Uhuru Solidarity Philly

Uhuru Solidarity Movement Summer Study/Action Week in Philly

2009-08-14T00:20:00.004-04:00

This past July, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement in Philadelphia hosted a a 6-day “Summer Study/Action Intensive,” a series of studies, events & fundraisers focusing on building support for the programs and campaigns of the Uhuru Movement. This intensive comes at a time when the African People’s Socialist Party is leading incredible struggles around the African world, building the African Socialist International on the continent of Africa as well as in the North American region. The role of white people and other allies of this movement for African liberation is building in the U.S. as the Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizes around campaigns based on justice & reparations for the African community.

For those who attended the events in Philadelphia last month, the understanding of the true nature of the U.S. State was most certainly deepened and was frequently discussed. Starting with a dynamic presentation on Oppression & Resistance in Philadelphia followed by a True African History Tour of Philadelphia, participants learned and saw the deep legacy of slavery, colonialism and white power in Philly, with movements for resistance fighting every step of the way. This affected everyone who went on the tour, seeing the places and learning t he history of the absolute torture and terror inflicted on Indigenous people and Africans in Philadelphia from the landing of William Penn through today’s police containment of the African community.

The first night’s study was an Introduction to African Internationalism & The State, led by Chairwoman Penny Hess, the national leader of the African People’s Solidarity Committee who came to Philadelphia to lead the week’s events. UhuruNews’ dynamic video on the State really drew out the different relationship to the police and courts that we as white people experience, while educating us about the harsh realities for Africans in this country. The theoretical basis for the Uhuru Movement was laid out and provided for excellent discussion, leading everyone into the week’s events. The week moved on with a rousing demonstration on Wednesday morning outside Philly’s Criminal Justice Center, led by International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement leader Diop Olugbala, one of the City Hall 2, who were attacked by Philadelphia police inside City Council chambers on M arch 19th and are being charged with bogus felony assault charges by the very police who choked Diop. This demonstration focused directly on the police, prisons and court system that criminalizes and locks up African people every day in Philly, and challenged the anticipated complicity of citizens by leading a large group of supporters – including white allies in the Uhuru Solidarity Movement – to shout, “Hands Off the City Hall 2! The Real Criminals Are the Boys in Blue!”

The first major event of the week featured Diop Olugbala in a forum calling to “Stop the Billion Dollar War on the Black Community!” Chairwoman Penny Hess gave a mobilizing call to white people to become allies of this movement for African self-determination and to take a stand to defend the democratic rights of the black community. The keynote presentation by Diop Olugbala addressed not only the case of the City Hall 2, but also deepened everyone’s understanding of the State much further through an incredibly gripping yet down-to-earth presentation that challenged everyone to get involved in the organizations of the Uhuru Movement to overturn the parasitic relationship this system has with African people. This gave way to the next night’s event, “U.S. Out of Africa! Resist AFRICOM & NORTHCOM!” featuring Chioma Oruh, who presented an amazingly well-researched and deep analysis of the current U.S. military strategy in Africa and on the homefront. Oruh, who is chair of the African Socialist International North American organizing committee, taught everyone who attended this event so many things that we didn’t previously know about imperialist countries’ plans for Africa, which shines a light on how extremely important it is that African people have a plan for themselves, which we support through the Uhuru Movement. The discussion also informed people on how they can get involved in supporting the African Village Survival Initiative, programs led in black communities in the U.S. to provide community-based solutions to the economic crisis.

The final study of the week, “Environmental Justice Through African Liberation,” was preceded by an informal potluck dinner which allowed people to discuss a lot of the ideas and concepts from the previous events and studies, and to get to know each other better towards the end of a long week. The presentation by Penny Hess also served to connect the call for a cleaner and more sustainable environment to the growing movement of national liberation for oppressed peoples, showing that they must be inseparable. The problems of the environment, “are just a biproduct of colonialism,” as Chairwoman Hess stated, and African & other oppressed peoples need to be free in order to liberate the Earth from its current destructive captors. The presentation provoked a dynamic discussion which touched on many different issues related to building the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, which many people who attended are committed to joining and participating in.

Finally, the last day of the intensive week was an opportunity for everyone to give back to African people, by supporting the fundraiser for the African Village Survival Initiative held at Mi Lah Vegetarian Restaurant in Center City. This restaurant pledged to donate a portion of their lunch proceeds on Saturday, July 18th to the AVSI programs, and partnered Uhuru Solidarity Movement in building and hosting the first of four benefit lunches at the restaurant, featuring information about the Uhuru Movement programs and opportunities to get involved and donate to the projects of the AVSI. This was incredibly successful, as more than twice as many people as usual came to eat at Mi Lah during this day’s lunch, and many of them were friends & supporters of the movement.

This week was extremely mobilizing to current and new members of Uhuru Solidarity Movement, who have been working hard to build a real organization in Philadelphia that we can be proud of, as allies of the African liberation movement. This movement continues to grow and continues to build actions, campaigns and successful fundraisers to ensure that we can support the Uhuru Movement’s programs and take a stand on the right side of history.

Uhuru!

Forum tonight: U.S. Out of Africa! World-renowned scholar-activist Chioma Oruh on Resisting AFRICOM & NORTHCOM

2009-07-14T15:27:00.001-04:00

THUR JULY 16:
U.S. Out of Africa!
Stop the War on the
Black Community!

7:30pm at the Uhuru Solidarity Center
3733 Lancaster Ave, West Philly (#10 Trolley)

Chioma Oruh on why we must resist AFRICOM & NORTHCOM!
• Chioma Oruh is a graduate student at Howard University who gives multimedia presentations all over the U.S. building the movement to expose & defeat the U.S. military plans for AFRICOM & NORTHCOM. Chioma is chair of the African Socialist International North American organizing committee.
• Presentation by Penny Hess, chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee

Did you know?

• AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command) is another word for the U.S. plans for the military occupation of Africa in order to expropriate its vast natural resource, while a third of African people face starvation!

• NORTHCOM escalates the war on the black community in the U.S. The military base in Ft. Stewart, GA has 70,000+ troops poised to contain "civil unrest" in the U.S., violating U.S. law.

• The African Socialist International, led by the Uhuru Movement, is uniting African people worldwide to control their own resources and to unify & liberate Africa!

