Freedom Manifesto Bulletin
From the Black Liberation Unity Committee
Abdul Alkalimat, Editor
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#45 9/4/2017
CONTENTS: NATIONAL CONVENTION OF UE TRADE UNION ENDORCES FREEDOM MANIFESTO
Comrades, Brothers and Sisters:
Section 4 of the Freedom Manifesto is titled: "Strategic Working Class Unity includes the leadership of the Black working class." Trade unions are the largest concentration of workers in an organization so it is a strategic necessity to develop rank and file union members to move these organization into the popular battlefronts being waged by workers and peoples of all oppressed communities.
At the 75th National Convention of the UE trade union local 150 led by militant Black trade union leaders, men and women, led a battle to adopt a resolution against racism - see attached. There was a floor fight but progressive forces won the day. The meeting started when about 25% of the Black members sat or took a knee during the national anthem, and they were joined by many others as well. This was a new moment and the workers were standing tall. This is the first national trade union to adopt the Freedom Manifesto - more to come!
On UE:
· http://www.ueinternational.org/
The attached is a model resolution for other trade unions to consider, at the national-regional-and local levels. It extends beyond trade unions to every form of organization - school boards, city councils, Black student organizations, and community organizations of all kinds.
We call on every freedom loving person to study the Freedom Manifesto and prepare for a higher level of national coordination to our struggle.
The manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf
Here are images of Local 150 in North Carolina and at the 75th convention:
#44 8/28/2017
CONTENTS: RIGHT WING FORCED TO CANCEL RALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO
The white supremacist Organization known as the Patriot Prayer Organization based in Portland Oregon, canceled it's rally for Saturday, August 26 in San Francisco! The rally was to have taken place at Chrissy Field, part of the national Park service.
The International longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) local 10 in San Francisco, adopted a resolution calling for a march to stop racist and fascist intimidation in San Francisco.It invited all unions,anti-racist and-fascist organizations, to join them in defending unions, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ, Women and all oppressed people.
ILWU local 10 has a long and glorious history in the struggle for economic and social justice for the working class and people of color. It has specifically come to the defense of the black community including its own members, that have been victims of attacks by the Ku Klux Klan and neo Nazi's! These attacks occurred in Contra Costa County And Oroville California in the early 1980s.
Local 10 members have provided armed security for search victims and has taken solidarity action at the point of production as was the case when black women were under attack in Oroville California in 1982. On that occasion, 5000 anti-racist and labor organizations descended upon that city to confront local authorities,the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis that these attacks must cease and desist immediately! They did and arrests were made!
The patriot prayer group cited safety concerns as the reason for relinquishing it's permit for the rally.
The call by local 10 and it's history of taking on the Klan, neo Nazis and rank-and-file solidarity actions at the point of production played a major role in the cancellation of the rally.
This was certainly a victory for the anti-racist anti-fascist forces! The photograph of local 10 members after Dispatch on Saturday, captures the spirit of that victory!
Clarence Thomas past Secretary Treasurer ILWU 10 (retired)
#43 8/21/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Detroit 1967 - not the fake movie, the real deal
· Remember Walter Rodney, Revolutionary
· Revolutionary poet: Askia Muhammad Toure
· Revolutionary poet: Jayne Cortez
· Videos of National Black Museum of Smithsonian
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
DETROIT 1967 - NOT THE FAKE MOVIE, THE REAL DEAL
· General Baker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCkMz70QP8Q
· Panel on Algiers Motel murders https://livestream.com/accounts/2710797/events/7618893/videos/160263364
· Detroit Afro Museum exhibit http://thewright.org/index.php/explore/exhibitions/current-exhibitions?id=733
· Academic panel https://www.c-span.org/video/?425540-3/1967-detroit-rebellion
· Black academics memory https://tinyurl.com/y95d2ah7
· Panel of Black activists https://livestream.com/accounts/2710797/events/7612976/videos/160123492
SISTERS OF THE STRUGGLE
· Ramona Africa http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Ramona_Africa
· Aleta Alston-Toure http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Aleta_Alston-Toure
· Elaine Brown http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Elaine_Brown
· Linda Burnham http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Linda_Burnham
· Ana Edwards http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Ana_Edwards
· Joan Gibbs http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Joan_Gibbs
· Joyce Johnson http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Joyce_Johnson
· Rosemari Mealy http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Rosemari_Mealy
· Barbara Ransby http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Barbara_Ransby
· Jamalah Rogers http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Jamalah_Rogers
REMEMBER WALTER RODNEY, REVOLUTIONARY
· Documentary film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqfcbmncFI0
· Biography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svWl7rmt4D4
· Lecture on race and class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9szjOu-yIPs
· On Black identity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGpXVHxFxcY
· Audio Book: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
o chapter 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsSoIv-8Fa8
o Chapter 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuxbSgDn9js
o Chapter 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5x9icxmr4
o Chapter 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzaaa_9kQYc
o Chapter 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bdEa5GBiMw
o Chapter 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgv3qHBJUlk
REVOLUTIONARY POET! ASKIA MUHAMMAD TOURE
· http://www.nathanielturner.com/askiamtouretable.htm
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwmsjiaHeU
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTKQRfVu1Q
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyWFwuk1WUM
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUmDcHnh6J8
REVOLUTIONARY POET! JAYNE CORTEZ
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZhd1pUMfzM
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fd4CalceXg
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB3SY8xZtVk
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h0qYZTXaiI
VIDEOS OF BLACK MUSEUM OF SMITHSONIAN
They have regular programs and put the videos on line - do we agree with how they are presenting our history? If we dont speak up who will? http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/106196698
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#42 8/14/2017
CONTENTS: THIS IS A SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE CURRENT CRISIS
TOOLS FOR THE RESISTANCE
· The plan? Our proposal is that the next step is a National Assembly of Black liberation forces. We work for local and statewide groups to form Black liberation assemblies to plan and engaged in coordinated education and actions that can mobilize thousands of Black people and allies around the pressing issues. In addition to building unity to defend against racist shock troops and the repression of the state, Black liberation assemblies begin to lay the foundation, help to develop the mass consciousness, make the connections and develop the resources for the holding of a National Assembly for Black liberation. United as a national Black liberation movement, we can meet the enemy and win. Local assemblies can unite forces at the local level Get in touch and get involved. We know we can win, but it takes unity, moving as a mighty force. Call, email, or visit us online
· A mass leaflet: Print 2-sided and distribute widely
· Draft Freedom Manifesto
· A red black and green button: IMPEACH! (ORDER YOURS TODAY)
WHAT HAPPENED?
· Guardian https://tinyurl.com/yaw5kpns
· MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/
· BBC http://www.bbc.com/news
· Democracy now https://tinyurl.com/yanu9tph
· Russia Today https://www.rt.com/
· Aljazeera https://tinyurl.com/y96jc3c2
WHAT IS FASCISM?
· WIKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
· Marxist theory: https://tinyurl.com/y98bnfa3
· https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/unity.htm
WHAT IS AMERICAN FASCISM?
· Eye on the enemy - who are they? https://www.splcenter.org/
· Gerald Horne https://tinyurl.com/y8gatylq
· Chris Hedges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUKn19Sg0vo
· History of the KKK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cayCYpxtIyo
· Neo-Nazi Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e3T3VHmEkg
· Alt-Right https://tinyurl.com/y97lnrea
· The Trump factor https://tinyurl.com/y7q8jl7n
IS FASCISM IN THE WHITE HOUSE? IN CONGRESS?
· Trump as friendly fascism http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2015/08/07/donald-trump-and-friendly-fascism-reconsidered/
· Sebastian Gorka http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sebastian-gorka-trump-adviser-linked-hungarian-right-wing-group-abruptly-n750451
· Stephen Miller https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/stephen-miller-duke-donald-trump
· Steve Bannon https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/the-strange-origins-of-steve-bannons-nationalist-fantasia
· Tea Party https://web.stanford.edu/group/progressive/cgi-bin/?p=1147
WHAT ARE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES SAYING?
· Red Neck Revolt https://www.redneckrevolt.org/analysis
· RCP http://revcom.us/
· Workers World http://www.workers.org/2017/08/09/charlottesville-va-we-resist-the-racists-fight-the-fascists/
· Bill Fletcher http://billfletcherjr.com/blog/
#41 8/7/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic document to build the movement
· Dump the Trump regime: Stop the War on Black America
· Keep your eyes on the Trump flunky Ben Carson
· Remember Queen Mother Moore, Revolutionary
· All hail the mighty poet Linton Kwesi Johnson
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
DUMP THE TRUMP REGIME: STOP THE WAR ON BLACK AMERICA
About 70% of the Black community wants to IMPEACH TRUMP! There is motion among many to get this fraud, this neo-fascist agent of capital. We want the Black liberation forces to grab this opportunity to lead Black people into a major force in this movement for change to impeach trump and dump his whole damn system. Here are the links to the current bills moving in Congress. read them and spread the word that we can do this.
· Limit the capacity of the president: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1987
· Limit the presidents power to pardon: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/115/
· Objection to presidential conduct: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/456/
· BILL TO IMPEACH TRUMP: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/438/
KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE TRUMP FLUNKY BEN CARSON
· Maxine Waters critique https://tinyurl.com/y9rgkere
· Privatize public housing https://tinyurl.com/y7njbx7s
· 10 housing policies to watch https://tinyurl.com/ycjctj8s
· HUD budget cuts https://tinyurl.com/lszkwpf
REMEMBER QUEEN MOTHER MOORE, REVOLUTIONARY
· Biography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFf0fikoNM
· Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb8EcaykWok
· Speech at Green Haven Prison https://vimeo.com/45375258
· Images https://tinyurl.com/y9adoxdq
· Analysis https://tinyurl.com/ybggs5wj
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY POET LINTON KWESI JOHNSON
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d_nUnNioJI
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMjvRpAckU
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGnJjQqtfYk
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puy8mKEi5DI
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8x4895go70
#40 7/31/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic document to build the movement
· Defend the Venezuelan revolution
· Dead Prez is dope!
· Black Power and Black athletes
· Mass media is poisoning Black minds
· Militant African culture
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
DEFEND THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION
· Afro-Venezuelans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Venezuelan
· Hugo Chavez http://www.theroot.com/why-the-black-and-poor-loved-hugo-chavez-1790895492
· Free heating oil for the US poor https://tinyurl.com/bjm7j8l
· Imperialism attacks https://tinyurl.com/yawcfm4x
· Fight back https://tinyurl.com/y95j9xky
DEAD PREZ IS DOPE!
Each CD is a curriculum for the struggle - take a minute and listen to these hip hop cultural revolutionary voices
· Anti-capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr9MAWAXZAY
· Malcolm, Garvey Huey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvJ8MaA-3dQ
· 80-20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHyLiZTMmqg
· Political education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttHukW70TAM
Full albums:
· Lets get free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmQBeVqeDzM
· RBG Revolutionary But Gangsta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTRrfFrldUw
· Information age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftGHXkQ9iBc&list=PLJCycpZakZ7hDGnI_4bXES2klU_s4xofM
BLACK POWER AND BLACK ATHLETES
· Muhammad Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHHgu6ybE4
· Mexico Olympics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCNkW2kNcjw
· Jim Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTgTEzcuJDc
· Washington U Football team https://tinyurl.com/ocql2aq
· Colin Kaepernick https://tinyurl.com/yc3zkyct
· Bingo Long and the Harlem All Stars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCJ_INhdW9M
MASS MEDIA IS POISONING BLACK MINDS
· Turn off the radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOMN9MY0oII
· Too much TV https://tinyurl.com/ybd6zymo
· Hollywood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_representation_in_Hollywood
· Newsrooms http://archives.cjr.org/feature/the_not-so-great_migration.php
· Racism http://fair.org/article/racism-and-mainstream-media/
MILITANT AFRICAN CULTURE
· Mykel Bishop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8MN00C5_ww
· Fela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zisHSsk9Og0
· RedBlack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKvUj2njwss
· Miriam Makeba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6AAtKmx6Qk
· Terry Callier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNJEh_Uxsbw
· Philip Cohran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi-wJ2F2n8k
· Bob Marley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNQ_cmISVk
#39 7/24/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Remember Attica!
· Check the archive: Revolutionary Black journals
· Politics of Black People's hair
· Anti-capitalist R & B
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
REMEMBER ATTICA!
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhT6jhlRd_A
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9777CEDUaI
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBG1UkxrMG0
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXgP0lkqPNk
CHECK THE ARCHIVE: REVOLUTIONARY BLACK JOURNALS
· Soulbook http://theblm.net/saladin/organizations/#sb
· The African World http://mediaandthemovement.unc.edu/2013/11/02/the-african-world/
· Race Today https://tinyurl.com/ybuxzuoe
· Freedomways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-6sK838Q44
· Justice Speaks http://theblm.net/saladin/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Justice-Speaks_1985-1989.pdf
POLITICS OF BLACK PEOPLES HAIR
· Black Studies Research http://www.murchisoncenter.org/cyberhair/index.html
· Bias Against Black Natural Hair https://tinyurl.com/y9xvza7k
· War on Black braids https://tinyurl.com/mh862mz
· Some history of misconceptions https://tinyurl.com/yd6gooue
· The musical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dyl0j3WU6Y
· Letter to my hair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkPG2zhIMY
· A natural hair anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvZZDtokHyE
ANTI-CAPITALIST R & B
· O'Jays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXE_n2q08Yw
· Gladys Knight & The Pips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37meE0NZ_c
· Terry Callier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAI9rzChd00
· James Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncvBBjb3iU4
· Common, John Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUZOKvYcx_o
· Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd7pW3Ndd-4
· Gregory Porter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5z4SbrH20&list=RDmbIzd6LvAL4&index=7
· Ray Charles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87sO7I8cRI
· Stylistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2owZXPyeilc
#38 7/17/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Use the free Internet library by Project Gutenberg
· Battlefronts
· How will ending medicaid impact Black people?
· Marxism and the African American National Question
· Sister songs
· Marvin Gaye
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
USE THE FREE INTERNET LIBRARY BY PROJECT GUTENBERG
There are over 270 books by and about Black people available free online. Check it out? What books are missing that we need to digitize? https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=african+american
BATTLEFRONTS
· Chicago http://revcom.us/a/499/standing-up-police-retaliation-en.html
· Detroit http://www.workers.org/2017/07/15/political-prisoner-the-rev-pinkney-free-at-last/#.WWomF1GQxdg
· Atlanta http://projectsouth.org/youth-programs/youth-speak-truth-radio/
HOW WILL ENDING MEDICAID IMPACT BLACK PEOPLE?
· Statistics http://tinyurl.com/ycne9bbf
· Hurt https://tinyurl.com/y8dxnnbh
· More hurt https://tinyurl.com/ycudgk4w
· Even more hurt https://tinyurl.com/y7lqkuqt
MARXISM AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL QUESTION
A new communist movement developed after the mass spontaneous movements of the 1960s. There was a major study of the Black experience and the road to Black liberation. Here are some of the key documents
· Amilcar Cabral/Paul Robeson Collective https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/index.htm#acpr
· League for Proletarian Revolution https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/h-s-4.pdf
· Marxist Leninist Collective https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/mlc-black-nation.htm
· Marxist Leninist League https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/mll-black-national-question.pdf
· The New Voice https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/new-voice-nation/index.htm
· Philadelphia Wo0rkers Organizing Committee https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/pwoc-bnq/index.htm
· October League https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/class-struggle-us/ol-self-det.htm
· Revolutionary Union https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/red-papers-5/index.htm
· Black Workers Congress https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-2/bwc-1/section6.htm
· League of Revolutionary Black Workers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgJd_MvJVzg
SISTER SONGS
· Women of the sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGkG80r9k1g
· Four women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSU5n7MElxw
· Bacchanal Lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFROZgp2lm0
· Joan Little http://tinyurl.com/yaq2hrxd
· A rose is still a rose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtMUQbnT_Lo
· Sister Sadie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J04qzCdVZqk
MARVIN GAYE
· Inner City Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ykv1D0qEE&list=RD8s17iiJvg0E&index=4
· Whats Going On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbZYRZpNc64&list=RD8s17iiJvg0E&index=5
· Documentary film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ud1ax8ztvY
· Save the Children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHpj_1BJT0Q&list=PLG55-U1jq0EBohdoyRjag1NPUvQOn8fWv&index=42
· Mercy, Mercy Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BA6fFGMjI&index=10&list=PLG55-U1jq0EBohdoyRjag1NPUvQOn8fWv
#37 7/10/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic document to build the movement
· Reports from the Battlefronts
· The food crisis: production, distribution and consumption
· Bill Epton: Revolutionary fighter and proletarian intellectual
· Support Black prisoners of war
· Black comedians ain't no joke
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
REPORTS FROM THE BATTLEFRONTS (SEE ATTACHED)
As we organize for the National Assembly to Rebuild the Black Liberation Movement we are calling for reports from local struggles and summations of major battlefronts. We are fighting on many fronts and we need share information to become a might national movement.
