Crossroad Support Network
Crossroad
The Newsletter of the Crossroad Support Network
from Spear & Shield Publications
Crossroads is a non-sectarian newsletter produced by and for New Afrikan Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners.
This publication is dedicated to contributing to and continuing an ongoing discussion around identity, purpose and direction for Afrikan-descended people who want a higher level of human life.
Contents
The following are also available in print from:
Spear & Shield Publications
5206 South Harper
Chicago, IL 60615
Recent issues of the Crossroad Newsletter
- new
Crossroad vol 12, #2, January - March 2004 is available as
a PDF.
This issue includes "Class Suicide:Reflections of a Lion" by
Sanyika Shakur, "We Mourn the Loss of Comrade-Brother El-Amin,"
"One Prisoner, One Contact" by Fred Hampton, Jr., Sentencing
Statement of Kamau Sadiki, National Security Memorandum #46 -
3/17/1978, etc.
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- Crossroad vol 11, #4, July -September 2003 is available
as a PDF.
This issue includes cover featuring "Free the Angola Three" mural,
African Anti-Terrorism Statement presented by the Prisoners of
Conscience Committee in Chicago, policy of Pan-Africanist Congress
of Azania on land issue by Elias L. Ntloedibe, False Pan-
Afrikanism, and letters.
download
- Crossroad vol 11, #2, January - March 2003 is available
as a PDF.
This issue includes lyrics from James Weldon Johnson, Mad
Professor's Afrocentric Dub, "The Monkey" by Dave Bartholomew and
Pearl King taken from Mutabaruka's "Life Squared", The Black Star
Project: Racial Academic Achievement Fact Sheet, "An Exemplary
Comrade Rides Ahead": an appreciation of Lance Bell, aka Santa
Bear, former member of the
Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther
Party and
founding member of the Pontiac Prisoner
Organization by Abdul Shanna, a timeline of the Iraq crisis from
1958 to 2002, and lots of info from New Afrikan political prisoner
Sekou Kambui
in
Alabama.
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- Crossroad vol 11, #1, October - December 2002 is
available as a PDF.
It includes The Harvest by Obadiyah Ben-Yisrayl, Women in Prison,
MOVE update by Janet Africa, Gender Violence and the Prison
Industrial Complex (Critical Resistance/INCITE! Statement), RAWA
Statement on the anniversary of the September 11 tragedy
Fundamentalism is the Enemy of All Civilized Humanity,
Imprisonment, Families, and the Community: A Brief Perspective by
the Campaign in Support of C Number Prisoners, The Myth of the
Generous Offer
by Seth Ackerman, When I'll Wave The Flag
by Marvin X, and more.
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- Crossroad vol 10, #4, July - September 2002 is
available as a PDF.
It includes "What If?" & "Male Supremacy" by Sister Kiilu Nyasha,
"Without A New Afrikan Personality First, There Will Be No
Republic of New Afrika" by Cinque Kofi Kinaya of the New Afrikan
Freedom Network
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- Crossroad vol 10, #3, April- June 2002 is available as
a PDF.
It has an article on Debi Zuver (from Out of Control- Lesbian
Committee to
Support Political Prisoners), a report on a nazi/cop rally in York
PA, an
interview with James Petras (from Socialist Worker), and "Women,
Power, and
Revolution" by Kathleen Cleaver.
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From the archives
-
The Spear & Shield Collective: An Introduction
-
Principles and Methods of Community Organizing An Outline
from August 1995, plain text
- questions & answers
from the pages of Crossroad, vol 9, #3, Fall 2000, plain
text
- Contribution to the Topic of "Health Brutality"
Stop The Hype Campaign: Reducing Hypertension Amongst New Afrikans
from the pages of Crossroad, Vol 6 #2 Sept-Oct 1995, plain
text
- A Spear & Shield Look At the "Name Debate"
Thoughts On What We are Becoming:
A Discussion Paper
from the pages of Crossroad, plain
text
- Malcolm X: Model of Personal Transformation, plain
text
- Book Review of a Biography of Harriet Tubman:Jailbreak Out of History, plain
text
-
Let's "Gang-Up" On Oppression: Youth Organizations And The Struggle For Power In Oppressed Communities(Revised), plain
text
- Notes From An Afrikan P.O.W. Journal Book One, 1977 is
available as a PDF.
Reflections On The "Prison Movement"
1. On Transforming the Colonial/Criminal Mentality
2. Afrikan P.O.W.'s And The United Nations
3. SPO "Prison Movement" Discussion Paper No. 1:
Contributions Toward The National Prisoners Movement
4. SPO "Prison Movement" Discussion Paper No. 2:
The "Prison Movement" And National Liberation
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- Crossroad vol 6, #3
is available on the web:
http://www.prisonactivist.org/pubs/crossroad/6.3/
- Some remarks delivered at a benefit for political prisoners
organized by Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and Crossroad
Support Network, March 5th, 1995 by hondo t'chikwa
available on the web:
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/ulk/ulk/ulk101.html
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Vita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal Book
Eleven, August 1987 is available as a PDF.
It includes three speeches by Fred Hampton, "Tasks of Cadres In
Organizing Black Workers" by C.L. Marvin, "The Role fo the New
Afrikan Historian" by Mike McKoy, "On Our Use of the Word Comrad"
by Atiba Shanna and more.
