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The Call
2023 Electoral Campaign School
1245 18th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, Florida
The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is convening our Seventh Electoral Campaign School on April 7-9, 2023.
On April 7-9, 2023 the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will hold our 7th annual electoral campaign school. The electoral school is a tradition begun by our Coalition in 2017 as part of our work to deny a total monopoly of the electoral process by our colonizers and their minions in our midst.
Our Coalition has no illusions about the electoral process in the U.S. We have always recognized that the electoral process is an instrument of non-violent struggle between contending sectors of the settler-colonial ruling class for control of the state to their own profitable advantage.
It is also true that the electoral process within the U.S., as initially established, had no intention of participation from the domestically colonized enslaved Africans and other subject peoples trapped within the U.S. prison of nations. The independent interests of the colonized, especially Africans, were never expected to be debated and voted on within the electoral process.
Colonialism was not to be a ballot issue. Democracy was to be defined by those who benefited from colonialism, not by the interests of the colonized. Hence, the political violence always directed against Africans in our efforts to utilize the electoral process in our own selfish interests, violence that also occasionally targeted the white settler-colonizers who had the temerity to work with Africans to place anti-colonial democracy on the ballot.
The struggle by Africans to win access to the electoral process was secondary to the struggle for African liberation within the U.S. It only achieved its primary status with the U.S. government’s success in crushing other forms of resistance, especially those which called for self-determination, the highest expression of democracy.
As various forms of anti-colonial struggle heated up during the 1950s – from the Mau Mau in Kenya, the Cuban revolution in Latin America and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama, all of which were represented by the Africa-Asia Bandung Conference in 1955 – the right for Africans to vote in the U.S. was an effort by domestically-colonized Africans to sharpen the contradiction revealed by the U.S. claim to be the embodiment of democracy while shamelessly maintaining its bloody, autocratic colonial domination of Africans within the U.S.
Passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, allowing Africans the right to vote, conferred the presumption of universal suffrage within the U.S. However, this was a form of political sleight of hand, exemplified in various iterations throughout the colonized world: The appearance of democratic inclusion within an anti-democratic colonial system. (more…)
WHAT TO DO WHEN THE STATE COMES KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR. The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will be having a webinar discussing the history of how the State used its agencies such as the CIA, FBI, etc. to criminalize every aspect of our lives. And just as importantly, we will discuss what to do should the state come knocking at our doors. Click here to register
THE BLACK IS BACK COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, PEACE AND REPARATIONS, STANDS IN COMPLETE SOLIDARITY WITH OUR CHAIRPERSON, OMALI YESHITELA, AND OUR COMRADES AKILI ANAI, JESSE NEVEL, AND PENNY HESS (otherwise known as the unindicted four co-conspirators). WE SUPPORT AND BELIEVE IN THE WORK OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S SOCIALIST PARTY AND THE UHURU MOVEMENT. WE CONDEMN THE VIOLENT, REPRESSIVE AND DESPERATE TACTICS OF THE FBI AND STATE APPARATUS. WE WILL NOT WAIVER, NOR BE INTIMIDATED AND WE WILL NOT RETREAT! SIGN OUR RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE ATTACKS
Register Now! | Hotel / Housing Black is Back Resolution on FBI-U.S. government attack on African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement and call to build the November 5th and 6th Black People’s March on the White House and related rallies and conference August 20, 2022 The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations stands in full solidarity with the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement in the wake of the July 29, 2022, terroristic raids by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on several offices and residences of the APSP and Uhuru Movement in Florida and Missouri. We recognize these raids as consistent with the historical attacks on the African Liberation Movement by the FBI and US…
Concerning Violence: Political Power and Guns: Black Community Control of the Police! By Chairman Omali Yeshitela June 2022 On August 6th and 7th, 2022 the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will be holding our 13th Annual National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The theme of the two-day conference is: Concerning Violence: Political Power and Guns; Black Community Control of the Police! This is a theme that recognizes the level of escalating violence being imposed on the lives of Africans and the colonized within the U.S. and globally. Mass murder of the colonized is growing in ubiquity and colonial powers, under the leadership of the U.S., are engaged in a war against Russia in Ukraine that pushes the…
Register Here April 9-10, 2022 This is a Call to join the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations in our sixth annual Electoral Campaign School, scheduled for April 9-10, 2022. Never in the five years we have conducted this school has the theme been more fitting than now. The U.S. and all the colonial powers in the world are arrayed against Russia in an attempt to finalize their efforts to destroy Russia as a self-determining contending power in Europe and the world. Using the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), created in 1949 to contain and destroy what was then characterized as “Soviet” Russia, the U.S.-led colonial powers have positioned Ukraine as a dagger in the heart of…
Click Here To Register! Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 11:00 AM the Black is Back Coalition (BIBC) takes a look back at the year 2021. Imperialism is dying due to the struggles of Africans and other colonized peoples of the world are waging and winning against colonialism. The BIBC will examine another year of failing empire and highlight the victories of the people and our quest for self-determination. Join us in this very important summation of the 2021 political year and the work of the BIBC from January - December. Click Graphic below to register. Click Graphic to Register
Register Here Deepening the Resistance to Police Terror: Honoring our Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War - Black Community Control of the Police! The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is holding its annual rally, March on the White House and conference on November 6 and 7, 2021. It is part of the continuous work to destroy the colonial stranglehold the U.S. has on African people. This is a call for you to join in this escalating struggle of the oppressed to overturn the colonial-capitalist system that thrust itself into existence 600 years ago with the 1415 Portuguese initiation of the European trade in black bodies that were colonized in Africa and dispersed throughout the world. The…
Register Now for the 13th Black People's March on the White House!
