This week on Reparations in Action host Jamie Simpson is joined by USM Outreach Coordinator, Johann Bedingfield and USM National President, Jesse Nevelsky for a roundtable discussion of the white power lie implicit in the Santa mythology. We discuss the Dutch origins of Sinter Klaas and Swarte' Pete and it's open white nationalist celebration of colonial theft and slavery. We are in the period of the crisis of imperialism which expresses itself in everything from the shock election of Trump to the recent assassination of a Russian ambassador in Turkey. US imperialism responds with increasingly desperate attempts to rescue itself from the masses of colonized people resisting and organizing to overturn parasitic capitalism inside the US and throughout the world. This holiday season we discuss the virtue of being honest with our children and families about the origins of capitalism. Join the process of building a culture of reparations and solidarity with African liberation.
This week on Reparations in Action we will discuss the deepening crisis of imperialism as experienced by white people who are increasingly distraught and despairing over their lives on the pedestal of the oppression of African and all colonized peoples. USM member Jamie Simpson will be joined by Chairwoman of the APSC Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel for this roundtable discussion and analysis of rising rates of suicide, heroin addiction, mental illness and lowering life expectancy for white people in the era of generalized resistance (on the part of colonized peoples) to parasitic capitalism in all its forms. What is the material basis for this crisis within the white community and what is our role as white people organized in solidarity with Black Power? This episode will deepen the reality that colonialism is not a sustainable system which is not even in the long term interests of the oppressor population itself and that we must reject and overturn our historical complicity with colonialism by paying reparations and rejoining humanity under the leadership of the African working class. We will play a clip of the Chairman and discuss the statistics that prove the white community is in deep crisis. There is a future for white people, in solidarity with African liberation! The white ruling class cannot count on our support for police terror which murders Africans daily in the U.S. We will not be their lynch mob!
On December 2, 2016, a fire broke out in a warehouse, known as Ghost Ship, that was used as an 'artist collective' by mostly white young people in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland, California. This segment of Reparations in Action, featuring APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess and Oakland-based APSC member Maureen Wagner, will examine how the media's coverage of the warehouse fire conveniently ignored the overall context of gentrification, a decades-in-the-making public policy of displacement that has resulted in thousands of African people living in poverty and losing their homes. A majority of African families in Oakland have an annual income of less than $35,000 while the average rent is $2,600. The city puts most of its money into police to attack the African community, but also puts resources into gentrifying areas like Lake Merritt, where the life expectancy is now 17 years greater than in East Oakland!
On this special broadcast of Reparations in Action, host Jamie Simpson of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement will sum up the significance of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro who passed away at 90 on November 25th. We will hear audio footage of Chairman Omali Yeshitela's salute to Castro, a beautiful Cuban song in honor of the the late Comandante, and a news report from Africa about the mourning of Castro by Africans on the continent for whom he represented a legacy of internationalist solidarity. On the second half of the show, USM National Chair Jesse Nevelsky will respond to five common lies about Castro that are promoted by the bourgeois media and the CIA.
Reparations in Action host, Jamie Simpson, interviews USM's National Outreach Coordinator, and member of the African People's Solidarity Committee, Johann Bedingfield, about recent event on the relationship between disability rights and the Black Power movement and the new Disability Justice Working group that was formed in the wake of this enormously successful forum. We will also hear from USM National President Jesse Nevelsky about the election of Trump, the undeniable crisis of Parasitic Capitalism and the campaigns of the APSP such as TyRon Lewis Ave, Justice for the 3 Black Girls, Black Community Control of the schools and why the growing movement of white people voluntarily paying reparations to the African revolution is connected to all of these struggles
Join us this Sunday, September 11th, at 1:00 PM EST/ 10:00 AM Pacific time for Reparations in Action weekly radio show! We'll be interviewing comrades from around the U.S. who have been tirelessly and courageously building for the Days in Solidarity with African People campaign! Listen to hear from Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizers in San Diego, Oakland, Huntsville, Alabama, San Antonio, Boston, Seattle, Gainesville, and St. Pete, Florida, and learn why Days in Solidarity with African People is USM's most important campaign of the year!
