Pan-africanism is our only solution!
What is Pan-Africanism? What is the Pan-Africanist movement? How will Pan-Africanism combat and overcome white supremacy? Neo-colonialism? Class oppression? Patriarchy? What is happening currently to make Pan-Africanism a reality? How can people get involved in efforts to organize around Pan-Africanism?
These are all the questions that will be addressed during this dynamic and interactive multi-media presentation on why Pan-Africanism is our only solution!
When: Tuesday, January 27th, 2018
Where: SEIU Local 1000 - 1325 S Street. Sacramento, CA
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
All are welcome and admission is free!
These are all the questions that will be addressed during this dynamic and interactive multi-media presentation on why Pan-Africanism is our only solution!
When: Tuesday, January 27th, 2018
Where: SEIU Local 1000 - 1325 S Street. Sacramento, CA
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
All are welcome and admission is free!
AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY 2017!
THEME: “African Youth Organizing to Slay All Settler and Neo-Colonial Regimes: From DRC (Congo), to Standing Rock and Palestine!”
African Liberation Day 2017 will be lit! Confirmed participants include Elaine Brown; former Chairperson of the Black Panther Party. Kujichagulia and Val Serrant. Candace Antigua. A full African/Caribbean community meal will be served to the first 300 people in attendance! Children's storytelling of a conscious nature! Please wear white as a show of international Pan-African unity.
Saturday, May 27th, 2017
Tassafaronga Community Center
975 - 85th Ave, Oakland, California
11-5:30pm
For more information:
916.719.1226
510.334.2731
408.219.0025
510.388.4022
Tassafaronga Community Center
975 - 85th Ave, Oakland, California
11-5:30pm
For more information:
916.719.1226
510.334.2731
408.219.0025
510.388.4022
SCHOOL OF AFRICAN ROOTS (sOAR) SCHEDULE
Every First and last sunday. abbey arts. 7600 n. hereford in portland
Our Trip to Ghana - A cOMMUNITY REPORT BACK EVENT. saturday, January 9th, 2016. in other words bookstore. 14 n.e. kILLINGSWORTH IN PORTLAND.
Food will be served. All are welcome. Come out and hear us smash the misinformation about Africa. Discuss the true connection between Africa and Africans in the diaspora and hear about A-APRP work in Africa.
2016 Portland's Pan African Film SERIES! EVERY LAST WEDNESDAY AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY SMITH MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER. ALL ARE WELCOME!
annual fourth of the lie event in portland, oregon! 2014 - Theme: Honoring Portland black panther party chapter founder kent ford!
The All African People's Revolutionary Party is organizing our annual Fourth of the Lie event in Portland, Oregon, on Friday, July 4, 2014, in Pennisula Park in N.E. Portland. The Fourth of the Lie event started in 2002 in Sacramento, California, when organizers from the A-APRP there decided we were tired of being subjected annually to the hypocritical propaganda that sought to convince people that July 4th, 1776, represented a day of freedom and democracy when we all know African people were chattal slaves in most of this country during that time. For those who don't know, that means we were property. It means the wealth of this country was being built on our backs. It means we weren't amerikkkan citizens then and we still aren't. So, we got together, invited people to come out, and we had a short, informal program to commemorate our opposition to amerikkkan imperialism, capitalism, and our desire to continue our spirit of resistance and forward progress towards Pan-Africanism.
The Fourth of the Lie continues to be organized by A-APRP comrades in California, but in 2012, comrade Ahjamu brought the concept of the Fourth of the Lie to Portland to be utilized to support African residents in Portland who's houses were being stolen by capitalist banks. This continued in 2013. Both years had successful events with hundreds turning out. So in 2014, with a new chapter of the A-APRP up and functioning in Oregon, it's time to bring the Fourth of the Lie back to its roots of being an event to commemorate the struggle of African people to continue to fight for Pan-Africanism and socialism. So, we will be convening this year in Pennisula Park at 3:00pm on 7/4/14 at the gazebo. We will have spoken word, music, and food to share. Come out, bring a blanket. Bring the family, and chill with us as we kick back, relax, and reflect on the victories we have and the work that still needs to be done!
