October 28, 2008
Farrakhan to Address Black World Conference in New Orleans
- Press Release -
New York…..As momentum builds towards the election of Barack Obama as the first person of African descent to be President of the United States, the mobilizing/organizing effort is in full gear for the State of the Black World Conference (SOBWC), November 19 – 23 in New Orleans at the Ernest Morial Convention Center and Astor Crown Plaza Hotel. Convened by the New York based Institute of the Black World 21st Century, under the leadership of veteran social and political activist Dr. Ron Daniels, SOBWC will be the first great gathering of Black people from the U.S. and the Black World after the election to develop a priority policy agenda to present to the new administration..
As hundreds of participants prepare to journey to New Orleans for the potentially milestone conference, organizers are buoyed by news that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam and the visionary architect of the historic Million Man March and Day of Atonement, has agreed to attend the conference to accept the Institute of the Black World’s Legacy Award and deliver the keynote address at the final session, The Call to Faith and Struggle, Sunday, November 23rd. “We are absolutely elated that Minister Farrkahan has agreed to return to New Orleans for this extraordinary gathering,” Dr. Daniels said, “his address will be a fitting climax to the SOBWC given his strong support for the process of building the Institute of the Black World over the years.”
Minister Farrakhan informed Leonard Dunston, President Emeritus of the National Association of Black Social Workers, of his decision after the recent rededication of Mosque Maryam in Chicago. Minister Farrakhan called on Leonard Dunston, who is an IBW board member, to Co-Convene a Black Family Summit as part of the Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Million Man March and launch of the Millions More Movement in 2005. He and Brother Dunston reconvened the Black Family Summit in New Orleans in January of 2006 as part of the Martin Luther King Weekend Mobilization to support the right of return of displaced residents and evacuees in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
At that time, Minister Farrakhan declared that rebuilding New Orleans would be a major priority of the Nation of Islam. “The Minister’s return to New Orleans for SOBWC is very much in keeping with his commitment to keep the national and international spotlight on the unfinished struggle of our sisters and brothers to reclaim this city as a major center of African culture and struggle,” Brother Dunston commented. “I was delighted to get the word that he will be joining us for SOBWC.”
A broad cross-section of leaders from Black America are confirmed to participate in SOBWC including: Bev Smith, syndicated Talk Show Host on the American Urban Radio Networks; Rev. Al Sharpton, President, National Action Network; Dr. Julianne Malveaux, President of Bennett College; Marc Morial, President/CEO, National Urban League; Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, President, National Rainbow/Push Coalition; Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus; Dr. Elsie Scott, President/CEO, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation; Atty. Faya Rose Sanders, Founder of the Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama; Susan Taylor, former Editorial Director, Essence Magazine; Dr. E. Faye Williams, President, National Congress of Black Women; Dr. Iva Carruthers, General Secretary, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference; Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director, Praxis Project; Dr. Maulana Karenga, Creator of Kwanzaa and Professor of Africana Studies and Chairman of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach; Haki Madhubuti, author, poet and Distinguished Professor, Chicago State University; Sonia Sanchez, internationally acclaimed author and poet; Dr. Ronald Walters, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland; Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law Professor; James Clingman professor and empowerment activist, and, Danny Glover, actor and humanitarian.
▪ For further information contact Carolyn McClair: 917.686.0854
▪ Toll Free Information Line – 888.774.2921 – Email: sobwc@ibw2.org
▪ Web Site www.stateoftheblackworld.org
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Global African and Human Poverty,The Black World, the Nation-State since All African Peoples Conference-1958! This is an attempt to give a progressive input that we have been there before and we need more!
The statement is progressively timely given the temporarily POLITICAL DISUNITY IN USA WHITE CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL WHITE SUPREMACIST CORPORATE PARTIES UNTIL November 04, 2008. We need PAN-AFRICANIST OPERATIONAL UNITY not just ONE GREAT LEADER or ONE SUPREME ORGANIZATION! Time is on our side!
