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DESCRIPTION:This reunion will be a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the African 
 People’s Socialist Party and the achievements of the worldwide Uhuru 
 Movement.\n \nThe Oakland Uhuru House at 7911 MacArthur Boulevard in 
 Oakland, California will host the event.\n \nThe reunion will recognize and 
 appreciate the contributions of the African community, friends and 
 supporters in rebuilding the movement for African self-determination.\n 
 \nAll activists, participants and supporters of the Uhuru Movement are 
 welcomed—including veterans of the Oakland Freedom Summer Project 1984, 
 the Free Freddie Roberts campaign, Measure O and Measure H, the Uhuru Choir 
 and youth hip-hop programs led by Biko Lumumba, the Campaign to Free Ralph 
 Lee Jr., Uhuru Bakery Cafe, Spear Graphics and other campaigns—to come 
 out and spend an evening of celebration, commemoration and tribute to those 
 who have been part of this history.\n \nThe event will feature the leader 
 of the African Socialist International and founder of the Uhuru Movement, 
 Chairman Omali Yeshitela and other leaders of the African People’s 
 Socialist Party who have played key roles in the history of our Party, 
 especially in Oakland.\n \nThe Uhuru Movement has a glorious history in 
 Oakland that dates back to the late seventies\n \nThe African People’s 
 Socialist Party came to Oakland to struggle in the interests of the African 
 working class following the U.S. government’s attacks on the Black Power 
 Movement of the sixties.\n \nIts main goal was to “keep the Black Power 
 Movement alive.”\n \nWhen the African People’s Socialist Party came to 
 Oakland, the African working class was suffering the effects of 
 COINTELPRO.\n \nThe Party led powerful campaigns for community control of 
 housing, community control of the police, the right of African people to 
 raise our own children and to have control of our education and health care 
 system.\n \nThe Party was the only organization that exposed the brutal 
 conditions of the African community in a city that bore the brunt of the 
 U.S. government’s brutal imposition of drugs as a means of salting the 
 earth to make sure the African working class would never rise up to 
 struggle again, along with the military occupation of the black community 
 with SWAT teams and the Drug Task Force.\n \nPoverty, homelessness, police 
 terror and mass imprisonment were rampant, with no organization 
 representing the masses of African people.\n \nFor 12 years in the 1980s 
 and early 1990s, Oakland was the national headquarters of our Party.\nIn a 
 short time, we built a movement and opened the Uhuru House on MacArthur 
 Boulevard in East Oakland as our organizing center.\n \nIt was from 
 Oakland, California, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party for 
 Self-Defense, that the Uhuru Movement, under the leadership of the African 
 People’s Socialist Party, launched the second historical Freedom 
 Summer.\n \nIn 1984, the Uhuru Movement led the Community Control of 
 Housing Initiative, known as Measure O, which organized numerous volunteers 
 who delivered more than 300,000 fliers to the doorsteps of Oakland 
 residents, which resulted in winning 29,000 votes on the ballot.\n 
 \nOakland was the center of countless Uhuru Movement campaigns, including 
 Tent City for the homeless in downtown Oakland and the takeover of an 
 abandoned house in East Oakland for a homeless family a generation before 
 the rise of the Occupy Movement.\n \nThe Party in Oakland waged struggles 
 against police murders of Africans and fought for housing, economic 
 development and reparations.\n \nCampaigns in solidarity with Mexican, 
 Indigenous and Filipino peoples were also waged.\nDuring these years, a 
 young Tupac Shakur rehearsed at the Uhuru House.\n \nHuey Newton made his 
 last public presentation here, passing the torch from the Black Panther 
 Party to the Uhuru Movement.\n \nIn addition, countless forums, campaigns, 
 meetings, marches, demonstrations, press conferences and actions also took 
 place here.\n \nThe Uhuru House Reunion will bring together all past, 
 current and future supporters of the movement to transform the current 
 conditions that African people face in Oakland.\n \nThrough the Oakland 
 Freedom Summer Project, the Uhuru Movement aims to rebuild the same 
 movement for Black Power in Oakland that we built during the 1980s.\n 
 \nSuch a movement will serve to overturn the parasitic and oppressive 
 relationship that the U.S. government has with our people, uplifting the 
 entire African community through the renovation of the center and the 
 building of Uhuru Jiko (Freedom Kitchen).\n \nUhuru Jiko will be a state of 
 the art commercial kitchen that will enable our community to start and own 
 food production and distribution systems, as well as a space for food and 
 nutritional training.\n \nCome to the Uhuru House Reunion to celebrate the 
 past and build the future!\n\nAdmission is free. RSVP to the Uhuru House 
 (510) 569-9620\nreunion@uhurusummerproject.org\n \nJoin the Oakland Freedom 
 Summer Project\nuhurusummerproject.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/12/18715271.php
SUMMARY:Uhuru House Reunion Celebrates 40 Years of the African People's Socialist Party
LOCATION:Uhuru House, 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland
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