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2020-06-25 01:05:02 UTC
The co-founder of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Patrisse
Cullors, was the protégé of a communist-supporting domestic terrorist
for over a decade, spending years training in political organizing and
absorbing the radical Marxist-Leninist ideology which shaped her
worldview.
Eric Mann, who mentored Cullors for over a decade in community
organizing, was a member of radical-left militant groups: Students for
a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground, which bombed
government buildings and police stations in the 1960s and 1970s.
In a newly resurfaced video from 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder
Patrisse Cullors reveals that she and her fellow BLM founders are
trained Marxists.
In the video, Cullors is interviewed by Jared Ball of the Real News
Network and discusses the direction of the BLM movement.
The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological
frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers, she
said. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of,
ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is
build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk.
In previous interviews in 2018, while promoting her then-new book
titled, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,
Cullors describes her introduction to and affinity for Marxist
ideology.
In an interview with Democracy Now!, Cullors describes how she became a
trained organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center, calling it
her first political home and the centers director, Eric Mann, her
personal mentor.
She told The Politic that it was there that she was trained from her
youth and grew as a leader.
The Labor/Community Strategy Center describes its philosophy as an
urban experiment, utilizing grassroots organizing to focus on Black
and Latino communities with deep historical ties to the long history of
anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-communist resistance to the U.S.
empire.
The center teaches and studies the history of the Indigenous
rebellions against the initial European genocidal invasions, the
Great Slave Haitian Revolution of the 1790s, and the Great Slave
Rebellions that won the U.S. civil war for the racist north.
The center also expresses its appreciation for the work of the U.S.
Communist Party, especially Black communists, as well as its support
for the great work of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian
Movement, Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the great revolutionary
rainbow experiments of the 1970s, while flaunting its roots in the new
communist movement.
Speaking with ACLUs At Liberty weekly podcast, Cullors described the
center as her foundation, claiming it was there that she developed
the skills which helped her found the Black Lives Matter movement,
after having been recruited by its director, Eric Mann.
Mann, an avowed communist revolutionary, was the New England
coordinator for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1968. The
following year, a more radical wing splintered from the SDS, led by
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, calling for violent direct action
over civil disobedience.
The splintered faction became known as the Weather Underground, with
the stated goal of overthrowing the U.S. government. As a result, the
FBI classified the organization as a domestic terrorist group in 1969.
Mann led a group of fellow Weathermen who launched their own violent
direct action at the Harvard University Center for International
Affairs.
In an article titled: Band Invades, Violently Disrupts Center for
International Affairs, the Harvard Crimson reported that a band of 20
to 30 activists invaded the Center for International Affairs, roughing
up several staff members and employees before fleeing.
Several slogans, including Pig, Fuck U.S. Imperialism, and
Imperialists Screw All Women, were sprayed on the buildings walls.
Rocks thrown by the group broke several windows and a telephone was
damaged to prevent police from being notified.
Undergraduates who saw the group leaving the building and chanting Ho,
Ho, Ho Chi Minh; NLF is going to win, said they recognized some of
them as members of Weathermen, a militant spin-off of the older New
Left Caucus of SDS.
Mann was later charged with five counts of assault and battery,
disturbing the peace, damaging property, defacing a building, and
disturbing a public assembly, for which he spent 18 months in prison.
At the 2010 United States Social Forum in Detroit, under the slogan
Another World Is Possible. Another U.S. Is Necessary, the
Labor/Community Strategy Center sponsored a session titled:
Transformative Organizing Theory: Conscious Organizers Seek to Build
Anti-racist, Anti-imperialist Politics Rooted in Working Class
Communities of Color. In it, Cullorsrising to prominencewas chosen
by Mann to be a panelist along with him.
There, Cullors spoke about growing up as a working class, queer, Black
woman, in a single-parent household, with a father who was in and out
of prison.
Cullors stated that positionality in this country is supposed to
devastate us and had done so somewhat successfully, while stressing
the need to fight this thing.
Both Cullors and Mann strongly endorsed Bernie Sanders. Cullors was a
primary speaker at a Sanders campaign event the day before Super
Tuesday, which Mann attended.
Cullors, viewing Biden as far too moderate, pushed for the latter to
end his campaign, accusing him of having an old guard mentality and
coming from an old establishment.
Now with Biden leading as the Democratic presidential nominee, Cullors
and Mann are finding a sympathetic ear for their radical agenda.
As Breitbart news reported, a group of 50 leading national progressive
groups representing millions of active members across the country, are
pressuring Biden to adopt the radical platform of the Movement for
Black Lives which was co-written by BLM.
The group is calling for Biden to immediately incorporate their radical
policies, including putting forward a transformative and comprehensive
policing and criminal justice reform laid out by the Movement for Black
Lives (M4BL).
Citing his moral responsibility in this moment to make amends for
past harms he had caused, the groups demanded that Biden make
commitments such as advance reparations and defund police, prisons, and
weaponry in order to fully fund healthcare, housing, education, and
environmental justice.
We ask that you revise your platform to ensure that the federal
government permanently ends and ceases any further appropriation of
funding to local law enforcement in any form and redirect those and
additional resources towards much needed community-led and community-
controlled public safety efforts, the letter reads.