We also need need to look at our 50 year Pan-Africniats rich past of non- and electoral politics in terms victories and stalemates! We also need to understand the ROLE OF THE NATION-STATE in the DIASPORA and MOTHERLAND and link electoral and non-electoral progressive and revolutionary politics, respectively, and how they re-inforce each other! And we are GETTING BETTER AT BOTH ELECTORAL symbolic AND NON-ELECTORAL substantive levels. In 2008 we are standing on the shoulders 500 years of RESISTANCE!
In March 1957, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr made a Pan-Africanist and brotherly visit to the Motherland area of Ghana under the Convention Peoples Party, with Kwame Nkrumah as Founding President of the historic Nation-State that sought to revive the 1804 Pan-Africanist mantle of Haiti under Tousaint L'Overture as the FIRST BLACK REPUBLIC in the modern era!The republic was created independently by African revolutionary organizers who were later betrayed by US Imperialism and her sister allies in European nation states till today.
Imperialism, current and past, through its politics is against our EMPOWERMENT but today the STATE as an instrument of a RULING CLASS is concretely and objectly proved in the United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, European Union etc. Africans must have no more illusions about our need for the STATE TO SERVE THE WORKING CLASS NOT ONLY WEALTHY INTERESTS! Hence whenever we VOTE, we need to support the potentially LEAST EVIL of the IMPERIALIST POLITICIANS!
Today African people of HAITI are not only reflective of the OBJECTIVE CLASS CONFLICT in all black societies in general and the black-led nationalist Organizations in the USA and black ruled Nation-States like South Africa in particular fifty years after Kwame Nkrumah and Martin Luther KIng,jr demanded institutional vigilence and organizational mobilization to PUT PUBLIC INTERESTS of all the people before the PRIVATE INTERESTS of given PERSONALITIES and ENTITIES! The State of the Black World Conference is seen as part of an alternative and betterworld agendas. We need a QUALITATIVE jump from 1957 to 2008, given our experience!
African people, like all working class peoples, have a majority who are creating wealth as urban proletariate and rural peasants and producing wealth that has seen more BLACK WEALTH being reconcentrated among the few of our people at home and abroad as the Global Neoliberal Agenda's economic startegies and financial tactics of the World Economic Forum and World Trade Organization are being reformed by own leadership.
Fifty years ago Kwame Nkrumah challenged Africans-Globally_ to be part of an alternative vision, a transformative mission and a creative political economiy that is that not parasitic to the poor but INVEST BOTH PUBLIC and PRIVATE resources in physical and infrastructure of empowering African people-hence the Volta Dam and large scale mining ventures, building of schools-elementary, high school, vocational and technical universities AGAINST the VESTED imperial interests of the United Kingdom and the United States.
Nkrumah challenged Africans in the Diaspora and Motherland to imitate less either the East or West, but forge fraternal alliances for economic development and social peace coalitions with former colonies of imperialism and those fighting national oppression and CLASS exploitation in neo-colonial societies! That is, we Africans, are natural founders and leadership of the Non-Alignment Movement! By 1966 Us-Uk-led imperialism suffed Pan-Africanist Revolutionary Ghana Government after having destabilized Congo of Lumumba ( DR Congo) and Nigeria of Balewa! As part of the Pan-Africanism the State of the Black World plays a progressive class role to undermine captilism at home and imperialism abroad on a conscious Class basis! This gives many a hope.
For the last FIFTY years Pan-Africanism and the Non-Aligned Movement have had their ups and downs but have transformed themselves since 1990's into leadership role of the World Social Forum with a mission that "Another and Better World is Possible". African and Global Poverty found in each of the 192 nation states that are members of the World Economic Forum and the World Trade Organization as well as belonging to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank dominated by the USA, are not a MISTAKE but purposely done by both fiscal and monetary policies of conservative and liberal global ruling class of OLIGARCHIES with African, Arab, Asian, Latin etc leadership as junior partners.
