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Nou Pap Obeyi! Foreign Invaders - GET OUT OF HAITI!

Nou Pap Obeyi! Foreign Invaders – GET OUT OF HAITI!

Oppose US and UN military intervention in Haiti! End the US/UN occupation of Haiti! Protest in front of the SF Federal Building 90  7th St., San Francisco Wednesday October 26th  4 PM art courtesy of CPBritain Sponsored by the  Haiti Action Committee at www.haitisolidarity.net Partial list of Endorsers includes: All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, ANSWER Coalition, Bay Area Black…

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KWAME TURE EXPOSED THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE All-African People's Revolutionary Party organiser Kwame Ture delivered a fiery speech many years ago in Chicago, USA, exposing the treachery and corruption of the African petty bourgeoisie. He denounced wealthy Africans for indulging in luxury and wealth, while most of the people endured poverty, disease and oppression. He added the petty bourgeoisie collaborated with the colonial and imperial powers that had exploited and oppressed Africa for centuries. Ture also criticized wealthy Africans in the United States for being opportunistic and reactionary, because they have exploited the struggle of the African masses to gain power. Ture said they cooperated with the racist and capitalist system that had enslaved and oppressed Africans for centuries. He said the people must rise up without pity and without mercy to crush these 'reactionary pigs,' a term used for those who have resisted liberation via revolution. The revolutionary said this was unavoidable and justified, as part of the global struggle against imperialism and capitalism.

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Happy birthday, Kwame Ture! (June 29, 1941)

Born and credited in much of his early work as Stokely Carmichael, was a prominent civil rights campaigner, revolutionary socialist, and Pan-Africanist. Born in what was then the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago, Ture moved to Harlem at the age of 11, and became involved in political activism in high school, helping to boycott a local White Castle which refused to hire Black employees. In the 1960s, Ture became known as a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement, working with CORE in the Freedom Rides and organizing with SNCC. He grew dissatisfied with working with the Democratic Party through his experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, and turned to more radical politics. Influenced by the writings of Frantz Fanon and Malcom X, Ture came to embrace Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism as chairman of SNCC. Ture popularized the slogan "Black Power," and moved SNCC away from nonviolence as a central organizing principle. His activism made him a target of the FBI, which spread false information about Ture to tarnish his reputation and prevent a merger of SNCC and the Black Panther Party. Ture became an internationally-recognized figure, and he moved to Guinea in the late 1960s, where he became a student of Kwame Nkrumah and advisor to Ahmed Sekou Toure, renaming himself after them. The final decades of Ture's life were dedicated to organizing with the All-African People's Revolutionary Party globally, and traveled frequently to speak in favor of Pan-Africanism and socialism. He died in 1998 of prostate cancer.

“The job of a revolutionary is, of course, to overthrow unjust systems and replace them with just systems because a revolutionary understands this can only be done by the masses of the people. So, the task of the revolutionary is to organize the masses of the people, given the conditions of the Africans around the world who are disorganized, consequently, all my efforts are going to organizing people.”

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The Unofficial Black History Book

Huey P. Newton (1942-1989)

'The Revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.' - Huey Newton

This is his story.

Huey Percy Newton was born on February 17th, 1942, in Monroe, Louisiana. The youngest of seven children to Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton, he was named after former Governor of Louisiana, Huey Long.

His family relocated to Oakland, California, in search of better economic opportunities in 1945. His family struggled financially and frequently relocated, but he never went hungry or homeless.

Growing up in Oakland, Newton recalled his white teachers making him feel ashamed for being African-American, despite never being taught anything useful. In his Autobiography, ‘Revolutionary Suicide’, he wrote – “Was made to feel ashamed of being black. During those long years in Oakland Public Schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.” 

He also had a troubled childhood; he was arrested several times as a teenager for gun possession and vandalism.

Huey was illiterate when he graduated from high school, but he taught himself to read and write by studying poetry before enrolling at Merritt College. 

During his time there, he supported himself by breaking into homes in Oakland and Berkeley Hills and committing other minor offenses. He also attended Oakland College and San Francisco Law School, ostensibly to improve his criminal skills.

He joined Pi Beta Sigma Fraternity while still a student at Merritt College and met Bobby Seale, a political activist and engineer. Huey also fought for curriculum diversification, the hiring of more black instructors, and involvement in local political activities in the Bay Area. 

In addition, he was exposed to a rising tide of Black Nationalism and briefly joined the Afro-American Association, where he studied Frantz Fanon, Che Guevara, Mao Zedong, E. Franklin Frazier, James Baldwin, Karl Marx, and Vladimir Lenin.

