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Kuwasi Balagoon (December 22, 1946 – December
13, 1986), born Donald Weems, was a Black
Panther, a member of the Black Liberation Army, a New
Afrikan anarchist,
and a defendant in the Panther 21 case in the late sixties.
Captured and convicted of various crimes, he spent most of the
1970s in prison. Balagoon escaped from prison several times, going
underground and resuming BLA activity. He was finally captured and
charged with participating in an armoured truck armed robbery,
known as the Brinks robbery
(1981), in West Nyack, New York, on October
21, 1981, an action in which two police officers, Waverly Brown and
Edward O'Grady, and a money courier (Peter
Paige) were murdered. Convicted of murder and other charges[1] and
sentenced to life imprisonment, he died in prison of pneumocystis pneumonia, an AIDS-related illness, on December 13, 1986, aged
39. Balagoon was bisexual.[2][3]
Balagoon authored several texts while in prison, writings that
have become influential among Black and other anarchists since
first being published and distributed by anarchist prisoner support
networks in the 1980s and 90s.[3]
References
- ^
Associated Press (1984-10-24). "THE CITY; Defendant Guilty
In 2d Brink's Case". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/24/nyregion/the-city-defendant-guilty-in-2d-brink-s-case.html. Retrieved
2009-11-08.
- ^
Perez
Esquivel, Adolfo; Alston, Ashanti, Let Freedom Ring: A
Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political
Prisoners, PM Press, p. 364, ISBN
1604860359
- ^ a
b
Loughery, Jessica
(2006-12-13), "Freedom Song: Building an
Icon Out of Kuwasi Balagoon", Philadelphia City
Paper, http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006/12/14/freedom-song
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