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		The TFTT collaboration with Assata Shakur, which was recorded with her in Havana, Cuba appear on two tracks.
		Assata Shakur became a political activist in the upsurge of the 1960's, participating in the student struggles, the anti-war movement, and especially the Black liberation movement.
		Assata was shot once with her hands in the air, then shot in the back, and left on the ground to die.
	www.firethistime.com /en/assatashakur.htm (1080 words)

	Assata Shakur
		Assata Shakur has been living in Cuba since 1986, after escaping from prison where she was serving a life sentence imposed in a highly disputed trial.
		Assata was captured in a shoot-out resulting from resistance to yet another "driving while fl" police action in 1973 on the New Jersey State Turnpike.
		The Hands Off Assata Campaign is a coming together of organizations and individuals who are outraged by the heightened attempts by the Congress of the United States and the State of New Jersey to illegally force a return of Assata Shakur from Cuba to the United States.
	www.sterneck.net /cybertribe/politik/assata-shakur/index.php (8169 words)

	Indymedia Milwaukee \| The million-dollar woman, Cuba refuses to hand over Assata Shakur
		Assata Shakur was also a target of this political repression and was taken as a political prisoner by the U.S. government.
		Shakur is the victim of a racist political frame-up in which she and Sundiata Acoli were convicted of murdering their colleague Zayd Malik Shakur and a state trooper, Werner Foerster, during a shootout after the three Black Liberation Army members were pulled over on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.
		Among Shakur’s important political contributions is the way she unifies the movements by criticizing what divides them notably racism and sexism, still prevalent among activists as they are elsewhere.
	milwaukee.indymedia.org /en/2005/07/203849.shtml (1253 words)

	RW ONLINE:Hands Off Assata Shakur!
		Assata became a political activist in the upsurge of the 1960s, participating in the student struggles, the anti-war movement, and especially the Black liberation movement.
		After her arrest, Assata was shackled and chained to a hospital bed--one arm paralyzed from a bullet wound and another bullet wound in her chest--as police guarding her shouted Nazi slogans, jabbed her with shotgun butts and threatened her life.
		Assata Shakur was once one of those political prisoners--and her escape from their prisons made her one of the "most wanted" fugitives from their system of injustice.
	rwor.org /a/v19/950-59/952/assata.htm (1460 words)

	Assata Shakur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Assata Shakur (born Joanne Deborah Byron Chesimard July 16, 1947 in North Carolina) was an activist in the Black Panther Party, and currently remains an escaped convicted felon and fugitive living in asylum in Cuba since 1984.
		Shakur grew up in New York City and attended Manhattan Community College and CCNY, where she was involved in many political activities.
		Shakur's defense made their case on a claim that although the officers claimed Assata opened fire, it was not physically possible after having been shot in the arm and having a major tendon torn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assata_Shakur (822 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Assata Shakur - Assata: An Autobiography at Epinions.com
		Zayd Shakur was killed and an exchange of bullets began in which one of the white officers was also shot and killed, according to testimony from official experts, by bullets from the other police officer's gun.
		Also, according to the experts at the trial, Assata Shakur at that time held no gun and her hands were up in the air, as was ascertained from the wounds that she recieved.
		Not only is Shakur a humanitarian and an activist for the betterment of all humanity, she is a poetic soul, which she demonstrates in the book with the wonderful verses that she has composed over the years, their beauty, their integrity, their meaning.
	www.epinions.com /content_185294360196 (846 words)

	U.S. menaces Assata Shakur, Cuba
		Shakur’s case came to international atten tion in 1973 when she was pulled over along with two other liberationists on the New Jersey turnpike.
		Shakur was seriously wounded in the gun battle and one of her comrades was killed by the police.
		The story of Assata Shakur demonstrates that it is possible to stand up against injustice, to carry out revolutionary action against the state, and in the end to still live outside the confines of prison.
	www.workers.org /2005/us/assata-shakur-0519 (1227 words)

	Black Radical Congress: Hands Off Assata Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Hands Off Assata Campaign is a coming together of organizations and individuals who are outraged by the heightened attempts by the Congress of the United States and the State of New Jeresey to illegally force a return of Assata Shakur from Cuba to the United States.
		We believe that Assata Shakur is a bona fide political exile living in the island nation of Cuba.
		Given that Assata Shakur was not the only one politically persecuted for her political beliefs, we demand that a full airing take place on that program.
	www.blackradicalcongress.org /organizing/campaigns/assata.html (417 words)

	JINX \| ASSATA SHAKUR
		Shakur (formerly JoAnne Chesimard) had been crouched in a "firing position" with a nine millimeter pistol in her hand, a fact contested even by the surviving State Trooper.
		It is the opinion of this agent that, based upon the facts of her case alone, there is sufficient proof that Shakur qualifies as a compelling political refugee worth Project support.
		Assata Shakur, echoing the words of Harriet Tubman before her, speaks with the voice that simply says, "There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death.
	www.jinxmagazine.com /shakur.html (1072 words)

