Uhuru Solidarity Movement

This Sunday on Uhuru Radio: Ludo de Witte, author of "The Assassination of Lumumba"

2012-01-26T08:16:00.001-08:00

THIS SUNDAY, 11AM EST on Uhuru Radio:

Hear an exclusive interview with Ludo de Witte, the author of The Assassination of Lumumba.

De Witte's acclaimed book provides a powerful look at the US and Belgian plot to capture, torture, and murder Patrice Lumumba, leader in the African independence movement and Congo's first democratically elected head of state.

A beloved leader amongst the African masses, Lumumba played a leading role in the struggle for the liberation of Africa and all of Africa's resources. 51 years after the assassination of Lumumba, the Democratic Republic of Congo remains under foreign domination, with over 7 million Africans killed in US proxy wars over the past 10 years.

Nyabinga Dzimbahwe, Agitprop Director of the the African People's Socialist Party and host of “Africa Live”, will interview Ludo De Witte, author of Assassination of Lumumba, this Sunday (January 29, 2012) at 11AM EST on Uhuru Radio!

Egypt, revolution, and the Party for African liberation

2012-01-25T13:31:00.000-08:00

Today, January 25, marks the 1 year anniversary of the uprisings in Egypt that resulted in the departure of US-backed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. Protestors were met with brutal repression from the state including the use of tear gas purchased from the US. While the Egyptian popular uprisings shook the world and inspired similar uprisings throughout the Middle East, the repressive military dictatorship of Egypt remains intact.

Resistance is sweeping the planet. US empire is in a profound crisis. It is in this context that the African People's Socialist Party is building organizations on four continents, uniting African workers throughout the world into the revolutionary struggle for freedom, self-determination and power. The revolutionary Party for African liberation is the key element that will ultimately bring imperialism to its knees.

In solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of the people of Egypt and all of Africa, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement is calling on our supporters and members to come to St. Petersburg, FL this February for the national planning conference of the African People's Socialist Party, Feb 18-21. This historic conference will honor the Party on the 40th anniversary of its founding. Click here for more information and register today!

Solidarity with the people of Egypt!
Victory to the African Revolution!
Uhuru!

This Sunday on Uhuru Radio, Penny Hess reports back from Germany!

2012-01-20T17:46:00.000-08:00

This Sunday at 1PM EST on Uhuru Radio, the weekly Reparations in Action program of the African People's Solidarity Committee...

Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, reports back from her trip to Frankfurt, Germany where she spoke at an event sponsored by the African Socialist International (ASI) to commemorate the assassination of Patrice Lumumba.

Chairwoman Hess and co-host Jesse Nevel (Uhuru Solidarity Movement-St. Pete) will also discuss the recent attacks by German police against African demonstrators and the recent work of the ASI to build the international African revolutionary Party throughout the African community of Europe including in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK.

This Sunday at 1PM EST - Tune in!

The murder of Oury Jalloh & the struggle for justice

2012-01-18T17:04:00.001-08:00

The article below, reposted from Uhuru News, covers a recent attack by German police on a protest against the police murder of an African named Oury Jalloh. The Uhuru Solidarity Movement stands in solidarity with the struggle for justice and reparations to the family of Oury Jalloh and the entire African community who have faced colonial violence from the white imperialist State (in the UK, the US and throughout the world where Africans are dispersed and colonized) for more than five centuries. The case of Oury Jalloh is one example of how Africans in Europe--many of whom in recent times have migrated there in pursuit of their own resources that have been stolen to build up European society-- experience colonial conditions of repression and violence just as they do in North America. We say, Down with US and European colonial violence! Justice for Oury Jalloh! Reparations to the African Nation!

Shared from Uhuru News: On January 7, 2005, Oury Jalloh, a young African from Sierra Leone/Guinea, was violently detained by police terrorists in the city of Dessau, Germany and taken to a holding cell in the basement of the local police station.

Four hours later his body was found in a charcoaled state, his corpse chained at the hands and feet to a fireproof mattress.

For seven years, the Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh has fought for truth, justice and indemnity. Nevertheless, the authorities have responded with terrorism, repression, cover-up and systematic lies.

On January 7, 2012, police terrorists attacked the march in memory of Oury Jalloh in Dessau, Germany. The demonstration was met with massive police brutality and violence against the peaceful demonstrators.

Several demonstrators were injured by the police terrorists. Throughout the demonstration, the behavior of the police terrorists had been provocative and highly aggressive.

In addition to the intentional interferences by the police and the enormous police presence, brutality and arbitrariness, the police especially targeted the leading activists of the Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh-- Komi Edzro, Mbolo Yufani and Mouctar Bah.

Mouctar Bah was the target of police terrorist attacks before, during and at the end of the demonstration. The strategic aggression against the founder of the Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh had been announced two days prior to the demonstration when the police threatened Mouctar Bah saying that they would no longer tolerate the word 'murder' with regard to the case of Oury Jalloh and would hold him responsible if it were used during the demonstration.

However, in 2006, courts had already decided that the slogan, 'Oury Jalloh-- That Was Murder' was legally allowed, and the police had no legal restraint allowing them to forbid certain statements at the demonstration.

Therefore this prohibition was a tremendous violation of the right of freedom of speech rooted in the Basic Constitutional Law.

The police tried to keep the demonstrators from referring to the case of Oury Jalloh as murder by violently attempting the removal of those who exposed it as such and abruptly beating on them.

At the end of the demonstration Mouctar Bah was thrown to the ground and beaten until he lost consciousness and had to be brought to the hospital in an ambulance. He is currently still hospitalized due to his injuries caused by the police terrorists.

One of the Initiative's leaders, Komi Edzro, stated, "No matter how hard the police attacks and injures us, we will never give up the fight for a clarification of the murder of Oury Jalloh."

Our struggle continues.

No justice, no more peace on the plantation!

More information on this struggle can be found on UhuruNews.com.

LONG LIVE LUMUMBA! LONG LIVE THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION!

2012-01-16T19:47:00.000-08:00

On 51 years ago today, Patrice Lumumba, anti-colonial leader and the legally elected prime minister of the Congo, was brutally assassinated by U.S. and Belgian forces. Lumumba was a leader for the people who represented the interests of the African workers and demanded that the resources of Congo benefit the people of Africa, not Belgium or other foreign colonial powers.

As explained by Luwezi Kinshasa, Secretary General of the African Socialist International, Lumumba was "the only leader to have spoken to the interests and aspirations of the masses of Congo and to uncompromisingly defend people’s interests, to the peril of his life. Lumumba understood that until the imperialist international order is broken in Africa, Congo would never be free; alien imperialist forces will always decide what we produce and who we produce it for."

For 51 years since the assassination of Lumumba, Congo has been controlled by neocolonial forces under which the masses of the Africans have suffered and their resources exploited for the benefit of the governments and general white population in the US and Europe, such as the mineral coltan that is used to build computers and cellphones. In the past 10 years, over 5 million African people have been killed in genocidal US-backed proxy wars in the Congo.

It is in response to these conditions, which are no different from the misery imposed on African people throughout the African continent and the world wherever Africans are located, that the Uhuru Movement is building and leading the African Socialist International to unite African workers around the world in the struggle to recapture Africa's resources and to seize political power in their own hands.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement honors the legacy of Lumumba on this day and wishes to expres our unconditional solidarity with the work of the African Socialist International, which is currently building chapters in the African community in Europe including in Belgium, Germany, the UK and France.

We recognize that, as white people, massive amounts of wealth and resources are brought into our communities as a result of the same vicious white power system of colonialism that brutally assassinated Lumumba on 51 years ago today. We are the ones who benefit from the coltan and other minerals that are violently expropriated from the people of Congo. And as an organization that works directly under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party, we are committed to turning over the stolen resources to the African community and joining in solidarity with the struggle to free Africa and all of Africa's resources!

If you want to be a part of overturning the legacy of colonialism and take a stand on the side of the African revolutionaries who are carrying forward Lumumba's struggle for a united and free Africa, then you should join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement today and get involved in the movement of Euro-Americans and other allies of African Liberation working directly under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party!

Below we are posting, in honor of Lumumba, a series of links to articles and videos from Uhuru News on the political struggles in the Congo and the work of the ASI, as well as a revolutionary hip-hop music video by artists from Congo:

LONG LIVE PATRICE LUMUMBA!
SOLIDARITY WITH THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION!
LONG LIVE THE AFRICAN SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL!
REPARATIONS NOW!
UHURU!

SUPPORT/ATTEND THIS EVENT: Grand re-opening of Tyron Lewis Gym, St Pete, FL

2012-01-12T19:58:00.000-08:00

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement calls on all of our members and supporters in the Tampa Bay Area to attend this event on January 14 to celebrate the grand re-opeining of the All People's Tyron Lewis Community Gym, an institution of the African People's Education and Defense Fund!

Tyron Lewis gym reopens to address health and economic development

Shared from UhuruNews

Published Jan 9, 2012

The All People’s TyRon Lewis Community Gym Hosts Grand Re-Opening

Where: 1327 Martin Luther King Jr. Street South, St. Petersburg, FL. 33705

When: Saturday, January 14, 2012

Time: Noon to 4p.m.

First 15 people receive special gift
Testimonials from gym members
Awards and recognitions
Grand Opening of Smoothie Café
5 Ways to Lose Fat Seminar
Door prizes throughout event
Health screenings
Live performances by Bella

This event is free and everyone is invited. The All People’s TyRon Lewis Community Gym is a program of the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF), whose mission is to address the grave disparities in education, health, healthcare and economic development in the African Community.

For more information call (727) 824-5670 or (727) 821-2437

5 Reasons Why You Don't Want to Miss “Resist War and Repression”

2011-12-23T08:31:00.000-08:00

5 Reasons Why You Don't Want to Miss “Resist War and Repression”

On January 8-10 in St Petersburg, FL, the African People's Solidarity Committee will be holding its national plenary conference under the title, “Resist War and Repression: Solidarity with African Liberation.” The APSC is the organization of white people and other allies of African liberation organizing under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party. Below are five main reasons why you should register now to attend the “Resist War and Repression: Solidarity with African Liberation”!

#1 - CHAIRMAN OMALI YESHITELA, AFRICAN REVOLUTIONARY LEADER.

Chairman Omali Yeshitela will be the keynote speaker at “Resist War and Repression.” Chairman Omali is the founder & leader of the Uhuru Movement and the Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party. He is a world renown anti-imperialist revolutionary who has provided political leadership to African revolutionary organizations around the world from St Petersburg to Sierra Leone. A veteran of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s. Author of dozens of books and pamphlets including “Omali Yeshitela Speaks” and “One People! One Party! One Destiny!”. The APSC is honored to have Chairman Omali as the keynote speaker at the national conference where he will be presenting, “Imperialism in Crisis, African liberation on the rise.” The rare opportunity to hear from this powerful African revolutionary leader is the #1 reason why you should register and make plans to attend this conference!

Check out this video of Chairman Omali Yeshitela's powerful presentation at Occupy Oakland!

2. ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION ON THE ROOT CAUSES OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

Presentations and forum discussions with speakers including Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity committee and author of “Overturning the Culture of Violence,” will address questions such as, What is the cause of the crisis of the US economic system? What gave rise to the Occupy Wall Street movement? Are white people a part of the so-called “99%”? What does it mean to be in “solidarity with African liberation”? What is the significance of racism in the struggle for social and economic justice? There will be also be a Q&A discussion with Chairwoman Hess and all of the conference speakers. Click here for more info on the exciting program!

3. A LOOK BACK AT 40 YEARS OF UHURU

Diop Olugbala, the President of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement and former mayoral candidate in Philadelphia, will be presenting on “The African People's Socialist Party: 40 Years of Revolutionary Leadership, Struggles and Victories.” The APSP, which leads the Uhuru Movement, was founded by Chairman Omali Yeshitela in 1972 and has since grown into an international revolutionary movement. President Diop's presentation will take a look back at the glorious history of the movement for African liberation and self- determination!

4. A LOOK AHEAD TO 2012: A YEAR OF REVOLUTION AND REPARATIONS!

This conference will lay out the exciting activist work of the African People's Solidarity Committee for the upcoming year of 2012 as the Uhuru Movement continues to build revolutionary organizations on multiple fronts throughout the world. Upcoming events, projects, actions, marches, fundraisers, campaigns, conferences, and plans will be discussed in a workshop called, “2012: Revolutionary transformation, not reform!” This is your opportunity to hear first hand from the organizers in the APSC about the work of the upcoming year and learn how you can get involved.

5. LET'S GET ORGANIZED! TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS FOR ACTIVISTS

This conference is not just a talkfest. The APSC is first and foremost an organization built for the purpose of material solidarity – solidarity through action, not just in words. The national conference will feature workshops and trainings for organizers on how to build and sustain organization through recruitment strategies and sustainable membership. APSC organizers will also lead a study of the organizing manual of the African People's Socialist Party, a historically significant document that has served as a powerful tool in the hands of the revolutionary leadership of the African working class. This training will focus on how the principles in the manual can be applied to the work of the solidarity movement.

If you believe that African people have a right to self-determination and freedom and that white people can take a stand in solidarity by working under the leadership of the African Revolution, then now is the time to register for the national conference of the African People's Solidarity Committee, January 8-10, in St Petersburg, FL. Resist War and Repression! Solidarity with African Liberation! Uhuru!

REGISTER TODAY!

Resist War and Repression!

Solidarity with African Liberation!

Uhuru!

Honoring our beloved Comrade Norma Bostock

2011-12-09T11:57:00.000-08:00

On November 5, 2011, Norma Bostock, a loyal member and supporter of the Uhuru Movement passed away, following a courageous battle with illness.

We met Norma years ago when she was an active supporter of a local Tampa radio program that Uhuru Movement members hosted. Whenever there was a need for allies to take a stand in defense of the African community and its right to free speech and self-determination, Norma heeded the call.

She was an incredibly positive person who believed that a world in which no one lives at the expense of another is not only a possibility but an inevitability. She stood up for what she believed in and stood by those she believed in, even when it was not comfortable or easy to do.

Norma volunteered enthusiastically with the effort to build Uhuru News and Radio, the "online voice of the international African revolution" and brought her expertise to Uhuru Radio's first fundraising telethon in March of this year.

She was a card-carrying member of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and a generous donor to African community self-reliance institutions and to the African liberation struggle worldwide.

Norma was a strong, beautiful part of the Uhuru family and she will be missed. We will always remember Norma for her inner strength and generous smile and spirit. Her presence in our lives and her contribution to the creation of a world without oppression or exploitation will live on.

Uhuru (Freedom) to Norma!

Reparations in action! Help us meet our goal

2011-11-24T19:04:00.001-08:00

Day in Solidarity campaign raises $9,000 in reparations - only $1,000 more needed to meet goal

This fall's Day in Solidarity with African People campaign has been outstanding!

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement has been busy talking with people - on the street, at their homes and at events organized all around the country. At the Day in Solidarity events, we heard from powerful leaders in the Uhuru Movement, the organization putting programs on the ground for African self-reliance. This movement is changing the world, laying the foundation for a society where everyone has what they need to live.

(Check out highlights from the Day in Solidarity events in St. Pete, FL; Chicago, IL; Oakland, CA; Philadelphia, PA.)

Nearly 200 people have publicly taken "The Pledge" to say "Yes, I support African people's struggle for justice, liberation and self-determination!"

See who has taken The Pledge and read some of their statements here.

Those people have backed up their statement with concrete support, contributing $9,000 toward African self-reliance programs of the Uhuru Movement. This is reparations in action!

One of several community gardens organized by the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP)

See what Day in Solidarity fundraising supports.

We're just $1,000 shy of our $10,000 campaign goal. Can you help push us over the top?

Take the Pledge of Solidarity with African People and Contribute now!

Donate without taking the Pledge

Thank you for taking a stand in solidarity with African people in the worldwide struggle for justice, self-determination and freedom.

Uhuru!

Penny Hess speaks!

2011-11-18T04:59:00.000-08:00

Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence, speaks at A Day in Solidarity with African People, Saturday, November 12, 2011 in Philadelphia.

If you believe that there will never be peace without justice, reparations, and liberation for African and other oppressed peoples inside the US and around the world, go to uhurusolidarity.org and take the pledge of solidarity with African people with a minimum contribution of 10 dollars towards the African liberation programs of the Uhuru Movement.

http://www.uhurusolidarity.org
http://www.uhurunews.com

Philadelphia Day in Solidarity with African People: world resistance through the eyes of African and oppressed peoples

2011-11-11T00:12:00.000-08:00

Philly’s upcoming Day in Solidarity with African People event calls on white people to resist our financial and political rulers by joining in solidarity with the resistance of African, Indigenous and oppressed people's 500-year resistance against slavery, genocide and colonialism.

As millions of people around the world take to the streets against oppression, we stand in unconditional solidarity with justice, liberation and reparations for African people.

We cannot find justice and peace inside this country and around the world without overturning the historic wrong on which this country and economic system was built.

As mobilizations bring out millions around the world and here in this city, we see the movement for African liberation challenging the powers that be.

And we can be a part of it!

The Day in Solidarity with African People comes just days after the most historic election in Philadephia history--Diop Olugbala, an anti-imperialist candidate and leader of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) challenged neocolonial Michael Nutter for mayor of the city.

Diop for Mayor!

This past week was perhaps the most historic election in Philadelphia history, with an anti-imperialist candidate, International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement President Diop Olugbala, running on a solid revolutionary national democratic program to challenge the incumbent, neocolonial mayor Michael Nutter, for leadership of the city.

Over 6400 people (out of only 197,000 voters, a 19 percent turnout) went to the voting booth and cast their vote for Diop. The political landscape in the city of Philadelphia and throughout the U.S. will forever be changed, as the white ruling class will never again be able to run another neocolonial, politician for office without having to address the fundamental issues that the Uhuru Movement successfully raised through the campaign to elect Diop for mayor of Philadelphia.

The issues of police containment vs. economic development and African community control of housing, police and schools have been placed in the center of political debate in Philly due to Diop's campaign. The struggle for Diop for mayor is a struggle against neocolonial white power and imperialism.

The work done on the ground by Diop, campaign manager Chimurenga Waller, and all the amazing African forces working on the campaign was nothing short of incredible. With few resources but a strong ideological campaign, everyone struggled hard on the ground to get the word out, bring out African working class communities to vote on election day, and to win new arenas of political struggle through Diop’s campaign.

Everyone knows that this campaign represents a victory for the people -- not just in Philadelphia, but throughout the world! In a time when political struggle is the growing trend from Egypt to Oakland, St. Petersburg to Philly, the program of Diop’s campaign, won over in the streets and even brought to the cover of bourgeois newspapers like Philadelphia Weekly, the Philadelphia Inquirer and on major television networks like NBC and CBS, reached the masses of African people and many white allies in ways we had never imagined. When we struggle, we win!

Watch Wali “Diop” Rahman’s presentation from the Black is Back rally HERE:

Black is Back mobilization

A Day in Solidarity With African People comes one week after the dynamic Black is Back “Stop the Wars and Build the Resistance!” mobilization in Philadelphia.

This march, rally and townhall meeting brought forth concrete demands from African people struggling to be free from imperialism and neocolonialism. Hundreds of people turned out on the corner of Broad and Susquehenna in North Philly to take a solid stand against the wars of Obama, Nutter and all representatives of imperialism.

A strong contingent of Euro-Americans, from Uhuru Solidarity Movement, Occupy Philly and other anti-war and anti-imperialist organizations, came out to stand in solidarity with the mobilization, which featured Black is Back and African Socialist International Chairman Omali Yeshitela, InPDUM President and mayoral candidate Diop Olugbala, MOVE and Free Mumia leader Pam Africa, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford, and People’s Organization for Progress Chair Larry Hamm.

See Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s presentation from the rally HERE:

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Why A Day in Solidarity with African People is essential for us

A Day in Solidarity with African People gives us as white poeple the opportunity to learn the true history of this country built on slavery, plunder and wars of occupation. The Day in Solidarity will present a powerful keynote presentation by Chairman Omali Yeshitela and workshops educating us on the truth about America and U.S. violence.

This is the future! We must participate through mobilizing other white people in our community and winning resources as genuine material solidarity – reparations – to support the programs and work of the African People’s Socialist Party, InPDUM and the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP).

We must organize solidarity with campaigns like Diop for Mayor, Black is Back, and other genuine calls from the African community for justice, self-determination and liberation!

A Day in Solidarity With African People is where this all comes together.

Come to the event on Saturday, November 12 from 1pm – 6pm at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut Street in Center City Philadelphia.

We must hear from leaders in the African Liberation Movement – Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Diop Olugbala, AAPDEP leader Ayesha Fleary, Diop for Mayor Education Commission Chair Rhone Fraser, MOVE survivor Ramona Africa, and Penny Hess – the Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee.

When we are organized in solidarity with African people leading their own struggle to be free, we transform ourselves!

And immediately following the Day in Solidarity event, Chairman Omali Yeshitela will make a keynote presentation at the “Free Land” festival at Occupy Philly at City Hall.

Don’t miss this incredible day of events, with a necessary teach-in for all of us who want to transform our parasitic relationship to African and other oppressed people and move forward towards building a new world!

Come to the Day in Solidarity With African People!

Reparations in Action!

UHURU!

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Diop for Mayor: The People's Campaign

2011-11-03T10:45:00.000-07:00

"Run Hard! It's Our City and We Want it NOW!"
The Campaign to Elect Wali "Diop" Rahman Mayor of Philadelphia

The past 120 days in Philadelphia, PA have been a whirlwind of hard work, struggle and intense organizing similar to the very recent Uhuru Freedom Summer Project in St. Petersburg FL. The Campaign to Elect Wali "Diop" Rahman Mayor of Philadelphia is a grassroots campaign that skyrocketed off the ground almost immediately from the first moment the idea was raised that Diop Olugbala, International President of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, run for mayor to directly challenge Michael Nutter, the neo-colonial African incumbent mayor of Philadelphia -- the same leader who ordered Diop's arrest for protesting the city's War Budget in 2009 -- for leadership of this city.

