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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

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Barack Obama and the Growing Fascist-Corporate State

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

It is time for everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow everyday people to be critical thinkers, and in so doing, view Barack Obama for what he actually is, not for what some had hoped he would be. As this year of 2011 winds to a close, the corporate-backed U.S. President Barack Obama has repeatedly…

It is time for everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow everyday people to be critical thinkers, and in so doing, view Barack Obama for what…

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THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT – Another Collective Step By the Exploited Against the Exploiters

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of…

"I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash…

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Support the Occupation Movement Even As We Clarify & Address Its Inevitable Contradictions

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.” –Paul Robeson The growing ‘OCCUPATION’ movement sweeping this nation, and countries throughout the world, is a legitimate and much-needed struggle not only physically, but also in a consciousness-raising mental sense on many levels. This protracted struggle…

"Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near." --Paul Robeson The growing 'OCCUPATION' movement sweeping…

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On Principled Struggle for Systemic Change

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

What awesome times in which to be alive! The rainbow of everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people are awakening! The protracted national and global people’s struggle for genuine systemic change is stirring! An increasing number of everyday people are demanding an end to corporate rule, political chicanery, economic austerity, and perpetual wars.…

What awesome times in which to be alive! The rainbow of everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people are awakening! The protracted national and…

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Has the Fighting Spirit of Black America Been Co-opted & Neutralized?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.” – W.E.B. DuBois “Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism,…

"The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become." -…

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‘Columbus Day’ and the Indomitable Spirit of Everyday People

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Recently, the avaricious power elite of this nation celebrated the bloody, expansionist escapades of Christopher Columbus and his gang of thieves and murderers. Even as these ‘Columbus Day’ celebrations took place in the United States, many thousands of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people throughout this nation were physically occupying the symbols of…

Recently, the avaricious power elite of this nation celebrated the bloody, expansionist escapades of Christopher Columbus and his gang of thieves and murderers. Even as these…

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Black America: It’s Time to Collectively Rejoin the Developing Revolution

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The struggles for economic, political, and social justice of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples has been, and remains, a long, arduous, and protracted one. The legacy of Black America in this regard has been a particularly sterling one. The wealthy elite of this nation have always sought to mask, co-opt, and distort…

The struggles for economic, political, and social justice of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples has been, and remains, a long, arduous, and protracted…

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On the Meaning and Ramifications of the STATE Assassination of Troy Davis

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“Come, then, comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways…Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their streets, in all…

"Come, then, comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways...Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry.…

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The Irrelevance of the Corporate-Stream ‘News’ Media

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.” –Malcolm X [el-Hajj Mailk el-Shabazz] “The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.” –Howard Zinn An uninformed people, irrespective of…

"Truth is on the side of the oppressed." --Malcolm X [el-Hajj Mailk el-Shabazz] "The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power,…

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