Hands Off Uhuru!

The following statement was published on uhurusolidarity.org on Aug 5, 2022

Stop the Attacks on the African People’s Socialist Party, Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the Uhuru Movement! 

Victory to African people! #HandsOffUhuru

The African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) and Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) condemn the violent U.S. government assault on the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), prompted by the government’s bogus and slanderous allegations of “Russian influence.”

At 5 am on July 29th, 2022, the FBI raided the home of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, and Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela in St. Louis, Missouri. They also raided the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the homes of Party Director of Agit-Prop Akilé Anai, African People’s Solidarity Committee Chair Penny Hess and APSC Central Committee member Kitty Reilly, USM Chair Jesse Nevel and USM Vice Chair Amanda Carlozzi.

The Uhuru Solidarity Center at 2654 Gravois Ave, St. Louis was also targeted because it represents the Party’s strategy to organize white people to stand in solidarity with African Liberation and reparations.

As the organizations of white people formed by and working under the leadership of the APSP, we express our unconditional support for Chairman Omali Yeshitela, the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement. 

We unite with the work of winning reparations from white people for the programs of the Party that are building African dual and contending power.

Historically the U.S. government and its secret political police have attacked and assassinated African leaders who have fought against all forms of colonial domination and for the interests of African people, in particular the African working class. 

We condemn these vicious attacks. We call on white people and all freedom-loving people to defend Chairman Omali Yeshitela who has relentlessly and tirelessly worked for 50 years for freedom, liberation and reparations for African people in the U.S. and around the world

These assaults come at a time when the African People’s Socialist Party, with Chairman Yeshitela as its leader, is recognized as the vanguard, the most powerful and influential African Liberation organization in the world. 

This comes as the programs of the Black Power Blueprint are at the height of their success in building political and economic power in the hands of African people. The Black Power Blueprint projects and programs in North St. Louis include the construction of a community center, a community basketball court, an African women’s doula training program, the community garden and beautiful murals, a farmers market, renovated housing for formerly incarcerated Africans who will be part of a workforce development program, and the renovations that will be the home of the Uhuru Jiko community commercial kitchen and cafe. 

The rapid development of these dynamic institutions are bringing a new, positive, self-determined future to the most impoverished African community of north St. Louis. With the Black Power Blueprint, the African People’s Socialist Party has done something by and for the African community of North St. Louis, while the colonial city government implements nothing but economic destruction, police containment and gentrification for African people.

The ever-growing Black Power Blueprint institutions were built through thousands of donations from supporters, including white people contributing as a stand of reparations. 

These brutal assaults are an attempt to intimidate white support for the African Liberation Movement. They are trying to discredit and isolate the centuries-long struggle of African people for national liberation, self-determination, reparations and the end of white colonial domination in all forms. 

What we are seeing is the continuation of the U.S. government’s counterinsurgency programs, such as COINTELPRO that targeted the Black Revolution of the 1960s using tactics to discredit the movement through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; illegal violence and assassinations.

The U.S. government has murdered beloved African leaders over and over again. We remember the targeting and political imprisonment of Marcus Garvey and the brutal assassinations of Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton and Patrice Lumumba, to name but a few. 

The African People’s Solidarity Committee calls on white people to stand between the violent face of the U.S. colonial state and its target, Chairman Omali Yeshitela, the African People’s Socialist Party, the Uhuru Movement, and the African working class community. 

We recognize that what is known as the “racial divide” in this country is in fact what Chairman Omali Yeshitela calls “the colonial mode of production.” White people sit on the pedestal of social wealth and democratic rights built on the stolen labor, resources and freedom of African people, on the stolen land of the Indigenous people, against whom genocide was committed. 

Contribute reparations to the worldwide movement for African self-determination led by Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the African People’s Socialist Party. Take a stand in defense of the Uhuru Movement. 

Donate to the committee to defend the Uhuru Movement against these brutal attacks. Donate at: apspuhuru.org/donate.

Follow the campaign at HandsOffUhuru.org to see solidarity statements and media coverage.

Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement! 

Hands off the Uhuru Movement!
Unity through Reparations!
Hands off the African People’s Socialist Party! 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UHURU LEADERS RESPOND TO FBI RAIDS AT REPARATIONS CENTER ON GRAVOIS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 7/30/2022

UHURU LEADERS RESPOND TO FBI RAIDS AT REPARATIONS CENTER ON GRAVOIS

St. Louis, MO: Following a series of coordinated violent FBI raids of the offices and homes of leaders of the African People’s Socialist Party, the African People’s Solidarity Committee will hold a press conference on Tuesday August 2, 2022 at 12:30 PM Central in front of the Uhuru Solidarity Center at 2654 Gravois Avenue.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement’s reparations organizing center in St. Louis was one of the seven properties included in the vicious attacks.