• Become an ally of this movement for African liberation!
The Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizes in the white community to support African people's right to control their own resources & communities!

For more information contact Uhuru Solidarity Movement - 215-387-0919 - philly@uhurusolidarity.org - www.uhurusolidarity.org

WED JULY 15:
Stop the Billion Dollar War
on the Black Community!
Hands Off the City Hall 2!

7:30pm at the Uhuru Solidarity Center
3733 Lancaster Ave, West Philly (#10 Trolley)

Featuring Diop Olugbala
Leader of the Philadelphia branch of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement & one of the City Hall 2, attacked & arrested by police on March 19th in City Council for protesting Mayor Nutter's budget, which spends $1.1 billion on police & prisons while the majority of Africans in Philly live in poverty!

Support the right of the African community to organize for economic development & justice, to end the city's policies of police violence, poverty & prisons for African people!

Speakers: Diop Olugbala, International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement
Penny Hess, African People's Solidarity Committee
"The State" - Video by Uhuru News

City Hall 2 Struggle Intensifies! Call-in Campaign Monday June 15th - Mobilize to Attend June 16th Hearing

2009-06-14T15:53:00.003-04:00

Call-in Campaign Monday June 15th - Mobilize to Attend June 16th Hearing

A call for solidarity to defend the democratic rights of the African community

** Call in to Judge Frank Palumbo ALL DAY MONDAY **
at 215-683-7044.

In your call or message state "I am calling to voice my complete disapproval of the attempt being made by the DA's office to charge Diop Olugbala, also known as Wali Rahman, of the felony charge of aggravated assault. I unite with demand for the immediate dropping of all charges of Wali Rahman and Shabaka Mnombatha (aka Franklin Moses) and that the police officers involved in their attack be immediately fired.”

On April 28th, 2009, Uhuru Movement International Organizer Diop Olugbala (Wali Rahman) and member Shabaka Mnombatha (Franklin Moses), also known as the Philly City Hall 2, walked out of the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center following their preliminary hearing, when renowned activist-attorney Michael Coard stepped into the case and singlehandedly exposed the lies that the State were trying to use to cover up their attack on them. It was in this same hearing where Judge Theresa Carr Deni ruled that the felony assault charges were not valid and threw them out. The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement and the African community summed this up as a victory and prepared for the then scheduled trial on June 18th, confident they would beat the remaining misdemeanor charges - adding one more chapter to InPDUM's illustrious history of struggle and victory. However, on May 29 all of that changed, when Diop received a call from Coard, who informed him of the City's latest attempt to send him to prison...

Uhuru Movement leaders attacked and arrested by the City for peacefully protesting Nutter’s budget and Billion Dollar War on the black community!
The case of the City Hall 2 began on Thursday, March 19, 2009, when police attacked two organizers of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement during the City Council meeting to feature Mayor Michael Nutter and his introduction of the highly controversial 2010 city budget. During this process, InPDUM members were holding signs protesting Mayor Nutter's current budget that spends more than $1 billion a year for police and prisons, which attack the black community. Subsequent to the police attack, Diop and Shabaka were brutally arrested and were hit with a list of charges, including aggravated assault on police!

InPDUM, also known as the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, is a grassroots organization that fights for self determination for African people around the world. In Philadelphia, InPDUM has been leading serious struggles against the neo-colonial (white power in black face) City Hall administration of Michael Nutter. Much of the struggle has revolved around the question of the City budget, which Nutter has been using to further exploit and oppress the African community with the investment of billions of dollars ($1.1 billion to be exact) towards police and prisons.

InPDUM's most recent act of self defense against the City of Philadelphia's included a protracted struggle to lock up the heads of its criminal government - Mayor Michael Nutter, Chief Charles Ramsey and then District Attorney Lynn Abraham. This struggle has resulted in InPDUM holding a tribunal (court) for reparations to African people - where Nutter, Ramsey and Abraham were put on trial for crimes of genocide being committed against African people by their respective offices. Diop Olugbala physically served a subpoena to Nutter and Ramsey to appear at the tribunal during a town hall meeting organized by Nutter at Benjamin Franklin High School on December 10th, 2008.

Since the Tribunal, InPDUM has been waging relentless struggle to have the demands of the People's Sentence carried out - the most of which was the demand for reparations to the African community and a budget that genuinely serves the interests of the African working class. As Diop and Shabaka held up signs expressing these demands, they were attacked by police and arrested - an event that revealed the State's real role in the City of Philadelphia.

Indeed, this just further exposed what we already knew: the State – of which the DA, the courts and police are a part – have no interest in the truth, justice, freedom of speech or any other virtue that U.S. imperialism claims to uphold. Law and order is not the question. In fact, when “the law” undermines white power’s ability to oppress and exploit the African community, the State will disregard the law. Through the case of the City Hall 2 and others like it, we were shown what the only function of the State is: to maintain the status quo, to contain and silence any form of resistance in the African community against the oppressive conditions it imposes on us - as it has, and continues to do to the City Hall 2, Ajamu Bandele and the African working class as a whole.

State to Defy Its Own Law in a clear political attack on the Uhuru Movement and the right of African people to speak out in their interest!
The State was not counting on the same resistance it was met with in the form of Diop, Shabaka and InPDUM to also come in the form of its allies like Michael Coard. So when Coard exposed the cops’ lies at the April 28th hearing, the DA was determined to regroup & devise another strategy to lock Diop up on felony charges.

This was the basis for the letter that Diop received in the mail from the DA's office, announcing that the previously scheduled trial date on Thursday, June 18 was mysteriously being moved to Tuesday, June 16th . However, it was only until Coard called Diop to explain the current situation that he began to truly grasp its implications. It is important to note that the State is only moving on Diop in this way - and not Shabaka. This is further evidence that it is a political question, for if it were about justice, the DA would have been trying to impose the same charges against both brothers who it claims was committing the same acts. The fact is that Diop is a key force in InPDUM, responsible for leading up work not only in Philly but also throughout the world. To take him off the streets would be a strategic blow for imperialism against the revolution.

