Take the Pledge of Reparations to Raise $30,000 for Black Community Economic Development
“I Will No Longer Be Complicit in Genocide! I Stand in Solidarity with African and Oppressed Peoples!”
I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I refuse to be silent. I will not look away while the police continue to shoot young African people down in the streets in cold blood. I will not hide behind convenient ignorance when the U.S.-backed Israeli settler state rains down bombs upon the children, women, and men of Occupied Palestine. I will not be silent while ICE tears Mexican and Indigenous families apart, locks them up in cages, and brutally forces them off their own stolen land. I will not stand by as the U.S. military launches drone strikes to massacre people in Africa and the Middle East.
A new world is rising up. The oppressed and colonized peoples of the world—from North St. Louis to the Sahel—are fighting for their freedom. A line has been drawn. I will stand with humanity. I recognize that true solidarity with Palestine and anti-colonial struggles around the world begins with solidarity with African people colonized within the borders of the U.S. I will take the pledge of reparations to African people. I stand in solidarity with African and oppressed peoples!
This is the pledge that is being adopted by white people across the U.S. as part of the 2025 Days of Reparations to African People (DREP), organized by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM)—the organization of white people working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP)—to raise $30,000 as material solidarity with the African Liberation Movement.
The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is launching its annual DREP campaign from August to October of this year to mobilize white people to join the growing movement of anti-colonial solidarity with the African Revolution.
The African People’s Socialist Party has called on the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) to host annual marches, conferences, and events for reparations, which we have done since the first “March Against Genocide” in San Francisco, California in 1979.
In this period of ever-deepening crisis and resistance, the Days of Reparations campaign is more urgent than ever.
This is how we change the world. This is how we fight back against the system of endless war, genocide, and imperialism built on the backs of African people for our benefit. It’s bigger than Trump; the whole blood-soaked system of colonialism must go!
APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela, founder and leader of the Uhuru Movement, has made it clear that colonialism—the total domination of a whole nation or people for the benefit of the colonizer—is not a policy; it is the mode of production. Colonialism is the DNA of the parasitic capitalist economy in which wealth is produced for the benefit of white people through the theft of resources and life from African and colonized people. The Chairman writes: “It was colonialism that transformed the world into a single economic whole, a single political economy within which ‘slaves’ and ‘masters’ were destined to pursue the means of producing and reproducing real life, each at the expense of the other.”
The pledge of reparations, therefore, is not a call for charity, but a stand of genuine material solidarity with the struggle of African people to overturn the colonial mode of production and reclaim power over their land, labor, lives, and destinies.
For white people, the stand of reparations is a self-criticism for our historic complicity and participation in centuries of colonial violence and terror against African, Indigenous, and colonized peoples. It is an opportunity to right a historic wrong and end our isolation from the rest of the peoples on the planet Earth.
As African People’s Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess writes, the stand of solidarity “enables us to rectify our relationship to African people because we are organized under their leadership as part of their strategy to win political and economic power in their own hands. We carry out the practice and stand of reparations as a revolutionary act, returning the stolen wealth to the true working class, the true producers of the planet, the African working class.”
The Days of Reparations campaign is about reparations in practice.
Join the campaign to raise $30,000 by the end of October as a concrete expression of material solidarity with the political and economic programs of the African People’s Socialist Party. Donate today at uhurusolidarity.org/pay-reparations.
Join the March for Reparations to African People in St. Louis, Missouri on Saturday, September 13 and National Reparations Conference on Sunday, September 14.
Join the Days of Reparations to African People and host a fundraiser or event in your city.
Contact: info@uhurusolidarity.org
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