Uhuru Planet is honored to be participating in the historic 2021 annual convention of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, “Make Wall Street Pay Reparations” April 17-18 on zoom. Read the full program of workshops and register for this powerful conference to build white solidarity with black power at uhurusolidarity.org/convention
We will hold a virtual table lives-treaming from the conference on Sunday, April 18th, from 1:00-1:15pm EST.
Announcing new products for 2021! All of these can be found on our Shop page by using the category filters on the left side (on a smartphone will show up a grey plus sign (+) in the right corner to view categories) Here’s what we’ve got for you:
“St Petersburg, FL - Home of the First Act of Black Power” custom screenprints in waterbased ink, on tan colored cotton T-shirt and Hoodie. This design is to honor Chairman Omali Yeshitela who ripped down the racist mural from St. Pete City Hall in 1966.
We have redesigned “No Justice on Stolen Land - Turtle Island Occupied Since 1492” to be larger and on a beautiful warm grey cotton T-shirt, as well as a black hoodie. This was previously only available as a tank top. Turtle Island is the Indigenous name for so-called North America. Hand printed in Somerville, MA from our production studio.
By popular demand, we are releasing many of our designs as hoodies: “Stolen From Africans”, “I Support Reparations to African People”, and “White Solidarity with Black Power”
New Canvas tote bags with our newly launched designs “St Petersburg, FL - Home of the First Act of Black Power” and “No Justice on Stolen Land - Turtle Island Occupied Since 1492”
New limited edition Notebooks hand made by Wendy Craig, featuring poster art from the historic 2021 Plenary of the African People’s Socialist Party
Custom-made, lasercut and hand painted wood Earrings by Ebbe Dahlor. There are many varieties of these light-weight earrings, visit the Jewelry page to see what’s available. We will be releasing more over the next weeks, so keep checking back!
We will be going live on Facebook tomorrow, 2/26 at 2pm EST to show our new items. If you haven’t already, sign up here to receive text notifications for when we go live.
Uhuru Planet is a subsidiary of Black Star Industries with the mission to forward the culture of white reparations to African people. Whey you shop at Uhuru Planet, your purchases will directly advance the work of the African People’s Solidarity Committee to be able to have Solidarity Centers around the country. These centers will be a venue space and community gathering point to host events to raise awareness about reparations, as well as raise reparations to support the Black Power Blueprint. Every dollar counts. If you would like to make a donation to Uhuru Planet to help us reach this goal, you can donate here. Thank you!
Uhuru! Reparations Now!
Uhuru Planet is honored to participate in the historic 2021 Plenary of the African People’s Socialist Party, this weekend from Sat Feb 6 - Tues Feb 9. We invite our supporters and customers to tune in by registering for this powerful 4-day immersion into the leadership of the African working class, titled “African Workers of the World, Unite and Organize!”
The APSP Plenary is the largest annual gathering of the entire Uhuru Movement where all departments and organizations of the APSP report on the work they’ve been involved in for the last year and goals for the new year. The Plenary is where Chairman Omali Yeshitela will deliver the brand new 2021 Political Report, a summation of the victories of the African revolution over the last year and analysis of the deepening crisis of imperialism brought on by anti-colonial struggle of African workers around the world. This year’s Plenary will feature reports from across Africa, Europe, the US, Carribean, and a packed program of cultural performances, virtual vendors, panel discussions and multiple reading sessions of the Political Report.
Uhuru Planet will hold a virtual vending table on the second day, Sunday February 7th, at 6:50pm EST for 15 minutes. We will be be launching new items exclusively made for the Plenary and releasing one of a kind items for sale, along with showcasing our classic designs, new artwork, hand made jewelry, and live models. Register at APSPplenary.org to participate and see the full schedule for the four days.
Buy Black Power Friday weekend sale: 20% Off entire shop!
Friday 11/27 through Sunday 11/29. Stock up on all your reparations apparel swag this weekend at this epic sale.
