And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) >Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:36:48 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Lara Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: March Against Genocide - May 1, 1999 > >Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone >whom you think may be interested in JUSTICE FOR ALL. > >Upcoming Conferences leading up to the March Against >Genocide sponsored by the African People's Solidarity >Committee (APSC) - a division of the Uhuru Movmement. > >Part 1: Oakland's Racial Divide - Taking the Covers of >Jerry Brown >February 11: 7 - 9:30 pm. Faith Pres. Church - 430-49th >(& Webster St.) Oakland >There is a struggle in Oakland: Jerry Brown is calling >for white people to unite with his policy of police >containment and prisons for the African and Mexican >people in Oakland. The Uhuru Movement calls for white >people to unite with genuine economic development and >social justice for the African and colonized communities! > >Part 2: Environmental Racism >February 18 > >Part 3: Drugs, Prisons and Genocide >February 27 > >MARCH AGAINST GENOCIDE 1999 >Saturday May 1, 1999 - Oakland >To register, volunteer to help build the March Against >Genocide call (510) 653 8491 >In 1999, the US economy is booming for white people. >This is fueled by prisons, police and poverty against >the African and colonized communities. This is genocide >under international law! The March Against Genocide >allows white people to stand against the divisiveness >of wealth for white people at the cost of police >containment for African and colonized people. > >The March Against Genocide is a 10K walk-a-thon to raise >funds for the African working class-led Uhuru Movement >which builds genuine economic development for the African >community as the road to social justice. The March Against >Genocide is a public stand from the white community of >genuine solidarity with the legitimate aspirations of >the African and colonized communities - peace, happiness >and a return of their stolen resources! Register today! > >=========================================== >Under the leadership of the Uhuru (Freedom) People's >Democratic Movement, APSC works in the white communities. >Forging a principled relationship to African and colonized >people's struggle for justice and liberation. > >The African People's Soidarity Committee organizes marches, >forums, conferences and campaigns in the white community >to educate and win white people to take a stand in solidarity >with the movement for liberation for African people. > >The basis of APSC's work is reparations - coordinating >institutions and committees aimed to recoup the stolen >resources concentrated in the white community which are >needed for economic development for African and colonized >people. >=========================================== >White citizens reparations to the black and colonized >communities > >White citizens reperations to the black community is >not charity - it is the payment of our dues which we >owe to African people after having lived off their >backs for 400 years. > >Reparations constitutes a reverse primitive accumulation >of capital towards the establishment of a liberated, >socialist economy controlled by African workers. > >The North American struggle for reparations begins with >a coming to terms with the brutal reality of the world >as created by capitalism and Western imperialism. It >forces us to put aside the petty bourgeois denial of >reality so characteristic of a parasitic class of people >who have never experienced life under the oppressive >thumb of imperialism but have lived off that oppression. > >Reparations begins by acknowledging the millions of >Africans who were ripped out of their land and civilization >and chained body to body in the holds of ships, brought >violently to labor free on this land so that you and I >could live the life that we have always been permitted >to assume we inherited. > >Reparations acknowledges openly the slaughter, the torture, >the sheer brutality in the act of forcibly transferring the resources and >stealing the labor to benefit us. > >Reparations acknowledges the millions of human beings >severed from language and culture, from home and family, >husband from wife, mother from child to produce the wealth >for us so that OUR families could rest on a foundation of >seemingly unassailable security. > >Reparations looks honestly at the abandoned mines, the >volcano craters, the vast mass graves found in Africa, >throughout the Americas and in most of the colonies >which are filled with forever nameless bodies whose >flesh had been burned, whose fingers were chopped off, >whose legs were broken, whose frames lay twisted and >whose skulls were pierced with bullet holes - silenced >so that we could experience a mellow and harmonious >lifestyle. > >Reparations acknowledges the babies never born, the >babies born and died, the babies ripped from their >mothers wombs, the children who should carry the genius >and strength of the people with bellies extended in hunger, clinging to >mothers whose starving bodies can produce >no milk - so that our children can grow up strong, >healthy, arrogant and hardened to the call of humanity. > >Reparations acknowledges African culture so rich, so >vibrant, so deep in its humanity and beauty - so >irrespressible that the oppressor was never capable >of beating it out of the people and ended up trying >to steal it, claiming it as part of the loot. > >Reparations acknowledges the fact that our grandparents >originated the county fair around the lynching of African >men whose tormented and lifeless bodies hung from trees >as the centerpiece of North American entertainment; the >fact that our class is still lynching Africans and otherwise turning their >backs on the hell being brought down on >black workers by our government in our name, so that we >might live without experiencing the ravages of colonialism >at close quarters. > >Reparations acknowledges the ghettos, the barrios, the >prisons, the police, the educational institutions, the >joblessness, the poverty and the enforced influx of >devastating drugs designed to break the spirit and >crush the dreams of African and colonized youth so >that our youth can know unlimited possibilities for >the future. > >Reparations acknowledges the Africans, the Palestinians, >the Mexican, Guatemalan, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran people >and millions of others being tortured in dark cells right >this minute, whose struggle against our government is >prolonged, who must carry double the load because we >have not taken up our responsibility inside this country. > >Reparations is not charity. It lets white workers >acknowledge that, yes, life on the tortured backs >of humanity is intolerable, that existence as parasites >sucking the blood of the peoples of the world is unendurable. > >That ours is a culture so violent and so barren that >denial of the reality of colonialism is the only currency >for existence. That in the culture of imperialism the >pursuit of mindless and obligatory happiness must be >purchased with drugs, alcohol, consumerism, confomity >and meaningless pleasure to mask the terrible pain of >reality which inevitably rises to the surface of our >beings. > >Reparations acknowledges that the culture of imperialism, >alienated from the mass of humanity has made it so that >the most simple relations between human beings are >twisted after the model of imperialism itself - competitive, violent, >exploitative, dishonest and self-serving - and >love like women's bodies is a billion dollar commodity >in the marketiing of denial. > >The struggle for white citizens reparations to African >people acknowledges the inevitable course in history in >which those who have suffered and suffocated as the >cornerstone of this corrupt system must turn the gun >on U.S. imperialism not to perpetrate violence but to >end it. > >And that if we ever have to stand shoulder to shoulder >with African people and the peoples of the world in an >honest way we must carry on our shoulders the weight of >our inherited past and present. In this process we >recognize the fundamental reality that our long, violent, >parasitic but intimate relationship with African people >underlines the truth that Africans created the foundation >on which our stolen house rests and that any struggle >against U.S. imperialism is necessarily bound to the >leadership of African workers in the struggle for >independence and socialism. > >Reparations recognizes that revolution is not waged >on empty words and ideals but in the real seizure of >political power, resources and means of production as >the basis of black power to the black community. > >And that North American workers can unite with our >genuine interest in the destruction of this system >by building a movement to destroy the resource and >power base of U.S. imperialism from our front where >those resources have been hoarded, and by taking >responsibility for the transfer of resources to the >Black Revolution. > >The struggle for reparations lets us express the >deepest meaniing of human solidarity with African >people and the colonized Earth - a shared bond based >on seeing the world through the eyes and uniting with >their interests, aspirations and goals for a new communist >world order and the final destruction of this vicious and >deadly system of slaves and slavemasters, oppressor and >oppressed. > >And finally the struggle for reparations allows us as >white workers to overturn the corrupt me-first psychology >peddled by imperialism and bought by a petty bourgeois >working class identified with its own ruling class. > >The struggle for white citizens reparations to the black >community is indeed a new beginning for us, opening up >the possibility for becoming new communist human beings >for whom the suffering of any child under colonialism >is as painful as the suffering of our own child, for >whom our interests are one with the interests of colonized >workers, for whom there is no rest until African >independence is achieved, U.S. imperialism is destroyed >and power is in the hands of the people. > >Build the movement for white citizens reparations to >the black community. All Power to the People - Black >Power to the Black community! Uhuru >- Penny Hess - African People's Solidarity Committee > > > > The AFRICAN PEOPLE'S SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE (APSC) >+------------------------------------------------+ >| W.Coast: 4442-F Piedmont Ave, Oakland CA 94611 | >| Tel: (510) 653 8491 | >| Midwest: PO Box 268587, Chicago, IL 60626. | >| Tel: (773) 377 0424 | >| N.East: PO Box 23407, Philadelphia, PA 19143 | >| Tel: (215) 546 9616 | >| S.East: PO Box 883, St. Petersburg, FL 33731 | >| Tel: (727) 898 1042 | >+------------------------------------------------+ >| Division of Uhuru People's Democratic Movement | >| and African People's Socialist Party | >| 1245 18th Ave South, St. Petersburg. FL 33705 | >| Tel:(727) 821 6620. | >|http://www.uhurumovement.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | >| UK - LONDON OFFICE | >| APSP 18 Stoke Newington Rd. 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