Volunteer with Uhuru Concessions at Anti-War Rally!

This is eyewitness testimony.

That appears to be the same regurgitated slander that you come with every time Dean, or whoever you are.

The Uhuru Movement challenges all oppression at its core - the source of which is parasitic capitalism and imperialism. The Uhuru Movement also challenges all of white society - be it gay, bi, transgender or straight. Being gay need not be elevated to a political question if we are struggling for freedoms of fundamental justice for the majority of the people on the planet - freedoms which include sexual and gender freedom. That should be obvious to anyone who looks deeper than the surface into the philosophy of Yeshitelism. Read the Burning Spear newspaper.

People who are gay will find good company of other gay and lesbian people in the Uhuru Movement who are struggling for a world peace that we believe can only come through self-determination for ALL people on the planet.

Anyone who wants to have a real discussion about this issue, should feel free to post or email myself.

My people's continued existence is not subject to further discussion with you or anyone else... including Burning Spear.

How come so may people have bad experiences with uhuru? The April 5th coalition had to deal with these kooks when the tried to disrupt their organizing efforts.

Who are you, an agent or an asset? INPDUM does no such things. Anyone that can unite with the fact that African and other colonized people should be free can join INPDUM or participate in functions of INPDUM, gay, striaght , bi , whatever. Sexual preference has nothing to do with a persons abilities and members of INPDUM know this and wouldn't "gay bash" anyone. What ever agency you work for, or however much you are being paid, stop spreading lies !

here is a position paper the Uhuru Movement's African People's Solidarity Committee wrote after the unsuccesful attempt to censor the Uhuru Movement from the program of the april 5th event.
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THE PEACE MOVEMENT'S DIVIDE
What kind of peace can exist in a world of colonized and colonizer?

Why is the peace movement so white?
It is truly exciting and profound, the numbers of people on the streets in the U.S. and around the world swept up in the political motion of the peace movement.

However, despite reports that the African community overwhelmingly opposes this unjust war, the peace movement inside the U.S. remains predominantly white. It’s leadership arrogantly demands for a peaceful return to the pre-9/11 status quo. While staging huge mobilizations, the "Peace Movement" arrogantly ignores the centuries-old war at home, which creates so many casualties for African people and indigenous people. It has censored speakers who would raise up these contradictions as the foundation for the war in Iraq today

Censorship of the voice of African liberation
Nowhere is this problem more glaring than right here in the SF Bay Area. The large anti-war organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area are doing everything in their power to ruthlessly protect the "peace movement" from African and Mexican organizations who want peace through justice to their communities. White leadership of the peace movement provides lip service to "people of color" and makes room for black celebrities and Democratic Party members. But they maintain their careers and political significance based on a silent and defeated African and Mexican community.

Case and Point: In organizing for the April 5th Oakland Peace March and Rally, a scenario that has become all too familiar once again emerged. In a coalition where the Uhuru Movement was an active and forthright member-organization, we were forced to struggle fiercely for the inclusion of Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party for a mere three minutes on the program. At one of the first meetings, local Uhuru Movement leader Bakari Olatunji brought forward the need for black community representation in the April 5th mobilization. This was offered up with the proposal that Uhuru Movement founder, Omali Yeshitela, be included as a theoretician for the anti-war program.

Yeshitela is a brilliant and dynamic speaker and leader who is known and loved internationally – particularly in the African community. He leads the Florida Alliance for Peace and Justice and recently was a featured speaker at the Congress of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, the organization of Stephen Biko. His words are featured on popular hip-hop albums, such as Dead Prez’ "lets get free." Omali Yeshitela, as a featured speaker of the day, would undoubtedly attract Africans who remain alienated from the peace movement.

However this proposal was met with underhanded, insidious attempts to prevent it from actualizing. In the first program meeting which was supposedly restricted to "program committee" members, other leadership of the coalition came to vote Omali Yeshitela off the program. In response, many Uhuru movement supporters came to the next general meeting to raise an objection to this and to recall for his participation on the program. This led to the Uhuru Movement hypocritically attacked for not abiding by "process," which had only been violated by the Coalition leadership. Undaunted, we demanded a vote in the general meeting in which Yeshitela’s name was re-added to the list of speakers by a super-majority. The leadership were outraged that the Uhuru Movement had not quietly accepted their censorship. The April 5th coalition leaders held vote after vote to attempt to get Yeshitela’s name off the list of speakers. Their efforts were thwarted as the people in the room continued to support Omali Yeshitela. They remain furious and indignant at the Uhuru Movement for standing firm on the need for representation, in the form of Omali Yeshitela, of the just struggles of the African community.

