SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Assata Shakur A thin line between equality and chaos  Nov 18, 2009 Silvia Baraldini, an Italian citizen who emigrated to the U.S. with her parents in 1961 at the age of 14, was labeled as a domestic terrorist after aligning with leftist liberation organizations during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s, subsequently leading to a 43-year prison sentence for conspiracy, attempted armed robbery, criminal contempt and breaking well-known activist Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, out of prison. Chesimard was leader of the Black Liberation Army and was serving a life... (Catskill Daily Mail, NY) Today in History - Nov. 2  Nov 2, 2009 (Chesimard, who took the name Assata Shakur, now lives in Cuba. . (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI) Obituaries in the news  Oct 12, 2009 She fled to Cuba after escaping prison in 1979 and is now known as Assata Shakur. Family members and colleagues say Brown's well-known cases were just one aspect of a career that was fueled by a desire to defend the defenseless. (NJ.com -- News) Mos Def and the Boogeyman  Jul 28, 2009 Then Mos went further off the rails, bringing up Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther convicted of murder who escaped prison and has since lived in exile in Cuba. The rappers point being: "There have been lots of crimes leveled against people which they didn't do.". (Slate) CIAs close collaboration with Libya  May 13, 2009 Why Kadafi Sold Out - Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On Purpose - Liberation - Forum. . (Harper's Magazine) Back to History News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2009 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2009