White people, let’s make a resolution. 

Starting today, we will never again look out at the world with its billions of starving, suffering human beings, and say, “That’s just the way it is. There’s nothing I can do about it.”

Here’s our next resolution: Let’s do something about it. That brings us to the “Reparations Uprising.”

“Reparations Uprising” is the national conference of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) to be held on April 18-19, 2020 in St. Louis, Missouri. 

USM is the reparations organization of white people who stand in solidarity with African liberation, under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party. 

The USM National Convention is a call-to-action for white people who are sickened by what this system is doing to Africans and other peoples of the world in our name.

The keynote speaker at “Reparations Uprising” will be Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, founder of the Uhuru Movement and world-renowned anti-colonial leader.

Reject the “normalization” of genocide! 

As Chairman Yeshitela has stated, the struggle for liberation and justice for African people is an assault on the “normalization” of imperialism: widespread suffering, genocide, war and slavery of the majority for the benefit of the few. 

In a world held hostage by parasitic capitalism, the most hideous, unnatural and inhumane realities are considered “normal.”  

Daily shootings of young African people by police and white nationalists are considered “normal.”  

The massive wealth divide between Africans and white people is “normal.” We can take it for granted that the average African family’s wealth in the city of Boston is 31,000 times less than the wealth of the average white family. 

It’s “normal” that 60,000 African people are homeless in the city of Los Angeles alone, and over half of the 2.5 million people imprisoned in the U.S. are African people. 

State sanctioned lynchings and murder of Mexican-Indigenous people at the illegitimate colonial border, abject poverty faced by Indigenous people living on concentration camps called ‘reservations’, rampant ecological destruction, drone strikes, targeted assassinations and global starvation are all normal.

Reparations is a commitment to rupture this horrific “new normal” once and forever. 

We stand for reparations because we refuse to accept that it is normal for half the people on the planet earth to live on less than two dollars a day, while white people consume and control over half the world’s resources! 

The “normal” life for white people in a system built on slavery and genocide must be replaced with a way of life built on reparations and solidarity with Africans and the rest of humanity! 

Reparations is a revolutionary stance

Reparations, as a revolutionary act, has to become the “new normal” for the white population. The line has been drawn!  It’s time to pick a side: between oppressor and oppressed. 

The stand of reparations and solidarity with African people puts us in the company of billions of human beings who are determined to liberate themselves and their future generations from having to endure another six hundred years of imperialism. 

White people, we can’t sit on the sidelines. This is the most fundamental question of our lives. 

For white people, the most meaningful decision we will ever make in our lifetime is whether we will choose to continue the legacy of our ancestors– or, commit to fighting for reparations so that the legacy of the slavemaster ends with us.

We can fight to ensure that the next generation will not inherit the legacy of the colonizer; they will inherit the legacy of reparations: peace, global prosperity, ecological renewal, and scientific and medical advancements in the interests of humanity. 

Join the Reparations Uprising. Build the USM National Convention. 

What to expect at “Reparations Uprising” 

Here is a brief summary of what you can expect at “The Reparations Uprising”, in addition to the main presentation by our leadership, Chairman Omali Yeshitela: 

• Penny Hess, Chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, will deliver a keynote presentation on the role of white people in extending the African Revolution into white society through building the reparations movement.  Chairwoman Hess has worked under the Party’s leadership to build white solidarity with black power since APSC’s founding in 1976.

• Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, will present a political report laying out the goals and strategy for USM in the upcoming year.

• Interactive workshops and presentations on our campaigns to target the moneyed sector of the white ruling class including a campaign to shut down the prison industry and win reparations for the genocidal mass incarceration of African people, along with a campaign entitled “All Diamonds Are Blood Diamonds” which will target the colonial diamond industry built on the looting and enslavement of Africa.
  
• Building solidarity with the Black Power Blueprint in St. Louis– the multi-faceted development project led by APSP Deputy Chair Ona Zene Yeshitela, transforming the lives and conditions of African working class north St. Louis through African self-determination and political-economic power.
  