Diop has organized and won support in nearly every sector of this city. The campaign has taken Diop from the Broad Street subway trains selling Burning Spears -- a critical aspect of the ongoing organizing work InPDUM does regularly in Philly -- to the School Reform Commission, to City Council Chambers during the hearing on the newly passed extended youth curfew bill, to candidates forums facing Republican "also-ran" candidate Karen Brown (Nutter has yet to show up for any candidates forums), to the cover of Philadelphia Weekly and TV appearances on NBC 10 @Issue and CBS 3 "Newsmakers" (see below).

Standing on a solid platform consistent with the principles of InPDUM and the African People's Socialist Party, Diop is running for economic development, community control of police, education, housing and food access for the oppressed and impoverished African and Latino communities as a path to shared prosperity -- where one community doesn't live at the expense of any others in this city.

Occupy Philadelphia -- nearly a month old in its occupation of City Hall against the Wall Street "1%" -- has endorsed Diop as THE candidate to vote for on November 8th, along with the organizations International Action Center, PEACE Coalition, People of Color Committee, and of course, Uhuru Solidarity Movement. Diop has spoken several to Occupy Philly (see here, and here), expressing unity with the anti-imperialist actions and posing a challenge to the activists to take a deeper stand in solidarity with liberation and justice for African and other oppressed peoples. The General Assembly broke protocol by applauding Diop with a rousing response to his appeal to endorse and build for the November 5th Black is Back Coalition "Stop the Wars and Build the Resistance" mobilization.

The city now knows that Wali "Diop" Rahman will be on the ballot on Tuesday, November 8th. His ballot number is #417 -- make sure you find #417 and vote for Diop!

We standing in unconditional solidarity with Diop's campaign and we know that victory will be won!

Diop for Mayor!

Run Hard!

Uhuru!

Uhuru Solidarity at Occupy St Pete

2011-11-02T10:41:00.000-07:00

Members of Uhuru Solidarity Movement have participated for the past 3 weeks in the Occupy St Pete General Assembly gatherings.

As part of the Occupy St Pete General Assembly, we have struggled to raise up the demand for reparations from Wall St and the US government to African and Indigenous peoples and to stand in solidarity with the African community inside the US and around the world.

We have met several friendly and supportive people at our outreach table where we have called on other North Americans to take a principled stand in solidarity with the African community's struggle for economic development and self-determination.

The General Assembly meeting on October 22 culminated with a march on Downtown St Pete. We led several of the chants during this march, including "Occupy Wall St, Not the Middle East" and "Down with Wall St! Reparations Now!"

Jesse Nevel, local chair of St Pete branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, speaks at Occupy St Pete General Assembly October 22, 2011

If you stand against Wall St and US imperialism, join Uhuru Solidarity Movement and take the pledge of solidarity with African people with a minimum 10 dollar contribution towards the work of the Uhuru Movement for African liberation and self-determination.

VIDEO: Diop Olugbala on NBC Philadelphia!

2011-10-27T09:12:00.000-07:00

Wali "Diop" Rahman, aka Diop Olugbala, President of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement and Philadelphia's only Independent mayoral candidate, was featured in an in-depth interview on NBC Philadelphia. The video is split up into 8 segments. The remaining segments are posted below. Vote for Diop and contribute to the Diop for Mayor campaign at www.diop2011.org. And if you're in or around Philadelphia, don't miss your chance to hear Diop Olugbala speak at the upcoming "Day in Solidarity with African People" event, 1-6PM on November 12 at First Unitarian Church 2125 Chestnut St.

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"Occupy Wall Street" is a crisis for the ruling class. Deepen the crisis!

2011-10-25T05:03:00.000-07:00

Shared from Uhuru News.

The following is a statement from the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement on the Occupy Wall Street actions.

The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement welcomes the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors into the historical struggle against the ruling class that we, as Africans, have been involved in for centuries.

This growing movement of mostly white protestors who are challenging the bankers, capitalists and the political rulers represents a reinforcement for the ongoing centuries-long struggles of African, Mexican and Indigenous people.

The undeniable fact is that colonized people have been victimized by the bankers, politicians and even ordinary white citizens ever since Europe enslaved Africans and committed genocide against Indigenous people.

Identifying the enemy: the ruling class and their puppet politicians

The thieving bankers on Wall Street and the corporations are the ones who control the politicians, hire the armies to occupy communities and steal the resources of the oppressed peoples of the world.

They are the ones who impose repressive police-military occupation of the barrios, “reservations” and African communities inside this country.

These are the same criminal elite who ripped off tens of thousands of African people of our homes in this country through the subprime mortgage scheme. This resulted in the loss of more than $200 billion for the African community through foreclosures, which is the largest transfer of wealth from the African community since the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

African people were the first commodity of capitalism

Wall Street and the stock market were built on slavery and genocide. African people were the first “stock” sold and traded on Wall Street.

The bones of African people lay buried in the slave cemetery beneath the buildings on Wall Street. These same African slaves were forced to build Wall Street, for the purpose to subdue an Indigenous insurgency that was trying to take its stolen land back.

The OWS movement must support reparations from the banks and the U.S. government for centuries of slavery and gross exploitation of African people.

African Liberation Movement has historic record of challenging Wall Street and capitalism

We welcome others who are coming to the same conclusions that Africans have held for so long.

We hope that the OWS movement will not allow itself to be drawn into false solutions that demand more wars against the rest of the world’s peoples, millions of whom live on less than two dollars a day because of the exploitation by the bankers and their political and military representatives.

The OWS movement must unite with oppressed peoples around the world and inside this country whose communities have been occupied by Wall Street and their lackeys for the past 500 years.

African self-determination is the way forward

As African people under military occupation inside this country, we are struggling for control of our own communities, for economic development that uplifts the entire community out of poverty that was imposed on us since our enslavement, and to end the police occupation and mass imprisonment of our people.

Wall Street and the system it represents are the primary obstacles that separate African people from our resources and self-determination. It is our African struggle for freedom that will ultimately signal the triumph of humanity over the parasites on Wall Street. African Revolution is the solution!

Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, the barrios, the black community, the reservations!

Resist the police occupation of the African community! Stand in solidarity with the Indigenous people, as they struggle for their land and self-determination!

We say down with Wall Street and U.S. imperialism! Africans have a right to resist! Stop the wars and build the resistance!

Join the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement!

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Uhuru Solidarity Movement speaks at Occupy Philly

2011-10-24T10:27:00.000-07:00

Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizer Harris Daniels addresses the crowd at the Philly Against War rally on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, October 15. The rally also included over 500 participants from Occupy Philadelphia, who had marched from City Hall.

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Report back from Oakland's Day in Solidarity with African People

2011-10-22T04:19:00.000-07:00

A Day in Solidarity with African People, held on October 13th, 2011 in Oakland held an electrifying program at the Humanist Hall that brought out long time supporters, welcomed in new members and raised support for the programs of the Uhuru Movement.

Wendy Snyder, the West Coast organizer with the African People’s Solidarity Committee and the Uhuru Solidarity Movement welcomed the attendees by reading the Pledge of Solidarity and describing the campaign to win members and allies from the white community with the African Liberation Movement.

The young performers from the Marcus Garvey Upliftment Project were brought forward by Director Nyisha Moncrease and kicked off the event with African dance. The MGUP is a free arts and education center in East Oakland, CA with the mission to provide a safe environment for tomorrow’s leaders by teaching skills needed for African community self-determination.

Following the performance, Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee gave a brilliant powerpoint presentation that detailed the understandings and teachings of Chairman Omali Yeshitela and illustrated through her slides how the wealth of the white population comes directly from the attack on Africa, the enslavement of African people, the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the plunder of oppressed peoples worldwide.

Chairwoman Hess also challenged the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, “We are NOT the 99 percent,” she stated, clarifying that in actuality white people live of the resources of the rest of the people on the planet.

Hess explained that a true movement to overturn the system of Wall Street is the one led by African and oppressed peoples and that our role is to join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement.

After the presentation by Penny Hess, Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson saluted the Uhuru Movement and struggled with the notion of racism versus colonialism, describing the terror that he and his family have faced – from the brutal killing of his nephew, Oscar Grant on the Fruitvale BART platform on January 1, 2009. He described the growing resistance that he sees, particularly among young African people.

"Right now it’s pregnant, ready to give birth to something powerful,” he said.

The keynote speaker following “Uncle Bobby, “ was Omali Yeshitela, the Chairman of the African Socialist International and founder of the Uhuru movement. “Welcome to the struggle,” he said, addressing the Occupy Wall Street Movement. We have been against Wall Street from the beginning."

He explained that Wall Street was actually built by African slaves and African people were the first commodity to be bought and sold. Furthermore, he stated that the wall itself was actually built to protect white people from the so-called Indians. Yeshitela called on the people of the Occupy Wall Street movement to be against imperialism and therefore with the African and indigenous peoples on the planet who are victims of imperialist aggression.

Also speaking at the event was Vylma Ortiz, from the Stop the Gang Injunctions coalition who presented the recent victories of that coalition to push back the legalized racial profiling, the youth curfews and other police measures in the city of Oakland.

Cat Brooks of the Onyx Organizing Committee gave a statement from her organization, describing their involvement with the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant and their intervention in the Occupy Oakland. She explained the roots of the Onyx Organizing Committee in the challenge to the opportunism of white people who attempted to lead that struggle. She also relayed the backlash she was facing at Occupy Oakland by so-called white progressives who opposed African self-determination.

Finally, Maureen Wagener, the director of Uhuru Foods presented on the economic development programs of the Uhuru Movement and the upcoming Uhuru Pies fundraiser, which has a goal to sell 3500 pies in November and December.

People at the event contributed to the Uhuru Movement programs and joined the organization. The event raised $1400 and won six new members to join and two others to renew their membership. Participants also signed up to be involved in Uhuru Pies, a fundraiser for the African People’s Education and Defense Fund, which include community economic development designed to uplift the entire African community.

The Day in Solidarity with African People in Oakland showed the massive potential of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement to build its membership and to reach allies of the African Liberation Movement who are looking for real transformation and change.

If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism past and present against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then Take the Pledge of Solidarity and contribute at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere!

Omali Yeshitela Speaks at Occupy Wall Street in Oakland

2011-10-17T06:29:00.000-07:00

Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African Socialist International, founder of the Uhuru Movement and leader of the Black is Back Coalition speaks at Occupy Wall Street in Oakland, California to the People of Color Caucus about struggles of African and Indigenous peoples against U.S. imperialism and Wall Street interests since its inception.

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Wali "Diop" Rahman speaks at Philly Against War

2011-10-16T09:17:00.000-07:00

Wali "Diop" Rahman, aka Diop Olugbala, International President of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement and Philadelphia's only Independent Mayoral Candidate, addresses the October 15th, 2011 "Philly Against War" rally, which included over 500 people from Occupy Philadelphia, on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, PA.

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Overturning the legacy of Columbus

2011-10-12T06:07:00.000-07:00

It would be unthinkable for any country in Europe or America to set aside a day each year in honor Hitler, yet the greatest perpetrator of genocide in history is celebrated every October 12, the day that honors Christopher Columbus and his “discovery” of a “new world” in 1492.

We are told that Columbus represented the visionary spirit of exploration that characterized the Europeans. But as we know history is written by the conquerors.

How can someone “discover” two continents inhabited by millions of human beings with advanced, long standing and diverse civilizations that had cultivated the land, built enormous monuments and buildings, understood astronomy, wrote books and lived in towns, cities and countryside alike without pollution?

The reality is that Columbus was backed by the Spanish crown for the purpose of colonization and plunder of resources in what was believed to be Asia to enrich Spain and its inhabitants.

The dispatching of Columbus on his colonial mission came about at the same time that “white” Spain was being consolidated through wars and the terror of the Inquisition, driving out the Arabs, Africans and Jews who had lived there peacefully for 700 years, and seizing their considerable resources.

Spain like most of Europe was poor in the middle ages, and this is why Queen Isabella had to hock her jewels to pay for Columbus’s trip.

It was Columbus’s occupying force along with the trade in enslaved African people (which Columbus was also involved in) that opened the door for the vast wealth and power that would flow into Europe for the next 500 years at the expense of the Native and the African people.

As Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the Uhuru Movement states, slavery and genocide are the foundation on which America rests. Would there be an America without the genocide of the Indigenous people and the theft of their land? Would there be an America without the enslavement of African people? “No, no, no and a thousand times no,” states Yeshitela.

As writer and Indigenous activist Ward Churchill writes, subsequent to Columbus’ first “voyage of discovery” in 1492, he returned the next year “with an invasion force of 17 ships, appointed at his own request by the Spanish Crown to install himself as the ‘viceroy and governor of the [Caribbean islands] and the mainland of America,’ a position he held until 1500.

“Setting up shop on the large island he called Espa–ola (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic), he promptly instituted policies of slavery (encomiendo) and systematic extermination against the native Taino population. Columbus's programs reduced Taino numbers from as many as eight million at the outset of his regime to about three million in 1496. Perhaps 100,000 were left by the time of the governor's departure. His policies, however, remained, with the result that by 1514 the Spanish census of the island showed barely 22,000 Indians remaining alive.

In 1542, only two hundred were recorded. Thereafter, they were considered extinct, as were Indians throughout the Caribbean Basin, an aggregate population which totaled more than fifteen million at the point of first contact with the Admiral of the Ocean Sea, as Columbus was known…”

This process of genocide, begun by Columbus in Haiti was only just beginning as it expanded throughout North and South America.

As Churchill continues, “All told, it is probable that more than one hundred million native people were ‘eliminated’ in the course of Europe's ongoing ‘civilization’ of the Western Hemisphere.”

In his book Conquest of Paradise, Kirkpatrick Sale wrote of Columbus’ domination of the island of Espa-ola:

The tribute system, instituted by the Governor [Columbus] sometime in 1495, was a simple and brutal way of fulfilling the Spanish lust for gold while acknowledging the Spanish distaste for labor. Every Taino over the age of fourteen had to supply the rulers with a hawk's bell of gold every three months (or in gold-deficient areas, twenty-five pounds of spun cotton); those who did were given a token to wear around their necks as proof that they had made their payment; those who did not were, as [Columbus's brother, Fernando] says discreetly "punished"-by having their hands cut off, or as [the priest, Bartolome’ de] las Casas says less discreetly, and left to bleed to death.

It is entirely likely that upwards of 10,000 Indians were killed in this fashion alone, on Espa–ola alone, as a matter of policy, during Columbus's tenure as governor.”

Las Casas' writings among other contemporaneous sources, are also “replete with accounts of Spanish colonists (hidalgos) hanging Tainos en masse, roasting them on spits or burning them at the stake (often a dozen or more at a time), hacking their children into pieces to be used as dog feed and so forth, all of it to instill in the natives a "proper attitude of respect" toward their Spanish ‘superiors.’”

And this is only a single example of the massive terror waged by the thousands of successors of Columbus who repeated this genocidal terror in a myriad of forms, from Alaska through the Americas to the tip of Chile.

Whether it was with small-pox infested blankets and brutal massacres such as Sand Creek and Wounded Knee in the U.S. or working indigenous people to death in the silver mines of Potosi, Bolivia, Columbus set the example for European conquistadors ready to stop at nothing for land, gold and riches.

Today Indigenous people in North America make up the most impoverished population inside the U.S., living on reservations on their own stolen land with a life expectancy of about 47 years.

The affluence, prosperity and opportunities of white people be able to come from poverty in Europe and climb up the ladder of success are directly attributable the violent theft of this land from the original inhabitants and the stolen labor of enslaved Africans for 200 years.

This explains why white people now have 20 times the wealth that the African community has and why Indigenous reservations are struggle under deadening poverty and powerlessness.

We unite with the call by many Indigenous groups and their supporters that Columbus Day must be abolished and replaced with Indigenous People’s Day.

But more than that we unite that the Indigenous people have a right to the return of their own land and to justice and reparations for hundreds of years of genocide and oppression.

If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism past and present against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then Take the Pledge of Solidarity and contribute at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere!

Chicago Day in Solidarity with African People breaks new ground

2011-10-10T10:06:00.000-07:00

CHICAGO "DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH AFRICAN PEOPLE" EVENT
WINS ALLIES, RESOURCES, AND SUPPORT FOR UHURU MOVEMENT'S AFRICAN SELF-RELIANCE PROGRAMS

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The Day in Solidarity with African People held in Chicago broke new ground in a city that has not seen the Uhuru Solidarity Movement for many years.

The Days in Solidarity with African People is the annual campaign of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, organizations of Euro-American people working in white communities under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party, which leads the Uhuru Movement.

The Chicago event, held at the Bucktown-Wicker Park Library community room, attracted North Americans and others from all age groups, many who attended because of the postering and leafleting that had been done by the Chicago branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement for weeks.

There were also several Africans present, including Wil Lockett, a Chicago organizer for the African People’s Socialist Party.

To start things off, local Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizer, Kristin Gordon, welcomed all attendees and showed the national campaign video for A Day in Solidarity with African People.

Nate Gilliam, Director of Economic Development and Finance for the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP), came in from Milwaukee and gave a powerful presentation about the work that AAPDEP is doing in the U.S. and Africa.

Gilliam provided a critique of the charity model propagated by all not-for-profit organizations that not only demoralizes African people but its intention has never been to actually resolve and change the conditions for African people.

Gilliam pointed out the huge profits that NGO’s make in Africa from the suffering and starvation of African people, like the huge food donations that only swamp the market so that Africans cannot make any profit from selling their own produce. Gilliam also raised the critical issue that these NGO’s never ask the question, “Why is charity needed in the first place?” Africa is so rich in fertile land and resources, why would it need donations to feed itself?

Making it clear that the poverty experienced by African people everywhere is imposed, Gilliam stated that the root cause of the poverty was the initial attack on Africa and the continued exploitation by the U.S. and Europe. Gilliam emphasized that it is a war against African people.

Gilliam spoke about the many projects that AAPDEP is working on, including the rainwater harvesting project in Sierra Leone, where he and other African People’s Socialist Party members are going next month, and the Marcus Garvey Saturday School in Washington D.C. He received a rousing applause from the audience.

Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee Penny Hess gave a presentation based on the understandings and teachings of Chairman Omali Yeshitela and explained that the white population lives on the pedestal of the enslavement of African people, the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the plunder of oppressed peoples worldwide.

Chairwoman Hess exposed the “Occupy” movement as a loosely-defined group of mostly white leftists that are calling for reform of a capitalist system that is inherently parasitic and simply want a larger chunk of the stolen resources from the oppressed peoples of the world.

Hess laid out that “We are NOT the 99 percent,” that in fact white people are the 10 percent that live off the resources that are expropriated from oppressed countries through war, genocide and exploitation. This presentation won a lot of North Americans to the theory of African Internationalism as several people joined the Uhuru Solidarity Movement that day!

Hess participated in the call for resources with Kristin Gordon and they were able to raise $475 in pledges and donations. One generous donation of $100 was contributed by a college student in Chicago who took the Pledge of Solidarity with African People several weeks ago and sponsored Matt Daniels, a member of Uhuru Solidarity Movement. He was very interested in holding a similar event at his college and wants to be actively involved in upcoming Uhuru Solidarity Movement - Chicago actions.

Uhuru Solidarity Movement is on their way to building a powerful branch in Chicago!

If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism past and present against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then Take the Pledge of Solidarity and contribute at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere!

Reparations, not reform! An appeal to the Occupy Wall Street movement

2011-10-05T13:02:00.001-07:00

REPARATIONS FROM WALL STREET AND WHITE AMERICA FOR 500 YEARS OF COLONIALISM, SLAVERY, GENOCIDE AND IMPERIALISM!
An appeal to the Occupy Wall Street movement

Uhuru! We begin our letter with this greeting, “Uhuru,” because it is a Swahili word that means freedom and it is the slogan of the Uhuru Movement, an international African working class movement led by the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) that is uniting African people in the U.S. and around the world in the revolutionary struggle for self-determination.

We are the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, an organization of white people and other allies of black liberation who work under the leadership of the APSP to organize in our own communities for material solidarity with the African Liberation Movement.

We stand against the thieving bankers on Wall Street

Several of our members traveled to New York City during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations where they did outreach for the national campaign to build A Day in Solidarity with African People and signed people up to participate in the upcoming “Stop the Wars, Build the Resistance” march led by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations.

We unite with the enthusiasm of the participants in protesting the profound injustice of this government and system that we see all around us. We believe it is a sign of the ever increasing and deepening crisis of imperialism. For the first time since Obama was elected, we are seeing thousands of North American/white people taking to the streets to express discontent with the current state of the U.S. economic system.

But we want to seriously and sincerely call on the Wall Street protesters and all progressive minded North American people everywhere to look deeper at the problem and recognize that capitalism is not “broken”—it was born this way. It cannot be reformed. And as millions of oppressed peoples around the world are rising up to prove: the entire capitalist system must be overturned.

The world system of capitalism—for which the U.S. is the leading state power, and Wall Street its economic epicenter - was built on the enslavement of African people and the genocide of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the theft of their land.

Capitalism is a parasite, sucking the blood of the majority of humanity, waging unending wars of plunder and occupation, terror and genocide around the world in order to control natural resources necessary for the high standard of living in the Western world, justified by an ideology of racism and white nationalism.

This system has wreaked havoc on the majority of the world—the true 99 percent—for 500 years, destroying whole continents of people, decimating civilizations, terrorizing nations, imposing poverty and repression and even destroying the ecosystem of the planet itself to provide the white population with a pedestal for our assumed lifestyle that is unattainable except for the most wealthy in other parts of the world.

Who is the real 99 percent?

While it is true that one percent of the U.S. population controls the majority of the wealth, to equate ourselves with those suffering profound poverty and repression around the world and inside this country simply flies in the face of reality. You and I know this is true.

Just because we are not all bankers, Rockefellers or Bill Gates does not mean we are “all in the same boat.”

The fact of the matter is that even as white people are beginning to experience the effects of the economic crisis, we are still living the highest standard of living in the world at the expense of the real “99 percent” inside this country – African, Mexican and Indigenous people who live behind an invisible wall of colonial oppression right here in America.

Even as the economic crisis has begun to affect the entire U.S. population, white people are still earning an average income that is $20,000 higher than the average income of African families. The wealth gap between white and black families in this country has widened to a point where white people have 20 times the wealth of black people.