1. Speech at the United National Anti-war Coalition (UNAC) conference in Richmond, VA on 6-17-17
2. Report from Black Workers for Justice
3. Document of the Sao Paulo Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean for a meeting in Managua, Nicaragua in July 2017
4. City of Newark 50th commemoration of 1967 Uprising
THE FOOD CRISIS: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION,AND CONSUMPTION
· Black hunger 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfNSKEDYSz0
· Guerrilla gardener https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la
· Mass poisoning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n0IZu8WI4g
· Factory farming http://www.themeatrix.com/
· Poison in the Soda Pop http://nutrition2success.com/soda.php
· GM food is dangerous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkO6pzeh0aM
BILL EPTON: REVOLUTIONARY FIGHTER AND PROLETARIAN INTELLECTUAL, 1932 - 2002
He was a Black communist based in Harlem and has the distinction of having been charged with an attempt to overthrow the US government. He should be remembered for his theoretical and practical example
· Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Epton
· We accuse (his statement in court) http://www.mltranslations.org/US/epton.htm
· The struggle of Black people https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/proletarian-cause/article2.htm
· United Theory with practice https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/proletarian-cause/article9.htm
· New York Times https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/epton-denies.pdf
· https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/defends-views.pdf
· Freedom Now Party https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/freedom-now-party.htm
· Black Self-determination https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/epton-self.htm
SUPPORT BLACK PRISONERS OF WAR
· 16 Black Panthers http://www.colorlines.com/articles/16-black-panthers-still-behind-bars
· Mumia Abu-Jamal http://www.mumia-themovie.com/, http://www.freemumia.com/
· Prison Radio http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia
BLACK COMEDIANS AIN'T NO JOKE
· Richard Prior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHeOeMoxsnU
· Moms Mabley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxUJPatZNVw
· Dick Gregory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dooXGb-vky4
· Whoopi Goldberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy3NWh1b3Vg
· David Chappelle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZHrSK0l3dY
· Wanda Sykes http://www.cc.com/video-clips/pbx24n/stand-up-wanda-sykes--government-scare-tactics
#36 7/3/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Clean water is a battle front for Black Liberation!
· Remember to study the life and thinking of Malcolm X
· Documents of the struggle for Black women's liberation
· Black voices for socialism
· History of the fight for reparations in the Caribbean
· Music of the African liberation struggle
· Protest blues
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
CLEAN WATER IS A BATTLEFRONT FOR BLACK LIBERATION!
· East Chicago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnon10o7caw
· Flint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMvh57qJ6ZU
· Detroit: https://peopleswaterboard.org/
· http://wethepeopleofdetroit.com/
· Philadelphia: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2015/12/9/inside-philadelphias-filthy-schools.html
· Mississippi: http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2017/05/18/vicksburg-water-crisis/329559001/
· California: http://time.com/4017476/a-town-without-water/
REMEMBER TO STUDY THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF MALCOLM X
· Detroit Speeches http://www.brothermalcolm.net/aug04index.html
· Parents http://brothermalcolm.net/PARENTS/
· Family http://brothermalcolm.net/family/mxfamily.html
· On video http://brothermalcolm.net//video/
· His speeches http://brothermalcolm.net/mxwords/whathesaidarchive.html
· His words http://brothermalcolm.net/mxwords/mxwords.html
· Study guide http://brothermalcolm.net/studyguide/studyguide.html
DOCUMENTS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK WOMEN'S LIBERATION
· Sojourner Truth (1851) https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp
· Frances Beale (1969) http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/196.html
· Third World Women's Alliance (1970) http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/wlmpc_wlmms01009/
· Combahee River Collective (1977) http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html
· Angela Davis (1981) https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/davis-angela/housework.htm
BLACK VOICES FOR SOCIALISM
· Cedric Robinson https://libcom.org/files/Black%20Marxism-Cedric%20J.%20Robinson.pdf
· Marxism in Africa https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/index.htm
· Harry Haywood https://www.marxists.org/archive/haywood/index.htm
· Claudia Jones https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/claudia-jones-communist/
· Minkah Makalani http://www.aaihs.org/black-women-communists-and-pan-africanism-an-interview-with-minkah-makalani/
HISTORY OF THE FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN
On Tuesday, June 13, 2017, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, delivered the seventh Annual George Lamming Distinguished Lecture at The UWI Cave Hill Campus’ Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination (EBCCI) in Barbados. Vice-Chancellor Beckles spoke on the theme “Britain’s Perfect Caribbean Crime: Ignored Genocide, Faked Emancipation, Insincere Independence, and No Reparations”. https://www.uwitv.org/publ/7th-annual-george-lamming-distinguished-lecture-2
MUSIC OF THE AFRICAN LIBERATION STRUGGLES
· South Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on4E0SPDh5Q
· Angola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvkfthTboVg
· Zimbabwe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9auSLhnhSao&list=PLA2330BBECF468FAC
· Mozambique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ5G_0toY68
· Namibia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyPhx6FHCeA&list=PLxI9uQvb9mdhdJJH9g9vnvbK5KefCGdfA
· Guinea-Bissau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeInj7EVGt0
PROTEST BLUES
· Jim Crow Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejC6hFJcVM&index=8&list=PLDcIuBQyUPTo1b4P0s0nIoHjn4Yx6Lbe_
· Get back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQwTBAdblg&list=PLis1_3McClckGsmWfXoTgDmPb47zrJEq5&index=8
· None of us are free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFkmRp_G2uo&list=RDeFkmRp_G2uo#t=0
· Freedom Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlAtjRYvFIY
· Think about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGXU7268Z50
· Backlash blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pj9AucSc9Y&index=149&list=PLis1_3McClckGsmWfXoTgDmPb47zrJEq5
#35 6/26/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Reports from the Battlefronts:
1. “Take tha House Back,” a Detroit-made music video
2. PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE: Long Live International Solidarity!
· Directory of Black activist theoreticians
· Important organizations of the Black Liberation Struggle: Part 2
· Black scholars for our Liberation
· George Jackson
· Songs for our children
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
"TAKE THA HOUSE BACK" A DETROIT-MADE MUSIC VIDEO
· Culture that advances the struggle (see attached also). It is time to recruit cultural workers to perform the struggle on every battlefront. http://vimeo.com/willseemusic/tthb
PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE: LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
· See attached summation and this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDluGnhOBh4
DIRECTORY OF BLACK ACTIVIST THEORETICIANS
· http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/
IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS OF THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT: PART 2
· Black Alliance for Just Immigration http://blackalliance.org/
· Southerners on New Ground http://southernersonnewground.org/
· Alliance for Educational Justice https://www.facebook.com/4EdJustice/
· Ella Baker Center for Human Rights http://ellabakercenter.org/
· The Workers Center for Racial Justice https://www.facebook.com/center4racialjustice/
· The Black Out Collective http://www.blackoutcollective.org/#Home
· Dignity and Power Now http://dignityandpowernow.org/
· Color of Change https://www.colorofchange.org/
· Black Liberation Collective http://www.blackliberationcollective.org/
· Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity http://boldorganizing.org/
· Women of Color Network http://www.wocninc.org/
· Center for Third World Organizing http://ctwo.org/
· Prison Action Network https://www.facebook.com/Prison-Action-Network-132880580095839/
BLACK SCHOLARS FOR OUR LIBERATION:
· Barbara Ransby
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-TYfbkn1lo
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quikzpcMSZA
· Robin Kelley
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5N-O5Hqj8
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9MJAxpWKYA
· Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHqbLtMJUc
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGwRqvwc-Mk
· Gerald Horne
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71DIrOmkBM
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7A2rL51JxY
GEORGE JACKSON: A Panther Revolutionary
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRuLlwx1sw
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Va-wxoJYQ
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKh-agZxePM
· Soledad Brothers Audio book
o Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca2VPAeuOO8
o Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYKS98gCytY
o Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLEOjN-rB-U
o Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8SEkZ6SIRg
o Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VghdPlDITjY
o Part 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oiu8MvG-NE
o Part 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Ca2kO7Dmc
SONGS FOR OUR CHILDREN
· Doug Carn - Welcome & Little B's Poem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0BbBc5IGG4
· Gregory Porter - Don't Lose Your Steam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZyB4Bxrxg
· Nina Simone To Be Young Gifted And Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEMOxRxcJpo
· Terry Callier - Brother To Brother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85jcMjOEjBY&index=24&list=PLf3CnvFfUcFTuOBMsC0kE2mF7RSixbrZR
· We are the World https://www.vevo.com/watch/usa-for-africa/we-are-the-world/US25U0812378
· What a Wonderful World | Playing For Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddLd0QRf7Vg
#34 6/18/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Important organizations of the Black Liberation Movement: Part 1
· The New Dawn: discussion of anti-capitalist Black liberation theory
· The movement will survive state surveillance
· Women in leadership from the history of our struggle
· Paul Robeson: a great champion for Black liberation and world revolution
· Music created by world unity
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
Sign your friends and comrades up to get the Bulletin!
IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS OF THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT: PART 1
We are a diverse set of organization located all over the country. Yes there are differences, but our agreements and unity far exceed any fundamental differences we have at this stage of the struggle. The rich and the military have taken over the country and directly have begun vicious attacks against all of us. Who can argue that now is the time to remain disunited? Who will argue for unity
· Project South http://projectsouth.org/
· Organization for Black Struggle http://www.obs-stl.org/
· Dream Defenders http://www.dreamdefenders.org/
· People Organized for Progress http://njpop.org/wordpress/
· Southern Workers Assembly http://southernworker.org/
· Malcolm X Grassroots Movement https://mxgm.org/
· Black Youth Project 100 http://byp100.org/
· National Conference of Black Lawyers http://www.ncbl.org/
· Anti-Eviction Campaign https://www.facebook.com/chiantieviction/
· Left Roots https://leftroots.net/
· Black Lives Matter http://blacklivesmatter.com/
· Black Workers for Justice http://blackworkersforjustice.com/
· Black Agenda Report https://www.blackagendareport.com/
· African Peoples Socialist Party http://apspuhuru.org/
· SNCC Legacy Project http://www.sncclegacyproject.org/
· New Era http://neweradetroit.com/
THE NEW DAWN: DISCUSSIONS OF ANTI-CAPITALIST BLACK LIBERATION THEORY
The New Dawn podcast is an initiative of the Race and Capitalism project. This project is led by University of Chicago Professor of Political Science Michael C. Dawson. The project team also includes Megan Ming Francis (University of Washington), Tianna Paschel (University of California-Berkeley), and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton University). http://csrpc.uchicago.edu/programs/projects/new_dawn_podcast/
THE MOVEMENT WILL SURVIVE STATE SURVEILLANCE
· Mississippi https://vimeo.com/64760874
· Chicago https://archive.org/details/733108#
· FBI National http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/fbeyes
· FBI on Malcolm X https://vault.fbi.gov/malcolm-little-malcolm-x
· COINTELPRO https://archive.org/details/FBI-COINTELPRO-BLACK
WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP FROM THE HISTORY OF OUR STRUGGLE
· Ida B Wells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Vk_TfMWbA
· Charlotta Bass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QGzxT0v7Zs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhUAuVOA98
· Dorothy Height https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5534&v=AHwFaa1WZnA
· Ella Baker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68U57yi9F1E, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHmXeFVvk4c, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLVPZr5qMw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F5WI5GMjeM
· Queen Mother Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq0-kfzbMgw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhq5cD3f3oI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFf0fikoNM
· Fannie Lou Hamer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Kk3s12ZYg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cAqdCIC74k
PAUL ROBESON
· Here I Stand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUki-v-NvoE
· Congressional testimony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTFYnXJSCm8
· Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDb9nM_iiXw
· Documentary Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPRS-GX9n-A
· Documentary Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgCtDoFz7TA
MUSIC CREATED BY WORLD UNITY
Playing for Change is a revolutionary project making music
· Lean on me https://playingforchange.com/videos/lean-on-me/
· Stand by me https://playingforchange.com/videos/stand-by-me-song-around-the-world/
· Talking bout a revolution https://playingforchange.com/videos/talkin-bout-revolution-clarence-bekker/
· Whats going on https://playingforchange.com/videos/whats-going-on/
· Words of wonder-Get up https://playingforchange.com/videos/words-of-wonder-get-up-stand-up/
· What a wonderful world https://playingforchange.com/videos/what-a-wonderful-world/
#33 6/12/2017
CONTENTS
· Time to revisit the classic revolutionary film: The Battle of Algiers
· We support the struggle of the masses of Afro-Columbian people
· Sisters who lead Black Lives Matter
· Voices of the Black working class: Clarence Thomas
· John La Rose: A world class revolutionary intellectual activist
· Caribbean music honoring Martin Luther King
TIME TO REVISIT THE CLASSIC REVOLUTIONARY FILM: THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
This movie demonstrates that a people united can never be defeated, even after terrible things happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_N2wyq7fCE
WE SUPPORT THE STRUGGLES OF THE MASSES OF AFRO-COLUMBIAN PEOPLE
· Statement by the Permanent Assembly of Black Women in the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman in Cali | ACSN https://afrocolombian.org/2017/06/05/statement-by-the-permanent-assembly-of-black-women-in-the-office-of-the-human-rights-ombudsman-in-cali/
· Protest March of Afro Colombian People https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd1smhImKY
SISTERS WHO LEAD BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
· Alicia Garza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKtqVPdfkfI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-mACdR2Cw
· Patrisse Cullors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT4kV1wL-Pc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUyc5EAAWEY
· Opal Tometi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho_v_iN-JM8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DImTkGfjCb0
VOICES OF THE BLACK WORKING CLASS: CLARENCE THOMAS
This is our Clarence Thomas! A militant working class leader with a trade union history as a Longshoreman
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2PTLF9cxqY
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCG26zLttXY
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbv4U-PuzDg
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDlPL_RoJ9k
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzQfPLiz5wg
JOHN LA ROSE: A BLACK WORLD CLASS REVOLUTIONARY INTELLECTUAL ACTIVIST
A person is what they do and think, but also in what legacy continues on. John La Rose was a great thinker, a man of action, and his legacy lives on!
· Dream to change the world https://vimeo.com/56212622
· Radical Black and Third World Bookfair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVpZUQtIkX8
· New Beacon Books https://repeatingislands.com/2014/11/30/new-beacon-books-britains-first-black-bookshop/
· New Beacon Bookshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8qYcNX9Gj8
· New Beacon Bookshop saved https://tinyurl.com/y8zlyfr5
CARIBBEAN MUSIC HONORING MARTIN LUTHER KING
It is important to embrace the cultural production of the African Diaspora. We are not alone. Our future is guaranteed with unity.
