“Somali pirates aren’t content just floating around in their fishing boats, looking for victims. These days, pirates off the Horn of Africa are turning to a sophisticated mix of weaponry, jerry-rigged GPS devices, and ingenious hacks of shipping-industry databases to hunt down prey. The resulting technology isn’t just fascinating–it also has a real impact on foreign millitaries who are fighting piracy.”
“How would they know how I felt? They want to do exactly what the previous enemy did. They always said they knew what we thought…They carved up our country into homelands because the ‘knew’ that we wanted to live on our own as tribes in South Africa. They thought for us.”
We honor the memory of his struggle on our behalf by remembering those still incarcerated or in exile for moving with courage and determination to toward our collective freedom.
Elmer G. “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit and whose case became a symbol of racial injustice during the turbulent 1960s, has died. He was 63.
Elmer ‘Geronimo’ Pratt, a former Black Panther leader, dies in Tanzania – latimes.com.