Yes, we are starting to feel the pinch. But why haven't we been coming out in droves to demonstrate as black teenagers have been shot down by police all over the U.S.?

Where is the outcry about the mass roundups of African people in this country that now have more black men in prison than in college? There is a war going on inside these borders, but we walk right over the African community to get to Wall Street.

Where are the demonstrations calling for genuine peace, saluting the right of the African, Afghani, Iraqi, Palestinian and Indigenous peoples to have their land, resources and self-determination back in their own hands?

This parasitic monster can’t be reformed

There is no such thing as “going back to the good old days.”

Parasitic capitalism is not going to go away simply because we reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act or repeal a Supreme Court decision about corporate personhood. You cannot overcome a disease by treating its surface symptoms. We must go to the heart of the problem—colonialism.

We have to see our future as inextricably tied to the rest of humanity who are struggling fiercely to get this monster off their backs so they can live and prosper on their own land and resources. In fact, this is the cause of the crisis in the U.S. and Europe today: oppressed peoples are fighting back, making it more difficult for the U.S. to steal the increasingly rare resources of the planet.

Any attempt to reform capitalism will prove to be futile. This system is going down. And the majority of the oppressed peoples of the world are the ones who are going to bring it down as they struggle to build a new world based on justice and equity, not one nation prospering at the expense of another.

Imperialism is the enemy

We unite with struggles of the colonized, in solidarity, under their leadership. Their enemy—the U.S. and European governments, military and war machines, the Wall Street bankers and corporate bloodsuckers—is our enemy as well.

We must take responsibility for the legacy of the oppressor and the slave-master that we have inherited and build the movement for reparations from the white community to the African and oppressed peoples of the world.

We do not ask for more of the loot stolen by bankers and the U.S. government. We demand that the stolen resources—the basis of all imperialist war—be returned to the self-governing peoples of the world as the only possible basis for peace on this planet.

That's the only thing that's going to put this capitalist system into its grave. And we have a role to play in bringing this new world into existence by organizing in solidarity with African liberation.

Without resolving this fundamental contradiction between the oppressor nation and oppressed nations, it is impossible to resolve any of the contradictions that we face within our own communities—homophobia, sexism, the oppression of white workers, etc. All of these problems occur within the context of the colonial enslavement and mass exploitation of Africans and other colonized peoples.

What you can do

If you are truly committed to changing the world, then we call on you to do more than simply occupy Wall Street; we call on you join the movement for reparations and organize in solidarity with African liberation! Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. Take a genuine stand on the side of the African community, going to heart of the problem to overturn this system.

The future is in the hands of the colonized. Our future, as well, is to be found in solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of African, Mexican, Indigenous, Arab, Afghan and other oppressed and colonized peoples of the world.

We unite with the demand for reparations to African and oppressed peoples everywhere.

If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism, past and present, against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then take the Pledge of Solidarity and contribute at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere!

We call on all white people struggling for justice to hear the voice of African and oppressed people and to participate in the Black is Back Coalition demonstration to "Stop the Wars and Build the Resistance" in Philadelphia on November 5, 2011.

Victory to the African and Indigenous peoples of the world!
Death to imperialism! Down with Wall Street and white power!
Solidarity with African liberation!
REPARATIONS NOW!
UHURU!

PHOTOS: Uhuru Solidarity organizers at Wall St. demo

2011-10-04T11:21:00.001-07:00

Dan Raymond, Uhuru Solidarity Movement, NYC

Members, supporters, and friends of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement attended the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations on Saturday, October 1, 2011 to organize the North American/white participants there to Take the Pledge of Solidarity with African People and sign up to participate in the Black is Back Mobilization,"Stop the Wars & Build the Resistance," that is being held in Philadelphia on November 5, 2011.

USM Outreach at Occupy Wall Street

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement recognizes that Wall Street - and the entire white American power structure - was built on the enslavement of African people and genocide against the Indigenous people. The birth of capitalism created a pedestal of wealth and opportunity for the entire white population, and today, we (white people) continue to live at the highest standard of living in the world even as we are beginning to experience the effects of the economic crisis.

USM represents the stance of solidarity with African liberation

But "reform" is not good enough. Imperialism cannot fix itself. And there will be no solution for us at the expense of African people. Our future is to be found in solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of African, Mexican, Indigenous, Arab, Afghan and other oppressed and colonized peoples of the world.

Marcel Cartier at Occupy Wall St. takes the Pledge of Solidarity with African People

We unite with the demand for reparations to African and oppressed peoples everywhere. If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism past and present against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then Take the Pledge of Solidarity and contribute at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere!

Beyond Wall Street: Build the movement for reparations!

2011-10-01T20:27:00.001-07:00

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement salutes the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that have taken place over the past 2 weeks in NYC. Uhuru Solidarity Movement is an organization of white people and other allies of black liberation who work under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party that leads the Uhuru Movement for the liberation of African people in this country and around the world.

We stand against the bankers and ruling elite who continue to line their pockets with trillions of dollars at the expense of the majority of the people in the U.S.

But we believe that we have to go deeper than this.

We believe we have to stand against U.S. imperialism, currently led by the Obama administration which is waging wars of plunder and occupation all over the world. The US wages military, political and economic terror around the world at the expense of the resources, freedom and self-determination of people in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. We stand on the side of the oppressed peoples and say Victory to the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba.

We believe that this US imperialism is also waging a war against the black, Indigenous and Latino communities right here. These communities are under economic and military occupation inside this country. Right here inside the US there is the largest prison population in the world, with prisons working as an economic stimulus for the mainstream white economy, with prisons as for-profit industries stuffed full with African and Latino men and women who will never be able to carry out their dreams or contribute to society. We see young black men shot down in the streets all over this country in communities occupied by SWAT teams and police cars with a black unemployment rate twice that of white people and 45% for teenagers.

We have to stand against this imperialism all around the world and right here in front of our eyes. We have to recognize that the U.S. - and Wall Street - were built on the enslavement of African people and the genocide of Indigenous people. It was this and the colonial wars of plunder that created the highest standard of living for white people in the world, giving us a pedestal on which we have enjoyed 80% of the world's resources at the expense of others.

We call on everyone here to support the demonstration of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations on November 5 in Philadelphia. It is time that we stand on the side of the African community still struggling for social justice and liberation after hundreds of years of oppression. This is a call to hear the voice and demands of black and Latino people who are struggling for liberation and justice right here.

If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism past and present against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then Take the Pledge of Solidarity and contribute at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere!

Below we are reprinting the Black is Back Coalition's call for support and participation in the upcoming Nov 5 Mobilization:

This is a call to join the Black is Back Coalition (BIBC) for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 5 for a national rally, march and conference entitled "Stop the Wars and Build the Resistance!"

The U.S.-led attack on the government of Libya is the latest attempt of a dying, parasitic social system to rescue itself at the expense of the happiness and resources of the world's peoples.

The people are fighting back — in Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Egypt and Iran in the Middle East, North Africa and the Persian Gulf.

The people are fighting back throughout the Americas — in Haiti and Venezuela and Cuba and Bolivia and Ecuador, and again in Nicaragua.

The people are also organizing in the North American concentration camps euphemistically referred to as Indian reservations.

These are the Other Wars. They are occurring against the people in the internal colonies — the Barrios and the criminalized African communities of North America, Europe and Australia.

The Other Wars are displacing millions of people on the African Continent, which has experienced hundreds of years of colonial domination, pillage and exploitation, all of which is also experienced by the millions of African people who have been displaced around the globe as enslaved captives.

The other imperialist wars include the Africa Command or AFRICOM, the U.S. military apparatus that projects U.S. imperialist State power, blanketing the entire African continent in a desperate effort to lock Africa into a permanent state of bloody, impoverished servitude.

The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations opposes these imperialist wars and supports the righteous resistance of the people in the struggles to regain their resources, sovereignty, dignity and happiness.

Stop the desperate efforts of a mortally wounded parasitic capitalist system built and sustained by the slavery, colonialism and centuries of genocide that provided the primary accumulation of capital upon which the modern imperialist system depends for its survival!

March and rally in Philadelphia on November 5 to Stop the Wars and Build the Resistance!

Stop the wars against African people in Africa, inside the U.S. and Europe and around the world!

Stop the wars against the Native people, the Mexicans and so-called "Illegals."

Stop the domestic wars against the Muslims and Arab peoples.

We are marching against all the imperialist wars. We are marching in Philadelphia because our real obligation is to stop the U.S. imperialist war machine that is headquartered in the U.S. and we understand that to stop the imperialist wars we must open up another front of resistance right here.

We are marching in Philadelphia because Philadelphia is prototypical of the war being waged against the internal colonies of the U.S. It is the city where police under the leadership of an African mayor, dropped a bomb in 1985 that incinerated an entire African community, killing 11 men, women and children.

Over half of the more than one million people in prison in the U.S. are Africans, Mexicans and other indigenous people. Scores of political prisoners are rotting behind bars in U.S. prisons with little chance of release through normal legal processes.

In Philadelphia, 72 percent of the 253,000 people stopped and searched by the police department in 2009 were African and Latino men.

Philadelphia is the city where U.S. use of mass imprisonment as a modern form of population control and colonial slavery and where the death penalty and political incarceration of colonized people is exemplified in the cases of Mumia Abu Jamal and the MOVE 9.

But the people are fighting back.

In Philadelphia, a neocolonial black mayor has engaged in a vicious anti-African slander campaign to win white support for his reelection. He is being forced to defend himself and the system from an independent campaign being waged by a real anti-imperialist candidate that is affiliated with the Black is Back Coalition.

We will draw the connection between the neocolonial bombing of 1985 in Philadelphia by a black mayor and the neocolonial bombing of Libya in Africa by a black president.

We are mobilizing to give support to the anti-imperialist candidate for Philadelphia mayor in the November 8 election. We are marching to change the contours of the political terrain in Philadelphia by forcing a public anti-imperialist discussion that will expose neocolonial, indirect imperialist rule used against the peoples of Philadelphia, the U.S. and the world.

We are marching to demand freedom for the Cuban 5, to end the blockade of Cuba and the ongoing counterinsurgent interventions throughout South America.

However we are going beyond the traditional anti-war movement. We are not only opposing the popularly recognized wars abroad. We are not simply calling for peace. We are not pacifists; we are anti-imperialists that recognize that the way to stop the wars is to build resistance to imperialism itself.

This is a call for all anti-war and anti-imperialist activists to join with the Black is Back Coalition in Philadelphia on November 5 to open up a new front of anti-imperialist struggle capable of defeating imperialism and ushering in a new world free of war and exploitation.

Stop the Wars and Build the Resistance!

For more information, go to www.blackisbackcoalition.org or call 202.681.7040.

Stop the colonial violence against African people! Take the Pledge of Solidarity!

2011-09-28T22:31:00.000-07:00

On Friday, September 16th, 2011, members of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement joined the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, the MOVE organization, and Philadelphia mayoral candidate Diop Olugbala in the citywide mobilization to Free Troy Davis, an African man in Georgia who faced the death penalty on September 21st.

Activists from various organizations spoke of Troy Davis's innocence and of the corrupt nature of the "justice" system in the U.S., but it was Diop Olugbala who correctly identified this system itself as criminal, stating that it doesn't matter what they say Troy Davis did, it's the fact that this system was built on slavery, genocide and colonialism, and the terror that has been waged at the hands of the U.S. government, in the streets of the African community in the U.S., in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine, and on the land of the indigenous peoples, and through the court systems and prisons, must be overturned if we are to ever see Troy Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal or any other African people freed from its colonial prisons.

Olugbala then got back up on the bullhorn and struggled that we acknowledge that while the majority of activists at this demonstration and many other rallies in Philadelphia are white people -- and primarily the White Left -- the true and correct role of white people in the struggle for justice and liberation for African and oppressed peoples is one in principled solidarity working under the leadership of African revolutionaries, recognizing the historic role as oppressor that white people have played and must confront and overturn that relationship in order to move forward.

Diop then introduced local Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizer Harris Daniels, who spoke on the historic complicity this imperialist system expects from white people, and how we have an opportunity right now to break from this complicity, and call out this system for what it is doing -- building an entire economy for white people at the expense of African and other oppressed peoples, and using the prison and death penalty economy to build Philadelphia as a city that only benefits white people. Daniels called for white people to take the right stand by joining Uhuru Solidarity Movement, taking the pledge of solidarity with African people and participating in the Days in Solidarity With African People campaign, and joining the solidarity contingent at the November 5th Black is Back mobilization and conference in Philadelphia: "Stop the Wars and Build the Resistance!"

If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism past and present against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then Take the Pledge of Solidarity and contribute at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere!
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Day in Solidarity with African People kickoff event in St Pete, FL!

2011-09-26T10:56:00.000-07:00

“Every dream, every poem of the white world was born at the expense of African and oppressed peoples! All of us should hate this relationship. A new world is being born through the resistance and the struggles of the oppressed. This is the trajectory for human progress.”

Chairman Omali Yeshitela electrified the audience with these words in St. Petersburg, FL on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at the opening event of U.S.-wide campaign for a Day of Solidarity with African People.

The Days in Solidarity with African People is the annual campaign of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, organizations of Euro-American people working in white communities under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party which leads the Uhuru Movement.

The St. Petersburg event attracted Euro-Americans and others from all age groups, including a contingent of students who traveled from New College in Sarasota, FL to participate, along with a professor Trey Conner from University of South Florida who brought some of his students.

The program opened up with an energizing performance by political hip hop artists Krown and Bella with their lively songs popularizing the struggle for liberation and reparations for African people.

Jesse Nevel, the local Uhuru Solidarity Movement Organizer, gave an opening presentation following the enthusiastic welcome by Uhuru Solidarity Movement National Chair Stephanie Midler.

Chimurenga Waller, who has been active in the Uhuru Movement and the African People’s Socialist Party since he was 17 years old and who is now the Director of the National Office of Recruitment and Membership spoke on the upcoming 40^th anniversary of the African People’s Socialist Party in 2012.

African People’s Solidarity Committee Chair Penny Hess gave a dynamic powerpoint presentation that graphically laid out the reality of the understanding, put forward by Chairman Omali Yeshitela, that the white population lives on the pedestal of the enslavement of African people, the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the plunder of oppressed peoples worldwide.

Hess’ presentations are based on her book, Overturning the Culture of Violence, which documents the reality behind the Party’s theory of African Internationalism.

Chairman Omali’s electrifying presentation highlighted the event as the Chairman addressed white people directly, calling on us to take up our responsibility to actively join in solidarity with the struggles and resistance of African and oppressed peoples everywhere to bring down this white power system built at the expense of the majority of humanity.

The Days in Solidarity are fundraising events, a stance of “Reparations in Action,” and through pledges and donations about $1700 were raised at this event.

As APSC chair Penny Hess stated, “The event was profoundly successful. It was indicative of this period of the crisis of imperialism and the rise of the movements of African and oppressed to take back control of their land, resources and self-determination.

“It is powerful to see a growing movement of white people who want to be part of changing the world through a stand of genuine solidarity!”

If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism past and present against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then Take the Pledge of Solidarity and contribute at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere!

Stop the legal lynching of Troy Davis!

2011-09-20T10:55:00.000-07:00

September 20, 2011—U.S. colonial courts of the state of Georgia ruled today that Troy Davis will be murdered in a legal lynching tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7 pm.

Davis, 42, an African man who has been on death row for more than 20 years, was framed up and convicted in the 1989 death of a white policeman in Savannah, GA.

Despite no physical evidence and the recanting of testimony by seven of the nine witnesses, plans for the execution of Davis, one of the millions of African men trapped in the colonial prison system, are moving forward.

Massive protests from African people and their allies all over the U.S. and the world and more than 60,000 letters have demanded that the state stop the state murder of Davis.

Although Davis is clearly innocent of the charges, the issue is much greater than that. Davis is one more victim of the U.S. colonial system which holds the power of life or death over African people inside this country and around the world!

The planned state murder of Davis highlights the reality that the U.S. is built on a foundation of the enslavement of African people which created the wealth and power that the U.S. and white people enjoy today.

The attack on Troy Davis exposes the fact that 146 years after the so-called abolition of the chattel slave system in this country, African people still exist as an internal colony inside U.S. borders under the yoke of a military occupation no different than the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan today. In fact, more Africans have been killed by U.S. police in the past ten years than U.S. military have been killed in Afghanistan in the same time period.

This attack on African people through the murder of Troy Davis comes at the same time that there are more African men in colonial concentration camps called prisons than were enslaved in 1850 and when the wealth held by the average white person is 20 times greater than the assets of African people.

As the economic and political crisis of imperialism deepens, African and oppressed peoples around the world are rising up against imperialist white power.

The African People’s Socialist Party and the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement uphold the right of African people inside this country and around the world to resist this colonial violence and oppression and to organize for the liberation of Africa and all its resources as the birthright of African people everywhere.

Troy Davis belongs to African people. No imperialist court of the U.S. government, built on African oppression and colonial occupation, has any right to lift a finger against an African person. African people are struggling for power over their lives and are part of the worldwide struggle of oppressed peoples to liberate themselves and overturn the 500 year legacy of imperialism and white power.

Stop the legal lynching of African people!
Build the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement!
Black Power to African people!

September 21, the date of the planned execution of Troy Davis is the day of our first Day in Solidarity with African People which will take place in St Petersburg, FL. This is all the more reason to come out to the important event to take your stand with the right of African people to resist this colonial violence and to struggle for justice, reparations and liberation.

If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism past and present against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then Take the Pledge of Solidarity and donate at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere.

The truth behind the poverty statistics

2011-09-17T11:49:00.000-07:00

NO MORE GENOCIDE IN OUR NAME

Overall poverty statistics blur the reality that African community bears brunt of economic crisis!

Take the Pledge in Solidarity with African People!

The poverty data released this week obscures the fact that the brunt of the current U.S. economic crisis falls squarely on the shoulders of the African and Latino communities.

Unemployment claims rose to 428,000 last week with a staggering 7.14 million people now receiving benefits. Millions of others are no longer looking for jobs, have maxed out their unemployment or working from time to time in low paying temp jobs that cannot meet their needs.

Last year 48 million people ages 18 to 64 did not work even one week out of the year.

Census data released earlier this week show that 50 million people now have no health insurance and 46.2 million—about 15.1 percent of the US population—are living below the poverty line of about $17,000 a year for a family of three.

Of that 46.2 million 44 percent of them have now sunk into deep poverty defined as earning less than half of the income needed to escape poverty.

Forty-five million people in the US are now forced to live with the meager support of food stamps, a number greater than the population of many countries of the world.

About 1 in every 6 people of the U.S. population now lives below the poverty line as more people are now doubling up in housing with other family members than ever before.

These are stark statistics overall but the reality for African people is in fact far more severe with the effect of tempering the effects of this current crisis on the white community.

According to the New York Times, (Soaring Poverty Casts Spotlight on ‘Lost Decade,’” 9/13/11), African people experience the highest poverty rate in the U.S., at 27.4 percent, compared to 13 percent of white households, with Latino people now at 26 percent in poverty.

The poverty rate for white people is only 9.9 percent.

The African poverty rate in the U.S. is now the highest ever in the 52 years since the Census Bureau started tracking poverty.

Recent employment figures show that the African community is now unemployed at a rate of 16.7 percent, with 18 percent of African men and 45 percent of African teenagers officially jobless. White unemployment is only 8 percent overall and 23 percent for teens.

This does not count the more than 1.3 million African people who have been taken out of the workforce in the discriminatory Jim Crow prison system, with additional millions of Africans on parole, probation or awaiting trial.

With millions of Africans unable to provide for their families because they are tied to a prison system that makes billions of dollars for the mainstream white economy every year on the criminalization of African people and on their enslaved labor, it is no surprise that 40 percent of African children live in poverty, compared to only 12.4 percent of white children.

Comparing the stark conditions of African people to conditions in the white community reveals the reality of colonialism inside this country.

So while the poverty rate is one in six overall, it’s only about one in ten for white people but nearing one in three for African people.

While median white household income in the US is $51,846 (down from $52,717 last year), for African families it is nearly $20,000 a year less, currently at $32,068 (down from $33,122), according to Huffington Post, “Black Voices,” by Trymaine Lee, Sept. 15, 2011.

These statistics make it clear that African people live in colonialism inside U.S. borders, and are catching unmitigated hell. An article the Philadelphia Inquirer, June 2011 stated that many black men in their 30s, 40s and 50s can expect to never work again.

Clearly African people are bearing the brunt of this crisis. While white people are now facing “job insecurity” for the first time in their lives, African people have no jobs, no food, no money and no future under this system but prisons, poverty and police occupation.

The U.S. government is using African people as a buffer to keep the worst economic crisis since the 1930s from serious affecting the majority of the white population.

It is clear that white people’s security, opportunity and standard of living exists on a pedestal built on the enslavement of African people, theft of the land of the Indigenous people and colonial plunder, genocide and domination of oppressed peoples around the world.

It is the resistance of African, Arab and oppressed peoples, rising up throughout the entire world against U.S. and European domination and violence that has created the crisis that is reverberating throughout the industrialized, affluent centers of imperialism.

The Uhuru Movement, led by the African People’s Socialist Party is not only building the organized African resistance worldwide it is building real programs for economic self-sufficiency and self-determination for African people—programs such as community gardening and a health and fitness gym in St. Petersburg, FL; a maternal and infant wellness center in Sierra Leone, and an education and youth program in California.

Ultimately the resistance of African and oppressed people will bring this crisis-ridden, parasitic system to its knees, as the peoples of the pedestal rise up to recapture their own land, resources and self-determination.

Imperialism, the enemy of the majority of humanity, must go.

We in the Uhuru Solidarity Movement are calling on other white people like ourselves to break our alliance and unity with the unjust and unsustainable white power system that has given us prosperity at the expense of everybody else for so long.

We call on you to put your future on the side of African people and others who are building a new world that will end poverty, injustice, war and imperialist violence.

We understand that to join this new world built on justice we must be part of righting the historic wrongs that are responsible for these statistics and for the anger of the rising peoples of the world.