Huey had adopted a Marxist/Leninist viewpoint in which he saw the black community as an internal colony ruled by outside forces such as white businessmen, City Hall, and the police. In October 1966, he and Bobby Seale founded The Black Panther Party for self-defense, believing that the black working class needed to seize control of the institutions that most affected their community.

It was a coin toss that resulted in Newton becoming defense minister and Seale becoming chairman of the Black Panther Party. Newton’s job as the Minister of Defense and main leader of the Black Panther Party was to write in the Ten-Point Program, the founding document of the Party, and he demanded that blacks need the “Power to determine the destiny of our Black Community”. It would allow blacks to gain “Land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace.”

The Panthers took advantage of a California law allowing people to carry non-concealed weapons and established armed patrols that monitored police activity in the Black Community. 

One of the main points of focus for the Black Panther Party was the right to self-defense. Newton believed and preached that sometimes violence, or even the threat of violence, is required to achieve one's goals. 

Members of the Black Panther Party once stormed the California Legislature while fully armed in order to protest the outcome of a gun bill.

Newton also established the Free Breakfast for Children Program, martial arts training for teenagers, and educational programs for children from low-income families. 

The Black Panthers believed that in the Black struggle for justice, violence or the potential for violence may be necessary.

 The Black Panthers had chapters in several major cities and over 2,000 members. Members became involved in several shoot-outs after being harassed by police.

On October 28, 1967, the Panthers and the police exchanged gunfire in Oakland. Huey was injured in the crossfire, and while recovering in the hospital, he was charged with killing an Oakland police officer, John Frey. 

He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter the following year.

Huey was regarded as a political prisoner, and the Panthers organized a 'Free Huey' campaign led by Panther Party Minister Eldridge Cleaver. And Charles R. Geary, a well-known attorney who was in charge of Newton’s legal defense.

Newton was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in 1968 and sentenced to 2-15 years in prison. However, the California Appellate Court ordered a new trial in May 1970. The conviction was reversed on appeal, the case was dismissed by the California Supreme Court, and Huey was acquitted.

Huey renounced political violence after being released from prison. Over a six-year period, 24 Black Panther members were killed in gunfights with the police. Another member, George Jackson, was killed in August 1971 while serving time in San Quentin Prison.

The Black Panther Party, under the leadership of Newton, gained international support. This was most evident in 1970 when Newton was invited to visit China. Large crowds greeted him enthusiastically, holding copies of "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung," as well as signs supporting the Panther Party and criticizing US imperialism.

In the early 1970s, Newton's leadership of the Black Panther Party contributed to its demise. He oversaw a number of purges of Party members, the most famous of which was in 1971 when he expelled Eldridge Cleaver in what became known as the Newton-Cleaver split over the party's primary function.

Newton wanted the party to be solely focused on serving African-American communities, whereas Cleaver believed the party should be focused on developing relationships with international revolutionary movements. The schism resulted in violence between the factions and the deaths of several Black Panther members. The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) was one of several factions that had broken away from the main party.

Then, in 1974, Newton was accused of assaulting a 17-year-old prostitute named Kathleen Smith, who later died, raising the charge to murder. Instead of facing trial, Huey fled to Cuba with his girlfriend at the time, where he remained for three years. The key witness in the trial was Crystal Gray. And three Black Panther members attempted to assassinate her before she gave her testimony.

Huey returned to the States in 1976 to stand trial but denied any involvement. The jury was deadlocked, and Newton was eventually acquitted after two mistrials.

In 1978, he enrolled in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned his Doctorate in 1980.

"War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America," his dissertation, was later turned into a book.

On charges of embezzling Panther Party funds, Huey P. Newton was sentenced to 6 months in prison followed by 18 months on probation in 1982.

On August 22, 1989, Newton was assassinated by a member of the BGF, named Tyrone Robinson.

Huey was 46 years old at the time of his assassination. Robinson was convicted of Huey’s murder in 1991 and sentenced to 32 years to life in prison. 

His wife, Fredricka Newton, carried on his legacy. 'Revolutionary Suicide,' his autobiography, was first published in 1973 and then republished in 1995.

Huey Newton was not perfect, but he did fight to protect the rights of the Black Community. The rights that we're still fighting for today.

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Los Angeles: Join the MLK People's March & Vigil

Monday, January 15

Gather 2 p.m. @ MLK Blvd. & Western Ave

March 3 p.m.

Vigil 5 p.m.

No to U.S./Israeli Genocide in Gaza!

Money for Food, Housing, Jobs, Healthcare & Education - Not for War & Genocide!

