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SUMMARY:Podcast: Political Prisoner Radio w/  Lorenzo \"Komboa\" Ervin
DESCRIPTION:\nLorenzo \"Komboa\" Ervin 
\n8:00 PM EST\n 
\nTalking
  to Bro. Lorenzo \"Komboa\" Ervin tonight on Political Prisoner Radio.
  Bro. Ervin is a former political prisoner, former Black Panther, long
 -time Black anarchist organizer, author, and currently working in Memp
 his on a conference and major activity to uplift the Black community.\
 n 
\nHe is an Ex-Political prisoner confined after activism in the m
 ilitary against the Vietnam war, then civil rights activism in the Stu
 dent Nonviolent Coordinating Ciommittee, and a brief stint in the Blac
 k Panther Party.\n\nAfter COINTELPRO repression of the Black Left, he 
 was imprisoned with two Life sentences for hijacking a plane to Cuba i
 n 1969. Was a Black prisoner organizer and leader during the high stag
 e of the Attica-era Black and revolutionary prison movement, was a lea
 der of the federal prisoners union and part of the labor organizing an
 d strike wave in the federal and state prison systems in the early to 
 mid 1970's, was an active campaigner against the Behavior Modification
  and Control Unit program that officials established in the 1970's to 
 put down the radical prisoners movement in federal and state prisons. 
 Was released in 1984, served 15 years before he was freed by an intern
 ational \"Free Lorenzo\" movement, led by the Anarchist Black Cross, a
 nd other movements.\n 
\n Bro. Ervin is now working with other acti
 vists to have a Black power conference on June 9, 2012 called \"Let's 
 Organize the Hood\", where issues related to mass imprisonment will be
  discussed, and a new movement will be created around the issue. He an
 d his wife, JoNina Ervin, are both authors, with his forthcoming book,
  \"Let's Organize the Hood\" by August 2012, and his wife's book, \"Dr
 iven By the Movement: Interviews with Black Power Activists of the 196
 0's and 70's\" already in print, the latter of which can be ordered fr
 om her directly at organize.the.hood@gmail.com\n 
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