· Lucky Dube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOET_F0WZTg
· Lord Brynner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_W9UN0ElGM
· Fullerton Reggae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acg4BLItlr4
· Mighty Sparrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns_ROvH7TNU
· Reggae Refix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFBSQFNdvs
· Black Stalin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_JDWRjTg3Q
· Max Romeo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUO-Ui9oJEM
· Mighty Duke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZABs3z7R90
· Lord Allrounder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOy4WOxNQZs
#32 6/5/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Willie Baptist: Another Black working class voice
· 2017 is the anniversary of the 1967 Black Power conference in Newark
· ALSC: Another Black United Front in the 18970s
· The Lumpen: A Black Panther funk band
· Black sculptors have served the people with proud images
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
WILLIE BAPTIST: ANOTHER BLACK WORKING CLASS VOICE
· The 4 C's of Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0P_S2dPUU
· The poverty initiative https://vimeo.com/34524614
· Reigniting MLK's Poor People's Campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0m30ArOgbc
· Break the isolation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IwL5A7ERfw
· "Poverty and Homelessness is Big Business" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIBk8jzJy_M
2017 IS 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1967 BLACK POWER CONFERENCE IN NEWARK
The history of the Black Liberation Movement can be told through the key conferences that summed up and often changed the direction of the struggle. The Black Power conference in Newark is one.
· http://riseupnewark.com/chapters/chapter-3/part-3/the-black-power-conference/
· http://blackpower.web.unc.edu/2017/04/1967-newark-black-power-conference/
· http://libguides.rutgers.edu/c.php?g=336802&p=2272269
· https://www.democracynow.org/2007/7/13/on_40th_anniversary_of_newark_rebellion
· https://www.blackagendareport.com/karen_spellman_sncc_black_power
· http://www.sncclegacyproject.org/projects/black-power-50th
ALSC: ANOTHER BLACK UNITED FRONT IN THE 1970s
The African Liberation Support Committee was the leading Black united front in the 1970s. It stimulated a great ideological debate that raised the consciousness level of militant fighters on all battlefronts fighting for Black liberation.
· Black Unity: Breaking the chains of oppression (1972) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmcbne_3eFQ
· On 1974 debate https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/unity-struggle/us-3-6.pdf
· CAP Summation https://www.marxists.org/history//erol/ncm-1a/cap-alsc-3.htm
· Forward Motion summation https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/pul-buf.htm
· Academic article http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol4no5/4.5TheAfrican-American.pdf
THE LUMPEN: A BLACK PANTHER FUNK BAND
There is no revolution unless we can sing and dance about it!
· Bobby must be set free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e01mZDrdmLw
· All you need is a loaded gun http://www.wnyc.org/story/the-lumpen-black-panther-party-funk/
· Overview and background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIyBxifgLmk
· The legacy will never be forgotten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BzQbu9FWsg
BLACK SCULPTORS HAVE SERVE THE PEOPLE WITH PROUD IMAGES
Marion Perkins
· images https://tinyurl.com/y72r9t5g
· analysis https://www.chipublib.org/fa-marion-perkins-papers/
Augusta Savage
· images https://tinyurl.com/y9drevej
· analysis https://www.biography.com/people/augusta-savage-40495
Richmond Barthe
· images https://tinyurl.com/yadw6bl2
· analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Barth%C3%A9
Gwendolyn Knight
· images https://tinyurl.com/y8l4bk8n
· analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Knight#External_links
#31 5/29/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Saladin Muhammad: Another Black working class revolutionary voice
· The fight over public housing
· The attack on public education
· The strong songs of the Fruit of Labor
· Black people dance as an affirmation of freedom
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
SALADIN MUHAMMAD: ANOTHER BLACK WORKING CLASS REVOLUTIONARY VOICE
· Powerpoint http://theblm.net/saladin/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Saladin-project-ppt.pptx
· Autobiography http://theblm.net/saladin/autobiography/
· Writings http://theblm.net/saladin/writings/
· Videos http://theblm.net/saladin/video-interviews/
· 10 Key questions http://theblm.net/saladin/10-key-questions/
· Organizations http://theblm.net/saladin/organizations/
· Movement resources http://theblm.net/saladin/links/
THE FIGHT OVER PUBLIC HOUSING
· St Louis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKgZM8y3hso
· New York http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/the-voices-of-public-housing-speak-out-665576515766
· Mississippi http://www.mscenterforjustice.org/our-work/housing/public-housing
· Cleveland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnyzlLaiXw
THE ATTACK ON PUBLIC EDUCATION
· Student loan crisis https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/21/devo-a21.html
· School vouchers don't work http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-devos-vouchers-20170228-story.html
THE STRONG SONGS OF THE FRUIT OF LABOR
When the people sing they conjure up the spirit power needed for sustaining the resistance.
"The Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble, their songs and music was born out of the struggle of organizing African American workers in the “Black Belt” region of North Carolina and the South. More than twenty two workers, at various times, have participated in this dynamic cultural workers organization. Recruited from workplace and community struggles, they have captured in music oppressed peoples’ and the working class’ history of community and workplace struggles." http://fruitoflabor.org/
BLACK PEOPLE DANCE AS AN AFFIRMATION OF FREEDOM
· Intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMFRR5UZxI
· "Steps of the Gods"
o (part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN0G7xItwo
o (part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7xjrIOXF4A
o (part 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSi_AUX9Tr8
· INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE http://www.iabdassociation.org/
#30 5/22/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Key lessons from US history
· Pittsburgh militants win housing battle
· Nelson Perry: Another Black working class voice
· Liberation politics in the music and life of Charlie Mingus
· Documentary films of the freedom movement
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
KEY LESSONS FROM US HISTORY
The general narrative of US history often leaves key moments out. We need to remind ourselves about what actually happened. For example:
· Bacon's Rebellion (How White Supremacy Began in the USA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBICAUGqUqs
· Stono Rebellion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XVfgGfTKK0
· Shay's Rebellion 1787 - REVOLT Against the Blue Blood Masons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEoeK5MvEdY
· Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71DIrOmkBM
PITTSBURGH MILITANTS WIN HOUSING BATTLE
Carl Redmond a leader in the Black Left Unity Movement was in the leadership of a housing struggle. We fight to win one battle at a time.
NELSON PERRY: ANOTHER BLACK WORKING CLASS VOICE
· The Education of An American Revolutionary http://library.fora.tv/2007/09/15/Education_of_An_American_Revolutionary
· From the field, to the factory, to the street http://www.speakersforanewamerica.com/AAQ.html
· Obit http://rallycomrades.lrna.org/nelson-peery/
LIBERATION POLITICS IN THE MUSIC AND LIFE OF CHARLIE MINGUS
· Work song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heVcGt7qWns
· Fables of Faubus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXuZBywW4gA&list=RDDXuZBywW4gA#t=0
· Blues and roots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KcMfQhn6w
· Shooting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqb_QUsnKbg
· 1968 https://vimeo.com/10769018
DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT
· History of the Civil Rights movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYPMlHl-88
· Freedom Riders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvsWXrS2PI
· 1963 March on Washington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bczaCyS3tw
· 1963 Chicago school boycotts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgj7JKY3nP4
· Gay man in the Civil Rights Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0-TZ3vft4&index=34&list=PLh-7EvrfTlPGzNngtcZSnm36tH3BnFWZK
· Eyes on the prize https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts10IVzUDVw&list=PLOwK3r1sMvSZVth7XGlcpfLSjS3tAp90T
#29 5/15/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic document to build the movement
· Fighting racism by removing Confederate monuments in New Orleans
· What can be gained by electing Black mayors?
· Time to study once again the writings of James Boggs
· The wisdom of Audre Lorde
· Black history music by Duke Ellington
· The current teachings of Dead Prez
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
FIGHTING RACISM BY REMOVING CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS IN NEW ORLEANS
· The take down http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/us/new-orleans-confederate-monument-removal/
WHAT CAN BE GAINED BY ELECTING BLACK MAYORS
· Harold Washington http://eblackchicago.org/HAROLD/
· Ras Baraka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaS9-7lFaNA
· Chokwe Lumumba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UItDfmtyBw
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN2VVLtEOlI
· Chokwe Antar Lumumba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BKg41XHiGw
· Bad examples? https://www.jetmag.com/news/kwame-kilpatrick-corrupt-black-mayors/
TIME TO STUDY ONCE AGAIN THE WRITINGS OF JAMES BOGGS
There is a great deal of talk about needing the revolutionary leadership from Black workers. James Boggs is a great example.
· The Awesome Responsibilities of Revolutionary Leadership https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/Black%20Liberation%20Disk/Black%20Power!/SugahData/Books/Boggs.S.pdf
· The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/amreboggs.html
· Manifesto for a Black revolutionary party http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/radical/id/34642
· Towards a new concept of citizenship http://www.boggscenter.org/new_concept_citizenship_jboggs_1976.html
· History #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb1QzvCQ-jA
· History #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywjrbGdsrO4
· History #3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuTEpk0YZcY
THE WISDOM OF AUDRE LORDE
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
· UCLA speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUXj0BVQkpw
· Theory of difference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkwj0znbuoQ
· There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1pNsLsHsfs
· Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMvnxxFhbM
· Bio clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diHzbQNyO2k
BLACK HISTORY MUSIC BY DUKE ELLINGTON
· Say it loud https://beta.prx.org/stories/167301?play=true
· Symphony in Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8RzW4Huo_Y
· Black, Brown & Beige https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM2N8_H4me0
· Take the A train to Harlem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY
· Black and Tan Fantasy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLJmgzMnOjQ
· Duke and John Coltrane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0HvfzME_Po
THE CURRENT TEACHINGS OF DEAD PREZ
This is rap music for the revolutionary struggle!
· Police state https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c_UdWo4Zek
· Scar Strangled Banner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7fAKhmlQ1k
· We need a revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPje57RIxw
· They schools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpipOqP_1C0
· Your way and my way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHyLiZTMmqg
· We can learn how to do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttHukW70TAM
#28 5/8/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· First Black bookstore in England fights onto survive
· Historical cases of Black workers organizing to fight
· The experience of Haiti is important for all of us
· Fela: Master of African freedom music
· Enslaved African fought back never accepting the slave system
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
FIRST BLACK BOOKSTORE IN ENGLAND FIGHTS ON TO SURVIVE
This institution was created in 1966 by a collective led by John La Rose and has been a major institution in Black Studies and the struggle for social justice, including the Radical Black and Third World Bookfairs (1982 - 1995) They also have created the George Padmore Institute http://www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/
This is a BBC video of how the community has activated to keep the bookshop alive as it continues to serve the community https://www.facebook.com/BBCStories/videos/10154980712325659/
HISTORICAL CASES OF BLACK WORKERS ORGANIZING TO FIGHT
The majority of Black people have always been workers, so most organizations have in fact been made up of Black workers. The following are the organizations with clear goals and leadership that reflects the Black worker.
· 1860s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_National_Labor_Union
· 1920s American Negro Labor Congress
· 1930s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Struggle_for_Negro_Rights
· 1960s http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/rbwstudy.html
· 1970s http://www.cbtu.org/index.php
· 1980s http://blackworkersforjustice.com/
THE EXPERIENCE OF HAITI IS IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US
· Haitian revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOGVgQYX6SU
· African Americans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfQ8nrwMFtg
· David Rudder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PDuOxwAS3I
· The untold story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcV6NTqoyAc
· University of the West Indies https://www.uwitv.org/prog/region-talk-haiti-one-us-documentary
· Voodoo trance drumming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW2_SfYx97U
FELA: MASTER OF AFRICAN FREEDOM MUSIC
· Why black man they suffer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozyZEJiig8U&index=16&list=RD9Q2F2TaRghE
· Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zisHSsk9Og0
· T. T. (International Thief Thief) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6yM6HLADbE
· Colonial Mentality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q2F2TaRghE
· You Gimme Shit I Give You Shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tGuY-GZ3PU&list=RD9Q2F2TaRghE&index=27
ENSLAVED AFRICANS FOUGHT BACK NEVER ACCEPTING THE SLAVE SYSTEM
Our ancestors never stopped fight to get free. What are you gonna do to continue that fight today?
· Stono Rebellion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUt6DnSH9cU
· The Black Seminoles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXLZ0f1Dk4E
· Jamaica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo5-W5oKnfk
· Gabriel's Conspiracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvZXqTHX9w
· Nat Turner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM1EDjeYR2I
· Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o2ey__ZtNI
· Denmark Vesey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGORL_sOokQ
#27 5/1/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic Documents to build the movement
· What does our movement say about the liberation of Black women
· The crisis of unemployment
· There is much to learn from the Black Panther Party
· Black Power music
· Check early Black TV
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
WHAT DOES OUR MOVEMENT SAY ABOUT THE LIBERATION OF BLACK WOMEN
There is considerable unity in what many movement organizations are saying, but of course there are some differences, mainly about emphasis. (See the attached document) Therefore we are all challenged to find ways to unite and coordinate our resistance. We are more powerful when we pull together as we did during the 1960's in the Black Power conferences, in the 1970's in the African Liberation Support Committee, and in the 1990's in the Black Radical Congress. Sisters, we need your leadership!
THE CRISIS OF UNEMPLOYMENT
· The Real News http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18921:Unemployment-Rate-Hides-the-Historically-Low-Employment-Rate
· Los Angeles Black Worker Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKhNc98GIc
· Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUQ1H4fNpmY
· Mississippi history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Gvb1wjEp4
THERE IS MUCH TO LEARN FROM THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY!
One of the most important Black liberation organizations of the 20th century was the Black Panther Party. Some of these brave comrades gave their lives for the struggle, and some remain locked up in prison even today. We learn from them as we prepare for the future!
· Film Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnoLuTH2W5o
· Texts https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/
· Film Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bcubkt6BwY
· Huey Newton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEmUexGP_vY
· Elaine Brown http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Elaine_Brown
· Bobby Seale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRPi0UBNV-M
· Kathleen Cleaver http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Kathleen_Cleaver
· Fred Hampton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VDeeIomV1U
· Kiilu Nyasha http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Kiilu_Nyasha
BLACK POWER MUSIC
· Chi-Lites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSIr5a4L8os
· James Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRSAVDlpDI
· Mixed Tape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrZw6RIIBNo&list=PLAF2BD36CAF76EAE2
· Movement Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4mf5vRSQM&list=PLuzI3wVjHPV-oHcaQtUDJx96S4yXOuYor
· More songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4H0rwumscA&list=PLgYmPlO0u9yigekYsAgpMNY_y1gpkdCKb
CHECK EARLY BLACK TV
· Soul Train http://www.jazzonthetube.com/videos/documentary/soul-train.html
· American Black Journal (Detroit) http://abj.matrix.msu.edu/index.php
· Tony Brown's Black Journal https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyBrownsJournal
· Bird of the Iron Feather (Chicago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWF1y6A5PM
#26 4/23/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· What's next after spontaneous mass protests
· POP leads Black New Jersey in developing a Black Agenda
· Black liberation lectures from Detroit
· Look through the eyes of the Black artist and see yourself
· Jazz and the Black Experience
· Black Power Music
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
WHAT'S NEXT AFTER SPONTANEOUS MASS PROTESTS
We know we have to fight back against every attack. We know we have to build multiple battlefronts to resist. And we have been doing this. But we need more, we need to look beyond to the next stage of struggle. This attached paper lays out a path forward. See Three Waves of Struggle - attached.
POP LEADS BLACK NEW JERSEY IN DEVELOPING A BLACK AGENDA
by Larry Adams, Vice Chair POP
Continuing to meet, discuss and debate, the NJ Black Agenda Project has produced the "The NJ Black Agenda Abstract--Draft 2," here attached. We have begun meeting around the Agenda with gubernatorial candidates: John Wiszniewski, Ray Leszniak, and Ray Murphy. Meeting with Jim Johnson, the one Afro-American candidate is to come. On May Day, after rallying with an immigrant -led coalition, we will march to a candidates' forum , where, in addition to distributing the coalition's immigrant-centered demands, we will distribute the Agenda, to forum attendees to consolidate it's constituency and to build for a People's Assembly. Comments, criticisms, additions etc. to the Agenda, by Bulletin readers are welcomed.
