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Africa
Report from Libya:
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Sudhama Ranganathan | 02.22.2011
All across the world now ordinary people are rising up against repressive regimes which rob from them the ability to live free lives and have true multi-party democracies. People who no longer wish to have their voices silenced by governments repressing dissent or alternate views with torture, imprisonment and blacklisting/ social isolation have begun to rise up across the world. The ugly response from the powerful elite has been clear for people across the globe to see. They wanted the people that sweep and sell fruit and cater to their needs to be kept quiet, knowing their place and that they should shut up and stay there, but people are saying they have had enough. They rose up in Tunisia and demanded an oppressive dictator and his cronies give in and allow real democracy to take root. There ordinary people that never felt they had a voice found the courage to summon up their strength and try. They found the will to press forward for the kind of nation they always felt they had a right to. Repression, extremism and bigotry were not called for, but the demands were sounded for basic opportunities and the right to live free from oppression.
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African People's Solidarity Committee | 10.29.2010
Group Challenges Racial Divide in U.S. What: Conference When: Saturday, November 6, 1:00 – 7:00 p.m. Where: First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA Contact: Harris Daniels, 857-233-7508
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African People's Solidarity Committee | 09.29.2010
Fight for our right to stand in solidarity with peoples worldwide struggling for national liberation! Victory and self-determination to African, Afghani, Palestinian, Indigenous, Colombian and oppressed and colonized people around the world! The African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) and the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) denounce the September 24, 2010 subpoenas and raids of the homes and offices of solidarity and anti-war activists in Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan. Fight for our right to stand in solidarity with peoples worldwide struggling for national liberation!
Victory and self-determination to African, Afghani, Palestinian, Indigenous, Colombian and oppressed and colonized people around the world!
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Kiilu Nyasha, Freedom is a Constant Struggle | 03.25.2010
Our Guest is Joe Wanzala, writer and community activist who lives in Oakland, California. He is originally from Uganda and Kenya, and has lived in several African countries.
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Ejiofor Alike | 02.26.2010
Sierra Leone journalist, Mr. Chernoh Alpha M. Bah has assumed the presidency of the West Africa Media Forum (WAMF), a regional journalist advocacy network established to promote regional economic integration, human rights and democratic practice in the region. http://uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=socialist-leader-becomes-west-africa-media-chief
20 February 2010 Sierra Leone journalist, Mr. Chernoh Alpha M. Bah has assumed the presidency of the West Africa Media Forum (WAMF), a regional journalist advocacy network established to promote regional economic integration, human rights and democratic practice in the region.
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Steven Argue | 02.22.2010
In Niger human rights organizations, trade unions, and opposition parties (including the Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism) are all supporting the coup. 10,000 people rallied in support on February 20th. Meanwhile the US, France, UK, UN, and African Union all have been quick to condemn the coup. Tandja did the bidding of U.S. imperialism. Meanwhile, according to the UN Development Program’s 2006 Human Development Index, Niger is the poorest country in the world. Sixty percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, life expectancy is only to 45-years old, and adult illiteracy is 71%.
Solidarity With Haiti! COMMUNITY FORUM: • Video presentation of current analysis on Haiti from the Uhuru Movement for African liberation • Discussion In the aftermath of the earthquake, we all want to alleviate the conditions & suffering of African people in Haiti. But what can we do to make a real difference?
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Uhuru Solidarity Movement | 01.17.2010
In the wake of the devastation following the 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010, the African People’s Solidarity Committee, a white organization working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party, expresses our deepest solidarity with African people in Haiti. With at least 50,000 dead, hundreds of thousands injured and more than 3.5 million homeless, the conditions on the island have been described as unimaginable. With relief efforts moving slowly and the threat of mass starvation mounting, U.S. military occupation forces are being sent in, raising the specter of the brutal treatment of African people in New Orleans following the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. U.S. president Barack Obama has promised a massive U.S. relief effort with a pledge of $100 million to be sent to Haiti as an outpouring of support comes in from throughout the U.S. and around the world. All major media sources have sent reporters to the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince. 
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