Speakers will include African People’s Socialist Party founder and leader Chairman Omali Yeshitela; Penny Hess, the Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and individuals whose homes and offices were raided, along with other supporters, specifically from the white community, who want to express their outrage about these attacks and who want to join in defense of the Uhuru Movement’s work for reparations and black self-determination.

Footage from these attacks will be made available after the press conference.

Contact: Len Demmer, Uhuru Solidarity Movement
314-384-9818
Media@uhurusolidarity.org

You're Invited: Grand Opening of the Uhuru Solidarity Center in St. Louis

On Saturday June 4th in St. Louis, from 2-4pm join us to celebrate the historic grand opening of the new organizing center for white reparations to African people, under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party.

Uhuru Solidarity Center is the national headquarters of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people formed and led by the African People's Socialist Party, working in the white community to build political and material solidarity with the African working class and the struggle for reparations, self-determination and political-economic power.

Uhuru Solidarity Center supports the Black Power Blueprint on the north side of St. Louis, MO.

The Grand Opening of the Uhuru Solidarity Center will be a festive and historic occasion with food, beverages, shopping from Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel, culture and speakers!

REGISTER: tinyurl.com/UhuruSolidarityCenter
LOCATION: 2654 Gravois Ave, St. Louis MO 63118
CONTACT: stlouis@uhurusolidarity.org | 314-571-9033

Volunteer for Reparations in St. Louis: Painting the Uhuru Solidarity Center

Are you interested in using your creative skills for social justice to support reparations to the black community? On Saturday May 7th, from 10am-2pm you can volunteer with the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel to help paint the Uhuru Solidarity Center. This is a dynamic new event space and community center in St. Louis that is owned by the African People's Socialist Party and part of the Black Power Blueprint project.

This building is home to the national office of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, an organization of white people that was created by and is accountable to the African People's Socialist Party, with the task of organizing in the white community to raise reparations to African people. We have a packed calendar of events planned at this space such as film nights, potlucks and speaking events to raise resources and support from the white community for the local Black Power Blueprint and other African self-determination programs of the APSP. All these events will launch beginning with the GRAND OPENING on June 4th, 2-4pm.

This building is also a storefront and production studio for Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel, an anti-colonial clothing line owned by the African People's Socialist Party with the mission "To forward the culture of white reparations to African people".

We have a lot of work to do before the Grand Opening to paint the finishing touches! Coffee and light snacks provided. Bring your painting clothes and we'll see you there!

WHERE: Uhuru Solidarity Center, 2654 Gravois Ave, St. Louis MO 63118.
WHEN: Sat. May 7th, 10am-2pm
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/volunteer-for-reparations-painting-the-uhuru-solidarity-center-tickets-332499544087
CONTACT: email info@uhuruplanet.com or call/text 781-214-8131

The Climate Crisis is a Struggle Against Colonialism: Reparations Now!

This article was first published by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement on April 6, 2022. USM is an organization of white people that was created by and is ccountable to the African People’s Socialist Party, with the task of organizing in the white community to raise reparations to African people. Become member here to start paying reparations today.

The Climate Crisis is a Struggle Against Colonialism: Reparations Now!
Uhuru Solidarity Movement responds to the United Nations IPCC Report on Climate Change, April 2022

For the first time, the United Nations Panel on Climate Change acknowledged that “colonialism” is a “driver of climate crisis.” 

In its latest report, issued April 4, 2022, the IPCC has been forced by the resistance of African and Indigenous peoples worldwide to recognize that colonialism, the system of domination, occupation, genocide and plunder by a foreign and alien state power over other nations of people is the cause of the climate crisis faced by the world today. 

Colonialism and climate change are one and the same.

For more than a half century Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, has scientifically proven that the condition facing oppressed peoples is the political and economic reality of colonialism, of which racism is only a symptom.

Chairman Yeshitela laid out the narrative of African, Indigenous and oppressed peoples inside the U.S. and around the world, using the concept of “colonialism as the mode of production”, meaning that the driver of the entire world capitalist economy is colonialism, delivering all goods, services and a high standard of living to the colonizers at the expense of the poverty and suffering of the rest of humanity and the earth itself.

