Friday, June 27, 2014

Free Russell Maroon Shoatz!





Russell Schoatz was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on the 23rd of August, 1943. He is a former member of the Black Unity Council and later Black Panther Party. He has been imprisoned since 1972 and is being charged with murder. He has spent much of his incarceration in Solitary Confinement, although it is said that he has now, at the age of 70, been released to the general population.



He is accused of being a member of a group who is said to have attacked a police station and murdered a police officer, and wounded another officer. It is thought to have been a retaliatory action, for an African American youth that was killed by a police officer. Russell Shoatz has twice escaped from jail and this earned him the nickname „Maroon“.



He has a published book of his writings it is called „Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoaz“. I read the book and highly recommend it, while Mr. Shoatz offers a history lesson from a different perspective. I feel that there is not enough proof to pin this crime on this man, and I feel this man has been incarcerated for way too long, and that he should be allowed to return to his 7 children and grand children immediately.





Contact Russell Shoatz:



RUSSELL MAROON SHOATZ
#AF-3855
SCI Graterford
PO Box 244
Graterford, PA 19426 – 0246

Free Leonard Peltier!






The American Indian Movement or A.I.M. was formed in 1968 by Native Americans so that they could fight for freedoms and for a different way of life. Native people were tired of having their kids being taken away and sent to boarding schools where they were indoctrinated in the white man's ways, and they were tired of over 300 years of lies, and broken promises. These people wanted their own rights to choose and to live the way they wished to live, on their land.



Leonard Peltier was born on September 12th, 1944 in Grand Forks North Dakota. He is a member of the American Indian Movement and has been incarcerated now for over 38 years. Leonard Peltier is being charged with the deaths of two F.B.I. agents during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on June 26th 1975. If you study the case you will see that their are many serious violations and that Mr. Leonard Peltier did not get a fair trial, and that there are many things that just don't make sense.



What where those F.B.I. Agents doing on the reservation in plain clothes and unmarked cars chasing a car matching one belonging to a man named Jimmy Eagle? The whole affair is said to be regarding some alledged stolen cowboy boots. This man Jimmy Eagle could have easily mistaken the men chasing him for someone out to hurt him.



One thing to keep in mind is that there had been many shootings on the reservation at Pine Ridge , and they were being carried out by the reservations Elected Tribal Leader Richard (Dickie) Wilson's Goons (Guardians of Oglala Nation) who had been shooting up the homes of American Indian Movement members and other native people who they thought were affiliated with the group, or helping them in any way. Sixty people had died at the hands of the GOONS.



Soon after shooting broke out, and after the shooting had stopped, American Indian Movement member Joe Stuntz and two F.B.I. Agents Ronald A. Williams and Jack R. Coler had been killed.



It is tragic that anyone died on that sad day. I think it is tragic that we cannot live in peace, I would like to send my condolences to the families of the men who lost their lives on that day. I also believe that Mr. Peltier did not get a fair trial and that he has been in jail way too long. I feel that he should be let out immediately so he can be reunited with his family and friends.



On a personal note, I really do not like jails, I do not like what they do to people, and I really do not like what they do to the families of the incarcerated beings. I have personally seen people I love taken away, and put into jail. I have personally seen people crying out due to the pain the separation from their loved one is causing them. I think that we need to find a better way. I think that many men in jail are innocent or are there for some non sense reasons, and people may also be incarcerated for having been tried by racist juries, and not their peers, or being pressured into signing plea bargain agreements that trick them into pleeding guilty even when they are innocent. I think this is an attack against the poor and the colored.





Contact Leonard Peltier:

LEONARD PELTIER #89637-132
USP COLEMAN I
P.O. BOX 1033
COLEMAN, FL 33521

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Scrutinizing My Writing - Poem

See, they are still laughing
scrutizing my writing
see your Mama
get hit too many times
and ask me why am I so violent
ask me why my father left
and never came back
why the bottle over the years
has been more of a dad
why my Grandma died
and never saw me make it
why the only time I kissed her
she was under a flower arrangement
see I don't owe it to myself
I owe it to my family
that is why I take offence
when fake emcees want to battle me
I am mentally disturbed
I swear something aint balanced
if my body is a temple
than that crackhouse must be a palace
and I can still recall the early years
I am only 4 years old Pops
why you giving me beer
throwing bottles at my Mama
always fighting
everytime he drank
he'd tend to get violent
but check it my heart no longer
holds a place
because where was he at
when I was smoking base
when steps was beating me up
socking my face
when I had nowhere to go
when I was locked in a cage
and then these enemies flashing
throwing up their sets
see I don't even bang
but I am caught up in this mess

Life - song / poem, verse 1


Everyday guns blast
and bullets fly
innocent bystander
and the kid was only 5
his mother mourns his death
crying everyday
now there are candles and flowers
on the curb where his body laid
in hopes my little brother 
and my little sisters
won't grow up 
in a world that is so viscious
I will die for my family
I am their protector
I will be their knight
evil harm interceptor
battlefield Earth
Tournament life
every man, woman and child
is signed up for this ride
little boy don't cry
Mama did not abandon you
what are you going to tell him
that Mama had better stuff to do
need to stop lying and face the truth
and if the end is near
just how saved are me or you
will I see the light
or will I be too late
with the rest of the sinners
outside Heaven's Gates
why despised
lost in a world of lies
you ever broke down and cried
bcause it hurt inside
alone in the dark
and I can hear the echoes
of the past
just telling me to let go
so how do you expect a future
when destiny is wrote
will I live to see my children
or will I get smoked
where is the antidote
because we are dying in need
and no one is going to help you
just watch you bleed