The June 16 hearing is a component of the State's strategy to accomplish this goal. It is a proceeding wherein an Assistant District Attorney will attempt to persuade a Common Pleas Court judge to reverse the Municipal Court judge's April 28 preliminary hearing ruling that discharged the one felony (Aggravated Assault) and two of the four misdemeanors (Simple Assault and Recklessly Endangering Another Person).

Some might characterize the June 16 hearing as a type of "appeal" or "reconsideration request" wherein an Assistant District Attorney will argue that the preliminary hearing judge should have held Diop and Shabaka for trial on all five charges, not just the misdemeanor Disorderly Conduct and Resisting Arrest charges. But the reality is that the upcoming hearing is just a tactic through which the State can reassign a judge to the case that will rule in its favor.

It is unlikely that any witnesses will be called to testify on June 16 . Usually, a Common Pleas Court judge will simply read the preliminary hearing transcript (also known as the notes of testimony) and then listen to legal arguments from the Assistant District Attorney and the defense attorney. In this case, the "judge" is Frank Palumbo who, unlike his "liberal" counterpart Carr Deni, is a notorious reactionary in a robe who was once referred to in Reader's Digest magazine as "One of America's Worst Judges". Palumbo has had formal misconduct charges filed against him by the Commission on Judicial Disabilities for a series of lapses in his handling of protective orders. In January 2008 Palumbo dismissed charges against 2 Philly cops who brutalized 2 young Africans - for example.

The fact that the Philadelphia Municipal Court Rules of Criminal Procedure as well as the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure both allow the District Attorney's Office to take such action, just as they allow a defense attorney to take similar action if a preliminary hearing judge erroneously ruled against a defendant, is evidence of the criminal enterprise that is the court system of Pennsylvania and the entire U.S.

If justice is to be won for the City Hall 2 or any political prisoner, we must build InPDUM, a revolutionary mass organization armed with a Revolutionary National Democratic Program that speaks to the aspirations of the entire colonized African nation. InPDUM is prepared for struggle. We were built for struggle. We are calling on all freedom loving people to unite with the struggle to defend Diop and Shabaka. To help you can do the following:

-Attend the hearing on Tuesday, June 16 at the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center, Room 504 at 9:00am. We are calling on all the supporters to meet at 8:30AM in front of the CJC (13th and Filbert) to participate in the press conference.

- Call in to Judge Frank Palumbo ALL DAY MONDAY at 215-683-7044. In your call or message state "I am calling to voice my complete disapproval of the attempt being made by the DA's office to charge Diop Olugbala, also known as Wali Rahman, of the felony charge of aggravated assault. I unite with demand for the immediate dropping of all charges of Wali Rahman and Shabaka Mnombatha (aka Franklin Moses) and that the police officers involved in their attack be immediately fired.”

-Make a financial contribution to the City Hall 2 Legal Defense Fund. To donate you can send checks and money orders made out to InPDUM - CH2, to the following address: InPDUM, 1245 18th Ave South, St Petersburg, FL 33705

Or you can make a payment on the PayPal account: follow this link
http://www.inpdum.org/donate.html

For more information call: 215-459-7551 or email info@inpdum.org Hands off the City Hall 2! Jail the Killer Cops, the DA and the Mayor!

Your support helped win a partial victory for imprisoned Uhuru organizer Ajamu Bandele!

2009-06-08T00:18:00.003-04:00

On Thursday, June 4th, in York PA, Ajamu Bandele, local branch president of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, faced his sentencing hearing in a frame-up drug case used to attack the organization. Falsely convicted of criminal conspiracy to deliver marijuana, along with possession with intent to deliver marijuana, Ajamu was never granted a fair trial. From day one, the all-white jury was never sworn in, which would grant most defendants an opportunity for a dismissal. However, the judge pushed forward in the trial and Ajamu's lawyer, in complicity with the State, did not object. At the sentencing hearing, Ajamu tried to pass a motion for "relief" that would give him more time to appeal for a retrial before his sentencing, on the grounds that his trial was unconstitutional - the jury was not sworn in properly, and he did not have adequate defense counsel.

However, this motion was denied, and his sentencing went as follows:

- due to a mandatory "school zone violation" law, since Ajamu's charges are alleged to have happened in an area near a school, he has a mandatory minimum 2 year sentence.

- fortunately, since the State was recommending Ajamu be sentenced to at least 6-12 years in prison, the judge was lenient -- as a direct result of all of the calls, emails, and letters of support from Uhuru Movement members and supporters throughout the world!

- the sentence handed down by the judge was 2-4 years, with the 7 months Ajamu has served since Oct 29, 2008 as credit.

- Ajamu will still be appealing, with a new lawyer, to get the entire ruling overturned and win his freedom!

We must follow this case and continue to support. Updates will be on the InPDUM website (http://inpdum.org/campaigns/ajamu).

Thank you to all supporters of the Uhuru Movement for taking a stand in defense of the democratic rights of the African community to organize and resist their oppression!

UHURU!

From Johann, a comrade in St Petersburg, FL who attended the USM National Conference in Philly:

2009-05-08T15:00:00.001-04:00

"The rain like tears fell into the gutters in Philadelphia, as if the Earth mourned for those Africans who had reached for her, only to be burned alive. Police had dropped a c4 bomb from a helicopter on innocent civilians—including women and children— belonging to MOVE organization. As we entered deeper into the war zone, which they called the Beirut of Philadelphia, my eyes felt heavy, the weight of pain sapped my energy. It was like justice lay dormant, as if the dead reached deep within my bosom. But shock put me into a half-conscious trance, as the story of this neighborhood bled from the lips of my comrade Harris. As we left, I sat in the car seat dejected, numb, and helpless. Later, the sky stopped crying. It was my turn to weep. Alone. Clarity embraced me. Then I heard Chairman Omali in my head, a voice of strength. I saw fire in those eyes, as he told the whites to take responsibility and stop supporting imperialism at the Uhuru Solidarity Conference. How he reached out to his brother Africans moved me. A wind of justice blows strong. It’s waking. I felt it in Ironiff’s voice as she told her struggle with the police. She fought back the whites. It became clear to me Africans have always struggle for their freedom, never surrendering after five-hundred years. This is the final push. Now, whites have a choice to make, to support reparations or fall with the Beast of imperial power."

2009-04-27T12:23:00.004-04:00

Become an ally of the movement
for African liberation & justice!