	Black Artist League \| Hands Off Assata!
		Assata Shakur is a mother, grandmother, and activist who follow in the footsteps of Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and all of those sisters and brothers who risked their lives so that Black people may one day be free.
		Assata is not a terrorist; she is a victim of the American government’s internal terror campaign, directed against the Black Liberation Movement.
		While shackled and chained to a bed, arms paralyzed, and bullet wounds in her chest, Assata was beaten with shotgun butts by New Jersey State Troopers shouting Nazi slogans and threats to kill her.
	students.syr.edu /bal/assata.html (641 words)

	Rap News Network - Assata Shakur Offers Donald Rumsfeld Reward
		Assata Shakur, nee Joanne Chesimard, was, in fact, convicted of killing state trooper Werner Foerster in 1973, after the car in which she and two companions were riding was stopped by police on the New Jersey Turnpike for a broken taillight.
		Shakur was, at the time, a reputed leader of the Black Liberation Army, an underground spin-off of the Black Panther Party, whose members, it was later revealed in Senate hearings, had been targeted for surveillance, death, and incarceration by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
		Along with her supporters, Assata Shakur insists she is innocent; that not only did troopers shoot dead one of her companions after police stopped her car, but also that she herself was shot while her hands were raised over her head, making it impossible for her to wield a gun.
	www.rapnews.net /News/2005/06/08/Assata.Reward (850 words)

	Interview with Assata Shakur in Cuba
		Assata is one of those unique human beings who is able to articulate, through her own experience in a lifetime of struggle, profound truths about the world we live in.
		Assata Shakur addresses Pastors for Peace caravan Instituto Cubano de Amistad a los Pueblos (ICAP) - in Havana on 6th November 2000 (the first few questions are missing due to bad tape).
		Assata: In 1979 I was liberated by some friends, and in 1984 I came to Cuba, where I was united with my daughter and was able to bond with her for the first time.
	www.fantompowa.net /Flame/assata_interview.htm (5279 words)

	Assata Shakur: Web Links
		Assata Shakur was liberated from prison and has been living in exile in Cuba in the 1980s.
		Your grandstanding actions in seeking Assata Shakur's return by placing a $50,000 bounty on her head is an insult to all Black women and men who have devoted their lives to the freedom of Black people.
		Shakur, who was a member of the Black Panther Party, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /assata3.html (539 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Assata Shakur is No Terrorist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Assata and Sundiata were both tried and convicted in separate trials for the deaths of Werner Foerster and Zayd Shakur.
		Turning back to Assata and her 1973 chance encounter with Trooper Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike, it can hardly be labeled a terrorist act or plot no matter how you characterize the facts.
		This recent labeling of Assata as a terrorist is done as part of the broader campaign to demonize and criminalize political dissent and resistance.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/1145/1/32 (2254 words)

	The Hands Off Assata Movement
		And I would come to believe that that very heart and soul she possessed was exactly why Assata Shakur was shot, arrested, framed and convicted of the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper.
		Shakur, a Black Panther, was driving down the New Jersey State Turnpike with two companions, Zayd Shakur and Sundiata Acoli.
		Assata is that while they vigorously pursue her extradition, a few years ago using it as a bargaining chip for lifting the embargo itself, they have been decidedly lackadaisical in pursuing the extradition to Venezuela of an admitted terrorist, Florida resident Luis Posada Carriles.
	www.seeingblack.com /2005/x060305/assata.shtml (2287 words)

	Open Letter from Assata Shakur
		The FBI and the NYPD further charged her as being a leader of the Black Liberation Army which the government and its respective agencies described as an organization engaged in the shooting of police officers.
		This description of the Black Liberation Army and the accusation of Assata Shakur's relationship to it was widely circulated by government agents among police agencies and units.
		Shakur became a hunted person; posters in police precincts and banks described her as being involved in serious criminal activities; she was highlighted on the FBI's most wanted list; and to police at all levels she became a 'shoot- to-kill' target."
	www.handsoffassata.org /content/assataopenletter-text.htm (3746 words)

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		Assata testified that Harper stopped the car without any known reason, shot her with her arms raised at his demand, and then shot her in the back as she was turning to avoid his bullets.
		In 1977 Assata began trial for the second time in this same Middlesex County, and this time jury nullification was insured: The jurors chosen to determine Assata's guilt or innocence consisted of five jurors who were either relatives or close personal friends of state troopers or of state law enforcement officers.
		By falsely asserting that Assata shot Foerster in the head while he lay helplessly on the ground, killing him "execution style", the US Justice Department hopes to strip Assata of any of the sympathy and political support she now receives in the United States and from the citizens of Cuba.
	www.mutulushakur.com /assatashakur.html (1767 words)

