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‘Assata Shakur is welcome here’
Published May 26, 2005 1:05 AM
A news conference was held on May 25, African Liberation Day, at New
York’s City Hall to support Black freedom fighter Assata Shakur.
City Council members Charles Barron (pictured, front center), Larry
Seabrook and James Sanders announced that a resolution
will be brought
before the City Council to demand that the U.S. government revoke a $1 million
bounty placed on Shakur May 2. The resolution will also demand that Shakur be
granted amnesty to allow her to return to the U.S. from Cuba, where she has been
in political exile since 1984.
Barron publicly thanked President Fidel
Castro and the Cuban people for supporting Shakur.
“U.S. Hands Off
Assata Shakur” coordinated actions will take place on July 17, her
birthday.
—Story & photo
by Monica Moorehead
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