This is the movement that's changing the world!

SAT MAY 2 • 10-6pm

1st Unitarian Church • 2125 Chestnut St, Center City Philadelphia

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We are facing the deepest crisis of our lifetime. The future of this planet lies in unity & solidarity with African and oppressed people, not imperialist war, plunder & hoarding scarce resources at the expense of others.

Racism, police brutality, economic crisis and U.S. war have the same root
The solution is solidarity with the African community struggle for justice!

• From environmental colonialism to environmental justice

• African Village Survival Initiative
How we as white people can join in solidarity with a program and vision for the future based on sustainability and self-determination for African people everywhere.

How to build a branch of Uhuru Solidarity Movement in your area
How to get involved in national Uhuru Movement campaigns

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Keynote speaker:

Omali Yeshitela
Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party and founder of the Uhuru (freedom) Movement and the African Socialist International. Founder of The Burning Spear newspaper and author of numerous works including One Africa! One Nation! and Omali Yeshitela Speaks.

Ironiff Ifoma
President of the African People's Education and Defense Fund and coordinator of the African Village Survival Initiative, a collective response from the African community to the global economic crisis; building economic development and sustainability.
Diop Olugbala
International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement International Organizer. Leading the struggle in Philly challenging Mayor Nutter's billion dollar war against the black community; one of the "Philly City Hall 2" arrested in City Council meeting on March 19th.
Penny Hess
Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, building solidarity from the white community with the Uhuru Movement. Author of Overturning the Culture of Violence, an examination of the history of the current U.S. economic system and its foundation in slavery and genocide and many other works.
Al Alston
Leads the African-American Business & Residents Association and the struggle against gentrification in North Philly; member of the Hands Off the City Hall 2 Defense Comm.
Umar Abdullah-Johnson
International Movement for the Independence & Protection of African People; African child psychologist.

Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement!

215-387-0919
UhuruSolidarity.org • UhuruNews.com
Listen to UhuruRadio.com Sundays 9-5 EST

Hands Off the Philly City Hall 2!

2009-04-16T16:01:00.002-04:00

Hands Off the Philly City Hall 2! Statement from Uhuru Solidarity Movement

2009-03-26T00:30:00.011-04:00

International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement leads press conference and demo for the City Hall 2

On Wednesday, March 25th, the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement led a press conference and demonstration outside Philadelphia City Hall following the pretrial hearing for Diop Olugbala and Shabaka Mnombatha - aka the City Hall 2 - organizers for the Uhuru Movement who were brutally attacked and arrested by police for peacefully protesting a City Council session unveiling Mayer Nutter's 2010 budget on Thursday, March 19th.

(See video of the protest and attack HERE)

The following is the solidarity statement delivered at the press conference by Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizer Alison Hoehne:

On behalf of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, an organization that works in the white community under the leadership of the African-led Uhuru Movement, we want to make a statement in solidarity with the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s demand: Hands Off the City Hall 2!

We join in condemning the mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, Police Chief Ramsey, District Attorney Lynne Abraham, and the entire city government, for the brutal assault against the African working class here in Philadelphia. When Nutter sicked his thugs on InPDUM International Organizer Diop Olugbala and on Shabaka Mnombatha in the gallery of City Hall, on Thursday, March 19th because they were exercising their democratic and constitutional right to peacefully protest the mayor, he exposed just how threatened this system is, and his administration is, by the African working class speaking out for their rights. Mayor Nutter attacked the African leadership standing, holding signs, and protesting the 2010 budget. He didn’t send his goons to arrest any of the many other protesters also holding signs and also speaking out on various issues.

Why is it that the neocolonial Nutter administration is so threatened by the voice of African working people? Because they expose the truth about what this city and country are based on; they raise the real issues: that Nutter’s entire budget is a War Budget, as InPDUM has said, that is based on exploiting, on attacking, and on terrorizing African people. Just like the U.S. military is in Iraq, and Afghanistan and around the world. They exposed that this city spends over a billion dollars every year on the criminal justice system, organized to criminalize and lock up African people, to fuel a massive prison system, as we just witnessed in the kangaroo courtroom that we were just in. It’s the basis of the entire economy in Philadelphia; it gives jobs to all these young white kids at Drexel and other universities. They’re all going into law to lock up African people.

Philadelphia has the highest imprisonment rate in the world, Philadelphia has the highest rate of poverty in the world, and Philadelphia has the highest rate of police murders in this country. Already this year, 9 African people have been murdered by the Philadelphia police. Nobody else will speak out about this but the Uhuru Movement and the African community!

The Uhuru Movement has exposed the Nutter administration as a brutal, neocolonial regime. Nutter himself has built his career on attacking African people and deepening their poverty and misery. Through the “Stop & Frisk” campaign, over 200,000 African people were stopped and attacked, just last year. The 98% increase in the foreclosure rate right here in Philadelphia, where almost 16,000 families have lost their homes in the African communities of West Philly and North Philly predominantly, just this past year. Nutter gives money to his Penn cronies to gentrify North & West Philly as the African community is being pushed out.

The Uhuru Movement exposes that Nutter has no interest in solving the problems of the African community. He’s about closing schools, closing health clinics, closing the pools so African children have nowhere to go in the summer. And this city is attempting to rescue itself from the deep economic crisis it is experiencing, by deepening the attacks on the African community and the poor population here. Through the property tax increase, where 16,000 people have lost their homes just last year, and now Nutter wants to increase the property taxes by 19% - making it more impossible for African people to keep their homes. The parking tickets, the garbage tickets, every possible way he’s attacking African people.

As the Uhuru Movement has said, this is economic and military warfare, and will only create a worse situation, a more violent situation for the people in Philadelphia, and a more intense situation of poverty for the people. We say the real criminals are the ones who dropped the bomb on the African community in 1985, who are now, as the Uhuru Movement has said, dropping an economic bomb on the African community. The real criminals are the ones who just stole 170 billion dollars of the people’s money to give to Wall Street and corporate America. The real criminals are the Pennsylvania judges who just stole $2.6 million from private juvenile prisons, to lock up thousands of mostly black children for profit. The real criminals are the narcotics officers framing African people all over North and West Philly, and they’re in court getting overtime right now, lying on African people.

