“From San Francisco to Palestine: Colonialism Must Go” Talk (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

From Oakland to Palestine: Colonialism Must Go!
Hosting Author Penny Hess, one of the Uhuru 3 that beat the feds in free speech case

On May 20 – 22, Penny Hess of the Uhuru 3 will speak in the Bay Area on the black-led Uhuru Movement’s recent victory over the DOJ attempts to incarcerate them on bogus federal charges violating their free speech rights.

The victory of the Uhuru 3 – not one day in prison and no fine – was won by fighting back and building an anti-colonial free speech movement, showing how, if we fight we can win! This case was the canary in the coal mine. Initiated under Biden, it foretold the actions by the current administration to outlaw, deport and defund those who speak out against U.S. wars and policies. As always – it is the African liberation movement that bears the brunt and leads the way for democratic rights for everyone.

Hess is the Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and has organized under the leadership of the African working class led Uhuru Movement for reparations to African people from the white community for almost fifty years. She is also one of the “Uhuru 3”, along with Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party and Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. The Uhuru 3 recently won an anti-colonial free speech victory against the US government’s attempt to imprison them on bogus charges of being agents of Russia and silence the work of the Black Revolution and the organizing for white solidarity with Black Power. 

This is the twenty fifth anniversary of the publication of Overturning the Culture of Violence which Penny Hess wrote to address the complicity of the white population with the colonial theft of indigenous land and African labor that built the political economy of the United States and facilitated the hoarding of wealth in the white world. 

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement organizes in the white community for reparations to African people, supporting  the Black Power Blueprint and building the Reparations Legacy Project and Reparations Investment Company.

Here are the specifics for the events:

Tuesday, May 20th, 6:30pm
Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
Wednesday, May 21st, 6:00pm
Mercury Cafe,     201 Octavia St. at Page  in  San Francisco
Thursday, May 22nd, 6:30pm
San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose

In person and also livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube
Register for the events @ tinyurl.com/uhuru3sfbay

For more info, contact oakland@uhurusolidarity.org
To learn more about Penny Hess: https://apscuhuru.org/about-penny-hess/

To purchase Overturning the Culture of Violence:
https://theburningspear.store/products/overturning-the-culture-of-violence

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.