The Biden Administration has failed to win imprisonment of the Uhuru 3.
The Uhuru 3 are African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel. In September they were found not guilty of acting as unregistered Russian agents. In a contradictory verdict, they were found guilty of conspiring to act as Russian agents. They are appealing the conspiracy conviction.
On December 16, they were sentenced to three years probation and 300 hours of community service on the conspiracy conviction. They had faced a maximum possible sentence of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine each.
Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party spoke to Margaret Kimberly, host of Black Agenda Radio.
To hear their full conversation here. For more information on the Uhuru 3, visit handsoffuhuru.org.
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Gloria Rubac of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement has a report.
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Next, historian Russ Bellant joined Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer to discuss the right-wing billionaires driving President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda to privatize public services, education, and healthcare, alongside planned crackdowns on immigrants and leftist movements.
Their conversation begins with an examination of the controversial book Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them), a 2024 political treatise by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec.
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December 10th marked the 20th anniversary of the death of investigative journalist Gary Webb. Many believe that Webb was murdered because of his groundbreaking exposé, “Dark Alliance,” which was published in the San Jose Mercury News in 1997.
Webb’s report uncovered and extensively documented the U.S. government’s role in fueling the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. According to Webb, the CIA created the epidemic in Black neighborhoods in the Bay Area and Los Angeles to covertly fundraise to support the Nicaraguan Contras in their fight against the revolutionary Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The ensuing violence and devastation from the crack epidemic were later used to justify the mass incarceration of Black and Brown communities, feeding the U.S. prison system.
This week we share Part 2 of Donald Lacy’s 2004 interview with Webb. It was recorded at downtown Oakland’s Jahva House months before Webb’s death for San Francisco’s Radio 89.5 KPOO.
Listen to the full interview here.
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