Uhuru Solidarity Movement

Published Feb 25, 2014

On February 19, 2014, a leading member of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM), Wendy Craig, attended a speaking engagement at a local community college where Tim Wise, a figurehead of the liberal “anti-racist” movement delivered the keynote presentation.

Disturbed by Wise’s failure to comment on slavery or colonialism, Comrade Wendy posted a comment on the public Facebook profile of Tim Wise in which she called for him to go beyond simply criticizing racism, which has proven to be a lucrative career for Wise who, according to his booking agent, charges $7,500 plus expenses.

Wendy made a call for Wise and his supporters to unite with the demand led by African workers themselves for reparations, self-determination and liberation from white colonial domination.

Wendy put out the Uhuru Solidarity Movement campaign that is struggling to raise resources for the economic wing of the African Revolution, Black Star Industries, the foundation of the black workers’ economy.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is the organization of white people formed by and working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party, led by Chairman Omali Yeshitela.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is guided by the Chairman’s theory of African Internationalism which recognizes that parasitic capitalism was built on slavery, genocide and colonialism and that Africans are one people dispersed throughout the world.

Others in the broader movement for social justice for African people have taken note of the white nationalism of Tim Wise. In a blog piece penned by an African named Ewuare X.

Osayande called “Word to the Wise: Unpacking the White Privilege of Tim Wise,” Osayande responds to a reactionary diatribe posted by Wise on his Twitter account.

Osayande writes of Wise, “white privilege has become the watch-word of the movement. Yet, for the most part, it has been used as a means for white anti-racists to point the finger at “those” whites or navel gaze and wallow in a guilt that doesn’t produce results.”

In 2013 Wise agreed to deliver the keynote speech at the conference of Teach For America. Black Agenda Report Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon wrote in his article “Why Is Tim Wise Stamping the Anti-Racist Ghetto Passes at Teach For America” that “Teach For America is a major player in the elitist and racist scam to privatize public education, supplying mostly white grads of elite colleges as ghetto teacher temps.”

Our most recent effort to expose the opportunism of the anti-racist ideology of Wise is not a “subjective” combat between Wendy Craig and Wise himself, but a struggle between the revolutionary theory of African Internationalism as developed by Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the self-centered, idealist “anti-racism” espoused by Tim Wise and his followers.

Upon being called out for his opportunism, Wise responded with a rancorous stream of slander and invective, in which he said that his refusal to donate to Black Star Industries “means nothing… less than nothing” and called Wendy and other members of USM “cultists.”

Wise said that if you believe that “unless I give money to x, y, or z, ‘revolutionary group,’ led by ‘Chairman’ (fill in the blank), I am a fraud, then you should […] be prepared to be called a cult…”

“Seriously, if you are what the revolution requires as a vanguard (or indeed, if you even believe in a vanguard party of any kind), count me as clearly opposed to your particular revolution. You can consider me your enemy,” declared Wise in a refreshing moment of honesty.

Our conscious decision to struggle against the opportunism of Tim Wise is motivated by our commitment to win white people to take a principled stance of solidarity with the struggle for African liberation from colonial oppression.

As African Internationalists we unite with the analysis put forward by Chairman Omali that the problem is not “racism,” the ideas in the minds of white people that unite us with the ruling class against Africans and oppressed peoples. The problem is colonialism, a material social and economic system of domination of the entire African nation by white power and white people.

The people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Syria and Venezuela are not fighting against “racism,” but against imperialism and colonialism, for national liberation and self-determination over their own lands, lives and resources. The same is true of African people in the U.S. and around the world.

The anti-racism of Tim Wise maintains the status quo of a system built on slavery and genocide.

If a white person takes an unlearning racism workshop, does that change the fact that all white people in North America are colonial settlers resting uneasily on the land stolen from the Indigenous people? Does it change the fact that the entire white population rests upon a pedestal of colonial genocide and enslavement?

Colonialism, not racism, is the problem. This is not an abstract or semantic dispute. It is a theoretical question that fundamentally informs our practice.

