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Kiilu Nyasha is a revolutionary journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party. Through the end of 2009, Kiilu hosted a weekly TV program, "Freedom Is A Constant Struggle," on SF Live, and many shows are archived here. Beginning in May, 2012, "Freedom..." returned to the airwaves every first and third Thursday for a live 52 minutes on BAVC Commons (SF).
It can be streamed here. Archives of shows not on this blog can be found by searching the title at www.archive.org.

Kiilu writes for various online and print publications including the San Francisco Bay View Newspaper and this blog: kiilunyasha.blogspot.com

A former radio programmer, she has worked for KPFA (Berkeley), SF Liberation Radio, Free Radio Berkeley, and KPOO in SF. She can be contacted via email: Kiilu2@sbcglobal.net

Be sure to visit Kiilu's pages at YouTube and Facebook.

Recent Freedom is a Constant Struggle Episodes

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle with Paul Boden & Tommi Avicolli Mecca (12/18/2014)
Pierre Labossiere and Cephus Johnson (Sept. 15, 2016)
Ida McCray of Families with a Future (Sept. 1, 2016)
Jeffrey Blankfort on Black August 2016 (Aug. 4, 2016)
Phavia Kujichagulia (July 21, 2016)
Tim Huey and Tina Bartolome: Resisting Police Violence (July 7, 2016)
Jean Yvon Kernizan on Haiti (June 16, 2016)
Christina Gutierrez and Sellassie Blackwell (June 2, 2016)
Robin Roth on Hepatitis C (May 19, 2016)
Hank Jones and Nathaniel Moore (May 5, 2016)
Glen Ford: Black Agenda Report (April 21, 2016)
Ida McCray, Keith Wattley and Terry Collins on Hugo Pinell (March 3, 2016)
Charlie Hinton & Freddie Johnson discuss and perform SOLITARY MAN (Feb. 18, 2016)
Archival Footage of Phavia Kujichagulia, Yuri Kochiyama and Hugo 'Yogi Bear' Pinell (Feb. 4, 2016)
Pierre Labossiere: Haiti Action Committee (Jan. 21, 2016)
Dr. James G. Kahn: UCSF Global Health Economics Consortium (Jan. 7, 2016)
Jennifer Friedenbach: The Coalition on Homelessness (Dec. 17, 2015)
Gerald Smith, Patricia & Richard Perez on Police Brutality and Murder (Dec. 3, 2015)
Pierre Labossiere & Charlie Hinton on Haiti (Nov. 19, 2015)
Sharif Zackout & Yahya Mustafa (Oct. 15, 2016)
Ida McCray: Families With a Future (Oct. 1, 2015)
Raj Patel (Sept. 17, 2015)
Pierre Labossiere and Emiliano Echeverria (Sept. 3, 2015)
Two-Part Black August Special (Aug. 6 and 20, 2015)
Dylcia Pagan on Puerto Rico and Pierre Labossiere on Haiti (July 2, 2015)
Terry Collins and Avotcja (June 18, 2015)
Michelle Cordova (June 4, 2015)
Phavia Kujichagulia and Call-in with Pam Africa (May 24, 2015)
Jeffrey Blankfort (May 7, 2015)
Ayana Labossiere and Robert Roth on Haiti (April 2, 2015)
Ramona Africa on the MOVE 9, Phil Africa's suspicious death and the May 13, 1985 massacre (Feb. 19, 2015)
Rekia Jibrin on the Oakland Unified School District, the privatization of pubic education, and restorative justice (Jan. 29, 2015)
Guests Paul Boden of WRAP & Tommi Aviolli Mecca of Housing Rights Committee (Dec. 18, 2014)
Pierre Labossiere & Kevin Pina discuss Haiti (Dec. 4, 2014)
Ayana Labossiere, Aimee Riechel and Ruth Beyene of Haiti Solidarity Club at Mission High School (Sept. 19, 2013)

