coordinating commitee

Co-Chair National Jericho Movement

Co-Chair Oakland Jericho

Coordinating Committee Member for the Spirit of Mandela Coalition

Executive Committee Member: Addeynu Allahe Universal Arabic Association-AA-UAA

Founder: Epic Essence

Free Lance Writer, Spoken Word Poet, Trauma Therapist, Holistic Practitioner

Ashaki Binta, lifelong freedom fighter for Black Liberation and the movements for workers rights, black political power, women’s rights, gay rights, and the human rights of all people.

Member of our People’s Senate Organizing Committee; the Editorial Committee for the People’s Senate Newsletter; and an initiating member of Women United Against Genocide (WUAG).

She serves as a member of the Black Workers for Justice Executive Committee and is National Organizer for the NBLM National Unity Initiative.

New Afrikan-Cherokee-Shinnecock Black feminist

Artist, Educator, Essayist, Organizer,

Workshop facilitator

Public speaker

Black Panther Collective

Radio co-host/co-producer

Published in the New York Amsterdam News, San Francisco Bayview, Journal of Socialism & Democracy, Huffington Post, “Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions." “Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party,” and “Climate, Care, Crisis, and Debt: Transdisciplinary Problems and Possibilities”

Released from prison to parole on 10/6/2020, after being confined for almost 5 decades, Jalil is a veteran member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, & the co-founder of the National Jericho Movement to Free All Political Prisoners.

Jalil is the author of “We Are Our Own Liberators”, “Escaping the Prism - Fade to Black” and his essays have been published in several books, magazines and newspapers.

Presently, he works as the Special Projects Coordinator for Citizen Action of New York, in Rochester, New York. Jalil is organizing on the behalf of 13th Forward campaign to end penal slavery in New York State.

Former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army Political Prisoner

Chairperson of the National Jericho Movement

Coordinating Committee Member for the Spirit of Mandela Coalition

Organizer of the 2021 International Tribunal

Matt Meyer is an internationally noted historian, orator, and organizer who serves as Secretary-General of the International Peace Research Association. Meyer is the Senior Research Scholar of the University of Massachusetts/Amherst’s Resistance Studies Initiative, active also with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and the War Resisters’ International.

The author/editor of over a dozen books, Meyer’s work focuses on African Peace Studies; 21st Century Decolonization; the Strategies and Tactics of Movement-building; and Political Prisoners and the Abolition of White Supremacy.

Baba Sekou !Presente!
Sekou Odinga was a founding member of the Spirit of Mandela (SoM), New Afrikan Muslim, early member of Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), veteran member of the Black Panther Party/Black Liberation Army, and for 33 years, a US Political Prisoner of War.

He co-founded both the New York-Harlem-Bronx chapter of the Black Panther Party, & the international section in Algiers, North Afrika before his October 1981 capture. Released from prison in November 2014, he founded the Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition (NEPPC). He spoke at colleges/universities on behalf of his imprisoned comrades and the Black Freedom Struggle, interviewed extensively in print, radio, media and film. His writings have been published in numerous journals/anthologies.

‘Tag’ is an abolitionist organizer from Harlem committed to slavery & genocide's disintegration.

Attorney and educator focused on creating and implementing effective strategies against state violence. 

Founder/Coordinator of the Texas People’s Tribunal, an organization to abolish the death penalty and other lethal state technologies used against racialized peoples.

Coordinator of:
(2023) Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions
(2024) “If I Must Die, You Must Live:” An International Teach-in on War, the Death Penalty, Political Imprisonment, and the Palestinian Genocide.

Co-Editor #WithoutJustCause: The Case of US-held Political Prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.

Author of articles on colonialism, law enforcement, the Partition of India, migration, US imperialism, and the death penalty. 

Yasmeen Majid, veteran Panther, Mother & Granddmother. Member of the Corona BPP office, a subsection of the Jamaica Chapter of the Black Panther Party in New York, Majid also is a member of the Black Panther Commemoration Committee and the National Alumni Association of the BPP. She worked 18 years with the Greenhope Services for Women, one of the most comprehensive programs for women transitioning back home from the prison system.