Monday, February 22, 2010

National Day of Action to Defend Public Education



All across the US parents, teachers, students and activists are standing up for Public Education in the face of the privatization of education by way of Charter Schools and other schemes!

High School & College Students Defend Your Right to a Free, Quality Education ... WALKOUT!!!

PARENTS/TEACHERS ESCORT YOUR STUDENTS TO:

10 AM: TEACH IN AT THE HOUSE OF THE LORD CHURCH (425 ATLANTIC AVE. BET NEVINS & BOND STS., BKLYN)

1 PM: "SHUT DOWN CITY HALL NOT OUR SCHOOLS" ON THE STEPS OF CITY HALL TO PROTEST THE DOE'S MOVE TO CLOSE 20 CITY SCHOOLS
* FIX PUBLIC SCHOOLS DON'T CLOSE THEM!
* PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOT CHARTER SCHOOLS!
* WE WANT A PEOPLE'S BOARD OF EDUCATION -- NOT MAYORAL CONTROL!
* MONEY FOR STUDENT METRO CARDS, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, HOUSING AND JOBS, NO BUDGET CUTS, NO LAYOFFS, NO CUNY TUITION, NO MONEY FOR WAR, NO MONEY FOR MILITARY OCCUPATION OF HAITI, NO MORE MONEY FOR CORPORATE AMERICA!
* RESTORE COUNCILMAN CHARLES BARRON AS CHAIR OF CITY COUNCIL HIGHER ED COMMITTEE

4 PM: MARCH AND RALLY AT GOVERNOR PATERSON'S OFFICE (3RD AVE. AND 41ST ST.) AND MARCHING TO MTA HEADQUARTERS
* STOP THE DENIAL OF TRANSIT PASSES FOR OUR STUDENTS
NO TUITION HIKES - NO BUDGET CUTS!

COALITION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION / COALICION POR LA EDUCACION PUBLICA

FOR INFO: 212-348-5732

Friday, February 19, 2010

Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Sale of Air Jamaica to Foreign Interests


Concerned Citizens of Jamaica

In association with:
Urban Renaissance Inc.
Sons & Daughters of Jamaica
Marcus Garvey People’s Political Party

presents

Town Hall Meeting
To discuss the sale of Air Jamaica
to foreign interest
JALPA
(Jamaica Airline Pilots’ Association)


Friday, February 26th 2010
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
@
New Hope Christian Fellowship
4615 Church Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(Between Schenectady Avenue & E 46th Street)




Sunday, February 14, 2010

NEW PANTHERS, PEOPLE ADDRESS SCOURGE OF POLICE ABUSE

THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY
NATIONAL MINISTRY OF CULTURE
PO BOX 25332, NEWARK, NJ 07101
201-602-0780
February 15, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!
NEW PANTHERS, PEOPLE ADDRESS SCOURGE OF POLICE ABUSE

On Monday, February 15th, the funeral for Darnell McNeil, the black college student shot to death by an undercover Essex County Police officer on February 7th, will take place at Christian Pentecostal Church.
The funeral will take place at 10 am.
Christian Pentecostal Church is located at 971 Clinton Avenue, near Coit Street, in Irvington.
McNeil’s family, distraught over the sudden uncalled shooting of their son, just appeared at a rally against police brutality protesting the recent police beating death of Basire Farrell this past Saturday in Newark. They vowed to host their own rally against police brutality at 3pm at Knockouts, a nightclub located at Sanford Avenue and 18th Avenue, where McNeil was gunned down.
The New Black Panther Party and the Peoples Organization for Progress (POP) vowed to be onhand to support the family and their rally….
Lynda Lloyd, a Newark district leader, also surfaced at the rally for Basire Farrell to tell yet another horror story about police brutality.
This story involves Lloyd herself being abused and arrested in her own neighborhood on this past January 27th. Thankfully, Lloyd survived to tell her story, but she was seriously traumatized by the incident.
She has secured an attorney and vowed to tell the story of the abuse she faced at the hands of the police at the Newark city council meeting on Wednesday, February 17th   at 6p.m.
“This is why McCarthy must go,” said Zayid Muhammad, the Party’s national minister of culture, referring to embattled Newark police director McCarthy and voicing a central longstanding demand by the Newark Antiviolence Coalition.
“This is why we need a civilian review board with full subpoena powers. This is why should have a residential requirement for Newark police officers. This is why we can no longer allow the mayor and city council get away with producing anything less,” he finished emphatically.
Newark City Hall is located at 920 Broad Street, Newark…

