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Graham L. Carter

Free All Political Prisoners

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…The foot on my neck is a part of a bodyThe song that I sing is part of an echowhat is left?I mean like love is specificIs my mind a machine gun?Is my heart a hacksaw?Can I make freedom real?Yeah.What is left?I am at the top and bottom of a lowerarchyI am an earth lover from way backI am in love with freedom and childrenI am in love with losers and laughterLove is my sword and truth is my compassWhat is left?-Assata Shakur, in this film, interviewed on camera days before breaking out of a maximum security unit of the Clinton Correctional Facility. GERIMA: I’ll tell you something a lot of people don’t know. We fought to get to the prison to film her. At the time we were shooting her, she was apparently planning to escape. She had tension, a stomach problem going on, and I didn’t pay attention. When we were shooting, we were there filming her, but she was in that mode of escape. I’ll tell you—I met her in Cuba later—I didn’t capture her strength. Assata, that day, she was anxiously–it’s like the enslaved planning to run away while still talking to the landlord—being filmed and having to make sure her environment is calm. It was amazing. When we finished, Walter Cronkite’s people came to buy the footage. They had heard we interviewed her just before she escaped. And we said, “We don’t have nothing, I don’t know what you’re talking about.” So, my wife and I are proud; we never gave footage of Assata to the press.

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