The “Reparations Uprising” conference will take place in the beautiful Akwaaba Hall owned by the African People’s Education and Defense Fund. Akwaaba Hall is part of the Uhuru House, one of the most well-known projects of the Black Power Blueprint. 

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United under the leadership of the African Revolution, we can be part of changing the world. 

Unity through Reparations! 

Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement today with a monthly contribution of reparations to the work of the African People’s Socialist Party at uhurusolidarity.org/join-usm

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the white organization under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party, vehemently denounces the overt assassination of Iranian General Qassim Soleimani, who was slaughtered by a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Thursday. 

The assassination of an important Iranian general who has played a key role in organizing the struggle against U.S. occupation in Iraq and Syria, as well as defending Iran from US threats of warfare, represents a desperate act of imperialist aggression against the people of the Middle East by a bloodthirsty U.S. government. 

As the vanguard of the struggle for the liberation of Africa and African people everywhere, the African People’s Socialist Party has always stood in solidarity with all colonized peoples fighting for liberation and self-determination.

In 1953 the U.S. government and the CIA overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, installing the brutal Shah who tortured and tyrannized the people of Iran for decades before he was ousted by the Islamic Revolution in 1979.  Since then, the Iranian government has been in the crosshairs of the U.S. empire for refusing to submit to its will.

International solidarity: the legacy of the APSP

In the late 1970s the APSP defended and worked with Iranian students in the U.S. who were very active in demonstrating against the tyrannical Shah regime, even in the face of threats of brutal violence by the US-backed, neocolonial Iranian intelligence organization.

The murder of Soleimani comes after a week of powerful resistance held at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the largest embassy in the entire world, where thousands of Iraqi people demonstrated their opposition to U.S. occupation and renewed bombing of Syria.  

For thirty years Iraq and the city of Baghdad have been under assault by the U.S.  The murder took place at a time when 750 U.S. troops were deployed into Iraq and 4000 more are on call. 

The U.S. continues to inflame the entire Middle East region with ongoing colonial assaults and occupation.  The U.S. military has been invading Iraq and Afghanistan for at least eighteen years. 

We call on white people to uphold the right of the Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian and all people of the Middle East to self-determination and the right to liberate themselves in the face of ongoing U.S. assaults, murder, genocide and occupation. 

U.S. government: biggest terrorist organization in the world

The U.S. government has been responsible for the deaths of millions of people in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, and throughout the colonized world through military attacks and economic warfare in the form of sanctions. 

As Chairman Omali Yeshitela has explained, imperialism is experiencing profound crisis because it is a parasitic economic system resting on the foundation of stolen land, labor, and colonization of the vast majority of the peoples on the planet earth, starting with the enslavement of African people and genocide against the Indigenous people of this land. 

Imperialist stability requires the subjugation of the colonized peoples of the world. Anti-imperialist resistance, including Iranian independence from U.S. rule, represents a mortal threat to the capitalist status quo, disturbing the balance of power and creating what the Chairman calls “an uneasy equilibrium.” 

The U.S. wars of occupation in the Middle East are a continuation of the legacy of parasitic theft of wealth and resources which forms the basis for the wealth and power of Europe and the United States from the inception of world capitalism. What the U.S. does around the world to the peoples of the planet earth is a counterinsurgency strategy honed and practiced first against the African and colonized peoples inside the borders of the U.S. 

The U.S. actions in the Middle East are motivated by strategic and economic interests including access to oil and other resources and geopolitical control of the region.

While the liberal sector of the white ruling class, including arch-imperialist war-mongers like Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, have feigned outrage over the assassination of Soleimani in order to use it as a cheap point against Trump during this upcoming election season, the truth is that the U.S. imperial savagery towards Iran and the Middle East is something that obviously predates the advent of the equally vile presidency of Trump.

A call for a genuine anti-imperialist, anti-war movement! 