BLACK LIBERATION LECTURES FROM DETROIT
The Charles Wright Museum of African American History has a great series of programs that cover many areas of local,national, and international aspects of the struggles of people in the African Diaspora. This is led by Charles Ferrell, a relative of General Baker. https://livestream.com/accounts/2710797. Some of the radical activist intellectuals included in this series are Saladin Muhammad, Robin Kelley, Maxine Waters, Ollie Johnson, Derrick White, Runoko Rashidi, Abdul Alkalimat, Akinjele Umoja, Herb Boyd, John Bracy, William Strickland, Kathleen Cleaver, John Williams, Luke Tripp, Charles Simmons, Mariam Kramer, and many more
LOOK THROUGH THE EYES OF THE BLACK ARTIST AND SEE YOURSELF!
· Elizabeth Catlett https://www.google.com/search?q=mitchell+caton&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsxvqsuLHTAhVl4oMKHQlMDLsQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530#tbm=isch&q=elizabeth+catlett
· Mitchell Caton https://www.google.com/search?q=mitchell+caton&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsxvqsuLHTAhVl4oMKHQlMDLsQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530
· Louis Mailou Jones https://www.google.com/search?q=mitchell+caton&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsxvqsuLHTAhVl4oMKHQlMDLsQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530#tbm=isch&q=louis+malou+jones
JAZZ AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
This is the bomb! Keep listening for hours. Free. http://www.accuradio.com/?name=Jazz%20and%20the%20Black%20Experience&b0=Jazz
#25 4/17/2017
CONTENT BULLETIN UPDATE #25 (4/17/2017)
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Don't follow Trump, follow the policy changes
· Follow the movement research-action institutes
· Continue to study the Detroit Speeches of Malcolm X
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
DON'T FOLLOW TRUMP, FOLLOW THE POLICY CHANGES
The media keeps us on his tweets but don't keep us informed of all the policy moves they are making. We protect our battlefronts by resisting their specific attacks. Be wise, stay alert!
· Education https://www.ed.gov/ ; https://www.ed.gov/news/speeches?src=hp
· Health https://www.hhs.gov/
· Environment https://www.epa.gov/
· Labor https://www.dol.gov/
· Defense https://www.defense.gov/
FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT RESEARCH ACTION INSTITUTES
These institutes serve as kind of think tanks for the movement. We need many more of them, and you have a role to play.
· George Padmore Institute http://www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/
· General Baker Institute https://www.facebook.com/GeneralBakerInstitute/
· Fred Hampton Institute http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/
· James and Grace Lee Boggs School http://www.boggsschool.org/
· Institute of the Black World http://ibw21.org/
· Bob Avakian Institute http://thebobavakianinstitute.org/
· Audre Lorde Project http://alp.org/
· Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies http://jointcenter.org/
CONTINUE TO STUDY THE DETROIT SPEECHES OF MALCOLM X
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/aug04index.html
· 1963 Message to the Grass Roots
· 1964 Ballot or Bullet
· 1965 Fighting on all fronts
#24 4/10/2017
CONTENTS OF UPDATE #24 (4/10/2017)
· Basic documents to builds the movement
· CLR James Memorial Lecture Featuring David Abdulah - March 29, 2017
· Dialogues on racism and capitalism
· We have a tradition of building united fronts
· Important Black boxers to remember
· The struggles of Black soldiers
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
CLR JAMES MEMORIAL LECTURE FEATURING DAVID ABDULAH
This is a lecture series sponsored by the Oilfields Workers Trade Union of Trinidad. David Abdulah is the Political Leader of the Movement for Social Justice. There are many key introductory comments from activists in Trinidad. His theme: "The rise of right wing nationalism and populaism & CLR James' Theses" "After Hitler Our Turn" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdDbY8qE-VM
DIALOGUES ON RACISM AND CAPITALISM
Michael Dawson has a program of interviewing your scholar activists on the relationship of racism to capitalism. This is a great example of how Black Studies can make a fundamental contribution to the consciousness needed to advance the Black liberation struggle - two recent additions out of total of six https://soundcloud.com/user-751628375
· Toussaint Losier The Rise of the Carceral State: Prisoner Organizing, Politicization, and Surplus Labor
· Nikhil Singh and Adom Getachew Racial Capitalism: Globalism, Empire, and War
WE HAVE A TRADITION OF BUILDING UNITED FRONTS
· National Negro Convention Movement (1831 - 1864) http://www.blackpast.org/aah/national-negro-convention-movement-1831-1864, https://www.google.com/search?q=national+negro+convention+movement&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjy89yklonTAhVKxYMKHYX3CcgQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530
· Sanhedrin (1924) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Sanhedrin, http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/negro-sanhedrin
· National Negro Congress (1935 - 1947) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Negro_Congress, https://www.google.com/search?q=national+negro+congress&sa=N&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwjugYzIlYnTAhVm7YMKHdfZAjk4ChCwBAgd&biw=1056&bih=530
· Congress of African People https://www.google.com/search?q=congress+of+african+people+baraka&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo66yqpInTAhVl7IMKHcnmBtAQ_AUICCgB&biw=1056&bih=530#tbm=isch&q=cap+congress+of+african+people&*&imgrc=_
· National Black United Front https://www.google.com/search?q=national+black+united+front&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCkPH3l4nTAhXn44MKHePRAR0Q_AUICigD&biw=1056&bih=530
· African Liberation Support Committee https://www.google.com/search?q=african+liberation+support+committee&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9ydrNl4nTAhVo6IMKHXDCD2UQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530
· Black Radical Congress
· and many more
IMPORTANT BLACK BOXERS TO REMEMBER
Are these symbolic events of the fight for Black liberation?
· Bill Richmond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx-OHW4SSkw
· Jack Johnson https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jack+johnson+boxing
· Muhammad Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWfouQ3h5qI
· Joe Louis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KMU876nyTU
· Sugar Ray Robinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrAMsMCb2bg
THE STRUGGLES OF BLACK SOLDIERS
The men and women who fight for US imperialism will one day fight for Black liberation here in the homeland! Here is their experience.
· General history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zJSDiPDZcQ
· Civil War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQ-EH3nQRA
· Buffalo Soldiers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfUo3H3qdMU
· World War I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuoAl1elLU
· World War II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4eT7YSKxjc
· Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTxg8Vu11JI
· Vietnam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR60lCSTmus
#23 4/3/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Reports from the battlefronts #2
· Important sisters are our ancestors
· It is important to study political economy
· Music by Bernice Johnson Reagon
· Movies about national oppression and Black liberation
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
REPORTS FROM THE BATTLEFRONTS #2
There is fight back in every community, sometimes a few people and sometimes a mighty wave of resistance. The day to day fight is how we march forward and change history, so it is important to document and sum up every struggle. We are never defeated if we continue to learn from our experience. We call on all militant cadre in the Black liberation struggle to begin summing up the movements in their local areas and submit reports to this weekly Bulletin. Our second set of reports is attached with summations from Boston, North Carolina, and East Cleveland. SEE ATTACHED
IMPORTANT SISTERS ARE OUR ANCESTORS
Equality for women must be extended into our memory of the past to overcome male supremacy in our history. Time to rewrite history books!
· Margaret Burroughs http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Margaret_Burroughs
· Carlota the Lukumi http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Carlota_Lukumi
· Katherine Dunham http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Katherine_Dunham
· Vicky Garvin http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Vicky_Garvin
· Lucy Parsons http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Lucy_Parsons
IT IS IMPORTANT TO STUDY POLITICAL ECONOMY
Every society depends on its capacity to feed, clothe, and house its population. For most it means people being able to get good stable jobs with enough income to support decent family life. This is exactly what the US is not able to do, and that's why Black liberation activists need to study political economy
· Marxism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0GFSUu5UzA
· Dollars and Sense http://dollarsandsense.org/
· Black Political Economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8kV9mF6PgU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHFJYPQp6j0
· Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey http://davidharvey.org/
· Commentary by Richard Wolff http://www.rdwolff.com/
· Who rules America (William Domhoff) http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/
MUSIC BY BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON
One of the most important activist scholar/artists who helped us understand the revolutionary implications of the tradition of Black music both secular and sacred - RESPECT!
· Will the circle be unbroken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfFkbzjrc
· Come and go with me to that land https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duQkrazZdoc
· The Freedom Singers - Woke Up This Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsziXdKfOsE
· We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-qQsW6pdVM
· Sweet Honey In The Rock - Eye On The Prize https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tcZAqQUAg
· "Give Your Hands to Struggle" by Sweet Honey in the Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV9Vf0a7YtM
MOVIES ABOUT NATIONAL OPPRESSION AND BLACK LIBERATION
· The Rosewood Massacre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv1dSV0jiuk
· Black Wall Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXGcZg88yPk
· Emmett Till https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvijYSJtkQk
· The Vernon Johns Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRuZF7LMXcc
· Deacons for Defense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x5tDNxKbNc
#22 3/27/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· Reports from the Battlefronts #1
· Introduction to Black Studies (online lectures for self study)
· Progressive Black Media
· Black People and the Chinese Revolution
· Music for social change
· The Photographers can teach us to really see each other
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
REPORTS FROM THE BATTLEFRONTS #1
A fundamental aspect of the struggle is that all politics are based on local motion, people fighting real battles in the objective conditions they face. This is the day to day reality of fighting on all battlefronts. A national movement takes place when local people in local areas come to know each other and work in coordination making many small battles into one BIG battle. We are beginning to welcome reports from local cadre of the movement, from all organizations and parties, from all battlefronts. We begin with reports from Newark NJ and Rocky Mount NC. SEE ATTACHED
INTRODUCTION TO BLACK STUDIES (ONLINE LECTURES FOR SELF STUDY)
Black Studies was created by the Black liberation movement but much of it has been taken over by a middle class elite. The tasks of educating ourselves remains critical. Here is a course that is online that can be studied as a group project or as individual study - text, power point slides, and video lecture: http://eblackstudies.org/2010/curriculum.htm
PROGRESSIVE BLACK MEDIA
· Jackson Advocate (Mississippi) http://www.jacksonadvocateonline.com/
· San Francisco Bay View (California) http://sfbayview.com/
· Final Call http://www.finalcall.com/
· Black Commentator http://www.blackcommentator.com/
· Black Agenda Report https://www.blackagendareport.com/
· The Burning Spear http://www.theburningspear.com/index.php
BLACK PEOPLE AND THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
Since the death of Mao China has embraced capitalism and is facing a new wave of class struggle inside itself. But under Mao there was great affinity of the Chinese revolution with the Black liberation movement. This is important history to study.
· Mao https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33h.htm
· Robert Williams https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33p.htm
· Vicki Garvin http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/7/3/9/4/p273947_index.html
· Robin Kelley http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf
· Tanzania http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/publications/Analysis-Archive/workingPapers/altorferOng.pdf
MUSIC FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
· Sam Cooke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4
· Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un9EOjbUWVA&list=PLAF2BD36CAF76EAE2&index=6
· Donny Hathaway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv1B0ejhFVE&index=12&list=PLAF2BD36CAF76EAE2
· Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nbG3f9NGg8&index=43&list=RDuBImi5rMIYg
· Charles Mingus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48eAYnfgrAo
· Staple Singers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_b_jyRVRc&index=4&list=PL7D4EB96907B04D01
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS CAN TEACH US TO REALLY SEE EACH OTHER
· Bobby Sengstacke https://www.google.com/search?q=roy+decarava+archive&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3mN-xvfTSAhVLw4MKHTrnCaMQ_AUIBigB&biw=1056&bih=530#tbm=isch&q=bobby+sengstacke&*
· Black Panther Party https://www.google.com/search?q=roy+decarava+archive&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3mN-xvfTSAhVLw4MKHTrnCaMQ_AUIBigB&biw=1056&bih=530#tbm=isch&q=black+panther+party+photographers&*
#21 3/20/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic document to build the movement
· How to use the weekly bulletin?
· We need your help with increasing subscriptions to the Bulletin
· The global crisis today: What the hell is going on?
· Music in praise of Black women
· Why do have to oppose the Trump budget?
· Remember Malcolm X: Listen to the Detroit speeches at least three times!
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
HOW TO USE THE WEEKLY BULLETIN?
The main question is why you get the bulletin and how you participate in the Black liberation movement. Some people get it, skim over it and maybe say "I'll get back to some of it later" but seldom do. Some check out the cultural aspects, especially your people who are getting turned on for the first time. But if you are SERIOUS and want to be an even better cadre for the struggle then you will organize a disciplined approach and set aside at least 2-3 hours a week to study the material. We believe the bulletin is more important for you than CNN!
WE NEED YOUR HELP WITH INCREASING SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE BULLETIN
If you find the Bulletin useful then at least one of your friends will as well. Our movement depends on you to help build the Bulletin into a tool of power and that means increasing the number of people who get it each week. SEND IN ONE NAME AND EMAIL FOR A BULLETIN SUBSCRIPTION. We need you to help, and it will take only 2 minutes, so why not do this so we can get stronger. In the age of Trump can progressive people afford to be passive? NO! We count on each of us to build the movement.
THE GLOBAL CRISIS TODAY: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
· US Debt Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_910265&feature=iv&src_vid=Jjv-MtGpj2U&v=Ln6VGCB8f_c
· The war within the ruling class http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18647
· The Coming War On China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6StL-AJLDwY
· An Eyewitness Account from the Middle East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHz4mKxI0t8
· The Last Convulsion of Imperialism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN7p-JKCeOY
MUSIC IN PRAISE OF BLACK WOMEN
· Hugh Masekela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXMnfOGJFqA
· Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSU5n7MElxw
· Capital D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFs-JCFCePo
· Bernice Reagon/Sweet Honey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kubAMvm_z6w
· Lionel Richie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz1jrlX27kE
· Aretha Franklin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEWuAcMWDLY
WHY DO WE HAVE TO OPPOSE THE TRUMP BUDGET?
· Ebony Magazine http://www.ebony.com/news-now/trump-federal-budget#axzz4bjNUgi3H
· Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/trump-budget-hud/519870/
· Higher education https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/17/proposed-us-budget-would-imperil-pell-and-low-income-students-critics-say
· New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/us/politics/fact-check-mick-mulvaney-trump-budget-director.html
· Peoples World http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/trumps-budget-robs-from-the-poor-gives-to-the-rich/
REMEMBER MALCOLM X: LISTEN TO THE DETROIT SPEECHES AT LEAST THREE TIMES!
· 1963 Message to the grassroots
· 1964 Ballot or the bullet
· 1965 Fighting on all fronts
· http://www.brothermalcolm.net/aug04index.html
#20 3/13/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic document to build the movement
· We continue to learn from Martin Luther King
· Behold the African Diaspora! Our struggle is worldwide!
· Update on Trump and Black people
· Black political prisoners are a critical battlefront
· What kind of movement do we have right now
· God Bless the child that's got his/her own
· Music that teaches about Africa
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
WE CONTINUE TO LEARN FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING
· On economics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zl9kTY0dos
· The other America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3H978KlR20
· Opposition to imperialist war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80Bsw0UG-U&index=4&list=PLzeWRp2WfKCUjn5-aUh-5zVGukWF00Z1N
· From dream to nightmare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhJYKPWb8k&list=PLzeWRp2WfKCUjn5-aUh-5zVGukWF00Z1N&index=21
· On racism, militarism, capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZJMI3UFeo
BEHOLD THE AFRICAN DIASPORA! OUR STRUGGLE IS WORLDWIDE!
· England http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-38677126
· Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5vbvXDqDo0
· France http://www.thejournal.ie/french-accused-baton-rape-3228278-Feb2017/
· Brazil http://www.theroot.com/fighting-a-black-genocide-in-brazil-1790854277
· Trinidad https://www.facebook.com/Oilfields-Workers-Trade-Union-170445603002784/
UPDATE ON TRUMP AND BLACK PEOPLE
It is dangerous to confuse the difference between an angel and a devil, and that is the challenge we have today. Trump is a liar, a racist, a greedy capitalist who makes his money on the hustle. He will not last for four years and we have to prepare to help bring him down.
