Larry Pinkney participated in a speaker’s forum entitled ‘The Next Ten Years: A Futurist View of Political Black America’ at Macalester College on February 26, 1985. The event was part of the Black History Month Celebration and was sponsored by the Black Liberation Affairs Committee (B.L.A.C.) and Speakers & Symposia.
Contents of a poster for the Black […]
Southwest State University ISO member, Larry Pinkney, was quoted in a Jan 28, 1985 Independent (Southwest Minnesota’s Messenger, Marshall, Minnesota) article entitled “SSU’s International Student Organization seeks unity, understanding” by Independent Staff Writer, LuAnn Schmaus.
Excerpts from the article highlighting Larry Pinkney (image below):
MARSHALL – Communication is the first step in building unity, according to members […]
Application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights under the Optional Protocol by the Human Rights Committee
by Alfred de Zayas, Jacob Th. Möller, and Torkel Opsahl
Publisher: United Nations (1985)
Reprinted from German Yearbook of International Law, 1985, Volume 28
Page 51:
In case No. 27/1978 (L. Pinkney v. Canada) […]
Larry Pinkney was written about in the November 30, 1984, MAC WEEKLY (Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota) Newspaper article entitled Pinkney speaks on ‘John Wayne mentality’ by Michael Orenstein.
Contents of the article (image below):
Pinkney speaks on ‘John Wayne mentality’
By Michael Orenstein
America is engaging in a war of genocide.
So says Larry Pinkney, former […]
US black political activist Larry Pinkney’s 1981 United Nations victory was published in Report of the Human Rights Committee, General Assembly, Thirty-Seventh Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/37/40), United Nations, October 1982, Pages 101-113
Excerpt from the report, Page 101:
ANNEX VII
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol to the International […]
Larry Pinkney was featured in Maclean’s magazine (Canada), January 4, 1982, Page 27, in an article entitled One man’s fight not to go home, by Linda McQuaig.
Excerpts from the article (image below):
For the past five years, Larry Pinkney has languished in jail in Mission, B.C. During that time, he vigorously maintained that Canada […]
Larry Pinkney’s 1981 United Nations ruling victory was written about by the Associated Press and published on Tuesday, December 15, 1981 in The Province (British Columbia, Canada).
The legal precedent established by Larry Pinkney in his self-authored case to the United Nations, resulting from the UN ruling, was utilized in cases throughout the world.
Excerpts […]
Larry Pinkney’s 1981 United Nations ruling victory was written about by the Associated Press and published on Tuesday, December 15, 1981 in the Ottawa Citizen.
The legal precedent established by Larry Pinkney in his self-authored case to the United Nations, resulting from the UN ruling, was utilized in cases throughout the world.
Excerpts from the article:
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Larry Pinkney was written about in the June 1981 Issue (VOLUME 6, No. 5) of the Hapotoc Collective newsletter (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
Excerpt from the newsletter:
One more Black activist put on ice.
American activist, Larry J Pinkney, has been imprisoned in Canada since 1976. Since the 60’s he has been very active in the Black Panther […]
Published in The Guardian Independent Radical Newsweekly (New York), October 29, 1980, Page 22:
Larry Pinkney, Mission, Canada: I am writing to the Guardian to congratulate you on your in-depth articles and thought-provoking analyses of the issues and concerns relevant to progressive struggle.
As a socialist and a Black political activist, I certainly cannot overemphasize the […]
Larry Pinkney’s commentary was published in the May-August 1980 Issue of Canadian Dimension magazine, Pages 54-55
Excerpts from the commentary:
EXPOSING RACISM: A VOICE FROM PRISON
I am writing to Dimension, first to compliment it for its’ articles and thought provoking reports. Currently, I write to you from the confines of segregation (solitary confinement) in this […]
Larry Pinkney received the following letter of appreciation from Huey P. Newton on December 3, 1972 (image below):
Huey P. Newton
BLACK PANTHER PARTY
8501 East 14th Street
Oakland, California 94621
Larry Pinkney
Co-Chairman Central Committee
San Francisco Black Caucus
P.O. Box [number omitted]
San Francisco, California 94101
[…]
The following photo taken by Rahn “Ducho” Dennis (1934-2014) was part of an article entitled ‘A Caucus for the Community: The San Francisco Black Caucus Serves the People‘ in the October 21, 1972 Issue of THE BLACK PANTHER Intercommunal News […]
Larry Pinkney is featured in an Oct 21, 1972 (Saturday) The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service article entitled ‘A Caucus For The Community: The San Francisico Black Caucus Serves The People’ Vol. IX, No. 1 , Pages 6 & 12 (includes photo of Larry Pinkney and Kirk Taylor – see below):
In the Black community, numerous organizations with various […]
3 minute video of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana held on March 10-12. Includes footage of California delegates Larry Pinkney and Robert Clark. The emblem on Clark‘s hat says San Francisco Black Caucus. Clark was Chairman and Pinkney was Co-chairman of the San Francisco Black Caucus, which was co-founded by the Black Panther Party.
https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/238942
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Among other political activities, Larry Pinkney served as western regional Minister of Interior for the Republic of New Africa (RNA). The RNA is described in the 2004 book ‘Front Line USA: Threats, Attacks, Arrests and Harassment of Human Rights Defenders’ by John Rendler as ”an organization formed to coordinate the efforts of individual activists, Black nationalists, […]
Among other political activities, Larry Pinkney served as western regional Minister of Interior for the Republic of New Africa (RNA). The RNA is described in the 2004 book ‘Front Line USA: Threats, Attacks, Arrests and Harassment of Human Rights Defenders’ by John Rendler as “an organization formed to coordinate the efforts of individual activists, Black nationalists, […]
Larry Pinkney was quoted in a December 20, 1968 (Friday) San Francisco Examiner article entitled ‘Seizure of Power Goal,’ Poly Blacks Told, Page 8
By Larry Dum
Excerpts from the article:
“Our goal is the seizure of power,” the black students gathered in Polytechnic High School music auditorium were told last night…
This was the […]
Larry Pinkney was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article entitled Fiery Black Meeting at Poly High published on Friday, December 20, 1968, Page 2
Excerpt from the article:
Fiery Black Meeting at Poly High
Some 150 Polytechnic High School students heard a series of fiery demands for greater militancy last night by a panel of black […]
This Dec 2, 1968, Page 2 editorial from The Free Critic newspaper (City College of San Francisco) describes actions by Larry Pinkney of the Black Students Union to get an ‘Afro-American’ studies department and a black woman hired by college officials as Dean at City College of San Francisco.
Excerpts from the editorial:
EDITORIAL
One […]
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