Aisha Fields
Sbusiso Xaba
Luwezi Kinshasa
Omali Yeshitela
Penny Hess
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Program Overview
Hear speakers and watch video from throughout the African world. Learn about the relationship of American wealth to African poverty. Get involved in solutions.
African People’s Solidarity Day is being held in cities across the U.S. to raise support and funds for African-led development projects and liberation movements. St. Petersburg’s program features several powerful speakers.
Aisha Fields is a U.S.-based physicist coordinating electrical infrastructure and water purification projects in West Africa. "$8 billion comes out of this area in diamonds each year and the indigenous people don't have electricity or clean drinking water."
Sbusiso Xaba is President of the Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania (South Africa). He presents proposed solutions to the crisis there, where in post-apartheid South Africa, whites still own 80% of the land and most blacks live on less than $2 per day.
Congolese exile Luwezi Kinshasa will discuss efforts to unite the countries of Africa into a single nation, "The United States of Africa".
And you will have a chance to hear from St. Pete's own Omali Yeshitela, leader of the Uhuru Movement and Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party. Yeshitela has spent much of the last year speaking throughout Africa, Europe and the U.S., continuing the unfinished legacy of Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Kwame Nkrumah. A brilliant theoretician, he has authored several books including One Africa! One Nation!
Penny Hess, author of “Overturning the Culture of Violence” believes there can be no lasting peace on a foundation of oppression and exploitation. The natural and human resources of Africa belong to African people and must be returned to their control.
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Program Date & Time
11/01/06
6:30 - 10:00 pm
Admission
Free admission, donations requested.
Sponsor
African People's Solidarity Committee
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