· The HBCU hustle http://www.theroot.com/morehouse-college-president-we-got-played-1792916254
· The HUD head is a nut https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/07/ben-carson-incorrectly-told-hud-staff-he-could-zap-their-brains-into-reciting-books-read-60-years-ago/?utm_term=.40f710a9bca8
· Trump is ignorant of Black people https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/what-donald-trump-doesnt-know-about-black-people.html
· He supports police violence http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/02/17/trumps-blue-lives-matter-executive-orders-spell-trouble-black-communities/
BLACK POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE A CRITICAL BATTLEFRONT
At every stage of our struggle the capitalist state captures and imprisons key militants of our struggle. They must never be forgotten. And we must always know the truth of what Ho Chi Minh said: "When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out."
· Mumia http://www.freemumia.com/
· Directory http://www.cbpm.org/politicalprisonerlist.html
· Malcolm X Grassroots Movement https://mxgm.org/category/political-prisoners/
· Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H Rap Brown) http://www.blackpast.org/aah/brown-hubert-h-rap-jamil-abdullah-al-amin-1943
· Black Prisoners Project http://blackprisonersproject.omeka.net/
· Racial Disparity http://www.sentencingproject.org/issues/racial-disparity/
WHAT KIND OF MOVEMENT DO WE HAVE RIGHT NOW
· Black Lives Matter https://elephrame.com/textbook/BLM/chart
· International Women's Day http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18609:Black-Lives-Matter-on-International-Women%27s-Day
Send links to share the movement battles that you are fighting in
GOD BLESS THE CHILD THAT'S GOT HIS/HER OWN
· Billie Holiday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKNtP1zOVHw
· Eric Dolphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZ1c3ixoa4
· Aretha Franklin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fXz_MN07z4
· Stevie Wonder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MeH3fcGE1Q
· Gregory Porter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmq-wSkSJk8
· Sonny Rollins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-wMuGt63c
MUSIC THAT TEACHES ABOUT AFRICA
African Americans have never forgotten our ancestral origins in Mother Africa. It was always encoded in our culture even when people were not conscious of the connection. Most important of all is the music. ENJOY!
· (Gil Scott-Heron) Johannesburg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDkQY6cOH0s
· (SNCC Freedom Singers) Oginga Odinga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iutMenUqa5g
· (Terry Callier) Sierra Leone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5_235YgJ6U
· (Nina Simone) Zungo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy3yASiqTVU
· (Diana Reeves) Afro-Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp4YKvx37w8
· (Duke Ellington) African Flower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLyplzFmTcQ
#19 3/6/2017
CONTENTS FOR UPDATE #19 (3/6/2017)
· We need help with increasing subscriptions to the Bulletin
· There are significant Black-white economic differences
· We need the lessons of the 1960's Black Arts Movement
· The elders among us have wisdom and must be defended
· Reports from campus struggles
· Film biographies of Black liberation fighters
WE NEED YOUR HELP WITH INCREASING SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE BULLETIN
If you find the Bulletin useful then at least one of your friends will as well. Our movement depends on you to help build the Bulletin into a tool of power and that means increasing the number of people who get it each week. SEND IN ONE NAME AND EMAIL FOR A BULLETIN SUBSCRIPTION. We need you to help, and it will take only 2 minutes, so why not do this so we can get stronger. In the age of Trump can progressive people afford to be passive? NO! We count on each of us to build the movement.
THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT BLACK-WHITE ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES
While it is clear that the capitalist system exploits all of its people except the very few, it should also be clear that Black people are exploited more than any other nationality based working class people. It is imperative that we make sure that this is one of the fundamental targets for change, no exploitation and no Black-white difference!
· Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Asset%20Value%20of%20Whiteness_0.pdf
· Malcolm X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UtGPZY4Rr4
· John Bracey on white people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psnIvnzWNx4
· Patrick Mason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8kV9mF6PgU
· Julianne Malveaux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qysu9zPM4o
WE NEED THE LESSONS OF THE 1960'S BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT
· Askia Muhammad Toure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTKQRfVu1Q
· Larry Neal http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/community/text8/blackartsmovement.pdf
· Kaluma ya Salaam http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/blackarts/historical.htm
· The Chicago Experience http://www.chicagohistoryfair.org/for-teachers/curriculum/black-arts-movement.html#obac
· Bibliography https://www.questia.com/library/art-and-architecture/artistic-styles-and-movements/black-arts-movement
THE ELDERS AMONG US HAVE WISDOM AND MUST BE PROTECTED
Each generation is a precious asset for the total people. The elders are the living vehicles of memory and as such are indispensable for sharing their experience to help the young ones. At the same time the seniors are vulnerable to economic, social and health challenges. This is a major battle from for Black liberation - to protect the elders.
· A Statistical Profile https://aoa.acl.gov/Aging_Statistics/Minority_Aging/Facts-on-Black-Elderly-plain_format.aspx
· Police shooting https://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/20/headlines/nyc_residents_protest_fatal_police_shooting_of_elderly_black_woman
· Family care is essential http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/15/us/blacks-carry-load-of-care-for-their-elderly.html
· Health care https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK109841/
· Wise Black women http://faculty.usfsp.edu/jsokolov/webbook/peterson.pdf
REPORTS FROM CAMPUS STRUGGLES
· Missouri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_University_of_Missouri_protests
· Washington and Lee https://newsone.com/3005288/black-washington-and-lee-law-students-say-they-were-bamboozled-about-schools-diversity/
· North Carolina http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/09/hbcu-protests-across-state
· Boston http://www.wbur.org/edify/2016/10/06/bu-black-lives-matter
· History of struggle at Howard University (1968) https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/210745
· Struggle at Howard University today (2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/us/backlash-black-colleges-trump.html
FILM BIOGRAPHIES OF BLACK LIBERATION FIGHTERS
· Paul Robeson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUki-v-NvoE
· Rosa Parks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tlgi5DRswM
· Malcolm X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zIGNkR62Mo
· Fannie Lou Hamer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex45Hw11JBQ
· Robert and Mabel Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfzH0jT84k4
#18 2/27/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· One of our battlefronts is the environment
· The draft Manifesto requires research and deep study
· Music that speaks truth to power
· Audio-books about the Black experience
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
ONE OF OUR BATTLEFRONTS IS THE ENVIRONMENT
Human beings are part of nature but the contradiction is between when we have lived in harmony with its laws and when humans have tried to dominate everything. Domination leads to ruination, environmental disaster. In the US most of the toxic areas of crisis hit Black, Brown, and poor communities. In fact in this period of climate change and toxic crises we face a life-death struggle. Time to make this a major battlefront for the Black Liberation Movement.
· National Black Environmental Justice Network http://www.nbejn.org/
· London protest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThqoSWamWUg
· Naeema Muhammad http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Naeema_Muhammad
· Hurricane Katrina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEAedjLXw7Q
· Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) on Katrina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8NF9vv6TA
THE DRAFT MANIFESTO REQUIRES RESEARCH AND DEEP STUDY
We got the following feedback from a militant activist in a study group focusing on the Draft manifesto: "I agree with the information in the introduction. I just needed to research more information in the last paragraph regarding Black liberation theology, Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, Feminism, and Socialism. I think more information on each of these five areas in the Manifesto will further strengthen the cause for which we are uniting. "
This is part 2: NATIONALISM
· African American Nationalism
o Muhammad Admad http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/RAM/513.RAM.History.of.RAM.pdf
o Kali Akuno http://newpol.org/content/revolutionary-black-nationalism-twenty-first-century
o Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell http://jblun.org/issue/2/docs/black-activist-issue-2.htm#_Toc373339061
· African Nationalism
o Kwame Nkrumah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lfYd9AXIw
o Samora Machel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpnzyY08LMg
o Amilcar Cabral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJab5uePfyk
o Robert Sobukwe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyWM_TSLxyc
o Babu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZjVNqvVD6Y
MUSIC THAT SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER
· Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd7pW3Ndd-4&list=RDGd7pW3Ndd-4#t=0
· Oscar Brown Jr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3szc53yb7J0
· Tracy Chapman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0TdGGpOpVE
· Gregory Porter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFTkBlNGpLw
· Chi-Lites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEwMaeN2x-c
· The Isley Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2ebiuV3hU
AUDIOBOOKS ABOUT THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
· Malcolm X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn6daBVO1NU
· Carter G Woodson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF1lC6BRlmE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZh7TOzW_U0
· Marcus Garvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQEwuD4WiDM
· Frederick Douglass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzkMKD0Mlrs&list=PLnkWWmhVvhc2lMwK45HZigQrS8ngxOI9L
· Solomon Northup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ILc8W0P3Y&list=PLnkWWmhVvhc2lMwK45HZigQrS8ngxOI9L&index=2
#17 2/20/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· New paper set theoretical framework
· Who is the Black Working class?
· Cartoonists that promote resistance to oppression and exploitation
· Music about Malcolm X
· Revolutionary films FOR EDUCATION AND ENJOYMENT
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
NEW PAPER SETS THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK - MUST READ!
We are now marching in our tens of thousands. It’s time to think about taking our struggle to the next level.
http://alkalimat.org/fmb/three-waves.pdf
WHO IS THE BLACK WORKING CLASS?
This is a critical question. One general answer points to the vast majority of Black people. The enslavement of Africans was mainly about getting a free labor supply, forcing Black people to work without any wages. In fact ever since the days of slavery the goal has been to keep Black people working with only the bare minimum of pay. Today things are changing as machines are replacing human beings as the new workforce. This is very dangerous because if the capitalist system doesn't need labor then things get very dangerous for Black people. Forms of genocide get on the agenda, whether fast (police murders every day) or slow (bad food, little or no health care) the game is liquidation of a labor supply the capitalist system no longer needs. Of course the people who still have jobs have to fight to keep them, increase wages and benefits, but the machines are being employed more and more everyday. So, things are changing and we have to understand the new conditions of the Black working class.
Data on the Black working class
· Government statistics: https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-ethnicity/archive/labor-force-characteristics-by-race-and-ethnicity-2014.pdf
· Historical analysis: http://eblackstudies.org/intro/chapter7.htm
· Video lecture on class analysis: https://ensemble.illinois.edu/app/sites/index.aspx?destinationID=FCWembUudE6sKWyxVdOacQ&contentID=PpjmL-X_PUmpJ1sEaYC6rw
· Industrial workers https://vimeo.com/202102381
· How do Black workers take the lead? http://theblm.net/saladin/10-key-questions/#bl
· Humans need not apply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
CARTOONISTS THAT PROMOTED RESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION AND EXPLOITATION
· Gerald 2 X (Nation of Islam)
o http://www.aavw.org/special_features/homepage_cartoons.html
o https://blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com/2015/11/white-folks-funny-as-gerald-2x-cartoon.html
· Ollie Harrington (Communist Party)
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Harrington
· Emory Douglas (Black Panther Party)
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_Douglas
o http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12658
MUSIC ABOUT MALCOLM X
Malcolm X was the personification of Black Power and how the Civil Rights Movement became transformed into the Black Liberation Movement.
· 2Pac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4AYygHjH5M
· The government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu-_LIaTxro
· Movie soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=310SlDO-ed4&list=PLhZmbK0E4vHYt60z8l6T7rLzvrXZs_Pcy
· Arrested Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDF8Evb_jQw
· Archie Shepp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2YlgbMXGyI
· Miriam Makeba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqLjDFjemU0
REVOLUTIONARY FILMS FOR EDUCATION AND ENJOYMENT
· Battle of Algiers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-lWF100yTM
· Finally Got The News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw2Wr-odBJg
· October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVuf3T3k-W0
· The Spook Who Sat By The Door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp6mFtMAQ2E
· Panther https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1PmnZ9hejw
#16 2/13/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic documents to build the movement
· More on how can be build the movement we need?
· Why are we calling for national assembly for Black liberation?
· Check the music for Martin Luther King
· The bomb website for music
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
MORE ON HOW CAN WE BUILD THE MOVEMENT WE NEED?
Many ideas need to be shared for us to begin to develop the general path forward. Here is a discussion paper that can contribute to this process. It focuses on how the revolutionary struggle can develop out of the dialectical interaction of cadre development within and in relationship to the mass spontaneous movement. This links the fight for reform to the fight for revolution. The concept is three waves of struggle. Please read it and share any comments or criticisms that you have. Take a minute – it’s a serious paper. http://alkalimat.org/fmb/three-waves.pdf
Also, please send us any papers you think that can also add to our discussion.
WHY ARE WE CALLING FOR A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR BLACK LIBERATION?
Tradition is important, and for Black political cultural a critical move has always been pulling together in a national meeting to let the main ideological and political lines get max exposure in search of unity for a common program of action. This has been true for the last 200 years. This is why we can call for a national assembly and believe it is in the best interest of advancing the Black Liberation Movement. Our people are in motion and collaboration requires that we gather at this time.
For reference see the following:
· National Negro Convention Movement (1830-1888) http://coloredconventions.org/
· Negro Sanhedrin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Sanhedrin, https://archive.org/stream/TheNegroSanhedrinAClearingHouseAndUnionOfOrganizations/1228-miller-negrosanhedrin#page/n3/mode/2up
· National Negro Congress https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469618999/death-blow-to-jim-crow/
· National Black Political Convention http://www.blackpast.org/primary/gary-declaration-national-black-political-convention-1972
There have been many others (CAP, ALSC, BRC, NBUF, etc) - please send in additional information
CHECK THE MUSIC FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING
· Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uy8cyVWU2A
· Stevie Wonder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lL31NCLeDs
· Mahalia Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odHqG1rA4M8
· John Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUZOKvYcx_o
· Michael Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgoeFcy_Gso
· Gregory Porter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmDcWr1yqCc&list=PLt9BHnXxECEAqCaPy_yoxHHuZdVBpFh_m&index=16
THE BOMB WEBSITE FOR MUSIC - ACCURADIO (FREE!)
· Blues http://www.accuradio.com/blues/
· Jazz http://www.accuradio.com/jazz/
· R&B http://www.accuradio.com/r-and-b/
· Soul http://www.accuradio.com/classic-soul-music/
· Reggae http://www.accuradio.com/reggae/
· Hip Hop http://www.accuradio.com/hip-hop/
#15 2/6/2017
CONTENTS
· Basic document to build the movement
· The Draft Manifesto requires research and deep study
· Why is Socialism better than Capitalism?
· We need to start thinking of solutions
· Obama handed Trump more ability to spy on us
· Movies that one can learn from
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
THE DRAFT MANIFESTO REQUIRES RESEARCH AND DEEP STUDY
We got the following feedback from a militant activist in a study group focusing on the Draft manifesto: "I agree with the information in the introduction. I just needed to research more information in the last paragraph regarding Black liberation theology, Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, Feminism, and Socialism. I think more information on each of these five areas in the Manifesto will further strengthen the cause for which we are uniting. "
We will have a five part series to help deepen your study on each:
PAN-AFRICANISM
· DuBois: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKXglS90qn4
· Hakim Adi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCElpoyPXnc
· Nkrumah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lfYd9AXIw
· Current documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSEeqWM2RhY
· Walter Rodney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niFK1_S2El0
· Abdul Alkalimat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FearjAyKN9A
· Horace Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBjoEGfALyA
WHY IS SOCIALISM BETTER THAN CAPITALISM?
Capitalism exploits workers and a few people get rich - that's what we got now. Socialism is a system that spreads the wealth so that the masses of people get a fair share for a good quality of life.