We recognize that genuine reconciliation with African people requires reparations for centuries of white terror and stolen African labor and resources.

We are calling on you to Take the Pledge in Solidarity with African People, support the campaign to build the Days in Solidarity with African People and contribute towards the $10,000 goal for the work of the Uhuru Movement to unite and liberate African people everywhere. http://apscuhuru.org/campaigns/apsd2011/pledge.xhtml

Stop the State murder of Troy Davis on September 21!

2011-09-15T08:50:00.000-07:00

Stop the State murder of Troy Davis on September 21!
Shared from Uhuru News, Published Sep 14, 2011

The following statement is from Kimberly Davis, the sister of Troy Davis, who was wrongfully convicted and put on deathrow in 1991 for the death of a cop. There is no physical evidence against Troy Davis, and seven of the witnesses have recanted their story — many of them saying the police coerced them into give false testimony. Kimberly has launched a campaign on Change.org to stop his execution, which is scheduled for September 21. We urge our readers to participate in the campaign through the petition, call-in and in general to stop the brother's execution.

My brother, Troy Davis, has been on Georgia's death row for 20 years despite strong evidence of his innocence. His execution date is now scheduled for Wed, Sept 21. He has a hearing in front of the Georgia Board of Pardons & Parole two days beforehand.We need to tell the Board strongly and clearly: There's too much doubt to execute Troy Davis!

The case against my brother Troy consisted entirely of witness testimony which contained inconsistencies even at the time of the trial. Since then, seven out of nine witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony.

Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced by police into testifying or signing statements against Troy Davis. Here is what one had to say:

“I got tired of them harassing me, and they made it clear that the only way they would leave me alone is if I told them what they wanted to hear. I told them that Troy told me he did it, but it wasn’t true."

We need to tell the Board strongly and clearly: There's too much doubt to execute Troy Davis!

Sign the petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/7-of-9-witnesses-say-my-brother-is-innocent-stop-troy-davis-execution-on-sep-21

Also, call the Board of Pardons and Parole at 404-656-5651 and demand that they stay Troy Davis' execution!

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If you believe that there will never be peace on the planet without justice, reparations and reconciliation for African people and all the countless victims of imperialism past and present against whom terror, genocide, exploitation were carried out in our name and for our benefit, then Take the Pledge of Solidarity and donate at least $10 to the African-led Uhuru Movement for liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere!

Long Live Steve Biko! Long Live the African Revolution!

2011-09-12T06:50:00.000-07:00

On September 12, 1977, Steve Biko, a leader in the African Liberation Movement, was killed while held in police custody by the government of Occupied Azania (South Africa).

Steve Biko was a leading figure in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement, which mobilized the African working class to struggle for power in their own hands.

In 1977, Biko was arrested, tortured, and beaten to death by police.

As Fred Hampton Sr, another slain African revolutionary, once famously remarked, "You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill the revolution."

Today, over 30 years after the assassinations of Biko, Hampton, and so many other courageous warriors for African freedom, the movement for the liberation of Africa and African people lives on through the Uhuru Movement led by Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the African People's Socialist Party.   

The Uhuru Movement is uniting African people around the world in the struggle for justice, freedom, and self-determination.

It is leading the work to build programs for African self-reliance across the US as well as in Europe, South America and the continent of Africa, where AAPDEP, the development wing of the Uhuru Movement, is spearheading a project to build a birth clinic in Sierra Leone.   

This is a call for genuine solidarity with the programs of the Uhuru Movement.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is an organization of white people and other allies of African liberation, working directly under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party.

As white people who have benefited from imperialist genocide and slavery, we believe that taking an active stand for reparations from the white community is the most honest and progressive way to join the masses of humanity in the creation of a new world of peace through justice.   

To honor the living legacy of African liberation embodied by martyrs like Biko and carried into the new generation by the African freedom fighters of the Uhuru Movement, Take The Pledge of Solidarity With African People and make a donation today.   

The highest expression of solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed is material solidarity.   This is why we must Take the Pledge of Solidarity with African People and build "A Day in Solidarity with African People" all over the US, Europe and the rest of the world!

Reparations Now! Solidarity, not charity!  Take the Pledge!
Forward to "A Day in Solidarity with African People"!  
Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement!
Uhuru!

We Will Never Forget the Victims of U.S. Imperialism

2011-09-11T07:34:00.001-07:00

WE WILL NEVER FORGET

The United States and the world system of US imperialism were born from the enslavement of African people and the genocide against the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

It is a system that thrives on the ongoing colonial violence and terror against Indigenous, African, Arab, Afghani, and other oppressed peoples of the world.

It is a vicious system that uses extreme violence to steal and exploit the resources of Africans and other colonized peoples for the benefit of the general Euro-American population.

And it is a system that is experiencing a deep and profound crisis today, a crisis that is caused by the just resistance of the colonized peoples of the world who are fighting back to reclaim their resources and seize control over their own destinies. 9/11 was one example of the ever deepening crisis of imperialism.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement stands on the side of the oppressed peoples of the world who are standing up against imperialism and fighting to build a new world free from oppression, violence, and exploitation.

We are on the side of the Africans inside the US and around the world who are uniting to take back their land, the value of their stolen labor, and their resources.

We reject the role of complicit bystander that the US expects from white people who benefit from the stolen resources of the oppressed. Working directly under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party, we are building a mass movement for reparations from the white community to the Africans and oppressed peoples of the world.

There is no future for the foul, rotten system of US imperialism.
Our future is in solidarity with the resisting peoples of the world.
Our future is in solidarity with the liberation of Africa and African people everywhere.

REPARATIONS NOW!
Solidarity with the resisting peoples of the world!
Solidarity with African Liberation!
Take the Pledge of Solidarity for African self-determination!
Uhuru!

9/11 Truth - African Internationalist Style

2011-09-10T14:34:00.000-07:00

September 11, 2011, Sunday at 1PM

Tune in Reparations in Action on
www.UhuruRadio.com

WE WILL NEVER FORGET
THE VICTIMS OF THE U.S. EMPIRE:
9/11 Truth, African Internationalist Style

This Sunday on the 10 year anniversary of 9/11,
"Days in Solidarity with African People" campaign coordinator Wendy Snyder hosts, interviewing Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee
to address the reality of U.S. imperialism in crisis and why we should
take the Pledge in Solidarity With African People.

Reparations in Action: The campaign for "A Day in Solidarity with African People"

2011-09-10T09:54:00.000-07:00

Day in Solidarity with African People calls on white people and other allies to stand up for reparations, liberation and justice for African people everywhere

Take the Pledge of Solidarity today! Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement

As the crisis of imperialism deepens daily and the resistance of African and oppressed peoples of the world grows, the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) and Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) are sponsoring their most important annual events—the Day in Solidarity with African People.

APSC and USM are organizations of predominately Euro-American or white people, working directly under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party USA.

With the theme of the “growing African resistance for justice and freedom” the days in Solidarity with African People will raise $10,000 for the work and programs of the Uhuru Movement led by the African People’s Socialist Party USA.

Days in Solidarity with African People events will feature Chairman Omali Yeshitela as the keynote speaker along with Penny Hess, APSC Chairwoman as well as local speakers and cultural workers.

Events will take place around the U.S. and are scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21 in St Petersburg, FL; Saturday, Oct. 8 in Chicago, IL Thursday, Oct. 13 in Oakland and Saturday, Nov. 12 in Philadelphia, PA.

A benefit concert will be held in Brooklyn, New York on Oct. 22.

A central campaign of the Days in Solidarity is a call for other Euro-North American people to “Take the Pledge in Solidarity with African People” and give a $10 contribution to the work of the Party.

As it says on the Day in Solidarity brochure, when you take the Pledge in Solidarity with African People you “take a stand on the side of justice for African people everywhere.”

Understanding the responsibility of white people for reparations to African people, the Pledge is a commitment to “right the profound historical wrongs against African people from enslavement, Jim Crow, lynchings, discriminatory sentencing and mass imprisonment here, to genocide, plunder and ongoing wars of occupation by the US and Europe in Africa.”

Taking the Pledge “means standing on the side of reparations and genuine reconciliation between white people who have economically benefitted from slavery and colonialism and African people everywhere who continue to be exploited by this relationship.”

The Days in Solidarity with African People is a stand in support for the movement for African self-determination and liberation worldwide.

It is also a stand against the U.S. wars against African people whether they are in Congo, Libya, Sudan, the Horn of Africa, in Haiti or against African people here inside the U.S.

For more information on the Days in Solidarity with African People, go to www.uhurusolidarity.org

Black youth unemployment and underemployment nears 90 percent

2011-09-06T14:00:00.000-07:00

Black youth unemployment and underemployment nears 90 percent: Build "A Day in Solidarity with African People" and Take the Pledge TODAY!

Black unemployment in this country rose to 16.7 percent according to last week’s U.S. Department of Labor report.

If you add all those in the African community who have given up looking or who are underemployed with salaries that do not pay their basic expenses, the percentage doubles to 33 percent.

African youth unemployment came in at a staggering 45 percent in the recent report. When the discouraged, unemployed and underemployed are added, we are talking about 90 percent, the vast majority of young African people who have been written off by the US government as a people with no future.

The overall U.S. unemployment rate is 9.1 percent and the specific jobless rate for white people is 8 percent, less than half of the rate for African people.

In June the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that black men between the ages of 30 and 50 “will never work again.”

In addition to massive unemployment, statistics show that 12.5 percent of African men in their 20s are in the prison system, 6 times the rate of white men.

As the downturn deepens it is clear that the burden of the crisis falls on the shoulders of the African community. The US government and the Obama administration have written off the African working class, focusing on the “middle class” (read: white population).

Although U.S. president Obama will address the U.S. on Thursday with his alleged jobs plan, he has refused to create any specific programs to address black community job creation.

As the overall U.S. unemployment rate has gone up and as the African unemployment rate has sky rocketed, white unemployment has gone down.

Yes, this is a very serious economic crisis that we are facing. But there will be no solution for us at the expense of the African community. In a country whose wealth and “opportunity” are built on the backs of the enslavement of African people and where historically white prosperity comes at the expense of the black community, the road to a viable and prosperous future must begin with acknowledgement of the crimes against African people.

Righting this historical wrong—the legacy of slavery, genocide and colonial domination of African and other “nonwhite” people that was the midwife of the capitalist system—is the only solid cornerstone for a future without war and exploitation.

Take the Pledge in Solidarity with African People today: www.uhurusolidarity.org and donate a least $10 towards the programs for African economic self-sufficiency being put on the ground by the African-led Uhuru Movement.

Curfew and Gang Injunctions in Oakland Won’t Stop the Violence ; Resources for Community Development Will

2011-09-05T09:23:00.000-07:00

Seventy-five people have been killed in Oakland this year. This terrible reality goes almost unnoticed if you don’t live or work in East or West Oakland. However, the conditions that give rise to these killings affect us all.

The August 8^th tragedy of the death of an innocent child highlights this reality.

Three-year-old Carlos Nava was killed when a stray bullet hit him as he sat in a stroller on the sidewalk in broad daylight with his family standing by.

City council members Ignacio De La Fuente and Larry Reid opportunistically used this terrible incident to shove the highly unpopular and repressive youth curfews and “gang injunctions” back onto the city’s agenda.

Expansion of the city’s gang injunctions, which have already been imposed in North Oakland and Fruitvale, were curtailed by public opposition. Injunctions target particular individuals in their neighborhoods, banning anyone the city designates as a “gang member” from entering his own neighborhood or visiting his family.

The Oakland Tribune jumped on the curfew and injunction bandwagon, and now Mayor Jean Quan and Police Chief Anthony Batts are teaming up to host a “public safety summit” in October and call in more troops.   

But even the grieving Nava family expressed their understanding that a police solution of curfews and injunctions won’t solve the city’s problems. They stated clearly that what the community needs is resources.

It’s Poverty

The proponents of curfews and injunctions all but ignore the dominant factor in the destabilization of the African and Latino communities: poverty and repression.

The latest U.S. employment shows that overall black unemployment is 16.7 percent. Joblessness for black youth is a now a staggering 45 percent. When you count all those no longer looking or who are underemployed you are talking about twice that, or virtually all young black people can’t find meaningful work.

An August report by the Food Research and Action Center stated that one in four California households with children reported food hardship.

According to a recent article in the San Jose Mercury News, covering a report released in August by the California Budget Project, “A record low share of working-age Californians have jobs; nearly a record high share of the state’s unemployed have been looking for work for more than half a year; and the typical California worker’s hourly wage has lower purchasing power than at any point in the past 10 years.”

Ninety-one percent of African and Latino seniors are “financially vulnerable,” according to a new report, “The Economic Crisis Facing Seniors of Color” from the Greenlining Institute.

These are the families whose children who have no jobs, no future. A program of genuine economic development and stimulus that uplifts the entire African and Latino communities is the only viable solution.

The city’s only solution is increased heavy-handed police presence and repression in what can be compared to a military occupation. The fundamentals of poverty and despair are never addressed.

Poverty is seen as a crime

The city and powers that be label the impoverished African and Latino communities as criminal communities.

When Wells Fargo Bank was found to have profited over a trillion dollars from laundering Mexican drug money earlier this year, no one went to prison, no CEO or bank employee was called a criminal. Wall Street bankers that fleeced millions of people of their homes and retirement funds and U.S. military torturers are not criminalized. Police who run roughshod in black neighborhoods and shoot down young black men pay no price.

But the label of criminality and armed repression is reserved for the most impoverished sector of the population—according to national statistics 24.5 percent of black households live below the poverty line.

The curfew and injunction supporters make no connection between the ongoing legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, historic oppression faced by African and Latino communities living in abject poverty and hunger.

Even if you moved to Oakland yesterday, you must have heard about Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The same conditions that sparked the Panther movement forty-five years ago exist today: the Oakland Police Department’s brutal tactics, dire poverty and the injustices and discrimination faced by black people.

In addition, Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance and many other sources have documented in detail the role of the U.S. government in imposing the illegal drug economy that has devastated the African and Latino communities. This illegal drug economy is the big business that justifies all of the military style policing in East and West Oakland and fills California’s prison system that has provided so many jobs and business opportunities for the white population.

Police Violence Then and Now, the Same Old War

The Oakland Police Department in the 1960s was not unique, but was notorious for its brutal tactics. During the Sixties, the OPD recruited many large-build white southern men to intimidate the black community.

The OPD under Anthony Batts looks different, but utilizes the same violent tactics. Batts has declared his willingness to wage a “war on drugs, gangs and guns,” the same tired code words for a war on the African community that has been carried out for decades. This war is waged against the same community that desperately needs resources to develop and thrive.

Under Batts reign, Kenneth Ross, Derrick Jones, Brownie Polk are just a few of the African men who have been gunned down by the police. A whole decade of police violence has taken the lives of Casper Banjo, Jose Luis Buenrostro, Andew Moppin, Jody Woodfox, Oscar Grant (by BART police), just to name a few. In January of this year, 20-year-old Raheim Brown was killed by Oakland schools police chief Barhein Bhatt. What should be clear to anyone paying attention is that the same conditions that gave rise to the Black Panther Party exist today.

The “Vocal Minority” Opposing the Curfews and Gang Injunctions

The Oakland Tribune described the opposition to the curfew as a “vocal minority” and “misguided individuals,” who are getting in the way of Batts’ ability to “reduce crime.”

But the vibrant young people and organizations involved in the Coalition Against the Gang Injunctions will not be so easily dismissed for they deeply care about defending the rights of the African and Latino communities and creating real solutions.

The city government, when it reconvenes on September 20^th, will not be able to ignore the numbers of people young and old and of all different backgrounds who will oppose the curfew and gang injunctions. They will not be able to implement their budget weighted on the side of the police rather than community economic development, without public outcry and criticism.

Programs at the Uhuru House

The public safety strategy that will work in the long term will be massive city and private funding for independent, community driven programs that deal with the livelihood, well-being and economic development in the interests of the entire community.

The Marcus Garvey Upliftment Project is one such program that will spawn others like it at the Uhuru (Freedom) House at 7911 MacArthur Blvd in East Oakland. A free arts and education summer camp that featured classes in dance, theater, and visual arts, this program was truly a labor of love for the directors and students alike. Elementary age children wrote, choreographed, produced and performed a theatrical dance performance for the Summer Showcase on Saturday, September 3^rd, that mirrored their own education at the camp about the African leader Marcus Garvey, their love and respect for each other as proud African children.

The Uhuru Jiko (Swahili for “Freedom Kitchen”) is coming to the Uhuru House in Oakland. Plans are underway to create a hub of economic and cultural life in the African community. The vision for Uhuru Jiko is an affordable community commercial kitchen for caterers, food vendors and cooking instructors. It would host nutrition and cooking classes from the African People’s Education and Defense Fund Wellness program and serve as a food business incubator for product development. It would also include the production of herbs from the APEDF backyard and collective gardens. For more info on both programs, see the African People's Education and Defense Fund.

A Day in Solidarity with African People

This is a our national campaign that calls on white people and other allies to take the pledge of solidarity with reparations, justice and self-determination for African people, meaning the black community right here in the US. It is a national fundraising drive winning support for the self-determination programs of the Uhuru Movement such as those described above. You can get involved in building the October 13^th event here in Oakland by coming to the Wednesday meetings at 7pm at the Niebyl Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph in Oakland or by going to Uhuru Solidarity Movement's website.

As the programs and campaigns led by the African and other oppressed communities build, we must reject and oppose the city’s cynical, and pessimistic policies that actually impose violence and despair on the community rather than transform it. These policies, such as the curfew and the gang injunctions, serve no one but the city and police officials and their pocketbooks. Programs and campaigns such as these are the wave of the future and give hope and humanity to all of us.

Wendy Snyder is the local organizer of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. Contact her at Oakland@uhurusolidarity.org

Hitting the streets of St Pete to build "A Day in Solidarity with African People"

2011-09-03T09:59:00.000-07:00

Uhuru! On this blog we are going to be posting photographs and videos of the work that Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizers are doing around the country to build for the "Day in Solidarity with African People" campaign and to win North Americans to Take the Pledge of Solidarity with African People!

For our first entry we have photos from St. Pete, where "Day in Solidarity with African People" will be held on Sep 21 at Studio@620.

These are pictures from an outreach table and neighborhood "drops" (when organizers walk through neighborhoods to distribute leaflets on the doors of residences) that took place over the past two days in St. Petersburg, FL.

Happy Birthday to Unión del Barrio: 30 years of Organized Liberation Struggle

2011-09-02T10:11:00.000-07:00

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement wishes to express congratulations to Unión del Barrio for 30 years of organized struggle for Raza self-determination and liberation.

We express our unconditional solidarity with the Indigenous peoples of Occupied Mexico in their just struggle for national liberation from US colonial domination.

Click here to see the photos from this event, including photos of Uhuru Movement organizers as well as Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader and founder of the Uhuru Movement, who attended this event in support of the Mexican liberation struggle. The Uhuru Movement and Union del Barrio have a 25 year history of fraternal relations.

Victory to the African, Mexican and other colonized peoples of the world!

Long live Unión del Barrio!

On August 26th, Unión del Barrio, its membership, allies, supporters, and families, came together to celebrate three decades of Organized Liberation Struggle for Raza self-determination, the re-unification of México and the socialist integration of Nuestra América.

The celebration took place at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. The event began with a welcome by the MC’s, Eduardo “Kiki” Ochoa and Belinda Zamacona, followed by dinner. During dinner, there was a video presentation which covered the length of the 30 year history of Unión del Barrio thru the present. There was a particular presentation on the last 5 years of struggle, 2006-2011.

The General Secretary of Unión del Barrio, Rommel Díaz, then presented the Central Committee intervention on the current conditions faced by the Mexican and Latinamerican working class within the political borders of the imperialist state. He described how the US has intensified its imperialist offensive on the world’s poor, which threatens life and existence for the great majority of humanity. He summarized the role Unión del Barrio will assume to confront this empire in decline, the anti-colonial struggle that must be waged by the working masses of Mexican and Latinamericans to achieve a world without oppressors or oppressed.

The event continued with messages of solidarity from fraternal organizations and supporters. The highlight of these messages was the always-inspiring presentation of Comrade Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party. Followed with the presentation of the “Orden del Caballero Aguila”to Pablo Aceves for his 25-year commitment to the organization, its principles and the struggle in defense of the Mexicano-Latinoamericano people’s struggle for self-determination.

The MC’s then presented six emulations, highlighting the extraordinary work, example and commitment of Unión del Barrio members Aracelia Alvarez, Bryan Constantino, Erica Garcia, Yohana Hinojosa, Angelica Maldonado, and Juan Orozco. Finally, the Central Committee presented to the leadership of each of its organizational bodies, a flag that represents the collective thought and action of Unión del Barrio.

The evening ended with Mariachi music, socializing, dancing and the celebration of Unión del Barrio’s collective 30 year history.

¡Viva Unión del Barrio!
¡Viva el Pueblo Organizado!

El 26 de agosto, Unión del Barrio su militancia, aliados, simpatizantes, familias, llegaron a celebrar tres décadas de lucha organizada por la auto-determinación de la Raza, la reunificación de México y por la integración socialista de Nuestra América.

La celebración se llevó a cabo en el Centro Cultural de la Raza en San Diego. El evento inició con una bienvenida por los maestros de ceremonia, Eduardo “Kiki” Ochoa y Belinda Zamacona, invitando a nuestros invitados a una cena. Durante la cena se presentó video presentaciones de la historia de Unión del Barrio hasta el presente. Hubo una presentación con particular énfasis de la lucha en los últimos 5 años, del 2006 hasta el presente.

El Secretario General, Rommel Diaz, presento una intervención a nombre del Comité Central, sobre las condiciones que enfrenta el pueblo obrero Mexicano-Latinoamericano, dentro de las fronteras políticas del estado imperialista norteamericano. Describió como los EEUU ha intensificado su ofensiva bélico contra los pueblos del mundo, con el fin de robarles de sus recursos naturales, amenazando el derecho básico a la vida. Resumió el papel que tomará Unión del Barrio para asumir el deber de enfrentar este imperio en descenso, y la lucha anti-colonial que debemos enarbolar como pueblo obrero Mexicano-Latinoamericano para lograr un mundo sin explotados, ni explotadores.

