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Facing the Truth About Racial Injustice: International Campaign of  "Days in Solidarity with African People" to hold series of events to build support for African liberation

WHAT: Days in Solidarity with African People
WHEN: Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 1pm
Where: First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St, Center City Philadelphia, PA.
Contact: Harris Daniels, Uhuru Solidarity Movement, 267-571-9762, philly@uhurusolidarity.org

Throughout the month of October, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and the African People's Solidarity Committee will host "Days in Solidarity with African People (DSAP)" events across the U.S. and around the world. The DSAP campaign aims to educate, organize and raise funds for programs of African liberation and economic development such as the Infant and Maternal Health Project in Sierra Leone, Africa and community gardens in Oakland, California and Houston, Texas. The events will provide a unique opportunity for us in the white community to hear from the leaders of the African liberation movement and to examine the true history of the relationship between white people and African and all oppressed people.
Presentations will expose the many forms of racial injustice and propose solutions through discussions of:

• the two-tiered “Jim Crow” justice system, that allows white people to “stand their ground” but punishes black people for doing the same
• the concentration camps called “prisons,” where African people are locked up in disproportionate numbers, and the role of prisons in bolstering the mainstream economy
• police and white citizens' brutality and murders against African people, such as the murders of Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant, and the attack on Eric Oliver, who fought off a white mob in Florida in defense of his family
• How to participate in building a new, sustainable and just political and economic system

The keynote speaker will be Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African Socialist International and founder of The Burning Spear newspaper. A political leader who emerged in the Black Power era of the 1960s, Yeshitela has traveled throughout the U.S., Europe and Africa, building a movement for the unification and liberation of African people worldwide.
Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and author of  “Overturning the Culture of  Violence,”  will speak on the role and relationship of white people in solidarity with the African liberation  movement.
Says Hess, “Taking a stand in solidarity and in unity with reparations for African and oppressed peoples ends our isolation from the rest of the world. It supports a process to end racism and injustice by supporting the struggle for national liberation that will end the colonial system that has oppressed so many for the past 500 years.”
For more information, please contact: Harris Daniels, Uhuru Solidarity Movement, 267-571-9762, philly@uhurusolidarity.org

Harris O. Daniels
Northeast Regional Representative
African People's Solidarity Committee

philly@uhurusolidarity.org