If we are white anti-colonialists, we embrace the worldview of the African working class. We can express anti-colonialism in practice through principled solidarity with the African Revolution by joining the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) and the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM). We can be part of the struggle to destroy colonialism and create a world without imperialism, war, oppression and colonial violence.

If you are a white “anti-racist” like Wise, you will perhaps pay a hefty sum to hear Wise speak on his campus lecture circuit or you might go to an “unlearning racism” workshop to work through all of your racist thoughts—but then get back into your Volvo and drive back to your house in the safety of the suburbs while Africans are still being gunned down by the police every 28 hours. Nothing will change, but you might feel better about yourself.

We have a choice to make. Which side are we going to be on?

We feel it is important to elaborate upon the differences between the worldview of Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s African Internationalism, the philosophy of the revolutionary African working class, and the anti-racist worldview of Tim Wise, so that white people can make an informed decision about which side you are on.

Are you on the side of the status quo and its liberal apologists like Tim Wise, or the side of the African Revolution in unity with all oppressed and colonized peoples on the planet.

The following series of quotations are culled from speeches and interviews of Tim Wise, juxtaposed with quotations from Chairman Omali Yehistela’s upcoming book, The Uneasy Equilibrium: The African Revolution versus Parasitic Capitalism:

Parasitic Capitalism: Tim Wise vs. Chairman Omali Yeshitela

TIM WISE: “The equation put forward by those who say ‘the real issue is class, and we need to end capitalism before we can end racism,’ may be exactly the inverse of reality. It may be, instead, that before any substantial alteration in the class system can become possible, we will have to attack white racism and substantially diminish it.”

CHAIRMAN OMALI YESHITELA: “Capitalism was born in disrepute, born of the rapes, massacres, occupations, genocides, colonialism and every despicable act humans are capable of inflicting. Capitalism was not responsible for some great, otherwise unimaginable leap in production, which—despite its contradictions—resulted in human progress and enlightenment. What capitalism did was to rip the vast majority of humanity out of the productive process—in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Australia and what has come to be known as the Americas. The hundreds of millions dead due to the slave trade and slavery itself; the millions exterminated everywhere Europeans ventured—these are people whose hands were forever removed from a relationship with nature that would result in ‘production.’

“Europeans achieved their national identity by way of this bloody process. This is not something that only happened a long time ago. The world’s peoples are suffering the consequences of capitalism’s emergence right now. Locked in colonies and the indirect rule of neocolonialism, restricted to lives characterized by brutality, ignorance and violence in the barrios of the Americas, in other internal colonies characterized as Indian reservations and black ghettos, kept under the paranoiac, nuclear-backed, armed-to-the-teeth watch of military forces born of a state power that has its origins in protecting the relationship between capitalism and its imperial pedestal, capitalism has been the absolute factor in restricting production and development. It has concentrated productive capacity in the hands of the world’s minority European population that sits atop the pedestal of our oppressive reality. Capitalism was not the good, “progressive” force that is the precursor to something better for “humanity.” Capitalism was a disaster that rescued Europe from a diseased feudal existence at the expense of the world.”

On Racism: Tim Wise vs. Chairman Omali Yeshitela

TIM WISE: “Racism is an institutional arrangement, maintained by policies, practices and procedures—both formal and informal—in which some persons typically have more or less opportunity than others, and in which such persons receive better or worse treatment than others, because of their respective racial identities…. I believe that all people (white or of color) raised in a society where racism has been (and still is) so prevalent, will have internalized various elements of racist thinking: certain beliefs, stereotypes, assumptions, and judgments about others and themselves.

“I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another. The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And so it’s important to remember that folks of color know their own realities. They need to trust that.”

CHAIRMAN OMALI YESHITELA: “We determined long ago that characterizing our movement as a struggle against racism was a self-defeating waste of time. What is called racism is simply the ideological foundation of capitalist imperialism. Rather than defining the system of our oppression, racism is a concept that denies Africans our national identity and dignity. It relegates us to the Sisyphean task of winning acceptance from, and often of becoming one with, our oppressors.

