Online Telethon
March 5, 9a-1p • March 6, 8a-10p
US Eastern time

Two-day special live video broadcast raising funds
for African working class independent media

TUNE IN

Saturday, March 5

(Times listed are U.S. Eastern Time)

9am – 1pm: Caribbean Forum
Guyanese-born award-winning actor Ron Bobb-Semple will host a special broadcast of Caribbean news and culture, with guests including journalist Felicia Persaud and author Eusi Kwayana.

Based in New York City, Persaud owns a news service focused on Caribbean immigrant issues and has won awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists and the Independent Press Association for her investigative writings.

Kwayana is a Guyanese educator, politician and author of many books, most notably on the life of Walter Rodney, with whom he was politically associated before Rodney’s assassination.

Bobb-Semple will also interview David Granger, who is running for president in Guyana, Montserration author and playright Edgar Nkosi White and activists Alex Morley and Charo Walker of The Bahamas.

Sunday, March 6

8am: Building the International African Revolution
Host Luwezi Kinshasa is the Secretary General of the African Socialist International. Live from London, Kinshasa will field live reports from the frontlines of African resistance worldwide including from Sierra Leone, Guinea-Conakry and London.

Kinshasa will also present a tribute to Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, which celebrates its independence from formal British colonial domination on March 6.

He will deliver an analysis of recent upheavals in Ivory Coast, Tunisia and Egypt, and will conduct a multi-lingual interpretation of the philosophy of African Internationalism in English, French and the African language of Lingala. Hear from comrades in Colombia in a Spanish/English bi-lingual segment.

11am: Media and the African Liberation Struggle
Nyabinga Dzimbahwe, African People’s Socialist Party Director of Agitation and Propaganda, will host a round table discussion with Professor Jared Balland Glen Ford, Senior Editor of Black Agenda Report.

12pm: Omali Yeshitela in Africa
African Socialist International Chairman Omali Yeshitela will be in the studio live along with African People’s Socialist Party Secretary General Gaida Kambon, sharing impressions and perspectives gained during their organizing tours in Africa over the past five years.

Viewers will enjoy watching video clips of both official and informal moments during those trips to South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and Sierra Leone.

1pm: Stop the U.S. War on the African Community
Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, will deliver a thought-provoking multi-media presentation on the ongoing dialectical relationship between white wealth and black poverty, focusing on the role of the police, prisons and gentrification as economic stimulus for the white population of the U.S.

2pm: Diasporic Music
Toronto-based music historian Norman Otis Richmond aka Jalali will talk live with bookseller Itah Sadu and famed musician Randy Weston.

For the first hour Richmond will be joined by Chairman Omali Yeshitela for commentary on the two men’s favorite tunes and artists.

4pm: Economic Development for the African Community
Mwamba Yeshitela will host a discussion with independent African business owners on the significance and challenges of black community economic development.

5pm: Stop the Hemorrhaging!
Physicist Aisha Fields will shine the spotlight on Nurse Mary Koroma who is currently touring the U.S. to get support for her midwifery work in Sierra Leone, combating the world’s highest rate of infant and maternal mortality.

6pm: African Youth Resistance
Diop Olugbala, President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, will host a program on the causes and objectives of the intensifying anti-government resistance among African youth in the U.S. – from the "flash mobs" of Philadelphia to the wave of police killings throughout the country.

The show will also feature an interview with Theresa Schoats of the Human Rights Coalition and daughter of political prisonser, Russell Maroon Schoats.

7pm: Golden Sunday Sounds
Ron Bobb-Semple spins easy listening classics from around the globe and talks with guests including musical artist James Cannings and Guyana clarinet player Charlie Knights.

9pm: Hip Hop Sunday
Popular hip-hop DJ 360 plays the latest tracks from the streets, with an appearance by M1 of dead prez.
SPECIAL GUESTS

Felicia Persaud
Eusi Kwayana
David Granger
Edgar Nkosi White
Charo Walker
Alex Morley
Jared Ball
Glen Ford
Omali Yeshitela
Gaida Kambon
Itah Sadu
Randy Weston
Mary Koroma
Theresa Shoats
James Cannings
Charlie Knights
DJ 360
M1 of dead prez


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