‘Remembering Malcolm X And The OAAU: Organizing For Pan-Africanism-Past And Present’ - An online roundtable hosted by Malcolm X Commemoration Committee - Events

Jun 28, 2020 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm EDT
Location: Facebook Live
Latest Activity: Jun 25, 2020

On Sunday, June 28^th, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee (MXCC) will host a special virtual roundtable to mark the 56^th anniversary of the launching of the Organization of AfroAmerican Unity(OAAU)!

The roundtable is entitled ‘Remembering Malcolm X And The OAAU:Organizing For PanAfricanism-Past And Present.’

This moving talk will be hosted ‘Live!’ on Facebook at 4pm on the Facebook page of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee.

The gathering is free, but the night is dedicated to beloved political prisoner Dr. Mutulu Shakur, who is suffering from Bone Cancer. Organizers are trying to raise at least $500. for the pioneering acupuncturist.

Participants can donate at https://www.paypal.me/PPOWs.

Among the guest presenters are Professor Bayyinah Bello of Fondasyon Felicitee and author of Sheroes Of The Haitian Revolution, Professor William Sales, who gave us From Civil Rights To Black Liberation:Malcolm X And The Organization of AfroAmerican Unity, former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army political prisoner Sekou Odinga, who previously joined the OAAU, Yvette Lepolata Modestin of Encuentro DiasporaAfro and author of Nubian Butterfly, Akinyele Umoja, author of We Will Shoot Back and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Attorney Roger Wareham of the December 12^th Movement International Secretariat, Assemblyman Charles Barron of East New York-Brooklyn and special guest, all the way from Venezuela, Jesus Chucho Garcia of the AfroVenezuelan Network!

“We cannot let this hugely important dimension of Malcolm’s legacy to continue to be diminished.

“The charge he gave us before he left us was a revolutionary Pan Africanist charge!

“So in the fight against Police Brutality, in the fight against Ethnic Cleansing, in the fight for Reparations, from wherever we are in the world, the path to advancing our struggle at this incredible crossroads moment is that same PanAfrican path again if we are standing on his shoulders, and on the shoulders of ancestors like him.

“Sunday, we are coming fully armed with a coterie of serious PanAfricanists to make that plain,” exclaimed poet activist Zayid Muhammad, who will moderate the event on behalf the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee.

On June 28^th, 1964, Malcolm X launched the Organization of AfroAmerican Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. Their political education rallies are now the stuff of legend. He was tragically assassinated there just as he was about to present its Aims And Objectives on February 21, 1965.

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