	The fugitive: former black panther Assata Shakur—a mother, grandmother, painter and poet—has been living ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But the U.S. government has continued to pursue Shakur, regularly increasing the bounty on her head and classifying her as a "domestic terrorist." Last May the Justice Department issued an unprecedented $1,000,000 bounty for the return of Assata Shakur, 58, who continues to maintain her innocence.
		As the FBI circulated the wanted poster that called for her arrest, all over the New York-New Jersey area her supporters hung posters proclaiming "Assata Shakur is welcome here." Cuba gave her political asylum several years later on the grounds that she had been subjected to political persecution and had never received a fair trial.
		Assata reported that she was beaten, tortured and denied medical attention after her arrest, then continually threatened by police and prison guards while in their custody.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1264/is_4_36/ai_n14821596 (1058 words)

	Interview with Assata Shakur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As Assata Shakur writes in her poetic 1987 memoir, "Assata: An Autobiography," her name means "she who struggles" and the "the thankful." Although she has been exiled in Cuba for nearly two decades, the former JoAnne Chesimard continues to fight by speaking out against inequality and oppression.
		The all-White jury gave short shrift to forensics experts who testified that Assata massive injuries could have only been sustained while her hands were in a position of surrender.
		Noting that details about her escape could be detrimental to people who are currently incarcerated, Assata declined to elaborate on exactly how she slipped out of the maximum security wing of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979.
	www.blacklightonline.com /cubashakur.html (1420 words)

	Assata Shakur
		In a 1987 interview with a New York Newsday reporter, Assata Shakur, who was considered by police to be the soul of the militant Black Liberation Army, denied that she killed the state trooper.
		Assata's 23-year old daughter, Kakuya, who was conceived while her mother was in jail for robbing a bank, moved for a while to Cuba in 1985 after living with her grandmother in New York.
		Assata was told the interview was in regards to her open letter to the Pope and the subjects she raised concerning the corrupt justice system in the USA and especially in New Jersey.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /assata.htm (5339 words)

	African American Registry: Writer of revolutionary text, Assata Shakur!
		Between 1973 and 1977 Shakur was indicted ten times and stood trial for two bank robberies, the kidnapping of a drug dealer, attempted murder of several police officers, and the murder of a New Jersey state trooper.
		Shakur escaped from prison in 1979 and fled the country.
		Shakur had been missing for eight years at which time she established her whereabouts in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.
	www.aaregistry.com /detail.php3?id=1734 (482 words)

	Amazon.de: Assata: An Autobiography: English Books: Assata Shakur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Assata Shakur documented her life and, through this incredibly moving autiobiography, takes us with her throughout the torment and anguish she suffered as a revolutionary.
		Assata is eloquent and articulate; the connection with us, as her audience, draws us into the struggle before we even realize there is the need.
		assata sees revolution as emanating from the pulse and soul of the community, not from leaders at the top or from some revolutionary catechism.
	www.amazon.de /Assata-Autobiography-Shakur/dp/1556520743 (814 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Shakur, Assata Olugbala
		Between 1973 and 1977 Shakur was indicted ten times and stood trial for two bank robberies, the kidnapping of a drug dealer, attempted murder of several police officers, and the murder of a New Jersey state trooper (The Washington Post).
		In 1973, on the New Jersey Turnpike, Shakur and her two friends- Malik Zayad Shakur and Sundiata Acoli- were stopped by state troopers because of a shattered headlight.
		Shakur had been missing for eight years until she published the book, at which time she established her whereabouts in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/shakur_assata_olugbala.html (840 words)

	Assata Shakur: March '98 to date
		The FBI and the New York Police Department in particular, charged and accused Assata Shakur of participating in attacks on law enforcement personnel and widely circulated such charges and accusations among police agencies and units.
		The FBI and the NYPD further charged her as being a leader of the Black Liberation Army which the government and ts respective agencies described as an organization engaged in the shooting of police officers.
		Shakur became a hunted person; posters in police precincts and banks described her as being involved in serious criminal activities; she was highlighted on the FBI's most wanted list; and to police at all levels she became a 'shoot-to-kill' target.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /assata2.htm (5831 words)

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		Born July 14, 1947 as Joanne Chesimard, Assata ("she who struggles") Shakur ("the thankful") has become known as the Mother of the Black Liberation Army (BLA).
		Assata Shakur's experiences in Amerikkka's injustice system have caused many people to compare her to likes of Cesar Chavez, Malcom X, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		In 1973, Assata was falsely convicted of a crime.
	gspotasu.iwarp.com /spr02/turley1.html (665 words)

	Assata Shakur
		Assata Shakur is a former Black Panther member and Black Liberation Army leader.
		Assata is the oldest of two children ; her sister Beverly was born five years after her.
		Assata went to Cuba because she thought it would be a good place for her and
	pages.sbcglobal.net /dio_rallen/assatashakur.html (732 words)

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