Chairman Yeshitela wrote:

“This colonial assault on the ‘climate’ resulted in the extermination of an estimated 90 percent of the Indigenous population of the ‘Americas,’ from an estimated 60.5 million people in 1496 to only 6 million by 1600. The ‘climate’ crisis being experienced and discussed by frantic colonial academics and environmentalists today is a crisis that began with the intrusion of the ‘white man,’ the colonizers, that created the colonial mode of production that is now pushing into the lives of the colonizer with greater intensity…”

The Chairman further explains:

“[T]he colonial mode of production is responsible for a climate crisis that is serious beyond most belief…

“All of the climate conferences, so-called climate agreements and imperialist demonstrations are meaningless manifestations of white opportunist idealism. Imperialism caused the climate crisis from its very inception with the assault on Africa and kidnapping of African people beginning in the 1400s.

“Oil and natural gas, the two greatest polluters on the planet, are the two most lucrative commodities of colonial capitalism. The interests of oil and gas are one with the U.S. state, with the largest, most deadly military on Earth, and the colonial interests of the entire U.S. political and economic system. These commodities are the basis for U.S. wars throughout the Middle East and conquest in Africa, the U.S. and Asia. Oil and gas are tied to the white colonial prosperity and way of life.

“Clearly the real issue is colonial capitalism, not the climate. European imperialism created and maintains this situation in one long trajectory that began when the first white person got off the boat in Africa and captured an African person, forced her into a ship to steal her, her genius, her labor and her land and resources.

“While white climate scientists fear ‘loss of habitat’ for ‘human beings,’ the fact is, as we have pointed out, the habitats of African and Indigenous peoples have long been destroyed by Europe’s colonial assaults on our peoples for 600 years in the process of creating the habitat and the production and reproduction of life for white people.

“Nothing will change the climate crisis short of total destruction of the colonial mode of production and only the organized African working class in the form of the African People’s Socialist Party can do that.” 

Understanding that the climate crisis is caused by the colonial mode of production requires us to recognize that there is a colonizer and a colonized.

We, white people, as the colonizers, benefiting from centuries of ongoing theft, pillage, enslavement and murder of African, Indigenous and colonized peoples, must be organized under the leadership of the African working class struggling for national liberation and self-determination.

The struggle against the climate crisis is a struggle against colonialism. This struggle is being led by the colonized themselves. Our responsibility as the colonizers is to work under their leadership and build material solidarity with the movement of the African working class and oppressed peoples of the world to reclaim power over their land, lives and resources.

As Chairman Omali Yeshitela has made clear, this is the only way the climate crisis will be overturned. Colonialism must go.

The African People’s Socialist Party is leading the worldwide anti-colonial struggle of African workers for power and self-government. The Party is negating the colonial mode of production through self-determining programs of dual power such as the Black Power Blueprint, Black Star Industries and the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project.

Reparations must be paid to African and oppressed peoples around the world. Colonized peoples, once liberated, will lead and are leading the healing of the earth and the end of climate change. White people must join in solidarity with the fight for the return of their stolen land, resources and self-determination.

Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement at uhurusolidarity.org. Uhuru Solidarity Movement is the organization of white people under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party, working for reparations to African people.

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Stay tuned on uhuruplanet.com for our new t-shirt designs launching for Earth Day 2022

African People's Socialist Party 2022 Plenary: Relentless! Feb 11-14 Online Conference

Tune in to our biggest live sale event of the year this Saturday, February 12th at 7:50am CST for our featured Buy Black Power live sale during the African People's Socialist Party’s 2022 Plenary Conference!

Themed “Relentless! 50 Years of Leadership Toward African Redemption”, this online conference is the largest annual gathering of the APSP from Feb 11-14. Featuring keynote speaker Chairman Omali Yeshitela. Be part of the APSP's relentless struggle for the unification of African people everywhere and total liberation of Africa!

Uhuru Planet is excited to drop new items in our featured live sale. We will also be reporting on our work from the last year during the APSC report on Monday afternoon. Tune in by registering on zoom at https://apspplenary.org or watch on YouTube.com/uhuruTV

Reparations Now embroidered black beanie - *PRESALE* & upcoming events

Presale of new black beanie with embroidered “Reparations Now” slogan in white thread. Buy it here.

• 100% Acrylic

• 12" knit

• Adjustable cuff, shown as 3"

Stop by the online store on Friday, November 26th for 20% off all day in our Buy Black Power Friday Sale. Begins 12am EST and ends 11:59pm EST.

Join us at 1pm EST during the day for a livestream on facebook and instagram to buy directly from us. Register for notifications at loyalshops.com/p/uhuruplanet/register

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.