Agenda for Freedom Now Produced & Hosted By Dedon Kamathi

Program posted for audio download and playback at KPFK.org Audio Archives-Freedom Now

Hotep this is Sista Zionne with Freedom Now’s  agenda for this Tues Feb.10.2009 .Our central theme is  the Black Agenda Report, the most progressive, popular on-line journal of African American political thought and action in the United States. A relatively new publication  birth in the fall of 2006 it has brought together some of the most progressive African journalist who speak with impunity to the ruling class and their sub-ordinates including the Black Caucus and of course President Barak Obama. Glen Ford the journals co-founder and a former Black Panther will be our live in studio guest. The Black Agenda Report has been at the cutting edge of critical analysis of the Obama campaign and presidency as well as of all Black elected political officials and of course the US ruling class.

   Broth G-Bone will will give us a brief update on his continued master piece of film “41st and Central the untold story of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party with an announcement of a  pre-release screening coming up.

  Brotha Mateef will address the political prisoner crisis in the US prison system and Dedon will provide the African Drum Beat historical calendar. Our music mix will include:

Zap Mama, Montell Williams , Bama,  Edey,Yosef Ndour, Observers and clips from the Doc.on the Black Panther Party.

    So keep your radio and web browser  locked, and take note that Tonights program can be reheard for the next 90 days at KPFK.org, Audio Archives  scroll to Freedom Now.

  We thank you for your support during our fund drive and as always we stand ready for the Revolution

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              Guy Lumumba speaking at Cal.State University at Domiguez

                                                        La Tortia Hall Rm 103  5:30 - 7:30

                                                        Wed, 2.10.09

             41th & Central History of the Black Panther Party of Southern California

             U.C.Riverside  6 pm  Feb.19 1201 University Ave University Theater,/riverside

             Further Info: Ultrawave Media.com

              Glen Ford : BlackAgendaReport .com

                                        African  Drum Beat Historical Calendar

       Alafia  to our listening audience during our fund drive This is  Brotha Dedon  with the African Drum Beat Historical Calendar for the Week of  Feb.10 . Freedom Now provides this historical calendar to further contribute to our appreciation of the struggles and the inevitability of victory of human and spiritual values over greed and super profits  . No where on the AM or FM dial or even on the web  will you find such a historical calendar that cover the world from a revolutionary perspective.  . We urge you to make your contribution for a more just world for our

children.

The US opens 11 millions acres of traditional Native America Sioux  land to all white settler in a continued effort at genocide by forceable taking the land from the indigeneous peoples and giving it to Europeans.

Nelson Mandela released after 27 years of  imprisonment on Robben Island in South Africa. The US CIA  provided the logistics for the capture of Nelson Mandela but the world wide free south African movement forced the racist  apartheid regime to free Mandela and subsequently with the rise of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress the elimination of racial apartherid though economic apartherid has grown.

British dockworkers refuse to unload California table grapes as organized labor support of the United Framworkers grape boycotts spreads throughout  Europe.

Nat Turner’s revolt in Virginia begins with a divine signal  a solar eclipse.

The NAACP founded in New York City. The oldest civil rights movement in the United States and in many areas the most militant from the rank and file membership.

Sorjini Chattopadhyaya Naidu a Indian  sista  who worked for a society where the Dalit or untouchables would become the leaders of India society crossed over to the ancestor world. She was a Indian poet,, political leader who was born into a highly respected Brahmin family, she rebelled by marrying out of her caste, and becoming political leader in the  decolinization struggle with a focus not just on British Colonialsm but also upper caste oppression of lower caste. .  She was jailed more than Ghandi and built organizations that were inclusisve regardless of color, caste or gender. After independence she served as governor of United Provices until her death.

Feb. 13, 1923

The Ist Black professional basketball team “The Renaissance is organized”

 Sista Me Kitili a Kenya militant sister  freedom fighter against British colonialism escapes from prison and leaders armed struggle.

February 15,m 1851

African abolitionist strom a BAoston courtroom and resuce fugitive slaves.

February 15, 1961

Africans in the US, The Carribbean and Africa protest the slaying of  the Congo’s democratically elected president  Patrice Lumumba by disrupting the United Nations session for the role of the UN in the US orchestrated assassination.

February 16,1960

Elisabeth Kaaxgal.att a Tlingit or indigeneious sista from Alaska who was a ferocious leader against the aparatheid system imposed by Europeans living in the America against the indigeneous peoples of Alaska. . She was the Grand Camp President of the Alaska Native sisterhood.

Feb. 16 Ist sCentury AD