NYC Event: Africa's Resources in African Hands!

Benefit for the African Village Survival Initiative

When: Feb 26, 2010 7:00pm
Where: The Center, 208 West 13th St (between 7th & 8th Aves) Greenwich Village, New York, NY
Contact: Uhuru Solidarity Movement, philly@uhurusolidarity.org, 215-387-0919

$10 donation requested • Tickets at: brownpapertickets.com/event/96477 215-387-0919 • philly@uhurusolidarity.org Listen to Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizers in New York talk about this upcoming event
Support self-sustaining economic institutions: Recording Studio for African Culture Community Gardens • Commercial Kitchen
FEATURING: MUSIC • POETRY • MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS SPEAKERS • FOOD • SILENT AUCTION
ORONDE TAKUMA NYC Leader of the African People’s Socialist Party, speaking on the Uhuru Movement's work to unite and liberate African people from Haiti to Harlem! ALSO FEATURING: The Puge (of Juneteenth) • progressive roots music that evokes the paradoxes of the Delta Blues: otherworldly and real, raw and sophisticated, and inherently subversive. http://www.myspace.com/juneteenth T & WILLETZ • Funky soul duo ROBERT GIBBONS• African uplift poetry	Dynamic multimedia presentation by Penny Hess,chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee; author of the groundbreaking books "Overturning the Culture of Violence" and "All Diamonds Are Blood Diamonds." • Hess will be talking about the relationship that non-African people can have to the African liberation movement, reparations and solidarity with all the resources of Africa benefiting African people. • Learn why we say all minerals and commodities that we take for granted in our lives, from diamonds to computers and fitness shoes, have a bloody back story of conflict, suffering and oppression and what you can do to be part of changing this brutal reality.
The African Resources in African Hands Solidarity Action Network: A campaign led by Uhuru Solidarity Movement to win support and resources for the work of the Uhuru Movement, to unite African people everywhere. • Diamonds, Coltan, tungsten, aluminum, gold, oil, uranium and land in the hands of African people not corporations and imperialist powers! • Reparations to African people of Haiti not charity! • Stop the war, the police violence and massive imprisonment of African people inside the U.S. • Reparations for African people everywhere!