--
Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.
Cullors, was the protégé of a communist-supporting domestic terrorist
for over a decade, spending years training in political organizing and
absorbing the radical Marxist-Leninist ideology which shaped her
worldview.
Eric Mann, who mentored Cullors for over a decade in community
organizing, was a member of radical-left militant groups: Students for
a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground, which bombed
government buildings and police stations in the 1960s and 1970s.
In a newly resurfaced video from 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder
Patrisse Cullors reveals that she and her fellow BLM founders are
trained Marxists.
In the video, Cullors is interviewed by Jared Ball of the Real News
Network and discusses the direction of the BLM movement.
The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological
frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers, she
said. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of,
ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is
build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk.
In previous interviews in 2018, while promoting her then-new book
titled, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,
Cullors describes her introduction to and affinity for Marxist
ideology.
In an interview with Democracy Now!, Cullors describes how she became a
trained organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center, calling it
her first political home and the centers director, Eric Mann, her
personal mentor.
She told The Politic that it was there that she was trained from her
youth and grew as a leader.
The Labor/Community Strategy Center describes its philosophy as an
urban experiment, utilizing grassroots organizing to focus on Black
and Latino communities with deep historical ties to the long history of
anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-communist resistance to the U.S.
empire.
The center teaches and studies the history of the Indigenous
rebellions against the initial European genocidal invasions, the
Great Slave Haitian Revolution of the 1790s, and the Great Slave
Rebellions that won the U.S. civil war for the racist north.
The center also expresses its appreciation for the work of the U.S.
Communist Party, especially Black communists, as well as its support
for the great work of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian
Movement, Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the great revolutionary
rainbow experiments of the 1970s, while flaunting its roots in the new
communist movement.
Speaking with ACLUs At Liberty weekly podcast, Cullors described the
center as her foundation, claiming it was there that she developed
the skills which helped her found the Black Lives Matter movement,
after having been recruited by its director, Eric Mann.
Mann, an avowed communist revolutionary, was the New England
coordinator for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1968. The
following year, a more radical wing splintered from the SDS, led by
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, calling for violent direct action
over civil disobedience.
The splintered faction became known as the Weather Underground, with
the stated goal of overthrowing the U.S. government. As a result, the
FBI classified the organization as a domestic terrorist group in 1969.
Mann led a group of fellow Weathermen who launched their own violent
direct action at the Harvard University Center for International
Affairs.
In an article titled: Band Invades, Violently Disrupts Center for
International Affairs, the Harvard Crimson reported that a band of 20
to 30 activists invaded the Center for International Affairs, roughing
up several staff members and employees before fleeing.
Several slogans, including Pig, Fuck U.S. Imperialism, and
Imperialists Screw All Women, were sprayed on the buildings walls.
Rocks thrown by the group broke several windows and a telephone was
damaged to prevent police from being notified.
Undergraduates who saw the group leaving the building and chanting Ho,
Ho, Ho Chi Minh; NLF is going to win, said they recognized some of
them as members of Weathermen, a militant spin-off of the older New
Left Caucus of SDS.
Mann was later charged with five counts of assault and battery,
disturbing the peace, damaging property, defacing a building, and
disturbing a public assembly, for which he spent 18 months in prison.
At the 2010 United States Social Forum in Detroit, under the slogan
Another World Is Possible. Another U.S. Is Necessary, the
Labor/Community Strategy Center sponsored a session titled:
Transformative Organizing Theory: Conscious Organizers Seek to Build
Anti-racist, Anti-imperialist Politics Rooted in Working Class
Communities of Color. In it, Cullorsrising to prominencewas chosen
by Mann to be a panelist along with him.
There, Cullors spoke about growing up as a working class, queer, Black
woman, in a single-parent household, with a father who was in and out
of prison.
Cullors stated that positionality in this country is supposed to
devastate us and had done so somewhat successfully, while stressing
the need to fight this thing.
Both Cullors and Mann strongly endorsed Bernie Sanders. Cullors was a
primary speaker at a Sanders campaign event the day before Super
Tuesday, which Mann attended.
Cullors, viewing Biden as far too moderate, pushed for the latter to
end his campaign, accusing him of having an old guard mentality and
coming from an old establishment.
Now with Biden leading as the Democratic presidential nominee, Cullors
and Mann are finding a sympathetic ear for their radical agenda.
As Breitbart news reported, a group of 50 leading national progressive
groups representing millions of active members across the country, are
pressuring Biden to adopt the radical platform of the Movement for
Black Lives which was co-written by BLM.
The group is calling for Biden to immediately incorporate their radical
policies, including putting forward a transformative and comprehensive
policing and criminal justice reform laid out by the Movement for Black
Lives (M4BL).
Citing his moral responsibility in this moment to make amends for
past harms he had caused, the groups demanded that Biden make
commitments such as advance reparations and defund police, prisons, and
weaponry in order to fully fund healthcare, housing, education, and
environmental justice.
We ask that you revise your platform to ensure that the federal
government permanently ends and ceases any further appropriation of
funding to local law enforcement in any form and redirect those and
additional resources towards much needed community-led and community-
controlled public safety efforts, the letter reads.
--
Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.