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Celebrate the 93rd Birthday of Malcolm X!

Celebrate 93rd Birthday of Malcolm X

The Black Community Celebrates the 93rd Birthday of Malcolm X
(1925 – 2018

Sat., May 19, 2018

12 noon: Assemble & Rally
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building
125th St. & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.

1 – 4 pm: Shut ‘Em Down March
All 125th St. Businesses Close
“Commercial Moment of Silence”
No Disrespect for Malcolm X

To the Streets for Malcolm X — 29th Black Power Rally & March

By the December 12th Movement & Malcolm X Shut ‘Em Down Coalition
For info call (718) 398-1766 & see D12M.com

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Malcolm X Lives! Program

Malcolm X Lives! a program and march on February 21, 2018 in Harlem, NY.53 Years After His Assassination We Meet & March for Malcolm

Weds., February 21, 2018

Assemble 5 pm: 125th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (7th Ave.)
Harlem State Office Bldg, Street Corner Rally, then march to program down Malcolm X Blvd.
(Bring your Red, Black & Green). Take 2/3 trains to 125th Street. See map/get directions.

Program 6:30 pm: Video, Malcolm X Speaks
Theme, “Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of the Black Community”
All Souls Episcopal Church, 88 St. Nicholas Ave. @ 114th St., Harlem, NY. See map/get directions.

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Sponsored by December 12th Movement
Endorsed by CEMOTAP, People’s Organization for Progress, Housefire, AAPRP (Chaka Cousins), WADU, and more.

Filed Under: Event, Featured Tagged With: 2018, AAPRP, All Souls Episcopal Church, CEMOTAP, February 21, Harlem, Harlem State Office Building, Housefire, Malcolm X, Malcolm X Lives, Malcolm X Speaks, People's Organization for Progress, WADU

Fri., May 19th: Black Power March on 125th St., Harlem NY

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Fri. May 19: 28th Annual Black Power “Shut ‘Em Down” March
Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building, 163 W. 125th St.
Kick off at 1 p.m. as we ensure that all the businesses on 125th Street between St. Nicholas and Fifth avenues close from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in a commercial show of respect for Brother Malcolm.

Fri. May 19: 6 p.m., Cultural Tribute to Malcolm X
Gallery of the State Office Building (163 W. 125th St.)
– African drumming by Ndigo Washington and Joyce Jones
– Film Malcolm X Speaks
– Spoken word presentations: Gha’il Rhodes Benjamin, Mandela Brathwaite and the IMPACT Repertory Theatre Group – Jazz performance by Jazzmeia Horn’s quartet.

A CALL TO CONFERENCE ON MALCOLM X’S BIRTHDAY

In honoring the 92nd year of the birth of Malcolm X, we are challenged to apply the lessons   Malcolm taught us to the rapidly deteriorating conditions of Black people in America.

Conditions founded on chattel enslavement; passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments denying Black people the right to choose their destiny, chaining Black people to a second-class citizenship of terrorism, cheap labor, and poverty.

Conditions through which Black people have been forced and educated to believe that integration is the road to equality and prosperity, while in reality, we exist just as separate and even more unequal than centuries ago.

Conditions which recognize the 12th anniversary of the Katrina Debacle, which journalist Jelani Cobb so accurately proposed should be seen as “a referendum on Black Citizenship in America”.

At any point in time, any or all our ‘rights’ are subject to arbitrary denial by any racist or ignorant bigot toeing the US policy of white supremacy.

Every social indicator puts us at the bottom – economic development,    education, health, employment,  housing, criminal and civil justice, infant mortality, and overall death rates.Resistance at every turn has strengthened us in our struggle for freedom and today, continues to force us to clarify the meaning of fundamental change.

Resistance at every turn has strengthened us in our struggle for freedom and today, continues to force us to clarify the meaning of fundamental change.

This history dares us to objectively define our colonized political, social and economic reality and chart a course toward our own development or perish. A mission that requires  “real talk” to each other.

Those of us here in the United States have never really made a choice for ourselves as to how or by whom we should be governed. The US government has defined us as slaves, 3/5’s human, second class citizens, the underclass, underprivileged, criminals etc.

