What are we waiting for?

[RWalker]

Union Government Now! Not later!

All the struggles we see played out in the larger African world, especially in our home, Africa, such as the effort to reclaim the land in Africa, the fight against racist treatment generally, the battle to end economic exploitation and so forth, is played out at the micro level in all the capitalist and capitalist controlled countries.

As the fount of world imperialism, there is no surprise to find that the US is a major theatre of all these struggles on the "domestic" level. Clearly this is likewise true of Europe (for example the violence against Africans, the racist assaults and behavior aimed at African soccer - football player in Europe the German proposal to put an African village exhibit in a zoo and so forth.) It is also unfortunately true of other areas of the world, in North America, the Caribbean, Australia and so on.

In April 1969 James Forman, speaking on behalf of the National Black Economic Development Conference, presented the "Black Manifesto" in Detroit ... in this document Forman and his colleagues catalogued the racist and class oppression heaped upon Africans in America; and advocated a solution that they classified as revolutionary black power, a solution which recognized the essential role of the wider African revolution and also the internationalist duty of Africans in the US. .

Almost forty years later the situation, if anything continues to deteriorate. Mass populations of Africans are imprisoned where they are subject to violence including videotaped murders and lynchings, rapes, and of course economic exploitation that is essentially a return to slavery in a contemporary form.

The bulk of the African population in this country is in a state of perpetual economic depression. Homelessness and other consequences of this economic warfare are on the rise among our people.

The education systems, religious institutions and the mass media engage in a vicious psychological aggression designed to vilify the African people and to demoralize us. Cultural production originating from the African community here continues to be expropriated

Gentrification is destroying African urban communities across the country. This process is helped along by the position of certain leadership such as Rep. Rangel and Rev. Jackson who applaud the capitalist agencies carrying out the destruction of these communities such as the Urban America, LP, and their associates in government and development circles, all of whom act as fronts for the big financial institutions. At the same time Black-owned farm land is being seized on a wholesale basis facilitated by the racist policy of the government.

Generally speaking the war against Africans in the US has intensified significantly as the crisis in US-led global capitalism continues to deepen and widen. Just as their war activities have accelerated in the world generally, the war inside the country against African people has also accelerated.

This circumstance demands that we assimilate the successes of other people and adapt them to our own needs and requirements. We need real unity; unity that would allow us to develop and implement the proper strategic decisions; garner the strongest array of forces possible and deploy the tactical and strategic forces best suited for popular and revolutionary resistance to our oppression and exploitation. The unity among Africans can then be properly complemented by unity with, to paraphrase Forman's words -- all we can unite with. Especially the indigenous populations of this hemisphere, the Palestinians and indigenous peoples all over the world; and with any and all other others who are open to fight for real freedom for humanity.

As you know I think that the A-APRP has the best solution for the problems of Africans here and indeed across the globe. As the A-APRP observed in its analysis of the horrible crimes perpetrated against our people in New Orleans,

"... people should be clear that a lynching is taking place in New Orleans. The formula today is the same as it was in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In both cases
a large African population, just by its very existence, stood in the way of capitalist corporate interests. As a result, the white power structure bombed the African population of Tulsa out of existence.

"In New Orleans, a large African population stood in the way of white corporate objectives. In today’s world, it would be less acceptable than it was in 1921 to engage in wholesale bombing raids on civilian populations in the U.S. So despite clear knowledge that a hurricane would demolish levies in the area which would wreck devastation on the lower, poorer, African areas of New Orleans, the levies were neglected and in August 2005, the devastation was permitted to take place. People were denied resources to save themselves (despite an abundance of resources being available), and the city was deliberately left to deteriorate for almost a full week until any hope of saving the existing infrastructure was gone.

"Eight months later, the city bureaucracy, including Africans comfortably situated within the city apparatus, prepare for a future New Orleans where displaced Africans are written out of the history of the city. Three hundred people were killed in the crude bombings in Tulsa in 1921. Thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands more were displaced in the sophisticated destruction against the African community of New Orleans in 2005.

