Solidarity with Uhuru 3: Rising Political Repression in the US [In-Person]

Sponsored by the NLG Mass Incarceration Committee.

The Uhuru 3 are Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP); Penny Hess, Chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC); and Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM). In April 2023, the Uhuru 3 were indicted by the U.S. government on bogus charges of being “agents of a foreign government”. The charges came nine months after the FBI and local police violently raided seven homes and properties of the APSP and Uhuru Movement in St. Louis, MO and St. Petersburg, FL on July 29, 2022.These charges carry prison sentences of up to 15 years each. The case came to trial on September 3rd in a federal courthouse in Tampa, Florida and the jury repudiated the foreign agent charges. However, according to one of the defendants… “the prosecutors unleashed a barrage of lies and distortions of the law, along with deliberately confusing jury instructions, to mislead the jury into returning an inconsistent verdict, convicting us on the lesser charge of “conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States,” ‘

This workshop will feature a small panel of defendants and one lawyer to present on the details of the prosecution of the UHURU 3 and the abuse of FARA and Conspiracy laws. Panelists will talk about this in the context of growing political repression and rising number of civil and criminal charges targeting several movements in the United States with a focus on how to fight back.

DATE/TIME:
Thursday October 31, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CDT

LOCATION:
Hamilton Ballroom