First of all most Black people already know this! http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/little-change-in-publics-response-to-capitalism-socialism/
Here is what Black people have been saying:
· WEB DuBois: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKXglS90qn4
· Claudia Jones (2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r234kDAJTI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI8BoWxYPEM
· Paul Robeson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUki-v-NvoE
· Ester Cooper Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Hwtv7ZM54
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-6sK838Q44
· General Baker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF9DVBOVvNc
· Marian Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDjWvLtQfK4
WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT SOLUTIONS
Even as we start understanding the need to go past capitalism to socialism we still have to think of the fundamental changes in how to organize the economy - general principles have to be translated into policy, meaning programs that actually change how the society operates
The first step is to study to get clear. Here is a video about what the League of Revolutionary Black Workers did in terms of study. https://vimeo.com/202099595
Here are some proposals for economic change:
· Cooperatives http://www.cooperationjackson.org/
· 30 for 40 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/utopia-work-less-play-more/
· Guaranteed annual income http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-guaranteed-income-for-every-american-1464969586
· Worker run companies http://billmoyers.com/2013/03/22/how-worker-owned-companies-work/
OBAMA HANDED TRUMP MORE ABILITY TO SPY ON US!
Executive Order 12333 enables the NSA/CIA to hand over its surveillance material on the world to national agencies without a court issuing a warrant. The CIA/NSA doesn't need a court order and now the FBI doesn't either.
· http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18215
· You can get info on 12333 here:
· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12333
· https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12333.html
MOVIES THAT ONE CAN LEARN FROM (AND ENJOY)
· Malcolm X: Make It Plain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zIGNkR62Mo
· Claudine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PNqFRJOf6g
· Finally Got The News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgJd_MvJVzg
· A Raisin in the Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi0NkSBl_rs
· Potemkin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcUKH9hQKWw
· The Red Detachment of Women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoPM9d18e9o
#14 1/30/2017
CONTENTS
· What do we know about Trump as a capitalist?
· The Draft Manifesto Requires Research and Deep Study
· Is this a return to a policy of segregation?
· Poetry is at the heart of our culture of resistance
· Who speaks for the Black Liberation Movement?
· Black Music in the Diaspora is Dope!
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TRUMP AS A CAPITALIST?
Well for one we don't have the full story as he is hiding his tax forms from the public, and we know he is a committed liar. And for the most part his capitalism doesn't create value like making steel or cars or food, so whatever it is, it is mainly a hustle. But check this out:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/19/inside-trumps-holdings-a-web-of-potential-conflicts.html
And here is what we know about his straight out lies!
http://portside.org/2017-01-28/fact-checking-trumps-inaccurate-statements
THE DRAFT MANIFESTO REQUIRES RESEARCH AND DEEP STUDY
We got the following feedback from a militant activist in a study group focusing on the Draft manifesto: "I agree with the information in the introduction. I just needed to research more information in the last paragraph regarding Black Liberation Theology, Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, Feminism, and Socialism. I think more information on each of these five areas in the Manifesto will further strengthen the cause for which we are uniting. "
We will have a five part series to help deepen your study on each:
Black Liberation Theology
· James Cone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lhPNP3GIyY
· Cornel West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeaTgSVpdA
· Dwight Hopkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwontPmVC2M
· Joyce and Nelson Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtwU3DIXgfg
IS THIS A RETURN TO A POLICY OF SEGREGATION?
Check this new bill being put forward under the future leadership of the Trump Negro Ben Carson:
"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be used to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing."
To see the bill: https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Local-Zoning-Decisions-Protection-Act-2017.pdf
Does this eliminate the census?
POETRY IS AT THE HEART OF OUR CULTURE OF RESISTANCE
Please send us your poems to share on this list
· Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8NF9vv6TA
· Oscar Brown Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPqe1TRh38
· Sonja Sanchez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P98JZhWUijY&list=RDP98JZhWUijY#t=36
· Linton Kwesi Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpypYcMe16I
· Jane Cortez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4ItmFlKTg
· Kent Foreman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5t7mHsOFFc
· Jean Breeze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN8buYd8y0E
· Dead Prez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmQBeVqeDzM
WHO SPEAKS FOR THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT?
The Black liberation Movement has many organizations and many leaders to be found in every community throughout history. Most have never been given publicity, sometimes even in the local community where they were based. It is important that we begin to change this and give props to those who have given so much for all of us.
Check this list to begin the process. Please send in more names.
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/
BLACK MUSIC IN THE DIASPORA IS DOPE
· Fela (Nigeria) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6yM6HLADbE&list=RDX6yM6HLADbE#t=27
· Miriam Makeba (South Africa) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBfyLoqkoHU&list=RDKBfyLoqkoHU#t=16
· Burning Spear (Jamaica) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIX8lgcZdt0
· Sade (UK) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR5_rTCi-Bo&list=RDIR5_rTCi-Bo#t=24
· David Rudder (Trinidad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PDuOxwAS3I&list=RD0PDuOxwAS3I#t=3
#13 1/23/2017
CONTENTS OF BULLETIN #13 (1/23/17)
· SOS: Call for Black Women to Unite Around the manifesto
· Basic Documents to build the movement
· Sources for News About Current Events
· Discussion about Race and Capitalism
· Technology and Black Liberation
· We must remember the militant music of Gil Scott Heron
· The Black Panther Party Lives on Today
SOS: CALL FOR BLACK WOMEN TO UNITE AROUND THE MANIFESTO
SISTERS! Hey y'all, we need to gather together and talk about how we can get some Sister Power up in this movement, yeah, on the real. We need to blast though all forms of male supremacy including how that evil even gets into us and controls us from the inside. We need to organize sisters to be a force in this movement. We must claim our position as equals at all levels including leadership.
We are planning a conference call in the near future for sisters who support the Draft Manifesto to discuss it from our perspective and to figure out how to get more sisters on the list to get the weekly bulletins and prepare for the national assembly.
IF YOU ARE DOWN FOR THIS SEND EMAIL TO: Vanessa <vanessasilvaq@gmail.com> and/or Annie Dove <afdove.8@gmail.com>"
BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
SOURCES FOR NEWS ABOUT CURRENT EVENTS
It is important to have a way of avoiding the mind control right wing slant of the mainstream news of CNN, ABC, NBC, and of course FOX. The following sources are all useful in helping to develop clear progressive thinking on the major issues of the day, including from international sources to hear what the world is thinking
Here are ten links - check one a day to escape the terror of CNN
1. The Real News http://therealnews.com/t2/
2. Democracy Now https://www.democracynow.org/
3. Portside http://portside.org/
4. Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/
5. Africa https://www.pambazuka.org/
6. Brazil http://www.thedawn-news.org/
7. Venezuela http://www.telesurtv.net/english/
8. Russia https://www.rt.com/news/
9. Cuba http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/
10. China http://english.cctv.com/
DISCUSSION ABOUT RACE AND CAPITALISM
This is a podcast program of discussion with Michael Dawson, African American Political Scientist at the University of Chicago and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. He is the author of several books including Black In and Out of the Left (2013) https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/michael-dawson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmBTNT06k1M
The podcast is Dawn: https://soundcloud.com/user-751628375
· Session 1: J. Phillip Thompson and Jason Jackson (MIT)
· Session 2: Stephen Pitts (Berkeley Labor Center)
· Session 3: Megan Ming Francis (University of Washington)
TECHNOLOGY AND BLACK LIBERATION
This is an important topic for us as we live in an era of the revolutionary transformation of technology based on the computer and the Internet. The robots are here and jobs are disappearing rapidly.
This is what Marx has to say: "At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or—this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms—with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution."
We need to study this very seriously:
1. Abdul Alkalimat http://www.net4dem.org/cyrev/archive/issue4/articles/liberation/liberation.pdf
2. Humans Need Not Apply: https://www.google.com/search?q=humans+need+not+apply&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
3. Factories of the future: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyz6-taovlaOkPsPtK4KNEg?v=QmDR29YNKqc
4. BBC: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150805-will-machines-eventually-take-on-every-job
WE MUST REMEMBER THE MILITANT MUSIC OF GIL SCOTT HERON
· Pieces of a man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Jm2jubZUY
· Winter in America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwroXipjN98
· Bridges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-JiJ-QAOZw
· Reflections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKR-_h5qB54
· From South Africa to South Carolina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-34LvgZYpQY
· Its your world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybk7xTIfiBk
· Here he is live:
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78tTKTkz778
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdqLAeyqVr8
THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY LEGACY LIVES ON TODAY
· Bobby Seale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRPi0UBNV-M
· Elaine Brown http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18134
· Emory Douglas https://vimeo.com/128523144
· Eddie Conway http://www.eclidebate.com/who-is-eddie-conway
· Women of the International Section of the Black Panther Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfo0D2j6FTs
#12 1/16/2017
CONTENTS
- James Brown and James Baldwin on the 2016 US Presidential Election
- Black People and Socialist Revolution that started in 1917 USSR
- Manifesto Activists in Pittsburgh build a Housing Struggle
- Time to Study the Political Economy of "Trumpism"
- 50th Anniversary of the Poor Peoples Campaign - Time for a Rebirth
- The Black Movement Must Never Forget Amiri Baraka
- Movement Music
BASIC DOCUMENTS FOR REBUILDING THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT
- ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
- Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
- Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
- Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
- Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
JAMES BROWN, JAMES BALDWIN, AND RAPPER TI ON THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
- James Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_ODghRTeyQ
- James Baldwin http://www.magpictures.com/iamnotyournegro/trailer/
- Rapper TI https://soundcloud.com/rollingstone/tip-letter-to-trump
BLACK PEOPLE AND SOCIALIST REVOLUTION STARTED IN 1917 USSR (100TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR)
There is a history of the fight against capitalism. In fact after 1917 we have the 20th century practice of socialism in many countries. As internationalists all revolutionary fighters became concerned with the USA and the freedom struggle of the African American people.
Black People disagree with capitalism and agree with socialism! http://www.people-press.org/2011/12/28/little-change-in-publics-response-to-capitalism-socialism/?src=prc-number
In fact most US young people oppose capitalism - this is our time! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/26/a-majority-of-millennials-now-reject-capitalism-poll-shows/?utm_term=.de172b2e3698
World Revolutionaries on African American Liberation Mao
Tse-tung https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33h.htm
Ho Chi Minh https://resistancephl.com/2013/06/07/on-lynching-and-the-ku-klux-klan-ho-chi-minh-1924/
Key Black communists who supported socialism in the USSR
· Harry Haywood https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/harry-haywood-archive/
· Claudia Jones https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/claudia-jones-communist/
· Claude McKay http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/russia.htm
· Louise Thompson http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/02/nyregion/louise-patterson-97-is-dead-figure-in-harlem-renaissance.html
· William Patterson http://spartacus-educational.com/USApattersonW.htm
· Vicki Garvin http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2007/10/vicki-ama-garvin-1915-2007-organizer.html
· Nelson Peery http://rallycomrades.lrna.org/nelson-peery/
MANIFESTO ACTIVISTS IN PITTSBURGH BUILD A HOUSING STRUGGLE
The economic crisis of 2008 was based on capitalist policies regarding housing. We have known for sometime that homelessness was a symptom of a deep crisis of capitalism, the failure to provide a decent quality of life of its working class. Here is a short video of the struggle by the Pittsburgh Tenants Union. https://vimeo.com/196646452
Black Lives Matter protests in Pittsburgh
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mug305TEzSk
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2hfQO_eFjQ
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f71NIqBYdA8
TIME TO STUDY THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF "TRUMPISM"
As part of our general study of political economy the new policies of Trump have to be under study now to prepare for the necessary fight back
· Samir Amin http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2016/amin301116.html
· David Harvey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKDSrqJQRw0
· Richard Wolff http://www.rdwolff.com/how_trump_could_bring_on_the_crash_of_2016
· Moody's Analytics https://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/2016-06-17-Trumps-Economic-Policies.pdf
· Africa https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/world/africa/africa-donald-trump.html
5OTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN - TIME FOR A REBIRTH
· https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/
· "This MLK Weekend (January 14th-16th), people around the country will be working together to revive Rev. Dr. King’s call for a Poor People’s Campaign. In 2017 as in 1967, our nation needs to undergo a “radical revolution of values” and it’s the poor and the dispossessed who are in the best position to lead the way; But only if we’re able to take action together. This MLK Weekend, we’re taking another step in that direction."
· https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/
THE BLACK MOVEMENT MUST NEVER FORGET AMIRI BARAKA
· Why is We Americans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ziRjhAgTO8&feature=youtu.be
· Somebody Blew Up America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEu-pG1HWw&list=RDKUEu-pG1HWw#t=30
· Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-JN1fBst54
· The power of the word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1-2S7baPUU
· A Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJnSpL2Y-gk
MOVEMENT MUSIC
· Isley Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L23ob3kiCik&index=50&list=PLuzI3wVjHPV-oHcaQtUDJx96S4yXOuYor
· Lucy Rodgers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1d2QXtDCQs&index=52&list=PLuzI3wVjHPV-oHcaQtUDJx96S4yXOuYor
· Common https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egLRN2NsBgY&list=PLuzI3wVjHPV-oHcaQtUDJx96S4yXOuYor&index=65
· Mavis Staples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZKPOes4SwY
#11 1/9/2017
CONTENTS
· What should we do with the weekly Bulletin?
· Basic Documents for rebuilding the Black Liberation Movement
· Black People and the Russian Revolution of 1917
· Black Power Music
· We must keep our eyes on "Trump" Negroes
· Renew our commitment to free Black Political prisoners
WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH THE WEEKLY BULLETIN?
The first point is obvious, read the whole thing, only 5-10 minutes max. But then go back several times to check out the links, and listen to the music. Then think about who you want to share the bulletin with, and in fact make up a list of people who you share it with every week, always asking them if they want their own subscription. Each one get one and keep building the network until we get a critical mass.
Our goal is to get everyone we know who is interested and active in some form of fight back and resistance to be getting the weekly bulletin. Why not? Are we too weak to do this - NO! We can do this, and it begins with you, so sisters and brothers, time to get to work.
BASIC DOCUMENTS FOR REBUILDING THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT
· ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletins: http://alkalimat.org/fmb/
· Draft Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
BLACK PEOPLE AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917 (100th Anniversary Year)
The leader of the communist party of the USSR was V I Lenin.
Here is what Lenin Said about African Americans (1917):
"In the United States, the Negroes (and also the Mulattos and Indians) account for only 11.1 per cent. They should be classed as an oppressed nation, for the equality won in the Civil War of 1861–65 and guaranteed by the Constitution of the republic was in many respects increasingly curtailed in the chief Negro areas (the South) in connection with the transition from the progressive, pre-monopoly capitalism of 1860–70 to the reactionary, monopoly capitalism (imperialism) of the new era, which in America was especially sharply etched out by the Spanish-American imperialist war of 1898 (i.e., a war between two robbers over the division of the booty)."
Here is what Marcus Garvey said about Lenin (1924):
"One of Russia's greatest men, one of the world's greatest characters, and probably the greatest man in the world between 1917 and 1924, when he breathed his last and took his flight from this world...We as Negroes mourn for Lenin because Russia promised great hope not only for Negroes but to the weaker people of the world."
What can we say in 2017?
BLACK POWER MUSIC IS A MOVEMENT SOUNDTRACK
· Panther music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQEnsvuyYh4&index=35&list=PLuzI3wVjHPV-oHcaQtUDJx96S4yXOuYor
· James Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0A_N-wmiMo
· Abbey Lincoln/Max Roach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un9EOjbUWVA&index=24&list=PLuzI3wVjHPV-oHcaQtUDJx96S4yXOuYor
· Public enemy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHe5fxS3dA&list=PLuzI3wVjHPV-oHcaQtUDJx96S4yXOuYor&index=6
· Elaine Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-JbT9ic7g&index=1&list=RDoC-JbT9ic7g
· Dead Prez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuKNhPelllk&list=PLuzI3wVjHPV-oHcaQtUDJx96S4yXOuYor&index=42
WE MUST KEEP OUR EYES ON "TRUMP" NEGROES
· Kanye West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq27TjVVMwQ
· Don King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdPyh9C16vA
· Sheriff Clarke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olgi77cWtlg
· Shaq, Ice Cube, Tyson, P Diddy and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4bl1DPuYsA
· Gregory Price https://www.morehouse.edu/academics/highlights/greg-price.html
WE MUST RENEW OUR COMMITMENT TO FREE BLACK POLITICAL PRISONERS
· Mumia Abu Jamal http://www.freemumia.com/
· Imam Jamil Al-Aminn (H Rap Brown) http://imamjamilactionnetwork.weebly.com/
· A Panther List http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Political_Prisoners/political_prisoners_index.html
· National Jericho Movement http://www.thejerichomovement.com/
· Chicago Committee https://www.facebook.com/freeblackpoliticalprisoners/
#10 1/2/2017
BULLETIN #10 CONTENTS
· Why do we have a Bulletin?
