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Editorial Board

Larry Pinkney

Guest Commentator

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil / political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.) Click here to view Larry’s interview of October 26, 2012. Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.

262 pieces

Commentary

Black History, the Black Panther Party, & The Ongoing People’s Struggle Today – Keeping it Real – Black History Month

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

To the everyday peoples of the entire world, let us learn from and change the course of history. This is our sacred duty, as human beings, to ourselves and to Mother Earth herself! It will not be easy and no sane person ever said it would be. But it can and must be done as…

To the everyday peoples of the entire world, let us learn from and change the course of history. This is our sacred duty, as human beings,…

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On Serving the People Versus Serving the System

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Even as the masses of Black and poor people of all colors slip deeper into poverty and economic emaciation, and even as the Democratic and Republican politicians, in collusion with the corporate-stream media, persist in their efforts to distort and distract everyday people away from the systemic root causes of their (our) terrible pain, these…

Even as the masses of Black and poor people of all colors slip deeper into poverty and economic emaciation, and even as the Democratic and Republican…

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Commentary

From Occupying To Liberating

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The �Occupy Movement,� which has swept this nation and indeed the planet, poses a serious threat to the self-preservation of the corporate-owned, blood sucking, political pimps of the Democratic and Republican parties, precisely because it has enhanced the consciousness of everyday people. Ordinary everyday people, despite being deluged by a daily diet consisting of diversions…

The �Occupy Movement,� which has swept this nation and indeed the planet, poses a serious threat to the self-preservation of the corporate-owned, blood sucking, political pimps…

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Predator Drone Missiles and Political Repression from the ‘Community Organizer’

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The reign of terror, in the form of U.S. predator-drone missiles and bombs reigning down from the skies on the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north Africa, etc., far from diminishing, has been increased ten-fold by a corporate-owned U.S. president, congress, and judiciary that have gone stark raving mad. The everyday ordinary people of this…

The reign of terror, in the form of U.S. predator-drone missiles and bombs reigning down from the skies on the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north…

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The Economy, Indefinite Detention and the Drums of War

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The actual message of the U.S. corporate-government to the world is, �do as I say, not as I do!� Ironically, it is the U.S. government itself who first unleashed the terrible nuclear genie upon humankind, and who remains a foremost nuclear power to this very day – which fact is not missed by other nations…

The actual message of the U.S. corporate-government to the world is, �do as I say, not as I do!� Ironically, it is the U.S. government itself…

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Shredding the Illusion of U.S. Democracy

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

It is the entire irretrievably corrupt, hypocritical, corporate-controlled U.S. system that must be unequivocally changed by everyday people. It must be totally and utterly scrapped and creatively replaced with a model that is a work in progress – a model that is based upon collective human needs, not avaricious corporate greed, economic austerity and perpetual…

It is the entire irretrievably corrupt, hypocritical, corporate-controlled U.S. system that must be unequivocally changed by everyday people. It must be totally and utterly scrapped and…

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Mumia Abu-Jamal, Solitary Confinement and Indefinite Detention USA

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully from nonviolent action. But they ask — and rightly so…

"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems.…

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‘Beyond Vietnam’ Into Afghanistan and Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people of this nation and world want simply to be accorded the right to live our lives with collective human dignity, justice, economic security, and in peace. Thanks to the signing by U.S. President Barack Obama on (New Year’s Eve) December 31, 2011 of the so-called National…

Everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people of this nation and world want simply to be accorded the right to live our lives with…

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The Mockery Called ‘Democracy’ in the USA

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The irrefutable reality in the United States is that ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people do not have or enjoy a genuine people’s democracy. Rather, the people of this nation are the victims of a continuing singular sham – the greatest mockery of democracy this world has ever known – and it…

The irrefutable reality in the United States is that ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people do not have or enjoy a genuine people's…

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