In response to the 1958 call by Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Azania's Mangaliso Robert Sobukhwe challenged the African conservative and liberal deomcratic leadership in 1958 with a speech entitled" Non-collaboration with the Collaborators" and the Pan-Africanist Congress Of Azania was lauched in 1959 and by 1960 the"Defiance Campaign" against neo-colonial and imperialist collaboration was spreading like wild fire among African massed and Sharpevile was a WHITE SUPREMACIST AND NATO-supported REACTION from the aprtheid nation-state!
Omowale Malik Shabaaz also emabarked on his own USA-version of "Non-Collaboration with the Collaborators" when he launched the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAU). When Martin Luther King, jr denounced the Vietnam War and took up the "Poor Peoples Campaign" and allied with the "hard"working class people and went to Memphis in April 1968, that was another phase of local, national and global agenda of "Non-Collaboration with the Collaborators!'
The Black Panther Party in the USA,1966, and the Black Peolpes Convention in RSA, 1972, under Huey P. Newton and Gary 1972 Africanist Convention etc were the continuation of the Non-collaboration agendas.
Now that Africans are heads of government and NATION-STATES in South Africa, and presumably, in the USA, if Barack Obama, there is going to a global OBJECTIVE and CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIC of African leadership at home and abroad.
This means Africans have to STUDY FISCAL and MONETARY POLICIES that address ECONOMIC STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE POOR AT THE EXPENSE OF THE WEALTHY before we cry RACISM in reverse etc. Since 1972 black leadership roles have assumed CLASS and less RACE affinity because the PREDATORY STATE has seen it more beneficial to have a non-white leader who can be a scape goat political and culturally!
Now we have our Collaborators who we voted in power as PROGRESSIVES! Now the major issue in the 21st century is that of CLASS!
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as an afrikan who was born and raised in nawlins, and has seen the devastation that hurricane amerikkka aka katrina caused, and continue to maintain, there ain't really nothing a black summit can do for us brothas and sistars, but influence us to practice revolutionary politics. and i'll keep saying it over and over again, if i have to, because we're tired of all the fancy feel good speeches. we're tired of the same ole rhetoric. we're tired of being told about martin luther king and his i have a dream speech. we're tired of the rosa parks story, eventhough she was a brave black woman, who had enough of jim crow.
there are a number of individuals slated to "perform" that are very suspect from what i have researched, such as jesse jackson, john conyers and marc morial. until they can come clean on some things that i try to teach the brothas and sistars in nawlins, we ain't having it. nope, we ain't gonna continue to be duped into some passive mode of existence, some integrationist bullshit, which has only benefitted the black intelligentsia, whom dubois referred to as the talented tenth.
i've been to too many conferences that pretend to bring about social change for afrikan people. and neither time has the subject of black nationalism been made a part of the program, which means that it ain't given priority among the so-called black leadership. what has danny glover, as a humanitarian, done for the hood? we don't need humanitarians. the bottom line is that we need more huey pees, chairman fred hamptons, george jacksons, assata shakurs, safiya bukhari alstons, queen mother moores, harriet tubmans, jalil muntaquins, russell maroon shoatzes, kawasi balagoons, herman bells, dharouba bin wahaads, mutulu shakurs, robert charleses and mark essexes.
one thing i've learned to accept and understand is the concept of good hardcore constructive criticism. and if it's too hot in the kitchen get out. and by the way, i'll be there
Talib Muhammad > Mickel Hendrix aka Nat TurnerOctober 30, 2008 at 11:13am
Akwaaba,
I concur Nat Turner! The time for "talking" revolution is over! If we as Black people are not willing to roll up our sleeves and get our collective hands dirty, then we deserve whatever fate the Creator deems necessary for us. Afterall revolution is a contact sport with no room for cowards posing as intellectuals! We must now DEMAND TOTAL FREEDOM, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY! This is NON-NEGOTIABLE!
