VLVL the Pisks, BAAD and UHURU

[jbor]

The Pisks kept "plastic explosives in Tupperware containers" and
spray-painted "SMASH THE STATE" graffiti (194) when they were back at
Berkeley in '67 or so, and after the rout at College of the Surf they are
"off boisterously to a bomb-making commune up in central Oregon" chanting
"Powder to the People!" (259) Their embrace of pre-emptive violence is
clearly identified in the text.

The bruthas of BAAD, however, "don't have the fuckin' choice" (231) when it
comes to violent confrontations with the police. The guns of the state are
trained on them irregardless. (And, just to correct the misinformation, the
UHURU Movement is pacifistic, and has always been so.)

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on 15/2/04 11:20 AM, jbor wrote:

> "Uhuru", by the way, means "freedom" in Swahili, and is used in the name of
> various world-wide organisations devoted to democracy and equity for African
> peoples, including an organisation which began in California in 1981:
> 
> http://www.supportuhuru.org/pies/oakland/about_uhuru_oak.html
> 
> http://www.inpdumchicago.com/
> 
> It is alo the derivation of "Uhura", Nichelle Nicholls' character's name in
> the original _Star Trek_ (cf. 370.27-32).

on 16/2/04 6:02 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> http://www.uhura.com/
> 
> http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/character/1112511.html
> 
> http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/Uhura.html
> 
> http://www.hipsurgerymusic.com/Nichols/
> 
> And see as well ...
> 
> http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/uhuru/uhuru.html
> 
> http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/artifacts/SS-Uhuru.htm