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DESCRIPTION:Hear Gaida Kambon, National Secretary of the African People's Socialist 
 Party, report on the global struggle of African people from Oakland and New 
 Orleans to Freetown, and from St. Petersburg to Caracas. Kambon has just 
 returned from the World Social Forum in Venezuela, and recently attended a 
 conference of the African Socialist International in Sierra Leone. 
 \n\nKambon will give presentations based on her experience organizing 
 internationally on three different continents.  As part of the efforts to 
 build a worldwide organization of African people called the African 
 Socialist International, Kambon traveled in December to Makeni, Sierra 
 Leone, and participated in a conference with the Africanist Movement, an 
 organization led by former child soldier Chernoh Alpha M. Bah that spans 
 seven different countries in West Africa. \n\nWith the theme “Touch One, 
 Touch All!,” the African People’s Socialist Party is building unity 
 amongst African people across the globe. In January, Kambon attended the 
 World Social Forum  in Caracas, Venezuela, to connect with the struggle of 
 nearly 140 million African people who suffer from colonial oppression in 
 South America. \n\nKambon has been a fierce proponent of African 
 independence for over 20 years.  In the early 1990’s, as part of the 
 “Tampa 5,” she challenged the attacks on the African community of 
 Tampa, FLA following the police murder of an African man.  In 1996, she led 
 campaigns to challenge to the brutal police murder of TyRon Lewis, and 
 helped to galvanize the whole African community in St. Petersbrug, FLA to 
 demand economic development, not police containment. \n\nKambon organizes 
 internationally to connect and unite the struggles of African people for 
 liberation and freedom.\n\n$5-25 donation requested; nobody turned away for 
 lack of funds. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/17/88293.php
SUMMARY:Report from the Front Lines of Struggle: West Africa, Venezuela, and St. Petersb
LOCATION:Uhuru House  7911 MacArthur Blvd.  Oakland 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/17/88293.php
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