The white community inside the U.S. must be loud and clear in our opposition to what our government and ruling class are doing to the oppressed peoples of the world in our name and for our presumed benefit. But more than that, we must stand against the U.S. war inside the United States against Africans, Indigenous people and colonized peoples, as the template for what it does abroad. We must demand reparations to African people as the means by which to build a world without war and imperialism. 

As Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party has stated, it is not enough for white people to simply call for “peace” or “stop the war” only when it takes place thousands of miles away. The war begins here inside U.S. borders. 

The African People’s Socialist Party’s call to white people is to stand in solidarity with the struggle of Iranian, and ALL oppressed peoples around the world, who are fighting righteously to be free of imperialist domination and win self-determination over their own lives. This means joining the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and building the movement against imperialism and for reparations, African self-determination and socialism, inside the belly of the beast.

We call for VICTORY to the Iranians, Africans in the U.S. and around the world, the Indigenous people, the Arab world, and all colonized peoples everywhere. Victory to Iran! Victory to Iraq! Victory to Syria! Victory to the African Revolution! 

Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and organize for white reparations to African people as the basis of a genuine anti-imperialist and anti-war stance from the white community. Reparations to African people is a revolutionary stance that targets the foundation upon which U.S. imperialism rests: a parasitic economy and white society built on slavery and genocide.

Join USM today! 

Register for the 2020 plenary conference of the African People’s Socialist Party to be held in St. Petersburg, Florida, February 1-3. 

Make plans to attend and register for the Uhuru Solidarity Movement’s National Convention, April 18-19 in St. Louis, Missouri.  

Reparations now! Down with U.S. Imperialism! 

Uhuru! 

Reparations: A Revolutionary Demand!
Fall 2019 Speaking Tour

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement calls on white people to stand on the side of the resistance of African and oppressed peoples.

Reparations is our self-criticism and the key to joining in solidarity with African people and all of humanity to play our role in the building of a just and harmonious world without war and suffering.

Reparations stands for our unity with the future of the majority of humanity who have been forced into hideous suffering for the past 600 years for our benefit.

Participate in the Days of Reparations to be held in Boston, Philadelphia, Gainesville, St. Petersburg, St. Louis, Seattle, Portland and Louisville this fall.

Stand on the forward side of history!

Find an event near you!

Philadelphia, PA: September 23rd

Louisville, KY: October 1st

St. Louis, MO: October 3rd

St. Petersburg, FL: October 12th

Boston, MA: October 15th

Portland, OR: October 23rd

Seattle, WA: October 24th

Gainesville, FL: November 10th

Don’t see your city listed? Reach out to us at info@uhurusolidarity.org to find out how you can host your own Day of Reparations to African People speaking event or watch party! You don’t want to miss out on this incredible opportunity!

August 19, 2019

Reparations to African people as a revolutionary demand: key to transforming the world

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) is a white organization founded by and working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party with the goal of building a movement of white reparations to African people in solidarity with the liberation of Africa and African people everywhere. USM exists in over 150 cities throughout the U.S, 37 states, and 5 countries including the UK.

Why reparations to African people is the most positive and progressive stand white people can take!

The 2019 Days of Reparations to African People Speaking Tour and organizing campaign reflects a critical turning point in the six hundred year long history of oppression and resistance of African people in the U.S. and around the world.

It has been over 600 years since Portugal’s assault on and colonization of Africa in 1415, 400 years since the ship of enslaved people arrived at Jamestown, VA in 1619, and 100 years since the “Red Summer”, with countless murderous white riots and slaughter of African people all over the U.S. in 1919.

It is also 5 years after when the massive African uprising in Ferguson, MO following the police murder of Michael Brown in 2014.

At a time when one in three African men will be sent to prison and death by police violence is the greatest cause of death for young black men, the Days of Reparations to African People calls on white people everywhere to break from our continuum of complicity with the oppression of African people and stand in solidarity with the African community fighting for power over their lives and destinies!

Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the African People’s Socialist Party, has shown that capitalism and U.S. and European wealth and power are built on the European assault on Africa, centuries of enslavement of African people, along with the genocide of the Indigenous people, the theft of their land and the colonization of the majority of humanity.

As white people we know that there are two Americas: two distinct bi-polar realities in this country, one characterized by the experience of democracy, law that works for us, the chance to get a good education, jobs, travel and the opportunity to buy our starter homes on tree-lined streets with down payments passed down from our parents and grandparents.

The other is a reality of colonial state repression, imposed poverty, hopelessness, police violence and powerlessness.

We don’t have to be rich to experience much of the “American dream.” Many working white families travel the world, send their kids to college and have at least two cars parked in the driveways of their own homes.

We know that the average white family has about $165,000 in financial assets while one in five African families “have zero or negative net worth,” according to Federal Reserve reports.

If we have a family member with a drug addiction problem we do not expect our doors to be kicked in by SWAT teams or sentencing of 30 years to life in prison, as is common for African people even in this time of drug decriminalization for white people.

Police officers convicted for fatal shootings of African people are “the exception” according to NBC news.

We know that we have wealth, democracy and security at the expense of African and Indigenous people who face colonialism inside this country and around the world.

We didn’t get here because of the myth that we “worked hard and saved our money.”

We united with this imperialist system by lynching, burning, stealing and bombing in return for a standard of living for ourselves at the expense of the life and livelihood of African people.

Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the APSP leads the Uhuru Movement and the struggle to unite and liberate Africa and African people everywhere.

The APSP has been fighting for political and economic power in the hands of African people for nearly 50 years.

The APSP is an African working class organization struggling for the return of Africa’s stolen resources and wealth to build an African socialist government under which every African woman, man and child has control of their resources for prosperity for all under self-determination and self-government.

The Uhuru Movement is clear that no protest, demonstration and lawsuit can reform a system built on a pedestal of slavery. Oppression is in its DNA.

The problem is not “racism” but the colonial domination of African people in Africa, in the U.S. or wherever they have been forcibly dispersed any place on the planet.

Colonialism is the military and economic occupation of a whole people by another people for profit, land and power.

The worldwide Uhuru Movement has built the Black Power Blueprint, Black Star Industries and the African Socialist International as instruments of political and economic power in the hands of the African working class everywhere.

Back in 1976 the African People’s Socialist Party built the African People’s Solidarity Committee, the organization of white people under their leadership strategically placed inside the white population to take this truth home to our families, friends and communities: every dream and aspiration that we have is stolen from others. We all owe Reparations to African people!

In 1982 the Party held the first Tribunal on Reparations for African People in Brooklyn, New York, where an international panel of judges used international law to find the U.S. government guilty of genocide to African people.

The Party’s historic tribunal didn’t petition the U.S. government for reparations; it indicted the U.S. demanding at least $4.1 trillion for the stolen wealth of African people during the period of chattel slavery in the U.S. alone.

The Uhuru Movement also determined to make “reparations a household word,” which is a goal that has clearly come to fruition today. The Party does not see reparations as a payoff, but a revolutionary demand.

For white people, reparations is not a punishment. It is the return of stolen wealth. It is the solution to the fundamental problem roiling this country and the world: the oppression of African and colonized people which is the basis for capitalist war, imposed suffering, world poverty, and terror.

Reparations is the ultimate socialist redistribution of the world’s wealth–under the leadership of the organized African working class.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement calls on white people to stand on the side of the resistance of African and oppressed peoples.

Reparations is our self-criticism and the key to joining in solidarity with African people and all of humanity to play our role in the building of a just and harmonious world without war and suffering.

Reparations stands for our unity with the future of the majority of humanity who have been forced into hideous suffering for the past 600 years for our benefit.

Participate in the Days of Reparations to be held in Boston, Philadelphia, Gainesville, St. Petersburg, St. Louis, Seattle, Portland and Louisville this fall.

Stand on the forward side of history!

Unity through Reparations.