“With African Internationalism we have proven that race is simply a colonial invention originating from the enslavement and colonization of Africans and Africa that gave birth to capitalism and, simultaneously, the European nation. Our struggle has always been one for power, not against racism as we have shown.

“To the extent that we win power, the “racism” of others is irrelevant. Power is the great equalizer, the fundamental “aphrodisiac” that is capable of turning a racist of today into a fawning sycophant of tomorrow.

“The struggle against ‘racism’ is the struggle of the petty bourgeoisie fighting to integrate into the white capitalist world, to board the sinking ship of white power. It is a diversionary struggle reliant on failed philosophical assumptions that must be cast aside as a precondition for moving forward.

“This is not an innocent issue of semantics. The way this is understood informs our practice. The struggle against ‘racism’ presupposes one approach and the struggle against imperialist colonialism, another.

“We are not a race, but a nation of people, scattered across the globe.

“We have been pushed out of history by our imperialist oppressors, partially through the concept of ‘race.’ Our national homeland has been occupied in various ways for millennia. Our people have been captured and forcibly dispersed around the world. Our labor and land have been violently extracted to build the European nation and world capitalist system that determine our reality and the contours of the struggle in which we have been engaged for more than 500 years.

“The fight against AFRICOM cannot be characterized as a struggle against ‘racism’ any more than the liberation of our people in Haiti or the necessary unification of Africa to stop the rape of our Motherland and the theft of its resources. The material conditions Africans suffer worldwide have their origin in the attack on Africa that led to the capture of our national homeland and our people. Our poverty and susceptibility to ignorance, violence and material want throughout the world—including in the U.S., UK and the rest of Europe—result from the material conditions of existence in Africa since its capture and partition! Are the Iraqis and Afghans fighting against racism? What about all the people of South America and the Caribbean? Certainly, the bourgeois ideology of ‘racism’ serves to unite the vast majority of whites and even some Africans in support of the imperialist agenda.

“The anti-racists would have us fight for a place in a dying system; they would have us objectively uniting with our oppressors. Anti-racists would transform us into ‘house negroes,’ fighting to save the master’s burning mansion, to paraphrase Malcolm X.”

On “White Privilege”: Tim Wise vs. Chairman Omali Yeshitela

TIM WISE: “White privilege is simply the flipside of discrimination against people of color. The concept is rooted in the common-sense observation that there can be no down without an up, so that if people of color are the targets of discrimination, in housing, employment, the justice system, or elsewhere, then whites, by definition, are being elevated above those persons of color. Whites are receiving a benefit, vis-a-vis those persons of color: more opportunity because those persons of color are receiving less. Although I believe all persons are harmed in the long run by racism and racial inequity — and thus, white privilege comes at an immense social cost — it still exists as a daily reality throughout the social, political and economic structure of the United States.

CHAIRMAN OMALI YESHITELA: “[T]he concept of ‘White Skin Privilege’ [is] the notion that the struggle is against the privileges that white people are afforded by their skin color. The many problems with this white self-centered position are glaring to us within the Uhuru Movement today. This is a position that maintains the centrality of white people as subjects of history, one that obscures the parasitic relationship existing between Africans and whites, who function as the oppressor nation sitting on the socio-economic pedestal regardless of status or income. This relationship stems from the colonial parasitism that gave birth to the system of capitalism and the concept of whiteness itself.

“The idea that Africans would be essentially tied to a struggle to end white skin privilege is one that undermines the reality that our concern is not about the ‘skin privilege’ of whites. African people are fighting against white colonial domination of our entire people. The political advantages that whites have in the world are based on the nature of the system that elevated whites to significance through expropriation of our political and economic power over our own ‘rights’ and resources. Our struggle is against white colonial domination for the purpose of sustaining a parasitic economic relationship that requires political repression, both popular and State-initiated. It is the group arrogance of whites that is born of this parasitic economic foundation—an arrogance whose basic criticism of the system revolves around their own sense of significance.

