Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM)

I Fought For the Red White and Blue. Today I fight for the Red Black and Green: A White US Army Veteran Stands for Reparations to African People

On April 14-15th, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, white people organized under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party, will hold its annual national convention. The following is a call to white people published by USM:

Thanks to you and the overwhelming response from nearly 400 supporters, the Black Power Blueprint online fundraising drive successfully reached its goal for the project’s first phase, raising $25,000 in donations and reparations for the renovation of the Uhuru House at 4101 West Florissant in St. Louis.

“Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?”─An excerpt from “The Murder of Fred Hampton” (1971) that was screened in Akwaaba Hall at the Uhuru House In St. Petersburg, Florida on February 26th, 2018.

Over 70 attendees, mostly white people, from all around the country, gathered in the beautiful Akwaaba Hall in the historic Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida for this annual meeting of white solidarity with black power to learn more about white people’s role under the African Revolution in this period and moving forward.

On December 8, 2017, the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) launched a dynamic campaign to raise $25,000 in the first phase of a $300,000 effort to fund the Black Power Blueprint, a revolutionary program of economic and political power led by and for the African working class in St. Louis.

The 2018 African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) national planning conference, themed “Unity Through Reparations” is bringing together white people from all over the country who want to work under the leadership of the African (black) working class in their struggle for liberation and self-determination.

The narrative was permanently transformed by the demand that reparations and economic development to the African community be the centerfold of city policy, along with black community control of police and an end to gentrification that pushes the African working class out of the city in the face of massive real estate speculation on the part of big money developers.

It was a brilliant strategy to have African People’s Solidarity Committee member and chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement Jesse Nevel run for mayor as a white man galvanizing other white people around reparations as the central demand.

When New York assemblyman Charles Barron endorsed Eritha Akilé Anai (Cainion) for city councilwoman and Jesse Nevel for mayor in the 2017 St. Petersburg, FL elections, it was historic. Assemblyman Barron gave powerful advice, based upon years of successful campaigning and stopping the vicious tide of gentrification in East New York: “Door to door wins the war!”