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The statement is progressively timely given the temporarily POLITICAL DISUNITY IN USA WHITE CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL WHITE SUPREMACIST CORPORATE PARTIES UNTIL November 04, 2008. We need PAN-AFRICANIST OPERATIONAL UNITY not just ONE GREAT LEADER or ONE SUPREME ORGANIZATION! Time is on our side!
We also need need to look at our 50 year Pan-Africniats rich past of non- and electoral politics in terms victories and stalemates! We also need to understand the ROLE OF THE NATION-STATE in the DIASPORA and MOTHERLAND and link electoral and non-electoral progressive and revolutionary politics, respectively, and how they re-inforce each other! And we are GETTING BETTER AT BOTH ELECTORAL symbolic AND NON-ELECTORAL substantive levels. In 2008 we are standing on the shoulders 500 years of RESISTANCE!
In March 1957, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr made a Pan-Africanist and brotherly visit to the Motherland area of Ghana under the Convention Peoples Party, with Kwame Nkrumah as Founding President of the historic Nation-State that sought to revive the 1804 Pan-Africanist mantle of Haiti under Tousaint L'Overture as the FIRST BLACK REPUBLIC in the modern era!The republic was created independently by African revolutionary organizers who were later betrayed by US Imperialism and her sister allies in European nation states till today.
Imperialism, current and past, through its politics is against our EMPOWERMENT but today the STATE as an instrument of a RULING CLASS is concretely and objectly proved in the United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, European Union etc. Africans must have no more illusions about our need for the STATE TO SERVE THE WORKING CLASS NOT ONLY WEALTHY INTERESTS! Hence whenever we VOTE, we need to support the potentially LEAST EVIL of the IMPERIALIST POLITICIANS!
Today African people of HAITI are not only reflective of the OBJECTIVE CLASS CONFLICT in all black societies in general and the black-led nationalist Organizations in the USA and black ruled Nation-States like South Africa in particular fifty years after Kwame Nkrumah and Martin Luther KIng,jr demanded institutional vigilence and organizational mobilization to PUT PUBLIC INTERESTS of all the people before the PRIVATE INTERESTS of given PERSONALITIES and ENTITIES! The State of the Black World Conference is seen as part of an alternative and betterworld agendas. We need a QUALITATIVE jump from 1957 to 2008, given our experience!
African people, like all working class peoples, have a majority who are creating wealth as urban proletariate and rural peasants and producing wealth that has seen more BLACK WEALTH being reconcentrated among the few of our people at home and abroad as the Global Neoliberal Agenda's economic startegies and financial tactics of the World Economic Forum and World Trade Organization are being reformed by own leadership.
Fifty years ago Kwame Nkrumah challenged Africans-Globally_ to be part of an alternative vision, a transformative mission and a creative political economiy that is that not parasitic to the poor but INVEST BOTH PUBLIC and PRIVATE resources in physical and infrastructure of empowering African people-hence the Volta Dam and large scale mining ventures, building of schools-elementary, high school, vocational and technical universities AGAINST the VESTED imperial interests of the United Kingdom and the United States.
Nkrumah challenged Africans in the Diaspora and Motherland to imitate less either the East or West, but forge fraternal alliances for economic development and social peace coalitions with former colonies of imperialism and those fighting national oppression and CLASS exploitation in neo-colonial societies! That is, we Africans, are natural founders and leadership of the Non-Alignment Movement! By 1966 Us-Uk-led imperialism suffed Pan-Africanist Revolutionary Ghana Government after having destabilized Congo of Lumumba ( DR Congo) and Nigeria of Balewa! As part of the Pan-Africanism the State of the Black World plays a progressive class role to undermine captilism at home and imperialism abroad on a conscious Class basis! This gives many a hope.
For the last FIFTY years Pan-Africanism and the Non-Aligned Movement have had their ups and downs but have transformed themselves since 1990's into leadership role of the World Social Forum with a mission that "Another and Better World is Possible". African and Global Poverty found in each of the 192 nation states that are members of the World Economic Forum and the World Trade Organization as well as belonging to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank dominated by the USA, are not a MISTAKE but purposely done by both fiscal and monetary policies of conservative and liberal global ruling class of OLIGARCHIES with African, Arab, Asian, Latin etc leadership as junior partners.
