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A fundraiser for African self-reliance programs

TAKE THE PLEDGE OF SOLIDARITY WITH AFRICAN PEOPLE!

The campaign for “Days in Solidarity with African People” is a fundraiser, supporting African self-reliance programs organized by the Uhuru Movement.

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Touch One! Touch All! Understanding that black people are African people everywhere, the Uhuru Movement, led by the African Socialist International, has built worldwide organizations for economic and political self-reliance. Throughout the U.S., Africa, Britain, Europe, the Caribbean, the Uhuru Movement unites African people to defend the rights of African people everywhere. See: www.uhurumovement.org for an overview of the Uhuru Movement	Community Electoral Politics, Democratic Rights, Social Justice The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) promotes economic justice over heavy-handed policing and participates in the Black is Back Coalition, a key U.S. based African antiwar and pro- justice organization. InPDUM runs candidates representing the interests of the black community, such as the 2011 campaign of Diop Olugbala for mayor of Philadelphia. www.inpdum.org	Community Self-Reliance and Survival Programs The 2012 Oakland Freedom Summer Project brought volunteers from around the country. They teamed up with local activists and African community members to plant vegetable gardens, build programs such as the Biko Lumumba Free Lunch Program, and renovate thie historic Uhuru House black community center. This project culminated with a Black Community Convention hosted by the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement.
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Black Community Economic Empowerment The Uhuru Movement has built Uhuru House community centers that house programs for political, cultural and economic empowerment. Programs being built in St. Petersburg and Oakland include the Uhuru Jiko (Freedom Kitchen), incubator kitchens to enable African food businesses to grow. The Uhuru Movement is also building community recording studios for the use for cultural performers. www.apedf.org	Health, Fitness and Infant and Maternal Mortality The Uhuru Movement has a fitness center in the low-income African community of south St. Petersburg, FL, the only such program that serves the community through a gym and educational programs. In Sierra Leone, West Africa, the Uhuru Movement has a maternal health clinic coordinated by Nurse Mary Koroma, toured by the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project in 2012. www.developmentforafrica.org	Independent African Media Burning Spear Media is the independent media of the African working class, and features at its core the oldest African liberation newspaper in publication, The Burning Spear newspaper, published since 1968. Burning Spear Media includes The Spear online, UhuruNews.com and UhuruRadio.com, with live weekly broadcasts. www.uhurunews.com

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