Freedom is a Constant Struggle Archives 2007-2011

Pierre Labossiere: Revolutionary Haitian History (Oct. 12, 2007)
Joe Wanzala: Crisis in Kenya (Dec. 5, 2007)
Mike Wong: Resistance to U.S. Wars (Dec. 7, 2007)
Gioioa von Disterlo: Criminalizing Homelessness (Dec. 14, 2007)
Jeffrey Blankfort: The Zionist Occupation of Palestine (Dec. 21, 2007)
Avotcja honors Dr. King (Jan. 18, 2008)
Georgia Schreiber & Charles Minster: Prison Focus and Pelican Bay SHU (Jan. 25, 2008)
Charles Bourdon: The San Francisco Eight (Feb. 8, 2008)
Raymond Nat Turner and Zigi Lowenberg: UpSurge! (Feb. 22, 2008)
Raymond A. Rock, III and C.C. Campbell-Rock: Gulf Coast Injustice (Feb. 29, 2008)
Pierre Labossiere: The Kidnap & Exile of President Aristide (March 14, 2008)
Jennifer Friedenbach: War on the Homeless (April 18, 2008)
Harold Taylor: The San Francisco Eight (April 25, 2008)
Dennis Cunningham: The FBI and the Resistance (May 2, 2008)
Ida McCray: Women Prisoners (May 9, 2008)
Yuri Kochiyama: On Knowing Malcolm X (May 16, 2008)
Ricardo Alvarez: Clinica Esperanza's new approach to HIV/AIDS (May 23, 2008)
Michael Wong and Eddie Falcon: Veterans for Peace (May 30, 2008)
Ray Boudreaux and Richard Brown: Free The SF8! (July 3, 2008)
Elizabeth Martinez: 500 Years of Chicana Women's History (July 11, 2008)
Phavia Kujichagulia: Culture, Identity, and the Human Race (July 25, 2008)
Bato and Sundi Remember Comrade George (Aug. 22, 2008)
Richard Brown & The SF8 Case (Sept. 5, 2008)
Dennis Cunningham on the Attica Prison Uprising (Sept. 12, 2008)
Pierre Labossiere on Haiti's 2008 Hurricanes (Sept. 19, 2008)
Ona Move With Pam and Ramona Africa (Sept. 26, 2008)
Raj Patel: The Global Food System (Nov. 7, 2008)
Pierre Labossiere on Haitian Disasters & Ramshackle Infrastructure (Nov. 21, 2008)
Robert H. King on the Angola 3 and His Autobiography, "From the Bottom of the Heap" (Nov. 28, 2008)
Emiliano Echeverria & Pierre Labossiere: The Kidnapping of 2 Presidents (July 10, 2009)
Tiny (Poor Magazine) and Bob (Streetsheet): Criminalizing Poverty (July 17, 2009)
Ziad Abbas & Nadeen Elshorafa: The Gaza Siege (July 24, 2009)
Phavia Kujichagulia: Cultural Consciousness (July 25, 2008)
LBD from KPOO Radio (July 31, 2009)
Elbert "Big Man" Howard and Billy X Jennings: Black August (Aug. 7, 2009)
Pierre Labossiere: Haiti's Heroic History (Aug. 14, 2009)
Willie Sundiata Tate: Black August (Aug. 21, 2009)
Nadra Foster: Survivor of Police Abuse at KPFA (Aug. 28, 2009)
Jahahara Alkebulan: Blacks for Reparations (Sept. 4, 2009)
Bobby Seale: The Attica Uprising (Sept. 11, 2009)
Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing (Sept. 18, 2009)
Michael Wong & Jeff Paterson: Courage To Resist (Sept. 25, 2009)
Francisco Torres: The San Francisco 8 (Oct. 2, 2009)
Antonio Gonzalez: Columbus Day v. Indigenous Peoples Day (Oct. 9, 2009)
Gloria La Riva: The Cuban Five (Oct. 16, 2009)
Emiliano Echeverria & Pierre Labossiere: Coups in Honduras and Haiti (Oct. 23, 2009)
Crystal Bybee: Kevin Cooper and Mumia Abu-Jamal (Oct. 30, 2009)
Phavia Kujichagulia: Fast Food or Fresh Fruit? (Nov. 6, 2009)
Homelessness in San Francisco and the US (Nov. 13, 2009)
Jennifer Friedenbach: Coalition On Homelessness (Nov. 20, 2009)
Dennis Cunningham: The 40th Anniversary of the Assassination of Fred Hampton (Dec. 4, 2009)
Pierre Labossiere on the Disastrous Response to Haiti's Earthquake (July 23, 2010)
SOUL: Political Education (Sept. 16, 2010)
Raj Patel on Global Economics, Food Sovereignty, and Justice (Oct. 1, 2010)
Sbu Zikode of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Shack Dweller's Movement of South Africa (Nov., 2010)
Dylcia and Cisco on Panthers and Independistas (Feb. 26, 2011)

