ASSATA aka Joanne Chesimard - Trailer 2008

Trailer for the independent film "Assata aka Joanne Chesimard" a film by FRED BAKER, with Music by ROY HARGROVE,featuring appearances by KATHLEEN CLEAVER, ASSATA SHAKUR and other personages involved in the revolutionary Black Power movement of the 60's and 70's, a movement that still rages on today.
In 1977, ASSATA SHAKUR was falsely and unjustly convicted and sentenced to Life in prison for the trumped-up charge of killing a NJ State Highway Patrolman in a highly publicized and controvercial 1973 "Shootout" on the NJ Turnpike. More a police massacre of leading Black Panthers than a shootout, in which she was wounded, left to bleed to death, tortured in captivity. In the shoot-up , Zayd Malik Shakur, a leading figure in the BLack Panther Party, was killed by the police. A 3rd Panther, Sundiata Acoli was later captured and similarly sentenced to Life for the same bogus "cop Killing" charges. He is still unjustly serving that sentence today.

ASSATA, began serving her sentence in a maximum security prison in N.J., but then, with the help of three young freedom fighters who managed to get into the prison, she miraculously escaped without harm to anyone: eventually emerging some years later to be living in protective political exile in Castro's Cuba.
With her best selling book "Assata, an autobiography", she has since grown into a major heroic figure with great influence and following among hundreds of thousands of politically aware youth worldwide today. She is held out reverently, almost religiously, by them as a shining Joan Of Arc symbol in the on-going struggle for freedom of all people of color from all forms of slavery and brutal incarceration. She is for this struggle, a modern day Harriet Tubman, the female Che Guevara, who lives on to wage this necessary battle; finally, hopefully, to one day bring about the end to racial oppression and injustice in the world!

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