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ST. PETERSBURG, FL––The St. Pete branch of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), as forewarned, initiated one of a battery of protests in resistance to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department’s drowning murder of three teenage African girls––Dominique Battle (16), Ashaunti Butler (15) and La’Niyah Miller (15).

This direct action was ignited at a private cocktail party and white nationalist electoral fundraiser in the white enclave of Clearwater, FL for senate nominee David Jolly––hosted by none other than the infamous sheriff Bob Gualtieri.

"I heard about five shots, a pause, and then two more shots. When I heard the sirens I came out to see what was going on." said Ronn Greene of Mobile, Alabama, a witness at the scene of yet another unarmed African teen gunned down by police.

The victim, 18-year-old Michael Moore, died at the hospital.

Michael was shot multiple times Wednesday, June 15th in what would be considered a routine traffic stop for white people.

For the colonized African being held hostage in the U.S., however, being killed by the State is the routine.

Even though, then-U.S. president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 proclaiming, “That all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free,” captured Africans remained in the forcible custody of white people in Texas until June 19, 1865.

Many Africans in the U.S. are preparing to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday that remembers that day in 1865.

CHARLESTON, SC––The African nation was in utter shock, sadness and anger this time last year as news of a massacre spread across the country. 

“A white gunman opened fire inside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal [aka Mother Emanuel] Church in Charleston, South Carolina, slaughtering nine black women and men.” (The Burning Spear)

Twenty-one-year-old Dylann Roof, on the evening of June 17, 2015, murdered nine Africans as they participated in bible study.

ORLANDO, FL––The African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) condemns U.S. imperialism for creating the conditions that led to the Orlando mass shooting of 50 people by 29-year-old Afghan Omar Mateen.

We profoundly sympathize with the families of the many young, predominately Indigenous (Latino) and African (black) people who were victims of the shooting.

We say this in the context of recognizing what the U.S. does to Muslim and Arab people every single day.

Omar Mateen’s attack on the Pulse nightclub was a response to U.S. bombing of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, according to statements made by Mateen himself.

Muhammad Ali was a hugely important historical and political figure whose legacy has been distorted and whitewashed since his death by the white media. Chief among the posthumous assassins of Ali's political legacy is Michael Lerner, Berkeley-based white Jewish rabbi and editor of Tikkun Magazine. 

Lerner is being showered with praise for his "powerful" sermon at the June 10th funeral for Ali, but Lerner is not a friend of the Palestinians nor of the legacy of black power and anti-Zionist solidarity personified by Ali at his prime.

Lenin John Torres-Sepulveda, a 38-year-old African man from Atlanta, Georgia was found dead, hanging from a tree in Beachwood, Ohio on May 20, 2016.

Beachwood police state that they were notified of a body (later identified as Lenin) hanging from a tree by a passerby.

More than 50 members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) will convene in St. Petersburg, Florida in July to attend the APSP Cadre Development School.  

The “Best Son’s and Daughter’s of Africa” will receive ideological, political and organizational training at our Party headquarters.

They are coming to this especially important Party training from throughout the African world.

Party members will travel to St. Petersburg from the U.S. Caribbean, Africa and Europe to acquire greater skills to advance the African revolution from the various fronts of our oppression and exploitation which has confined us since the advent of white power and parasitic capitalism.

It was announced on May 3, 2016 that Haiti would become a Member State of the African Union (AU).

The African Union Commission, however, informed the public on May 26, 2016 at their summit in Kigali, Rwanda that Haiti will not be admitted as a Member State of the African Union, as been reported by several media sources.

According to one of AU’s Constitutive Acts, only African States can join the African Union.