Gather 2pm MLK Blvd & Western Ave for March to a Vigil in Africa Town Square to honor fallen warriors from Dr King to Kwazi Nkrumah and the over 30,000 Palestinians, 60% women and children, martyred by US/Israeli monstrous weapons of genocide.

Orgs: Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, Black Alliance for Peace, Al-Awda Right to Return Coalition, Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater LA, Union del Barrio, Black Autonomy, Code Pink, Harvard Blvd Block Club, Justice for Palestine - LA, Anakbayan, All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, Black Men Build, Diaspora Pa'lante

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Rafiki: The Solidarity Across Borders

Rafiki, a passionate activist, is a member of the All African People's Revolutionary Party, the African Parties for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau in Cape Verde, and the Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace. Advocating against U.S. militarism, Zionism, and its impact on Palestine, he was present during the Land Day protest located in DC on March 30, 2024.

In his fight against colonialism and imperialism, he correlates the intersectionality of what is faced by Palestinians and Africans. Rafiki said: "The struggle of the Palestinians and the struggle of the Africans is one. They're fighting the same settler-colonial imperialist enterprise that African people are engaged in a fight with."

For Rafiki, more than a need, it's essential to be unified in fights against the same opponents. He said:  "The only way to defeat them is to come together and unite and work in coordination".

Rafiki testified of how Palestinian and African youth, in their activism, refreshed his way of advocating for his causes: "I began to work with them and they have given me so much energy and so much life and to see them come together, to see them organize like they've been doing, to see them gain an understanding and knowledge over just a short period of time, to me, has been amazing."

Rafiki emphasizes that the best way of action is collective actions, especially to help marginalized communities. Solidarity knows no border for him, with the power of collaboration and his way of confronting systematic injustices, Rafiki is a monumental activist who gives hope for a future equitable justice world. 

By Rachelle Papillon

Photo by Rachelle Papillon ( It's NOT copyright-free pictures)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4WNkZ4yFaQI

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I as a Jew wouldn't say what they are doing is like the Holocaust. But I do think the Israeli government and the IDF can be compared to the Nazis of WW2 in regards to power and culture within a government.

@castrateurfate Comparison does not mean equivalency. We can compare Israel and the Third Reich, and if we do we find that the differences are greater than the similarities.

It's an obvious fascist state with intense racial hatred and willingness to ennact violence to justify said racial hatred.

Israel is not an “obvious fascist state,” it is for the most part a parliamentary democracy. It’s an ethno-state in the general sense of a state with an explicitly ethnic character – officially “the nation-state of the Jewish people,” with a Jewish flag and anthem, a Jewish army, exclusive official status for Hebrew, a legal mandate to promote Jewish settlement, and a functional ban on interfaith marriage – but it’s not a strict racial democracy like South Africa: there are Basic Laws theoretically providing for equal rights regardless of race or religion; arbitrary military rule over Arab citizens ended in 1967; Arab-Israelis vote and run for office to be represented in the same multiracial parliament as Jews. It is of course a failing parliamentary democracy, hobbling from crisis to crisis with increasing parallels to electoral authoritarianism in Russia or Turkey, but those aren’t fascist systems either.

(The United States, I would note, was a democracy during the ethnic cleansing and genocide of indigenous peoples, during countless brutal military occupations, during the early twentieth century’s racist citizenship laws, etc.)

Unlike in the handful of countries where interwar fascist movements were successful, there has been no seizure of power by a revolutionary party serving as the nucleus of new state institutions, no aspiration to total control of society or mass mobilization through the party organizations, no ideology and culture of the infinite power of human will and the resurrection of the nation in a new life, and no attempt to level the social order and transcend capitalism. Since we’re making Nazi comparisons specifically, there’s no concept of biological races as the basic actors of history, of racial purity as the key to the health and prosperity of a nation, of a supreme master race that’s the source of all creative values, of continuous expansion to build a new empire, or of the racial reengineering of a continent including the complete physical extermination of a group of people seen as an inherent and eternal enemy of the race. The closest thing to any of this in Zionist history was the militia led by Avraham Stern between 1940 and 1942.

As far as I am aware the ultimate goal of Israeli political leadership is to secure an Israeli nation-state across all the territories currently held by Israel, which means making an undisputed claim to the land, which means uniformly establishing a solid Jewish majority and eliminating any distinct Palestinian national identity. Palestinians will either be assimilated as a nonspecific Arab minority, expelled, or killed. This is absolutely a genocidal program but it is not Nazism. Do you seriously believe that “intense racial hatred” and “willingness to ennact violence” are unique to the Nazis?

