Cease-and-Decist Notice sent to Bobby Rush and IL. Black Panther Party

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NOTICE TO CEASE-AND-DESIST

FROM:

Bob Brown (Aka Robert A. Brown)

Pan-African Roots

1016 W. Jackson Blvd. Suite 1056

Chicago, IL 60607

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25 September 2024

 

Re: Cease-and-Desist Notice

Unlawful Use of Name, Photograph, Likeness, Speech, and Associated Documents

Defamation of Character and Association with and Service to various political parties, USA

 

Distributed via certified mail, return receipt requested, email, and other available means

 

CITED INDIVIDUALS:

Leila Wills, Executive Director

Historical Preservation Society of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party

1507 East 53rd Street, Suite 485

Chicago, IL 60615

 

Bobby Rush, Pastor

Beloved Community Christian Church

6430 South Harvard Ave.

Chicago, IL 60621

 

(Complete list to Follow)

 

BOB BROWN, [Aka Robert A. Brown], is a respected person in the national, Pan-African, and international community and one who has spent their entire life building a positive reputation and one who assiduously protects his name, integrity, biography, history, and image. Mr. Brown has spent 61 years as a political and social activist and organizer, engaged in the lifelong struggle to help liberate, unify and advance Africa, and the more than 1.5 billion African People, in the 125 countries in the 5 Regions in Africa, the 6^th Region (African Diaspora), and all of Humanity. Mr. Brown has supported no effort to negatively affect those cited above.

Mr. Brown’s work, study and struggle, his personal and political associations, principled declarations and, clear direction of his goals and objectives are of fundamental value to his life, reputation, and wellbeing

Nevertheless, we have been informed that you have Unlawfully used Mr. Brown’s name, likeness, photograph, speech, associations and associated documents in inaccurate depictions and unfounded information that is damaging to his personal and professional character and without his permission.

Specifically, it appears that the above cited individuals and those acting in the name or serving as representatives of the cited organizations have repeatedly, consistently, and deliberately used Mr. Brown’s name, likeness, words, biography and history in connection with building and sustaining support for a collective effort to insert, enter and include the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party into “The National Register of Historic Places.”

1. See:
   1. National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form
   2. https://ilbpp.org/news-and-updates/fred-hampton-mark-clark-park
   3. H.R. 5710, “to establish the Black Panther Park National Historical Park in the State of California, and for other purposes.”

This misuse includes but is not limited to the above cited persons, and others, in connection with the establishment of a proposed project to Landmark the “Historical Preservation Society of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party.” See also:

2. WTTW, A ‘Black Voices’ Community Conversation: Latest Efforts to Preserve Legacy of Illinois Black Panther Party, Acacia Hernandez | January 29, 2024
3. Illinois Black Panther Party Honored In New Exhibit Ahead Of DNC, Leen Yassine, Block Club News in Chicago, 7 August 2024.
   1. “When the Democratic National Convention came to Chicago in 1968, the Illinois Black Panther Party was just beginning.
   2. That August 56 years ago, Bobby Rush, Bob Brown and Fred Hampton came together to found the party’s Chicago chapter
   3. Now --- ahead of another Democratic National Convention in the Windy City --- the Epiphany Center for the Arts and the Historical Preservation Society of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther  Party are honoring the Illinois chapter’s history of Black political struggle in a new exhibit.”

Under common and State laws:

“Any person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising… without such person's prior consent” shall be liable for damages and attorney's fees (and potentially punitive damages). It is unlawful for an individual to make deliberate statements that intend to harm a person’s reputation without factual evidence or based on hearsay.

Defamation by association refers to written or spoken statements that are false, unprivileged, and harmful to someone's reputation. Defamation can occur in many places, including the workplace, media, school, home, or in a public forum. 

Mr. Brown avers categorically that at no time did he, his family or assigns at any time offer, gift or provide any of the above cited individuals or representatives, his permission, right, or leave to use his name, likeness, photograph, biography and/or history for any purpose, at any time.

Further, Common laws and State Statutes set forth remedies and provides the right to “bring an action to enjoin such unauthorized publication, printing, display or any other public use and to recover damages for any loss or injury sustained by reason thereof…”

Aside from the flagrant violations against Mr. Brown as outlined above, the included individuals and representatives appear to have engaged in (or intended to engage in) in an intentional attempt to defame Mr. Brown by deliberately associating him with the National Democratic Party, and/or its Illinois, Cook County and and/or Chicago chapters, and/or its 1968 and 2024 National Conventions, an allegation of an association which is entirely false, and which may be detrimental to his reputation and standing in the local, national, Pan-African, and international communities with which he has engaged for his teenage and entire adult life.

If you do not cease and desist any and all related use of my name and likeness, etc. as cited above, a lawsuit may be commenced against you.

