FREE SUNDIATA ACOLI
This discussion took place June 1996 on KSJS 90.5 FM at San Jose State University. The "Last Black Hero" (host), and Dj Rage (Producer) speak with Bya Adlofo a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, and the Free Sundiata Acoli Organization. The conversation explores Sundiata's case and political prisoners.

Sundiata Acoli (born in 1939, as Clark Edward Squire), a New Afrikan political prisoner of war, mathematician, and computer analyst, was born January 14, 1937, in Decatur, Texas, and raised in Vernon, Texas. During the summer of 1964 he did voter registration work in Mississippi. In 1968 he joined the Harlem Black Panther Party and did community work around issues of schools, housing, jobs, child care, drugs, and police brutality. n 1969 he and 13 others were arrested in the Panther 21 conspiracy case. He was held in jail without bail and on trial for two years before being acquitted, along with all other defendants, by a jury deliberating less than two hours. Upon release, FBI intimidation of potential employers shut off all employment possibilities in the computer profession and stepped-up COINTELPRO harassment, surveillance, and provocations soon drove him underground. In May 1973, while driving the New Jersey Turnpike, he and his comrades were ambushed by N.J. state troopers. One companion, Zayd Shakur, was killed, another companion, Assata Shakur, was wounded and captured. One state trooper was killed and another wounded, and Sundiata was captured days later.
Write Sundiata Acoli: Sundiata Acoli #39794-066 (Squire) P.O. Box 1000 FCI Otisville Otisville, NY 10963-1000
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