Why all this controversy and trouble for a 3 minute presentation?
Yeshitela was singled out, these leaders claimed, because Uhuru Movement members had "stacked" previous meetings and not followed the proper "process." But no other speaker was subject to this kind of second-guessing, re-vote and scrutiny. We understand that the reasons for this double standard are political. Our experience in the April 5th Coalition is just another chapter in decades of unprincipled slander, boycott and censorship by the white left of the Uhuru Movement — a movement for African community self-determination and national liberation.

These struggles are emblematic of a larger issue and divisions within the peace movement. The white-dominated peace coalitions are calling for "peace," but they want the kind of peace you might find temporarily on a slave plantation; one in which the slave is beaten into submission and the slave master is therefore comfortable in his role as the colonizer. The Uhuru Movement, and other organizations reflecting the needs and aspirations of oppressed peoples, aren’t allowing that. We demand a peace that will come when the status quo is destroyed, and the world’s people are free from colonialism.

If Bush stopped bombing Iraq tomorrow, and the world went back to the way it was on September 10th 2001, the majority of the world’s peoples would still exist on $2 a day while the white world maintains its wealth and power off of the people’s land and resources. The U.S.-led world system of imperialism would continue to cause starvation, disease and warfare for millions of people in Africa, Colombia, the Philippines, Haiti, Cuba, the Middle East and for peoples inside its own borders. The African, Mexican, Asian and other indigenous communities in the U.S. would still live in daily terror that their loved ones might be snatched up, murdered or imprisoned by the police. Africans would still live in desperate poverty and foul housing; African children would still be forced into schools that resemble prisons.

In fact, most of the people on Earth haven't experienced peace for the past 500 years, since the European onslaught on Africa, Asia and the Americas. The United States and the North American population exist on a pedestal of stolen land and labor that came as a result of our (white) complicity and participation in genocide and slavery.

Peace on Social Justice!
True peace can only come as a result of an end to the U.S. war on the peoples of Iraq and all oppressed peoples on the planet. We support the struggle of oppressed peoples for justice, national liberation and freedom. Uhuru means freedom!

About the Uhuru Movement: The African People's Socialist Party formed in 1972 following the military defeat of the Black Power Movement of the 1960's and leads the Uhuru Movement. The Uhuru Movement has led countless struggles for justice for African people around the world and has unwaveringly supported the struggles of Mexican, indigenous and other oppressed peoples. Organizations that the APSP leads include the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, a grassroots organization that struggles for the democratic rights of the African community and the African People’s Solidarity Committee, which organizes for white people’s reparations to the African community and coordinates Uhuru Concessions.

To reach the African People’s Socialist Party,
call 510-569-9620.
To reach the African People’s Solidarity Committee,
call 510-625-1106
http://www.uhurureparations.org

did you ever notice that those who speak in support of the uhuru movement have the integrity to put their names and contact info along with their posts, while those who've got nothing but slander and hatred for the uhuru movement can only post anonymously? the uhuru movement aside; i'm grateful i'm not a worthless coward (agent provacateur?) as "me" and "queer with a long-standing hatred of african liberation." don't know how you people look in the mirror...

The reason that the Uhuru House doesn't get a turn on the podium isn't because their politics are weak (which they certainly are); it's because they've talked slanderous shit for years, engage in bully-boy tactics, and have a miniscule base of support.

brilliant analysis there, clovis. can you defend any of your allegations, or are you just providing an example of what slanderous shit smells like? what are some examples of strong politics from the podium in your view?

tell us about Burning Spear.
tell us about Burning Spear.
tell us about Burning Spear.
How come so may people have bad experiences with uhuru?

"How come so may people have bad experiences with uhuru? "

because the uhuru movement believes that the entire white world rests on a pedestal of colonial oppression of africa and african people, and principled white people who want to destroy the pedestal we stand on should set about joining the movement for reparations.

currently, very few white people want to be honest about this, so when the uhuru movement is out in the world, putting out our politics, we get slandered, censored and isolated by the ideological imperialists of the white left; as exhibitied by this very discussion, occuring right here on this thread.

what's great though, is every day, as the crisis of capitalism deepens, more and more white people begin to see themselves in a world free of colonizer/colonized, and are willing to be honest and principled about the work we must do to be part of the future. we can see how uhuru puts our names and contact info to our positions, while our opponents spew unfounded slanderous bile about us behind our backs, or anonymously on forums such as these.

every day the "so may people who have bad experiences with uhuru" get older, uglier and more stupid, while the people who support and join the uhuru movement get younger, more vibrant, and more dynamic. its quite beautiful to behold really.

uhuru means freedom!
love, matthew