My Written Articles

2014 Midterm Elections: Big Bucks and Political Mercenaries (Nov. 7, 2014)
Black August 2014: Quotations from George Lester Jackson (Aug. 25, 2014)
"Iola," Princess of the Press: The Story of Feminist Anti-Lynching Crusader, Ida B. Wellls-Barnett
‘Day of the Gun’ - How KRON-4 distorted the story of Black August- Review and rebuttal (written in 2002, reprinted Aug. 1, 2014)
Comments for Freedom is a Constant Struggle on BAVC July 17, 2014 & Israel's War on Gaza, July 20, 2014 (July 20, 2014)
Fourth Draft of A Revolutionary Party Platform (May 7, 2014)
Hugo Pinell denied parole again (May 7, 2014)
From Paris to Pelican Bay (written in 2001, reprinted Jan. 27, 2014)
Portrait of Mao and Selected quotes from Mao’s Red Book, The Quotations of Chairman Mao TseTung (Sept. 25, 2013)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! George Lester Jackson, September 23, 1941 - August 21, 1971 (Sept. 25, 2013)
1992 KPFA Commentary on Haiti (reprinted Sept. 18, 2013)
Black August 2013 (Aug. 23, 2013)
The Acquittal of a Murderer (July 14, 2013)
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – April 4, 1968 (April 3, 2013)
Happy Birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Jan. 21, 2013)
Obama's Hypocrisy (Dec. 17, 2012)
Voting for Our Own Oppression (Nov. 6, 2012)
On Boycotting the Election 2012 (Oct. 22, 2012)
The Revision and Origin of Black August (Aug. 1, 2012)
Rape Ignites a Nation During Civil Rights Movement, by Carmen Rivera, Introduction by Kiilu Nyasha (June 30, 2012)
May Parole Hearing for Hugo Pinell, in Solitary for at least 42 yrs -- POSTPONED! (April 5, 2012)
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the 21st Century Book Review, by Kiilu Nyasha March 19, 2012
SLAVERY ON THE NEW PLANTATION (updated March 2012)
A Chapter in the Life of A Panther
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Comrade George Jackson (Aug. 4, 2011)
Egypt: The People Have Won! (Feb. 11, 2011)
Egypt: Revolution Has Come! (Jan. 31, 2011)
Abolition Key To New Justice System (Dec. 9, 2010)
The Case of the Angola 3 --A review of the new film “In The Land of the Free...” (Nov. 22, 2010)
Locked Far Too Long Behind the Walls (Sept. 29, 2010)
The Zionist Attack on the Free Gaza Flotilla (June 24, 2010)
On Racism and Unity (May 18, 2010)
Welfare Deform - Health Care Deform (April 6, 2010)
The Haitian Tragedy and Mainstream Media Response (Jan. 16, 2010)
America’s Supermax Prisons Do Torture (Nov., 2009)
AMERICAN TORTURE CHAMBERS: A Report on Today's Prisons & Jails Part 1 (first written in 2006, updated Nov. 4, 2009)
No Politics As Usual! (first written in 2005, updated Sept. 17, 2009
Black August 2009: A story of African freedom fighters (Aug. 3, 2009)
Media, Revolution, and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party: An interview with Kiilu Nyasha (April 2, 2009)
Review of Mumia Abu-Jamal's book "Jailhouse Lawyers" (March 27, 2009)
Renewed Bombing! Is This The Newest Change? (Dec. 27, 2008)
Ruchell Cinque Magee and the August 7th Courthouse Slave Rebellion (July 4, 2008)
Torture and the San Francisco 8 (Oct. 24, 2007)
Slavery On The New Plantation: A Report on Today’s Prisons & Jails, Part 2 (December, 2006)
The Heat Is On In Mumia's Case (July 25, 2005)
Soledad Brother: Memories of Comrade George (Aug. 18, 2004)
Hugo "Yogi Bear" Pinell: A True Warrior Goes To Board (April 27, 2004)

My Radio Broadcasts

PINKNEY TO PINKNEY - Blog Talk Radio, with Kiilu Nyasha (12/12/2010)
KPOO Radio Interview About Hugo "Yogi Bear" Pinell (June 15, 2006)
Reading of "In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon" (Dec. 13, 1986)

My Favorite Websites

Black Agenda Report
It's About Time: Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni
Haiti Action Committee
Electronic Intifada
Freedom Archives
Flashpoints Radio
KPOO Radio
Angola 3 News
Assata Shakur
Sundiata Acoli
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Journalists for Mumia
Mumia's Essays on Prison Radio

My Favorite Videos

Linn Washington Jr: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Stop Torture in US Prisons

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Followers

Yuri Kochiyama, Dylcia Pagan, and Kiilu Nyasha

Yuri: "Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society."

Harriet Tubman

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

Sojourner Truth

"Truth Is Powerful And It Prevails"

Ida B. Wells

"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap."

Frederick Douglas

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

WEB Du Bois

"...the two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a 'gentlemen's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote...May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either Republican or the Democratic parties."

Franz Fanon

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it in relative opacity.

Mao Tse Tung

People of the world unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!...be courageous, dare to fight; defy difficulties, and advance wave upon wave. Then the whole world will belong to the people.