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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a longtime activist and grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA.

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Walter Riley’s decades of organizing experience spans mobilizations against Jim Crow to student and labor organizing with the Progressive Labor Party, early Black Panther Party formations, anti-war activities, and co-leading the Peace and Freedom Party’s Black Caucus, 
labor and welfare organizing and against South Africa’s apartheid system. Well known throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, he is also the father of artist and organizer Boots Riley.

#civilrights #humanrights #organizing 

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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist, author and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA. 

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2),  and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

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PATREON:   / blackpowermedia 1:39:06

Walter Riley’s decades of organizing experience spans mobilizations against Jim Crow to student and labor organizing with the Progressive Labor Party, early Black Panther Party formations, anti-war activities, and co-leading the Peace and Freedom Party’s Black Caucus,
labor and welfare organizing and against South Africa’s apartheid system. Well known throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, he is also the father of artist and organizer Boots Riley.

#civilrights #humanrights #organizing

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Copyright Disclaimer:

“Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist, author and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA.

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2), and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

Website:
thandisizwe.net

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga

CashApp:
$rootwrk

Venmo:
@rootwrk

PATREON:   / blackpowermedia

YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy44REI4QUZDRDI5MDc4Q0NF

Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: A Conversation with Walter Riley 📱

07/21/26

Walter Riley’s decades of organizing experience spans mobilizations against Jim Crow to student and labor organizing with the Progressive Labor Party, early Black Panther Party formations, anti-war activities, and co-leading the Peace and Freedom Party’s Black Caucus, 
labor and welfare organizing and against South Africa’s apartheid system. Well known throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, he is also the father of artist and organizer Boots Riley.

#civilrights #humanrights #organizing 

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Copyright Disclaimer: 

“Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist, author and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA. 

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2),  and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

Website:
thandisizwe.net

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga

CashApp:
$rootwrk

Venmo:
@rootwrk

PATREON:   / blackpowermedia 1:39:07

Walter Riley’s decades of organizing experience spans mobilizations against Jim Crow to student and labor organizing with the Progressive Labor Party, early Black Panther Party formations, anti-war activities, and co-leading the Peace and Freedom Party’s Black Caucus,
labor and welfare organizing and against South Africa’s apartheid system. Well known throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, he is also the father of artist and organizer Boots Riley.

#civilrights #humanrights #organizing

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Copyright Disclaimer:

“Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist, author and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA.

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2), and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

Website:
thandisizwe.net

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga

CashApp:
$rootwrk

Venmo:
@rootwrk

PATREON:   / blackpowermedia

YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy5FQjcyRDZBMEMyNTY3OTdE

Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: A Conversation with Walter Riley

07/21/26