The Malcolm X Conference for Self-Determination seeks to push forward the direction of the Black Freedom Movement putting the issue of separation on Black  People’s Agenda and the necessity of Black People’s right to choose; our right to a referendum/plebiscite on how our people will relate to this government on a fundamental basis.

We have a right to a “CHOICE” / we have a right to a referendum / a   Plebiscite.

December 12th Movement / The Choice Campaign

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Sat., May 20th: Malcolm X Conference, Harlem, NY

Sat. Schedule

9:30 a.m.: registration, All Souls Episcopal Church, 88 St. Nicholas Ave. at 114th St., Harlem, NY
10:30 a.m.: Greetings from the December 12th Movement and the conference organizational supporters
11:30 a.m.: Keynote Address from the dynamic Fred Hampton Jr., son of the slain Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee
Noon – 2 p.m.: First Panel, “The Historical Demand for Independence and Reparations,” and discussion on (i) Black people’s revolutionary battles for self-determination through independence, separation and repatriation and (ii) the political and legal battles for reparations as a remedy for the United States’ crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing (now called “gentrification”) of Black people.
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Second Panel, “The Political and Cultural Battle for Independence and Freedom” will look at how a plebiscite (referendum) can be a weapon for Black self-determination and a weapon against rising fascism in the U.S. The open discussion will examine “Which Way Forward” for Black people in the age of the Trump/Clinton platform of lies and the systemic derailing of our fight for freedom.
5:30 p.m.: Plenary to sum up the panels’ findings and propose a course of action for the future.

The conference is supported by CEMOTAP, National Black United Front, People’s Organization for Progress and Black Lives Matter of Greater New York.

For more information, call 718-398-1766 or visit D12M.com

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A CALL TO CONFERENCE ON MALCOLM X’S BIRTHDAY

In honoring the 92nd year of the birth of Malcolm X, we are challenged to apply the lessons Malcolm taught us to the rapidly deteriorating conditions of Black people in America.

Conditions founded on chattel enslavement; passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments denying Black people the right to choose their destiny, chaining Black people to a second-class citizenship of terrorism, cheap labor, and poverty.

Conditions through which Black people have been forced and educated to believe that integration is the road to equality and prosperity, while in reality, we exist just as separate and even more unequal than centuries ago.

Conditions which recognize the 12th anniversary of the Katrina Debacle, which journalist Jelani Cobb so accurately proposed should be seen as “a referendum on Black Citizenship in America”.

At any point in time, any or all our ‘rights’ are subject to arbitrary denial by any racist or ignorant bigot kowtowing to the U.S. policy of white supremacy.

Every social indicator puts us at the bottom – economic development,  education, health, employment,  housing, criminal and civil justice, infant mortality, and overall death rates.

Resistance at every turn has strengthened us in our struggle for freedom and today, continues to force us to clarify the meaning of fundamental change.

This history dares us to objectively define our colonized political, social and economic reality and chart a course toward our own development or perish. A mission that requires  “real talk” to each other.

Those of us here in the United States have never really made a choice for ourselves as to how or by whom we should be governed. The US government has defined us as slaves, 3/5’s human,  second class citizens, the underclass, underprivileged, criminals etc.

The Malcolm X Conference for Self-Determination seeks to push forward the direction of the Black Freedom Movement putting the issue of separation on Black People’s Agenda and the necessity of Black People’s right to choose; our right to a referendum/plebiscite on how our people will relate to this government on a fundamental basis.

We have a right to a “CHOICE” / we have a right to a referendum / a   Plebiscite.

December 12th Movement / The Choice Campaign
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Tribute to Comrade Comandante El Jefe Fidel Castro

Tribute to Fidel Castro
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Monday, December 5, 2016 at All Souls Episcopal Church, 88 St Nicholas Avenue (between 114 and 115 Avenues), Harlem NYC.

“We shall always remember you as our own. Fidel was not just your leader, Cuba, he was our leader, and the leader of all revolutionaries,” said President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, speaking for all of us.

For more information call December 12th Movement at 718-398-1766.

