[Ppnews] New Afrikan Anarchist Political Prisoner Ojore Lutalo release date

[Political Prisoner News]

Long time New Afrikan Anarchist Political Prisoner, Ojore N. Lutalo 
is set to max out after 26 years of imprisonment at New Jersey State 
Prison. While his exact release date is still not finalized, it will 
most likely be late November or early December. The NJ DOC website 
has his max out date as December 25th. Ojore, with the help of a 
lawyer, is in the process of working to get  his good time/work 
credits restored, a result of his victory in the NJ Superior Court in 
2007, which overturned a charge the prison convicted him of in 2005. 
This charge/conviction took away around a year of good time/work 
credits. This process is still ongoing and we will update people with 
any changes to his max out date

In the meantime, the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) is 
initiating a fundraising drive to support Ojore, once he is released, 
in order for him to transition back to the streets. Money is needed 
to help Ojore secure housing, food and clothing. This financial 
assistance will allow Ojore to make the transition more smoothly, 
knowing that money and housing isn't an immediate pressing matter, 
giving him the needed time to readjust to the streets ,that he hasn't 
seen or experienced since 1982.

As many former prisoners and their supporters know, coming back home 
after a doing a long stretch in prison is difficult and without a 
support base it will be even more difficult. The ABCF, anarchists and 
many PP/POW activists who have maintained contact and supported Ojore 
over the years, have benefited immensely from the example that he's 
set as what it means to be a revolutionary. His untiring 
advice/criticism to us has helped many of us and our organizations 
grow politically and deepen, not only our commitment to the struggle 
to free political prisoners and prisoners of war, but to that of 
building a revolutionary movement

   It's our revolutionary duty ensure Ojore has all the support he 
needs when hits the streets!

We encourage all activists to organize fundraisers or donate whatever 
they can towards Ojore's release fund.
All funds, by check or money order, payable to TIM FASNACHT, can be sent to:

Philadelphia ABCF
P.O Box 42129
Philadelphia, Pa 19101

Thank you for your support of our comrade Ojore!

Solidarity and Struggle!
Tim
Philly ABCF
717-917-1165

please circulate this appeal as far and wide as possible.....................

bio of Ojore........

Ojore Lutalo is locked down in Trenton, New Jersey, for actions 
carried out in the fight for Black Liberation. In Ojore's own words, 
he is "serving a parole violation sentence (we received 14 to 17 
years) stemming from a 1977 conviction for expropriating monies from 
a capitalist state bank (in order to finance our activities) and 
engaging the political police in a gun battle in December 1975 in 
order to effect our departure from the bank, and to ensure success of 
the military operation..." "After my parole violation term terminated 
in December 1987, I started serving a forty year sentence with a 
twenty year parole ineligibility (I was paroled in 1980, and I have 
been back in captivity since April 20, 1982) that I have received in 
1982 for having a gun-fight with a drug dealer. The overall strategy 
of assaulting a drug dealer is to secure monies to finance one's 
activities, and to rid the oppressed communities of drug dealers." 
Ojore was originally arrested with New Afrikan P.O.W. Kojo Bomani 
Sababu, and was struggling with comrade Andaliwa Clark up until the 
point that Andaliwa was killed in action within the confines of New 
Jersey's infamous Trenton State Prison after he shot two prison's 
security guards in the repressive Management Control Unit (M.C.U.) on 
January 19th, 1976 when they tried to stop him from escaping from 
captivity. Ojore was a comrade of the late Kuwasi Balagoon, a New 
Afrikan anarchist P.O.W. "I've been involved in the struggle, the war 
against the fascist state since 1970. I've been an anarchist since 
1975 without any regrets. Prior to my involvement in the struggle, I 
was just another apolitical lumpen (bandit) here in Amerika." "I 
was... influenced and highly motivated by the Black Liberation Army 
(B.L.A.) here in Amerika. These sisters and brothers were New 
Afrikans just like me from the streets of the ghettos who took the 
initiative militarily, to start assassinating members of the state's 
security forces who were murdering black people in our communities. 
 From the inception of all revolutions, I feel that the people need 
armed combat units to check state sponsored acts of terrorism by the 
government's security forces. In addition, I feel that these armed 
combat units are necessary to show the people that fascist acts of 
state-sponsored terrorism... will be responded to militarily. In 1975 
I became disillusioned with Marxism and became an anarchist (thanks 
to Kuwasi Balagoon) due to the inactiveness and ineffectiveness of 
Marxism in our communities along with repressive bureaucracy that 
comes with Marxism. People aren't going to commit themselves to a 
life and death struggle just because of grand ideas someone might 
have floating around in their heads. I feel people will commit 
themselves to a struggle if they can see progress being made similar 
to the progress of anarchist collectives in Spain during the era of 
the fascist Bahamonde..."



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