“The white skin privilege position protects the actual system by attempting to end white skin privilege without destroying the colonial relationship that white people have to African people. The existence of ‘privilege’ is a statement of power. White privilege is white power in relationship to those who do not have power. Our struggle is not one against the privilege of whites. Rather it is a struggle for black power over our own black lives. That in and of itself undermines the concept and reality of white privilege.”

Conclusion: Join the African People’s Solidarity Committee and the Uhuru Solidarity Movement!

In the online debate with USM members and other Uhuru Movement organizers, Wise expounded on his vehement opposition to the rights of African people to set the terms for their own struggle for liberation and reparations, writing:

“[Wendy Craig] has taken it upon herself apparently to decide who in the black community is sufficiently revolutionary, and who thinks that giving her own money to that group makes her revolutionary, and more importantly, a bold example of what reparations should look like…which is both silly (white people don’t get to pick the leaders of the revolution) and evidence of an infantile understanding of reparations: reparations, to be transformative, must come from the state and private institutions that made enslavement and Jim Crow possible and profitable. The notion that individuals writing checks to a particular organization (which itself has no plan for redistributing those resources to the masses), is revolutionary is perhaps the most painfully ignorant notion ever floated by anyone, anywhere.”

Wise’s comment obscures the fact that all white people sit on the pedestal of colonial oppression of African people and therefore it is not only the governments and corporations that owe reparations but all white people.

That is why we are building a people’s movement for reparations that provides an opportunity for every white person to take a genuine stance in solidarity with African people through supporting the emergence of the African-led economy in the form of Black Star Industries.

We invite all open minded white people to join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and build the Days in Solidarity with African People in your community. Bring the voice of the African Revolution, Chairman Omali Yeshitela, to your campus or community this year.

We also call on all white people and other allies of African people to make plans to attend the National Convention of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement on May 3-4, 2014 at the Uhuru House, 1245 18^th Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact info@uhurusolidarity.org for more information.

Below is an excerpt by Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African Socialist International and leader of the Uhuru Movement, from his groundbreaking Political Report to the 6th Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party, a profound exposition of the theory of African Internationalism slated for publication in book form later this year. The excerpt below is from a chapter of the Political Report that deals with the question of white people and how the Party’s struggles to consolidate the African People’s Solidarity Committee, the organization of white people organizing under the Party’s leadership for reparations to African people, resulted in many theoretical breakthroughs in the development of African Internationalism.

As the mass organization of the APSC, Uhuru Solidarity Movement shares this piece in hopes of sparking discussion about the popular “anti-racist” concept of “white privilege” and to challenge any sincere white person who wants to take a genuine, principled stance of solidarity with African people to embrace the worldview of African Internationalism as your own and heed the call of the African Liberation Movement for us, as white people, to build the movement for white people’s reparations to African people. Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and email info@uhurusolidarity.org for information on how to attend a mass meeting on the 2014 “Reparations Now” campaign to be held at 2pm eastern time on Sunday, February 23, 2014.

Excerpt from Political Report to the 6th Congress, by Chairman Omali Yeshitela, page 145-147

Many of the theoretical breakthroughs made by the Party took place during the Oakland years of the 1980s when the development and consolidation of the solidarity organization involved critical struggles with and in APSC and thesolidarity movement under the leadership of the Party. In addition our Party struggled with other political lines within the sector of the white Left that characterized itself as being in solidarity with Africans and others oppressed and exploited by imperial white power.

One such line is the concept of “White Skin Privilege,” the notion that the struggle is against the privileges that white people are afforded by their skin color. The many problems with this white self-centered position are glaring to us within the Uhuru Movement today. This is a position that maintains the centrality of white people as subjects of history, one that obscures the parasitic relationship existing between Africans and whites, who function as the oppressor nation sitting on the socio-economic pedestal regardless of status or income. This relationship stems from the colonial parasitism that gave birth to the system of capitalism and the concept of whiteness itself.

