Nov 12 2025, FBI Complex Lisa Davis Joins the Call to Protect NJ from NSPM7 Harms: “A continuation of a rotten, brutal, ruthless system”
The following are a couple of selected quotes from Lisa Davis’s testimony:
This is an absolute horrible, outrageous memorandum that Trump is perpetuating, but it is a continuation of a rotten, brutal, ruthless system, Democrat or Republican. And we as people got to do much better than only putting forward the choices of genocide or war. How do you like your wars? How do you like your racism and oppression?
In 2022, this was under the Democrats they literally came after the leadership of the organization I am with Omali Yeshitela and two other members of the Uhuru movement. They literally came after them and tried to put them in prison for 10 to 15 years. And I mean they tried hard. I thought they were just going to maybe eventually drop the charge. They didn’t do that. They had no business bringing these charges against him. They were the Democrats. the Biden administration, Biden and Kop-mala.
And then, last year, 2024. I was just at a pro Palestine vigil in South Orange. That’s all I was doing. An unhinged Zionist comes running and screaming at us. In fact, Lily Benavides was there. And I was trying to diffuse the situation. The state came after me!
My name is Lisa Davis. I’m with the Uhuru Movement, the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace, and Reparations. And I stand on the side of all oppressed people. This is an absolute horrible, outrageous memorandum that Trump is perpetuating, but it is a continuation of a rotten, brutal, ruthless system, Democrat or Republican. And we as people got to do much better than only putting forward the choices of genocide or war. How do you like your wars? How do you like your racism and oppression?
I’m going to be brief, but I just want to first of all, first of all, I salute my sister Lily Benevides. She is one of the bravest and the strongest people I’ve ever known because to speak with an accent in this day and age in this time to obviously be somebody that was not necessarily born in the United States and like I said to speak with an obvious accent and to still stand up so bravely and to challenge this system when you know they could literally snatch you off the street is just one of the bravest things that I’ve encountered.
Not to mention she was doing that even before I met her in the struggle on the street. I’m not committed to a party. I’m not loyal to a party. I’m loyal to principles. That’s what I’m loyal to. I just want to open up because as a black person, I have to say this and u this is cuz we can all learn from each other and each other’s experiences. But when I hear the word fascism, and this is no reflection on anybody, but I think primarily about World War II and Europeans arguing with one another and going to war trying to eradicate each other. And it seemed like that’s when the period of fascism came into play. But for black people, for indigenous people, this country ain’t never been nothing but a brutal colonialist system.
And we say colonialism which addresses all of it addresses the genocide of the indigenous people on this land. It addresses what happened to enslaved African people and the continuing brutal system that was implemented afterwards to ensure that black people would always have the worst of every statistic. So we say colonialism.
Fascism deals with one aspect of things, but you can get rid of fascism and we’re going to still be dealing with colonialism. Colonialism deals with the horrors that’s going on in Palestine, the Sudan, uh the Congo, uh what they call Latin America, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, and all other kind of places that I don’t even know their names.
No, we’ve got to stand up here. We have to stand up. We’ve got to to be silent is the worst thing that we can do. That’s the worst thing we can do. So like Bennett said we got to be out here. That’s the way to fight. It ain’t going to be fought in the courtroom. It’s not going to be won in the court. It’s going to be won on the streets and deter and in the determination of the people.
I just want to say this is a continuation. The Democratic Party and the Republican party have always been a parties of war and oppression. And we cannot settle for that. We can’t settle for that.
And I just want to remind people when we talk about why Charlie Kirk, just a reminder that the majority of the elected Democrats, including Mikie Sherrill endorsed that bill honoring his legacy, a man just created so much hatred, so much brutal hatred and white nationalism. And this is just reality of what white nationalism means. What is the calling card for? We just have to be honest about that. But the Democrats, the majority of the Democrats supported that. So, I just called them the Charlie Democrats. But just remember that.
In 2022, this was under the Democrats they literally came after the leadership of the organization I am with Omali Yeshitela and two other members of the Uhuru movement. They literally came after them and tried to put them in prison for 10 to 15 years. And I mean they tried hard. I thought they were just going to maybe eventually drop the charge. They didn’t do that. They had no business bringing these charges against him. They were the Democrats. the Biden administration, Biden and Kop-mala.
And then, last year, 2024. I was just at a pro Palestine vigil in South Orange. That’s all I was doing. An unhinged Zionist comes running and screaming at us. In fact, Lily Benavides was there. And I was trying to diffuse the situation. The state came after me.
Their whole argument was no black person has any rights that anybody white is bound to respect. And that was exactly what was in operating in that courtroom because no matter what I said, they had no proof that I had organized the video. They had no proof whatsoever. In fact, thet didn’t prove that I did it. I had the organizers there testifying that I didn’t organize it. I had people there testifying that they didn’t hear me. I wasn’t on any speaker system and yet that did not matter. The judge basically judged so and the judge ruled and this is on behalf of the state of New Jersey that anyone who was attending that rally then if you couldn’t say who was supposed to be the one to get the permits then everybody in attendance of that rally is responsible for it. But I’m the only one they went after. I’m the only one they find.
The judge if he had any kind of a heart, which he didn’t have, even if he made such a horrible ruling, he could have said, “Well, one of his failure.” So, since you were not the only one in the stairs, we’re not going to find you. But it was a horrible move. And we’re challenging it to oral argument that we’re appealing is next Friday.
But I say all that to say that um I was so disappointed with the election with Mickie Sherrill because it just reflects the continuation of an oppressive system. We have to have the courage to stand up all the way all the time and say no I don’t care what it looks like. Instead of capitulating to evil we should be fighting for the world we want to live in. And you do that by getting behind candidates such as Lily Benavides and all anybody else who’s standing up for what you want. You owe it to this world to do that. We cannot leave this world for the next generation because I feel that uh nuclear warfare, nuclear Armageddon.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
The full testimony from the November 12 “Public Hearing in the Streets Demanding NJ Protection from Repressive Harms of NSPM7” :
