Kamau Franklin
@kamaufranklin.bsky.social
Organizer, Writer, Lawyer
Community Movement Builders https://communitymovementbuilders.org/
Black Liberation Media https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC6o7j4ZNNziKnCyds8-XzA
Community Movement Builders https://communitymovementbuilders.org/
Black Liberation Media https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC6o7j4ZNNziKnCyds8-XzA
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Kamau Franklin
@kamaufranklin.bsky.social
· Dec 17
We are excited to announce the Love, Land & Liberation Project! CMB has purchased 14 acres of land 20 minutes outside of Atlanta as a space for food production, husbandry, mutual-aid, coop projects, organizing retreats & trainings. Our land will be used to grow movement.
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New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.
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The NYPD’s Watchdog Whitewashed More Than 10,000 Misconduct Allegations in Public Data, New Evidence Shows
Allegations of lying, sexual misconduct, bigoted statements, and racist policing were among those quietly reclassified by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.
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It's the colonized against the colonizer
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's the colonized against the colonizer
If you are in LA, I will be speaking on the Cop City Fight and lessons learned, Community Movement Builders, and What we must do in this time. Come out and lean about Black Lantern Books, a CMB supported project.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If you are in LA, I will be speaking on the Cop City Fight and lessons learned, Community Movement Builders, and What we must do in this time. Come out and lean about Black Lantern Books, a CMB supported project.
How billionaires see the world
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How billionaires see the world
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Standing room only at Morehouse tonight. An incredible book talk on Jennifer Black and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new co-edited volume ‘Beneath the Mountain.’
Free Mumia!
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@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
Free Mumia!
www.prisonradio.org/commentary/o...
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Standing room only at Morehouse tonight. An incredible book talk on Jennifer Black and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new co-edited volume ‘Beneath the Mountain.’
Free Mumia!
www.prisonradio.org/commentary/o...
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
Free Mumia!
www.prisonradio.org/commentary/o...
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
Stop the genocide
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Stop the genocide
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"We've got to get to a place in our movement where we're winning some of these struggles, but we can only have that when the lulls happen and we're not falling apart."
- Kamau Franklin
@kamaufranklin.bsky.social
- Kamau Franklin
@kamaufranklin.bsky.social
AWKWORD INTERVIEWS: Kamau Franklin, Founder, Community Movement Builders
YouTube video by AWKWORD
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October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"We've got to get to a place in our movement where we're winning some of these struggles, but we can only have that when the lulls happen and we're not falling apart."
- Kamau Franklin
@kamaufranklin.bsky.social
- Kamau Franklin
@kamaufranklin.bsky.social
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I need to say this. The fascist PRETEND they don't know who receives SNAP in the U.S. They actually do know and they lie because they need to paint an alternate reality of who is "benefiting"
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I need to say this. The fascist PRETEND they don't know who receives SNAP in the U.S. They actually do know and they lie because they need to paint an alternate reality of who is "benefiting"
Socialist Cuba has a higher life expectancy than the capitalist america
October 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Socialist Cuba has a higher life expectancy than the capitalist america
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I definitely think about it every time Trump drops bombs on a Venezuelan ship. He called it
October 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I definitely think about it every time Trump drops bombs on a Venezuelan ship. He called it
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They tortured him to death.
New: Correctional staff at a Western Maryland prison shut off the water to a mentally ill man’s cell, then allowed him to suffer for eight days before he finally died of dehydration, according to a recent court filing.
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How a Maryland prisoner died an ‘excruciating’ death from dehydration
Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
They tortured him to death.
Community Movement Builders Atlanta's survival program feeds the people and organizes with the people
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Community Movement Builders Atlanta's survival program feeds the people and organizes with the people
The fact that these 2 things can be happening at the same time demonstrates the contempt the ruling class has for the people
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The fact that these 2 things can be happening at the same time demonstrates the contempt the ruling class has for the people
Just remember we have not even hit year one of this white nationalist fascist government. They have a lot more installed for us. We need to get ready, we need to join an organization. You can't survive this alone you need comrades.
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Just remember we have not even hit year one of this white nationalist fascist government. They have a lot more installed for us. We need to get ready, we need to join an organization. You can't survive this alone you need comrades.
The history of Palestine in one photo
October 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The history of Palestine in one photo
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Something that being involved in abolitionist work taught me is that people can be very critical of state violence and of specific types of law enforcement and police actions but still be anti-abolitionist and anti-leftist.
October 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Something that being involved in abolitionist work taught me is that people can be very critical of state violence and of specific types of law enforcement and police actions but still be anti-abolitionist and anti-leftist.
That is the white liberal
October 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
That is the white liberal
Happy Indigenous Day. Fuck Columbus. Resistance is never futile.
October 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Happy Indigenous Day. Fuck Columbus. Resistance is never futile.
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
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The RemiX Morning Show "CHICKENS COMING HOME - TRMS Thursday 09/11/2025" Jacquie( @luqmannation.bsky.social )Luqman, Kim( @burnitdownkimbrown.bsky.social )Brown, Kamau( @kamaufranklin.bsky.social )Franklin, The Ear Dr. #BlackLiberationMedia www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwAJ...
CHICKENS COMING HOME - TRMS
YouTube video by Black Liberation Media
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September 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The RemiX Morning Show "CHICKENS COMING HOME - TRMS Thursday 09/11/2025" Jacquie( @luqmannation.bsky.social )Luqman, Kim( @burnitdownkimbrown.bsky.social )Brown, Kamau( @kamaufranklin.bsky.social )Franklin, The Ear Dr. #BlackLiberationMedia www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwAJ...
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Honored to join the convo on *No Cop City, No Cop World* at this year’s #brooklynbookfestival w/ @kamaufranklin.bsky.social, Mariah Parker, @micahh.bsky.social & @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social
Brooklyn Law School - TOMORROW 6:00 pm
#brooklynbookfestival
RSVP HERE: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
Brooklyn Law School - TOMORROW 6:00 pm
#brooklynbookfestival
RSVP HERE: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Honored to join the convo on *No Cop City, No Cop World* at this year’s #brooklynbookfestival w/ @kamaufranklin.bsky.social, Mariah Parker, @micahh.bsky.social & @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social
Brooklyn Law School - TOMORROW 6:00 pm
#brooklynbookfestival
RSVP HERE: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
Brooklyn Law School - TOMORROW 6:00 pm
#brooklynbookfestival
RSVP HERE: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
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The RemiX Morning Show "FREE SPEECH? Tuesday September 23, 2025" Renee( @rjohnston815.bsky.social )Johnston, Kim( @burnitdownkimbrown.bsky.social )Brown, Kamau( @kamaufranklin.bsky.social )Franklin, Evan, The Ear Dr. #BlackLiberationMedia www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0nG...
FREE SPEECH?
YouTube video by Black Liberation Media
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September 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The RemiX Morning Show "FREE SPEECH? Tuesday September 23, 2025" Renee( @rjohnston815.bsky.social )Johnston, Kim( @burnitdownkimbrown.bsky.social )Brown, Kamau( @kamaufranklin.bsky.social )Franklin, Evan, The Ear Dr. #BlackLiberationMedia www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0nG...
The Political Work and Passing of Assata Shakur
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The Political Work and Passing of Assata Shakur - Block Report Radio
On September 25, '25 Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur took her last breath, in Cuba, while having been in political exile for 41 years, with a $2 million Obama-issued bount...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The Political Work and Passing of Assata Shakur
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