White Solidarity with Black Power
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Black Self-Determination, Not Mass Incarceration!
Reversing the Impact of the Colonial Prison Economy through African Self-Reliance
The African Independence Workforce Program (AIWP) is a reentry program created for African men and women returning to our community from the prison system. AIWP provides beautiful housing for program participants, work-experience internships to learn job-readiness skills, training so participants feel empowered to re-enter our community and have access to healthcare, transportation and other services that provide stability.
APEDF understands that prisons have always been used as a colonial tool against the African community to maintain a relationship of exploitation and oppression. They go hand-in-hand with a public policy of police containment of the African community, instead of a public policy of economic development.
The result is staggering: 1 in every 3 Black men will be incarcerated in their lifetime, compared to 1 in every 17 white men and 1 in 18 Black women, compared to 1 in 111 white women.
In fact, in the 1990’s the incarceration rate of African women in the U.S. rose by 858%! With the vast majority of those women being incarcerated for “crimes of survival” like non-violent property or drug-related offenses. Another clear indication of a lack of economic development.
But APEDF is building economic development and self-determination back in the African community of North St. Louis through the Black Power Blueprint suite of programs!
Taking condemned or run-down properties and transforming them into programs that address our ability to feed, clothe and house ourselves. This means real genuine power in the hands of the community. Self-determination that comes from self-reliance.
Black Self-Determination, Not Mass Incarceration!
Reversing the Impact of the Colonial Prison Economy through African Self-Reliance
The African Independence Workforce Program (AIWP) is a reentry program created for African men and women returning to our community from the prison system. AIWP provides beautiful housing for program participants, work-experience internships to learn job-readiness skills, training so participants feel empowered to re-enter our community and have access to healthcare, transportation and other services that provide stability.
APEDF understands that prisons have always been used as a colonial tool against the African community to maintain a relationship of exploitation and oppression. They go hand-in-hand with a public policy of police containment of the African community, instead of a public policy of economic development.
The result is staggering: 1 in every 3 Black men will be incarcerated in their lifetime, compared to 1 in every 17 white men and 1 in 18 Black women, compared to 1 in 111 white women.
In fact, in the 1990’s the incarceration rate of African women in the U.S. rose by 858%! With the vast majority of those women being incarcerated for “crimes of survival” like non-violent property or drug-related offenses. Another clear indication of a lack of economic development.
But APEDF is building economic development and self-determination back in the African community of North St. Louis through the Black Power Blueprint suite of programs!
Taking condemned or run-down properties and transforming them into programs that address our ability to feed, clothe and house ourselves. This means real genuine power in the hands of the community. Self-determination that comes from self-reliance.
Black Self-Determination, Not Mass Incarceration!
Reversing the Impact of the Colonial Prison Economy through African Self-Reliance
The African Independence Workforce Program (AIWP) is a reentry program created for African men and women returning to our community from the prison system. AIWP provides beautiful housing for program participants, work-experience internships to learn job-readiness skills, training so participants feel empowered to re-enter our community and have access to healthcare, transportation and other services that provide stability.
APEDF understands that prisons have always been used as a colonial tool against the African community to maintain a relationship of exploitation and oppression. They go hand-in-hand with a public policy of police containment of the African community, instead of a public policy of economic development.
The result is staggering: 1 in every 3 Black men will be incarcerated in their lifetime, compared to 1 in every 17 white men and 1 in 18 Black women, compared to 1 in 111 white women.
In fact, in the 1990’s the incarceration rate of African women in the U.S. rose by 858%! With the vast majority of those women being incarcerated for “crimes of survival” like non-violent property or drug-related offenses. Another clear indication of a lack of economic development.
But APEDF is building economic development and self-determination back in the African community of North St. Louis through the Black Power Blueprint suite of programs!
Taking condemned or run-down properties and transforming them into programs that address our ability to feed, clothe and house ourselves. This means real genuine power in the hands of the community. Self-determination that comes from self-reliance.
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Reparations to The Black Power Blueprint
Uhuru Solidarity Movement raises reparations for the Black Power Blueprint, the anti-colonial program building political and economic power in the hands of the African working class in North St. Louis.
Our Leadership
USM was formed by and is accountable to the African People’s Socialist Party and Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
USM was formed by and is accountable to the African People’s Socialist Party and Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
USM was formed by and is accountable to the African People’s Socialist Party and Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
Campaigns
Reparations Legacy Project
Under the slogan, “Repair the damage. Return the stolen wealth. Fund Black Liberation”, the Reparations Legacy Project calls on white individuals, organizations and businesses invested in social change to support Black community-led economic development and self-determination programs.
Political Education
The Black Power Blueprint is a joint project of Black Star Industries and the African People's Education and Defense Fund, renovating properties and developing programs on the North Side of St. Louis that build political and economic power in the hands of the Black working class.
Chairman Omali Yeshitela is the founder and leader of the Uhuru Movement, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party which leads all of the work of APSC and USM. Chairman Omali Yeshitela hosts a weekly Sunday political education series called #OmaliTaughtMe.
Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee, has been organizing on the front lines for white reparations to African people under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party since the founding of APSC in 1976. Penny Hess is also the author of Overturning the Culture of Violence.
Reparations in Action's podcast series "White Lies Shattered" features host Jamie Simpson, APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess and USM Chair Jesse Nevel addressing the lies of imperialist history and setting the record straight with the revolutionary worldview of African Internationalism.
Uhuru Solidarity Movement and the African People's Solidarity Committee host webinars addressing the key political questions of our time from the point of view of African Internationalism, the political theory of Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
The Burning Spear newspaper is the official journal of the African People's Socialist Party which has been in publication since 1966, the longest running African Revolutionary newspaper in existence.
