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THE COCONUT REVOLUTION“How-To” fashion sustainable energy, develop medicinal cures, design weaponry, raise a nation, maximize potential, oust missionaries, convert allies, obliterate corporations & be self sufficient “For Dummies”. |
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FRAME UP – IN HONOR OF BROTHER TROY DAVIS R.I.PInvestigative documentary on the wrongful imprisonment of anarchist and black bookstore owner Martin Sostre. Martin Ramirez Sostre (born in Harlem on March 20, 1923) is an American activist. Martin served time in Attica prison during the early 1960s, where he embraced doctrines as diverse as Black Muslimism, Black Nationalism, Internationalism, and finally anarchism. In 1966 Sostre opened the Afro-Asian Bookstore in the black ghetto of Buffalo, New York. Arrested on July 14, 1967, at his bookstore, for “narcotics, riot, arson, and assault” (charges later proven to be fabricated, part and parcel of a COINTELPRO program in full swing), and convicted and sentenced to serve forty-one years and thirty days, Sostre became a jail house lawyer and regularly acted as legal council to other inmates, including winning two landmark legal cases involving prisoner rights: Sostre v. Rockefeller and Sostre v. Otis. According to Sostre, these decisions constituted “a resounding defeat for the establishment who will now find it exceedingly difficult to torture with impunity the thousands of captive black (and white) political prisoners illegally held in their concentration camps.” Martin was pardoned by Governor Hugh Carey in 1975, after the only witness to his “crime” admitted he was set up by Buffalo police. Sostre is still alive and lives in New York City with his wife Lizabeth Sostre and his sons Mark and Vincent Sostre. We at ((BLACKSTEREO)) and SOAPBOX believe that the power is in the hands of us “THE PEOPLE” and that it is our duty to protect each other from brutality and unlawful imprisonment. We post this at this moment as our thoughts are with Brother Troy Davis… |
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SOAPBOXEvery first Sunday of the month we invite you to join our speakers platform called “Soapbox”. It’s where grassroots activism in the form of discussions, debates and speeches takes place. What started as a humble initiative has grown to become a movement that speaks freely and fearless for the people. In a city such as Amsterdam where the awareness and activism of the sixties never happened it is of vital importance that Soapbox exists. Please rally around if you’re in the vicinity of Amsterdam and let’s stand united against the challenges that lie ahead. Soapbox 2011. |
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THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPEAt the end of the 1960s, numerous Swedish journalists came to the US, drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Filming for close to a decade, they gained the trust of many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement—Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them— capturing them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection of 16mm film, peppered with footage of Black Panther activities and B-roll images of black America, was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television. |