Kathleen Cleaver
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Kathleen Cleaver
Black Radical Congress
At the June 1998 Black Radical Congress in Chicago, militants of an older generation were assigned to work with younger comrades.
- On Friday evening there was an inter-generational dialogue which was an attempt to blend an historical and contemporary review of the Black liberation struggle by means of older and younger activists interviewing one another.
Veteran activists Kathleen Cleaver, General Baker, Barbara Smith, Ahmed Rahman, Angela Davis and Nelson Peery were "paired up with younger activists" Van Jones, Kim Diehl, Kim Springer, Fanon Che Wilkins, Kashim Funny, and Quraysh Ali Lansana, respectively[1].
War Times
In January 2002, a group of San Francisco leftists, mainly involved with STORM or Committees of Correspondence, founded a national anti-Iraq War newspaper[2] War Times.
Endorsers of the project included Kathleen Cleaver, co-director, Human Rights Research Fund.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 2008 Kathleen Cleaver, Senior Lecturer, Research Fellow, Emory Law School, Atlanta, GA signed a statement circulated by the Partisan Defense Committee calling for the release of convicted “cop-killer” Mumia Abu-Jamal.[3]
References
- ↑ [1] What next for the Black Radical Congress By Gerald Sanders, The Organizer, Summer 1998
- ↑ WAR TIMES January 29, 2002
- ↑ Signers of Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Now
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