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From Warrior to Writer: Chernoh M. Bah's Journey
Former child soldier Chernoh Alpha M. Bah will speak in the SF Bay Area April 9-11.
This is it! The San Francisco Bay Area tour of Diamond Wars, Child Soldiers and the Worldwide Movement for African Liberation, featuring Chernoh Bah is only a few days away! Help spread the word! Don't miss these events and bring your friends!
Here is the list of public events in Emeryville, Oakland and San Francisco, and below that is the article about Mr. Bah written by Mumia Abu-Jamal for his column on March 11th.
Chernoh Alpha M. Bah from Sierra Leone is a former child soldier and award-winning journalist imprisoned for exposing human rights violations in the treatment of West African refugees. He will address audiences in the Philadelphia area March 25 & 26 as part of his North American tour.
Sunday, April 9th, 5-7pm, Welcome Reception, Linen Life Gallery,
1375 Park Ave, Emeryville
Poetry by Asante George, Music by Adigun Hotep and Sealli Moyenda, Refreshments
Monday, April 10th, 7:30pm, Modern Times Bookstore,
888 Valencia St., San Francisco
African History Tour with Chernoh Alpha Bah
and Book Signing for Omali Yeshitela Speaks
with Omali Yeshitela
Tuesday, April 11th, 7pm, Community Event at the Uhuru (Freedom) House
7911 Mac Arthur Blvd., Oakland. With Pierre LaBossiere, Haiti Action Committee, Fungula Fumu of Congo, Gary Moland of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party and Omali Yeshitela, leader and founder of the Uhuru Movement, $5-25 sliding scale
For More Information: (510) 569-9620, uhuruoakland1 [at] sbcglobal.net, http://www.burningspearuhuru.com
Here is the list of public events in Emeryville, Oakland and San Francisco, and below that is the article about Mr. Bah written by Mumia Abu-Jamal for his column on March 11th.
Chernoh Alpha M. Bah from Sierra Leone is a former child soldier and award-winning journalist imprisoned for exposing human rights violations in the treatment of West African refugees. He will address audiences in the Philadelphia area March 25 & 26 as part of his North American tour.
Sunday, April 9th, 5-7pm, Welcome Reception, Linen Life Gallery,
1375 Park Ave, Emeryville
Poetry by Asante George, Music by Adigun Hotep and Sealli Moyenda, Refreshments
Monday, April 10th, 7:30pm, Modern Times Bookstore,
888 Valencia St., San Francisco
African History Tour with Chernoh Alpha Bah
and Book Signing for Omali Yeshitela Speaks
with Omali Yeshitela
Tuesday, April 11th, 7pm, Community Event at the Uhuru (Freedom) House
7911 Mac Arthur Blvd., Oakland. With Pierre LaBossiere, Haiti Action Committee, Fungula Fumu of Congo, Gary Moland of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party and Omali Yeshitela, leader and founder of the Uhuru Movement, $5-25 sliding scale
For More Information: (510) 569-9620, uhuruoakland1 [at] sbcglobal.net, http://www.burningspearuhuru.com
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http://www.burningspearuhuru.com
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These people are extremely, and occasionally violently homophobic.
Please be advised of that when considering whether to attend this event, if only for your own safety.
Please be advised of that when considering whether to attend this event, if only for your own safety.
The above comment is slander and has nothing to do with the Uhuru Movement, but has everything to do with the politics of the person who made the comment.
The Uhuru Movement supports peoples of all sexual orientations and gender identities and welcomes support for African liberation from anyone! The Uhuru Movement is critical of the white left assumption of leadership of the African community's own struggle and defends the rights of African people. That's what some people have a problem with so they use hearsay, slander and innuendo to try to discourage people from learning on their own about Uhuru. I encourage people to come out and hear for yourself. Slander such as this permeates the SF Bay Area, which is one of the last hotbeds of white liberal imperialist ideology. It's time to hear from national liberation movements and support their struggles on their own terms.
To learn more, you can see http://www.burningspearuhuru.com http://www.apspuhuru.org http://www.apscuhuru.org http://www.inpdum.com and http://www.uhurufoods.org
thanks,
Wendy
The Uhuru Movement supports peoples of all sexual orientations and gender identities and welcomes support for African liberation from anyone! The Uhuru Movement is critical of the white left assumption of leadership of the African community's own struggle and defends the rights of African people. That's what some people have a problem with so they use hearsay, slander and innuendo to try to discourage people from learning on their own about Uhuru. I encourage people to come out and hear for yourself. Slander such as this permeates the SF Bay Area, which is one of the last hotbeds of white liberal imperialist ideology. It's time to hear from national liberation movements and support their struggles on their own terms.
To learn more, you can see http://www.burningspearuhuru.com http://www.apspuhuru.org http://www.apscuhuru.org http://www.inpdum.com and http://www.uhurufoods.org
thanks,
Wendy
Ahh, but I have empirical evidence.
Uhuru activists overturned an ACT-UP lit table at a community event in Oakland (yes, I can name the event, and date). The people at the ACT-UP table were physically attacked, and verbally slurred for "bringing AIDS" into the African-Ameican community. One of the people attacked was bloody in the face. They fled when no one intervened on their behalf. It was a good 15 or so young men, on two people at a table with lit.
Nothing was done by anyone else at the event to stop this attack (i.e. any of the speakers at the podium), and myself and another queer friend, witnesses but not otherwise involved with any group, left in fear of our physical safety.
This is an eyewitness account. Caveat emptor.
That has nothing to do with Uhuru's line on reparations, and everything to do with thuggish homophobia. I will believe what I saw continues to be the Uhuru line, unless and until the world can be shown in writing that Uhuru has since changed its line on homosexuals-- something like the RCP has done.
Uhuru activists overturned an ACT-UP lit table at a community event in Oakland (yes, I can name the event, and date). The people at the ACT-UP table were physically attacked, and verbally slurred for "bringing AIDS" into the African-Ameican community. One of the people attacked was bloody in the face. They fled when no one intervened on their behalf. It was a good 15 or so young men, on two people at a table with lit.
Nothing was done by anyone else at the event to stop this attack (i.e. any of the speakers at the podium), and myself and another queer friend, witnesses but not otherwise involved with any group, left in fear of our physical safety.
This is an eyewitness account. Caveat emptor.
That has nothing to do with Uhuru's line on reparations, and everything to do with thuggish homophobia. I will believe what I saw continues to be the Uhuru line, unless and until the world can be shown in writing that Uhuru has since changed its line on homosexuals-- something like the RCP has done.
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