African People's Solidarity Committee school deepens white people's stand on
side of African Liberation

North American (white) people from all over the U.S. participated in a historic
political school sponsored by the African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC)
in St. Petersburg, Florida on January 8 and 9.

Formed by the African People's Socialist Party, which leads the Uhuru Movement,
APSC works under the Party's leadership organizing in white communities to
build genuine solidarity with the movement for the liberation of African people
inside the U.S. and around the world.

The two-day school was an immersion into the African People's Socialist Party's
theoretical understandings, known as African Internationalism, the philosophy
developed by APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela, called by many "the Malcolm X of
today."

The school was an opportunity for North American people to learn to understand
the world through the point of view of the enslaved and colonized African
population.

More than just an educational experience, the ASPC school was especially
significant because it deepened the growing base of white people who
acknowledge that our true interests lie on the side of solidarity with the
African liberation movement and the liberation movements of oppressed and
colonized peoples around the world.

Through the lens of African Internationalism the school attendees
enthusiastically delved into the reality that the capitalist system is built on
the backs of African and oppressed peoples, creating a pedestal on which the
white population sits.

The APSC school contributed to the growing consciousness of many white people
who want to respond to the voices of African and oppressed peoples here and
around the world who are no longer tolerating the imperialist theft of their
lands and resources to fatten the white world at their expense.

The school reflects the emerging camp of those who stand on the side of
national liberation as opposed to the old opportunist white left and peace
movements that simply work for a more equitable parasitic capitalism on the
pedestal of African oppression.

One of the goals of the school was to launch the African People's Solidarity
Day, which will take place November 4, 2006 in Philadelphia, sponsored by the
African People's Solidarity Committee. The solidarity day will bring together
white people from across the U.S. and elsewhere to public stand in recognition
of the movement to liberate Africa and all its resources as the birthright of
African people worldwide.

The weekend brought together people from Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle,
Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Gainesville and the Tampa Bay area. Studies and
lively discussions were held on the nature of the State, the history of
parasitic capitalism and the relationship of white people to the struggle of
oppressed peoples, the history of the Uhuru Movement and the question of
African Internationalism vs. Pan-Africanism.

On the opening day participants watched video footage of the African People's
Socialist Party's recent trip to Sierra Leone where they were welcomed by
thousands of young Africans from the Africanist Movement of West Africa.

The Sierra Leone trip cemented the bonds between the Africanist Movement and
the APSP, as Africanists from eight West African countries voted to become
members of the African Socialist International, the worldwide organization led
by the Party to unite African people everywhere to liberate Africa under the
leadership of African workers and poor peasants.

Following the video, Chairman Omali Yeshitela gave a brilliant overview of the
current world political situation and its origins in the enslavement of African
people and the genocide of the indigenous people. The Chairman drove home the
fact that the rise of liberation struggles by African and indigenous workers
around the world make it impossible for white people to be able to live in the
same old way, at the expense of the majority of the people on the planet.

A powerful and passionate presentation was given by Gaida Kambon, National
Secretary of the African People's Socialist Party who recently returned from
the trip to West Africa. Gaida detailed the long and tireless history of the
Party in waging countless courageous campaigns fighting for the economic and
political rights of the African community as part of the worldwide struggle for
African liberation. Gaida also gave a moving account of the conditions of
facing African people in West Africa and the urgency for building the
liberation struggle.

Many participants in the school—veterans and newcomers alike—were deeply
transformed by the process. Jenni Otterson, a member of the American Indian
Solidarity Committee, who along with her husband Roger attended the weekend,
stated that the "Uhuru Movement has changed our lives."

Peter Bishop, from Seattle, summed up that the school was the most important
event of his life, giving him "direction in his life."

Ron Stade, a leading member of Uhuru Foods in Oakland, traveled to the school
with his family. Stade said, "After attending this school, I better understand
the significance of a solidarity movement in unity with African liberation."

Cathy Puharic, who has recently become active with Uhuru Foods in St.
Petersburg, expressed the profound transformation she is going through as she
begins to understand the world through the eyes of the oppressed and enslaved.