· Basic Documents for rebuilding the Black Liberation Movement
· Poetry for the Revolution
· Black People and the Russian Revolution of 1917
· Petition to Free Mutulu Shakur
· Organizing Black Workers in North Carolina
· Rebuilding the Black Student Movement
WHY DO WE HAVE A BULLETIN?
This is a great question. Each of us are organizers who use this bulletin to connect up all of our comrades therefore we all need to answer this question. There are several reasons:
1. to promote the Draft Manifesto for Black Liberation
2. to help organize for the National Assembly
3. to link together local activists all over the country
4. to provide political education
5. to share positive examples of cultural expression
Please start sending in reports of the local struggles, how you are using the Draft Manifesto, and progress in building for the National Assembly. (250 word limit)
BASIC DOCUMENTS FOR REBUILDING THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT
· Freedom Manifesto: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
· Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
· Online petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
· Black Left Unity Committee: http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
POEM BY JAYNE CORTEZ
And if we don’t fight
If we don’t resist
If we don’t organize and unify and
Get the power to control our own lives
Then we will wear
The exaggerated look of submission
The bizarre look of suicide
The dehumanized look of fear
And the decomposed look of repression
Forever and ever and ever
And there it is.
Full poem at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/90805
To hear her speak it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6bKgljhvR0
BLACK PEOPLE AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917
The first major socialist revolution created the USSR in 1917 led by V. I. Lenin and the Communist Party. During this centennial year of 2017 it is important to reflect on the importance of this great transformation in world history, to find what we can learn for our own struggle. This is the first of many reports.
The best history of the Russian revolution is the HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS) This text has been published in 66 languages with over 50 million copies https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/
We are especially interested in the Black experience in this process. To begin our study, here are the stories of some the Black people who lived through the experience:
· Video #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgJnbTSYzz8
· Video #2 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e36_1416538914
· Frederick Bruce Thomas http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/17/the-black-count-of-russia.html
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLLRnVvCZSE
· George Tynes http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-c1-black-russian-americans-20141119-story.html
· Allison Blakely https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Negro-Russian-history-thought/dp/0882581465/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482860344&sr=1-3
SIGN PETITION TO FREE MUTULU SHAKUR
On behalf of Mutulu and his Family, please join us by SIGNING and SHARING his petition...AND if you TWITTER, please do and SHARE for Dr. Mutulu Shakur
· https://twitter.com/FreeDrMShakur
· https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/grant-mutulu-shakur-executive-clemency
ORGANIZING BLACK WORKERS IN NORTH CAROLINA
Black Workers For Justice put this brief video together. It provides a brief snap shop of BWFJ community alliance / organizing work. Share it using IT networks , websites, e-mail, etc.! Look forward to lot's more coverage of these two organizations work in the near future at the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference in Jackson MS, solidarity with the United Auto Workers Union organizing of Nissan workers in Canton, MS and the intense struggle with the NC Gen. Assembly and the Republican GOP coup! https://youtu.be/iM-KpdoliBU
REBUILDING THE BLACK STUDENT MOVEMENT
Students are rising up all over the country. Here are links to almost 90 campus struggles. Where ever you are try and find a contact with local student activists and help them connect with the community and workplace struggles.
· 86 Local Campus Demands http://www.blackliberationcollective.org/our-demands/
· Black Liberation Collective http://www.blackliberationcollective.org/
· United Black Student Unions of California https://www.facebook.com/joinubsuc/
· Black Students for Revolution https://www.facebook.com/BSFRUIUC/?fref=ts
#9 12/26/2016
Greetings Brothers and Sisters, comrades all:
We greet you with this our #9 weekly bulletin to help us build a national campaign for Black unity. We are writing old and new friends to welcome you with this info bulletin as we build our campaign. Please read our documents and join us.
· What is the Black Liberation Unity Committee? http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
· What is the Draft Freedom Manifesto? https://www.scribd.com/document/321034935/Draft-Black-Liberation-Manifesto-V-3-0
PLEASE SEND IN EMAILS OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD GET THE WEEKLY BULLETINS
PLEASE TAKE THIS 2 MINUTE SURVEY TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/96THNHW
USING MEDIA TO ADVANCE THE DRAFT FREEDOM MANIFESTO
This is the first in a series of quick flicks produced by our Triangle Area, NC https://youtu.be/JXfEey3f6G4
We are learning from our study and practice in N.C., that it will be necessary to engage Black working people and youth in building our various local area "BLUC study & action groups" nationally if we are to grow a deep and broad working class lead Call for a National Assembly for Black Liberation !
We are truly growing this Manifesto/National Black Assembly campaign nationally. Consistently, we are engaging and nurturing a new wave of engaged people for Black Liberation.
Step by step ... brick by brick ... we must share a historical/political context that shapes the vision, need and a broader plan for a national gathering of all our developing isolated struggles and many developing united front efforts in this War On Black America
FROM A VETERAN WORKER TO THE MOVEMENT "SINCE YOU CAME INTO MY LIFE"
Not so long ago you came into my life
Gave me many reasons why there is so much misery and strife.
I believed I lived in a world of democracy,
But low and behold it’s just hypocrisy.
You gave me books to read,
Which become tools to help me lead
Wow I’ve got this yearning
I must keep on learning.
I’ve been to near and far places
Seen new things and met many friendly faces.
Traveled by air and land
Just to reach out and lend a helping hand.
From your love and caring I have overcome some fears
And one time at a gathering the powerful message from the speaker touched and I
shed some tears.
I am surrounded by sisters and brothers black and white
And with some I have become very tight.
We talk, laugh and share our pains
We rejoice over the victories and gains.
From your encouragement and caring I’ve become the head not the tail
Thanks for all the hugs, kisses and e-mail.
Annie Dove (2008)
HOLIDAY MUSIC FROM A BLACK PERSPECTIVE
· Nat King Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89gVQvFV7hQ
· Mahalia Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QGj2xgnN8A
· Louis Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQQU2ykEQqo
· Aretha Franklin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbzCqZRjugc
· Charles Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RJJwk-Opw4
· Patti LaBelle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpsbZ9yQmD8
· Jazz http://www.accuradio.com/?name=Jazzy%20Christmas%20Party&b0=Holidays%20(Christmas)
· R & B http://www.accuradio.com/christmas-music/?name=R&B%20Christmas&b0=R&B&b1=Holidays%20(Christmas)
#8 12/19/2016
Greetings Brothers and Sisters, comrades all:
We greet you with this our #8 weekly bulletin to help us build a national campaign for Black unity. We are writing old and new friends to welcome you with this info bulletin as we build our campaign. Please read our documents and join us.
· What is the Black Liberation Unity Committee? http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
· What is the Draft Freedom Manifesto? https://www.scribd.com/document/321034935/Draft-Black-Liberation-Manifesto-V-3-0
PLEASE SEND IN EMAILS OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD GET THE WEEKLY BULLETINS
UNITY REQUIRES A STUDY OF BLACK WOMEN AND BLACK LIBERATION
See the attached listing of what Black liberation organizations are saying about Black women and Black liberation. If you know of what any additional organizations are saying please send that information in. It is imperative that we reach out broadly to sisters in all walks of life, especially sisters fighting and playing leading roles in working class struggles. Gender equality is not only a matter of what we believe and say but has to be anchored in what we do. Let’s build movement leadership with a strong representation of Black women!
POETRY FROM THE MOVEMENT
(We are preparing an ebook anthology so please send in your work)
We matter because:
400 years of oppression wasn't enough.
We glow in the sun and never fail to get back up.
We are both over achievers and underdogs.
Our unity shatters through your ignorance.
We define every law of normal, simple, and of science.
No bullet ever kept us from rising.
No bigotry ever left us feeling num.
No whip could penetrate through our souls.
The skin we bare was meant to inspire not anger or confuse.
Being Black is like being able to fly, we have no limits.
We don't just matter...........
Michelle Jean-Baptiste (Boston)
NEW ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN
· New Jim Crow Movement
· Maryland Pan African Coordinating Committee
· Maryland Black August Memorial Movement
· Maryland Sixth Regent Diaspora Caucus
· Maryland State Jericho Amnesty Movement
· Prince Georges County - Republic of New Africa
· Maryland Release Aging Political Prisoners
· Baltimore Community United
· Baltimore Out for Justice
BLACK LIBERATION CADRE NEED TO STUDY THE SPEECHES BY AND ABOUT MALCOLM X
· Message to the Grassroots … Ballot or the Bullet … Fighting on all fronts http://www.brothermalcolm.net/aug04index.html
· Symposium on Malcolm X (Havana, Cuba: 1990) http://brothermalcolm.net/2002/mx_1990/
BLACK HISTORY IN BLACK MUSIC
· Slavery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIX8lgcZdt0
· Buffalo soldiers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o&index=1&list=RDS5FCdx7Dn0o
· Down in Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZmZ1Pt6C0
· Strange fruit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs&list=PLjWzVDcjz-2wgyo4ypovDDRcTDyyRhHaS&index=6
· Woke up this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsziXdKfOsE
· Winter in America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zKdIcOV5s
· 1960 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SUyeIqWWM
· Hold On (Change Is Comin') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTO16vbfSI
· The Fruit of Labor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9zcFuXytAY
#7 12/12/2016
Greetings Brothers and Sisters, comrades all:
We greet you with this our #7 weekly bulletin to help us build a national campaign for Black unity. We have renamed this the Manifesto to make our identity clear to all. Here are the tools you can use to organize people to join this campaign:
· What is the Black Liberation Unity Committee? http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
· What is the Draft Freedom Manifesto? https://www.scribd.com/document/321034935/Draft-Black-Liberation-Manifesto-V-3-0
PLEASE SEND IN EMAILS OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD GET THE WEEKLY BULLETINS
Black Liberation Unity on Key Questions:
We have a powerful and diverse movement. Read what different organizations are saying about Black women. We can unite. Each week we will present what many of us are saying in our different organizational forms on key questions. Most of us agree, so let’s start talking to each other and find a way to unite. We face an extreme right wing set of forces that are uniting behind their newly elected president. We are calling for a national assembly of Black liberation forces to meet this challenge. Now is the time!
WHAT IS OUR MOVEMENT SAYING ABOUT BLACK WOMEN? There is way more agreement than disagreement!
Draft Freedom Manifesto
Women. Patriarchy arose before capitalism. But capitalism and its imperialist expansion for control of labor markets, raw materials, and land systematized male supremacy in new ways. It did the same with racism. This meant European white male dominance over women, other peoples and cultures. The Black Liberation movement must overcome and correct the internalized male chauvinism in our history and advance the leadership of women at all levels of the Black Freedom struggle, in our communities, churches, unions, and promote equality in our homes. The struggle against patriarchy, male supremacy, and sexism is key to rebuilding the black freedom struggle and the unity of our people as a whole. Although women lead this struggle, everyone must take it up and support it. Gender equality! Mobilize women, and facilitate the leadership of women on all battle fronts!
Black Lives Matter
We are committed to building a Black women affirming space free from sexism, misogyny, and maleâ€centeredness.
Black Workers for Justice
We stand against the exploitation of all workers. For workers control of wealth from their labor, and fighting democratic unions of rank and file workers. Against racism, white supremacy, sexism, male supremacy. For democratic rights and equality of all races, nationalities, and sexes.
Black is Back Coalition 19 Points
Black Women. With this National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination, the entire black or African nation declares our commitment to facilitate the elevation of African women to full, equal partnership in our struggle to create a new world of freedom and socialist democracy for a united black community and a world shorn forever of bosses and workers and slaves and masters and where African women will share the power to guarantee that African women are adequately empowered as equal architects of our new world.
Black Youth Project 100
BYP100 works through a Black queer feminist lens --meaning that we are radically inclusive and strive to move those of us who are marginalized (e.g. Black women, girls and LGBTQ folks) to the center. Thus, the Agenda is meant for young people who want to approach civil rights, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, and women’s rights work differently. Further, the Agenda is not meant to advance politics of respectability -- we want ALL Black people to be able to live in their dignity.
The Movement for Black Lives
For Black girls, the U.S.’s failure to address gender-based violence, which they experience at greater levels than any other group, is paramount to the criminalization they experience. In fact, sexual abuse is one of the primary predictors of girls’ entry into the juvenile justice system, with girls often being routed to the system specifically because of their victimization. For instance, girls who are victims of sex trafficking are often arrested on prostitution charges. The punitive nature of this system is ill-equipped to support young girls through the violence and trauma they’ve experienced, which further subjects them to sexual victimization and a lifelong path of criminalization and abuse.
Left Roots
Feminist and pro-queer politics and practice are central to Left Roots. We believe that liberation from hetero-patriarchy must be central to any revolutionary Left strategy. Women and trans folks’ place is in the struggle and we prioritize their leadership in social movements.
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement [New Afrikan Womens Caucus (NAWC)]
A committee within MXGM which opposes any form of oppression that limits girls and women from becoming self-determining individuals and reaching their fullest potential. As a manifestation of our sixth principle of unity (ending sexist oppression), NAWC recognizes that cultural, economic, political and social institutions, practices and beliefs limit the human worth of our girls and women. We NAWC will actively struggle for the liberation of the New Afrikan Nation—By Any Means Necessary!
Organization of Afro-American Unity
The Organization of Afro-American Unity will take those private steps that are necessary to insure the survival of the Afro-American people in the face of racist aggression and the defense of our women and children
Dream Defenders
We believe that our liberation necessitates the destruction of the political and economic systems of Capitalism and Imperialism as well as Patriarchy.
People Organized for Progress
To work for the total elimination of racism and sexism.
Organization for Black Struggle
We will fight for gender equality, for women’s liberation, and for women’s rights to be recognized as human rights in all areas of personal, social, economic and political life.
All African People’s Revolutionary Party
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party understands that the liberation of African people cannot come to reality without the effective and genuine liberation of African Women. The A-APRP also understands that African Women cannot fight a liberation struggle separate from the broader liberation struggle of African People. The two go hand in hand. The manifestation of this understanding in practical terms gave birth to the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union in 1980.
The AAWRU is responsible for insuring that all vestiges of sexism are rooted out of our party (and the larger society), that women and men are educated about the revolutionary role of women in the African Revolution and to insure that the voice, interests and energies of African women are completely integrated into every aspect of our work to build the AAPRP and a free African Nation. All women who join the AAPRP are automatically members of the AAWRU.
Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign
We are assisting our human rights partners in a global campaign to bring awareness and reduce gender inequalities along with 40 member states of the United Nations.
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
The CBTU National Women's Committee conducts conferences and workshops that focus on the needs of African American women in the trade union movement. The committee's major event is sponsoring the National Women's Conference, which is held annually in conjunction with CBTU's national convention. The CBTU Women's Conference is an uplifting, healing and empowering experience. What began as one workshop in 1982 has now grown to an all-day women's conference, attended by more than 1,000 participants - women and men, black and white, from all backgrounds. The popularity of the women's conference has made it an integral part of the national CBTU convention. The conference features a health fair for women, a book fair, diverse workshops, dynamic speakers and down-to-earth sisterhood. Major topics addressed include education, politics, leadership development, youth and the criminal justice system, and health - particularly the importance of raising the awareness of black women about serious diseases and the importance of regular check-ups.
