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DESCRIPTION:Omali Yeshitela, internationally known leader of the Uhuru Movement, will 
 read and lecture from his latest book One Africa! One Nation!\n\nYeshitela 
 will also be the keynote speaker at African People’s Solidarity Day 
 events Saturday, October 13, 10am-5:30pm and Sunday October 14, 1pm-5:30pm 
 at Beebe Memorial Cathedral, 3900 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. He will be 
 joined by other African leaders from South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Bay 
 Area, and elsewhere in the U.S.\n\nBased in Oakland during the 1980s and 
 the early 90s, Yeshitela is known by many for his courageous stand against 
 the poverty, powerless and police containment policies imposed on the 
 African community. From the Uhuru House at 7911 Mac Arthur Blvd. in East 
 Oakland, Yeshitela launched many popular campaigns challenging the 
 oppressive conditions faced by the majority of black people in the Bay 
 Area.\n\nIn 1983 members of the Uhuru Movement were beaten and arrested by 
 Oakland police when they attempted to build a tent city at Lafayette Park 
 downtown. As a gathering place of many of Oakland’s thousands of homeless 
 African people, the park was renamed Uhuru Park and a governing council of 
 homeless people was established. The Uhuru Movement served meals at the 
 park daily for several months, with food donated by countless Bay Area 
 businesses and individuals.\n\nIn 1984 and again in 86, Yeshitela led the 
 campaign that successfully put the Community Control of Housing initiative 
 on the ballot in Oakland. Known as Measures O and H, the initiatives called 
 for rents to be set at not more than 25 percent of the average income of a 
 neighborhood. The popular, low-budget measures won 25 percent of the vote 
 on both runs, despite hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by landlords 
 to defeat it.\n\nIn the early 80s Yeshitela exposed the government’s role 
 in flooding the African communities with deadly drugs, a fact later 
 verified by Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance, which first appeared in the San 
 Jose Mercury News in 1996. Yeshitela, who led demonstrations with the 
 slogan “Uncle Sam is the pusher-man,” pointed out that the drug 
 infestation followed the government’s COINTELPRO attack on the Black 
 Power Movement of the 60s. He defined the drugs as part of a U.S. 
 counterinsurgency against the African community, a war that includes heavy 
 handed policing, criminalization of the community and escalating rates of 
 imprisonment.\n\nYeshitela was instrumental in making the demand for 
 Reparations to the African community a household word. In 1982 he led the 
 Uhuru Movement in sponsoring the International Tribunal on Reparations for 
 African people held in Brooklyn, NY.\n\nDuring his 12 years in Oakland 
 Omali Yeshitela wrote several books, published The Burning Spear newspaper 
 and spoke tirelessly organizing African working people.\n\nIn 1989, the 
 late Black Panther leader Huey Newton spoke at the Uhuru House, effectively 
 passing the torch when he said, “We might not have the Black Panther 
 Party, but we have the Uhuru House!” \n\nIn 1993 Yeshitela moved his 
 headquarters to St. Petersburg FL, where he continues to speak and lead 
 campaigns throughout the U.S., Africa and Europe for the liberation of 
 African people.\n\nYeshitela organizes Africans everywhere to unite as one 
 people to reclaim Africa and all its resources. A proponent of “the right 
 of African return” Yeshitela points to African unification as the 
 solution to the poverty and oppression that plagues African working people 
 worldwide. Yeshitela leads the African Socialist International, an 
 organization that has a growing membership throughout Africa, the U.S. and 
 other countries.\n\n“Whether it’s in Jena, New Orleans or U.S. prisons, 
 or whether it’s in Sierra Leone, Darfur or Paris, African people are 
 catching hell all over the globe,” states Yeshitela. “We don’t need 
 charity! We need control of our own land and resources in Africa—the 
 birthright of African people everywhere!”\n\nMore about the Uhuru 
 Movement can be found at www.uhurunews.com. Yeshitela’s speaking schedule 
 and more biographical information are available at 
 www.burningspearuhuru.com\n\nFor more information on African People’s 
 Solidarity Day events contact 510-625-1106 or visit www.apscuhuru.org.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/01/18450866.php
SUMMARY:Omali Yeshitela reading from One Africa! One Nation! at Barnes & Noble, Jack London Square
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble, Jack London Square, 98 Broadway, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/01/18450866.php
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