The idea that Africans would be essentially tied to a struggle to end white skin privilege is one that undermines the reality that our concern is not about the “skin privilege” of whites. African people are fighting against white colonial domination of our entire people. The political advantages that whites have in the world are based on the nature of the system that elevated whites to significance through expropriation of our political and economic power over our own “rights” and resources. Our struggle is against white colonial domination for the purpose of sustaining a parasitic economic relationship that requires political repression, both popular and state-initiated. It is the group arrogance of whites that is born of this parasitic economic foundation—an arrogance whose basic criticism of the system revolves around their own sense of significance.

The white skin privilege position protects the actual system by attempting to end white skin privilege without destroying the colonial relationship that white people have to African people. The existence of “privilege” is a statement of power. White privilege is white power in relationship to those who do not have power. Our struggle is not one against the privilege of whites. Rather it is a struggle for black power over our own black lives that in and of itself undermines the concept and reality of white privilege.

A related position that we found equally objectionable proclaimed that the struggle is against “white and male supremacy.” This is another position that contends with the definition of our struggle as advanced by Africans ourselves and others who have been battling white imperial domination for centuries. It is a position that attempts to win support for the efforts and organizations of the whites who promote the view but not necessarily to the struggles of the colonized. What we would define as colonialism they would define as white supremacy, while proclaiming that we both meant the same thing. However, ours was not a semantical difference. Support for the struggle against colonialism would strengthen the organizational and political position of the colonized.

Support for the position of struggling against white supremacy, renders organizational and political support for the white organization, not support for the struggle for African liberation and our own organizations. We needed this work and struggle with the solidarity movement and the white Left in general for our own development. It was a critical means through which another political and ideological window to the world was opened to the Party for examination. We had to find explanations for some of the essential questions confronting the most critical contradictory relationship that Africans have had with the world since the advent of colonial slavery and the rise of parasitic capitalism.

This relationship forced us to expand our theory of African Internationalism through deepening our understanding of the question of parasitism, the foundation of the capitalist system at our expense. We were compelled to find the scientific basis for how the success of white people and white power requires the permanent pedestal of the forced expropriation of value from African and the oppressed of the world. This gave us the clarity to fully comprehend how the political and economic structures of colonialism exist for the purpose of protecting and promoting this relationship of parasitism.

Built on the backs of African, Indigenous and oppressed peoples, parasitic capitalism and imperialism are being brought down!

Resistance of the colonized across the planet has pushed this system into its death throes with no recovery in sight.

Learn more about the origins and present reality of this crisis and what many are predicting for this upcoming period as poverty and unemployment soar and the U.S. dollar continues to decline.

Also learn about how you can participate in the revolutionary programs of the African People’s Socialist Party building dual power through African self-reliance.

Get ready for the crash; build the African Revolution. Sunday, Feb. 9, 11am-5pm U.S. Eastern Time.

 LIVE videocast on UhuruNews.com

 LIVE audio stream on UhuruRadio.com

TIME TO BUILD AFRICAN COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS!

HAVE YOU HEARD?  All the evidence points to the IMPENDING COLLAPSE of the global capitalist economy!

CAN YOU IMAGINE?  The IMPLICATIONS OF A COLLAPSE on the South St. Pete community with statistics already showing that 75% of the African community lives BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL!!!

WHAT CAN WE DO?  1. Learn the origin and present reality of the impending collapse that the government refuses to tell you about. 2. Find out how the African community do-for-self projects will create our own ability to sustain ourselves. 3. Let’s educate and organize ourselves to build true African self-determination and self-defense! 4. Let’s grow our backyard and community gardens, let’s stockpile our canned goods, let’s teach our children and develop community patrols to defend our community.

Most importantly, you and your community must participate in the revolutionary do-for-self programs.

LET’S GET READY FOR THE CRASH, IT’S BLACK NATION TIME!

Tell your neighbors, families and friends to attend the Dual Power Conference:

Sunday, February 9, 11am-5pm U.S. Eastern Time  At the Uhuru House  1245 18th Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL

Tune in online

Sunday, Feb 9 11am-5pm U.S. ET

 LIVE videocast on UhuruNews.com

 LIVE audio stream on UhuruRadio.com

Online partcipants can send questions via the Livestream chat window.