This is a criminal system and it’s in crisis. The African working class is not trying to rescue the slave master from its crisis, but to get rid of the slave master once and for all, so African and colonized people can be free, and control over their own resources and lives once again! We want the same thing! We reject the city giving resources, opportunities, and jobs to us in the white community, at the expense of African people’s lives! Saving a library or saving city employees’ jobs isn’t going to solve the economic crisis that Philadelphia and the U.S. is in. The politicians care nothing for any of us; we are expendable and we refuse to participate in this war against African and Puerto Rican people any longer. If we truly uphold justice and democracy, we must defend the right of African people and all oppressed and colonized people to resist their oppression. We call on all freedom-loving North American people in this city to join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and work under the leadership of the African working class for REAL solutions!

End the Billion Dollar War on the African Community!

Give a billion dollars to the African community itself for real economic development; for schools, for healthcare, for housing! Jail the killer cops! Jail the real criminals – Nutter, Ramsey, and Abraham! Reparations to African people!

Hands off the City Hall 2!

The International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement calls for people to join the Campaign to Free the Philly City Hall 2 and stop Philadelphia’s billion-dollar war against the African community and to unite with the following demands:

All charges against Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) and Shabaka Mnombatha (aka Franklin Moses) be dropped immediately.
Impeach Mayor Nutter
Fire the police thugs who attacked Shabaka and Diop
Reparations to all the people injured by the police thugs at City Hall on March 19th.

UHURU!

Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement:
uhurusolidarity.org
philly@uhurusolidarity.org
215-387-0919

PHOTO CREDITS: RAY SKWIRE phillyphoto.wordpress.com

Police Attack Protesters in City Council. There is no free speech for African people in Philadelphia!

2009-03-19T18:11:00.004-04:00

Police attack Diop Olugbala during demonstration

See video of police attack here.

On Thursday, March 19, 2009, police attacked members of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) in the gallery of the City Council during the City Council session where Mayor Nutter was announcing his 2010 budget. International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement members were holding signs protesting Mayor Nutter’s budget, which cuts essential services for the African population while spending more than one billion dollars a year for police and prisons attacking the black community. Subsequent to the police attack, InPDUM international organizer Diop Olugbala, (aka Wali Rahman), and member Shabaka Mnombatha, (aka Franklin Moses), were brutally arrested and are being charged with aggravated assault on police!

As the meeting started, some of the many InPDUM supporters present were holding up signs saying "Unite Philadelphia through Economic and Social Justice", "Jail Killer Police", "Stop the War on the Black Community", and other demands upholding the rights of the impoverished black community.

The meeting began with a resolution to recognize the unbeaten Frankford Chargers youth football team. The Chargers were wearing black armbands in memory of their teammate, 14 year-old Sharif Lee Jones, who was murdered by Philadelphia police on August 24th 2008.

As the team left the chambers, civil affairs police gathered behind the InPDUM organizers and demanded they immediately sit down and stop protesting. A Civil Affairs officer put Diop Olugbala into a choke-hold. When Diop and the entire audience protested this attack, the police threw Diop and Shabaka down and arrested them.

As a result of the violent attack by the police, at least two elderly people were thrown to the ground by the police, and another member of InPDUM, an elderly African woman, was taken to the hospital with a broken hip.

The International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement calls for an end to police violence and killings, and demands justice through a program for real change:
- Jail the police who murder or abuse African people
- Justice for families harmed or killed by police
- Reparations for the African community – $1.1 billion in genuine economic development
- Community controlled police review board with subpoena power.

Justice for Diop Olugbala and Shabaka Mnombatha!
Economic Development, Not Police Containment and Prisons for the African Community!

InPDUM is calling on people to contact the offices below with the following Demands:

Stop the frame up and drop all charges.

Offices to be contacted:

Mayor Nutter’s Office 215-686-3000.

http://uhurunews.com
http://inpdum.org

Come to the Earth Day Fest & Flea open meeting on Wednesday, March 11th at 7pm!

2009-03-04T23:25:00.001-05:00

Uhuru Solidarity Movement presents:

Earth Day Fest and Flea Market

in Clark Park

People's Townhall Meeting - Stop the Violence in Philadelphia! - Thurs Feb 26

2009-02-20T10:35:00.004-05:00

Thurs • Feb 26 • 7pm

Songhai City Cultural Center, 3117-27 Master St, N. Phila

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There are TWO realities in Philadelphia...

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This is not a post-racial America! The resources, jobs &
opportunities are in our white communities, while African
people face state-sponsored martial law, poverty & prisons.

We reject this racial divide! We support the call for genuine
economic development and social justice for the African
community as the only path to peace & unity!

The Uhuru movement has a program for REAL change to move this city forward in unity!
The African working class-led Uhuru Movement is organizing for African community control, reparations & justice.
We have a role to play in ending the violence in our city!

The International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement:
215-387-0919 • philly@inpdum.org
www.InPDUM.org • www.UhuruNews.com

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement:
philly@uhurusolidarity.org • www.UhuruSolidarity.org
UhuruSolidarityPhilly.blogspot.com
Listen to UhuruRadio.com- Sundays 9am-5pm

Free Ajamu Bandele - Targeted & framed by the York city government police for standing up for the rights of the black community!

2009-02-08T14:00:00.005-05:00

Uhuru Movement Leader in York, PA

**DEMONSTRATION DATE CHANGED!**
Come to York, PA for a Demonstration at Ajamu’s Pre-Trial Hearing
Tues Feb 17
8:30am At York County Courthouse • 45 N George St York, PA

A call to the white community:
Support the African community’s right to organize
for justice & liberation without government attack!

On Wed, October 29, 2008 Ajamu Bandele, president of the York branch of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), was arrested by the PA State Police in York and charged with possession of marijuana with conspiracy to distribute. Ajamu’s co-defendant has taken full responsibility for the situation, proving the State has no case against Ajamu.

Ajamu has been targeted by the government because he is a powerful leader of the black community in York. Ajamu led InPDUM’s work to expose the federal “222 Corridor Anti-Gang Initiative” as a blatant attack on African people’s democratic rights. It is part of the U.S. government’s “war on drugs, gangs & crime” which the Uhuru Movement has shown to be nothing but a war on the African community! Ajamu has been snatched away from his community, denied bail & the right to work as the sole provider for his 7 year-old son Quazil.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is an organization based in the white community working under the leadership of the African-led Uhuru Movement in solidarity with their struggle for justice and reparations. We see that just as the U.S. is waging war against the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine in order to control their resources, the U.S. government is waging the same war against the black community right here!

