News & Events

Join the NY Solidarity Coalition w/ Katrina & Rita Survivors for a Report back on Saturday, October 13, 2007 on The International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina & Rita (Held from Aug 29 – Sept 2 in New Orleans) To fully expose to the world the human rights committed by the US government and its agencies and operatives in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
“Same struggles/different fronts”
Time: 1:30-4:30pm @ The Thurgood Marshall Academy
200 West 135th St, Manhattan at Adam Clayton Powell Blvd
Contact us at: 212 222-3307 or Visit us at: NYKatrinaRita.org

March in Philadelphia Sat. Dec. 8
Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested and tortured by Philadelphia police on Dec. 9, 1981. Philadelphia cops killed 22 people last year.
Demonstrate Jan. 15, 2008
Protest at local prisons and police precincts.
National Conference
To be organized against police terror.
Actions called by the Ad-Hoc Committee to stop
police brutality, misconduct, terror and wrongful
conviction. See/Download PDF Flyer


Please join us next Saturday July 7th at 4pm to help support the Marcus Garvey Park drummers in their struggle against the ongoing police harassment.


Marcus Garvey Park Drummers,
July 2 2007
Sat June 30 two white police officers approached drummers at 5th Ave Marcus Garvey park, at about 7:30pm, stating that they received complaints about the drumming being to loud.

Two spokespeople, a man and woman, from the drummers organization told the officers, "We have been drumming every week until nine p.m. for the last thirty years ", They asked the officers why were they coming now when it was only 7:30pm. The officers responded that the residents at 2005 5th Ave (across the street) had complained that the drumming was too loud. The drummers said “We will continue until 9 pm”.

The policemen then called for reinforcement, when a car with a bar officer came , the drummers spokesperson continued along the lines of their right to drum, “it's our culture from Africa and the Caribbean”. One women drummer said about the white residents. "They have forced Black people out of Harlem to move here, they knew that we drum here every week, if they don't want to hear the drumming they should move.”

Still another police car came, this time with lights, and about nine policemen. With the drummers, women, children and men around eighty people, the drummers resisted their position and continued to drum, while an assigned spokesperson talked to police offers.

Across the street at Fifth Ave condo (124) the four white residents watched while the struggle continued. The drummers, dancers and crowd took out their cellphones and video cameras recording. After 25 minutes the police backed down and the drummers drummed louder as a protest and message to the white residents that they will fight for their African culture.

July 4th 11 a.m Demonstrate at Philadelphia's - Visitor's Center, 6th and Market St. .

  • ORAL ARGUMENTS for Mumia in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals will finally begin on May 17th in Philadelphia. As a result of these hearings he can either get a new trial, life in prison without parole or executed.

    On May 17 at 8:30AM, be at the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia on 6th and Market Streets to demand JUSTICE for Mumia.

    For more information call (212)330-8029 or (215)476-8812 or visit FreeMumia.com

    PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE LEGAL UPDATE REGARDING THIS IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT IN MUMIA'S CASE HERE

  • May 24th – 27th, 2007 The Mutual Aid and International Solidarity Conference
    Inspired by the achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution and moved by the ongoing human rights crisis in the Mississippi Gulf Coast, grassroots organizers in the Katrina Self-Determination and Bolivarian Movements throughout the country have agreed to host the Mutual Aid and International Solidarity Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana at Dillard University, one of the country's oldest black educational institutions.

  • Saturday April 7th Rally & March - A call for National actions in NY & Los Angeles: Demand: And end to Washington's enconomic and political war against Cuba; An end to threats and sactions against Venezuela & Bolivia; Freedom for the Cuban 5; An end to colonialism in Puerto Rico & Freedom for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners.

  • March 30th Tribute to Safiya Bukhari: A tribute to our late beloved Sister-Warrior, Safiya Bukhari, on the occasion of her upcoming Birthday!
    Place: St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 521 West 126th Street (B'Way & Amsterdam).

  • Sean Bell Update: Monday Feb. 26th and all week: Be with the Bell family outside court while a grand jury in Queens begins to hear evidence to decide if ALL the officers should be charged.
    Feb 2007

  • Encampment to Stop the War, beginning on March 12
    Feb 2007

  • Panther 8
    Feb 2007

  • Bamako: Danny Glover Produces and Stars in New Film Putting the World Bank On Trial - Trailer
    Feb 2007

  • Mumia Street Naming
    Jan 2007

  • Leonard Peltier
    Jan 2007

  • 4 African leaders arrive in Libya for Darfur summit.
    Tuesday 21 November 2006

  • October 11, 2005
    When President Thabo Mbeki handed out the newly conceived Order of Ikhamanga - South Africa's highest honour for achievement in the creative and performing arts and sport - for the first time in 2003, only two sportsmen received the award in the gold class. It came as no surprise that one of them was Steve "Kalamazoo" Mokone.

See Video PSA on Mumia's trial.

We salute Chris Hani month, April 2007 and South Africa Human Rights Day
Listen to an Audio Recording of Chris Hani at Symphony Space