In response to the 1958 call by Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Azania's Mangaliso Robert Sobukhwe challenged the African conservative and liberal deomcratic leadership in 1958 with a speech entitled" Non-collaboration with the Collaborators" and the Pan-Africanist Congress Of Azania was lauched in 1959 and by 1960 the"Defiance Campaign" against neo-colonial and imperialist collaboration was spreading like wild fire among African massed and Sharpevile was a WHITE SUPREMACIST AND NATO-supported REACTION from the aprtheid nation-state!
Omowale Malik Shabaaz also emabarked on his own USA-version of "Non-Collaboration with the Collaborators" when he launched the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAU). When Martin Luther King, jr denounced the Vietnam War and took up the "Poor Peoples Campaign" and allied with the "hard"working class people and went to Memphis in April 1968, that was another phase of local, national and global agenda of "Non-Collaboration with the Collaborators!'
The Black Panther Party in the USA,1966, and the Black Peolpes Convention in RSA, 1972, under Huey P. Newton and Gary 1972 Africanist Convention etc were the continuation of the Non-collaboration agendas.
Now that Africans are heads of government and NATION-STATES in South Africa, and presumably, in the USA, if Barack Obama, there is going to a global OBJECTIVE and CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIC of African leadership at home and abroad.
This means Africans have to STUDY FISCAL and MONETARY POLICIES that address ECONOMIC STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE POOR AT THE EXPENSE OF THE WEALTHY before we cry RACISM in reverse etc. Since 1972 black leadership roles have assumed CLASS and less RACE affinity because the PREDATORY STATE has seen it more beneficial to have a non-white leader who can be a scape goat political and culturally!
Now we have our Collaborators who we voted in power as PROGRESSIVES! Now the major issue in the 21st century is that of CLASS!
as an afrikan who was born and raised in nawlins, and has seen the devastation that hurricane amerikkka aka katrina caused, and continue to maintain, there ain't really nothing a black summit can do for us brothas and sistars, but influence us to practice revolutionary politics. and i'll keep saying it over and over again, if i have to, because we're tired of all the fancy feel good speeches. we're tired of the same ole rhetoric. we're tired of being told about martin luther king and his i have a dream speech. we're tired of the rosa parks story, eventhough she was a brave black woman, who had enough of jim crow.
there are a number of individuals slated to "perform" that are very suspect from what i have researched, such as jesse jackson, john conyers and marc morial. until they can come clean on some things that i try to teach the brothas and sistars in nawlins, we ain't having it. nope, we ain't gonna continue to be duped into some passive mode of existence, some integrationist bullshit, which has only benefitted the black intelligentsia, whom dubois referred to as the talented tenth.
i've been to too many conferences that pretend to bring about social change for afrikan people. and neither time has the subject of black nationalism been made a part of the program, which means that it ain't given priority among the so-called black leadership. what has danny glover, as a humanitarian, done for the hood? we don't need humanitarians. the bottom line is that we need more huey pees, chairman fred hamptons, george jacksons, assata shakurs, safiya bukhari alstons, queen mother moores, harriet tubmans, jalil muntaquins, russell maroon shoatzes, kawasi balagoons, herman bells, dharouba bin wahaads, mutulu shakurs, robert charleses and mark essexes.
one thing i've learned to accept and understand is the concept of good hardcore constructive criticism. and if it's too hot in the kitchen get out. and by the way, i'll be there
UHURU!
I concur Nat Turner! The time for "talking" revolution is over! If we as Black people are not willing to roll up our sleeves and get our collective hands dirty, then we deserve whatever fate the Creator deems necessary for us. Afterall revolution is a contact sport with no room for cowards posing as intellectuals! We must now DEMAND TOTAL FREEDOM, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY! This is NON-NEGOTIABLE!
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