Free Speech

Uhuru 3 Trial: FBI Lead Investigator Exposed, Both Sides Close

September 11, 2024 Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa!. Resist! FBI, Florida, Free Speech, Legal System, Uhuru 3

On Monday, September 9, 2024, the free speech trial of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel began its second week. Proceedings were delayed because two jurors had not arrived. One of the missing jurors arrived late and then at 9:45am, Judge William Jung declared that he would give the other absent juror 30 more minutes and then would remove her from the jury. Attorney Mutaqee Akbar raised the fact that the missing juror was the only African on the jury. He asked the judge to replace her with the sole African juror in the pool of alternates who have been seated in the jury box throughout the trial. The judge refused and seated a white juror. The 12-person jury now has no African members.

Retaliation And Repression Of Palestine Solidarity Activism

September 9, 2024 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast - Clearing The FOG Danny Shaw, Employer retaliation, FBI, Free Speech, Genocide, Palestine, State Repression

In the United States and the United Kingdom, employer retaliation and state repression against people who show solidarity with the Palestinian liberation movement and who oppose genocide is escalating. Professor Danny Shaw describes his nearly lifelong solidarity with Palestine and the personal price he has paid for it particularly since last October. Shaw has been doxed, arrested, fired and detained by the FBI and Homeland Security. His phone and electronic devices have been confiscated as well as his passport although he has not committed any crimes. He discusses how he and others are fighting back and why we must defend our rights to free speech and to know what is happening.

Update On The Uhuru 3 Free Speech Trial Of The Century

September 8, 2024 Hands Off Uhuru, Popular Resistance. Resist! FBI, Florida, Free Speech, Legal System, Uhuru 3

Tampa, FL—The first week of the free speech trial of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel left observers shaking their heads and asking how the government has dedicated 30 FBI agents over the course of 3 years, conducted military raids on peaceful U.S. residents, offered a $10 million reward for information and still has no case. With only one witness left, the prosecution has failed to present any actual knowledge or evidence of the government’s baseless charges that the Uhuru 3 are “secret pawns in a Russian government conspiracy to sow political discord and interfere in elections”.

Uhuru 3 Trial Enters Second Day

September 7, 2024 Fight Back! News. Educate! FBI, Free Speech, Legal System, State Repression, Uhuru 3

Tampa, FL – As the trial of the Uhuru 3 enters its second day, the prosecution calls its first witnesses. The Uhuru 3 are members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and the Uhuru Movement who are charged with conspiracy and “acting as agents of the Russian government within the United States without prior notification.” The courtroom was packed with supporters of the defendants. Many had traveled from all across the country to be there. The prosecution first called Professor Brian Taylor, a professor of political science, to the stand as a witness. Taylor’s role in the trial was to provide background information on the Russian intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Free Speech Trial Of Uhuru Three Begins In Tampa

September 5, 2024 Phil Wilayto, Popular Resistance. Educate! FBI, Free Speech, Legal System, Uhuru 3

The trial of the Uhuru 3 opened this morning at U.S. District Court in downtown Tampa, Judge William Jung presiding. The defendants in the highly politically charged case are facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted of charges that they have been operating as unregistered agents of a foreign government, Russia. The three defendants are Omali Yeshitela, the longtime chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party; and white supporters Penny Hess, chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee, and Jesse Nevel, chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. As noted in a post by the Hands Off Uhuru! Coalition, the 82-year-old Yestitela “has protested every U.S. war that has taken place during his lifetime.”

Uhuru 3 Free Speech Trial Begins; Jury Selection, Opening Arguments

September 4, 2024 Hands Off Uhuru, Popular Resistance. Educate! Florida, Free Speech, Legal System, Uhuru 3

Day one of the free speech “trial of the century” began with a press conference across the street from the Federal Courthouse in Tampa. Free speech defenders and social justice activists from across the U.S. expressed their support for the Uhuru 3—Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, falsely accused of being secret pawns in a Russian government conspiracy to “sow discord” and “interfere in elections.” The press conference was hosted by Mwezi Odom, Chair of the Hands Off Uhuru! Campaign. She declared that the government’s false accusation that the Uhuru 3’s call for reparations, a petition against the U.S. charging genocide against Black people and the group’s opposition to U.S. wars were carried out under the control of the Russian government to be a “racist denial of Black people’s agency. We can think for ourselves and define our own agenda!”

Black Alliance For Peace Condemns The Federal Indictments Of Uhuru 3

September 4, 2024 Black Alliance For Peace, Black Agenda Report. Resist! FBI, Free Speech, Human Rights, Legal System, Uhuru 3

The process of jury selection on September 3rd, 2024, will mark the beginning of the federal trial of Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP); Penny Hess, Chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC); and Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM), together known as the Uhuru 3. The Uhuru 3 were indicted by the U.S. government in April 2023 on the absurd charges of being “agents of a foreign government.” Charges very similar to the indictment of W.E.B. Dubois, the internationally known Black scholar and human rights defender. Dubois was eighty-one at the time of his indictment as a supposed agent of the Soviet Union for his anti-nuclear and pro-peace advocacy.

