Sat 10/16 Join us in Philadelphia for the March for Reparations to African People

On October 16th, Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel is excited to join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement in Philadelphia, PA for the 2021 Philadelphia March for Reparations to African People . Part of a national day of action with marches and events in St. Petersburg, FL; Oakland, CA; Portland, OR St. Louis MO.

This is a call to action to the white community to stand in solidarity with the African community's struggle for reparations and self-determination. One year after the murder of George Floyd, it's not over. The struggle continues.

The march will kick off in Clark Park at the One Africa! One Nation! Uhuru Flea Market (43rd & Chester Ave) at 11:30am with a rally. This market is the last one of the season and one of the 50+ economic institutions of the African People's Socialist Party to build power and self-determination for the African working-class community.

The rally will be followed by a march around University City with brief stops for local anti-colonial history and significance of the reparations demand in Philadelphia. The march will loop back to end in Clark Park with another rally.

Featuring speakers from the African People's Socialist Party, African People's Solidarity Committee, musical performances and over 50 African vendors in a dynamic outdoor marketplace.

This March is a fundraiser for the Black Power Blueprint's community basketball court in North St. Louis, MO. Learn more and donate towards our goal of $60,000 to support this black self-determination project at gofundme.com/communitybasketball

This event is more than a march and a flea market-- this is a call to white people to take a stand in material solidarity with the struggle for self-determination and liberation of African people, to be part of building a new world where no one lives at the expense of another.

REGISTER: tinyurl.com/PhillyReparationsMarch

YOU CAN PARTICIPATE! Contact us to get involved:
philly@uhurusolidarity.org
781-214-8131
uhurusolidarity.org

Hosted by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people created by and working under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party.

#4: We demand the immediate release of Mumia Abu-Jamal!

USM PHILADELPHIA - DEMANDS

1) We demand the city of Philadelphia provide adequate housing for the homeless.

2) We demand that Temple, UPenn, and Drexel pay reparations to the African community for gentrification and land grabs in North and West Philly.

3) We demand the city of Philadelphia pay reparations to MOVE for the 40+ year incarceration of the MOVE 9 and the 1985 bombing and murder of 11 MOVE children, women and men. UPenn owes reparations for stealing the bones of black children murdered in the MOVE bombing.

4) We demand the immediate release of Mumia Abu-Jamal

5) We demand the city of Philadelphia end the war against the African, Mexican, Puerto Rican and other colonized communities. The city must pay reparations for mass incarceration, police murder, the violence of poverty, hostile colonial schools and a genocidal health care system.

BIG NEWS: New Fall Collection, Labor Day Sale, and Moving Our Office to St. Louis

We have a lot of exciting news to share on the first day of September 2021!

First check our whole store for tons of new items for our fall collection drop today. Featuring 7 new designs available in t-shirts, tank tops, long sleeves, hoodies and tote bags. Use the code SEPTEMBER21 to get 15% off your entire order now through Labor Day (Mon Sept 6.) Be sure to browse all the pages to see the new items in each category.

Today September 1st also marks the last day of our usage at the Artisan’s Asylum maker-space in Somerville, MA. We have called this wonderful place our home for the last year since July 2020 when we moved in during a pandemic to our new production studio, our very first office. In this community we have met so many talented and helpful people, won new members to the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and printed many many shirts! The space is closing due to the whole facility relocating to Allston, MA into a much bigger and newly renovated space closer to downtown Boston. We are very grateful for all the people we have met here and hope to stay in touch.

Goodbye to our studio at the Artisan’s Asylum! This was our home from July 2020 - August 2021

Our final biggest announcement is that we are relocating our entire office to St. Louis, Missouri by the end of 2021! We are honored to make our new home in the international center of the African Liberation Movement, home of the Black Power Blueprint. Uhuru Planet’s new office space will be within the new Solidarity Center purchased by the African People’s Solidarity Committee. In this space APSC will host a regular program of events, political education workshops, film nights and other activities to win white people to a stance of reparations and material solidarity to raise resources for the Black Power Blueprint, an anti-gentrification project in North St. Louis led by the black working-class community to build self-determination and economic development.

Sales from Uhuru Planet directly go towards making this Solidarity Center a reality with a thriving program of events. For us to move across country will cost over $1000 for this historic relocation. Can you contribute towards our moving costs by making a donation today? Click here to make a contribution of any amount to help us reach our goal.

Thank you for your support!

Support Black Owned Businesses Through the Reparations Legacy Project

With an economic divide that is obvious in the United States and around the world between black and white communities through colonialism, Uhuru Planet enthusiastically endorses the mission of the Reparations Legacy Project. This is an organization under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party which calls on wealthy white people to take part in repairing the damage of slavery and colonialism through funding black liberation.

On Saturday June 12, 2021, from 1-6:30pm EST there will be a Reparations Legacy Project virtual conference to extend an invitation to the wealthy white community to be part of the worldwide African liberation movement by paying reparations, to repair centuries of exploitation of the African community that historically white people have always benefited from. The Reparations Legacy Project allows white/European people to take a stand in repairing the economic and social damage of enslavement of African people through the redistribution of resources toward the Black self-determination programs of the Uhuru Movement, such as the Black Power Blueprint project in St. Louis, MO.