Featuring all new items dropping tomorrow including framed historical photos of the Uhuru Movement, art for reparations, jewelry, vintage shirts and all new custom items.
We sell t-shirts, art, hoodies, long sleeves, books, gift cards, buttons, posters, hats, tote bags and more— all with an anti-colonial message of reparations to the black community.
Uhuru Planet is a subsidiary of Black Star Industries which is building commerce and economic freedom for and between African people around the world. The mission of Uhuru Planet is to forward the culture of white reparations to African people. We are also members of the @buyblackpower campaign, a socialist network of black owned businesses to build for black economic development and self-determination.
Visit the SHOP to see what’s available.
Photo: Diesel Cafe in Davis Sq, Somerville, MA hosted a two-month multiroom gallery exhibit coordinated by Uhuru Planet displaying historical photos and posters of the Uhuru Movement’s and the African People’s Socialist Party’s 40+ years of political action
This article appeared in the September 2020 print edition of The Burning Spear Newspaper and is republished with permission.
If you are a white person who agrees that “all white people owe reparations” to African people, then Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel is the place for you to shop.
With millions of white people mobilized to stand in solidarity with the fierce African resistance following the May 25 brutal police murder of George Floyd, Uhuru Planet has items that fight “colonialism, not racism” and declare that we must “Make Wall Street Pay Reparations!”
Coordinated by comrade Halley Murray in Somerville MA, Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel, according to its mission statement, “provides products with a unique revolutionary, reparations message of white solidarity with black power.”
Our brand includes t-shirts with slogans of solidarity as well as printed tote bags, beautifully hand-crafted journals made by Wendy Craig, along with pins, berets, memorabilia from the Soviet Union and much more.
Uhuru Planet recently moved into our own production studio within the 42,000-square-foot Artisan’s Asylum makerspace in Somerville, MA.
This is a vibrant community of over 500 artists, engineers, welders and makers with a shared desire to make all kinds of things.
The Uhuru Planet office is right by the screenprint studio, which we use to print shirts and other items, using techniques including heat press, heat transfers and a vinyl cutter machine.
We have been warmly welcomed by the community and look forward to networking with other talented artists.
In our studio we have begun to hold facebook live sale events to sell our products and will continue doing these events on a bi-weekly basis. Visit our website uhuruplanet.com to sign up for text notifications of the next time we go live.
Last year Uhuru Planet coordinated a 2-month gallery exhibit and pop-up storefront at the local Diesel Cafe in Davis Sq, Somerville MA which featured a multiroom exhibit of historical photos and posters of the Uhuru Movement and the African People’s Socialist Party over its more than 40 years of political action.
The exhibit also featured artwork for sale from the Uhuru Solidarity Movement’s “Art For Reparations” project—white artists in solidarity with Black Power—to raise resources for the Black Power Blueprint.
When entering the cafe, you were greeted with a full pop-up display of t-shirts and literature from Uhuru Planet, including a distribution point for the Burning Spear Newspaper.
The exhibit ran from September 8th to November 10th, 2019 and was across the street from where the Uhuru Solidarity Movement Boston branch held it’s Day of Reparations to African People tour, bringing Chairman Omali Yeshitela to speak at the Somerville Theater in October 2019.
Uhuru Planet is operated by the African People’s Solidarity Committee as a fully-owned subsidiary of Black Star Industries, an institution of the African People’s Socialist Party which creates commerce for and between African people worldwide building a liberated African economy and self-determination.
The African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) is the organization of white people created by the African People’s Socialist Party, led by Chairman Omali Yeshitela, back in 1976.
Our mandate from the African People’s Socialist Party is to be the face of black power in white face, to win other white people to “turn loose our whiteness,” to stand in genuine solidarity with African liberation and pay reparations to African people.
All of APSC’s work is about raising reparations to African people based on the fact that our every dream and aspiration, social wealth and opportunity come from our place on the pedestal of the enslavement and exploitation of African people.
We have the value of their centuries of stolen labor and are sitting on the stolen land of the Indigenous people.
