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"Go to the people, organize the people, work among the people and tell no lies about what we want and what we've done and what we have accomplished.* We have to build a strong bond of trust with the people and show them by example that we're different from the politicians and corporate businessmen and others who say anything and do anything to get the people to go along with their program.This lesson has been the cornerstone of my understanding of what this struggle is supposed to be about.* If we take the "tell no lies" approach to organizing, then we take the time to build the foundation for a movement that is destined to bring us the victory we say we're fighting for.* Then there would be no need to organize separate programs to educate the community to the existence of political prisoners.* No.* Because while we were working to organizing rent strikes and take control of abandoned buildings -- to create decent housing in our community through our sweat equity-- we would be talking about how Abdul Majid and others who organized tenant associations such as the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Tenants Association in Brooklyn.* While we're organizing around the issue of quality education that teaches our true history and role in this society, we would be talking about Herman Bell and Albert Nuh Washington and their work with the liberation schools.* While we're organizing food co-ops and other survival programs, we'd be talking about Geronimo Pratt, Sundiata Acoli, Robert Seth Hayes, and all the other political* prisoners and prisoners of war who worked in the free health clinics and day care centers -- and who went to prison as a result of their active participation in organizing efforts around issues that directed affected the Black and oppressed communities.Because our "movement," for lack of a better word, has deteriorated to the point that the majority of our organizing is done through demonstrations, rallies, conferences, and press conferences, the only way we feel ... Read more

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