonial oppression. They saw that we are principled and passionate about freedom. The jury heard me speak through videos of presentations that were screened by both sides.
Our legal team was brilliant. We applaud the relentless work by our attorneys Ade Griffin, Mutaqee Akbar, Leonard Goodman, Angela Reaney and Tom Inskeep.
Here’s what we’re calling on everyone to do:
The verdict is in: Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the African People’s Socialist Party are not for sale. We have our own agency. We are our own liberators. We don’t work for the Russians; we work for Black people. And we will continue to do so until all African people and the oppressed peoples of the world are free.
Uhuru!
source: Black Agenda Report
After being forced to acquit Omali Yeshitela, Jesse Nevel, and Penny Hess – the “Uhuru 3” – on being agents of Russia, a U.S. federal court jury resorted to the sham conviction of “conspiracy,” in what amounted to them being guilty of internationalism and the work of liberating African people. The state’s claim is that the defendants are guilty of “planning to sow discord and inflame American political tensions at the behest of Russia,” a charge carrying a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Although the conspiracy charge is being regarded as the less serious of the two changes, it presents a threat to all anti-imperialists and internationalists working in the bowels of the capitalist, U.S. settler state. “Conspiracy” is a U.S. legal fiction that can mean almost anything. From the definition, it is clear that determining what counts as conspiracy is often left up to the creativity of prosecution. In other words, “conspiracy” should be understood as the state deploying anything vague and circumstantial to use against our movement when it cannot get a conviction on anything else.
The Black Alliance for Peace sounds the alarm about the danger this particular ruling represents – the severe undermining of the human right to free speech and the free flow of information. It is the creation of Orwellian, totalitarian legal precedence in support of “thoughtcrimes,” the offense of thinking in ways not approved by the U.S. settler state.
The trial of the “Uhuru 3,” members and supporters of the African People’s Socialist Party, is “proving to be one of the most important First Amendment cases thus far in the 21st century,” according to the group’s attorney Jenipher Jones. The case also exposes the fact that the U.S. has no regard for human rights. It violates Articles 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which protects the right to freedom of expression and opinion and freedom of association, as does Article 19 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
It is also significant that a small Pan-Africanist group is the first to face legal charges and other overt repression for speaking out against the racist and imperialist policies of the U.S. regime.
After the verdict Omali Yeshitela said:
“The most important thing is that they were unable to convict us for working for anybody except Black people, that’s the most important thing. They could not convict us for working for anybody except black people. They had to say we were not working for the Russians and I am willing to be charged and found guilty of working for black people.”
But BAP suspects that this is a test case for what is to come from the racist U.S. settler state. All activists and anti-imperialists should be concerned about what has happened to the “Uhuru 3.”
As we declared in our September 10th statement: “BAP and our movement will not be intimated. We recognize that the complete abandonment of constitutional and human rights by the U.S. and other Western states represents an irreversible crisis of legitimacy. We will continue to stand in support of the right to resist as a core human right.”
No Compromise!
No Retreat!
BAP Coordinating Committee
source: BAP
#blackAllianceForPeace #blackLiberation #northAmerica #repression #uhuru #us
On the morning of September 12th, the jury returned a verdict in the free speech trial of the century, where Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel faced bogus charges of working as Russian agents.
The 12 person jury concluded a not guilty verdict on count number two, “failure to register as a foreign agent,” in other words, working as agents of Russia. This was the big charge that carried an up to ten year prison sentence. The jury contained no black jurors, but to their credit, they saw clearly that African people have agency and sovereignty over their actions.
The government presented 14 witnesses, 12 of them FBI agents, while the defense needed to present no witnesses to prove that the government’s accusation of being Russian agents was fabricated.
The jury returned a guilty verdict on count number one, “conspiring against the U.S. government.” This charge carries a maximum of five years.
The not guilty verdict on the primary charges was a devastating blow to the prosecution whose main objective was to convict on the Russian agent charge. With their lack of evidence and exposed lies, they were unable to convince the jury that Russia was behind the 60 year legacy of anti-colonial struggle led by Chairman Omali Yeshitela. The lawyers are preparing to appeal to ensure all of the baseless accusations are defeated and no prison time is served.
