Walter Riley’s decades of organizing experience spans mobilizations against Jim Crow to student and labor organizing with the Progressive Labor Party, early Black Panther Party formations, anti-war activities, and co-leading the Peace and Freedom Party’s Black Caucus,
labor and welfare organizing and against South Africa’s apartheid system. Well known throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, he is also the father of artist and organizer Boots Riley.
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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist, author and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA.
She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media.
A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations … Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2), and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.
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