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-
On
the Relevance of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party by
the The Spear and Shield Collective (1988)
is available as plain text.
-
Vita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal Book
Twelve, April 1988 is available as a PDF.
CONTENTS
NOTES ON CADRE POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT
- The Need For a Policy: Points of Departure
- On What It Means To "Keep Politics In Command"
- A Few Points On "Maintaining The Line"
- Our Policy On Cadre Development
ON WHAT IT MEANS TO "RE-BUILD"-Part One: Re-Orientation
- Introduction
- "The Beat" Goes On
- The Need For And Role Of A Party
- Study Groups, What We Study, And Why
- Philosophical Re-Orientation
- Ideological And Theoretical Re-Orientation
- Re-Orientation Toward The Conduct of Daily Struggle: From Reform
To National Liberation Revolution
ON WHAT IT MEANS TO "RE-BUILD"-Part Two: Re-Organization
- Slogans: Theoretical And Practical Weapons Of Struggle
- On "Re-Build" - Metaphorically Speaking
- "Build To Win": Looking Back
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NEW FROM
SPEAR & SHIELD!
A March 1992
Interview With
Donald Cox,
Former Field
Marshall of the
Black Panther
Party - $8
(please indicate
audiotape or cd)
Assata Speaks!
A 1995 presentation to a group of
students in Cuba - $5
(please indicate audiotape or cd)
The Weapon of
Theory
by Amilcar Cabral
- $5
What Happened
to the Zimbabwe
Revolution?:
A 1984 Report on
the Zimbabwe
Revolution which
helps understand
how the country remained
in the 'commonwealth' and
never made the imperialists' list of
'terrorist' states - $5
Comrade-Sister Safiya Bukhari
on the Black Panther Party & the
Black Liberation Army at a 1991
presentation in Chicago - $8
(audiotape or cd)
Materials Available From
Spear & Shield Publications:
- Notes From a New Afrikan P.O.W. Journal Books 1,2,3,4,5,6, & 7
- $4/each
- Vita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal Books 8, 9,
10, 11, & 12 - $5/each
- Study Notes On Secure Communications - $4
- Revolution Without Women Ain't Happenin' (Aminata Umoja) -
$1
- CROSSROAD [subscription (6 issues) or bundle of back issues] -
$5
- An Interview With Assata Shakur - $2
- Meditations On Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, pts 1 & 2
- $5/each
- Capitalism or Socialism (Julius Nyerere) - $1
- Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat - $5
- Night-Vision: Illuminating War & Class On the Neo-Colonial
Terrain - $10
- Organization Means Commitment - $4
- Let's "Gang-Up" On Oppression (revised 6/97) - $3
- Notes For Those With Eyes & Ears - $1
- Principles & Methods of Community Organizing - $3
- The New Afrikan Prisoner Organization: An Interview -
$1
- Carry On the Tradition: In the Spirit of Fred Hampton & Mark
Clark - $1
- Notes On the Link Between the Oppression of New Afrikan Women
&
the New Afrikan National Liberation Revolution - $3
- Fade From Black/The Grassroots Program of the Nationalist Movement - $1
- Jailbreak Out of History: the Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman -
$5
- Some Solutions: Or Things To Do (Sundiata Acoli) - $2
- a soldier's story: writings by a revolutionary New Afrikan
anarchist (Kuwasi Balagoon) - $5
- AIDS Conspiracy Theories: Tracking the Real Genocide (David
Gilbert) - $3
- Zolo Agona Azania Poster - $3
- A Brief History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle (Sundiata
Acoli) - $4
- 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance - $3
- "No Provisional Government Can Win My Allegiance If It Won't
Serve My Needs" - $2
- Notes From a New Afrikan P.O.W. Journal
($$4 each - please indicate your choice when ordering)
Book One - Reflections on the 'Prison Movement' - On Transforming
the Colonial and Criminal Mentality
- New Afrikan POW's and the United Nations - and more!
Book Two - We S t i l l St Charge Genocide - The 13th Amendment:
Instrument of Legalized SlaveryŠ
Book Three - Thoughts on the Eve of a New Year - Are We Asking the
Right Questions?
Book Four - Vita Wa Watu - Debray Re-Visited.
Book Five - Combat Colonial Violence: Heighten the National
Democratic Revolution - and more!
Book Six - Against the Wind - Iranian Excerpts (OIPFG) On the
Necessity of Armed Struggle
Book Seven - Carry On the Tradition: In the Spirit of Fred Hampton
and Mark Clark - and more!
- Vita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal
($5 each - please indicate your choice when ordering)
Book Eight - Black Liberation (a speech by James Forman); On the
Transition of the 'Black Liberation'
Phrase, Concept and Movement
Book Nine - On the Link Between Oppression of New Afrikan Women
and the New Afrikan National Liberation
Revolution - and more!
Book Ten - Reflections on the Resurgence of Student Activism -
Revolutionary Morality: An Overview Book
Book Eleven - Three Speeches by Fred Hampton - Counterintelligence
Against the Illinois Chapter of the
Black Panther Party - On Our Use of the Word 'Comrad' - and
more!
Book Twelve - Notes On Cadre Policy and Cadre Development - On
What It Means To "Re-Build"
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