THIS WEEK ON ARN:”Building Our Own Independent Anti Colonial Economy”
Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African Socialist international, presents a key note presentation to African Liberation Day. Chairman Omali was an organizer with the first African Liberation Day event held in Washington, D.C. in 1972. That same year he co-founded the African People’s Socialist Party, beginning the Party’s 41-year legacy of struggle on behalf of African workers and poor peasants throughout the world. Today the African Socialist International that he founded is a reality with organizers on the ground in Africa, Europe and the Americas. Chairman Omali Yeshitela will discuss the need to build an independent African owned economy, in order to facilitate the ability of the African nation to self-govern.
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British Government Intensifies Its Attacks on Africans and Other Oppressed Peoples As British Imperialism Crisis Deepens
InPDUM London
The British government is engaged in organised systematic and relentless warfare against African/Black people here in Britain.
The total UK ethnic group population shows that Europeans make up 86% and Africans 3.3%.
African pupils are 4 times likely to be excluded despite a reduction in permanent school exclusions. Africans have considerably high unemployment rate nationally at 18% compared to Europeans 8% [in London 20% compared to Europeans at 7%] and when employed the majority of Africans persistently tend to be in low paid work also dependant on housing benefit to meet cost of rent. Through an imposed illegal drug economy on the African community, Africans make up 18% of the UK total prison population and African youths make up 4 in 10 of the total youth prison population despite African people make up 3.3% of the UK total general population. Over 300 Africans have lost their lives after contact with the police or in police custody from the year 2000 to date with not one police officer brought to trial or even suspended. Africans are over represented in the mental health service making up 10.3% of the UK national inpatient population despite again making up 3.3% of the UK total general population with no sign of reducing [most often referred not by doctors but the police and the criminal justice system; diagnosed as schizophrenic and given high doses of medication]. In addition Africans have greater problems with access to healthcare – suffer poorer health and have reduce life expectancy. Read the rest of this entry
Message from Lynne – CALL FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE!!
Dear Friends and Supporters:
One month ago I made a request for compassionate release which was honored by the warden at Carswell Federal Medical Center. Today the papers are still on a desk in Washington, D.C. even though the terminal cancer that I have contracted requires expeditious action.
Although I requested immediate action by the Bureau of Prisons, I find it necessary to again request immediate action from you, my friends, comrades and supporters to call the three numbers listed below and request action on my behalf.
This could result in my being able to access medical treatment at Sloan Kettering so that I can face the rest of my life with dignity surrounded by those I love and who love me.
Please do this.
Yours truly
Lynne Stewart FMS CARSWELL-53504-054 & Ralph Poynter
Lynne Stewart Defense Organization
InPDUM challenges notorious NYPD in struggle for Black Power! Masses mobilize in defense of jailed leadership
Diop Olugbala, International President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement
On Thursday, May 16, 2013, I was arrested by police forces of the 67th precinct of the New York Police Department (NYPD). Despite attempts made by the NYPD to characterize me as a fugitive and outlaw, it is important that I state that my arrest was nothing more than an act of political retaliation by the NYPD against an act of resistance that I committed that same night I was arrested.On that night, just minutes before I was thrown in a jail cell, I had led a contingent of five forces of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) into the “police-community relations” meeting held at the 67th Precinct building of the NYPD, located at the 2800 block of Snyder Ave, in the heart of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY. Read the rest of this entry
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NYPD out of Bed Stuy – U.S. Marines Out of Africa! The Struggle for Reparations and Economic Development over Parasitism and Colonial Occupation!
Currently it is well accepted that the U.S. government is engaged in wars of aggression in various parts of the world, including Africa. What is becoming equally apparent is that these wars are motivated by the economic interest of the U.S. ruling class, an interest that can only be fulfilled through an ongoing process of theft and brigandage of oppressed nations and the resources that come from them. The need to steal oil from the Middle East and coltan from Congo are the basis for U.S. and European military occupation and wars in such places. Further, through this panel we will draw a parallel between the wars of U.S. and European imperialist aggression occurring throughout the world and what is clearly a colonial military occupation of African and Latino communities by U.S. police forces in places like Detroit, LA and Brooklyn, NY. This panel is being held to explore this question more deeply; to provide a forum in which empirical evidence and objective discussion can be heard and discussed regarding this topic, to see how the findings of such evidence impact on the consciousness as well as material conditions of the general U.S. population whose opinion of such wars determine their success or failure and lastly, to present the opportunity for panel attendees to participate in activism and organizing work designed to effect the development of this phenomenon being defined as imperialism.Resistance Against Police Brutality in Stockholm, Sweden!
InPDUM Stockholm
As you might have heard this past week in Husby, Stockholm Sweden there have been rebellions against the police. People from the oppressed communities have been throwing rocks at the police; they have burnt down garages and different stores and cars. This have internationally been noticed.
Since the past four years there have been major cuts in the welfare system which has affected the people at the bottom the most. There have been cuts in health care, schools, major unemployment, youth centers and many privatizations. As we all know these cuts will affect the community in every way. All of this has made the oppressed people desperate and the last drop was the execution of a 69 year old man. The police shot him 15 times in his own apartment. The reason why the police killed him was allegedly because of a machete he was holding. Other facts show that the man was holding a butter knife.
Inpdum Stockholm was there the third day after the two day riots. We will still go to Husby and report but also organize the rebellions and the people. We recognize that this is a natural form of resistance against this oppressive system which we live under. But in order for it to be able to challenge the system we need to resist in an organized revolutionary manner. Read the rest of this entry
Some Questions. . . A Subpoena. . . An Arrest. . .
Subpoena to appear at the Court for Black Justice served to the 67th precinct of the NYPD.
I’ve been working on a film project documenting Kimani Gray’s death and efforts by his family, activists and the East Flatbush community for justice. On Thursday night, myself and two other people involved in the film attended a monthly Community Relations Board meeting overseen by Deputy Inspector Kenny Lehr at the 67th Precinct. We were told that we were not allowed to film, but we surreptitiously made an audio recording of the forum anyway.
These meetings basically serve as an outlet for older, mainly West Indian community members who are generally supportive of the NYPD to complain about noise, graffiti and the scent of marijuana on their blocks. A handful of activists did turn up, however. I’ll get to them in a minute.
When I was called on I asked Lehr if he was investigating the shootings of Kimani Gray and Shantel Davis. I also mentioned that the city had paid $335,000 to settle claims for excessive and false arrests against officers involved in the shootings before they occurred, and asked how many other officers at the precinct have a history of brutality that the community should be concerned about. Additionally, I inquired as to the whereabouts of the killer cops, asking Lehr to confirm reports that the two officers involved in the Gray slaying are still clocking in at his precinct. Read the rest of this entry
InPDUM Serves NYPD Subpoena for Court for Black Justice and Reparations!
On Thursday, May 16, 2013, InPDUM served subpoena for the Court for Black Justice and Reparations to the NYPD. President Diop Olugbala was arrested shortly after, an apparent rebuttal when Diop shook them up as he served notice that they had been charged. Not knowing what to do, they resorted to what they always do, attack! After an extensive call-in campaign from around the world, victory was won and President Diop was freed the following day!
The NYPD has been served notice that it has been charged with murder, brutality and hate driven tactics of ‘stop and frisk’ against millions of Africans in New York City and that it’s slated representatives are to appear in the Court for Black Justice and Reparations before the People of New York City.
President Diop reads the charges and serves the pigs!
