“PSL members Nino Brown and Joe Tache presented on the history, politics and strategy of the Black Panther Party, and on why there is always a housing crisis in Boston. During Brown’s presentation several attendees exclaimed ‘All power to the people!’ and after Tache described why the wages workers receive are always less than the value they produce, one member in the audience stated ‘We’re making and creating everything, but they’re giving us a minimum wage off of our work because they’re making all the profit off of what we’re creating.’ After the presentations, attendee Deondre Morton received a copy of Mumia Abu Jamal’s autobiography, We Want Freedom, for answering a trivia question correctly. He told Liberation News, ‘I learned a lot about the Black Panthers…I learned about the figures, I had heard of their names before but I didn’t really know how they were connected to the struggle. Particularly, about Black people back in the day and how it’s affecting us today.’”

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