The truth is that the U.S. economy is dependent on drugs and prisons; on criminalizing the entire African community and locking up a whole generation of young African people! While Wall Street banks and big corporations like Walmart, Microsoft and Starbucks make the biggest profits from the prison industry, it brings enormous resources, job opportunities, and benefits to the entire white community. This is why we have largely supported anti-black policies like “Stop and Frisk”, “Three Strikes” laws and heavy-handed policing.

Clearly this is NOT a “Post-Racial America”! If we want REAL change, we must stand in solidarity with the movement led by African people for control over their own lives, resources and communities! HANDS OFF THE UHURU MOVEMENT!
Come to York, PA for a Demonstration at Ajamu’s Pre-Trial Hearing • Tues Feb 17 • 8:30am At York County Courthouse • 45 N George St York, PA

Can't make the demonstration?

What YOU Can Do:

Call In Write In Voicing the Uhuru Movement's Demands:

Demand the detainer is lifted from Ajamu’s bond so that he can return to the community. For Call-in / Write-in info click here
Demand Ajamu’s immediate release and that all charges be dropped For Call-in / Write-in info (information forthcoming)

InPDUM.org • UhuruSolidarity.org • 215-387-0919

Stop & Frisk is part of Philadelphia's Billion Dollar War against the black community!

2009-01-04T11:59:00.005-05:00

The Stop and Frisk Policy put forward by Mayor Michael Nutter is another violent tactic in the unjust war the city of Philadelphia is waging against the African community. It is always impoverished black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods that are targeted for Stop and Frisk, which violates basic democratic rights by allowing the police to treat every person walking down the street as a criminal suspect.

Can you imagine the outcry if they Stopped and Frisked people in Rittenhouse Square or on the Penn campus?

This divisive policy was cynically put forward by then candidate Michael Nutter to show the white community that he would lock up more black people than any other candidate. The reality is that Philadelphia already has the highest rate of imprisonment in the entire country, and the US has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world! Philadelphia also has the highest poverty rate of any major US city. The mass imprisonment of an impoverished population not only does not solve any social problems it create terrible new ones. The African community in THIS city is living under the same military occupation experienced by the Iraqi people! This is a terrible human rights violation that every citizen should be outraged by. We have a responsibility to speak out when the people in power are the ones committing the crimes.

Over 1 billion dollars, an astounding 35 % of the budget of the entire city goes to the police and the system of locking up more and more young black men in prison. The Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM is an organization based in the white community) unites with the In ternational Peoples Democratic Uhuru Movement’s program for real change. We support the call for an immediate end to the Stop and Frisk Policy and that reparations be paid to the African community which has lived under this policy of police containment.

The African community is calling for the billion dollars to be used for positive economic development in their own hands. That would solve community problems by upgrading housing conditions, making quality health care available, and putting resources into libraries and schools.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement calls for an end to the anti-African Stop and Frisk and the divisive social policy that which creates jobs, condos, wealthy universities and a prosperous lifestyle for white people at the expense of oppressive conditions of povert y and police terror in the African community.

The only way forward to a united Philadelphia is through justice and reparations to the African community.

Free Ajamu Bandele! Call-in Today

2008-12-01T12:09:00.002-05:00

CALL IN ALL DAY during the international Call In Day - Monday, December 1st

Call the Pennsylvania Parole Board demanding they grant Orlando Gibson bond!

Phone (717) 787- 5699 (wait for operator and ask to speak to Board Secretary!)
Fax (717) 787-4666

The time has come to intensify the struggle for the release of our Comrade Ajamu Bandele (Orlando Gibson) - International Outreach Director of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement - from the clutches of the York County Prison system and Pennsylvania Parole Board. Comrade Ajamu was arrested by the York County Police Department on Wednesday, October 29th and framed up with charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

The InPDUM has been organizing to expose Ajamu's arrest as a set up by the York Police Department, an attack on the African Liberation Movement and an attempt to undermine the very important political work Ajamu was doing in the community!

At the same time, the Pennsylvannia Parole Board has placed a detainer on Ajamu's bond, denying his the ability to return to his family and community as he awaits his preliminary hearing and the trial that may follow it.

Ajamu has a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, December 2nd at the York County Courthouse - at which time York County Magistrate Richard Martin will make a determination as to whether there is enough "evidence" for the case to go to a trial. Should the case go to trial, a determination will also be made by the Pennsylvania Parole Board as to whether the detainer on his bond shall be lifted.

We must act today!

Sign the petition demanding Ajamu be granted bond: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ajamu/

CALL IN ALL DAY during the international Call In Day - Monday, December 1st.

Call the Pennsylvania Parole Board demanding they grant Orlando Gibson bond!

Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
Phone: (717) 787-5699 (wait for operator and ask to speak to Board Secretary!)
Fax: (717) 787-4666

York County Probation Dept
Phone: (717) 771-9602 (wait for operator and ask to speak to Board Secretary!)

Call Magistrate Richard Martin demanding that the charges on Orlando Gibson be dropped!
Magistrate Richard Martin: (717) 771-4792

For more information: http://www.inpdum.org/campaigns/ajamu/

"Clean drinking water facility in Sierra Leone needs support": Dr. Michelle Strongfields speaks in Philly

2008-11-15T00:53:00.002-05:00

On Friday, November 7th, 2008, Dr. Michelle Strongfields spoke at a benefit for the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project at the Dhyana Yoga Center in Olde City in Philadelphia, PA. This benefit was co-sponsored by Uhuru Solidarity Movement as a part of a campaign which people can join to build solidarity with AAPDEP. Dr Strongfields, a Cuban-trained African doctor living in West Philadelphia, reported on her recent work building AAPDEP programs in Sierra Leone addressing the epidemic of infant mortality due to unclean drinking water.

