Assata Shakur, born on this day in 1947, is a revolutionary socialist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) who became the first woman to be added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2013.

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Shakur grew up in New York City and Wilmington, North Carolina. She became involved in political activism at Borough of Manhattan Community College and City College of New York, participating in sit-ins and civil rights protests.

After graduating from college, Shakur briefly joined the Black Panther Party, leading its Harlem chapter. She left the Panthers and joined the Black Liberation Army, a black power group that was inspired by the Viet Cong and Algerian resistance movements and waged guerrilla warfare against the U.S. government from 1970 to 1981. Shakur was one of the targets of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program.

After being involved in a shootout with New Jersey police officers, Shakur was convicted on multiple counts of assault and murder and sentenced to life in prison. In 1979, BLA members freed her in a bloodless prison escape.

Shakur successfully sought political asylum in Cuba, where she died on September 25, 2025, at the age of 78

“I didn’t know what a fool they had made out of me until I grew up and started to read real history.”

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  • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    Damn I wonder when all the (cracker) Copdani stans here will have to say about him admitting he can’t arrest Netanyahu. I wonder how they will reconcile this with their previous drooling over this major campaign promise. Oh wow, more “he never said that” gaslighting and lying. What a surprise!

    Also, won’t do anything about the illegal land sales but is happy to create speech restriction zones around where they’re being conducted and sicc the cops on protestors.

    Actions speak louder than words

    Can’t wait for the next wave of “ummmm why do you care so much about the NYC mayor sweaty???” since they have no actual counterargument

    They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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      5 days ago

      Honestly putting out that statement that he can’t arrest Netanyahu was a ridiculous stunt. And I honestly don’t even really care all that much, for the most part. Its the fact that, as you pointed out, created that buffer zone for protests against the sale of stolen land. Not only that, early on he kept on feeding into the growing “antisemitism” narrative. And after all this time he still has Zionists down his neck. Every news story I saw on his nothing burger statement had interviews with a bunch of malding Zionists.

      Also it shouldn’t go without saying, but it also feeds into the growing mainstream Democrat narrative that Netanyahu is the entire problem and not the entity itself.

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        4 days ago

        Give the average cracker “leftist” their bike lanes and healthcare and they will go “fuck you I got mine”, their only problem with throwing Palestinians under the bus is if the bus costs money to ride.