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Tomorrow join the African Liberation Day webinar
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Join the international commemoration of African Liberation Day on Monday, 25th May! Join in at these links:
Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/AAPRP/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/aaprpintl
3:30pm UTC | 18h30 EAT | 17h30 SAST | 11:30AM EDT | 10:30AM CDT | 9:30AM MDT | 8:30AM PDT

We are currently reading Walter Rodney's book "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". This book is essential to understanding how Europe was able to disenfranchise Africa, Africans, while simultaneously building the Europe of today. Have you all read it? What do you think!

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Get to know Queen Nancy, "Mother of all Jamaicans" during our #knowyourrevolutionaries series. . . Nanny was born c. 1686 in Ghana, Western Africa, into the Ashanti tribe, and was brought to Jamaica as a slave. It is believed that some of her family members were involved in intertribal conflict and her village was captured. Nanny and several relatives were sold as slaves and sent to Jamaica. Upon arrival in Jamaica, Nanny was likely sold to a plantation in Saint Thomas Parish, just outside of the Port Royal area. Such plantations grew sugarcane as the main crop, and the slaves toiled under extremely harsh conditions.As a child, Nanny was influenced by other slave leaders and maroons. She and her brothers, Accompong, Cudjoe, Johnny and Quao ran away from their plantation and hid in the Blue Mountains area of northern Saint Thomas Parish. While in hiding, they split up to organize more Maroon communities across Jamaica. Nanny and her brothers became folk heroes. By 1720, Nanny and Quao had settled and controlled an area in the Blue Mountains. It was given the name Nanny Town, and consisted of the 500 acres  of land granted to the runaway slaves. Nanny Town had a strategic location as it overlooked Stony River via a 900 ft. ridge making a surprise attack by the British practically impossible. The Maroons at Nanny Town also organized look-outs for such an attack as well as designated warriors who could be summoned by the sound of a horn called an Abeng.The community raised animals, hunted, and grew crops, and was organized very much like a typical Ashanti tribe in Africa. The Maroons were also known for raiding plantations for weapons and food, burning the plantations, and leading slaves back to their communities.  Around 1728, Queen Nanny emerged as the primary general, leader, and Obeah woman of the Windward Maroons, her reign extending until around 1740, shortly after the Maroons signed a peace treaty with the British. This period, particularly from 1728-1734, was representative of the Maroons in their greatest glory. #buildtheaaprp #aaprp #panafrican #socialism #africa #forwardever

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We are beginning our "Know your Revolutionaries" series. It is important that we understand those who came before us, study their work, and continue what they created. We need to know their names and understand the impact that their work, has on us today.






"Above all, to remember Sobukwe today must mean to have the courage to look each other in the eye as Black people and ask: what price are you prepared to pay for the liberation of your race?"

Sobukwe, the fire in our souls | Pambazuka News Today [27 February], we pause to remember one of the great warriors of our race, uBaw’uHlathi, uMangaliso Sobukwe. 41 years ago, on this day, he died mysteriously at the Kimberley hospital (now Robert Sobukwe hospital), in the Land of Kgosi Galeshewe.

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the transition of our dear comrade, Steeve Deslouches ( Stevee Deslouches ), who passed away suddenly last week at the tender age of 26.

Steeve was the most genuine and selfless young brother. He was filled with passion and an endless desire to learn, grow and apply his knowledge into changing this world. His commitment to his self-betterment and the struggle of African people worldwide is forever an inspiration. He loved music and arts, and wanted to use its powers in a revolutionary way. Steeve was a young man filled with dreams and ambitions. He was a man who wore his heart on his sleeve. He would light up a room with his laugh and humor. He would show love to anyone that met him even though, at times, life was not easy on him.

It’s a shame that with his passing away at such a young age, the world will never know just how much he had to offer. But to those who have known him, worked with him and walked with him, we do know-- and to us he was the world. Steeve was not only a comrade with a bright future ahead of him but to some of us he was family. We bear witness to his struggle and also his triumphs through the years. Steeve’s energy helped to give life to two major events for the NY chapter in the spring and summer of 2016. Over the years, Steeve attended marches and as many political conferences as has he could, grasping at all information and always, always going out of his way to build bridges at any chance that he could get. He was committed to rebuilding the A-APRP New York chapter. He was committed to bettering his community. He was committed to fight for African people wherever they may be.

Steeve was the major contributor to this page. He used his voice as much as he could to raise awareness and to spread knowledge. Never would we have thought we would be speaking of him in the past tense.
Speaking at the funeral of Kwame Nkrumah in Conakry in 1972, Amilcar Cabral said “We, Africans, firmly believe that the dead continue living by our sides, we are a society of the dead and the dead living.” And so it is with that spirit that we march forward with Steeve at our side, to remain in our thoughts.

It is in that spirit that we commit to bring to life the plans we shared-- completing 'The Modern Pan-Africanists', the podcast he assisted in developing. A project we tried for the past two years to bring forth, and so continuing with the work where we left off. To also honor Steeve's memory in any of his own final aspirations. And to continue until our ultimate and inevitable walk into the African sunrise of liberation.

Steeve’s services are as follows:
Viewing: Friday January 11th, 6-9pm and Saturday January 12th 8-9-am
O'Brien-Sheipe Funeral Home
640 Elmont Road, Elmont NY, 11003

Funeral: Saturday, January 12th 9:00am
St Boniface Catholic Roman Catholic Church
631 Elmont Road, Elmont NY, 11003

We extend our deepest condolences to his family. And we encourage anyone that wishes to pay respect to our brother and comrade in his final journey to come and show some love.

Forward Ever comrade Steeve, Rest in Power

Understanding women's role in the revolution-

From our website:

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) understands that the liberation of African people cannot come to reality without the effective and genuine liberation of African Women. The A-APRP also understands that African Women cannot fight a liberation struggle separate from the broader liberation struggle of African People. The two go hand in hand. The manifestation of this understanding in practical terms gave birth to the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (A-AWRU) in 1980.

Women have the Right and the Duty to Fight - All-African People's Revolutionary Party "...the FRELIMO war is a people's war in which the whole people must participate, that we women were even more oppressed than men and therefore we had the right as well as the will and the strength to fight! We insisted on our having military training and being given weapons!"

We are currently reading "Garvey and Garveyism" by Amy Jacques Garvey. Studying ideology is an essential component of revolutionary warfare. What books are you guys reading?

On Saturday 15 December A-APRP Sister organization, Pan-African Union (PANAFU) will be giving a live webinar from the Capital of Freetown at 15h00 GMT on Zoom where they will give an update on the ongoing political struggle in Sierra Leone amongst other topics. Please share and join in the discussion - https://zoom.us/j/659736529

SIP to all the fallen Native People/Nations from North Amerikkka & the Caribbean. Peace ✌️ & Love from your African Family ! Your an inspiration to us all! Your enemy is ours! ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe welcomed Pilgrims, but loses land on eve of Thanksgiving • Lakota People's Law Project Dept. of Interior removes Native land from trust status