A Day in Solidarity with African People is a national fundraising campaign for solidarity with reparations, justice, liberation and self-determination for African people everywhere.

A Day in Solidarity with African People Campaign
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The African community in the US is bearing the brunt of the economic crisis - with an ever-widening income gap, massive unemployment, foreclosures and escalating police violence.

In Chicago, it's hard to ignore the stark conditions for African people:

- Chicago has the highest black poverty rate of large cities in the U.S.
(32.2 percent) and the largest disparity of poverty rates between black and white people.

- Currently, 90% of young Black men in Chicago between 16 and 19 years old are unemployed.

- Only 44% of Black males graduate with a high school diploma from Chicago public schools.

- Only three out of 100 Black children who start kindergarten in the Chicago Public Schools earn a bachelors degree by age 25.

- Black males are 6% of Illinois’ population but they represent 60% of the state’s prison population.

The event features:

::Nate Gilliam::

The Director of Economic Development for the All-African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP). He will be talking about the conditions for African people inside the U.S. and around the world and his work with AAPDEP and the African People's Socialist Party.

::Penny Hess::

The Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of the book Overturning the Culture of Violence. Penny Hess has been a member of the African People's Solidarity Committee since its founding in 1976. She is a tireless organizer who speaks throughout the U.S. and Europe in an effort to educate people that white society everywhere owes its affluence and democracy to the enslavement and colonization of African and oppressed peoples. Hess believes that the only way for white people to understand the current crisis of imperialism is to unite in solidarity with the struggles for national liberation being waged by African and other oppressed peoples.

::FREE and ALL ARE WELCOME::

For more info, check out www.UhuruSolidarity.org
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