Sunday, May 28, 2017

HOW TO BUILD A MOVEMENT

CONTENTS OF BULLETIN UPDATE #26

Basic documents to build the movement
What's next after spontaneous mass protests
POP leads Black New Jersey in developing a Black Agenda
Black liberation lectures from Detroit
Look through the eyes of the Black artist and see yourself
Jazz and the Black Experience
Black Power Music


BASIC DOCUMENTS TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT

ARCHIVE of the weekly Bulletinshttp://alkalimat.org/fmb/
Draft Freedom Manifestohttp://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manifesto.pdf or for cell phone:http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/manif-phone.pdf
Petition and endorsement sheets: http://www.alkalimat.org/fmb/call.pdf
Online petitionhttps://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-the-call-for-holding-a-national-assembly-for-black-liberation
Black Left Unity Committeehttp://www.blunblog.org/2016/11/black-liberation-unity-committee-call.html


WHAT'S NEXT AFTER SPONTANEOUS MASS PROTESTS

We know we have to fight back against every attack.  We know we have to build multiple battlefronts to resist.  And we have been doing this.  But we need more, we need to look beyond to the next stage of struggle.  This attached paper lays out a path forward.  See Three Waves of Struggle - attached.


POP LEADS BLACK NEW JERSEY IN DEVELOPING A BLACK AGENDA
by Larry Adams, Vice Chair POP

Continuing to meet, discuss and debate, the NJ Black Agenda Project has produced the "The NJ Black Agenda Abstract--Draft 2," here attached.  We have begun meeting around the Agenda with gubernatorial candidates: John Wiszniewski, Ray Leszniak,  and Ray Murphy.  Meeting with Jim Johnson, the one Afro-American candidate is to come.  On May Day, after rallying with an immigrant -led coalition, we will march to a candidates' forum , where, in addition to distributing the coalition's immigrant-centered demands, we will distribute the Agenda, to forum attendees to consolidate it's constituency and to build for a People's Assembly.  Comments, criticisms, additions etc. to the Agenda, by Bulletin readers are welcomed.  


BLACK LIBERATION LECTURES FROM DETROIT

The Charles Wright Museum of African American History has a great series of programs that cover many areas of local,national, and international aspects of the struggles of people in the African Diaspora.  This is led by Charles Ferrel, a relative of General Baker.

https://livestream.com/accounts/2710797

Some of the radical activist intellectuals included in this series are Saladin Muhammad, Robin Kelley, Maxine Waters, Ollie Johnson, Derrick White, Runoko Rashidi, Abdul Alkalimat, Akinjele Umoja, Herb Boyd, John Bracy, William Strickland, Kathleen Cleaver, John Williams, Luke Tripp, Charles Simmons, Mariam Kramer, and many more


LOOK THROUGH THE EYES OF THE BLACK ARTIST AND SEE YOURSELF!

Elizabeth Catlett https://www.google.com/search?q=mitchell+caton&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsxvqsuLHTAhVl4oMKHQlMDLsQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530#tbm=isch&q=elizabeth+catlett
Mitchell Caton https://www.google.com/search?q=mitchell+caton&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsxvqsuLHTAhVl4oMKHQlMDLsQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530
Louis Mailou Jones https://www.google.com/search?q=mitchell+caton&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsxvqsuLHTAhVl4oMKHQlMDLsQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530#tbm=isch&q=louis+malou+jones
Charles While https://www.google.com/search?q=mitchell+caton&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsxvqsuLHTAhVl4oMKHQlMDLsQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530#tbm=isch&q=charles+white
AfriCobra https://www.google.com/search?q=mitchell+caton&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsxvqsuLHTAhVl4oMKHQlMDLsQ_AUICSgC&biw=1056&bih=530#tbm=isch&q=africobra


JAZZ AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

This is the bomb!  Keep listening for hours.  Free

http://www.accuradio.com/?name=Jazz%20and%20the%20Black%20Experience&b0=Jazz





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