Black Liberation

Push Back: US Police State Faces Revolt

June 5, 2020 Aaron Maté, The Grayzone. Resistance Report Black Liberation, Police violence, Rebellion2020, Systemic Racism

Dr. Gerald Horne on the George Floyd protests, the black freedom struggle, and Trump’s expansion of the US police state at home and around the world. Historian and author Gerald Horne discusses the US uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism sparked by George Floyd’s killing; the devastating impact of the US government’s decades-old war on the black freedom struggle; the ongoing “Russia-baiting” of the protests; and how, amidst the suffering and repression at home, the U.S. government, in bipartisan fashion, continues to attempt to impose its will on countries abroad, from China to Venezuela. Guest: Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Author of more than three dozen books, including the forthcoming The Dawning of the Apocalypse.

Black Alliance For Peace African Liberation Day 2020 Statement

May 24, 2020 the Black Alliance for Peace. Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, Black Liberation, Imperialism

Fifty-seven years since the founding of African Liberation Day (ALD), the pressing need for African unity is more apparent than ever. The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) recognizes the crucial role of ALD in revitalizing internationalism and anti-imperialism as the bedrock of a reconstituted Black liberation project committed to an authentic process of decolonization. Globally, the African working class is locked in mortal combat against the forces of neoliberal capitalism, which is concentrated in the geostrategic interests of the U.S. ruling classes. To preserve these interests, the U.S. is involved in an aggressive military re-conquest of Africa through its United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) formed in 2008 with the goal of imposing an enhanced U.S. influence throughout the African continent.

Study, Fast, Train, Fight: The Roots Of Black August

August 30, 2019 Joe Tache, Liberationschool.org Educate! Black Liberation, History, Racism

Exactly 400 years ago, in August 1619, enslaved Africans touched foot in the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States for the first time. The centuries since have seen the development of a racial system more violent, extractive, and deeply entrenched than any other in human history. Yet where there is oppression, there is also resistance. Since 1619, Black radicals and revolutionaries have taken bold collective action in pursuit of their freedom, threatening the fragile foundations of exploitation upon which the United States is built.

Black Liberation Activist Freed After 40 Years In Prison

October 24, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Black Liberation, political prisoners, Racism

After 40 years in prison, Mike Africa Sr., of the Black liberation group, Move, has been released on parole. Africa is the second member of the group to be released. His wife, Debbie Sims Africa, was released on parole last year. “It’s kind of surreal that I’m sitting on the porch with my son and his family — my wife is here,” Mike Africa Sr. told teleSUR. “A couple of hours ago I was sitting in a jail cell. I’m just trying to take it all in and get my bearings.” Move, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., was founded in 1972 in resistance to police brutality and environmental destruction. Nine members were arrested in 1978 during a police raid, becoming known as the Move Nine.

Black Land Initiative: Take Back The Land

June 8, 2017 Movement for Black Lives, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Liberation, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Racism

By Movement for Black Lives. On Juneteenth 2017 (Monday, June 19th) Black people across the country will be taking back land and reclaiming space, from vacant lots to empty school buildings. We are taking back land that should be used for the good of the people; land that has historically been denied access to Black people. Through these actions, we will confront the institutions that have been built off the extracted wealth of Black bodies and Black land and the individuals who have profited from them. Opening of Manifesto: We are a people who have been enslaved and dispossessed as a result of the oppressive, exploitative, extractive system of colonialism and white supremacy. In this system, our labor and its products have been forcefully taken from us for generations, for the accumulation of wealth by others. This extraction of wealth – from our labor, and from the land – formed the financial basis of the modern globalized world economy and has led to compounded exploitation and social alienation of Black people to this day.

It’s Time To Stop Calling Black Protesters ‘Unpatriotic’

October 1, 2016 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Black Liberation, Nationalism

By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - CHARLOTTE, N.C. ― A cell phone video filmed here last week captured two veterans facing off as police in riot gear chased protesters off the interstate, and encapsulated the fight over black “patriotism.” North Carolina’s largest city has been on edge since a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Scott on Sept. 20. Protesters flooded the city’s streets in the days after his death, demanding justice.

Coalition Declares Black Self-Determination Back On The Agenda

August 3, 2016 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Black Liberation, Self-Determination

By Glen Ford for the Black Agenda Report - After two generations of “Black social disintegration, economic retrogression and political confusion” ushered in through the collaboration of the Black Misleadership Class, “Black people have rediscovered and revived the Black Radical Tradition, with self-determination at the core.” The Black is Back Coalition is promulgating a groundbreaking 19-point Black political agenda entirely “formulated through the prism of Black self-determination.”

Ready Or Not, The Black Movement Enters A New Stage

July 21, 2016 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Strategize! Black Liberation

By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report - Black America is at a point of political inflection. Over the last two years, an incipient movement that goes under the heading of Black Lives Matter has mounted an inspired resistance to the mass Black incarceration regime and its killer cops. At every fitful juncture, and as a matter of necessity, the best elements of this youthful movement have repudiated the Black Misleadership Class’s two generations-long collaboration with a system whose mission is to contain, control, terrorize and criminalize an entire people

From Dred Scott To Alton Sterling: Still Second Class Citizens

July 15, 2016 Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, www.otherwords.org Educate! Alton Sterling, Black History, Black Liberation

By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson for Other Worlds - When I heard about the police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, I thought back to another name etched into American history: Dred Scott. In 1857, the Supreme Court was tasked with deciding whether Scott, an African American man born into slavery, should be granted his freedom. The justices not only denied Scott’s request, but also took the opportunity to send a chilling message to all African Americans, free and enslaved, that reverberates to this day.

Black Liberation: Ghosts Of The Past, Potential Of The Future

March 28, 2016 Angela Y. Davis, www.truth-out.org Educate! Black Liberation, Books, Ferguson, Palestine, Social Movements

By Angela Y. Davis for Truth Dig - Thank you so much and good evening everyone. First of all it is a pleasure and an honor to be here at Davidson College to help you celebrate Black History Month. I always welcome the opportunity to come to North Carolina because I spent a number of years of my own activist career doing work in this state. So first of all, let me say that Black History Month falls in the month of February, about which people used to complain because it's the shortest month of the year, but there are specific reasons, including the birthday of Frederick Douglass, why we observe Black history during this month.

#BlackLivesMatter Coalition Protest US Conference of Mayors

January 22, 2016 Staff, www.byp100.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Liberation, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Policy, Protests

By Staff of BYP100 - We are a united, decentralized, collaborative movement of Black organizations and Black people across the country working for the liberation of all Black people. We are the Movement for Black Lives. As DC organizers we stand in solidarity with Black people in Chicago who are organizing against the administration of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. Rahm Emmanuel has covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald for political gain, gutted Chicago public schools, dismantled city mental health infrastructure, authorized a city budget where 40% of public services funds are spent on policing...

From Hashtag To Strategy: Growing Pains Of Black Lives Matter

September 30, 2015 Bill Fletcher, Jr., www.inthesetimes.com Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Liberation, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Alicia Garza and Jamala Rogers for In These Times - We’ve said, very directly, that to rebuild the Black Liberation Movement, we actually need to build a different kind of united front—both internal to Black communities and external to Black communities. We have also been very clear that our election strategy is to push the Democratic Party to acknowledge the concerns of Black people. It’s not just about having candidates say “Lives Matter,” but certainly it is about exposing where candidates stand as it relates to Black people. We should figure out how not to try to make everybody fit into the mold we are most comfortable with. I organize domestic workers. Domestic work is a relic of slavery, and very much Black women’s work. I can’t talk about domestic work without talking about Black women. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

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