Reparations Summer Project

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Sunday, July 6th - July 13th, 2025

This summer, Uhuru Solidarity Movement is hosting a community organizing intensive to build material solidarity with the Black Liberation Movement. Stand with the northside African community building political and economic power in their own hands and resisting the efforts of the city government to gentrify the northside in the aftermath of tornado devastation!

Join the Reparations Summer Project in St. Louis, Missouri from July 6th through July 13th 2025 to win USM members, volunteers and contacts from throughout the U.S. The Reparations Summer Project will be a multi-faceted organizing, recruitment, and political education training intensive and membership drive!

The Reparations Summer Project will include:

- Volunteering to support Black community programs for economic development and self-determination in North St. Louis - Political Education Studies on reparations and how white people can stand in solidarity with African, Mexican, Indigenous, Palestinian and oppressed peoples - Practical trainings and work on Outreach and Recruitment activities, including tabling, door to door, drops, phonebanking and social media. - Volunteering with the Reparations Investment Company, supporting the Black Power Blueprint projects in St. Louis as a concrete expression of reparations in action. - An evening fundraiser for Black Power Blueprint, featuring live music & culture, food & drink, and a raffle!

Bring your skills, enthusiasm, and passion for social justice! Sign up to be a part of the Reparations Summer Project at tinyurl.com/ReparationsSummer2025

Wednesday, July 9th, 2025

July 9th 2025 - RLP Benefit for Black Power

Solidarity with the Northside! Benefit for the Black Power Blueprint on Wednesday, July 9th at Work and Leisure. Join us for an evening of music, poetry, dance, food and raffle prizes! 

All proceeds will go towards the Black Power Blueprint: Black community programs of self-determination and economic development in North St. Louis, rebuilding in the aftermath of the tornado devastation. 

Register & purchase your raffle tickets here: BlackPowerBlueprint.org/Benefit 

$25 registration. Raffle with special prizes from local artists and businesses.

A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Work and Leisure, for donating the use of their magnificent space, a demonstration of true unity with Black Self-determination in the hands of Northside residents. We are very excited to host this benefit at Work and Leisure!

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