Black Talk Radio w/ Lorenzo "Komboa" Ervin

Talking to Bro. Lorenzo "Komboa" Ervin tonight on Political Prisoner Radio. Bro. Ervin is a former political prisoner, former Black Panther, long-time Black anarchist organizer, author, and currently working in Memphis on a conference and major activity to uplift the Black community. 
 He is an Ex-Political prisoner confined after activism in the military against the Vietnam war, then civil rights activism in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Ciommittee, and a brief stint in the Black Panther Party. After COINTELPRO repression of the Black Left, he was imprisoned with two Life sentences for hijacking a plane to Cuba in 1969. Was a Black prisoner organizer and leader during the high stage of the Attica-era Black and revolutionary prison movement, was a leader of the federal prisoners union and part of the labor organizing and strike wave in the federal and state prison systems in the early to mid 1970's, was an active campaigner against the Behavior Modification and Control Unit program that officials established in the 1970's to put down the radical prisoners movement in federal and state prisons.

Was released in 1984, served 15 years before he was freed by an international "Free Lorenzo" movement, led by the Anarchist Black Cross, and other movements. 


 Bro. Ervin is now working with other activists to have a Black power conference on June 9, 2012 called "Let's Organize the Hood", where issues related to mass imprisonment will be discussed, and a new movement will be created around the issue. He and his wife, JoNina Ervin, are both authors, with his forthcoming book, "Let's Organize the Hood" by August 2012, and his wife's book, "Driven By the Movement: Interviews with Black Power Activists of the 1960's and 70's" already in print, the latter of which can be ordered from her directly at organize.the.hood@gmail.com


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