Marvin X reads and discusses his controversial Mythology of Pussy and Dick, Joyce Gordon Gallery, June 28, 3pm.

 Young couple with their copy of X's controversial pamphlet Mythology of Pussy and Dick

Young lady from the ATL met her boyfriend at X's Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, Oakland

Marvin X reads and discusses his controversial book (expanded from the 18 page pamphlet to 400 pages, to be published soon) The Mythology of Pussy and Dick, a biblo-therapeutic rites of passage for males and females--also for same gender loving persons. If you read it, you will never be the same!

This afternoon with the ever provocative Marvin X takes place at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin Streets, downtown Oakland, 3pm. Admission $20.00,  includes copy of original pamphlet and DVD of performance. 

Seating is limited. Call 510-200-4164 for information and reservation. Adult language but recommended for all ages and genders. A sixteen year old female said she wished she had read the pamphlet when she was eight! 

It could have helped O.J. Simpson, General Petreas, Secret Service agents, President Clinton, Mike Tyson, the sexually assaulters in the US military, Boko Haram, the Taliban, the young man who killed seven people because he couldn't find a girlfriend, et al. Those religious puritans and politically correct so called radicals who object to my objectification of males and females have surely heard not to judge a book by the cover! According to Paradise Jah Love, "The young people fight over this little pamphlet as if it were black gold." 

 Marvin X addressing a class at the University of Houston on his controversial pamphlet. In Oakland, adults told Marvin they observed young people sitting on the street reading his pamphlet intently.

In 2009, Marvin X lectured for a week at Howard University on MOPD. What do you think is the chief topic of concern where the women outnumber the men 14 to 1?

 Marvin X and San Francisco's Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has had his share of problems with MOPD

Marvin X's students at his Academy of da Corner, Aries and Toya, performed in the DVD version of MOPD.

Emory Douglas reception at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin, downtown Oakland

Marvin X will be at the Joyce Gordon Gallery for the Emory Douglas exhibit reception, Friday, June 6. Emory is the Black Panther Party Minister of Culture. Emory came into the BPP via Marvin X's Black House, co-founded by Eldridge Cleaver, BPP Minister of Information. He too was introduced to the BPP by Marvin X. 


"Marvin X was my teacher. Many of our comrades came through his Black Arts Theatre: Emory Douglas, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Sam Napier...."
--Dr. Huey P. Newton, co-founder The Black Panther Party

 Cover art by Emory

Yuri Kochiyama, friend of Malcolm X and Marvin X, joins ancestors, 93

I am shaken to hear that my dear revolutionary friend, Queen Mother Yuri Kochiyama, has joined the ancestors at 93 years old. When Malcolm X was assassinated, Yuri cradled his head in her arms. Whenever she and I met, she gave me a big hug that was overwhelming with respect and revolutionary love. We met often at radical events here in the Bay Area, especially at Eastside Arts Center. We know Yuri has gone to revolutionary heaven. We are honored to have known her and to have her as a revolutionary comrade! We love you, Yuri!
--Marvin X
6/4/14

Yuri Kochiyama, Activist And Former World War II Internee, Dies At 93

by Hansi Lo Wang 

http://www.npr.org/people/177498291/hansi-lo-wang

June 02, 2014


Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama has died of natural causes in Berkeley, Calif., at age 93. The lifelong champion of civil rights causes in the black, Latino, Native American and Asian-American communities died peacefully in her sleep Sunday morning, according to her family.

“ She was definitely ahead of her time, and we caught up with her."

- Tim Toyama, second cousin of Yuri Kochiyama

Born in 1921 as Mary Yuriko Nakahara, Kochiyama spent the early years of her life in San Pedro, Calif., a small town south of Los Angeles. Months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she and her family were forced to relocate to internment camps along with tens of thousands of other Japanese-Americans. She met her late husband, Bill Kochiyama, who served with other Japanese-American soldiers in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas, where she spent two years.

The couple married after World War II and moved to start their family in New York City. Living in housing projects among black and Puerto Rican neighbors inspired her interest in the civil rights movement. Kochiyama held weekly open houses for activists in the family's apartment, where she taped newspaper clippings to the walls and kept piles of leaflets on the kitchen table.

"Our house felt like it was the movement 24/7," said her eldest daughter, Audee Kochiyama-Holman.

Yuri Kochiyama speaks at an anti-war demonstration in New 
York City's Central Park around 1968.  
Courtesy of the Kochiyama family/UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Kochiyama began focusing her work on black nationalism and was with Malcolm X during his final moments. Minutes after gunmen fired at Malcolm X in 1965 during his last speech in New York City, she rushed toward him and cradled his head on her lap. A shows Kochiyama peering worriedly through horn-rimmed glasses at Malcolm X's bullet-riddled body.