Universities Strategized All Summer To Suppress Student Activism

September 3, 2024 Carrie Zaremba, Mondoweiss. Educate! Campus Movement, Free Speech, Higher Education, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Student Activism

University administrators across the United States have declared an indefinite state of emergency on college campuses. Schools are rolling out policies in preparation for quashing pro-Palestine student activism this Fall semester, and reshaping regulations and even campuses in the process to suit this new normal. Many of these policies being instituted share a common formula: more militarization, more law enforcement, more criminalization, and more consolidation of institutional power. But where do these policies originate and why are they so similar across all campuses? The answer lies in the fact that they have been provided by the “risk and crisis management” consulting industries, with the tacit support of trustees, Zionist advocacy groups, and federal agencies.

Professor Danny Shaw Becomes Latest Victim Of Assault On Free Speech

September 1, 2024 DD Geopolitics, X. Educate! Danny Shaw, FBI, Free Speech, Palestine, State Repression

Professor Danny Shaw, a former Madison Square Garden heavyweight championship boxer, was detained and interrogated by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport (ORD). Professor Shaw was returning from the Free Palestine Film Festival in London. He was invited to the festival because of his being fired by New York City’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice for his vocal opposition to the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza. For three hours, Chicago-based federal agents grilled Professor Shaw. Agents from the FBI’s Chicago Field Office pressed Shaw about his activities at home and abroad in advocating for an end to the Israeli government’s invasion of Gaza.

We Need Political Nonviolence Now More Than Ever

July 21, 2024 Rivera Sun, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! Democracy, Free Speech, Human Rights, Nonviolence, Violence

After the shooting at former President Trump’s campaign rally, many people rushed to say that “political violence has no place in our democracy.” Let’s go even further and boldly say: political nonviolence is essential for democracy. The ties between nonviolence and democracy run deep. We know from the groundbreaking research of Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan that even if a nonviolent movement fails to achieve its primary goals, it often leaves a more democratic society in its wake. On the other hand, violence swiftly destroys democracies, shoving them toward authoritarianism and “politics at the barrel of a gun.”

Truth Dies: Uhuru 3 Trial May Set Dangerous Precedent For Free Speech

July 16, 2024 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast - Clearing The FOG FBI, Free Speech, Legal System, State Repression, Uhuru 3

On July 29, 2022, the FBI raided seven properties connected to the African People's Socialist Party/Uhuru Movement and fabricated charges against three prominent members: Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee. They are facing up to 15 years in jail for speaking out against the proxy war in Ukraine. Their trial is currently scheduled for September 3. Clearing the FOG spoke with Penny Hess and Leonard Goodman, a criminal defense attorney with the Uhuru Legal Team. Mr. Goodman made the point that if this trial succeeds, political speech may be considered disinformation even if it is true. Learn more about the trial and how to support the Uhuru Three as they put the US government on trial.

Environmental Protesters Under Attack And Often Treated As Terrorists

July 11, 2024 Peter Speetjens, Resilience. Educate! climate crisis, Environmental Activists, Environmental Justice, Free Speech, Indigenous Rights, Suppression

Events in February felt like a legal double whammy for the environment and its defenders. First, the United Nations Environment Assembly declined a Bolivian proposal to grant rights to nature and Mother Earth. Then, Michel Forst, the U.N. special rapporteur on environmental defenders under the Aarhus Convention, raised the alarm with his new paper: “State Repression of Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience: A Major Threat to Human Rights and Democracy.” Although the right to protest is safeguarded by universal human rights like freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, Forst signals a worrisome rise in police brutality in dealing with environmental defenders.

Educators Celebrate As Judge Strikes Down ‘Banned Concepts’ Law

May 30, 2024 Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. Resist! Censorship, Education, Free Speech, New Hampshire, Victory

Education and free speech advocates cheered Tuesday's federal court ruling striking down New Hampshire's classroom censorship law, one of several so-called "white discomfort" bills passed in Republican-controlled states in recent years. U.S. District Judge Paul J. Barbadoro's 50-page ruling says that the New England state's so-called "banned concepts" law is "unconstitutionally vague" and contains "viewpoint-based restrictions on speech that do not provide either fair warning to educators of what they prohibit or sufficient standards for law enforcement to prevent arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement."

As A Free Speech Organization, We Condemn Campus Crackdowns

May 2, 2024 Defending Rights & Dissent. Educate! Campus Movement, Free Speech, Israel, Palestine, Police, police brutality, Repression, Student Activism

Defending Rights & Dissent condemns the crackdown taking place across campuses in the United States. Across the country, we have seen protests calling for a ceasefire and end to Israel’s brutal war in Gaza. Increasingly, many of these protests have taken place on America’s campuses. Since the Columbia University occupation began on April 17, protests, including encampments, have spread across college campuses as students link their opposition to Israel’s war with demands for university divestment. In spite of false claims to the contrary, the protests have been overwhelmingly peaceful and nonviolent.

Resist Congressional Efforts To Silence Free Speech On Palestine

April 18, 2024 Rutgers Faculty For Justice In Palestine, Mondoweiss. Resist! Censorship, Free Speech, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Rutgers

U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a letter on March 27 to officials at Rutgers University castigating “senior administrators, faculty, staff, academic departments and centers, and student organizations” for creating “a pervasive climate of antisemitism,” and an alleged “failure to protect Jewish students.” This letter is a small part of a larger assault on progressive pedagogy and activism at college campuses which is currently sweeping the country. The House Committee, aiming to silence campus supporters of Palestine, has already targeted some of the nation’s most high-profile private universities and is now turning its attention to public institutions, starting with Rutgers University.

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