"Meanwhile other cities like Houston, Dallas, and Baton Rouge, that took in many of the terrorized victims from New Orleans, report increased crime, poverty, and problems inherent when any city receives an immediate influx of people with no resources and hope. This is not a problem, however, for the capitalist system because capitalism always has a ready answer: build more prisons! Such is the story for African people who live in a society where they do not fit and are continually finding themselves standing in the way of capitalist business interests.

"For those who argue that the issue is simply one of empowerment in America, our response is that after 500 years, the lynching tactics have changed but the end result remains the same. The only African empowerment in capitalist America is that of tokenism and subservience to the capitalist exploitation agenda.

"The African people of New Orleans are not alone in their fight to pursue free, dignified lives. Africans around the globe share the same struggle and a common enemy. Thus, we must unite our struggles against capitalist exploitation by building the movement for Pan-Africanism.

"A united, socialist Africa would provide Africans around the world with the base that is needed to take care of African people." end of quote

from "New Orleans eight months after Katrina Later: A Hi Tech Lynching of hundreds of thousands of Africans", Positive Action quarterly, A-APRP, April-June 2006

It is time that we take our abysmal plight seriously. I will repeat again: What are we waiting for?

Roy

[Abdurratln]

In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The Very Merciful. All types of Perfect Praise is due to Allah (and only to Allah). Lord of the Universe. The Merciful. The Very Merciful.
Call to Action

Africans and Arabs are suffering all over the world. We are intimidated, brutalized, victimized by crime and corruption, impoverished, imprisoned and unjustly executed in the Americas and parts of Europe. Our lands have been occupied in Iran, expropriated in Palestine, and embargoed in Cuba and Zimbabwe. Our dignity and intelligence are insulted in Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia and Lebanon. Our resources have been stolen and our economies strangled throughout our homelands. Africa and Arabia are defenseless in the face of aggression, exploitation, oppression and colonization. This has been going on for centuries and it must stop.


What We Must Do

Africans and Arabs must organize. Organization will empower us to solve our problems. Through organization, we can mobilize the resources needed to establish administrative structures to convene delegates of Africans and Arabs from every part of the world. At that point, we can and will exercise our duty, responsibility and GOD-given rights to proclaim the United States of Africa and Arabia USAA).
The United States of Africa and Arabia will establish the security needed to develop our lands and protect our economies. Every person of Arab and African descent will be granted citizenship in the United States of Africa and Arabia.


How to help

Each and every individual African and Arab has a contribution to make. The individual may join the Front for the Unification and Development of Africa and Arabia (FUDAA) and help to educate and train the new leadership for the USAA. The individual may donate funds or other resources to the struggle. Or, the individual may join another African or Arab organization and encourage that organization to work with the FUDAA to achieve our overall objectives. Finally, the individual may contact others and form a new organization that can help the FUDAA.
All social, political, business and economic organizations must maintain active contact with FUDAA at all times; and, stand ready to mobilize its members to become (or to support) delegates to National Convention of Africans and Arabs. This can be done by simply send your contact information to unification_front@yahoo.com.

This Call is signed by Sheik (Abdurrahman) Tommy Lee Nelson,
Chairman and Secretary-General, FUDAA
January 16, 2007. Saint Louis Community College, Saint Louis, Missouri
Copies have been sent (or will be sent) to the Arab League, the African Union, the United Nations and Congressional Black Caucus.

Organize! Organize! Organize! LONG LIVE THE NATION! Organize! Organize! Organize!

[RWalker]

I must remind you my brother that this is a forum about union government in africa, not a base to push a concept of a united states of africa and arabia, that is not the definition of Union Government as used by Nkrumah. And is precisely that definition this forum is designed to explore. I am sure you can find other audiences to promote your concepts too...