Chairwoman Penny Hess of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, will be discussing marijuana legalization, the war on drugs and its impact on the colonized African community inside the US.
Special guest InPDUM President Waleaah Brooks will also be interviewed. This should be a great discussion! Don’t miss it!
TODAY (Sunday, Feb 2) 1pm eastern on UhuruRadio.com

Every starving child,
every war,
every bit of suffering on the planet,
every rape,
every Trayvon Martin…

Every suicide in India or on the Lakota reservation,
every baby that dies of curable disease or in childbirth,
every child that is forced into labor or to fight a war somewhere
…is directly rooted in this process of primitive accumulation.

The reality of the history of what it took to build
and maintain this parasitic system of capitalism
is boiling up
just under the surface of
every discussion,
every uprising,
every cop killed by an African,
every so-called ‘robbery’ of a 7-11,
every suicide bomber in Gaza…

This same question is there.
It is not over.
It has deepened.
It’s there, it’s alive.
It’s coming home to roost.

It is there
because we are still living on the pedestal
of their oppression.
When you scratch the surface,
everything we have comes from violence:

colonial occupation,
imperialist war,
genocide,
enslavement,
working people to death in mines,
rape of children,

The degradation of African people that happens every hour
of every day in this country.

There is nothing benign or save-able about capitalism.
There is no kinder, gentler capitalism.
It is a bloodsucking parasite.
Capitalism must go.

VICTORY TO AFRICANS AND OTHER OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD!
JOIN THE UHURU SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT

When: Jan 19, 2014 4:00pm
Where: LIVE broadcast on UhuruNews.com and Akwaaba Hall, 1245 18th Ave S., St. Petersburg, FL 33705
Contact: African People’s Socialist Party, info@apspuhuru.org

• Why are the resources of Sierra Leone stolen by US and European corporations?
• Why are Africans suffering in poverty everywhere from St. Pete, FL to Sierra Leone?
• Why do the US, Europe and white people owe reparations to Africa and African people?
• How can white people stand in solidarity with the worldwide African Revolution?

Fenty Tholley, the leader of the African People’s Socialist Party-Sierra leone, interviewed by Penny Hess, Chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, and Kefira Baron of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, addresses these questions and more, in a powerful episode of “Reparations in Action” that you don’t want to miss! Tune in on Sunday 1pm eastern on UhuruRadio.com, January 26th, 2014.

We call on all white people to join the USM national web conference on January 26th, 2014 to get involved in the struggle for African liberation, the only way to end a system based on oppression, violence, and torture. Email info@uhurusolidarity.org for more information about how to participate in this critical conference to launch the worldwide campaign for reparations to African people for 500 years of slavery, genocide, and colonialism.

Below is the statement delivered at the Close Guantanamo Bay demonstration by Comrade Stu on behalf of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement:

Guantanamo Bay is part and parcel with U.S. imperialism’s counterinsurgency effort against resisting oppressed people of the world. Africans in Philadelphia and elsewhere are also similarly tortured in the U.S. prison system. We can’t merely say close Guantanamo Bay. We must also say close the entire U.S. prison system which is a tool of counterinsurgency against resisting internally colonized people inside the United States. 75 % of the 6 million people in U.S. prisons, jails, on probation or on parole are African, Mexican, and indigenous.

This is a tool of counterinsurgency. They lock up poor and working class colonized people (Africans, Mexicans, indigenous people) because that is where the revolution is! We must also say shut down imperialism itself! This can only happen when Africans, Arabs, Indigenous people and other colonized peoples have self-determination and power over their lives. White people, all white people sit on the pedestal of the oppression of African people, only future for us is in solidarity with African people, that is the true road to justice, freedom and socialism for the world’s peoples.

The Uhuru Solidarity movement is an organization of white people that was created by the African People’s Socialist Party. The Uhuru Solidarity Movement works under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party in order to correct our historic role as oppressors of the African, Indigenous, and Mexican-indigenous communities and parasites living off of the stolen wealth and resources from these oppressed communities.

