Spear staff

Notorious white rapist Brock Turner was released from the Santa Clara County Jail on September 2nd, after serving three months for raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. He was sentenced to six months, but was released early for “good behavior.”

The sentencing was so lenient because, according to the judge, prison would have "a severe impact on [Brock]." 

Protesters gathered at Baltimore's scenic downtown harbor to protest the execution of Korryn Gaines and the shooting of her young son, Kodi, by Baltimore pigs on August 27, 2016.

The demonstration was led by the People’s Power Assembly which is a mass organization of white leftist Worker’s World Party. Several speakers took to the microphone to demand justice for the murder of Korryn Gaines.

The African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) was at the event to expose the police terror faced by Africans in the U.S. and to deepen the question of Black Community Control of the Police.

The Indigenous people to this land are currently engaged in intense struggle against parasitic capitalist companies as well as the U.S. State to protect their land and water supply.

Indigenous people of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota are heavily resisting––and have been since the beginning of August––the illegitimate plans to construct the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The pipeline is an estimated $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline that will span 1,172-mile and cross the Missouri River to carry crude oil from North Dakota, through South Dakota and Iowa, to southern Illinois.

About two weeks ago, African students were threatened by school administration at Gibbs High School as an attack was placed on African culture.

My friend Jelani was walking through the school halls at when a school administrator and a resource (police) officer stopped her and ordered that she removed her African headwrap.

Puzzled, Jelani asked why, to which they responded that her African headwrap was a violation of the school dress code.

The presence of the police officer intimidated Jelani, so she followed the order and went to bathroom to take her headwrap off. She then called the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO) to inform them of the incident, to which they told her to stay strong and put her headwrap back on.

It has been one week since the body of Ferguson, Mo. activist Darren Seals was found in a burning car with a bullet hole in his head. With everyday that goes by, we are hearing less and less  about his horrific murder.

Since the murder of Mike Brown on August 9, 2014, there has been a string of six murdered activists in the last two years: Darnell Robinson, Antonio Jones, Deandre Joshua, Terrell Beasley, Vinne Cascella, and Darren Seals.

Prisoners across the U.S. went on strike on September 9th, The 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. The strike took place in 24 states and about 40-50 prisons were involved.

Africans from Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Florida, Texas, California and St. Louis will be convening on Ground Zero of the resurgence of the black liberation struggle, Ferguson, MO, on Saturday and Sunday, September 17th and 18th, for the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s (InPDUM) 25th Anniversary Convention: "Continuing the Black Struggle for Self-Determination: The task at hand."

The Convention will be held at the Greater St. Marks Church where we will organize and strategize towards gaining true self-determination as one African people.

There is no question that revolution is the ONLY solution for our freedom. There will be various workshops to provide our people with critical skills to build and organize towards revolution in our own communities.

Uhuru Comrades, sisters and brothers. As the President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), I am calling on you to attend the historic 25th Anniversary Convention of InPDUM which will take place on September 17 and 18, 2016 at St. Mark Church 9950 Glen Owen Dr., Ferguson, MO 63136

InPDUM was founded in 1991 under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP). Our trajectory is a revolutionary trajectory with the objective to win our freedom. No other organization has dedicated their existence to the unification and liberation of all Africans across the globe. We recognize that self-determination is the highest form of democracy, which has been stolen from us by the ruling class.

This call is being made with the most serious sense of urgency. The struggle of the 60s continues as the crisis of imperialism deepens. The imperialist (white ruling class) offers up Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as solutions, but neither of them offer up solutions for the black community.

Darren Seals, a well-known activist from Missouri who led week-long protests in Ferguson following the police murder of 18-year-old Mike Brown, was murdered on September 6, 2016.

According to police reports, the St. Louis police were called to a vehicle fire in the Riverside area of St. Louis just before 2 a.m. on Tuesday. When the fire was extinguished, they found Darren’s body inside the vehicle with a gunshot to his head.

Darren was 29 years old.