Tasks for March

[RWalker]

March is a month that we should use to educate people about three important things:

1. The central role of Ghana's Independence in 1957
2. The Sharpville and Langa massacres
3. The role of African women in the struggle.

Try to think of innovative methods you can use to educate our people about Africa, Pan-Africanism, the role of women and what is to be done at this moment in history.

[akuabarca]

all three excellent.

george jackson was talking about this thing concerning the vanguard...he said that there is a serious difference between the militant vanguard and the political vanguard. one needs to know their role.

when he spoke of the political frontliners, he made reference to those who start schools, make clothes, run restaurants, disseminate print media (in 2007, run a forum). of the militant vanguard, he referred to those who know the weaponry, the combat training, the how to on street insurrections, etc. etc.

these should not be viewed, in my opinion, as male roles and female roles. that's not african.

it's what nyerere said at tanu in 1973 that helped me to see why. he said that the peopele's army and the people's militia are one and the same. that we can't afford a standing military operation on the ground at all times. that the people need to be trained in combat and martial arts.

sisters, out working the garden, he said, needed to be able to swing that plow and take down three armed men just as efficiently as if it were a man doing the swinging.

so here is what i, a sister, have been planning for march 2007.

i am getting the sisters together at our pan-african school for a day of urban combat training. the brothers malik, latif tarik and dantres were giddy with excitement to be asked to show us how to defend, protect, assert agresssion and basically take it there whenever, wherever. many of us live alone, with our seeds, some without. often times no kingman is present.

talking about revolution is good, politicizing everything is great. but we need to be prepared with the hardcore training that nyerere, che and george & jonathan were speaking about.

[RWalker]

Your ideas are very good...I would only suggest that a better source for training is the Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare written by Nkrumah with input from Cabral...remmember that Nyerere is on record as saying that the policies of Lumumba and Nkrumah were too radical and that Africans must be moderate to satisfy the West...he even went on to say that he was building a state in Tanzania to mirror the Catholic Church/Vatiican and that he followed the British state model...despite the fact that both the Catholic Church and Britain are well know racist, imperialist institutions...for example the Catholic Church issued the Papal Bull which determined how Spain and Portugal would co-manage the international slave trade in Africans...the guy is frankly bad news for Africans, particularly since he was much more clever than people like Mobutu or minor players such as Mazrui

[akuabarca]

dag, i didn't know...i'm still waiting on my copy of that book african socialism in practice: the tanzanian experience.

i bought this rare little kiswahili to english pamphlet about tanu, printed in '73. everything lined up there...so i thought.

you're blowing me. nyerere patterning tanzania after the catholic church? somebody help me off the floor.

but its good. me dase paa. i am ordering the handbook of revolutionary warfare right as soon as i press send.

amilcar and osagyefo are staples in my diet anyhow.

[rebelAfrika]

Originally Posted by akuabarca

dag, i didn't know...i'm still waiting on my copy of that book african socialism in practice: the tanzanian experience.

i bought this rare little kiswahili to english pamphlet about tanu, printed in '73. everything lined up there...so i thought.

you're blowing me. nyerere patterning tanzania after the catholic church? somebody help me off the floor.

but its good. me dase paa. i am ordering the handbook of revolutionary warfare right as soon as i press send.

amilcar and osagyefo are staples in my diet anyhow.

RWalker STAYS on point. Also...you should check out the pamphlet/book entitled "Two Myths" by Kwame Nkrumah...where Nkrumah intellectually dismembers Nyerere's "African Socialism" and instead, advances "Scientific Socialism"

[akuabarca]

every single thing Rwalker says read, i read.

he doesn't realize that i am like the african eliza doolittle (my fair lady).

i literally allow his posts to remake my mind on a daily.

my elders have not disagreed with not one single point he has made thus far.

but um, let me go find me a copy of two myths.

'preciate ya'll both.