Last month in New York City, the International Tribunal on U.S. Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples, with an esteemed global panel of jurists, was convened by the Spirit of Mandela Coalition.
Tune into KPFK 90.7fm and kpfk.org for Pacifica’s COVID, RACE AND DEMOCRACY show this Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 4pm to hear highlights of the testimony and the verdict. Hosted by Akua Holt of KPFT in Houston and Bob Lederer of WBAI in New York. Learn the truth about government involvement in racist police killings, hyper-incarceration, political imprisonment, and systemic environmental and public health racism against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples.
The program will be archived at https://covidtaskforce.pacifica.org/. If you miss it live, or want to promote it to friends, please send everyone to the site, and suggest they subscribe!
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MORE INFO ON THE TRIBUNAL
Full text of the Tribunal verdict is at: https://spiritofmandela.org/guilty-on-all-counts/
For more information on the Tribunal, go to https://www.tribunal2021.com and https://spiritofmandela.org
and for an outline of follow-up steps to distribute and organize around the verdict, visit https://spiritofmandela.org/internationaltribunal/, For background on the 2021 Tribunal, prior efforts to internationalize the issue. and major victories and losses in recent years for U.S. political prisoners, see https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/10/18/in-the-spirit-of-mandela-international-tribunal-seeks-to-charge-u-s-government-with-crimes-against-humanity/
Bob Lederer
WBAI/Out-FM & Spirit of Mandela Coalition
Polina Vasiliev
KPFK/Pacifica - COVID, Race, & Democracy