The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will be having our 12th annual conference, August 7th and 8th, which will open with a tribute to our Beloved Co-founder and ReVolutionary Freedom Fighter, Glen Ford. Our Brother LIVED and ACTED upon every word he put to paper, upon every call to action he made and the Black Is Back Coalition was a vehicle he co-created for the purpose of making revolution. The fact is that the DNA of this Coalition is inseparable from Glen Ford's vision. Our Brother co-authored the BIB 19 Point National Black Political Agenda for Self Determination, in which he worked with the steering committee for about a year to craft…
“He fought until the very end!”- Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations extends our condolences to the family of Glen Ford. Comrade Glen was a consummate journalist who was relentless in his efforts to engage in the war of ideas confronting African and other colonized people. He was a founding member of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations and co-author of the Coalition’s National Black Political Agenda for Self-determination.
How the Barrons have been shattering narratives for two decades Michael Lange “The socialist left is on the rise, particularly in neighborhoods where Black and Latino residents are being gentrified out of existence” declared Congressman Hakeem Jeffries. Jeffries, the fourth ranking House Democrat (and potential future speaker of the house), represents New York’s 8th Congressional District, which includes predominantly black neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and East New York. He is a fervent critic of New York City’s ascendant socialist left, frequently taking aim at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Justice Democrats, and the Democratic Socialists of America, as they continue to amass power and influence. Jeffries, future Mayor Eric Adams, and their political allies contend that socialism is only appealing to white gentrifiers, and…
On August 7th and 8th, 2021, the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BiBC) will be hosting our 12th Annual Conference. It will be a virtual conference, designed to take our struggle forward during the ever-deepening crisis enveloping the U.S. and the colonial-capitalist world. The theme of this conference, “Deepening the Resistance to Police Terror: Honoring our Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. Black Community Control of the Police,” is designed to establish a coherent mission for the Coalition and define the tasks of the U.S.-based Black Liberation Movement at this time. This is a Call to Africans and others who support the ongoing, irrepressible movement of our people for self-determination against U.S. domestic colonialism. The May…
The Black is Back Coalition invites you to our 12th Annual Conference, happening August 7 & 8. Deepening the Resistance to Police Terror: Honoring our Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War - Black Community Control of the Police! Register Here:
#FreeFreePalestine Members of the Black is Back Coalition speak in solidarity with the people of Palestine in St. Louis, MO. Universal African People's Organization's president Zaki Baruti and International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement's president Kalambayi Andenet https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbibcoalition%2Fvideos%2F321016236130958%2F&show_text=true&width=267
REGISTER HERE The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is convening our fifth Electoral Campaign School on April 10 and 11, 2021. The Electoral Campaign School is a means by which we open up a new front in the struggle for black self-determination within the U.S. and elsewhere. With the Electoral campaign school, the Coalition challenges the monopoly of the electoral arena by a select segment of our community that has special ties to capitalist white power. The political situation in the U.S. is characterized by extreme turbulence. The failed post-election soft coup by former President Donald J. Trump was extended to a near-successful hard coup on January 6, 2021 when a mob of mostly white insurrectionists…
Sign Up for 24 Hour Marathon According to the New York Times Editorial Board, "America Is Letting the Coronavirus Rage Through Prisons". Join Louisiana United International in proclaiming, NOT THAT PART OF AMERICA I OCCUPY
Ticharwa Masimba and Herdosia "Kalambayi" Bentum students of the Black is Back Electoral Campaign School puts black self-determination on the ballot in St. Louis, MO. Read St. Louis Post Dispatch Article
Watch videos from Black People's March on White House and Conference November 7 Opening at Malcolm X Park November 7 Speakers and BIBC Steering Committee November 7 BIBC Steering Committee Continued November 8 Black People's Conference A.M. Session November 8 Black People's Conference P.M. Session