Host Jamie Simpson will interview Uhuru Movement organizers Akile Anai and Liu Kwayera about the increasingly desperate attempts to silence African identity coming from school systems around the country and the ANWO (African National Women's Organization) campaign demanding the right of cultural expression and Black Community Control of Police in the schools. How can white people show support?
APSC Chair Penny Hess will discuss the upcoming event "An Evening With Chairman Omali Yeshitela," which is to be held on September 13th at the Uhuru House in St. Pete, to honor Chairman Omali Yeshitela for the 50th anniversary of courageously taking down the racist mural from St. Petersburg City Hall in 1966. During the second half of our broadcast, we will interview Bruce Wright, a local (St. Pete, Florida) activist and friend of the Uhuru Movement, who recently lost a first amendment case in federal court. Imperialist powers attempted to silence Wright for bringing attention to the colonial violence faced by Africans in St. Pete at the hands of the police.
An interview with Reparations Challenge coordinator of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, Katie Boyd about how you can raise reparations in creative ways wherever you are located. We will interview our National Steering Committee Political Action Chair, Starr, who will discuss the theme of DSAP 2016 and what political actions USM plans for this year in light of the brutal assaults on the African community in the first half of 2016 alone. And we'll close with a farewell discussion with our stalwart USM member and RIA engineer, Eric Delp. Eric is headed to Mississippi to complete his graduate studies and build USM on campus. We will hear from our stalwart RIA engineer about why he joined USM and why he plans to carry the message of reparations and solidarity with Black Power into the heart of imperial academia and the role of poets, writers and artists of all sorts in the struggle for African liberation!
On this episode of Reparations in Action Weekly Radio Show, Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair, Jesse Nevel, will host a discussion on the upcoming campaign to build the "Days in Solidarity with African People" across the U.S., including a March Against Genocide in California. Tune in to learn how you can be involved in making #Reparations a reality in your community~ by organizing a Day in Solidarity with African People wherever you are located!
Join us this Sunday, July 24th, at 1:00 PM EST/ 10:00 AM Pacific time, on Uhuru Radio with hosts Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM), and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC) reporting from the APSP Cadre Development School! Tune in to hear reports from these upcoming events: A summation of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) political action "They Made Them Drown, We Won't Back Down!" ~ on July 21, 2016, The International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement will hold a political funeral demonstration at the Pinellas County Sheriff's office with the mothers, family members, friends and the community of the three drowned black girls, La'Niyah Miller, Dominique Battle and Ashaunti Butler, demanding #JusticeForTheThreeDrownedBlackGirls! We will also report back from and discuss the Community Forum event: "What can white people do to stop police violence against the Black community?" ~ on Friday, July 22, 2016, the African People's Solidarity Committee, will host this event to address these questions and point the way forward!
On today's episode of Reparations in Action, members of the African People's Solidarity Committee will discuss the deepening crisis of imperialism, the shooting of five cops by Micah X Johnson in Dallas, the Nice attacks, the coup attempt in Turkey, and the struggles waged by the Uhuru Movement for African self-determination and for white people to stand in principled solidarity with Black Power and anti-colonial resistance!
Tune in this Sunday, July 10, 2016 to Reparations in Action Weekly Radio Show for updates from the Cadre Intensive! Members of the African People's Solidarity Committee currently stationed in St. Petersburg, Florida will report back on the first week of the African People's Socialist Party Cadre Development School. APSC is the organization of white people formed by and working under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party with the assignment to organize in the white community for reparations to African people.
