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Chip Fitzgerald, the longest held Black Panther political prisoner, will go before the California Board of Parole Hearings on July 2nd, 2008. The Committee to Free Chip Fitzgerald is working around the clock to get petitions to the board of parole to free Fitzgerald. After 38 years in prison, enough is enough. Get it together and sign the petition to free this revolutionary whose life has been dedicated to the struggle for liberation. Below is a letter from Elaine Brown encouraging people to get involved.

My friend Lynne sent me a great article from Thomas Paine's Corner. The article, Can We Shed Our Moral Primitivism Before It Is Too Late is an interview conducted by Anneka Svenska with Philosophy Professor and Animal Liberation Theorist Steve Best. Best situates animal liberation struggle alongside a number of other struggles--abolition, Palestinian Liberation, Earth Liberation, and anti-Nazi movements.

At first I was put off by Best's comparisons between animal and human slavery, his tactical evocations of Martin Luther King Jr, Anti-Nazi liberation movements, The African National Congress' struggle against apartheid, and his assertion: "Realizing that animals suffered far more than human beings in the quantity and quality of their pain, suffering, and death, I shifted from human rights to animal rights activism."

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