On Wednesday, February 17th, the Newark Chapter of the New Black Panther Party will present “Khallid’s Soldier’s Speak,” a tribute to Huey Newton and Khallid Abdul Muhammad.
It will feature Divine Allah, the Party’s national youth minister, Hannibal Rushiddeen,  the Party’s national special assistant, Bashir Akinyele, former chairman of the Party’s Newark chapter and Zayid Muhammad, the Party’s longtime minister of culture.
Not only with this intimate tribute honor Khallid Abdul Muhammad, the man; It will detail what it was like for proven activists to personally serve under the incredible organizer.
This will be held at Waset Kommuniversity, 271 So. 9th Street, from 6:30-8:pm. Free admission. Call 201-602 0780 for more information…
LOOKING AHEAD!
On Saturday, March 6th, the Harlem chapter of the New Black Panther Party and the Black Student Union of City College in Harlem, will host the Party’s national chairman, attorney at war, Malik Zulu Shabazz, in a rare New York appearance, in a special revolutionary tribute to the Party’s legendary Black Power General, the immortal Khallid Abdul Muhammad.
This event was originally scheduled for February 20th.
Chairman Shabazz, Muhammad’s designated successor, founder of Black Lawyers for Social Justice and  leader of the incredible ‘Operation Rescue’ in a Katrina-crushed New Orleans, where several hundred 9th ward Black residents were rescued by crack troops of the New Black Panther Party, will also discuss the attack on the New Black Panther Party by the white right, the truth and drama of the earthquake in Haiti and important rescue and support efforts, and more.
Other special guests will appear including ‘Mr. CurriculumofCorrection,’ Dr. Leonard Jeffries, ‘The Peoples Servant,’ Councilman Charles Barron, ‘The Conscious Key Turner, Dr. James McIntosh, and more.
Key party national officials will also speak including national chief of staff Hashim Nzingha, national youth minister and candidate for Trenton City Council, Divine Allah and national minister of culture, Zayid Muhammad
Khallid Abdul Muhammad was one of the premiere Black organizers of the late 20th century. He was especially important to the rebirth of the Nation Of Islam under the leadership of Minister Louis Farrakhan, having served as Supreme Captain of Nation’s Fruit of Islam, National Spokesman and National Assistant.
“Khallid Abdul Muhammad was to Minister Louis Farrakhan what Malcolm was to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the protector, the obstacle remover, the builder and the doer,” said Zayid Muhammad emphatically.
Upon his departure from the Nation Of Islam, Muhammad was asked to serve as the New Black Panther Party’s first national chairman. In that role, he propelled the party’s growth to approximately 35 chapters around the country and the led the party in an epic armed confrontation of the KuKluxKlan in June 1998 in the aftermath of the lynching of a Black resident of Jasper, Texas, James Byrd.
He passed away on February 17, 2001 after a sudden illness.
This special event will take place from 2-7pm at the NAC Building, Lecture Hall 1/202 at City College in Harlem…
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Full Text of Welcoming Statement SRDC Town Hall - Jan. 30, 2010

Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC) wishes to thank all participants, speakers, organizations, naysayers and passersby for attending and eagerly taking part in the Jan. 30, 2010 SRDC Town Hall/Forum recently at White Rock Baptist Church in Harlem, NY.

A full report will be submitted in the near future. To all attendees, feel free to send in your account of the event.
Asante Sana.

The following is the full text of the Welcoming Statement delivered by Sis. Iman Uqdah Hameen, SRDC/NY National Secretariat.

Many of you ask-
What is SRDC? Who is SRDC?

SRDC, SIXTH REGION DIASPORA CAUCUS (Coalition) is a Pan African organization consisting of members from six (6) states in the United States and that list is growing. We are a four (4) tiered organization. We have a National Secretariat and a Community Council of Elders in each of the six states.
We have members and chapters in Europe, Canada, and Central America. We hold Forums, Town Halls and Elections for Representatives and an Annual Conference. We travel world-wide organizing the Diaspora because we know that the only way to our liberation is through our unity.
We are people who are seriously committed to a UNITED States of Africa and a liberated Africa that we will have an INTEGRAL , DECISION-MAKING part in. We honor our Ancestors and our Elders.

You have seen many of us in the community. We are supporters, members and sponsors of many veteran organizations, your organizations. You may have seen us at Rev. Sharpton’s NATL Action Network, African Nationalist Pioneer Movement, NAACP, Nation of Islam, All African People’s Revolutionary Party, or The Black Panther Party - Old and NEW, and even the National Black Theatre, BAM, Jazzmobile, Liberty Lounge and Brooklyn’s International Arts Festival and at lectures at UAM, First World, CEMOTAP, Dec. 12, African Poetry Theatre, or other places, not only in NY but across the country. We are Muslim, Christian, Akan, Fulani, Ewe, Ibo, Spiritualists, etc. We are Elders, Mothers, Fathers, Queen Mothers and Chiefs, professionals, students, social workers, professors, artists, architects, advisors, scientists, scholars, entrepreneurs, educators, consultants and laborers. We have protested with you, marched, attended lectures, forums, conferences, festivals, bus rides, parades, cruises and made trips to the Motherland. We have also been jailed! We’ve reached in our pockets, drained our bank accounts, retirement accounts and savings and donated to all of these causes without asking for receipts or a paycheck or your resumes.

We’ve added our voices to discussions and outrage, feeling the same barbs, jabs, stabs, gunshots, vicious attacks and deaths. We have cried the same tears as you, crying for Biafra, Malcolm X and Martin, Darfur, Sudan, the Congo, Elinor Bumpers, Rodney King, Thomas Sankara, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, his son Imam Warith Deen Muhammad, Michael Jackson, Michael Griffith, James Hill, Nicholas “Ashanti” Bartlett, Elder Adunni Tabasi, Dr. Clarke, the Panthers, Mumia, Rwanda, South Africa, Angola, Grenada, New Orleans, Katrina and now Ayiti (Haiti).

And we cry for our, Mother Africa and all Mothers, and we cry and grieve deeply for our children, yours and mine. We cry with you because we are a part of the community. We are you.

Through it all we have rolled up our sleeves, through it all we have worked in our communities for years, many for our entire lifetimes, some in the forefront, some behind the scenes but the bottom line is we have worked.

So today we come again, seriously committed and ready to work along with you. And again, you see our faces among you. We love you and we welcome you. Roll up your sleeves!” - Sis. Iman Uqdah Hameen January 30, 2010