Tune in this Sunday, July 3, 2016 to Reparations in Action Weekly Radio Show as we examine the relationship of white workers to the struggle for African liberation. "There is no such thing as workers in general," according to the principles of African Internationalism, the political theory developed by African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela. Discussion of APSP Comrade Gazi Kodzo's video: "To Tip Cave Becky or Not to Tip Cave Becky." Learn why the struggle to overturn colonialism must be led by the African working class and other colonized workers, and why white people, including the white working class, owes reparations to African people. "AFRICAN LIBERATION WILL FREE THE ENTIRE WORLD." ~ analysis from African People's Socialist Party in The Burning Spear Newspaper
Join us for This Week on Reparations in Action Radio Show as hosts Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee, and Jesse Nevel, Chair of USM, discuss "Brexit;" Britain's decision to leave the European Union. Chairman Omali Yeshitela says: "The world-wide struggle for national liberation represents imperialism in crisis. During this era, national identity and national borders are up for grabs, with these newly awakening masses around the globe. . . The relationship that Europe and the white world has with colonized people is in a state of crisis as colonized people are taking back their resources." Listen live to learn more about the underlying relationships between economics, culture, and the struggle for liberation from colonialism.
Tune in online for this special broadcast of the online radio show "Reparations in Action". Featuring live interview with Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, Omali Yeshitela and hosted by the Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, Penny Hess. Find out "the truth about racial injustice," how things got the way they are and what is the road forward for white people as we build for the Days in Solidarity with African People campaign around the world! Chairman Omali Yeshitela will discuss what African and oppressed peoples everywhere are trying to say to us and to the world and what it is that we can and must do to rectify our history of opportunism and parasitic capitalism that has given us opportunity, prosperity and social wealth at the expense of black and brown people. Learn why we must know this truth that our teachers never taught us and which is in our interest to learn if we aspire to a just, peaceful world with shared prosperity and justice.
USM Analysis: Harambe in Cincinatti with host Jamie Simpson and guest,, USM International President,- Jesse Nevelsky. Call in as we discuss the colonial history of so called Zoos in the US and their legacy exploiting and even exhibiting animals as well as African human being!. Join us as we investigate the sordid but true complicity of US media- from Newspapers to cable news and radio- in the dehumanization of African and Indigenous people.. We will discuss the urgency of seizing this time to expose the slander of the three girls drowned by the Pinellas county Sheriff on March 31st, 2016 and the need for reparations to the families of all 3 murdered girls.
This Sunday at 1pm on Reparations In Action, host Jamie Simpson plays clips from, "The Battle of St. Pete and the struggle for Black Power 1996 - 1998" a short documentary about the St. Pete police murder of 18 year old TyRon Lewis, the ensuing rebellions and assault of the Uhuru House on November 13th, 1996. Featured guests Chimurenga Waller and Penny Hess will walk us through the struggle of 1996 and how it is directly connected to the current campaigns to win justice and reparations to the families of Dominique Battle, Laniya Miller and Ashaunti Butler who were chased and rammed into a pond where they drowned at the hands of the Pinellas County Sheriff on March 31st, 2016. What is our role as white people in solidarity with the black community?
On TheBurningSpear.com or UhuruRadio hear the recent debate on the issue of reparations to African people between Jesse Nevelsky, Chair of the, Uhuru Solidarity Movement- arguing for reparations and Dianne Schacterle of the American Civil Rights Institute who argues against reparations. Reparations In Action will replay this illuminating debate with the Sacramento based vice president of the American Civil Rights Institute. This debate will be played in the context of the ongoing struggle for reparations and solidarity with African liberation. Hear updates from the Justice 4 Dominique Battle campaign in the face of the Pinellas county Sheriff and police departments continuing to murder African people with impunity while celebrating themselves. Hear analysis from an African Internationalist perspective of this debate and recent events and find out what the Uhuru Solidarity Movement is doing to build the mass movement of white people's reparations to African people. "Reparations is about changing the world...!" -Jesse Nevelsky, Uhuru Solidarity Movement.
This episode of RIA African People's Socialist Party Dir. of Recruitment and Membership Gazi Kodzo will speak on the ongoing Pinellas Co. Sheriff murders of African people in St. Pete and the deepening crisis of imperialism throughout the world. Join us for a panel discussion of revolutionary solutions and updates on the campaigns for Black Community Control of Police, Reparations to the families and all African people. Find out how you can get involved by supporting the upcoming Cadre Development School of the African People's Socialist Party, which will take place in St. Pete, FL, July 2nd to July 29th, and learn why the question of cadre it is so crucial to revolutionary transformation and self-determination for the African working class.