Their treatment of Palestinians is closer to how the Nazis treated Africans in Africa than how the Nazis treated Jews in Europe.

You’re either referring to the occupation of Tunisia, which wouldn’t make much sense, or you’ve confused the Nazis with the Italian Fascist invasion of Ethiopia, which admittedly does fit somewhat better.

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Honoring Our Ancestors - Titina Silá - All-African People's Revolutionary Party

https://aaprp-intl.org/honoring-our-ancestors-titina-sila/

Beloved daughter of Africa, Titina Silá, was a resolute and relentless freedom fighter for the liberation of Guinea Bissau from Portuguese colonialism.

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Today In History

The Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee named Kwame Ture (Stokley Charmichael) as its Chairman on this date May 16, 1966.

Ture was a Trinidadian American civil rights activist known for leading the SNCC 1960s, working with Martin Luther King Jr. and other Southern leaders to stage protests.

Kwame Ture the originator for the rally slogan “Black Power” then aligned himself with the Black Panther Party, and was a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).

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Just found out about the All African People's Revolutionary Party in the US for the anon looking for orgs to join...

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KWAME TURE: 'UNDERSTAND YOURSELF, WHITE MAN'

In this 1966 CBS News interview, Kwame Ture claimed white people—not Africans—are uncivilized. The white man's actions in Africa—disruption, breaking down indigenous systems and enslaving Africans—demonstrate uncivilized behaviour, said Ture, who was in the US-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at the time of the interview. Ture, who later joined the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, went on to say Africans are still suffering from the consequences of Europeans' uncivilized actions.

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Malcolm Caldwell

The name of Malcolm Caldwell is remembered now by very few people: some friends, family, colleagues, and students of utopian folly. In the 1970s, though, Caldwell was a major figure in protest politics. He was chair of CND for two years, a leading voice in the anti-Vietnam war campaign, a regular contributor to Peace News, and a stalwart supporter of liberation movements in the developing world. He spoke at meetings all over the country, wrote books and articles, and engaged in public spats with such celebrated opponents as Bernard Levin.

The name of Kaing Guek Eav is, arguably, known by even fewer people, at least outside of Cambodia. Instead it is by his revolutionary pseudonym "Duch" that Kaing is usually referred to in the press. Duch is the only man ever to stand trial in a UN-sanctioned court for the mass murder perpetrated by the Cambodian communist party, or the Khmer Rouge, in the late 1970s. His trial on charges of crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and homicide and torture concerning thousands of victims, drew to a close in November. Justice has taken more than 30 years, but a verdict and sentence are expected sometime in the next few weeks.

Although their paths crossed only incidentally, the two men shared two main interests. They both had a pedagogic background: Caldwell was a history lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, while Duch, like many senior Khmer Rouge cadres, started out as a schoolteacher. And they both maintained an unbending belief in Saloth Sar, the leader of the Khmer Rouge revolution, who went under the Orwellian party title of Brother Number One, but was known more infamously to the world as Pol Pot. It was an ideological commitment that would shape the fate of both men and they held on to it right up until the moment of death – in Caldwell's case, his own, for Duch, the many thousands whose slaughter he organised.

In each circumstance, the question that reverberates down the years, growing louder rather than dimmer, is: why? Why were they in thrall to a system based on mass extermination? It's estimated that around two million Cambodians, more than a quarter of the population, lost their lives during the four catastrophic years of Khmer Rouge rule. What could have led these two individuals, worlds apart, to embrace a regime that has persuasive claim, in a viciously competitive field, to be the most monstrous of the 20th century?

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1997

Daddy, why is Mommy hangin' from a tree?

the torture chambers of our minds

collide

hide

disguise

the plight

of

freedom

of might...

she called out my name in Tienamien Square

and I tried not to listen.

I saw his mother raped in Burma...

and all I could do was vomit

the disgust, the anger,

the rage, the fear...

my weak body felt numb...

where to turn,

where to run...

a peace accord was signed in Guatemala

with blood dripping from torture chambers,

of the disappeared,

pleas for peace.

a piece of savagery awakened the vast land,

as the flames,

the scorched earth

stretched its roots

to the south and yet El Salvador, Nicaragua,

Honduras, and Panama would not listen...

a child in Bosnia picked up a rifle,

cocked, reloaded and shot his own

father...

for there was

no other alternative...

his father's last words

ring clear,

night and day,

day and night

as the young soldier,

must rage on.

Get it over with... I want to die in my homeland...

a free man... the wound is too severe... do it for our country...

The military Gestapo arrived to ethnically

cleanse

the heathen population.

