Africans organize for self-government internationally; convene at Congress in Florida
What: 6th Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party USA
When: December 7-11, 2013
Where: Gulfport and St. Petersburg, Florida
Contact: Sandra Forrest, 727-698-3092
At the center of a global resurgence of black nationalism and interest in African identity, the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) will hold its Sixth Congress December 7-11, 2013 at its international headquarters in St Petersburg, Florida.
With organizations, members, and supporters on the ground on four continents the APSP, which leads the Uhuru (Freedom) Movement, claims to be the fastest growing African Liberation organization in the world today.
“Not since the movement of Marcus Garvey nearly a hundred years ago have so many African people in so many geographical locations come together for the united aim expressed by the Garvey movement for ‘Africa for Africans, those at home and those abroad’.”
Led by Chairman Omali Yeshitela (formerly known as Joseph Waller) under the banner of “One Africa! One Nation! One Party!” Congress attendees from across the U.S. and the globe will elect officers as well as discuss and vote on plans and strategies for addressing the myriad of pressing issues facing African people everywhere.
Featured speakers at the Congress include Black Agenda Report senior editor Glen Ford; “Free Lynne Stewart” campaigner and husband of the imprisoned lawyer, Ralph Poynter; and African Socialist International Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa.
The program will also include presentations from allied national liberation groups including the Mexican organization Union del Barrio and representatives of the Roma people and the Venezuelans.
Participants will travel from Sweden, Britain, Sierra Leone, Kenya, the Bahamas, and Canada as well as from cities and towns across the U.S. As Chairman Omali Yeshitela wrote of African people in his political report to the Congress, “We are not a race but a nation of people scattered across the globe.”
Chairman Yeshitela’s report, currently available for free download at Uhurunews.com, examines the root cause of poverty and oppression experienced by African people wherever they are located and offers a comprehensive strategy for changing these conditions through economic and political self-determination.
The political report, currently being read and studied by hundreds of people in many parts of the world, is a considered a guideline for the current period of world crisis and struggle against the legacy of 500 years of enslavement, colonialism and oppression that plagues the African world.
The Sixth Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party will take place December 7-11, 2013 in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is open to the public and will include workshops on “The Crisis of Imperialism”, “Building a Liberated African Economy”, Organizing African Students”, “The Question of The Nation”, and “Building Independent African Media”.
For more information, visit asiuhuru.org or call 727-821-6620.