The judge has not set a sentencing date on the conspiracy conviction. Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel remain in the community to carry out the Uhuru anti-colonial mission.
After the verdict, Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the Uhuru 3 lawyers spoke with supporters and the press on the steps of the Tampa Federal Courthouse.
Chairman Omali reminded his supporters that “the most important thing is that they were unable to convict us for working for anybody except black people, that’s the most important thing. They could not convict us for working for anybody except black people. They had to say we were not working for the Russians and I am willing to be charged and found guilty of working for black people.
“We are involved in a movement for the liberation of African people and the destruction of a colonial system that oppresses the peoples of the world. That’s what we came here for and so it ain’t over.”
Attorney Mutaqee Akbar, representing Jesse Nevel, was quoted saying, “The fight doesn’t stop here, we will appeal this. As the Chairman says, The Party has always and consistently worked for the liberation of Black people, not Russians, not anybody else; we can’t be bought, we can’t be paid for and we will continue to fight and continue to struggle. That’s been clear and that will continue to happen. Uhuru means freedom!”
Attorney Leonard Goodman, representing Penny Hess, says, “We are not guilty of being Russian agents. And the conspiracy charge was incredibly confusing. I don’t think the jury understood that it required them to find that there was conspiracy to act as Russian agents. As Mutaqee was saying, we are going to appeal and we’re going to fight on.”
Attorney Ade Griffin, representing Omali Yeshitela closed by stating, “It’s been an absolute honor to represent Omali Yeshitela, and the African People’s Socialist Party. I believe in your work and I believe in your cause. I think we did an excellent job on the case. I’m happy with the verdict. I would’ve, obviously, liked it to be not guilty across-the-board, but considering the goals that we were trying to achieve, we won!”
For daily updates and all information about the Hands Off Uhuru Free Speech Trial of the Century go to: https://handsoffuhuru.org/
صبح همگی بخیر
Artists : #Mafikizolo & #Uhuru
Title : Khona
#LliureDirecte #Ahora hablamos sobre el #DíaDeLaMujerAfro con Lamar, compañera de #Uhuru en LLIURE DIRECTE http://lliuredirecte.info - RÀDIO KLARA 104.4FM #València http://radioklara.org
All Power to the People!
#blackLiberation #blackPanther #gangs #northAmerica #prison #uhuru #us
⬆️ #Ionov talked with #Russian counterintelligence about efforts to elect another, unnamed political candidate in #Florida.
In 2022, #FBI raided homes & offices connected to #African People’s Socialist Party & #Uhuru Movement.
#Hess unsuccessfully urged a judge to dismiss charges saying, “This would blow a hole in 1st Amendment.”
“This is a prosecution of critics of #US govt [because] they somehow have a relationship with #Russians"
And that brings us full circle to #Trump and his defense
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Kilimanjaro, Tanzania – UNESCO World Heritage Site
#UNESCO #PatrimonioMundial #WorldHeritage #Welterbe #Philately #Filatelia #Sellos #Stamps #Timbres #Philatelie #Briefmarken #UNESCOWorldHeritage #Kilimanjaro #KilimanjaroNP #Shira #Mawenzi #Kibo #Uhuru
Anya Parampil "Uhuru Trial Is A THREAT Against Free Speech"
Anya Parampil "Uhuru Trial Is A THREAT Against Free Speech"
We recently started re-watching Star Trek, and three or four episodes in we noticed the first interracial kiss was not between Uhuru and Kirk but Uhuru and Nurse Chapel!
Mind you Nurse Chapel, in the early episodes seems to be job hopping, they don't seem to know how to keep her in the series.
#StarTrek #Uhuru #NurseChapel #InterRacialKiss
(2) exploitation, white supremacy, patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, 🌈 -phobia, environmental destruction and any form of oppression.
Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! Emergency Mass Meeting
I guess the rest of us on #blackmastodon are less than articulate? It's 2022 Colonizers will only "unlearn their racism" when they're forced to, by revolutionary African working class led State Power.
When's the last time you've seen a Chinese person referred to as "articulate" as a supposed compliment.
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