AAPDEP is an African-led organization of the Uhuru Movement established to engage in development projects to transform the dire conditions imposed on African communities worldwide by making use of the vast technical expertise of Africans everywhere. Among other current initiatives, AAPDEP is building a rainwater harvesting and community healthcare facility, as well as a community fishing project in Oloshoro, Sierra Leone, and sponsoring a borehole (pressurized well) for irrigation of a 25-acre section of farmland of the Ujamma Youth Farming Project (UYFP) in Gweru, Zimbabwe.

Dr. Strongfields' presentation exposed that while Africa is the most mineral-rich continent on the planet, centuries of brutal assault by Europeans and the U.S. though the slave trade, colonialism and now neo-colonial plunder, has left the vast majority of African people in a state of starvation, without food, clean water, adequate shelter or health care. Unlike charity programs which don't change the cause of the problems, AAPDEP is providing leadership to African people to transform these conditions and to regain power over their lives and resources. AAPDEP’s programs are “from the people, to the people”, hearing the needs of the community, then focusing the resources available to create solutions led by African people themselves.

Dr. Strongfields began her presentation by showing a picture of Baby Alusine, who the AAPDEP team helped get access to the very limited local health care available in Oloshoro. Severely dehydrated, Baby Alusine ultimately was one of the 15 babies who died in the short time Dr. Strongfields was in Sierra Leone. This death was not only a tragedy for Baby Alusine’s parents and his twin sister, but also for African people as a whole, since he represents “the future of Africa and African people”, the next generation of teachers, health care workers and leaders. It is estimated that every year 3.4 million people die as a result of water related diseases. This is the single leading cause of death world wide, the majority being children under five years old.

Dr. Strongfields also described the productive organizing work, which created a leadership structure and committees in meetings involving hundreds of local participants. In brainstorming sessions, the community was able to identify basic needs for creating their own solutions. The people resolved to create a facility to harvest and purify rain water as a reliable source of clean drinking water. This facility will also house a rehydration station for local children suffering from diarrhea due to water contaminated by bacteria and parasites, which is often deadly in Africa. Plans were made to get the construction materials, basic medical equipment and supplies of salt and sugar for the rehydration solution, and recruit health care workers to staff the center.

To make these plans a reality, Dr Strongfields stated, required resources, and the people attending the benefit responded. AAPDEP received enthusiastic financial support from the First Friday crowd. In addition, the Dhyana Yoga studio provided the space for the benefit and set an inspiring example by opening up the resources of health and fitness enjoyed by the white community to benefit African people's struggle for sustainability through self-determination.

The benefit continues with an on line auction of items from African Art to original paintings, jewelry, and gift certificates from local Center City businesses. Bids for these many exciting items are being taken online for the next 2 weeks at the AAPDEP website – www.developmentforafrica.org.

There will also be another event benefiting AAPDEP at Dhyana Yoga – a three hour workshop on Kundalini yoga on Sunday, November 23rd. For more information, contact the Uhuru Solidarity Movement local office at (215) 387-0919

Support African Sustainable Development Programs!

2008-11-02T19:39:00.000-05:00

Support African Sustainable Development Programs!

Philadelphia Police getting away with murder!

2008-09-18T14:46:00.002-04:00

Philadelphia Police getting away with murder
Police get acquitted and African people’s lives are disregarded
(Written in response to the Philadelphia Inquirer for the article ‘City Police Shootings get Mired in System,’ Sept.3)

We in Uhuru Solidarity Movement would like to thank the Inquirer for keeping in the forefront the facts that District Attorney Lynne Abraham never prosecutes police for murdering African people in Philadelphia, the fraudulent investigations drag out forever, and the officers always end up being acquitted anyway. We unite with the African community’s demands for justice!

In 2006, Philadelphia police killed twenty people in this city, the most since 1980. It was the most people killed by police in the 10 largest cities in the entire country that year. In 2007, six people were shot and killed by the Philadelphia Police Department. Bryan Jones was the first person killed by the police in 2007. Bryan was taking his little cousin home from a New Years Eve Party, when the police shot him in the back of the head.

The D.A.’s office is supposedly still investigating, but not one officer has been prosecuted and Bryan’s family is still grieving the unjustifiable death of Bryan.
The African working class-led Uhuru Movement understands that the D.A. is carrying out the public policy of police containment of the African community. This is obvious in the fact that the D.A. never initiates the prosecution of any police officer. When a prosecution is initiated it is usually initiated by the family of the victim, or from a public demonstration such as those held by the Uhuru Movement.

The police in this city have a long time record for being scandalous and corrupt, such as the unfounded raids in 1985 during Operation Cold Turkey and the notorious Five Squad and the 39th District & 25th District scandals which made it clear it's not a scandal at all but policy from top to bottom to plant drugs, steal money, and frame and imprison innocent African and Latino people. The people locked up by police officers participating in those illegal raids are still in prison today! This Philadelphia Police Department is the same organization responsible for the murder of innocent men, women, and children in the bombing of the MOVE family, and the criminalization of the African community with policies like Stop & Frisk today.

The struggle to end police terror is part of a world-wide movement of the African working class, organizing to take back all their stolen resources, their land, and culture. We understand the public policy of police containment of the African community brings wealth and security to the white community through the drug and prison economies, through gentrification and land-grabs, and it is all at the expense of African people. There is no economic development for African communities in Philly - over half African men are unemployed, and more Africans go to prison from Philly than anywhere in the US!

The Uhuru Movement demands that Lynne Abraham be brought to trial for her disregard of the lives of people like Bryan Jones, Moses DeJesus, Ronald Timbers, Abebe Isaac, Raymond Pelzer and the list goes on. Also, the Uhuru Movement demands that the murderous Philadelphia Police Department be held accountable for these crimes immediately, before another African person is tortured or killed.

written Kristy Schneider
Uhuru Solidarity Movement

2008-08-14T14:42:00.003-04:00

VICTORY IN TALLAHASSEE!

The Justice for Javon Dawson Committee
converged on Governor Crist's office at Florida's capitol Wednesday - demanding an independent investigation!
It was anything but business as usual as the Justice for Javon Committee members held a demonstration outside the capitol building this morning, chanting and then speaking before the national media. Then the demonstration went inside to outside Florida Governor, Charlie Crist's office where the campaign insisted on being seen by the Govenor to deliver petitions from the community, demanding an independent investigator immediately replace Bernie McCabe.

