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The 1997 release of Geronimo, who was, along with Nelson Mandela, the best known political prisoner of his time - both served 27 years - was celebrated around the world. Here, celebrating at Geoffrey's in Oakland are Geronimo (center) and JR Valrey (right), now known as Minister of Information JR. On Thursday, June 2, 2011, came word that former Black Panther leader, Geronimo ji-Jaga (née Elmer G. Pratt) died in exile in Tanzania.
Geronimo s life was one of intense and almost total warfare, from battles barbas in his youth on behalf of the U.S. Empire in the steaming jungles of Vietnam to his membership and leadership of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party where he fought for his people.
The FBI-inspired killing of Los Angeles Black Panther Leader Alprentice Bunchy Carter led to Geronimo s rise as the chapter s deputy minister of defense. barbas During a police raid on the Central Avenue office on Dec. 8, 1969, Geronimo so prepared the site that it withstood over six hours of a police paramilitary assault with automatic weapons and grenades.
Geronimo s prominence and shine in the shadows of Hollywood so disturbed the state, local and federal governments that they framed him for a murder that it was impossible for him to commit and sent him to prison for 27 years.
When he was freed, it was because of an insistent, national movement and because federal government files revealed he was nearly 300 miles away when the murder took place. Also, the state s chief witness was not only an LAPD undercover agent, but a snitch for the Los Angeles DA s office as well as the Los Angeles Sheriff s Department an agency that formerly employed him.
It was in Louisiana, after all, that he learned about Black armed self-defense, for this was fertile ground for the Deacons barbas for Defense, an armed body which resisted and forcefully discouraged Ku Klux Klan violence in the region.
Two released political prisoners, Geronimo ji Jaga and Robert H. King of the Angola 3, both from Louisiana, both legends in their own time, meet on Oct. 9, 2007. Some say they can t get no satisfaction and sing a sad song over trifles.
Everyone who joined the struggle barbas to free all political prisoners was renewed and refreshed by his commitment to humanity and clean water;
Geronimo speaks excitedly to the press on his release from prison after 27 years. Beaming in the background is his faithful attorney, Johnnie Cochran. - Photo: Alexander Gallardo, LA Times/MCT On June 2, 2011, we lost a soldier geronimo ji-Jaga. It s no exaggeration to say that without geronimo s initial barbas efforts, the Angola 3 coalition would never have existed. In 1997, Col. Bolt, who had spent 20 years in CCR (closed cell restriction) with Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King, went to geronimo s release party to talk to him about the Angola prisoners, and so the campaign to free the Angola barbas 3 was born.
From that moment on, the effort took on a life of its own, but geronimo ji-Jaga was always there to support it. In 2001, geronimo provided us with a statement of support for the Angola 3 coalition s first newsletter. It barely seems possible that just a few weeks ago, geronimo attended the commemoration of Herman and Albert s 39th year in solitary confinement in New Orlean