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Africanist Movement establishes program for 2007 Sierra Leone elections

by Uhuru News
The Africanist Movement, an organization based in several territories in West Africa, launches its revolutionary national democratic program that will provide solutions for the desperate problems facing African people and expose the neocolonial petty bourgeoisie contending for power through the electoral process. This general campaign is occurring during the election season in Sierra Leone, where in early August members of parliament and a new president will be elected.
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Africans in Sierra Leone, like most Africans in Africa and throughout the world, are fed up with inept and corrupt government and leaders who care nothing about the suffering masses. They are tired of seeing their resources being shipped off to far away places to feed, clothe and house populations they do not know and will never see. They are disgusted that their children and family members are made ill and being killed by preventable and curable diseases. They loathe the fact that they have no freedom, no quality education, no food, no decent roads and no future under the prevailing situation.

Africans in Sierra Leone do have the Africanist Movement, however, an organization that is firmly connected to other Africans and allies around the world through its membership in the African Socialist International (ASI). The Africanist Movement has a vision and a revolutionary national democratic program that connects the African population of Sierra Leone with the struggling masses of the African world. This is a program designed to lift Africans out of their wretched station....

Read full article published August 1, 2007 on UhuruNews.com:
http://www.uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=sierra-leone-statement
§Africanist Movement youth
by Uhuru News
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Above photo: Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Director of the Africanist Movement
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by Just askin.
Do Uhuru's proposed "solutions" still include violent homophobia, or has Uhuru renounced such mistaken thinking yet?

Please answer to the question, not the perceived personal characteristics of the questioner.
by Lisa
reference to what you are referring.
The Uhuru Movement stands for African people having control over their resources and liberating Africa, period.
It calls on all allies of African self-determination to support.
Here are some web sites to learn more:

http://www.uhururadio.com
http://www.apscuhuru.org
http://www.solidarityforafrica.org

I invite you to participate in building African People's Solidarity Day in Oakland on October 13th and 14th.
Please come to the Uhuru Solidarity Center at 1601 2nd Ave in Oakland for our meeting on Monday, August 13th at 7pm.
Or, call our office at 510-625-1106, uhurureparations [at] yahoo.com
Thanks,
Wendy
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