This year we will be honoring Brother Kent Ford who was a founder of the Portland Black Panther Party chapter. Brother Ford is a living role model of independent militant struggle right here in Portland at a time when many people claim Africans in Portland are unwilling to fight back. We disagree and we honor Mr. Ford in an effort to encourage us today to bring out the best in us to fight for justice and liberation. So, come out, bring a side dish, enjoy the musical performances, and pay tribute to one of Portland's best African sons!
The Fourth of the Lie continues to be organized by A-APRP comrades in California, but in 2012, comrade Ahjamu brought the concept of the Fourth of the Lie to Portland to be utilized to support African residents in Portland who's houses were being stolen by capitalist banks. This continued in 2013. Both years had successful events with hundreds turning out. So in 2014, with a new chapter of the A-APRP up and functioning in Oregon, it's time to bring the Fourth of the Lie back to its roots of being an event to commemorate the struggle of African people to continue to fight for Pan-Africanism and socialism. So, we will be convening this year in Pennisula Park at 3:00pm on 7/4/14 at the gazebo. We will have spoken word, music, and food to share. Come out, bring a blanket. Bring the family, and chill with us as we kick back, relax, and reflect on the victories we have and the work that still needs to be done!
This year we will be honoring Brother Kent Ford who was a founder of the Portland Black Panther Party chapter. Brother Ford is a living role model of independent militant struggle right here in Portland at a time when many people claim Africans in Portland are unwilling to fight back. We disagree and we honor Mr. Ford in an effort to encourage us today to bring out the best in us to fight for justice and liberation. So, come out, bring a side dish, enjoy the musical performances, and pay tribute to one of Portland's best African sons!
AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY 2014! PAN-AFRICANISM! DARE TO INVENT THE FUTURE!
April 15th, 1958, was declared "Africa Freedom Day" by the participants of the first conference of Independent African States in Accra, Ghana, in 1958. In 1963, the name was changed to African Liberation Day and the permanent date was set for May 25th. Since that time, May 25th has served as the annual day of observance in support of the objectives articulated at the 5th Pan-African Congress in Britain in 1945 - the achievement of Pan-Africanism - one unified socialist Africa!
Kwame Nkrumah was the primary organizer of that Conference of Independent African States. During the late 50s, Ghana served as Africa's first base for African liberation movements and every such movement, from Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union, to Malcolm X's Organization of Afro American Unity, based their ideology and practices on the ideas articulated by Nkrumah.
In their typical effort to sabotage African efforts at self-determination, the U.S. CIA (we call them criminals in action) fomented a coup to overthrow the Nkrumah government. They did this by capitalizing on the lack of political education that still afflicts our people today. The imperialists told lies that Nkrumah was stealing all of the country's wealth and placing it in Swiss bank accounts. Time has proven those accusations to be the lies that they were. In fact, it was Nkrumah's enemies who established the Swiss bank accounts. Nkrumah's only expenditures were in attempting to industrialize and liberate Ghana and Africa. This is evidenced by the Akosombo Dam project that has brought consistent electricity to Ghana. This project, funded by imperialist banks in the 90s, was nothing except a rip off of the idea Nkrumah first proposed in the 50s when Ghana became independent.
