Watch "ASSATA aka JOANNE CHESIMARD"

  • 2009
  • 1 hr 35 min
  • 4.0  (10)

is about the black liberationist Assata Shakur, aka Joanne Chesimard, a charsmatic young Black Panther in the 1960's who was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover's Cointelpro illegal murderous offensive to neutralize radical Black leaders. She was wounded in a police shootup on the N.J.Turnpike in 1973; falsely convicted of killing a NJ State Trooper; sentenced to Life in prison, she escaped miraculously to find exile and freedom in Castro's Cuba...where she lives to this day. Her life story is told and revered by thousands of young followers world-wide who see in her a female Che Guevera, an heroic freedom fighter for equality and an end to racial oppression and injustice for all people.

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Description
  • Release Date
    2009
  • Runtime
    1 hr 35 min
  • IMDB Rating
    4.0  (10)