 

Harlem Pays Tribute to
Commandante Fidel Castro Ruz
by Amadi Ajamu

A special tribute honoring our revolutionary hero and world leader, the President of Cuba, El Jefe Commandante Fidel Castro Ruz, was held in Harlem, New York City, NY, USA on December 5, 2016 at the All Souls Episcopal Church on St. Nicholas Avenue and 114th Street.

President Castro died on November 25, 2016 at 90 years old. After a tour of his ashes starting from Havana, with people lining the streets and roof tops, on December 3, his remains were laid to rest in Santiago de Cuba. Tens of thousands of people crowded into Revolutionary Square to mourn and shout “Yo soy Fidel!”, or “I am Fidel!”

Miles away, a commemoration was held in New York City. “A Black Community Tribute to Commandante Fidel Castro” hosted by the December 12th Movement International Secretariat and the people of Harlem shouted, “Viva Cuba!” “Viva Fidel!” “When Africa called, Cuba Answered!”

The tribute began with a presentation from Father Frank Morales, presiding minister of the All Souls; “It is with great pleasure and honor that we welcome you here tonight as we celebrate a life of revolutionary inspiration from Fidel Castro. I think it’s more than interesting, that we’re here in a church, where a lot of the things that we strived for as people of faith to build a true heaven on earth are very similar to a lot of the things Fidel speaks about in terms of the communist and socialist society we want to build together.” Excerpt from speech.

After the screening of the 2009 Pan African Film Festival best documentary, “Cuba, An African Odyssey,” The Deputy Representative of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, Ana Rodriguez spoke.

“We came here to the heart of Harlem, the Harlem that sheltered him (Fidel) and extended him its helping hand in 1960. The same Harlem that received him in the years 1995 and 2000. The Harlem of Lucius Walker, the Harlem of Elombe Brath, the Harlem of December 12th. The supportive and revolutionary Harlem, indispensable in his visits. Today, we come were to Harlem to celebrate his life!”

Speakers included Father Lawrence Lucas, Viola Plummer, and Omowale Clay of December 12th Movement, Nellie Bailey of Black Agenda, Bro. Hafiz Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, Drs. Leonard and Roslyn Jeffries, Professor James Smalls, Nana Camille Yarborough, and Tonderai Mutarisi, Counselor of the Permanent Mission to the Republic of Zimbabwe to the Untied Nations.

International attorney Roger Wareham of December 12th Movement read a statement from H.E. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe he made in Cuba.

“In short I can just say, taking Fidel Castro and all that Cuba has done under his leadership; your loss is our loss. And we could not stay and keep away, now that he is gone. We could not just keep away without coming to say farewell dear brother, farewell revolutionary. We shall always remember you as our own in the same way Cubans do also and that is the spirit that brings me and my delegation here. Just to share a tear with you and assure you that you that our hearts are with you also. But also our hearts are full of courage, and his life that he has bequeathed to us a lot of revolutionary goodness.

Fidel’s legacy transcended Cuba to the people and South America and Africa that he sacrificed so much for. I, as President of Zimbabwe, have come to join the people of Cuba and mourn with them the loss of our dear brother and our dear leader Fidel Castro. To express our deep condolences and to assure them that their feeling of deep loss is shared by us in Zimbabwe.” Excerpt from speech.

Omowale Clay stated in closing, “Much of what we heard and the reason why we called this tribute is because Fidel and the Cuban revolution have always been internationalist and continues that legacy. But most importantly, they stood for a peoples right to self determination. In that regard our community, the Black community, the African community, had this particular tribute to this brother and the Cuban revolution.”

“From Malcolm X, to our political prisoners who would be languishing in these dungeons in America if it were not for Cuba. The freedom and liberty of Southern Africa would not have been possible if it were not for the revolutionary alliance and the blood of the Cuban people. And as they said in the film when recruiting Cuban soldiers to fight, ‘without hesitation’ they called on the soldiers and told them, ‘You are going on an internationalist duty.’ The Cuban soldiers responded, ‘Where?’ ‘When? ‘How?’ ‘Let’s go!’ That kind of love and loyalty to a revolution that freed its people must be emulated, because the revolutionary spirit of El Commandante Fidel Castro must never ever touch the ground.”

Long live spirit of Commandante Fidel Castro!

 

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