Fortunately, everyone wasn't confused. Sekou Ture and the people of Guinea warmly welcomed Nkrumah into Guinea and it was there that Nkrumah spent his final six years writing. His experience dealing with imperialism through the destabilization of the Congo, and the coup in Ghana, confirmed for him that African Liberation will only come from the intense and final battle with imperialism. Thus Nkrumah produced the legendary "Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare" in 1968. It was in this book that he called for all Pan-African parties to unite as the All African Committee for Political Coordination (A-ACPC) which once formed would become the All African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) and the All African People's Revolutionary Army (A-APRA). Nkrumah first showed this completed manuscript to Amilcar Cabral, the founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC) and the then Stokely Carmichael (later he became Kwame Ture in honor of Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Ture), the former chairperson of the U.S. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Prime Minister for the Black Panther Party. Nkrumah, Cabral, and Kwame Ture started the first A-APRP work study circle in Conakry along with a brother named Lamin Jangha. Since that time in 1969, the A-APRP has expanded its work to several countries throughout West, Southern, and East Africa, and all over the African continent. The party has a presence in Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, and throughout the U.S. Our work is still based in carrying out the strategy and tactics articulated in the "Handbook."
African Liberation Day (ALD) is a political education tool for the A-APRP to propagate the concepts of Pan-Africanism, one unified socialist Africa, political education, the emancipation of women, and support for building principled relationships with other revolutionaries around the world. In 2014, the A-APRP is hosting ALD activities all over the world from Kenya, to Ghana, to Britain, to the U.S. The 2014 ALD theme is "Pan-Africanism. Dare to Invent the Future!" You can get more specific information about ALD by going to www.africanliberationday.net
Kwame Nkrumah was the primary organizer of that Conference of Independent African States. During the late 50s, Ghana served as Africa's first base for African liberation movements and every such movement, from Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union, to Malcolm X's Organization of Afro American Unity, based their ideology and practices on the ideas articulated by Nkrumah.
In their typical effort to sabotage African efforts at self-determination, the U.S. CIA (we call them criminals in action) fomented a coup to overthrow the Nkrumah government. They did this by capitalizing on the lack of political education that still afflicts our people today. The imperialists told lies that Nkrumah was stealing all of the country's wealth and placing it in Swiss bank accounts. Time has proven those accusations to be the lies that they were. In fact, it was Nkrumah's enemies who established the Swiss bank accounts. Nkrumah's only expenditures were in attempting to industrialize and liberate Ghana and Africa. This is evidenced by the Akosombo Dam project that has brought consistent electricity to Ghana. This project, funded by imperialist banks in the 90s, was nothing except a rip off of the idea Nkrumah first proposed in the 50s when Ghana became independent.
Fortunately, everyone wasn't confused. Sekou Ture and the people of Guinea warmly welcomed Nkrumah into Guinea and it was there that Nkrumah spent his final six years writing. His experience dealing with imperialism through the destabilization of the Congo, and the coup in Ghana, confirmed for him that African Liberation will only come from the intense and final battle with imperialism. Thus Nkrumah produced the legendary "Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare" in 1968. It was in this book that he called for all Pan-African parties to unite as the All African Committee for Political Coordination (A-ACPC) which once formed would become the All African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) and the All African People's Revolutionary Army (A-APRA). Nkrumah first showed this completed manuscript to Amilcar Cabral, the founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC) and the then Stokely Carmichael (later he became Kwame Ture in honor of Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Ture), the former chairperson of the U.S. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Prime Minister for the Black Panther Party. Nkrumah, Cabral, and Kwame Ture started the first A-APRP work study circle in Conakry along with a brother named Lamin Jangha. Since that time in 1969, the A-APRP has expanded its work to several countries throughout West, Southern, and East Africa, and all over the African continent. The party has a presence in Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, and throughout the U.S. Our work is still based in carrying out the strategy and tactics articulated in the "Handbook."
African Liberation Day (ALD) is a political education tool for the A-APRP to propagate the concepts of Pan-Africanism, one unified socialist Africa, political education, the emancipation of women, and support for building principled relationships with other revolutionaries around the world. In 2014, the A-APRP is hosting ALD activities all over the world from Kenya, to Ghana, to Britain, to the U.S. The 2014 ALD theme is "Pan-Africanism. Dare to Invent the Future!" You can get more specific information about ALD by going to www.africanliberationday.net