Don’t Agonize, Organize!
By Chairman Omali Yeshitela
October 4, 2025
The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is holding its annual rally, March on the White House and conference from October 31st through November 3rd, 2025. It is part of the continuous work to destroy the colonial mode of production and the stranglehold it has on African people within the U.S. and worldwide. Indeed, the colonial mode of production, as a system, has a stranglehold on all colonized peoples globally.
This is a call for you to join in this escalating struggle of the oppressed to overturn the colonial 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 colonial enslavement of our people was the bridge between European feudalism and capitalism that wreaks havoc on the happiness, lives and resources of all the peoples of the world.
Colonialism is a mode of production that changed the world. It made Europe wealthy, the rest of us impoverished and gave birth to the existing world economy and the system of capitalism.
Indeed, the existing political and economic configuration of the world is maintained globally by structures that facilitate the parasitic attachment through which colonial-capitalism loots and starves Africa, Africans and the world that functions as its host.
This call by the Black is Back Coalition for a rally, march and conference under the theme, “Don’t Agonize, Organize,” is a call for you to actively join in the critical anti-colonial resistance that is shaking the system of white power to its very foundation.
It is a call to deepen the existential crisis of a social system originating from colonial slavery, to join with our starving people throughout the African world, especially in Africa, but also in Europe, the Caribbean, throughout the Americas, the Pacific Islands and wherever we exist under the domination of direct or indirect colonial white power.
The crisis of this system is being exemplified by the breakdown of its foundational structures and philosophical principles. Principles of free speech, religion, assembly and association, enshrined in the US constitution, were never intended to apply to African people who existed as enslaved property within the U.S. when the constitution was ratified in 1791. This is why the Civil Rights Bill and Voting Rights Act were created in 1964 and 1965, ostensibly to confer upon Africans the same rights white settlers were understood to be born with as citizens.
Yet, as recently as July 29, 2022, seven homes and offices of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement, which it leads, were raided in two states. Our Coalition Chairman Omali Yeshitela and two others, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, who came to be known as the Uhuru 3, were indicted, threatened with 15-year prison sentences each for simply speaking, advocating for African liberation, reparations and a UN charge of genocide for the treatment of Africans in the US. This was the canary in the coal mine, as several other attacks on speech rights have since been initiated.
Today, as we prepare for our November 1st Black People’s March on the White House, the US president has deployed national guard troops to the streets of Washington, D.C. and, in the name of fighting crime, threatens to do the same in Detroit, Chicago and other cities with large, active African populations.
In a September 25, 2025 presentation to hundreds of generals and admirals of the U.S. military, the US president called on the military to make the war “at home,” in the US and to begin initiating war games in the cities where Africans have a heavy presence. This is a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the use of federal troops in police actions within the U.S.
These repressive actions by the colonizer in the U.S. has brought fear and trepidation to the hearts of many, but as serious as the time is, we must not agonize. We are experiencing a severe crisis of a dying social system. We must organize. Not as social media militants, but as Africans actually doing the work in our spaces–in our neighborhoods, college campuses, prison wings, and wherever we exist. All of these are spaces where we must begin to organize and exercise power in the process of transforming every community within which we exist into bastions of anti-colonial resistance.
This is our time, and we must not hesitate to seize it.
The first, most important step is to use every means possible to get to Washington, D.C. for the 17th annual Black People’s March on the White House. Our Pre-rally meeting, to prepare for the November rally and march, will occur on October 31st at One DC Black Workers Center, where we will practice chants, make banners and placards and meet with comrades from throughout the U.S.
On November 1st, we will rally and march from Malcolm X Park (Meridian Hill Park) at 16th St NW &, W St NW where at 11 a.m. there will be culture and an amazing array of anti-colonial/anti-imperialist speakers who will demand anti-colonial free speech and other democratic rights that are under assault. Following the rally, we will march to Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, where we will hold another rally before heading to the White House.
On Sunday, November 2nd, our conference will be held. Here, we will lay out some of the practical work that has to be done to take advantage of this crisis of a broken colonial system. It is here that we will discuss how to begin construction of our own power as part of the process of deconstructing the colonial mode of production that starves, brutalizes, imprisons, and humiliates our people and threatens a future for our children.
You must be there! You must use every means of transportation to get there. You must get there to let our brothers and sisters in D.C. know that the African world is actively involved in standing with them in the face of the military occupation of our community.
We don’t agonize. We organize!
