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10 [Please Turn to Page 2] Issue #36, March 2005: EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is reprinted from For those too young to remember that time, the Rice/ the Buffalo Chip Fall 2002 Issue entitled Political Poindexter Case is a valuable history lesson. Edward Poindex- Prisoners in Nebraska. ter and David Rice (who later changed his name to Mondo we The Real Story of Langa) are currently serving life the Rice/ sentences for the August 17, 1970 Poindexter Case bombing murder of Omaha police- The Rice/Poindexter man Larry Minard. Both con- case is 34 years old, tinue to maintain their innocence -- but 9/11 has made the and evidence that has come to light counter-terrorism poli- since their conviction is persuasive cies of the sixties and enough to convince Amnesty In- seventies newly rele- ternational, among many others, vant: Congress has re- that, at the very least, they did not cently voted receive a fair trial. Some familiar overwhelmingly for with the case even believe it's pos- Pres. Bush's anti-ter- sible they were framed. rorism bill, again giv- Mondo We Langa (Left) and Ed Poindexter. The group seeking their release ing the FBI, the CIA is NEBRASKANS FOR JUSTICE and local police the powers they so abused in the (NFJ), a non-profit organization which focuses on human rights past. Again the government can spy on citizens and in the justice system, and publishes Buffalo Chip. NFJ board ignore the Bill of Rights, just as they did 30 years member Mary Dickinson has organized a team of attorneys, law ago. It's COINTELPRO redux. [Please Turn To Page 2] by Muti Ajamu-Osagboro, Political Prisoner AM-6021 ast issue, we discussed the worsening situation in Darfur, 12-1-2K4, 6:31:54PM Sudan, where rebel groups have been engaged in a brutal war against Sudanese Government forces and the infa- huru dada ndugu!!!! I send extra L.O.V.E., loyalty, L mous “Janjawid” militia and where the civilians of Darfur are strength, and solidarity for the total liberation of the being subjected to what many observers have called genocide. In UGlobal Afrikan Village. The task at hand, to free all the 11-page article, we examined the ethnic groups involved in Political Prisoners & P.O.W.s is doable, but the pace must be the conflict, the Sudanese Government’s crackdown to enforce quickened for many of us. We are dying in these sanitized torture order, the organized rebel groups, the plight of the civilians, the chambers, where Abu Ghraib is the norm, not an aberration. Last conflicted response of the international community and a number month, a comrade from Nebraska sent me an article from “The of voices that have come to the defense of the Sudanese Govern- Omaha Star” written by her state senator Ernie Chambers. Sena- ment. The chronology we presented was designed to show the tor Chambers, a conscientious Afrikan (yeah, we’ve got richly complexity of the situation and the degree to which the crisis in melanated folks in Nebraska, too. Malcolm was born there, Sudan defies simple characterizations and easy conclusions. remember…) wrote about the systematic corruption within On that last point, we believe we achieved our objective. A Omaha law enforcement. The piece entitled “Not To Be Trusted respected elder who read the issue referred to the chronology of Are the Police”, was a detailed exposé on how cops in the events as “head-spinning”, and we agree with him. We waded heartland, in a ploy to keep federal funding, are illegally collect- through over 400 printed pages from a variety of organizations ing DNA samples from Afrikan men to use later to set them up on many sides of the conflict. Because there were so many wholesale. As extensive and informative as Senator Chambers’ different facets to what is happening in Darfur, we kept our article was, he failed miserably to uncover, in a substantial way, conclusions to a minimum. Here, we will try to state, as simply [Please Turn To Page 7] [Please Turn To Page 11] Inside The Afrika Page: “Africa: Yucky, Yucky!” by Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo -- 10 August 2004 KUUMBAReport Page 2 Mondo & Ed: {Continued from Page 1} activities were considered radical behavior at the time. For students and other specialists. After reviewing court transcripts, African-Americans to be so bold as to offer classes in Black police reports, thousands of pages of government documents History, to speak out about the right of citizens to defend them- obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and selves against police brutality, to ostentatiously monitor police other relevant material, NFJ has concluded: first, that serious activities on the streets, to keep track of Omaha Mayor Leahy's doubts exist about the guilt of these men; second, that the FBI and schedule and attend many of his meetings, was threatening to local police committed many abuses from 1968 until their