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Students, artists, computer technicians, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, health care workers, teachers, young people and workers in general – the Uhuru Movement is calling on you!

Come and participate in the Oakland Freedom Summer Project (OFSP) 2012, scheduled from July 9 to July 29.

The Oakland Freedom Summer Project is a multi-faceted project designed to advance the struggle for African freedom inside the United States and around the world.

This will be accomplished by hands-on, on-the-ground training through actual political struggle and the building and consolidation of existing institutions of the African Liberation Movement.

This year’s OFSP is like Freedom Summers of the past, such as the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, the Oakland Summer Project of 1984 and the St Petersburg Summer Project of 2011.

Years of organized black power political work had been done in those locations, making them prime venues for young people to come and work for the purpose of advancing the people’s struggle to be free.

The same is true for present day Oakland, CA. This is the birthplace of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and a city where during the 1980s, the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) led countless struggles and created institutions to rebuild the Black Power Movement in the U.S.

The goal of this year’s Oakland Freedom Summer Project is to strengthen the movement for African political and economic power that the APSP built in the 1980s.

Some activities of the Summer Project include:

• Clothing drive program
• Multimedia and street journalism training
• Uhuru House community center renovations, including the Uhuru Jiko (Freedom Kitchen)
• Mural restoration
• Launching community gardens in the East Oakland area

» Read more about the Oakland Freedom Summer Project

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