El evento continuo con mensajes de solidaridad de organizaciones fraternales y de apoyo. El mas destacado, como es costumbre, llego del camarada Omali Yeshitela del Partido Socialista del Pueblo Africano. Continuó el programa con la presentación del “Orden del Caballero Aguila” a Pablo Aceves por su entrega a la lucha por la auto-determinación, la organización y sus principios, a lo largo de 25 años.

Los maestros de ceremonia procedió a reconocer seis emulaciones a militantes destacados de Unión del Barrio por su trabajo ejemplar. Los militantes fueron, Aracelia Álvarez, Bryan Constantino, Erica García, Yohana Hinojosa, Angélica Maldonado, y Juan Orozco. Finalmente, el Comité Central presentó la bandera de la organización a cada dirigente de cada estructura orgánica, que representan las ideas y acciones colectivos de Unión del Barrio.

La noche terminó con música tradicional Mexicana, el convivio, baile, y la celebración de 30 años de historia.

¡Viva Unión del Barrio!
¡Viva el Pueblo Organizado!

- Union del Barrio

Stop the war on African people, from Libya to St Pete!

2011-09-01T10:13:00.000-07:00

STOP THE WAR ON THE BLACK COMMUNITY:
Solidarity with African people, from Libya to St Pete!

Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement!
Take the Pledge of Solidarity Today!

LIBYA

Rebel Fighters Target Black Libyans, Sub-Saharan Africans, Amnesty Reports

This is the US-style "democracy" that was used to justify US and NATO military invasion and occupation of the sovereign nation of Libya by selecting, propping up, arming and funding so-called rebels. Supported by such liberal groups as Anti-war.com and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, it should not be surprising that the rebels are murdering black Africans on sight. The "rebels" in Libya are the the minions of US imperialism, a system built on the mass enslavement of African people. This is why we need A Day in Solidarity with African People--reparations, self-determination and justice for African people everywhere. Take the Pledge of Solidarity with African People today!

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FLORIDA

St. Petersburg police chief: City needs armored vehicle like other law agencies

At a time when white families have 20 times the wealth of black families in the US, and in the city of St Pete over 70 percent of Africans live at or below the poverty line, the St Pete Police Department is requesting 250,000 dollars for an armored vehicle to occupy and terrorize the African community of south St Pete just like they did earlier this year after the alleged shooting of a police by 16 year old African, Nicholas Lindsey. The Uhuru Solidarity Movement denounces this use of funds for the increased militarization of the St Pete police! We unite with the Uhuru Movement's demand for economic development for the African community, NOT police containment! Support the campaign for "A Day in Solidarity with African People" -- reparations, self-determination, and justice for African people everywhere! Stop the war on the African community! Take the Pledge of Solidarity with African People TODAY!

Philly Weekly Coverage of Uhuru Movement-led March Against the Youth Curfew August 20th

2011-08-23T21:46:00.001-07:00

Mayoral Candidate Diop Olugbala Leads Anti-Curfew Campaign

By Michael Alan Goldberg, Aug. 23, 2011

“Uncle Tom trio”: Demonstrators say Mayor Nutter and his cohorts are guilty of racializing crime.

Photo by Michael Alan Goldberg

Bullhorn in hand, 34-year-old Diop Olugbala—the tall, thin, resolute leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement and, as of Aug. 11, independent mayoral candidate—made it clear it wasn’t just happenstance that the corner of Broad and South streets was the gathering point last Saturday night for a protest against the city’s recently instituted youth curfew in Center City. “When the Phillies won the World Series, right where we standing, white kids were running up and down, turning over cars, tearing down street lamps, but you didn’t hear a press conference come from Michael Nutter like this specific attack being waged against African youth,” shouted Olugbala, who’s running under his birth name, Wali Rahman.

“That’s right!” someone in the crowd of about 60 protesters circled around Olugbala—split evenly between blacks and whites—yelled out.

Some applauded. Others hoisted brightly colored signs: “African Youth Are NOT Criminals!”; “White People Demand An End To The Jim Crow Curfew”; “Phila Police Are The Flash Mob.”

Characterizing the recent youth-mob violence that’s led to the curfew as noble resistance to “the violence of poverty,” Olugbala gestured toward City Hall, and then at the dozen or so bicycle cops lined up across the street, reinforced by more officers in police cruisers and vans stationed along the block. “They know these youth have the capability and potential to get organized and overturn this rotten, filthy system,” he said. “We defend these youth. They’re not a flash mob.”

The protest—which got under way half an hour before the 9 p.m. curfew was set to be enforced, and included members of Uhuru, the Philadelphia Coalition of the Heart and others—was part of the Black is Back Coalition’s “International Day of Action Against the Wars on Africa and African People.”

Demonstrators unfurled a banner with images of Nutter, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and District Attorney Seth Williams behind bars with the word “Guilty!” stamped across each of their faces, and “The real Flashmob is in City Hall!” written underneath.

“You have here what we call ‘the Uncle Tom trio,’” said Olugbala.

One after another, protesters grabbed the bullhorn to shout their grievances.

“They can spend $56,000 to pay overtime to the pigs [to enforce the curfew] ... but they can’t give a damn dime to our schools, but they gonna arrest our children?” one woman hollered. “Hell no, Michael Nutter, your ass gotta go and this curfew needs to go.”

Harris Daniels, Northeast regional representative of the African Peoples’ Solidarity Committee, implored other white people to join the cause. “We’re taking a stand with this march, not only against the curfew policy but also against a system that criminalizes and locks up African youth and tells us that we’re supposed to be afraid of an 11-year-old,” said Daniels. “We reject that notion. They can’t just count on us to go along with the program because they don’t care about us, either.”

As protesters spoke, ringed by news cameras, passers-by stopped to see what was going on. Gregory Lee, 28, holding a bag of leftovers from Johnny Rockets as he walked toward his South Philly apartment, had mixed feelings about the curfew.

“I don’t condone the violence, [kids] shouldn’t be runnin’ up and beating up on random people,” said Lee. “But people gettin’ shot and killed every day out here,” he continued. “They worryin’ about people gettin’ rolled on? Somebody gets sucker punched walking home from work and this is what happens. Forget Center City … go across Washington Avenue and worry about all them other neighborhoods where real shit happens.”

A little past 9 p.m., Olugbala and his fellow demonstrators began swiftly marching east along South Street, chanting slogans.

“We need schools, not the curfew!”

“Fight for teen jobs, not the flash mobs!”

“Who run South Street? Not the police!”

Bicycle cops rode alongside, occasionally barking at protesters to stay on the sidewalk. A police captain and two sergeants, radios in hand, walked even with the group on the opposite sidewalk. Reactions from shoppers, people smoking outside bars and restaurants, and others along the atypically sedate South Street was varied. Near 10th Street, one couple set down their bags to cheer on the throng. “They want to protect their civil liberties to walk down the street without getting harassed by the police,” said the woman. Others stared and laughed, snapped photos, or shook their heads. Near the corner of Eighth and South, two neighbors—a man and a woman, both 44—stood against the bars of their gated courtyard and watched the procession go by. The man took a flier from a female protester bringing up the rear. “Oh, it’s the People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement—these guys are left of left,” he said to his neighbor. “I want the curfew indefinitely,” said the woman. “It has been a hard past three years where we felt like prisoners in our own homes. Swarms of kids, some of them literally pulling old people out of cabs and beating the bejeezus out of them.” Since the curfew took effect, she said, “It’s night and day here. It’s phenomenal. We have our neighborhood back.”

At Fourth and South, the chanting protesters crossed the street and headed back to their starting point with police still slowly bicycling along. Back at Broad and South, Olugbala reiterated his demand for an immediate end to the curfew and rallied his supporters to keep up the fight. Across the street, a police captain smiled and glanced around the block. “No problems at all,” he said, shaking hands with fellow cops. “It was very peaceful.” Afterward, his voice hoarse from chanting, Olugbala told PW he was happy with the turnout, and glad to see whites marching together with blacks in solidarity against the curfew. “It’s of the utmost importance because part of Michael Nutter’s strategy was to isolate the black community by racializing the issue of crime, by saying this is a question of certain black youth who are a so-called ‘disgrace to their race,’ as opposed to Michael Nutter himself taking responsibility for the failure of his own policies,” he said. Olugbala reiterated that the recent youth mob violence has “everything to do with the violent attacks of poverty and budget cuts, and police repression like stop-and-frisk.”

“I plan to become the mayor,” he added, “and do away with the police containment of our community and usher in a new period where economic development—led by the community itself—can be the way to resolve so-called violence in the city of Philadelphia.”

Media Coverage of August 20th Philadelphia Community March Against the Youth Curfew

2011-08-22T10:47:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, August 20th, 2011, as part of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations International Day of Action Against the Wars on Africa and African People, the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, Independent Mayoral Candidate Diop Olugbala, and Uhuru Solidarity Movement participated in a coalition-led demonstration and rally on South Street to oppose the anti-African, anti-democratic 9pm youth curfew imposed by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter and the city.

Here is some media coverage of the mobilization:

Philadelphia Weekly Video:

Diop Olugbala Leads Anti-Curfew March Down South Street Saturday Night

http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/phillynow/2011/08/21/diop-olugbala-leads-anti-curfew-march-down-south-street-saturday-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=diop-olugbala-leads-anti-curfew-march-down-south-street-saturday-night

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Philadelphia Metro Article & Videos:
"Curfew longer, concerns aside"
http://www.metro.us/philadelphia/local/article/948599--curfew-longer-concerns-aside

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Citypaper Coverage:
Protesters challenge, not violate, curfew. Spark conversation, confusion, on South Street
http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Organizers-say-plan-is-to-protest-not-violate-curfew.html

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Newsworks Article:

Community groups protest Philadelphia curfew

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/flexicontent/item/25274-community-groups-protest-philadelphia-curfew/

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CBS 3 TV Video and Article:

Community Groups Take To South Street To Protest Philadelphia’s Crackdown On Flash Mobs

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/08/21/community-groups-take-to-south-street-to-protest-philadelphias-crackdown-on-flash-mobs/

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Philly Daily News Article:

Gathering tonight objects to curfew

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/128115033.html

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Philly Inquirer Article:

Down with curfew, says mayoral candidate

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/roundhouse/Down-with-curfew-says-mayoral-candidate-.html?cmpid=124488429

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Video: Black is Back Coalition-led March Against the Curfew in Philadelphia, August 20, 2011

2011-08-21T11:17:00.000-07:00

Solidarity with the demands of the Black is Back Coalition-led Philadelphia Community Walk Against the Curfew:

Point #1: We demand an end to the Jim Crow curfew.

Point #2: We demand the right of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly for the Black community.

Point #3: We demand an immediate end to the policy of stop and frisk.

Point #4: We demand an immediate end of DHS intervention in the affairs of the Black community.

Point #5: We demand economic development for the Black community and an immediate end to police containment.

Point #6: We call for the development of an independent movement for self determination and self governance for the Black community and all oppressed communities.

Point #7: We call for the immediate release of the more than 70 youth who have been detained as a result of the anti-democratic curfew.

Point #8: We defend the right of Black youth and youth of all oppressed communities to resist the government imposed violence of increasing poverty, budget cuts, and police brutality.

Point #9: We reject the government and media criminalization of the resistance and creativity of Black youth and their labeling of them as “flash mobs”.

Point #10: We demand an end to the U.S. and Europe’s war on Africa and Black people in Philadelphia, London, Congo, Haiti and anywhere else in the world where Black people are.

Point #11: We declare that Michael Nutter and forces like him do not represent the best interests of the Black community in Philadelphia or anywhere in the world. They represent white power in Black face.

Point #12: We call on white people to stand in principled solidarity with the demands of this document.

A call for genuine solidarity with African resistance in the UK

2011-08-12T22:04:00.000-07:00

Africans protesting at the British Embassy in DC

Below is a statement released by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement on the rebellions in London and a call for genuine solidarity with the struggles of African people for freedom and social justice.

A call for genuine solidarity with African resistance in the UK and around the world

Over a week after the police murder of 29-year-old African man, Mark Duggan, sparked a series of rebellions in Tottenham north London, the British white power government is scrambling to contain the resisting African population who are courageously rising up to challenge the status quo of a social system built on the exploitation and oppression of African people.

Over 1000 people have been arrested in the rebellions, and of those 371 have been charged.

In addition to deploying heavily armed police forces to quell the just resistance of the insurgent African masses, the British government and media have launched an ideological counterinsurgency campaign to criminalize the African youth of Britain.

The British ruling class and their lackeys have worked overtime to convince the general white population that the rebellions are in no way political in nature. Several mainstream news outlets have excluded from their reportage the fact that the rebellions were instigated by the murder of a young African by British police.

The British government has dismissed the rebellions as “riots” carried out by “mobs” of “looters” who are motivated by nothing more than a desire for a free flatscreen television.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has openly denounced the resisting African as “thugs,” “thieves,” “looters,” “spoiled brats,” “villains,” and condemned African youth culture as “a culture of violence.”

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is calling on white people and other allies of black liberation in the UK and throughout the world to see the London rebellions from a different perspective – through the eyes of the poor and oppressed African working class.

We in the USM understand that the real “culture of violence” is white power imperialism, a culture of genocide and slavery in which the British government has historically played a key role.

African people in the UK, whose very presence on British land is the result of the British enslavement and colonization of Africa, are an oppressed community who are colonized (dominated by a foreign power for the purpose of political and economic advantage) by the British government inside of British borders just as Africans are colonized on the continent of Africa and throughout the world wherever Africans have been dispersed.

Africans are an oppressed and colonized population inside the UK

The colonial division between whites and Africans in the US was exposed in a recently released study of the “wealth gap” between black and white households. Just like in the US, in the UK there is a huge gap between the wealth of whites and African people. The UK’s Department of Work and Pensions has found that 60 percent of African households have no savings at all, compared to 33 percent of white households. The UK’s first Wealth and Assets Survey in 2009 reported that while the average white household had £221,000 (roughly $350,000) in assets, African households had only £15,000. Only 28 percent of Africans own their own homes, compared to 72 percent of whites. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2011/04/08/the-racial-wealth-gap-not-just-an-american-problem/

A report released by the Equality and Human Rights Commission revealed that African people in the UK are incarcerated at almost seven times greater to their share of the population. Five times more African people than white people per head of population in England and Wales are imprisoned. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/11/black-prison-population-increase-england

In the UK, the rate of unemployment for Africans at 14 percent is twice the rate of white unemployment, according to the Office for National Statistics. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=462

The British government has no real program to change these conditions. Instead they occupy the black communities with police. The British police wage a war of occupation against the African communities of London through counterinsurgency programs like “Operation Trident,” the specialized “gun crime” operation responsible for the cold-blooded police murder of Mark Duggan on August 4, 2011. In 2008 alone African people were subjected to 145,000 stop and searches by police. African people constitute less than 3% of the population, yet made up 15% of people stopped by police. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/11/black-prison-population-increase-england

Under the rule of the British white power government, there is no future for the African youth who are forced to bear the brunt of the so-called “austerity measures” that provide an economic safety net for the white population and the British elite who continue profiting on the ever-deepening economic crisis.

The British government has written off this generation of African youth as a generation with no future, no prospects – in short, disposable.

We reject the vicious slander and criminalization of Africans that is being put forward by British PM Cameron and the white ruling class media.

The real looter is the British Empire! Reparations Now!

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement stands in unconditional solidarity with the African masses who are taking to the streets of Britain and fighting back against the system that profits off of their misery and oppression.

We know who the real looters are. The real looters are the British Empire, along with the US and the rest of Europe that raped and looted Africa, the Americas, Asia and the rest of the world for 500 years.

We know who the real thugs are. During the many years when English “bobbies” carried no guns inside Britain, the UK used guns and other violent weapons to wage brutal colonial occupation and genocide against the majority of the world's peoples The British Empire dominated so much of the planet earth that it was characterized as the empire “upon which the sun never set.”

We know who the real thieves are. It was the colonialism, slavery, rape, plunder, pillage, brigandage, and genocide by Europe and North America who ripped off the resources of the rest of the peoples of the world that made them the richest and most powerful countries on the planet.

It is not the impoverished and starving African masses who are the “thieves” and “thugs” and the “looters,” nor is it the African community who are responsible for a “culture of violence.” The real culture of violence is white power. It is a culture of violence carried out by white people for the benefit of white people at the expense of Africans and other colonized peoples.

We want nothing to do with that. We are on the side of the African masses struggling against the white imperialist system.

Imperialism is in a state of profound crisis, caused by the just resistance of the oppressed people of the world who are fighting back to reclaim their land, resources, and self-determination.

As Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People's Socialist Party has said, “Anyone who tries to stand up and protect imperialism will meet the fate of imperialism, because the people will be free!”

We support the right of African people everywhere to build an organized resistance and a revolutionary movement for freedom and reparations.

Take Action! Join USM and build "A Day in Solidarity with African People" in your area!

We are carrying out an international campaign to build events throughout the US and Europe called “A Day in Solidarity with African People” as a way to raise resources and support for the African liberation struggle.

Any white person who wants to see a new world must break from complicity with imperialism and join in solidarity with the African Revolution by building “A Day in Solidarity with African People” in your area, wherever you are located.

There's no future in this dying system. The future is in the hands of African workers and oppressed peoples everywhere.

If you are a white person who wants to live in a world without slaves and slave masters, then join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and work toward a future in solidarity with the African Revolution.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is an organization of Euro-Americans and other allies of African liberation who organize under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party to build principled and material solidarity with African people's struggle for freedom.

Get involved today by joining the international campaign to build “A Day in Solidarity with African People” in cities across the US and throughout Europe – wherever you are located, there is a way for you to jump in to the work of building this movement!

THE REAL LOOTERS ARE THE US, THE UK, AND THE REST OF EUROPE!

AFRICANS HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESIST!

DEATH TO WHITE POWER! VICTORY TO THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION!

TAKE THE PLEDGE OF SOLIDARITY TODAY!

JOIN THE UHURU SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT!

UHURU!

Solidarity with the rebellions in Britain! From the UK to the US, Africans have the right to resist!

2011-08-08T21:04:00.000-07:00

On Thursday August 4, 2011, London police shot and murdered 29-year-old, Mark Duggan, an African man and father of four. This incident along with the videotaped police beating of a 14-year-old African girl, sparked a series of rebellions throughout north London that sent 26 police to the hospital and brought a number of banks, police cars, council offices and businesses down in flames.

Africans have the right to resist!

Heavy-handed police forces moved in on several black neighborhoods with armored vehicles, helicopters, and riot vans.

At least 200 Africans have been arrested. Meanwhile, the rebellions have spread to at least five neighborhoods and into the city of Birmingham. African youth marching through Woolwich were videotaped chanting the slogan, "Fight Back!"

We support the right of the African community to fight back against the injustice and oppression imposed on their communities by the British white power government.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is in unconditional solidarity with the African population of Britain who are courageously resisting the oppression and colonial domination of their communities.

The USM is an organization of white allies of black liberation who work under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party to organize in material solidarity with the struggle for African liberation and self-determination.

We recognize that African people are colonized inside of the UK by the colonial white power State just as they are colonized inside of the US and throughout the world.

APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela explains that the State is a repressive organization used to maintain the status quo when a society is split between haves and have-nots.

The State works through various institutions from the prison and court systems to the police departments to protect the haves who possess all of the resources that they have stolen from the have-nots.

The State functions to protect the parasitic relationship of the white population to the African working class. It is this relationship between colonizer and colonized that is at the root of what is happening right now on the streets of London.

London is a part of what used to be called the British Empire, an entity that was characterized as the empire upon which the sun never set.

As one of the main players in imperialist white power, the UK enriched itself and its general white population through a process of enslaving and colonizing the African world.

Therefore, we in the USM reject the white media's portrayal of young African men as "criminal thugs," nor do we consider it "looting" for an African person to appropriate their stolen resources from a parasitic business as we are seeing in the streets of Tottenham.

We know that the real "looters" are the European invaders who rescued themselves from feudal poverty by assaulting and enslaving the mineral and resource-rich African continent.

The real "criminals" and "thugs" are the military and the police. The same police who murder young Africans on a regular basis with impunity.

The real thugs are the British and US soldiers who are massacring African children in Libya today as part of the vicious imperialist NATO invasion led by the US.

The police are the first line in the counterinsurgency war against the African population who are oppressed by white power wherever they have been dispersed throughout the world, whether it's in London or Haiti or St. Petersburg, FL.

African people in London face conditions of life marked by poverty, unemployment, police violence, mass incarceration, and denial of quality education.

An article published last year in the Guardian exposed that 333 people in the UK have died in or following police custody over the past 11 years, but no officer has ever been convicted.

These conditions are not unlike those faced by African people inside the US, such as in the city of St. Petersburg, FL, where 71% of Africans live at or below the poverty line, and where Africans are regularly harassed, beaten, arrested, and murdered by police who never face charges.

The images of the rebellions in London are reminiscent of what happened in St. Petersburg, FL in 1996 after an 18-year-old African, Tyron Lewis, was murdered by police.

The African community of St. Pete rose up in a heroic rebellion against the State that garnered national media attention and, due to the political leadership of the Uhuru Movement, catapulted the question of black community economic development into the public policy debate.

We unite with the position of the Uhuru Movement that a heavy police presence is a cynical response to the conditions of poverty and misery in the African community.

The only genuine solution is African self-reliance and economic development for the African working class.

The rebellions in Tottenham represent the ever-deepening crisis of imperialism. As African Internationalism the philosophy of the Uhuru Movement makes clear, it is the oppression of Africans, Indigenous peoples and the rest of the world's colonized peoples that forms the basis, the pedestal upon which the entire US capitalist system resides.

We live in an era where the system born from colonial violence, slavery, and genocide is quickly dying as a result of the resistance of the very peoples whose oppression is the necessary basis for the continuation of imperialism.

Oppressed people are tired of imperialism, and are waging a just and courageous fight to reclaim control over their own land, labor, and resources.

Another example of this just resistance occurred on the same day as the London rebellions when a NATO helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of over 30 US imperialist soldiers.