convic- public officials. They aroused implacable hostility in both the tion; and finally, that the court system itself behaved with such Omaha Police Department and the local office of the FBI. It is cruel ambiguity that Poindexter and we Langa should be freed. important to note that the FBI, the ATF and police kept a daily watch on them. As Poindexter told the BBC in a1990 documen- Background tary about the case, "We were under constant surveillance ... We A good place to start is 1968, with the FBI's Counterintelligence couldn't leave a building and enter the streets without being Program -- COINTELPRO. It was initiated by FBI Director J. frisked or harassed. This went on around the clock." Yet their Edgar Hoover, to spy upon and infiltrate groups of political secret files maintained by FBI in the two years before the Minard activists In Hoover's eyes this included everyone from Malcolm murder show no criminal activity. They may have enraged and frightened public officials, but they acted within the law. X to Dr. Spock. Hoover considered the Black Panthers "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country". It should Chronology 1970 be noted that he also considered Martin Luther King, Jr. a na- tional menace, and that King was another victim of COINTEL- It can't be stressed enough that, both the police and many individ- PRO. A September 16, 1970 memo from Hoover to the field is a uals believed the country was heading for anarchy. After Martin good example of the FBI's intentions. In it Hoover stated, "The Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, cities went up in flames. This effectiveness of counterintelligence depends on ... the imagina- was also the summer that an epidemic of dynamite bombings tion and initiative of Agents. Purpose of counterintelligence struck in the Midwest. There were five bombings in six weeks in action [COINTELPRO] is to disrupt BPP [Black Panther Party] Iowa alone. Other explosions rocked buildings in Wisconsin and and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the Minnesota, and both a police precinct and the Component Con- [charges]." cept Corporation suffered bomb damage in Omaha. The Black In Omaha, NE, racial tensions Panthers were the prime suspects in were high in the sixties. Four KUUMBAReport these bombings, so any confronta- Blacks and two whites had been tion between Omaha Black Pan- shot by Omaha police between Currently published bi-monthly by KUUMBA thers and the police, however 1966 and 1968, and one of those EVENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS. lawful, was bound to increase ten- MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1723, Baltimore, sions. killed was a 14-year-old girl, Viv- ian Strong. Her death at the hands MD 21203-1723. Let us know if you would like any letters or other submissions published. July of a white policeman set off a riot and destroyed so many businesses PHONE: (410) 496-8093; (443) 865-2723 Agent Thomas J. Sledge of the in Omaha's North Side that the E-MAIL: [email protected] BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO neighborhood has yet to recover SUBSCRIPTIONS: 12 Issues for $16.00; make AND FIREARMS (ATF) got a war- from its losses. It was in this cli- checks payable to KUUMBA EVENTS AND COM- rant to search the Omaha BPP mate that Ed Poindexter, David MUNICATIONS. headquarters, on the grounds that Rice and other young Black leaders ADVERTISING: KUUMBAReport accepts adver- an informant had told him a suit- joined the Omaha chapter of the tising for book, health food and cultural item stores; case bomb had been made there. He alerted the Omaha police, and BLACK PANTHER PARTY. We schools, services, special events and promotions. Langa (Rice) has written from pris- We will not run ads that feature alcohol, tobacco, scheduled a raid for July 21, 1970. on, "We ... set about to make our- “junk food”, drugs or stereotypical or disrespectful The raid was called off. messages or images. We especially encourage selves more visible in the African July 28 community, participating with ads that promote positive, healthy products, mes- other organizations in community sages and images, especially those promoting Afri- Three men, Luther Payne, Con- meetings; holding frequent rallies; kan-centered and other positive cultural ideals. roy Gray, and Lamont Mitchell, starting a newsletter (Freedom By PRICES FOR ADS: Full Page-$160; Half Page-$85; were arrested in Omaha for pos- Any Means Necessary); doing cop Quarter Page-$45; Business Card-$25. Discounts sessing dynamite. One was an ex- patrols, in which we would docu- for Long-Term Ads available. Panther who had been expelled ment police behavior, sometimes OUR PURPOSE is to educate the public and share from the party; the other two had show up at scenes of cop harass- ideas about community news, events, health and no connection with the BPP.
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