The campaign refused to take no for an answer and they were finally seen by Crist's Chief of Staff, Eric J Eickenberg who presented a letter signed by Governor Crist stating that there will be an "independent investigation" done by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Diop Olugbala is the chair of political action for the Justice for Javon Campaign and the InPDUM International organizer who put Javon's case on the national stage just last week when he asked Barack Obama - "What about the Black community?" and what about Javon Dawson?

Diop said of the action yesterday, "We view it as a victory! But the struggle is not over because although Crist appointed an independent investigation, it remains to be seen just how 'independent' it will be. So at this point the struggle is to make sure the African working-class has influence and control over how this investigation looks."

Click on the below links to see live coverage of the demonstration, hear powerful statements by Javon's stepmother and read other coverage of today's victory! See pictures below of the demonstration and resulting
letter from Gov. Crist.

We want to thank all of those who participated in this call-in, write-in, email and fax campaign. InPDUM has led a brilliant campaign, an organized strategy to win. In the Uhuru Solidarity Movement it is so important for us to be out there talking to other people in our communities and influencing public opinion!
http://www.baynews9.com/VideoPlayer/?Dawson_Support_813

http://www.tampabay.com/

http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2008/aug/13/uhuru-group-takes-dawson-protest-tallahassee/

http://tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080813/BREAKINGNEWS/80813013

"Obama's 'post-racial America' is very far from reality"
*NEW* blog posting from Penny Hess, Chair, African People's Solidarity Committee
Featuring: "Obama Facts" and "Two Americas - Conditions in the African Community"

"What about the Black community, Obama?"
Community Forum
Thursday, August 21st, 7:30 pm
Uhuru Solidarity Center, 3733 Lancaster Ave, W. Phila
You saw the Uhuru Movement challenge Obama with "What about the Black
community?" - the question heard around the world. Now talk to Diop Olugbala in person!

Speaking one night only in Philadelphia, Diop Olugbala,
International Organizer for the International People's Democratic Uhuru
Movement!

Click on picture below to view video of Diop Olugbala, international organizer for the Uhuru Movement, challenge Obama at a rally in St Petersburg, Florida on August 1:

JOINUhuru Solidarity Movement, $25 is all that's required to become a card-carrying member of this activist organization. Be part of changing the world through liberation of African people worldwide!

DONATE!This work requires resources. Can you give? Donating is an important statement of support and solidarity!

If you have any questions, call Harris, outreach coordinator at 857-233-7508.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

InPDUM Annual Convention - "What about the Black community, Obama?"Saturday and Sunday,

September 27th and 28th

Workshops * Presentations

• Police Aggression

• World Tribunal For Reparations To African People

• The Economic Attack On The African Community

• African Men in The Prison System

• Community Self-Defense

• The Ballot or The Bullet

• State Terror in All Its Forms

• The Attack On African School Children

Visit www.InPDUM.org today for more information and to register!

Uhuru Solidarity Movement • 215-387-0919 • philly_office@apscuhuru.org

UhuruSolidarity.org • UhuruNews.com

What About the Black Community, Obama?

2008-08-02T15:26:00.004-04:00

Breaking News Update:

St. Petersburg, FL -- Covered on CNN, Fox, ABC, as well as on the front cover of today's New York Times newspaper: The Uhuru Movement led a demonstration and protest at Obama's town hall meeting, demanding he address the concerns and conditions of the African community! Held at Gibbs High School, former school of 17-year-old Javon Dawson who was murdered by St Petersburg police June 7th, Obama was campaigning on his platform for "change" when Uhuru Movement members stood up and unfurled the banner reading "What about the Black community, Obama?"

Diop Olugbala, international organizer for the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, challenged Obama to take a stand about:

- The subprime mortgage crisis that targeted the African community and Latino community

- Attacks like the killing of Sean Bell by the New York police department and Javon Dawson by the St. Petersburg police

- The Jena 6

- Hurricane Katrina, and the list goes on!

This was a strategic political struggle to thrust the issues of the African working class community into the national political debate. Uhuru Solidarity Movement is making a call for white people to take a stand and support this struggle! It's not a debate about McCain being the better candidate, it is a struggle around Obama who is basing his campaign on hope and change, garnering support from people who want to see a change in the world. But if you really look at what Obama represents, it is more of the status quo: he supports the continuation of the war abroad, he supports the death penalty, his financial advisor Penny Pritzker was the architect of the subprime mortgage targeting the African community, and the list goes on! Obama and McCain are the same! Real change, real peace can not happen without social justice.

The Uhuru Movement is demanding that the devastating conditions in the African community must be addressed! African people must have control over their own resources, lives and futures! Go to www.UhuruNews.com for more!

If we want real peace, we have to support an end to the terror enforced on the African community. Be part of an organization that is changing the world! Join Uhuru Solidarity Movement!

WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW:

- Speak out!

Blog and make comments on the national news sites that are running coverage on this protest. They want to characterize the Uhuru Movement as "hecklers", but it was a protest making serious demands that Obama address the conditions in the African community!

- Attend Uhuru Solidarity Movement Studies and Meetings!

Every Thursday at 7:30pm
Uhuru Solidarity Center,
3733 Lancaster Ave.
West Phila (#10 Trolley from City Hall)
THIS Thursday, August 7 at 7:30pm - Study of "Africa Live" radio show with Diop Olugbala, leader in the Uhuru Movement, who asked Obama "What About the Black Community?"

For more information - contact USM Chair Harris at 857-233-7508 or email philly_office@apscuhuru.org

Check out these links to see national media coverage, hear Diop address Obama and learn more!

New York Times Cover Story

www.UhuruNews.com

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/01/1240564.aspx

http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/08/protestersdisr.html

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jspcontentId=7115985&version=1&locale=ENUS

http://www.tampabays10.com/video/default.aspxaid=66842

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/01/obama-interrupted-byprotestersduring-florida-address/

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ (scroll down)

Uhuru Solidarity Movement

www.apscuhuru.org

Uhuru Movement Organizer Speaks at Javon Dawon's Funeral

2008-07-05T16:58:00.002-04:00

Uhuru!

2008-05-18T11:42:00.001-04:00

Uhuru! Welcome to the Philadelphia Uhuru Solidarity Blog.