In short: everything we as white people have is stolen, and we are building a movement to return it to the African Revolution.
Uhuru Planet is a tool to win the “war of ideas,” and also raises resources for the work of the African People’s Solidarity Committee itself to be able to have solidarity centers and pay other expenses to better build our work to win reparations for the African Revolution.
As a part of Black Star Industries, Uhuru Planet is led by the Office of Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela who provides leadership and installs professionalism for all its more than 50 economic institutions of the African People’s Socialist Party.
Uhuru Planet is honored to be part of Black Star Industries and to meet alongside the African National Women’s Organization’s Decolonaise hair and body product institution and the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s Uzi, A Thread of Freedom clothing institution.
To see and purchase Uhuru Planet shirts and apparel go to uhuruplanet.com. You can also join the Uhuru Planet committee, volunteer or purchase wholesale shirts to sell. Get involved by contacting info@uhuruplanet. com or call 781-214-8131.
Comrade Renée (left) and Uhuru Planet Apparel Coordinator Halley (right) are all smiles in the new office for this revolutionary apparel line
Uhuru Planet merchandise lines the walls of the new production studio where the work is in high gear to meet a growing demand
Uhuru Planet welcomes you to our new studio space & office at the Artisan’s Asylum! Scroll through to see photos of our space at studio #49, conveniently right across from the screenprint shop which we will most definitely be using. Moving into the Artisans Asylum has been a victorious accomplishment of our Phase 1 plan to scale the business into a full time operation of producing apparel which builds the culture of reparations to African people and white solidarity with black power.
We are humbled to be a member of the largest makerspace on the East Coast, with over 200 incredibly talented and unique artists, makers, welders, designers, hackers and more. Everyone has been so welcoming and friendly to us. Thank you A2 for being the perfect home for our production studio, office, and base for our N2U Volunteer Brigade program which will launch by the end of the month as a way to bring new people into the process of T-shirt production and reparations work with the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people created by and under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party.
Our store now has a physical address at 10 Tyler Street in Somerville MA which is open by appointment only. Please contact us to schedule a social-distance visit to see our inventory and learn about volunteer opportunities: info@uhuruplanet.com or call/text 781-214-8131
Uhuru Planet is a fully owned subsidiary of Black Star Industries, which is creating a liberated economy by and for the African working class.
The only motive driving the U.S. response to the coronavirus epidemic is the profit motive not the well being of the people. "The Road to Socialism is Painted Black", a statement by African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela shows that capitalism was built on Europe's assault on Africa and the enslavement of African people along with the stolen land and genocide of the Indigenous people. Because African people make up the pedestal of capitalism the only true socialism is when the African working class has control over the means of production.
Uhuru Planet supports the Black Power Blueprint and the African workers economy of the Uhuru Movement. Your purchase of an Uhuru Planet shirt is a way of taking a stand for reparations to African people.
DISCOUNTED PRICE FOR LIMITED TIME. With special offer until end of April, get free shipping on all orders over $50 with code “SOLIDARITY”.
To learn more about socialism, reparations, and the People’s War Against Coronavirus, register for the online National Convention of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, “REPARATIONS UPRISING”, April 18-19 2020. More info: uhurusolidarity.org/convention
Learn how to put your own designs onto clothing with embroidery and heat transfer vinyl in this hands-on workshop series hosted by Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel, the economic development institution of the African People’s Solidarity Committee based in Boston, MA. This 2-part workshop series is a fundraiser for the #ReparationsTuesday campaign for the Black Power Blueprint, the international day of giving known as Giving Tuesday on Tuesday Dec 3rd.
Crafting for a cause! The Black Power Blueprint is a black self-determination project based in St. Louis, MO building event spaces and community centers, housing, the One Africa One Nation Marketplace, Uhuru Jiko commercial kitchen, a basketball court, community gardens and more-- all led by and for the black working-class community.