All white people benefit from the colonial-capitalist oppression of African people, indigenous people, Mexican-indigenous people, and violent European colonialism consisting of expropriation of land, cheap labor, and extraction of resources from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. We sit on the pedestal of this rotten system of imperialism and global capitalism that came into existence as a result of the genocide of the indigenous people, the theft of this land, and the slavery of African people, and European colonialism.
The white ruling class doesn’t merely keep this stolen colonial loot for itself, it shares this wealth with the general white population in order to win our support and complicity with the colonial-imperialist violence against the rest of the world, and looting around the world against oppressed, colonized people. White people are not the 99%, we are amongst the top 20% of people in the global capitalist system. We owe reparations to African people and other colonized people as a function of this humanistic revolution against imperialism.

Therefore, if we want to overturn this system of imperialism and build real socialism, we must join in solidarity with struggles of colonized people UNDER THEIR LEADERSHIP. This is what the Uhuru Solidarity Movement is all about. This is why our primarily role is to REPARATIONS WORK, that is, raising material resources inside the white community, turning these resources over to the African People’s Socialist Party, helping them maintain and build organization in their building of the International African Revolution/the struggle for Black Power.

JOIN THE UHURU SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT!
EMAIL INFO@UHURUSOLIDARITY.ORG to RSVP for the National USM Web Conference on January 26th, 2014 from 1-4pm!

The African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) is proud to announce important changes in the responsibilities of some of our leading members.

APSC is the organization of Euro-Americans founded by the African People’s Socialist Party and working in white communities under the Party’s leadership.

Comrade Stephanie Midler, a member of the APSC National Central Committee and the former chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM), has taken over the reins of Uhuru Furniture and Collectibles in Oakland, California following Store Manager Joel Hamburger’s resignation after 20 years.

The Uhuru Furniture Stores in Oakland and Philadelphia are institutions under the Party’s nonprofit, the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF).

We are excited about Stephanie’s enthusiasm for taking over the manager position, a post she carried out in an excellent way a few years ago at the Uhuru Furniture Store in St. Petersburg.

Comrade Stephanie will be missed as the Chair of Uhuru Solidarity Movement, which she has headed up with powerful leadership and energy for the past several years. Under Stephanie’s leadership, USM built its membership, became an important and more influential force in the world and consolidated its leading body.

Comrade Jesse Nevel, a dynamic young member of APSC has been named to the position of USM Chair filling Stephanie’s post.

Jesse is a public speaker for the solidarity movement, a tireless writer for the USM blog and a popular community organizer who staffs outreach tables weekly and wins many new members.

We salute Comrade Joel’s 20 year participation in the bustling Uhuru Furniture-Oakland where he built a tremendous base of shoppers, donors and friends as well as a devoted, friendly and hard-working staff.

The African People’s Solidarity Committee looks forward to building new victories and successes following the Party’s Sixth Congress. These dynamic comrades are already breathing new life into these critical fronts of Party work.

Shared from UhuruNews

IF YOU ARE OUTRAGED BY…
•the police violence against the black community, where an African is killed by police every 28 hours in the US
•the massive prison system that locks up more than 1.5 million Africans in the US
•Obama’s endless wars against Africa, the Middle East and the rest of the world

… then you must attend this critical web conference!

January 26th, Sunday, 1pm-4pm Eastern time
launching the Uhuru Solidarity Movement’s 2014 Campaign for Reparations to African People!

This will be an online meeting held on anymeeting.com.
You can also call in-by phone. For log-in details, please RSVP.

HOW TO RSVP….
Email info@uhurusolidarity.org or RSVP on the facebook page
The first hour (1pm-2pm) will be broadcast live on Uhuru Radio and will feature leaders from the Uhuru Movement providing a political overview.

All members of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement are invited to participate in a dynamic, three-hour, interactive, online conference  to discuss and develop the plans to build a worldwide mass movement for reparations to African people for five hundred years of ongoing slavery, colonialism and exploitation.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is the organization of white people and other allies formed by and working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party USA in solidarity with the African-led struggle for liberation, self-determination and reparations.

CONTACT US: uhurusolidarity.org – info@uhurusolidarity.org – 727 683 9949