Peoples Organization for Progress calls for a new Black Liberation Holiday for December 18th
The Peoples' Organization for Progress in New Jersey begins this December 18th, what is planned to be an annual tradition: to celebrate the December 18, 1865 adoption of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which legally abolished slavery (except as punishment for crime), highlighting the monumental achievement of the Civil War; while leaving the basis for a contemporary battlefront of the Black Freedom Struggle: the struggle against mass incarceration of Black People, as a principle form of national oppression.
In beginning this observance, POP hopes other African American forces and allies will take take it up, creating a tradition that links the past; the present; and future endeavors for freedom and unites Black People in the U.S. with other descendants of Africa and freedom loving peoples, who celebrate various "Freedom Days"; "Emancipation Days," throughout the diaspora. POP maintains such efforts are particularly important in the advent of Trump to Presidential power and developing fascism in this country; and is instrumental to reconstituting the Black Liberation Movement and to marshaling our forces of resistance to this stage of capitalist exploitation and oppression.
POP will rally outdoors at the Lincoln Statue in downtown Newark (`2PNM at Springfield Ave. and W. Market St.) N.J.'s largest city with a rich history of rebellion, resistance; and freedom striving.
Remember the Past to inform the Present' while we shape the Future! Together We Shall Win!!!
RELIGION AS A TOOL FOR STRUGGLE
· James Cone http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/msp194/id/176/rec/99
· Nelson Johnson http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Nelson_Johnson
· Rev Gayle Dickson http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Rev_Gayle_Dickson
· Dwight Hopkins http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Dwight_Hopkins
· Cheryl Townsend Gilkes http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Cheryl_Townsend_Gilkes
· Prathia Hall http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Prathia_Hall
OUR MUSIC
· John Coltrane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saN1BwlxJxA "It was written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, an attack by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four girls."
· Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFBoKE9H3PA
· Terry Callier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNJEh_Uxsbw
· Tracy Chapman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhi4-thnOX4
· Gregory Porter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmDcWr1yqCc
#6 12/5/2016
Welcome to the Black Liberation Unity Committee (BLUC) Weekly Bulletin. Some of you are new to the list this week - greetings, and again greetings to those already on the list. You are getting this as a supporter of the Draft Manifesto campaign to hold a national assembly for Black liberation - Fall 2017.
You are being asked to become an organizer for the National Assembly process. We need you to recruit your network to study the draft manifesto. This is an all hands on deck moment. Our people are waiting on us.
Here are the tools you can use to organize people to join this campaign:
· What is the Black Liberation Unity Committee? http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
· What is the Draft Freedom Manifesto? https://www.scribd.com/document/321034935/Draft-Black-Liberation-Manifesto-V-3-0
PLEASE SEND IN EMAILS OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD GET THE WEEKLY BULLETINS
People are in motion!
A new group has formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania around the Draft Manifesto and other efforts at unity, including the 19 points of the Black is Back Coalition and the Black Lives Matters Policy Statements.
At a major protest march again the KKK in North Carolina attended by 1,800 people, the Draft Manifesto Study Circle in North Carolina of 1`4 people distributed hundreds of copies of the Draft Manifesto and got a very warm response, including people who signed up to join the campaign
At a conference of digital experts thinking about Black Studies at Purdue University in Indiana over 100 Manifestos were distributed and several academic experts signed up to assist with the campaign re work on the Internet and with Social media
A request was made to get the manifesto into a prison in Virginia . Anyone with ideas on how to expand this kind of distribution this please send them in and volunteer to help get the brothers and sisters the information they need
Whats happening in your state?
Our music is all over the world! 8-)
· Stand by me https://playingforchange.com/videos/stand-by-me-song-around-the-world/
· Music is my ammunition https://playingforchange.com/videos/music-is-my-ammunition/
· Imagine https://playingforchange.com/videos/imagine/
· Whats going on https://playingforchange.com/videos/whats-going-on/
Ancestors to learn from
· Chris Hani http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Chris_Hani
· Miriam Makeba http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Miriam_Makeba
· Abdulrahman Muhamad Babu http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Abdulrahman_Mohamed_Babu
· Jessica Huntley http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Jessica_Huntley
· Walter Sisulu http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Walter_Sisulu
· Louise Bennett-Coverley http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Louise_Bennett-Coverley
#5 11/28/2016
Welcome to those new to the list this week, and again greetings to those already on the list. You are getting this as a supporter of the Draft Manifesto campaign to hold a national assembly for Black liberation - Fall 2017.
You are being asked to become an organizer for the National Assembly process. We need you to recruit your network to study the draft manifesto. This is an all hands on deck moment. Our people are waiting on us.
Here are the tools you can use to organize people to join this campaign:
· What is the Black Liberation Unity Committee? http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
· What is the Draft Freedom Manifesto? https://www.scribd.com/document/321034935/Draft-Black-Liberation-Manifesto-V-3-0
JOIN THE FIGHT FOR 15 NATIONAL DAY OF STRUGGLE NOVEMBER 29
· http://action.lowpayisnotok.org/page/content/november29
· http://portside.org/2016-11-27/low-wage-workers-prepare-step-pay-fight-trump-era
PLEASE SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE WHILE BUILDING THIS CAMPAIGN
HIP HOP FOR JUSTICE youth are studying the Draft Manifesto in North Carolina
BLACK WORKERS FOR JUSTICE's Hip Hop For Justice youth held its regular HH4J cultural gathering which was a very exciting event two weeks ago with...social justice music, poetry, film and political discussion. They shared thoughts on the post election results, growing tide of racism & sexism and the urgent need for Black working people to be better organized beyond social and religious groups and churches. Young BWFJ members who put on these regularly scheduled HH4J events distributed the Manifesto for study and discussion. 10-11 participants stated that they wanted to join the follow up study group on the Draft Manifesto this past weekend.
Youth asked questions about.... how the Manifesto was anti-capitalist and how the lack of living wage quality jobs no longer existed for them because of corporate jobs going overseas and information technology/automation destroying employment opportunities in our community. They go to college, get an education, apply for good jobs and still find only low wage jobs with no health benefits, sick leave, etc. and are forced to be start small capitalists enterprises like cleaning services, lawn care, construction services, Uber drivers, etc.
They asked ....Don't we need capitalism to survive in our small business? If the Manifesto is Anti-capitalist , what is the alternative economic/social system we need as workers to survive? Why don't the Manifesto address this question ?
10 reasons why we need a manifesto for Black liberation
1. Slogans are leading the movement and we have to go deeper
2. A manifesto is a curriculum for study
3. A manifesto links together diverse battlefronts into one mighty movement
4. The Black Liberation Movement needs to have a working class perspective
5. All US progressive forces need to know what we, the Black liberation movement, stands for
6. All progressive people all over the world need to know what we, the BLM, stands for
7. All our spokespersons of the BLM need to have a common orientation to the media
8. The BLM needs a framework with which to evaluate performance of our leadership
9. The manifesto is a recruiting tool for our movement
10. The manifesto is our theoretical foundation for unity (80-20)
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
· Revolutionary Science for Radical Times (Pennsylvania) http://www.revolutionaryscience.org/
· Digital Humanities and Black Studies (Indiana) https://www.cla.purdue.edu/african-american/documents/updatedSymposium%202016%20program%20booklet%20color%20use.pdf
· Southern Human Rights Organizers' Conference (SHROC) (Mississippi) http://www.ushrnetwork.org/events/southern-human-rights-organizers-conference-shroc-x
· Black Men in Unions (Michigan) https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/center-for-labor-and-community-studies/events/2016-black-men-in-unions
· African American Festivals (multiple sites) https://www.everfest.com/cultural/african-american-festivals
Ancestors to learn from:
· Malcolm X http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Malcolm_X
· Shirley Graham DuBois http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Shirley_Graham_Du_Bois
· Chokwe Lumumba http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Chokwe_Lumumba
· Audre Lorde http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Audre_Lorde
· Amiri Baraka http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Amiri_Baraka
· Jayne Cortez http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Jayne_Cortez
Check out the Black Activist Journal. (no longer publishing but a new one must come out of the national assembly process). http://jblun.org/
#4 11/21/2016
Welcome to those new to the list this week, and again greetings to those already on the list. You are getting this as a supporter of the Draft Manifesto campaign to hold a national assembly for Black liberation - Fall 2017. (Draft manifesto is attached)
Become an organizer for the National Assembly process and recruit your network to study the draft manifesto. This is an all hands on deck moment. Can you dig it?
NEW FLYER ON THE BLACK LEFT UNITY COMMITTEE http://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html
CONFERENCES THAT DISCUSSED THE DRAFT MANIFESTO - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
· North Carolina State Wide Municipal Workers Summit (Greensboro, NC) http://www.ue150.org/campaigns/state-wide-municipal-workers-summit/
· National Conference of Black Lawyers (Chicago, Ill) http://www.ncbl.org/category/2016-ncbl-conference/
· Black Arts Movement (New Orleans, La.) http://www.dillard.edu/new_website_project2015/Helios-Calendar-master/index.php?eID=45
· State of the Black World Conference (Newark, New Jersey) http://sobwc.ibw21.org/
· Black is Back National Conference (Washington DC) http://www.blackisbackcoalition.org/2016/09/09/nbpasd-decalration-and-19-points/
· National Network of Cuba Annual Meeting (Chicago, Ill) http://www.nnoc.info/nnoc-fall-meeting-agenda-chicago-november-18-20-2016/
CHECK OUT THESE BLACK WOMEN FREEDOM FIGHTERS
· Ramona Africa http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Ramona_Africa
· Aleta Alston-Toure http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Aleta_Alston-Toure
· Charlene Carruthrers http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Charlene_Carruthers
· Linda Murray http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Linda_Murray
· Michelle Tingling-Clemmons http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Michelle_Tingling-Clemmons
WORKERS ARE FIGHTING BACK ALL OVER THE WORLD
· USA https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/the-largest-prison-strike-in-u-s-history-enters-its-second-week/
· South Africa http://www.workers.org/2016/10/17/cosatus-general-strike-and-international-march-demand-labor-rights-in-south-africa/#.WDHa-smxVZo
· Trinidad Tobago https://www.change.org/p/tuc-petition-for-general-strike-4th-jull-2016-against-the-tory-government-and-cuts
· Mexico http://newpol.org/content/mexican-teachers-indefinite-general-strike-faces-severe-repression
UNDERSTANDING WHITE WORKERS CAN HELP WIN OVER NECESSARY ALLIES. We can turn things around if we take our message far and deep into the working class (See pages 15 -17 of the Draft Manifesto)
· http://brilliantmaps.com/did-not-vote/
· https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/11/why-the-white-working-class-voted-for-trump
#3 11/14/2016
Welcome to those new to the list this week, and again greetings to those already on the list. You are getting this as a supporter of the Draft Manifesto campaign to hold a national assembly for Black liberation. (Draft manifesto is attached)
THE ELECTION OF TRUMP IS A CALL TO ACTION
While progressive forces had no candidate in the race who represented us, and people faced once again a "lessor of two evils" choice, the election of Trump has to be a wake up call for all of us. Yes we need to fight back in our hundreds, but our campaign for a national assembly for Black liberation is a call for us to raise the level to our hundreds of thousands.
Be prepared for what Trump is planning to do in his first 100 days: https://portside.org/print/2016-11-12/here-what-donald-trump-wants-do-his-first-100-days
OUR CAMPAIGN IS GROWING
The following organizations have endorsed the campaign to hold a national assembly for Black liberation in the fall of 2017
· Project South (Georgia)
· Anti-Eviction Campaign of Chicago (Illinois)
· Black Workers for Justice (North Carolina)
· UE Local 150 (North Carolina)
· Cooperation Jackson (Mississippi)
· Ujima People's Progress Party (Maryland)
· Peoples Organization for Progress (New Jersey)
· Workers World Party (National)
· National Conference of Black Lawyers (National)
We now have an online petition. Use it to recruit your contacts to this campaign so they can begin to get these weekly bulletins https://start2.occupyourhomes.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
SOURCES FOR PROGRESSIVE NEWS
The ruling class invades our consciousness with news that runs their narrative and controls thinking. Here are progressive sources to check:
· The Real News http://therealnews.com/t2/
· Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/
· The Intercept https://theintercept.com/
· Portside http://www.portside.org/
· Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/
STUDENTS ARE FIGHTING BACK ALL OVER THE WORLD
· US:
o http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-protest-trump-20161109-story.html
· Brazil:
o https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/brazil-student-occupations-temer-pt-psol-education/
· South Africa:
ALWAYS STUDY THE ANCESTORS OF OUR STRUGGLE
· General Baker http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#General_Baker
· Claudia Jones http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Claudia_Jones
· James Boggs http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#James_Boggs
· Fannie Lou Hamer http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Fannie_Lou_Hamer
· Walter Rodney http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Walter_Rodney
· Nina Simone http://brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/states/A1R.html#Nina_Simone
#2 11/7/2016
Welcome to those new to the list this week, and greetings to those already on. You are getting this as a supporter of the Draft Manifesto campaign to hold a national assembly for Black liberation.
GREAT NEWS—the plan set forth by the Draft Manifesto has been endorsed by the following organizations, and more are coming in and will be reported next week:
· People’s Organization for Progress http://njpop.org/wordpress/
· Black Workers for Justice http://blackworkersforjustice.com/
· United Electrical Workers Union Local 150 http://www.ue150.org/
· National Conference of Black Lawyers http://www.ncbl.org/
THE ELECTION: Remember we don’t have a candidate being voted on and the lessor of two evils is hardly the choice we want or need. Review what the Draft Manifesto says on page 29 (see attached) about the electoral struggle.
POLITICAL EDUCATION: Here are three sets of videos to watch for our political education this week:
· Saladin Muhammad on 10 Key Questions http://theblm.net/saladin/10-key-questions/
· Jack Qiu on the global crisis of capitalism https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/Info+City+LecturesA+Jack+Linchuan+Qiu/1_dasolo3e and https://vimeo.com/17558439
· The Detroit Speeches of Malcolm X http://www.brothermalcolm.net/aug04index.html
THE CAMPAIGN NEEDS YOU! Again you will find the draft manifesto attached—send it out to your network and encourage them to read it. Why not? Don’t we need more conscious Black people in the struggle? Also you will find the documents to gather endorsements for the campaign to spread the manifesto and get support for a national assembly for Black Liberation. Try sending in endorsements from about five people and see if you can represent this campaign as an organizer. We count on you!
#1 11/1/2016
Welcome to the first Bulletin for Black Liberation. This will be a weekly Bulletin. We want to hear from you with any questions or comments you have as we build this campaign. The main request we have is that you spread the word throughout your networks as broadly as you can.
You are on this list as a supporter of the Draft Freedom Manifesto (attached) and the proposal to convene a national assembly to unite forces fighting for Black liberation and fundamental social change.
We are reaching out to you to build this campaign to achieve two immediate goals:
1. Distribution and discussion of the draft freedom manifesto—we can send you printed copies
2. Gather signatures and organizational endorsements (forms attached)
There have been good responses so far:
1. The National Conference of Black lawyers included a discussion of the Manifesto in a plenary session at their recent national conference in Chicago
2. A convening of human rights activists in the South will hold a discussion of the manifesto at their regional meeting in Mississippi
3. On the international level there have been discussion of the manifesto in China and Cuba, while the Manifesto has been distributed to activists in at least 15 countries
4. The Manifesto has been featured in the October issue of a political newsletter called “The Organizer”
In our Bulletin next week we will begin list the organizations that have endorsed this campaign.
The Manifesto reflects the actual work on the ground of fighting for Black liberation. It is important to be familiar with the emerging leadership of this struggle. Here are some individuals to study:
· Clarence Thomas http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Clarence_Thomas
· Jaribu Hill http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Jaribu_Hill
· Marian Kramer http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Marian_Kramer
· Naeema Muhammad http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Naeema_Muhammad
· Malcolm Suber http://www.brothermalcolm.net/SOLDIERS/#Malcolm_Suber
We need to hear from you so holla back when you can!