This shall serve as a formal demand letter demanding that you provide us written assurance within a reasonable time that you will cease and desist from the use of Mr. Bob Brown’s name,  likeness, use, biographical information, history, etc., and publish retractions of any and all statements that presume a defamatory association with the organizations cited above, and/or similar organizations and situations.

If you do not comply with this cease-and-desist letter within the aforementioned reasonable time-period, then a lawsuit may be filed in the proper jurisdiction seeking monetary damages as well as pursuing all available legal remedies for your individual and/or organizational involvement.

Sincerely,

<<Bob Brown>>

Bob Brown

Director, Pan-African Roots

Organizer, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party ^(GC)

Founder, and former co-Organizer, Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party; and former Midwest Organizer, March 1968 to December 1968 [appointed by Kwame Ture]

Former Director of Chicago Office of SNCC, and former Midwest Organizer ((appointed by Joyce Brown)

Former Organizer, Chicago Chapter of CORE (under the leadership of Bob Lucas, Jorja English Palmer, Elmo Taylor, Ellis Wicks and Murton Shanklin)

 

[List of additional organizational affiliations, worldwide, historical and current, furnished upon request.]

 

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Black Complicity in Genocide and Apartheid, and Crimes against Humanity in Palestine

Notes from the Barricades

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Notes from the Barricades

Another Pan-African Roots Blog

 

11 August 2024

EXPOSED: Black Complicity in Genocide, the Crime of Apartheid,

War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Palestine

By Bob Brown, Director of Pan-African Roots

 

On October 19 and 25, 2023 the Center for Constitutional Rights sent letters to President Joseph H. Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Congressman Gregory Meeks, and others, exposing and holding them accountable for “US Complicity in Israel’s Unfolding Genocide Against the Palestinian People.”

On 3 November 2023, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal sent a  “Notice of Potential Legal Liability For Aiding, Abetting, Inciting, Or Conspiring to Commit Genocide through Congressional Ats, and Demand” to all 535 Congressional Representatives. Kamala Harris, then President of the US Senate, and all other Congressional Representatives of African Descent, were included in this Notice. Harris is the Democratic Party Candidate for President today.

This letter warned them to take notice that if they voted in favor of an emergency military funding package for Israel, they “risk facing criminal and civil liability for aiding and abetting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity under international law and may face investigation and prosecution at the International Criminal Court, and in third-states under the principal of universal jurisdiction.”

It asked them “to take notice with the gravity with which it is intended.” It demanded that they  “refrain from aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity, by voting against the proposed military aid package, and by refraining from any encouragement or support for the commission of Israeli crimes against Palestinians.”

They were notified that “the evidence of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of aggression committed by Israel with the material support the United States is overwhelming.” We will publish some of this evidence in our Special Edition.

Like Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1968, during the racist and illegal U.S. War against Vietnam, Joe Biden was forced to not run for re-election. Biden endorsed Kamala Harris to run for the presidency in his place; and to use her to continue the U.S. crime of complicity in genocide, apartheid and crimes against Palestinian humanity. She willingly and enthusiastically betrays everything African People worldwide have fought and died for over that past 76 years. Support for her makes us complicit in these crimes. We marched in the streets everyday asking the world how many Vietnamese children did he kill that day. We should not give Kamala a free pass because of her color and gender. She is a Zionist and a racist; and it is the height of sexism to be complicit in the murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian children and women by 500-pound and 2000-pound US-made bombs.

Since October 7, 2023, at least 39,480+ Palestinians have been killed by Israel, more than  60% of whom are women and children, 6,000 to 20,000 are missing, 91,128 have been wounded, 9,312+ have been detained, and 1,900,000 have been displaced in Gaza; 594 have been killed in the West Bank, 5,400+ have been wounded, and 7,350 detained; 1,609 were killed and 200+ have been captured inside the pre-1967 borders of Israel; 506 were killed and 100,000 displaced in Lebanon; and 256 were killed in Syria. The evidence of Black complicity in these ongoing crimes has been documented and is overwhelming. We will expose it.

Thought and Action

In his 1964 Ballot or the Bullet speech, Malcolm X spoke about taking the African situation in the United States  before the Organization of African Unity and the UN World Court. He played a critical role in introducing Palestine and Gaza to the African community in the United States. Six decades later, Israeli crimes against Palestine, and the complicity of the United States, are before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the World. South Africa, and other progressive, radical, and revolutionary countries in the 6 Regions of Africa, the African Diaspora, and the World are playing critical roles.

On 20 August 2024, 45 days before the U.S. presidential election, we will launch a Special Edition of Pan-African Roots, our online newspaper. It will continue and expand the tradition of the Fact Sheet on The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge which was published in the June/July 1967 issue of the SNCC Newsletter.

This Special Edition will be titled EXPOSED: Black Complicity in Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes of Apartheid, and Crimes against Humanity in Palestine. Black congressional and movement mis-leadership will be named, documented, and held accountable.

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