It is said that most of the down soldiers were on the team of Navy Seals who carried out the brutal assassination of Osama bin Laden, a cold-blooded murder that was denounced by oppressed peoples around the world as a counterinsurgent attack against colonized people's resistance.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement supports the struggle of the people of Afghanistan to expel the imperialist occupiers from their land and to regain control over their own land and resources.

The USM supports the African people of Britain who are also struggling for the same thing.

We call on other white people to join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. The time has come to turn our backs on parasitic capitalism and join in solidarity with the worldwide movement for social justice and economic development for African people that is being led by the African People's Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement.

Any Euro-American person who wants to bring down this oppressive system and join in creating a new world free from exploitation must join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and take the stand against colonialism and white power and in support of Black Power.

Our future is to be found in solidarity with the African revolution. There's no future under this dying system.

Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement today and organize in your area as part of the international campaign to build "A Day in Solidarity with African People."

Take the pledge of solidarity today!

VICTORY TO AFRICAN PEOPLE IN THE US, THE UK, AND THE WORLD!
SMASH COLONIAL VIOLENCE!
LONG LIVE THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION!
UHURU!

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We organize under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party.

Check out the article on Uhuru News on the African rebellions in the UK.

Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaks at "Beyond the 60's: Supporting the Ongoing Struggle for Black Community Self-Reliance in 2011" - Uhuru Solidarity Movement Event

2011-08-02T23:53:00.001-07:00

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Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaks at "Beyond the 60's: Supporting the Ongoing Struggle for Black Community Self-Reliance in 2011," an Uhuru Solidarity Movement Event held at the USF St. Petersburg campus on July 26, 2011 as part of the Uhuru Movement's 2011 Freedom Summer Project in St. Petersburg, Florida. Check out the Summer Project events at uhurusummerproject.org

Beyond the 60s: Supporting the Ongoing Struggle for Black Community Self-Reliance in 2011

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San Francisco Police Murder in Cold Blood! Join USM

2011-07-19T15:41:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, July 16th, 2011, the San Francisco Police Department shot and killed 19 year old African Kenneth Wade Harding while he was running away. Harding had been detained after he was "caught" evading a $2 Muni light rail toll in the Bayview neighborhood of the city.

Harding can be seen in the video above, clinging to his life next to a pool of his blood while officers stand guard following the slaughter.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement condemns this egregious act of cold blooded killing at the hands of the state. This is the everyday violence that African people experience in a society that was founded on the enslavement of African people and the theft of indigenous people's lands.

We stand in solidarity with the growing resistance of the African community to this brutal colonial occupation that has ravaged communities like the Bayview, put young African people behind bars and imposed a violent illegal drug economy on African communities that leave African people fighting each other for crumbs.

We call on white people and other allies of the African Liberation Movement to join Uhuru Solidarity Movement in condemning this latest killing and building our organization where people can align themselves with freedom and justice, not police containment, violence and destruction. Let's get organized! Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement today!

We support the demands coming from the Bayview coalition of different organizations following the San Francisco police shooting of Kenneth Wade Harding.

We demand:

1. An independent investigation

2. Independent forensic and ballistic report

3. Take DA Georg Gascon off of the internal investigation, due to a conflict of interest since he was the police chief three months ago.

4. Stop the character assassination perpetrated against Kenneth Wade Harding, his brother Ondrell and his mother, Denika Chatman

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement also supports reparations to the family of Kenneth Wade Harding, economic development, not police containment of the African community of Bayview and hands off the Bayview community!

Uhuru Solidarity Movement holds first national convention as a revolutionary mass organization of Euro-American solidarity with the African Liberation

2011-06-21T16:31:00.000-07:00

Uhuru Solidarity Movement holds first national convention as a revolutionary mass organization of Euro-American solidarity with the African Liberation Movement

On June 4-5, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement held its founding national convention under the theme, “Resistance is the Future: Solidarity with African Liberation,” in Philadelphia, PA.

The convention drew participants from around the country including San Diego and Oakland, CA; Columbus, OH; Chicago, IL; New York City, NY; Providence, RI; Salt Lake City, UT; Boston, MA; and Miami, Palm Harbor, Brandon, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota, FL.

The convention was mobilizing and informative, and participants left the convention armed with the confidence and the tools to build branches of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement all over the country.

Musician and poet Joseph Xavier Mack kicked off the convention with three powerful songs including a cover of a song by the recently deceased African cultural worker, Gil Scot Heron.

National Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, Stephanie Midler, gave the opening address, laying out the goals and basic principles of the USM. Midler defined the significance of this convention as establishing USM as its own organization, not just as a synonymous mass functioning of the APSC but as its own self-sustaining revolutionary mass organization with a constitution and elected officers.

“Our mandate from the African Liberation Movement is to be a visible presence in the world, saying we do not unite with imperialism, we want to give back the resources that we have at the expense of the rest of the world through reparations, and we want you to join with us. We are going to break up this monopoly of power in the white community,” said Midler.

What makes USM different?

“What makes the USM different from any other organization? We are under the leadership of the African working class. You can find a ton of solidarity organizations out there. What you won't find is a principled organization where the white people are held accountable. USM is held accountable by the African People's Socialist Party. We have a timetable that is accountable to the Party. It makes our work real. It doesn't depend on what we feel like doing. It means uniting in genuine solidarity and jumping in, doing in the work, and being held accountable.”

“The Uhuru Movement says that solidarity means jumping in and saying, 'I unite with what you are saying. What do you want me to do? What can I do?'”

This convention is historically significant because it offers North Americans an opportunity to reverse the historical failure of white leftists to take a principled stand in solidarity with the African Liberation Movement.

Chair Midler summarized the history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee whose African leadership called on the white activists to go back to their own communities to neutralize the reaction and violence coming from the white community and open up the resources and the white people in SNCC refused to take up this call and turned their backs on the African movement. USM has taken up that call.

“We take responsibility for our history,” said Midler. “It's not about feeling guilty and talking about how bad white people are. It's about recognizing the truth and taking the real stand to change it. It's very optimistic, humbling, and empowering to be part of this organization.”

This convention offered members and supporters of the USM to hear about all of the work that USM has carried out over the past year, from the radio programs on Uhuru Radio to the position papers, blog posts, press conferences, book tours, political studies, participation in a US-wide fundraising tour for a midwife from Sierra Leone who is building a birth clinic with AAPDEP, Earth Uprising events, participation in Oakland rallies against gang injunctions and Philadelphia town hall rallies on education and so much more.

“We've done incredible work, but it's not enough,” said Midler. “And that's why we are here today a the convention formally putting this organization on the ground and asking you to join, sign up, become a part of this movement. When white people see the motion of African resistance, that is when we are moved to join because it gives us a glimpse of the future. And we have to be in place for people who are coming into this movement and wanting to participate.”

Confronting the violent legacy of the oppressor nation

Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee, gave a dynamic and powerful multimedia presentation that detailed the violent legacy of the Euro-American white oppressor nation. Citing statistics on the staggering numbers of Africans exploited in privately owned prisons in rural white communities, Hess demonstrated how the ongoing colonial exploitation and mass incarceration of African people inside the US continues to serve as economic stimulus for the white community “as the ones who inherited the legacy of the slave master.”

Hess described the white American lifestyle under imperialism as an “empty, meaningless life that we are expected to live. If it was such a good life why would so many young white teenagers be addicted to drugs? Why would so many white people see no future?”

Hess called on white people to get not bogged down in feelings of guilt but instead to take responsibility for our history and take a stand to overturn that relationship of white people to Africans and the rest of the oppressed peoples of the world. Chairwoman Hess emphasized that instead of sitting around in coffee shops in passive contemplation, white North Americans are being called upon by the African Liberation Movement to get organized and take action.

“This system, capitalism, imperialism, US power, was built on a pedestal of the oppression of African people, on the genocide of the Indigenous people, and on the colonial plunder and domination of practically the entire planet,” said Hess.

“USM is unequivocally against imperialism. It has to go. Our participating in that is through solidarity with African people who are right here and around the world struggling for their legacy, to liberate the continent and its resources, and by extension, with all of the oppressed peoples of the world who are struggling for their lives.”

Stop the U.S. wars on African people at home and abroad!

Glen Ford, executive editor of the Black Agenda Report and founding member of the Black is Back Coalition, provided an incisive analysis of the NATO invasion of Libya, characterized by Ford as Obama's “most recent and most savage war.” Ford noted the parallels between the US strategy of supporting reactionary anti-government forces in Libya to the US funding of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the war against the Soviet-backed government in the 1970s. “This war will be a benchmark when we look back at the imperial response to its own decline,” said Ford.

Ford put the war on Libya in the context of the overall US colonial domination of Africa. “Obama's objective for Africa is total military domination,” said Ford. “This is AFRICOM's war and it was announced from the very beginning. And this is white man's business in Africa.”

Diop Olugbala gave a brief presentation calling for the participants of the convention to register for the upcoming Freedom Summer Project of the Uhuru Movement to be held in St. Petersburg, FL from July to August. Linking this project back to the history of SNCC in the 60s and the Oakland Summer Project in the 1980s, Olugbala held up the Freedom Summer of 2011 as an initiative “to send revolutionaries, students, and cultural workers into St. Petersburg to learn how to organize and heighten our ability to organize for revolution all around the world.”

Chairman Omali Yeshitela invites us to join organization to change the world

The Keynote Presentation of the national convention, “Resistance is the Future: African Liberation In Our Lifetime!” was delivered by Chairman Omali Yeshitela, the leader and founder of the Uhuru Movement and the Chairman of the African Socialist International. Chairman Yeshitela's presentation was incredibly profound historical overview of the destruction of the Black Revolution of the Sixties and the urgency of the ongoing struggle to rebuild the Black Revolution and advance the struggle to win liberation and self-determination in the hands of African workers. Chairman spoke as the international leadership of the African movement as well as the solidarity movement.

"Philosophers of the past made a great task of explaining the world, but the real task is to change the world. That is why organization is so important,” said the Chairman. “That is why the Uhuru Solidarity Movement is so important. The critical factor in the change of human society is conscious human beings who organize to change it. We take this analysis as conscious human beings to change the world and make it a place fit for living. That's what we are about. That's what the USM is about.”

Chairman explained why the Uhuru Movement struggles not to end “racism,” an ideology, but to end colonialism, a social-economic system. He said, “We don't suffer because white people don't like us. We suffer because our right to be a self-determining people has been taken away from us. We suffer because we don't have power over our lives. When you don't have power over our lives, then people can do whatever the hell they want to do to you.

Uhuru Solidarity Movement wins members & sustainers!

USM organizers Wendy Craig and Rebecca Dillow presented on the sustainable membership drive of the USM and the struggle to build a solid financial base of support for the USM and its capacity to generate resources for the Party.

Over the last year since June of 2010, USM won 45 new Uhuru Solidarity members, 19 of those from the west coast region. The presentation showed the many ways that the solidarity movement raises resources through the fundraising institutions of the Uhuru Movement such as the furniture store, flea markets, Uhuru Pies, holiday auction, and Uhuru Foods. A mobilizing call was put out for everyone in attendance to determine their level of support, from the $5 a month Steve Biko sustainership up to the $25,000 a year Omali Yeshitela level! Participants in the convention responded generously to the call, collectively contributing over $4600 through donations and sustainer pledges over the next year, with 14 people becoming sustainers and 4 people becoming new members!

Stop the other U.S. wars!

Rhone Frasier, Director of Education Committee for InPDUM Philly, gave a brief presentation on the struggle for African community control of education in the city of Philadelphia where public education has faced major budget cuts.

A workshop discussion entitled “Stop the Other US Wars” featured panelists Diop Olugbala, President of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement; Pam Africa of MOVE and the International Concerened Friends and Family of Mumia Abu Jamal, Sharon Williams, the mother of Kwende Williams; Nellie Bailey of the Harlem Tenants Council, Jesse Nevel of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, and Teresa Shoatz of the Human Rights Coalition. Each panelist exposed the US government's war on the African community from different perspectives– in the struggle for decent housing, life on the streets and in the prisons, and testimony from the front-lines of the revolutionary movement to push back the war on the African community.

The first speaker was Sharon Williams, who shared a powerful and eye-opening testimony about the vicious beating and shooting of her son, Kwende, by Philadelphia police officers in an incident that was witnessed by dozens of bystanders. Her stirring testimony illustrated the harsh and inhumane treatment of Africans by the US colonial government. Ms. Williams was denied the right to visit her son in the hospital to check his vital signs after the shooting. She has since joined up with InPDUM who have taken up the demand for justice to Kwende Williams and advance the struggle for African community control of police.

InPDUM President Diop Olugbala spoke on the case of Kwende Williams as one incident among countless that exemplify the colonial relationship of the police to the African community. “The struggle around Kwende is tied to the overall campaign to help the people understand the law is supposed to be as far as how the police are supposed to engage our community,” said Diop. InPDUM will be carrying out a “Know Your Rights” campaign to inform the African community of their constitutional rights, but Diop explained that “that we are not living in a society where the African community has any rights. This ain't no democracy for us. We are living in a dictatorship, when you are African, Mexican, and oppressed. In a dictatorship, the US government rules without regard for its own laws.” Diop further explained the significance of organizing for state power in the hands of the African community as the only real solution to the conditions faced by working class African people.

Nellie Bailey spoke on the effects of US imperialism in the “internal colony of Harlem” where Africans face a %50 unemployment rate. Bailey, a member of the Black is Back Coalition who was one of the few progressive activists in the US who spoke about against Obama before he became president, derided Obama's presidency as representing the “neutralization of radicalism on the Black Liberation front in this country,” citing black leaders such as Amiri Baraka and Al Sharpton who have capitulated to Obama's reactionary politics. Bailey concluded her presentation by providing updates on the situation in Haiti, such as Clinton and other imperialist occupiers of Haiti profited from the money that people donated to give aid to the people of Haiti following the recent earthquake. “The US government controls both the Haitian police and the UN troops,” said Bailey.

Jesse Nevel, Local St. Pete chair of Uhuru Solidarity Movement, spoke about his experience as an organizer in the City of African Resistance after the shooting of a police officer allegedly by a 16-year-old African and laid out the theoretical basis for the anti-colonial stance of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. Pam Africa spoke about the history of MOVE, a progressive African organization whose headquarters was bombed by the US government in 1985 resulting in the deaths of 11 Africans including 5 children.

Pam Africa pointed out that the mayor who made the decision to bomb the MOVE house was an African man, so she was not surprised or fooled by the selection of Obama as a strategy of “putting a black face on the Empire.” Pam also spoke on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal, African political prisoner.

“I support the Uhuru Movement 100%, because it's the right thing to do,” said Pam Africa. “I had to be here in solidarity with this group because it is consistent. When I look back over the years, it always an Uhuru person who was there whenever there was a case of police brutality or any other injustice, they were always there, and the whites in solidarity were always there too.”

The final panelist was Terersa Shoatz of the Human Rights Coalition, an organization that was founded by Shoatz' father, Russell Maroon Shoatz, from within the prison system. Russell Maroon Shoatz is a former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Movement who has been locked down in solitary confinement for over 2 decades. Ms. Shoatz exposed the brutal conditions faced by Africans in the prison system who are subject to the same torture used by the military against detainees in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The first day of the covention closed with an information question and answer session and a powerful closing summation by the Chairman Omali Yeshitela who said, “Imperialism means death and destruction, and we have a right to fight for life.”

Uhuru Solidarity Movement constitution adopted; new steering committee elected

The second day of the convention was held in the Uhuru Solidarity Center and began with summations from Penny Hess and Chairman Omali Yeshitela. The USM membership had an opportunity to read through and propose amendments to the official constitution of the USM, and then vote to ratify the constitution into existence. The USM nominated and voted on a new slate of officers for the national steering committee:

Chair – Stephanie Midler – appointed
Secretary – Kefira Baron
Outreach/Information and Education – Harris Daniels
Sustainable Membership – Wendy Snyder
Reparations in Action – Ali Hoehne
International Organizer – Wendy Craig
Cyber Organizing and Recruitment – Jesse Nevel

The election of the national steering committee was followed by a series of helpful training workshops on how to organize people on the streets, how to use the internet and online social media to organize and build events, and how to win sustainable membership. All of these materials can be found on the USM website at uhurusolidarity.org.

In his keynote presentation on the first day, Chairman Omali Yeshitela defined the current period of crisis for imperialism as a critical period of tremendous social transformation where white people will have to make the determination on which side of history they are going to stand. “The old has to die out to give birth to the new. That's a law of dialectics. What we see happening is that imperialism is experiencing deep and profound death pains,” said the Chairman.

“But the death throes of imperialism represent the birth pains of a whole new world. We've got two jobs – as midwives to bring in the new world, and as gravediggers to take out the old. And in that regard, we believe in full employment, so everybody get a damn shovel!”

The Chairman's words were met with roaring applause. He continued, “Let's build the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. Let's make this revolution. Let's help to push imperialism into its grave.”

UHURU! Resistance is the Future! Solidarity with African Liberation!

FORWARD TO THE SUMMER PROJECT!

From the Freedom Rides to the Freedom Summer, the Movement Lives On!

2011-05-23T18:34:00.000-07:00

From the Freedom Rides to the Freedom Summer, the Movement Lives On!

Come to “Resistance is the Future” on June 4-5 in Philadelphia, PA to find out how you can be involved in the historic Freedom Summer Project. “Resistance is the Future” is the national convention of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM), an organization of Euro-Americans and other allies of the African Liberation Movement who work under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party to build material solidarity and reparations to Africa and the African community in the US and around the world. Register today to get on board with the ongoing struggle for freedom and justice!

History is not a thing of the past – the struggle continues

Freedom Riders, 1961

Nearly a half-century after the courageous Freedom Riders rode into the segregated Jim Crow south to take a stand against the oppression of the black community, a new generation of activists, students, and socially conscious people are coming from all around the world to make history in St. Petersburg, FL in the Freedom Summer Project of 2011.

The concept of the “Freedom Summer” originates from the civil rights era of the 1960s. In the year of 1964 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized the legendary Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, a massive voter registration drive that forever changed the course of history and ushered in a powerful decade of struggle by oppressed African people that transformed this country and electrified the world. Thousands of white students and others made history by joining in solidarity with the movement for black freedom and converging on Mississippi and other parts the South to stand up to white terror and support the movement of African people rising up out of centuries of enslavement, Jim Crow, lynchings and poverty.

The Uhuru Movement is calling on white students and friends from all walks of life to once again stand with the struggle for black freedom in the St Petersburg Freedom Summer Project, July 9 – August 9.

Under the leadership of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, who was a SNCC organizer in the 60s and leads the Uhuru Movement today, the St. Pete Freedom Summer Project will push forward the ongoing struggle to defend the democratic rights of the African community and put the agenda of the black community back on the table.

Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964

The Sixties Are Over, but the Conditions Have Not Changed – St Pete is Mississippi

It is widely understood that Africans in this country were blatantly oppressed during the 1950s and 60s. But as quiet as it's kept in the mainstream media, the conditions faced by the African community in 2011 are equally devastating.

The African working class has been forced to bear the brunt of a profound economic recession that has steadily widened the gap between black poverty and white wealth.

With over three million African people nationally locked into the prison system—behind bars, awaiting trial or on parole through discriminatory sentencing laws feeding a multi-billion dollar prison industry— there are more black people tied to the prison system today than were enslaved in 1850.

South St. Pete under siege, 2011

Besieged by SWAT teams and highly armed militarized police forces, black communities all over this country resemble a US war zone in the Middle East in stark contrast to the peaceful tree-lined neighborhoods of white suburban America.

Since the year 2000 the wealth gap between black families and their white counterparts has widened annually and African unemployment is nearly double that of white people. Targeted by the big banks for discriminatory subprime mortgages hundreds of thousands of African families lost their homes in the first round of foreclosures in 2007.

In St Petersburg, FL conditions of African people are similar to Mississippi with nearly three quarters of the black community living at or near poverty and only 21 percent of African males graduating high school with a diploma.

USM National Convention will build up to the St Pete Freedom Summer Project!

At the upcoming national convention of the USM, themed “Resistance is the Future: Solidarity with African Liberation,” the leadership of the Uhuru Movement will specifically address the white community about the significance of organizing in genuine solidarity with the African community in the struggle for freedom and independence and the USM as the organization that provides us the ability to take that stand.

Chairman Omali Yeshitela, the leader and founder of the Uhuru Movement, will be the keynote speaker at the convention. Penny Hess, chairperson of the African People's Solidarity Committee, will give a presentation on the role of white people in the African Liberation Movement.

Chairman Omali Yeshitela (pictured here in the 1960s) carries the struggle forward into the new era

The Freedom Summer Project will be discussed in detail. Attendees of the convention will be mobilized to join the Freedom Summer and become active participants in the creation of a new world free from exploitation and oppression. Attendees will also benefit from workshops that provide the tools to organize in our own communities.

One of the original Freedom Riders who was arrested in 1961, Richard Gleason, reflected in a recent interview: "I hope young people have a sense of history, but more than that, I hope that they will be inspired to carry the torch on. It's time for each of us to pick up our torch and do what we can for the good of humanity." The Uhuru Movement triumphantly carries on the torch of freedom into a new era of struggle. As a new world struggles to be born, now is our time to decide what side of history we are going to be on.

The old ways of injustice, slavery, and colonialism are dying out, but Resistance is the Future! Solidarity with African Liberation!

Take a stand on the side of the African Liberation Movement! JOIN USM TODAY! Become a Sustaining Member!

Are you in a student group or social justice organization who might be interested in the convention and the summer project? LET US KNOW at registration@uhurusolidarity.org

Even if you can't make it to the convention, HELP PROMOTE IT ONLINE! Join the CyberOutreach Team!

RESISTANCE IS THE FUTURE!

FORWARD TO THE NATIONAL CONVENTION AND THE FREEDOM SUMMER PROJECT!

UHURU!

Uhuru Solidarity Movement Convention: No phony antiwar movement!

2011-05-09T16:03:00.000-07:00

Stand in solidarity with the liberation of African and all oppressed peoples—the only path to real peace on the planet!