Calcutta cried, wept as our mother sat in a death bed

awaiting the inevitable.

ashes fell upon South Africa

as the turnover,

apartheid,

was complete on paper,

and now slavery would have to entail

a blueprint similar to America's...

make it legal...

make the details

a

party

(for us to)

hide...

apartheid

a

part

lie

sponsored

by the

rich

side

The cries of boardroom execs

competing to hire prison cons

strengthening multi-national corporations,

and the ghetto child wondering

why she/he deserves such

preferential

treatment

in America's

prison industrial complex....

the prophet planted a seed,

and Pinoy sisters and brothers

took aim at the coming of kalayaan...

freedom...

libertad...

they held hands

and drank the blood of

an endless river of

lgrimas,

y of tears of pain,

of survival, of oppression...

of liberation..

the revolutionary sister took the A-train

down past the underground tunnel

y aligned her troops,

seized Macchu-Picchu,

y Tenochtitlan and still

had time to catch the nearest exhibit

of pre-European Western art

at the local prison for indigenous treasures...

a west ern museum.

the little African girl

held her Bosnian brothers hand

as they saw the local newsreel

of resistance in Chiapas....

they smiled and the crystal

phoenix rose above their eyes

shattering the physical demise

of the commercialization of revolution

its spirit soared awakening Cambodian

teachers to shut down the local TV station

for showing another episode of Baywatch!

the Haitian refugee sought a light,

a gleam, an audience...

asking the Japanese elder to remind

America that internment camps were alive and well..

another detention camp just went up

for illegal slave aliens toiling the back fields

of a worldwide economy...

the little Mexican girl asked her tata:

Porque esta colgada mi madre de ese arbol?

her father, tried not to lose the deep end

and replied,

Tu madre quizo un poco de paz...

Your mother wanted a piece of peace...

but what she got

was a worldwide

masterpiece

of torture,

of rape, of splattered corpses

whose trail spawned

the winds of the east,

and the air conditioners of the west...

she sought...to

live...

to give...

but her roots..,

her struggle

her awakening

had flown out of

the theaters like

a cheap B-movie

whose turn was to hit the shelves.

She just wasn't marketable.

on the third day her spirit rose above ground

and a Taiwanese farmer planted her seed on the ground...

its rebirth,

the corn,

fed her people

as the rage of the storm ensued...

the young phoenix spread its wings

and delivered nutrients across vast lands,

crossing fictional borders

without even carrying a green card...

it landed on plymouth rock

and saw Tecumseh,

Tonantzin,

and Tupac Amaru,

awaiting the coming of prophecy....

el maiz habia renacido...

the corn had risen and the people

y were once again fertile...

the winds of rage sought to destroy

freeways in LA, and

skyscrapers in Tokyo...

but the people of East Timor would not be moved...

the free ways in which the earth shook

drowned those who dared not listen

to the call of the maz...

typhoons, tornadoes, and hurricanes,

rebirth....

a new seed,

a change being sung

by a homeless man in Philly

who sought spare change...

and yet all you could do was walk away....

the pain,

the rage,

is staring us in the face,

and yet,

we proclaim

democracy is only a step away.

our facade of democracy

is the world's reality

of starvation,

war,

and savagery....

and yet,

somehow,

amidst the rage of the storm

lies the roots

of our change,

our humanity,

our growth,

our hope,

our faith,

for revolution,

for peace,

made entirely

out of corn...

hecha de maiz y el corazon.

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Peace and Love, Black Family! To say “We are all f’d up!,” seems rather harsh, as if I’ve overlooked the achievements we’ve accomplished throughout he years. However, if we critically analyze the moving pieces of social engineering, it is clear that we’ve been set up from the start! After integration, Black people began to engage in practices that led to fast-tracking the breakdown of the Black people even more. In the United States, as well as, other 🧔🏼‍♂️👩🏼 countries in between, Black integration into their social order speparated us from one another and brought us closer to “their” image and likeness. From Greek fraternities/sororities to interracial marriages, to political parties to changing our voices when in the company of Whites, we have whitened ourselves to get along socially! Look at us now, WE ARE ALL F’D UP! We do NOTHING for ourselves to progress or bring ourselves closer! GET ON CODE. STAY ON CODE.🩸💣🔫✊🏾 BLACK POWER! #blackpower #blacklove #blackman #blackwoman #empowerment #blackrevolution #race #only #blackpeopleonly #black #revolutionary #power #truth #knowledge #blackconsciousness #blackpower #blackqueen #blackunity #blacknationalism #african #panafrican #blackpeople #blackowned #malikismindful https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl0xhRPOpQCfZUmzX-z58ab6j81KfM7G1f2dAI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=