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Eight years after her escape from a New Jersey prison, where she was serving a life term in the killing of a state trooper, Black Revolutionary JoAnne Chesimard surfaced in Cuba last week to plug her upcoming book, Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.; $18.95). Chesimard, 40, was once dubbed by police the "mother hen" of the Black Liberation Army, a radical sect that staged bank robberies in the New York area. In Havana, she told the Long Island newspaper Newsday that the Castro government supports her and her 13- year-old daughter Kakuya while Chesimard studies for a master...
...Chesimard's 274-page autobiography is heavy on childhood reminiscences, light on revolutionary activities and sprinkled with references to cops as "pigs." But television and movie deals are in the offing. "It makes me angry to think a person like Chesimard would want to profit from the capitalist enterprise that she wants to overthrow," said New Jersey State Police Superintendent Clinton Pagano...
...paramilitary band, the B.L.A. had its roots in the now defunct Black Panther Party and claimed about 100 members in the early 1970s. The group, which was responsible for numerous assaults on police officers, was eventually weakened by the arrests of many of its members, including, in 1973, Joanne Chesimard, the so-called soul of the B.L.A. Her dramatic escape from prison six years later may have reactivated the movement...
...Honda was traced to another longtime activist. In the Brooklyn flat of Eve Rosahn, 30, detectives found a stack of leftist pamphlets and a poster of fugitive B.L.A. Ringmaster Joanne Chesimard, 34. Rosahn, it happens, was arraigned in Queens criminal court last week for violent demonstrations against a U.S. tour by South Africa's Springboks rugby team in September...
...residue of the Weather Underground have been involved in bloody Brink's ambushes in The Bronx last June and in Brooklyn in December? Could they have had a hand in the killing of a New York City policeman in Queens last April? Or a role in Joanne Chesimard's 1979 escape from prison...