SESSION 1: Tuesday Dec. 3rd, 6:30-9:30pm
SESSION 2: Sunday Dec. 15, 3-6pm
$15 for one session, $25 for both.
REGISTER HERE: ReparationsApparel.eventbrite.com
Come to both to have time to finish your projects and experience all that is being offered in this interactive workshop series. MATERIALS PROVIDED! *Please bring your own garments if you would like to alter them, or use our wide selection of fabric to practice on.
Make custom holiday gifts
Heat transfer vinyl workshop and using a vinyl cutter machine to put your designs onto apparel (recommended: bring your ideas as a black & white .jpg)
Live demonstrations of screenprinting and a heat press machine
Pop-up store for UhuruPlanet.com & customize your clothes with Uhuru Planet designs right onto your own garments
Optional: Bring your current craft/art project to work on in a friendly and sober environment (tables and couches provided)
Food, music, and reparations to African people!
Hosted by Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel and the Boston branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. USM is the organization of white people created by and accountable to the African People's Socialist Party, organizing in the white community for reparations to African people.
uhurusolidarity.org | 781-214-8131 | usmboston@riseup.net
From September 8th - November 10th 2019, Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel & Uhuru Solidarity Movement Boston hosted an art auction and gallery exhibit at Diesel Cafe in Davis Sq, Somerville MA. It was a historic opportunity to bring the revolutionary demand of reparations to the white community and put the whole Uhuru Movement on display. We exhibited historical photos of black power campaigns of the Uhuru Movement from the 70’s-90’s, art submitted to the Art For Reparations project, as well as a full pop-up storefront and t-shirt display wall. We deeply thank the folks at Diesel cafe for being so friendly and welcoming to the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and Uhuru Planet for letting us use the wallspace to popularize reparations!
On Sunday September 8th, Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement for the Art For Reparations 2019 Benefit Auction for the Black Power Blueprint! A one night only art exhibition & silent auction to benefit black community programs based in St. Louis, MO. Featuring over 70 works from artists both around the country and local to Boston: printmaking, illustration, quilting, painting, mixed media, sculpture, photography, fiber arts, ceramics, jewelry and more. Browse the t-shirt display from Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel, the economic development institution of the international Uhuru Movement based right here in Boston, MA.
Sunday September 8th, 5-8pm - Bids close 7:30pm sharp!
@ Diesel Cafe, 257 Elm St, Somerville MA 02144
Wheelchair accessible
Free event - donations encouraged
Visit ArtForReparations.org to see selected works in the online catalog. Take your winning artwork home that night.
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Following the art auction will be a two month exhibition at Diesel Cafe curated by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, "The Struggle for African Self-Determination & Reparations: The Living History of the Uhuru Movement". Join the USM Boston Branch meetings in the cafe every Monday, 6:30-8pm to learn about the history and current campaigns featured on the walls, meet the organizers and ask questions about the exhibit content, and become part of history as we build for the national speaking tour Day of Reparations to African People featuring Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People's Socialist Party, coming to the Somerville Theater on Tues Oct 15th, 6:30pm. Register at BostonDayOfReparations2019.eventbrite.com
WHAT'S THE BLACK POWER BLUEPRINT? The Black Power Blueprint is a project of the African People's Socialist Party led by Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela. It is an anti-gentrification project which is rapidly transforming the dire conditions of the black community in St. Louis into a thriving cultural hub of community programs such as: the Uhuru House venue space & African community center; Uhuru Jiko community commercial kitchen; the One Africa! One Nation! Marketplace; a basketball court, community gardens, a 50 foot flagpole with the Red Black and Green flag, and so much more! Follow the Black Power Blueprint on facebook & youtube:
facebook.com/BlackPowerBlueprint
youtube.com/BlackPowerBlueprint
USM is an organization of white people created by and accountable to the African People's Socialist Party. We organize in the white community for reparations to African people.
uhurusolidarity.org
Contact: usmboston@riseup.net
781-214-8131
“If you are concerned with peace, you must fight for it. A real desire for peace is a desire for social justice and reparations.”