On June 4 and 5, 2011 the Uhuru Solidarity Movement will hold its National Convention “Resistance is the Future: Solidarity with African Liberation”, in Philadelphia, PA. The USM Convention is for white people and other allies of the liberation struggle of African people—inside this country, in Africa, the Caribbean and the world.

The Convention will align white people, who are looking for a real stand of solidarity and unity with reparations to African people to get involved. The two-day event will include workshops and presentations from the leadership of the African Liberation Movement in the U.S. in order to forge genuine unity with its goals for self-determination and justice.

Uhuru Solidarity Movement, working directly under the leadership of the African-led Uhuru Movement, is for white people who are tired of empty talk and want to take action that can make real changes not through a single issue but through real transformation of the world.

USM is an activist movement: organizing fundraising for reparations to African people, taking a stand in support of organized African resistance to US government attacks on the African community and engaging others like ourselves in the war of ideas on the side of justice for African and oppressed peoples of the earth.

After George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in the U.S. in protest.

Although his successor Barack Obama has brutally expanded U.S. wars of occupation in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and elsewhere, with U.S. forces stationed at more than 800 military bases around the world, there is deafening silence from the predominately white so-called “peace” movement.

Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report and member of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BIBC) -- one of the key presenters at the upcoming Uhuru Solidarity Movement Convention “Resistance is the Future,” -- recently addressed the white “anti-war” movement in his May 3, 2011 commentary called “The Phony Anti-war Movement.” The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is an historic African-led anti-war coalition whose mere existence is a criticism of the traditional anti-war movement.

“Two university researchers have proven, by the numbers,” Ford writes, “what the real antiwar movement has known for years: that many of the folks who turned out in such large numbers to demonstrate against America’s wars when George Bush was president, were really only opposed to Republican wars. Thus when Barack Obama captured the White House, the so-called antiwar movement largely collapsed.”

Ford goes on to cite a new study by University of Michigan and Indiana University researchers, that the majority of the antiwar movement were Democrats who were motivated by their dislike of Bush rather than genuine opposition to US wars of occupation.

Noting that while Obama has expanded Bush’s wars, Ford quotes one of the authors of the report as saying the, “antiwar movement should have been furious at Obama’s ‘betrayal’ and reinvigorated its protest activity. Instead ‘attendance at antiwar rallies declined precipitously and financial resources available to the movement have dissipated.’”

The Black is Back Coalition held a conference in March of this year in Washington, DC, bringing together activists, leaders and others from the African community and their allies challenging the white left and galvanizing an African-led movement in opposition to Obama’s “other wars.”

The other wars include not only the continuing US wars against the people of Iraq and the expanded war against the people of Afghanistan, but also the US backed war against the people of Congo, the US/UN occupation of Haiti, the bombing of Pakistan, and the long-ignored devastating war against the African community inside the US, which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims of police murder and brutality over the past 20 years.

America’s war against black people in this country—a war never acknowledged by the white left—has rounded up millions of African men and women and locked them away for most of their lives in a deadly prison system, based on discriminatory arrest, prosecution and sentencing laws.

The Democratic party-loving white antiwar movement, which has historically walked over the besieged African community right here to get to a peace rally, prefers a Democrat, especially Barack Obama, to carry out the U.S. wars of plunder and occupation inside this country and around the world.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement unites with the criticism of the white left and peace movement by Glen Ford and by the Black is Back Coalition.

We recognize that the white peace movement is only interested in an imperialist peace, not liberation for oppressed and colonized peoples struggling against US war not only around the world but in the inner cities of this country. The traditional white left anti-war movement is aligned with the Democratic Party. The fact is that they reap real material benefits as part of the oppressor nation who as workers robbed the native people of their land and resources.

We are white people, organized under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party which leads the Uhuru Movement. We are tired of the talk fests and the ideological imperialism of a white left that struggles to perpetuate white power in a kinder, gentler form rather than recognize that the only force that has ever changed the world is African and other colonized peoples in the struggle against US imperial domination.

We recognize that as Chairman Omali Yeshitela, founder of BIBC tells us, we have to stand against imperialism itself, a system born of slavery, genocide and colonialism and fed throughout its entire existence on wars of occupation and plunder of the resources, land and labor of colonized peoples around the world.

As white people we recognize that all of us sit on a pedestal that rests on the backs of Africans, Indigenous, Arab and other peoples for our benefit. Everything we got comes at their expense. Can you name something that wasn’t grown on stolen or occupied land or wasn’t made in a sweatshop in a formerly colonized country? Keeping the US in control of the world’s resources, battling other former colonial countries who are now struggling to compete with imperialism, is why the increasingly desperate US is waging increasingly vicious wars.

We recognize that “America” that was stolen from the Indigenous people with their survivors now living in terrible poverty on “reservations.” America was built on enslaved African labor that created the wealth, jobs and prosperity of the US and Europe to begin with.

We’re not looking for a kinder, gentler way to suck the blood of the oppressed whether they are in Libya or the south side of Chicago.

We believe that genuine peace can only come about when Indigenous people, including the Mexican people streaming across the borders of land stolen from them 150 years ago, have control of their land and resources again.

There will only be peace when the people of the Middle East can use their oil and other resources to feed and house their own people without the US military and corporations stealing them and assaulting their society.

There will only be peace when African people—one nation of people in Africa and wherever they have been forcibly dispersed around the world—have control over their homeland still under neocolonial control and all its vast resources and win reparations for 600 years of stolen labor and land.

There can be no peace in an imperialist world that feeds itself at the expense of everybody else.

Peace and justice for us all, white people included, means standing on the side of solidarity with African people and the majority of humanity and in their struggle for national liberation. Down with imperialism!

Uhuru!

Attend the Uhuru Solidarity Movement Convention “Resistance is the Future: Solidarity with African Liberation” on June 4-5, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. For details about the program and to register, go to: http://apscuhuru.org/usm/convention2011/index.xhtml

Osama bin Laden may be dead, but America's wars are far from over! Victory to the oppressed peoples of the world!

2011-05-04T12:30:00.000-07:00

Osama bin Laden may be dead, but America's wars are far from over! Victory to the oppressed peoples of the world!

As we near the 11th year of the US government's brutal colonial war of occupation against the people of Afghanistan, North Americans around the country are celebrating the reported killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on the 1st of May, 2011, while others are questioning the US government's actions.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement calls on North Americans and Europeans to see the world from another perspective – the point of view of oppressed people who are struggling for national liberation from US and Western imperialism. We call on the Euro-American population to join in solidarity with the masses of humanity. When African, Arab, Indigenous, and other oppressed peoples are victorious in the global struggle against exploitation and colonial domination, then we can come together as a human family and celebrate the dawn of a new world free from oppression and suffering.

We call on progressive Euro-Americans to join USM and register for the upcoming June 4th and 5th National Convention of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement in Philadelphia, PA, “Resistance is the Future! Solidarity with African Liberation” where the topics of the genocidal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will be discussed along with the brutal war against the African community right here.

Register now: registration@uhurusolidarity.org.

On May 1, 2011, the US government announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed inside Pakistan by Navy Seals in a heavily fortified compound just a mile from the Pakistani army’s principal military academy. The CIA operation was carried out by 25 Navy Seals under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command.

If the murder happened the way the U.S. said it occurred, without the knowledge of the Pakistani government, which is doubtful, then it was a unilateral act of war that violated the sovereignty of Pakistan where the US military is slaughtering men, women, and children with unmanned drones on a regular basis.

Bin Laden's corpse was reportedly “buried at sea” in a sealed cement box, with others killed in the attack. Now that the evidence has been dispensed into the ocean, it is unknown whether the body actually belonged to Osama bin Laden. If it was bin Laden, the method of urgent disposal destroyed all evidence that would have revealed the real circumstances surrounding his death. Already the U.S. is having to admit that he was unarmed, retreating from the initial statement that bin Laden engaged them in an armed struggle.

Blood can be seen on the floor where Bin Laden was killed

Regardless of these suspicious circumstances, the news of bin Laden's death, along with the supposed birth certificate presented by Obama to quash suspicions that he was not a “true American,” were intended to boost support for the increasingly unpopular president in this period of US imperialism 's ever-deepening decline. Moreover, the death of Osama bin Laden was intended to reassure North Americans that the wars of occupation against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq were justifiable.

Imperialism in decline attempts to rescue itself at the expense of oppressed peoples

This was the act of a desperate imperialism in collapse enacting one more ploy to attempt to save itself at the expense of oppressed peoples of the world.

In the face of the growing resistance on the part of millions of people throughout the Middle East and Africa, the killing of Bin Laden was supposed to be an act of vengeance from a world power in decline, an attempt to intimidate oppressed peoples everywhere who are standing up for liberation, justice and control of their lives, land and resources.

While many North Americans celebrated this act of war and white nationalist aggression, there were many who questioned and denounced it as yet another brutal attack on the peoples of the world.

Osama bin Laden's relationship with US goes back to the 1970s

Osama bin Laden is the Saudi-born figurehead of al-Qaeda who was accused of masterminding the bombings of the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001. To this day, the US has failed to provide any real evidence that bin Laden played an operational role in the 9/11 attacks. The US government emphasized bin Laden's supposed involvement in 9/11 to justify a military invasion of Afghanistan where bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network were based at the time.

The reality is that the relationship between the US government and bin Laden goes back to the 1970s when, under the James Earl Carter administration, the CIA trained and armed bin Laden and other Muslim resistance fighters to overturn the Soviet-backed leftwing government of Afghanistan. This covert operation was led by Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who still acts as advisor to the Obama administration.

Brzezinski and Osama bin Laden, 1979

US wages brutal colonial wars against oppressed peoples of the world

Under the guise of hunting down Osama bin Laden and waging a “war on terror,” the US government carries out a vicious campaign of brutality, terror, and slaughter against the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and most recently in Pakistan.

US troops have mutilated, raped, tortured, and murdered thousands of Afghan men, women and children. Under Obama, the US has launched missile strikes targeting Pakistani children with unmanned drones. US soldiers in Afghanistan, as part of a self-described “Kill Team,” photographed themselves gunning down civilians and posing in photos with their severed limbs and mutilated corpses, similar to how white people in the US would send postcards and collect body parts after carrying out the lynchings of Africans.

CIA targets Pakistani children with drone strikes

At the same time, the US is engaged in numerous “Other Wars,” as described by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, such as the permanent war against Africa, the war against Mexicans and other Indigenous peoples, and the war of police occupation against the domestically colonized African community right here inside US borders.

More recently, the US has been waging a military invasion of Libya as part of an overall strategy to increase its colonial grip on Africa's resources. The US invaders have spilt the blood of hundreds of Libyan civilians, and the US even murdered the son and grandchildren of the Libyan leader, Colonel Gadhafi, in an effort to assassinate Colonel Gadhafi himself.

Imperialist white power is responsible for 500 years of terror against colonized people

The US government, in spite of its vocal protestations against “terror,” is indeed the greatest purveyor of terrorism on the planet earth. Neocolonial puppet president Obama, Hilary Clinton, Brzezinski, the Bush family, and the entire US government represent a continuous, 500-years-long history of terrorism against colonized and oppressed peoples for the material benefit of the general European and North American population.

In fact, the struggle of oppressed peoples for national liberation and control over their land and resources has historically been characterized as “terrorism” by the white ruling class. Recently a prosecutor in a US war court regarding the use of military commissions at Guantanamo compared Al Qaeda to the Seminole Indians in their style of warfare against US targets. The CIA's codename for bin Laden was “Geronimo.”

In another example, International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement President Diop Olugbala was placed on a terrorist watch-list compiled by the Israeli-based Institute for Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR) for InPDUM's work in exposing the US war on the African community and defending the democratic rights of African people everywhere. The label of “terrorism” has always been used by white power to demonize and discredit the struggle against colonial oppression.

InPDUM President Diop Olugbala placed on "terrorist watch-list"

US colonizes Afghanistan to plunder its resources

The US war against Afghanistan is not a war against “terrorism” but a war to colonize Afghanistan under US control for the benefit of US business interests in the Middle East. It is part of the global imperialist strategy to keep the masses of the nonwhite world separated from their resources and denied control over their own land, lives, and destinies.

US imperialism in crisis has become desperate for the oil and other resources of the Arab world and Southern Asia. U.S. control over these resources is essential if the US is to maintain its position as the world's leading imperialist power. As the rising economies of China, Russia and Japan increasingly pose a threat to the global supremacy of the US economy, control over the resources of the Middle East would give the U.S. unrivaled power to advance the interests of white power and parasitic capitalism.

One of the most lucrative resources in Afghanistan is opium, but in 2000, prior to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban had almost completely eliminated the export of opium and banned its production.

Since the US invasion began in 2001, Afghanistan has gone from no opium trade to providing 93 percent of the world's heroin exports, including about 60 percent of heroin exports to the United States where the massive profits are laundered through Wall Street banks.

US wages war against African community colonized within US borders

Meanwhile, in the African community, small-time drug dealers are locked up en masse for participating in an illegal drug economy imposed on their communities by the same vicious imperialism that economically under-develops and systematically oppresses the African community and other oppressed peoples around the world.

The relationship between the war against the people of Afghanistan and the African community in the US has even deeper implications beyond the role of the illegal drug trade. In both cases, the US colonialist-capitalist North American state wages colonial wars of occupation to undermine their struggles for national liberation and self-determination.

This is how the United States was born and this is how the US continues to keep itself alive. Would the United States exist if not for the enslavement of African people and the ongoing genocide of Africans, Arabs, and other oppressed peoples throughout the world? As Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People's Socialist Party says, “No, No, No, and a thousand times: No!”

Parasitic capitalism is dying

Osama bin Laden may be dead, but the US government has already made it clear that their so-called “war on terror” is far from over. This is because the US government's colonial wars never really had anything to do with bin Laden. In the words of Chairman Yeshitela, US imperialism is a dying system that is thrashing about in a death-bed agony of endless wars. Bin Laden may be dead, but the real cause for celebration is the fact that US Empire is on its last leg. White power is collapsing.

The most terroristic, violent, brutal governmental entity on the face of the planet earth is inching closer and closer toward its inevitable demise. The oppressed peoples of the world – from Egypt to Detroit, from the Arab masses in Afghanistan to the African community in St. Petersburg, FL – are rising up in a righteous and powerful resistance to white power and imperialism.

USM calls for solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the world

Our solidarity lies not with the parasitic capitalist economy of the US government but with the just struggles of the oppressed.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is an organization of Euro-Americans and other allies of the African Liberation Movement who recognize that we do not have to passively accept the role of complicity prescribed for us by the white ruling class. Complicity with imperialism is not a sustainable option. It will lead only to further death, destruction, and chaos.

For Euro-Americans who strive to build a new world of peace, justice and freedom, the only sensible stance is to reject the system of imperialism and actively organize in material solidarity with the national liberation struggles of the African community and oppressed peoples around the world! We say that it is not enough to call for “peace”; we must unite with the demand for VICTORY TO THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD! Victory to the people of Afghanistan! Victory to the people of Iraq! Victory to the people of Palestine! Victory to the people of Libya! Victory to the African community in the US and around the world! Down with U.S. Imperialism!

We invite you to join us at the upcoming national convention of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, where featured speakers such as Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader and founder of the Uhuru Movement and Chairman of the African Socialist International, will be presenting on topics such as the growing resistance of the people to US war against African people and oppressed peoples worldwide and the role of Euro-Americans in solidarity with the African Liberation Movement.

The convention, titled, “Resistance is the Future! Solidarity with African Liberation,” will be held on June 4-5 in Philadelphia, PA. We call on you to register for this historically significant national convention and take a stand on the side of oppressed people in the just struggle for freedom and self-determination!

Join the Uhuru Solidaritry Movement! Go to uhurusolidarity.org!

VICTORY TO THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!

VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN!

SMASH COLONIAL VIOLENCE!

RESISTANCE IS THE FUTURE!

UHURU!

FREE MUMIA! Put the State on trial! Solidarity with African Liberation!

2011-05-01T14:42:00.000-07:00

FREE MUMIA!
Put the State on trial!
Solidarity with African Liberation!

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is holding its national convention on June 4-5 to build solidarity with the movement that will resolve the problems of mass incarceration of Africans such as political prisoner Mumia Abu- Jamal. The convention, titled "Resistance is the Future! Solidarity with African Liberation" is being held in Philadelphia, PA where Mumia has been locked up on death row for the past 30 years.

Free Mumia and all African political prisoners!
Stop the war against the African community!

Bowing to the pressure of the growing resistance of African people in the US, on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, the US government declared that the 1982 death sentence for African political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was in violation of their own US constitution.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit concluded that at the time of Mumia's sentencing, the jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence. If this decision is upheld it will allow Mumia to have a new sentencing hearing. Despite the fact that Mumia’s death penalty sentence was changed to life in prison in 2002, he has remained on the PA Death Row.

Mumia Abu Jamal is an African journalist and revolutionary who has been on death row for nearly 30 years for allegedly resisting a white police officer who was brutally assaulting Mumia's brother, resulting in the officer's death.

This recent partial victory in Mumia’s case signifies the weakness of imperialism. However, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement believes that Mumia deserves neither the death penalty nor a life sentence. We demand the immediate release of Mumia and all other imprisoned soldiers of the African Liberation Movement. We uphold the right of African people to resist all forms of police and military occupation, so regardless of whether the evidence put forward to convict him was “legitimate” in the eyes of the colonial court, Mumia must be free!

The reality is that Mumia Abu Jamal is in prison right now because of his revolutionary political activities during the Black Revolution of the Sixties. Mumia was a leading member of the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party, an organization that was systematically destroyed by the US government through the FBI counterinsurgency program called COINTELPRO.

During the period of his arrest, Mumia was an outspoken supporter of an African organization called MOVE. MOVE was also targeted by the US government counterinsurgency, resulting in the US government dropping a bomb on the MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia in 1985, murdering 11 African people including men, women, and children. Mumia's imprisonment is a consequence of the same US government's vicious counterinsurgency war against the internally colonized African nation.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizes under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party to build material solidarity with the African-led struggle to completely overturn the system, to bring about the necessary conditions for the liberation of Mumia as well as the other 1.5 million African people who are locked up in colonial prisons inside this country.

USM organizes in solidarity with Mumia and the African Liberation Movement.

USM is holding its national convention this year, "Resistance is the Future! Solidarity with African Liberation", in Philadelphia on June 4-5, where Mumia's case will be discussed in a presentation by featured speaker Pam Africa, a member of MOVE and the Chair of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

We invite all progressive Euro-Americans and other allies to take a stand on the side of the oppressed African community and register to attend this historically significant national convention! Go to http://apscuhuru.org/usm/convention2011/index.xhtml for more information!

FREE MUMIA AND ALL AFRICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS AND PRISONERS OF WAR!
FREE ALL AFRICANS IN U.S. COLONIAL PRISONS!
SMASH THE DEATH PENALTY!
RESISTANCE IS THE FUTURE! SOLIDARITY WITH AFRICAN LIBERATION!
UHURU!

AAPDEP-Sierra Leone U.S. Tour on Infant and Maternal Mortality raises medical supplies and cash to build clinic

2011-04-28T17:38:00.000-07:00

By Dr. Aisha Fields, International Director, All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP)

(Reposted from UhuruNews.com - Published Apr 27, 2011)

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – On February 5, 2011, my children and I stood waiting inside the Nashville International Airport baggage claim anxiously waiting to see a sister who I had spoken to many times and whose face graced several AAPDEP posters, fliers and web pages but who I would now finally be meeting in person--Nurse-midwife Mary Koroma.

Nurse-midwife Mary Karoma - Freetown, Sierra Leone

My three-year old son, who was supposed to be holding one half of a large sign that read “Welcome Nurse Mary!”(my 7-year-old daughter stood quietly holding the other half), was instead running circles around me when I saw Sis Mary nervously stepping off of the escalator, walking toward an airport employee, ticket in hand.

The children and I quickly headed toward her and with smiles and hugs welcomed and introduced ourselves to her.

During the 2 hour car ride to my home, Nurse Mary and I talked a lot about the clinic she built in Sierra Leone and her organization of traditional birth attendants, Women in National Development (WIND).

As it was her first time traveling to the US (as part of a 7 state 9-city tour none-the-less!), we talked a lot about the many similarities between African communities in the US and in Sierra Leone, what to expect during the upcoming tour and about our shared vision of sustainable development for Africa and African people through self-determination.

I could tell in that first discussion that we had indeed partnered with the right person to launch our AAPDEP Infant and Maternal Health Project!

The next six weeks took us to 7 US states and 9 cities as part of the whirlwind “Stop the Hemorrhaging!”(STH) US-wide fundraising tour.

By all standards, the “Stop the Hemorrhaging!”tour was a tremendous success!

Events were organized in Philadelphia, PA, Washington D.C., Baltimore, MD, Huntsville, AL, Jackson, MS, Daytona Beach, FL and St. Petersburg, FL.

There were stops at universities, nursing schools, birthing centers, middle schools, community centers and churches!

Hundreds of people had the opportunity to meet Nurse Mary, learn first-hand about the plight of African women and babies and the horrible conditions that have been imposed on African people in Sierra Leone in general.

More than that, though, audiences were able to walk away with a real analysis of why these conditions exist in Africa and among African people everywhere and what must be done to reverse them once and for all!

The tour kicked off in Washington, D.C. with three events, two sponsored by AAPDEP-DC and a third by the Family Health & Birth Center. The first AAPDEP-DC event took place at St. Stephen's Church and included presentations from Nurse Mary, Ayesha Fleary, Director of Information & Education for AAPDEP and Lauren Arrington, an African nurse-midwife based in Baltimore, MD.

People arrived early to make sure they had a seat. Despite the late start and a few technical difficulties the crowd stayed attentive.

Ayesha Fleary opened up the event introducing the attendees to AAPDEP and why we felt it necessary to use this tour not only as a way to raise awareness around the issue but also as a way to begin development through fundraising.

Midwife Lauren Arrington provided great information around the high rates of infant and maternal mortality in African Communities across the U.S., which helped tie the Sierra Leone work to the overall contradictions that affect African people no matter where we’re located.

Nurse Mary ended the program with a dynamic presentation that outlined her work and what she hoped to accomplish in partnership with AAPDEP.

