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DESCRIPTION:On September 13, 2022, Chairman Omali Yeshitela returns to Oakland’s 
 Uhuru House, headquarters of the African People’s Socialist Party in the 
 1980s from where he rebuilt the Black Power Movement out of the ashes of 
 COINTELPRO. Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton made his last public 
 appearances at the Uhuru House shortly before his assassination in 
 1989.\n\nIn Oakland, Yeshitela led campaigns that put a Community Control 
 of Housing initiative on the ballot, took over parks and an abandoned 
 building to serve those without homes and built black community economic 
 institutions including Uhuru Foods & Pies and Uhuru Furniture & 
 Collectibles.\n\nHe’ll be back in Oakland to speak at the September 13th 
 “Day of Reparations to African People - Oakland”, an annual Uhuru 
 Solidarity Movement event to raise reparations from the white community for 
 Uhuru Movement programs around the U.S. and the world, including community 
 gardens, an African women’s health center, “One Africa, One Nation 
 Marketplaces”, a community basketball court and outdoor event venues, 
 workforce training and housing for African people coming out of prison, 
 along with a community radio station and licensed community kitchens.\n\nAt 
 5am CDT on Friday, July 29, 2022, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation 
 (FBI), aided by local police, raided the offices and homes of members of 
 the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida and St. Louis, Missouri, 
 including Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s home.\n\nThey broke down doors, 
 broke windows, used flashbang devices and drones and threatened residents 
 with automatic weapons, handcuffing them and temporarily detaining them. 
 They stole computers, hard drives, phones, office equipment and 
 files—both business and personal.\n\nAccording to Yeshitela, “This is 
 an attempt by the U.S. government to attack, discredit and isolate the 
 African Revolution at a time when it is growing in strength and winning on 
 so many fronts. One of the aims of this attack is to cut off the resources, 
 and that is why reparations is more important than ever.”\n\nAnother 
 speaker at the event will be Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African 
 People’s Solidarity Committee and author of “Overturning the Culture of 
 Violence”, who states,\n\n“White people have a responsibility to 
 prevent the state from moving to attack the African People's Socialist 
 Party in the same way that they have attacked African leaders in the past 
 such as Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Garvey and 
 others.”\n\nYeshitela is the creator of the theory of African 
 Internationalism and author of several books including “Vanguard” and 
 “One Africa! One Nation!”. He has provided over 50 years of bold and 
 relentless leadership to the struggle for the self-determination of the 
 African community, including as founder of the African Socialist 
 International and leader of the Black is Back Coalition.\n\n\nDonations 
 raised through this speaking tour benefit the Uhuru Wa Kulea Health 
 Center.\n\nThe Uhuru Wa Kulea African Women’s Health Center is 
 specifically designed to alleviate the trauma women and children face in 
 our community due to lack of healthcare and inability to control our 
 healthcare choices. Traditionally, the Black community values collective 
 prosperity, a value we trace back to Africa. The African Women’s Health 
 Program addresses the mental and physical health of Black girls and women 
 by providing prenatal, birthing, and post-natal care, trauma-informed yoga, 
 an annual African Girl’s Day event, a medicinal herb treatment program 
 and more!\n\nBlack Power Blueprint is a black-led self-determination 
 project of the Uhuru Movement building economic institutions for the black 
 community of St. Louis to feed, clothe, and house themselves. To learn more 
 go to blackpowerblueprint.org\n\nUhuru Solidarity Movement is an 
 organization created by the African People's Socialist Party USA as a 
 strategy to win white solidarity with black power and white reparations to 
 African people.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/08/19/18851641.php
SUMMARY:Day of Reparations to African People
LOCATION:Uhuru House \n7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94605
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/08/19/18851641.php
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