North America

North Dakota––An armed white man drove his truck through a crowd of Native American demonstrators, running over and injuring one woman and then firing live bullets into the air during a demonstration on Saturday at a worksite near Mandan. There are no reports of this criminal being apprehended. 

Indigenous people are resisting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in heavy protests. This attack from a white vigilante on our Indigenous brothers and sisters follows the arrest of 37 people on Friday, as demonstrators maintained multiple highway blockades.

The Uhuru Movement announced in a press conference held at the Uhuru House on Thursday November 10th that they will be taking legal action against the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department for their brutal murder of three teenaged black girls, Dominique Battle, Ashaunti Butler and La’Niyah Miller.

Anti-Trump protests have broken out across the U.S. as the result of Donald Trump's recent selection as U.S. president. 

New York City and Chicago are seeing the largest protests as protesters in New York City blocked busy Fifth Avenue. Students in Los Angeles well as in Texas walked out of class while cities like Boston, MA; Seattle, WA and Pittsburgh, PA also broke out in protests.

The mostly-white protesters, upset at Trump's win, are shouting "Not my president" in defiance of the presidential results. Indigenous (Latino) immigrants and Muslims activists also made their presence known in the streets.

The illusion of U.S. democracy is very dependent on the peaceful transfer of power and these protests are not good for a healthy ruling class narrative. This is the crisis of imperialism unfolding before our eyes.

The African community of St. Petersburg, Florida, led by the Uhuru Movement, erected a sign, renaming what was previously known as 18th Avenue to TyRon Lewis Avenue in honor of the 20th anniversary of the police murder of 18-year-old TyRon Lewis on October 24, 2016.

It was a sign embraced by the African community; the murder of TyRon Lewis still bearing relevancy. African people erected this sign without the permission from the city, exercising our right to be a self-determined people.

Unfortunately, but not at all by surprise, the city is planning to remove it after a letter sent by the police union has backed them into a corner.

Washington, DC—In a powerful display of African unity, African people from all over the United States convened in Washington D.C. on November 5th for the National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination Convention.

Led by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace, and Reparations (BIB), the gathering of the black community––which included mothers whose children have been murdered by police and white vigilantes, members of various organization, and other brothers and sisters––convened at Malcolm X Park at noon.

The purpose of our gathering was to discuss our 19-point Black People’s Agenda, which speaks to many of the pressing issues affecting our communities, from the position of black women to climate change.

Since the violent defeat of the Black Liberation Movement of the Sixties by white power counterinsurgency, where leaders of the movement were murdered or imprisoned and then replaced with neocolonialist puppets, African people throughout the world have been told that voting will set us free.

We’ve heard sentiments like “black people died for us to have the right to vote,” that attempt to strong-arm Africans into voting out of duty or obligation.

In 2016, however, the Black Revolution rejects the notion that voting anywhere on the planet Earth will set us free.

What: Press conference
When: Thursday, November 10, 10am
Where: Uhuru House, 1245 18th Ave. S., St. Petersburg, FL
Press Contact: Sandra Forrest at 727-698-3092

On Thursday, November 10th at 10am, Attorney Aaron O'Neal will talk to the press about the Uhuru Movement's plans for local and federal legal action against the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) for a pattern of deputy deadly shootings and unlawful pursuit of black teenagers.

This weekend Africans from all over the United States will descend on Washington, D.C. for our two-day National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination Convention!

Across the board there is a general sentiment among feminists that selecting Hillary Clinton as president is the best hope to save U.S. democratic process and champion their position that a woman—at the helm of U.S. imperialism—is equality.  

Despite this, Hillary has not escaped criticism from feminists, particularly self-identified black feminists who find it difficult to reconcile their urge to vote for Hillary against her track record of spearheading policy that has had a damaging impact on black people in the U.S. and abroad. 

But even as it is difficult to reconcile these two opposing positions, black feminists overwhelmingly resolve to vote for Hillary Clinton—as the “lesser of the two evils”—thereby casting their lot in with U.S. imperialism.