In the 1980s, she and her husband pushed for reparations and a formal government apology for Japanese-American internees through the Civil Liberties Act, which President Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1988. Her continued dedication to social causes inspired younger generations of activists, especially within the Asian-American community.

"She was not your typical Japanese-American person, especially a nisei," or a second-generation Japanese-American, said Tim Toyama, Kochiyama's second cousin, who wrote a one-act play about her relationship with Malcolm X.

"She was definitely ahead of her time, and we caught up with her."

Marvin X is coming to a venue near you

Marvin X schedule

June 6

Marvin X will be at the Joyce Gordon Gallery for the Emory Douglas exhibit. Emory is the Black Panther Party Minister of Culture. Emory came into the BPP via Marvin X's Black House, co-founded by Eldridge Cleaver, BPP Minister of Information. He too was introduced to the BPP by Marvin X.

June 14

Marvin X returns to the Hinton Center to participate in the Juneteenth Festival, Hinton Center, Fresno CA. Marvin X has joined the Fresno Chapter of the NAACP. His parents were members. "All I used to hear as a small child was my parents talking about the NAACP--they used to say N double A CP!" Didn't Kwame Toure say, "Join something!"

June 15

Marvin X will read, sign books and exhibit his archives and the archives of Drs. Nathan and Julia Hare at the Juneteenth Festival, Berkeley CA

June 20

Eastside Arts Center, 23rd and International, presents a tribute to Ancestor Amiri Baraka. Marvin X will participate in honor of his 47 year friendship with Amiri and the Baraka family.

June 28

 Young couple with their copy of X's controversial pamphlet Mythology of Pussy and Dick

Young lady from the ATL met her boyfriend at X's Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, Oakland

Marvin X reads and discusses his controversial book (expanded from the 18 page pamphlet to 400 pages, to be published soon) The Mythology of Pussy and Dick, a biblo-therapeutic rites of passage for males and females--also for same gender loving persons. If you read it, you will never be the same!

This afternoon with the ever provocative Marvin X takes place at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin Streets, 

downtown Oakland, 3pm. Admission $20.00,  includes copy of original pamphlet and DVD of performance. 

Seating is limited. Call 510-200-4164 for information and reservation. Adult language but recommended for all ages and genders. A sixteen year old female said she wished she had read the pamphlet when she was eight! It could have helped O.J. Simpson, General Petreas, Secret Service agents, President Clinton, Mike Tyson, the sexually assaulters in the US military, Boko Haram, the young man who killed seven people because he couldn't find a girlfriend, et al. Those religious puritans and politically correct so called radicals who object to my objectification of males and females have surely heard not to judge a book by the cover! According to Paradise Jah Love, "The young people fight over this little pamphlet as if it were black gold." 

 Marvin X addressing a class at the University of Houston on his controversial pamphlet. In Oakland, adults told Marvin they observed young people sitting on the street reading his pamphlet intently.

In 2009, Marvin X lectured for a week at Howard University on MOPD. What do you think is the chief topic of concern where the women outnumber the men 14 to 1?

 Marvin X and San Francisco's Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has had his share of problems with MOPD

Marvin X's students at his Academy of da Corner, Aries and Toya, performed in the DVD version of MOPD.

Marvin X reads and discusses his controversial book (expanded from the 18 page pamphlet to 400 pages, to be published soon) The Mythology of Pussy and Dick, a biblo-therapeutic rites of passage for males and females. Donation $20.00. Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin Streets,
downtown Oakland, 3pm. Admission includes copy of original pamphlet and DVD of performance.
Seating is limited. Call 510-200-4164 for information and reservation. Adult language but recommended for all ages and genders. A sixteen year old female said she wished she had read the pamphlet when she was eight! It could have helped O.J. Simpson, General Petreas, Secret Service agents, President Clinton, Mike Tyson, the sexually assaulters in the US military, Boko Haram, the young man who killed seven people because he couldn't find a girlfriend, et al. Those religious puritans and politically correct so called radicals who object to my objectification of males and females have surely heard not to judge a book by the cover! According to Paradise Jah Love, "The young people fight over this little pamphlet as if it were black gold."

July 1

Marvin X will attend the inauguration of Ras Baraka as Mayor of Newark, NJ. His trip is sponsored by the Oakland Post Newspaper Group.

July 12

Marvin X will read and sign books at the Life Enrichment Bookstore 5023 Rainer Ave. S,
       Seattle WA.