The attendees were very receptive and at the close of the event stayed around to speak with all of the presenters, wanting to know more about how they could help.

At Family Health & Birth Center, Nurse Mary had the opportunity to meet fellow midwives and health care workers during a small gathering.

While the turnout was modest, we were able to spread the information and get connected to a network of midwives and develop a relationship with the birth center.

The second AAPDEP-DC event was an informal dinner fundraiser at Little Ethiopia Restaurant.

There, more than 30 people joined Nurse Mary and AAPDEP organizers for a delicious dinner and discussion about the way forward for the AAPDEP Infant and Maternal Health Project (IMHP).

Many of the attendees had attended our first event and came back for more. During this one event, we raised a little over $600 in donations which spoke to the impact that we were making in DC.

The first tour stop in Philadelphia was at Harambee Institute of Science & Technology, an African-centered K-8 charter school.

There, Nurse Mary and I spoke to a group of about one hundred 7th and 8th graders.

This event was especially important to me as a former student, having attended Harambee almost 30 years ago.

Nurse Mary and I were both excited and a bit anxious about speaking at Harambee, since our presentations would need to be different from all the others, which had primarily adult audiences.

We decided that the best way to approach the presentations would be to share with them some of the conditions that our people are faced with in Sierra Leone and around the world (in Philly too!) and to focus on the students themselves by reminding them of their primary responsibility as African students–to learn all that they can in order to solve the problems we are confronted with as a people.

In the end, we were pleased to find that the students were not only brilliant, attentive and eager to learn, but that they were in full unity with accepting their responsibility to African people!

Harambee has donated $500 to the AAPDEP IMHP, qualifying the school as a “silver”level sponsor.

As such, the school will be honored with a commemorative brick in the new AAPDEP birthing clinic that will be built in Sierra Leone.

Their support of the AAPDEP IMHP hasn’t stopped there, though! Several teachers at Harambee have expressed interest in donating personally, and the school has decided to continue to sponsor the IMHP, initially through a school-wide pennies drive!

Uhuru Furniture Store-Philadelphia, an institution of the African People’s Education & Defense Fund (APEDF) organized a second Philly stop on the STH tour.

This event, the only one of the tour with a predominately North American audience, featured a dynamic presentation from African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) organizer Harris Daniels who laid out the dialectal relationship between the poverty experienced by African and other colonized people and the wealth of the white world.

Harris’s presentation made a clear distinction between charity, which does not address the core reason for the misery and poverty experienced by Africans and other oppressed people, and genuine solidarity with the struggles of African people to reclaim control over our resources and lives.

There were several nurses and midwifery students who attended the event, all of whom were so moved by the presentation given by Nurse Mary that they offered to organize fundraisers and equipment drives for the IMHP clinic.

From Philly the tour traveled to Holy Ghost Missionary Baptist Church right outside of Jackson, Mississippi.

Words can’t express how much AAPDEP appreciates the warm reception that was given to us from Pastor and Mrs. Burse and the entire congregation!

Nurse Mary spoke at both 8am and 11am services as part of the church’s Black History Month program organized by AAPDEP volunteer Dr. Teri Robinson.

After 8am service, Nurse Mary and I were ushered into the fellowship hall of the church, decorated beautifully in red, black and green and with a large sign that read “Welcome Nurse Mary.”

There, we, along with those who attended morning services enjoyed a delicious breakfast buffet cooked by several of the sisters at the church.

At the end of the 11am services, we were honored with a luncheon that was only topped by the generous donation of $5,000 made by the church to the AAPDEP IMHP!

In order to honor the congregation for their tremendous contribution, the largest birthing room of the new clinic will be named “Holy Ghost Missionary Baptist Church Birthing Room.”

From Mississippi Nurse Mary whizzed back to the east coast to speak at Sojourner Douglass Nursing College located in Baltimore, Maryland.

There, Nurse Mary gave a powerful presentation to the students.

She explained her role as a health care worker and the difficulties she faced working for the State, which is what led her to ultimately start her own clinic.

She explained the importance of the responsibility they hold as health care professionals and what they must do with their degree.

Even though the students did not expect to donate when asked they contributed their coins, dollars and checks to this great effort.

We raised $120 at this event, but gained forces who were committed to helping raise awareness, gather supplies, and organize fundraising events on behalf of the IMHP. We truly want to thank those students who attended.

Next stop was Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Alabama where Nurse Mary spoke to science students who are a part of the Health Career Opportunities Program.

The events was really important in that it offered African students who are studying to enter into science and health-care fields an opportunity to have a first-hand account of the issues faced by African women and infants on the Continent.

Our last leg of the tour took us to Florida where we had events in St. Petersburg and Daytona Beach.

In St. Petersburg, we spoke at the Uhuru House, the international headquarters of the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement.

Organized by AAPDEP-Tampa/St.Pete, the event featured presentations from local AAPDEP organizer Camilla Hippolyte and Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the Uhuru Movement.

Chairman Omali discussed the significance of AAPDEP in this period as an organization, which provides African people an opportunity to use our energy, skill and resources toward building concrete programs that help to transform the conditions we are faced with as African people.

With the assistance of Sis Baye Moye who offered a heart-felt, impromptu second call for donations, we were able to raise just over $1,000 in cash and pledges!

The tour wrapped up at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida at the National Conference of the National African Students Association (NASA).

The event was outstanding! Nurse Mary and I spoke to a full house of almost 200 African students from universities throughout the US.

After our presentations, dozens of students rushed to meet Nurse Mary and I to discuss ways that they could become a part of AAPDEP, volunteer their skills, time and resources.

One young student, a brother born in Liberia, has offered to help us get computers and internet access for AAPDEP’s new clinic in Sierra Leone.

Another brother from Ghana whose older sister died in childbirth, applauded AAPDEP’s effort to build awareness of African infant and maternal mortality and pledged his support to organize other Africans, especially men, to participate in supporting the project.

Based on contacts we made at the conference, we are currently in discussions with African student organizations at Miami Dade College as to the best way to bring their entire membership into AAPDEP!

The day after the event at Embry-Riddle was March 20, and Nurse Mary was heading back to Sierra Leone, having worked almost non-stop since her arrival in the US in February.

Not only had we successfully spread awareness of African infant and maternal mortality to hundreds through the STH Tour, but Nurse Mary had a hands-on one week intensive training on emergency delivery techniques with AAPDEP Partner, Midwife Jennie Joseph, founder of The Birth Place and Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery in Winter Garden, Florida.

AAPDEP leadership was also able to make quite a few important determinations about the way forward for the overall work in Sierra Leone. One of the most exciting advancements is that Nurse Mary is no longer just AAPDEP’s “partner.”

She has become a member and will serve as the AAPDEP Chair in Sierra Leone.

Now, all of AAPDEP’s projects in the country, not only the IMHP, will be under Nurse Mary’s direct leadership.

Connected to this is another exciting development - Women in National Development (Nurse Mary’s organization of TBA’s) is now merging with AAPDEP to become AAPDEP-WIND, increasing AAPDEP’s overall membership by over 150 people!

Now, before the new AAPDEP clinic is built in Sierra Leone, which is slated for summer 2012, Nurse Mary’s current clinic will officially become an AAPDEP clinic—The AAPDEP-WIND Community Birth and Health Clinic.

As an AAPDEP clinic, we will work to ensure that it has access to the necessary supplies, medicines and equipment.

In fact, AAPDEP was able to organize for Nurse Mary to return to Sierra Leone with over 250 pounds of medicines and equipment including fetal heart monitors, blood pressure cuffs, infant and adult scales, clamps, thermometers, suture, and a variety of first aid supplies.

Many thanks to AAPDEP partner Jennie Joseph (Winter Garden, FL), and supporters Dr. Michelle Strongfields (Philadelphia, PA), Brother Shabaka Mombatha (Philadelphia, PA), and Lauren Arrington & Family (Baltimore, MD), for the very generous donations they made to this first medical shipment.

When it was all said and done, hundreds of Africans and our allies contributed a little more than $10,000 to AAPDEP during the Stop the Hemorrhaging tour, for the work to build the IMHP, giving us a solid footing for the establishment of our new clinic and for our work to train traditional birth attendants in Sierra Leone. The tour helped us to expand our influence and organization into cities around the US and has helped us to break new ground in terms of our organizational capacity in Sierra Leone.

It is AAPDEP’s goal as the weeks and months since the STH tour pass, to be able to report that Nurse Mary’s 6 weeks in the US offered our people more than a great tour, but that it in fact will come to represent a turning point in our effort to stamp out the high rates of infant and maternal death in Sierra Leone.

To borrow an often repeated quote from Nurse Mary herself, “Together we will succeed!”

Uhuru Solidarity Movement condemns Obama’s war and torture of African and Arab people – from Guantanamo to U.S. prisons, from Libya to Philadelphia!

2011-04-26T08:35:00.000-07:00

Calling all progressive Euro-Americans to come to the Uhuru Solidarity Movement National Convention on June 4 and 5, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA: “Resistance is the Future! Solidarity with African Liberation!”

On Monday, April 25, two reports were released – both vividly demonstrating the depth of the brutality with which the Obama administration is carrying out and intensifying the U.S. aggression and warfare against African and Arab peoples, inside the U.S. and worldwide.

President Obama, promising “hope” and “change” in his election campaign, has in fact escalated the war on Arab and African people at home and abroad. He has initiated the first war by AFRICOM on Africa, with the bombing of Libya and the brutal murder of the Libyan people.

It is Obama who has intensified the attacks on the people of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, Congo, Colombia and the Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people in Gaza. It is Obama that is attacking the African community in the U.S. with increasing police violence, increasing direct military occupation and mass imprisonment of young Africans.

Guantanamo leaks lift lid on world’s most controversial prison

The Guardian newspaper released an article titled: “Guantanamo leaks lift lid on world’s most controversial prison,” based on the leaking of 759 “secret” U.S. military dossiers covering almost every prisoner since the U.S. prison camp was opened in 2002.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-lift-lid-prison

This report reveals the real criminality of the neocolonial Obama regime that carried out mass torture of the 779 mostly Arab men captured and held at Guantanamo in the name of the “war on terror.”

It states that over two years after Obama promised to close Guantanamo, 172 people are still there, unable to even stand trial as they have been so badly tortured over a prolonged period.

It speaks of outrageous rights abuses inflicted on the captives, the vast majority of whom were brought there on ridiculous grounds, including an 89-year-old Afghan villager with dementia. He was brought to the concentration camp to be interrogated about some “suspicious phone numbers.” There is also the 14-year-old boy, tortured for his “possible knowledge of Taliban local leaders.”

The exposé showed that of the 779 prisoners at Guantanamo, the overwhelming majority, 606, were cleared and released by the U.S. due to “no intelligence showing any threat to the U.S. and its allies.”

This rate of false imprisonment is similar to that of the “Stop and Frisk” police policy. In Philadelphia, a quarter of a million people, mostly young African men, were stopped and harassed by the police in 2009 alone. Less than three percent of those was found to have weapons, which was the rationale for this gross abuse of African people’s democratic rights.

Systemic torture of Africans imprisoned in Pennsylvania

The second paper released on April 25 documents the chilling and systemic torture of Africans imprisoned in Pennsylvania’s state prison, SCI Huntingdon.
http://hrcoalition.org/sites/default/files/Unity%20and%20Courage-SCI%20Huntingdon%20Report.pdf

The Human Rights Coalition based this report on a year-long investigation and over 1000 pages of letters, grievances, affidavits and testimonies from prisoners. It shows the courageous resistance by prisoners in solitary confinement in Huntingdon’s Restricted Housing Unit, where they faced the most unimaginable torture and degradation.

It describes the “culture of torture and terror” fostered by the guards and endorsed by the prison administration and the PA Department of Corrections. Africans were deprived of food, water, clothing, bedding and hygiene items. They were starved, were threatened with death, beaten and tortured for any form of resistance.

In September and October 2010, prisoners organized a protest of these conditions. Guards sprayed them with a toxic chemical, “O.C.”, and left them to burn with no water to wash it off.

As horrendous and appalling as the treatment of Africans and others in PA prisons revealed by the report is, we can’t be surprised by it.

We saw how many of the U.S. military guards who tortured Arab prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq were trained in PA prisons like SCI Greene and SCI Huntingdon.

U.S. torture techniques are practiced and perfected on African people kidnapped from cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and held in the dungeons of U.S. prisons, U.S. concentration camps.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) absolutely condemns this collective punishment of African, Arab, Mexican and all oppressed people by the U.S. government.

We must stand up as white people living in the belly of imperialism and defend the right of the African community and all others to organize and resist the colonial terror being waged every day against their people.

In February we saw the military occupation and siege of a 33-block radius of the African community on the south side of St. Petersburg, FL, the location of the national office of the Uhuru Movement after a cop was killed. This was no different than how the U.S. marines operate in Afghanistan.

Homeland Security, FBI, SWAT teams and many other police agencies carried out door-to-door searches. They stopped cars and busses going in and out of the community and stuck guns in children’s faces. The police didn’t even know who they were looking for, but the entire African community was locked down and under siege. This is colonial occupation!

We have to say that just as the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and throughout the Middle East and North Africa have the right to resist their poverty and oppression at the hands of U.S.-backed regimes, so do African people in the U.S. have the right to resist.

We have to recognize that U.S. occupation of communities of Arab and African people from Afghanistan to Philadelphia, and kidnapping, imprisonment and torture of prisoners, is part of the U.S. colonial war on African and other oppressed peoples worldwide.

The Uhuru Movement shows that imperialism is in the deepest crisis of its existence

The U.S. and imperialist economy can only exist on stolen resources – oil, gold, diamonds, bauxite, coltan – and all the wealth and minerals stolen daily by U.S. corporations, the World Bank and IMF from Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.

Today, the crisis is deepening because oppressed people are fighting fiercely to control their own resources and regain their self-determination – from Iraq, to Haiti, and inside the U.S.

Obama has the largest military budget of all time

In a desperate attempt to control the world’s resources, Obama has the largest military budget of all time: $700 billion. The U.S. government spends $200 billion every year on the war on African people in the U.S.

Philadelphia alone spends $1.1 billion a year on police, prisons and courts. This is counterinsurgency war that builds the trillion dollar prison economy by terrorizing a whole young generation of African people – from places like north and southwest Philly!

Call to build a real anti-war movement

We have the urgent responsibility to build a real anti-war movement from the white community in solidarity with African people’s just resistance and liberation struggle!

We condemn ALL U.S. colonial wars and call for all other white people like ourselves who are tired of hearing these atrocities that the U.S. government carries out in our name, and who are compelled to do something to change this reality, to join Uhuru Solidarity Movement and come to the USM National Convention on June 4 and 5 in Philadelphia.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is the organization of Euro-Americans or white people who organize under the leadership of the African-led Uhuru Movement for reparations and material solidarity with the struggle for African liberation, in the U.S. and worldwide.

It is the ONLY organization in the world where we can truly make a difference because we work under the strategy and leadership of the rising African Revolution.

Being active in USM is how we can change our historic relationship as colonial oppressors of African and other people.

This is the only way we can start to reverse the history of imperialism, where we live off the wealth and power created from the enslavement of African people and the genocide of Indigenous people – who are still captive in the other concentration camps, the so-called reservations, living in poverty and dying at an average age of 44 years!

Come to the Uhuru Solidarity Movement Convention – June 4 and 5 in Philadelphia

This year’s Convention will feature

Keynote speaker Omali Yeshitela, founder and leader of the Uhuru Movement and Chairman of the African Socialist International
Diop Olugbala, International President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement
Glen Ford, Executive Editor of BlackAgendaReport.com and member of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations
Nellie Bailey, Director of the Harlem Tenants Council (also member of Black is Back Coalition)
Pam Africa of MOVE and the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee

Learn more about the Convention on the USM website . Register by emailing registration@uhurusolidarity.org.

STAND UP AGAINST U.S. WARS AND TORTURE!

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Message from Colonel Mu'ummar Qaddafi

2011-04-24T19:29:00.000-07:00

Reposted from UhuruNews.com

Recollections of My Life: Col. Mu'ummar Qaddafi, The Leader of the Revolution
April 5, 2011

By Col. Mu'ummar Qaddafi; Translated by Professor Sam Hamod, Ph.D.

In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful...

For 40 years, or was it longer, I can't remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union.

I did all I could to help people understand the concept of real democracy, where people's committees ran our country. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more. They told Americans and other visitors, that they needed "democracy" and "freedom" never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup.

No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we've had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination - from thieves who would steal from us.

Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called "capitalism," but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer. So, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following His path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters to work here with us, in the Libyan Jamahiriya.

I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.

Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stood up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light. When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself...

In the West, some have called me "mad", "crazy", but they know the truth yet continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free.

c: Col. Mu'ummar Qaddafi, 2011/05/04

Copyright Col. Mu'ummar Qaddafi, - Mathaba.Net

With permission to
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru

Diop Olugbala Speaks at Earth Uprising! Philadelphia, April 17, 2011

2011-04-18T12:45:00.001-07:00

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U.S. and Western imperialism out of Libya now! Self-determination and national liberation for Arab and African people!

2011-03-20T20:38:00.000-07:00

Tripoli, Sunday, March 20, 2011—Libyans mourn during the funeral of people who were killed after air strikes.

The African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) condemns the U.S. imperialist attack on Libya—an attack that initiates yet another colonial war of occupation under the Obama regime, this time on the continent of Africa.

The U.S. and other imperialist powers opened the war on Libya with a “shock and awe” attack on March 19, the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The aggression against Libya included the launching of 100 “Tomahawk” cruise missiles and 40 bombs dropped from U.S. B-2 “Stealth Bombers.”

At least 60 civilians are reported to have been killed in this initial assault. This brutal action established the “no-fly zone,” that cleared the Libyan airways for a U.S.-backed invasion.

This enables the U.S. and other imperialist forces to terrorize the people of Libya with impunity, to steal Libyan oil interests in Benghazi and to try to secure a balance of power in the North African region in favor of the increasingly weakened U.S.

The U.S. initiated the action after the United Nations Security Council voted on Friday, March 18 to sanction the no-fly zone for the benefit of the imperialist powers.

The Security Council vote passed with the cowardly abstention of China and Russia, who are now making statements opposing the imperialist action. Even the neocolonial Arab League and the African Union, which generally act in the interest of imperialism, have opposed this war.

The U.S. charged that Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi was attacking the people of Libya—this was used as a pretense for this newest colonial war in the Middle East. In reality attacks on citizens are being waged by U.S. neocolonial client states such as Bahrain and Yemen, to which the U.S. government has issued no response.

While imperialist U.S. president Barack Obama states that he will not send in “ground troops,” in fact the U.S.-led imperialist forces have already been arming and leading the so-called rebels on the ground in Libya. Despite U.S. media claims to the contrary, the Libyan “rebels” are a small, imperialist-backed group whose sole purpose is to undermine the Gaddafi government and usher in U.S. interests.

On March 7, UK newspaper The Guardian reported that Libyan farm guards arrested seven British intelligence force soldiers near the oil-rich Libyan town of Benghazi.

As African Socialist International (ASI) Chairman Omali Yeshitela has stated, “The real issue is the crisis of imperialism that is challenging the balance of power in the North Africa/Middle East region to the detriment of U.S. and world imperialism.”

Rapid changes resulting from the mass uprisings in long-time neocolonial states such as Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and others in the region have undermined the strategic interests of the U.S. and Western imperialist forces.

In light of these developments in a region rich with oil and other resources and which has strategic interests including protecting the settler state of Israel, “Iran and Libya have become increasingly significant to the imperialists,” said Chairman Yeshitela.

“Libya’s opposition to the white nationalist Israeli settler state and support for Palestinian resistance offers another problem for the U.S. and other imperialists,” he continued.

APSC also denounces the desperate attacks on the people of Yemen and Bahrain by U.S.-influenced and directed governments.

As Chairman Yeshitela has stated, “This is an attempt to push back the tide of history resulting from the growing resistance of the peoples of the world that threatens to push Western imperialism into its grave.”

Even as the U.S. is bombing Libya it is intensifying its war against the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the days leading up to the bombing of Libya, U.S. drone bombings murdered 40 people in Pakistan where anti-American protests have been growing following the release of the U.S. CIA agent who murdered Pakistani citizens.

U.S. attempting to return the world to open colonial domination

The U.S. is openly attempting to control the elections in Haiti where the Obama regime has appointed William Jefferson Clinton as the colonial viceroy.

Last week imperialist U.S. president Obama called neocolonial South African president Jacob Zuma in an attempt to persuade Zuma to prevent popular, U.S.-deposed former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to Haiti. Obama expressed no problem with the recent return of former murderous neocolonial dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier to Haiti, however.

Inside this country the U.S. is waging an increasingly deadly war against African and Indigenous people with massive military occupations of African and Mexican communities, ongoing police murders of African civilians, mass roundups into the colonial prison system and deepening poverty.

Inside the U.S. and throughout the world the masses of people are struggling to overturn the legacy of white power, which starves them and steals their resources and sovereignty for the benefit of the white world.

All throughout the Middle East and all over the African continent, in South America and inside the U.S., people are rising up by the millions!

The military assault on Libya is another desperate attempt to rescue imperialism from its inevitable downfall.

The anxiety of the white population—the oppressor nation—inside the U.S. and Europe is palpable as U.S. economic, political and military power faces serious threats to its parasitic existence on every front.

The crisis of imperialism is based on the fact that the U.S., Europe and capitalism itself were built on the enslavement of African people, the genocide of the Indigenous people and the theft of the land, resources and civilizations of the majority of the people on the planet.

Oppressed peoples of the world have had enough. They are struggling for justice and liberation by any means necessary.

African, Arab and Indigenous working classes are waging increasingly successful struggles to throw off the iron hand of this parasitic system. They are struggling for the return of their stolen resources and to regain control over their own nations, resources and governments.

APSC calls on the white population to abandon its unity with imperialism and join with oppressed peoples of the world, including those inside the U.S., who are struggling for national liberation, justice and power over their own lives.

White people who unite with the demands of the rest of the world’s peoples must go beyond calling for “peace.” This is a call to be part of creating a new and just world. Join the struggle to destroy imperialism and the pedestal on which we sit at the expense of the majority of humanity.

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