We Are a Reparations Clothing Brand

Uhuru Planet has always stood firm to our commitment that a reparations clothing brand is an ethical clothing brand. It’s a necessary position to take considering the material conditions of the African community in the United States and around the world is one created under colonialism. If we are to address these issues, we have to understand that the material wealth gained by white communities exists because it was built on the backs of the colonized. For this understanding of colonialism we must credit and salute Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party, who has provided so much leadership to both Uhuru Planet and the international struggle for reparations to African people. By showing solidarity through reparations, we can begin the process of repairing past damage. This is why Uhuru Planet’s online shop was created, in order to push a culture demanding reparations. Under the leadership of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, our mission statement is “to forward the culture of white reparations to African people.”

Buy Black Power Through Black Star Industries

Along with the call for reparations to the Black Power Blueprint, the Reparations Legacy Project also supports the black self-determination institutions that are under Black Star Industries, such as Uhuru Planet. We encourage anyone interested in supporting an independent, anti-colonial African economy to shop and donate to The Burning Spear Newspaper, Decolonaise, Uzi Custom Clothing, Zenzele Consignment, Uhuru Foods & Pies Oakland and St. Petersburg, and Uhuru Furniture Oakland and Philly. All of these incredible institutions, including Uhuru Planet, are black owned businesses and have been built from the ground up by the African People’s Socialist Party. All of these businesses are part of the Buy Black Power Campaign, another dynamic wing of the APSP to bring together black owned business owners to achieve power, socialism and economic independence for the African community world-wide.

Uhuru Planet Applies for an Official Trademark with the USPTO

Following the historic Uhuru Solidarity Movement 2021 National Convention earlier this month called “Make Wall Street Pay Reparations”, we have been internalizing the profound presentations from Chairman Omali Yeshitela and Deputy Chair Ona Zene Yeshitela that “the political and economic are one” as we put the theory of African Internationalism into practice.

Uhuru Planet has big plans to take this theory and apply it this year to grow as a thriving economic institution of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, that through our sales we can generate the resources needed for APSC to organize for reparations around the world. We also salute Chairwoman Penny Hess of APSC who gave a profound statement of solidarity at the convention and who has provided so much leadership for Uhuru Planet. To view the USM Convention, browse the video archive at youtube.com/uhurusolidarity.

The conference was organized by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people who are accountable to and work under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party. It was an honor for us to participate doing a “virtual table” to our biggest support base in the Uhuru Movement. In the days since then from our office at the Artisan’s Asylum in Somerville, MA we have been excitedly sending out orders and truly appreciating all the support we got during our live sale event on Sunday 4/18 of the convention. Thank you to everyone who tuned in and dropped your positive comments in the chat.

Each t-shirt sold is one step closer to APSC having its own Solidarity Center in St. Louis, home of the Black Power Blueprint which APSC and USM raise resources for. In 2021, Uhuru Planet has a clear vision and plan to grow exponentially to achieve this goal.

Part of growing any business includes permitting and licensing to protect the intellectual property and concept of the brand. To become economically viable means to have more power and ability to reach more people with the Uhuru Movement’s revolutionary theory of African Internationalism. We also have to protect the interests of the African working class, under whose leadership Uhuru Planet operates. In order to protect this institution, Uhuru Planet is currently in a process to apply for our trademark registration with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).

Over the past few months of 2021, we have been partnering with student lawyers from Northeastern University in Boston, MA to help us achieve this exciting goal and work with us to file our application. We have learned some of the ins-and-outs of how specific the USPTO needs your application to be and we are very grateful for the team at BU who has helped us along this path to a trademark.

We are calling on our supporters to help us sustain this work by making a contribution towards the resources needed to file this application. Each patent filed is $350, and we need to file file two for a total of $700. One is for the “UP” with a star logo design, and the other is for the word mark “Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel”.

Applying for our trademark is one of our mandates from the brilliant Office of Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela and Black Star Industries, who in 2020 worked directly with Uhuru Planet to shape us on the path to a highly professional and organized institution as one of the 50+ economic institutions of the Uhuru Movement. From having begun over 10 years ago with small batch DIY screen-printed shirts, to 2019 when we updated our branding and logo with a new website, to 2020 getting our first ever office space, Uhuru Planet has come a long way as a business. But there is still a long way to go!

Under the leadership of Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela and Black Star Industries, the mandates included establishing a Manual, building our Wholesale capacity, consistent branding and logos, apply for trademarks, establish budget projections and cash flows, identify all staff roles, build our volunteer program, and so much more. We began our trademark process last year and are glad to say it’s almost complete! At this point, we just need the resources to make it happen.

Can you contribute towards our goal of $700 to make our trademark application a reality?

We welcome donations of any amount, including the whole $700 if you are able. Donations can be made on our “Donate” button from our website, uhuruplanet.com

Thank you for your support! Find us tabling this weekend at our first outdoor market of the year, the Somerville Open Studios featuring over 100 artists living and working in Somerville, MA. We will be outside on Saturday, May 1st, from 12-6pm in the alley between Market Basket and Dane Street (28 Dane St, Somerville MA 02143) with a rain date of Sunday May 2nd.

We will also be hosting a facebook live sale event tomorrow, Friday April 30th at 2pm EST for a sneak peak at what we will be showing this weekend, including Artwork For Reparations. Register here to receive text notifications the next time we go live.

Make Wall Street Pay Reparations - USM Nat'l Convention 2021, April 17-18 Online

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

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!

This Weekend: African People's Socialist Party 2021 Plenary

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!

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.

Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel is for White People in Solidarity with Black Power

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

New Production Studio & Office at Artisan's Asylum

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.