August

Marvin X invited to attend the Marcus Garvey conference in New York City

CAMPAIGN to Bring Mumia Abu Jamal Home

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The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home

(released, May 31, 2014 by The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home)

Legal Update

 In 2011, the international movement to free Mumia scored a major victory. After having stopped Mumia’s execution in the 1990s, it assembled the legal team and mounted the political pressure that forced the courts to declare Mumia’s death sentence unconstitutional. Mumia was transferred to general population in early 2012.He is now serving a life sentence. The appellate process in his case has been exhausted.

 In order to bring Mumia home, we need to popularize the fact of Mumia’s innocence and create a political crisis in the streets over the injustice of his continued incarceration. Our movement continues to link the fight for Mumia’s freedom with the fight to free all political prisoners and end mass incarceration.

 Political Climate: The Recent Attacks on Mumia

 For 32-years, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and allied politicians have sustained an uninterrupted demonization and political conspiracy against Mumia that has influenced the judicial process and kept the facts of Mumia’s innocence from surfacing.

 Recently, the FOP mounted a campaign of persecution against Mumia in order to block President Barack Obama’s nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. The FOP cited Adegbile’s previous defense of Mumia as grounds for his disqualification and steamrolled over the right to counselby smearing Adegbile with the crime for which Mumia was wrongfully convicted in 1981.

 The FOP demonized Mumia with racially coded language like “thug” and “cop killer,” and lied about the facts of his case. In the end, seven Democratic senators from predominantly white states voted against Adegbile to avoid being associated with Mumia’s case in the upcoming elections.

 The ideological campaign of the FOP is proof of how the conservative right has used racist law-and-order policies and the criminalization of former Black Panthers like Mumia to energize a rightwing agenda against the gains of the civil rights movement (voting rights, fair housing, affirmative action and more).

 The FOP’s campaign of lies, racism and hysteria against Mumia and Adegbile was also a desperate attempt to bury the possibility of any future investigation of police conspiracy in Mumia’s case and of police abuse in Philadelphia and across the country. Unfortunately, through all this,Mumia’s lawyers at the Legal Defense Fund/NAACP failed to defend him vigorously, in the mediachallenging neither the factual lies nor the demonization of their client.

 Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Activities

 In light of these events, the Campaign encourages activists to participate in two major areas of work:

 1. Popularize the fact of Mumia’s innocence through a series of grassroots actions and the development of a media campaign.

 The FOP depicted the case as open and shut sweeping aside the record of violations and innocence. One third of the 35 officersinvolved in Mumia’s case were subsequently jailed for extortion and evidence tampering. Four witnesses identified a fourth person at the crime scene as the shooter, and though police and prosecutors themselves knew there was a fourth person, Mumia’s trial prosecutor suppressed this evidence at trial.

 Mumia was convicted in the absence of material evidence. In addition, the photos of Pedro Polakoff, the freelance journalist who took the first photographs of the crime scene, corroborate the eye witnesses’ testimony of the presence of a fourth person, show police tampering with evidence, and disprove the key points of the prosecution’s case.

 2. Challenge DA Seth Williams to reopen Mumia's case. His newly-created Conviction Review Unit is well-suited to review the weight of evidence supporting Mumia's innocence and to expose the dangerous political power of the FOP and its allies.

 The reopening of Mumia’s case is overdue. During the 1995 Philadelphia police corruption scandal, former Philadelphia DA Lynne Abraham told the Legal Intelligencer that she would discard “any cases where evidence surfaces that even one officer involved in an investigation lied in court or in written reports.” Documentation of police violations, lying and evidence tampering by not one, but several officers and prosecutors, exists in this case.

 To divert attention from this, the FOP mounted a campaign of lies. As “the world's largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers," it wields lobbying influence over Congress and the judiciary comparable to the NRA.

For more information or to join either of these projects email the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home at bringmumiahome@gmail.com or call 866-745-6963

PAINTER JAMES GAYLES BOOK ON ART AND LITERATURE

COMING SOON!!!
My first book "Reflections" will be out in July. It will be a collaboration between my artwork and 25 local, national and international poets and writers.

BLACK ART BY JAMES GAYLES

Maya Moves On to Higher Ground, dancing with Amiri Baraka, et al.

Dance Maya dance

You and AB cuttin' a rug

so smooth

in tune

flying high

in the Upper Room

Dance Maya dance

swing low sweet chariot

comin' fa da take me home

let her rise now

let her rise now

rise ta touch da sky

see Amina laughin

what a moment

don't take da J out ma joy devil

not in da eternity of things.

Dance Maya dance

poet to poet

something special

Dance Maya dance

no more caged bird

fly black bird fly.

Peace Maya dance

--Marvin X

5/28/14

Oaktown Cali