Recomended Reading
Angela Davis:
"Are Prisons Obsolete?"
Anne Braden:
"Subversive Southerner"
Michelle Alexander:
"The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration in the
Age of Colorblindness"
Welcome to the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
The National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression was founded in 1973 in Chicago, Illinois to mount organized action against unjust treatment of individuals because of race or political beliefs. Its founding grew out of the struggle to free Angela Davis from a racist frame-up on murder charges surrounding the aborted attempt by Jonathan Jackson to free his brother, George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers in 1970.
We Demand the Removal of Asata Shakur from the FBI's Terrorist List
May 6, 2013 Frank Chapman blasted the FBI for placing Asata Shakur on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorist” list last week. Chapman is Field Organizer and Education Director of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Shakur is a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member. She was placed on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorist” list on May 2, 2013, 40 years after she was charged in the killing of a New Jersey State Police trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. The FBI added $1 million to New Jerse
Join the March for Justice
Join the march August 28, 2013, at Noon demanding that the City enact legislation to create an elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC).
40th Annual Human Rights Awards
This year’s Human Rights Awards Dinner theme is “From the Wilmington Ten to Howard Morgan, A Luta Continua - Free all Political Prisoners.” A buffet dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m., and the program will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Open Letter to Anita Alvarez
AN OPEN LETTER CHARGING STATE'S ATTORNEY ANITA ALVAREZ WITH BEING
A PERSECUTOR OF THE PEOPLE INSTEAD OF A PROSECUTOR FOR THE PEOPLE.
View the video by Mike Siviwe Elliot of the presentation of the letter to a representative of Alvarez:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bksPvb9KvyU&feature=youtu.be
Angela Davis on the Prison-Industrial Complex
Hear Angela Davis on Slavery and the Prison-Industrial Complex at Florida International University, September 2003.
The Murder of Trayvon Martin calls for Civilian Control of the Police
March 22, 2012 (updated 4/8/12)
The Murder of Trayvon Martin calls for Civilian Control of the Police
Like people throughout our country and the world we are shocked and outraged over the senseless, unwarranted and racially motivated murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin. He wasn't doing anything but walking with a bag of Skittles and some iced tea when George Zimmerman murdered him for looking "suspicious." This is racial profiling in the extreme.
