North American Organizing and Fundraising Tour

Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted!
From Harlem to Haiti, support self-determination for all African people!

Featuring Penny Hess, chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee; author of Overturning the Culture of Violence and All Diamonds Are Blood Diamonds."

• Non-African people can have a positive relationship to the African liberation movement through reparations and solidarity with all the resources of Africa benefiting African people.
• Learn why all minerals and commodities, from diamonds to computers and fitness shoes, have a bloody back story of conflict, suffering and oppression. Learn what you can do to change this brutal reality.

This tour is raising resources for the African Village Survival Initiative's Uhuru House Kitchen Project. Read more below.

Tour Calendar

Northeast U.S. & Canada
Took place Feb. 25 - Mar. 2 - Read the report

Southern California
Sat, Mar. 6 - Los Angeles: Penny Hess spoke at the Raza / Barrio Book Fest
View photos from the event

Northern California
Sat, Mar. 20 - San Francisco: Anti-War March feat. Omali Yeshitela | Photos • Article • Video
Sun, Mar. 21 - Oakland: One Year Later! Resistance of the African Community of Oakland
Mon, Mar. 22 - Santa Cruz Teach-In: Stop U.S. Colonial Wars Here and Abroad!
Tue, Mar. 23 - Oakland Teach-In: Stop U.S. Colonial Wars Here and Abroad!
Thu, Mar. 25 - Oakland: Uhuru Solidarity Study

Florida and Southeast
April 17th - 24th

Schedule an event in your campus or community
Contact 215-387-0919 or philly@uhurusolidarity.org.

More info about the tour

Africa’s Resources in African Hands Solidarity Action Network will fund the Uhuru House Commercial Kitchen Project as a model for African economic development

The June completion of the Uhuru House Commercial Kitchen, a pivotal model for self-sustained economic development in the African community, will be the number one focus of the Africa’s Resources in African Hands Solidarity Action Campaign, a nationwide activist network to raise resources for true self-determination led by African people.

The launch of a commercial kitchen at the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg will deepen the Uhuru House’s role as an institution of economic and cultural development for African people. Known as “the Embassy to the African World,” the Uhuru House not only fills the role of community center with regular education programs, academic tutoring, holiday cultural events and celebrations but also represents a center for important international gatherings and the collective creation of self-sufficient economic enterprises.

The Africa’s Resources in African Hands Solidarity Action Network (ARIAH) is organized by the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC), a group that is led by the African People’s Socialist Party and organizes in white communities for solidarity with African people all over the world. The ARIAH network is now launching a fundraising tour in regions throughout the U.S., including benefits, mass meetings and house parties. Key events will feature Penny Hess, chairwoman of the APSC.

Hess will show how non-African people can have a principled relationship to the movement for African liberation, through reparations and solidarity with all the African resources benefitting African people. Also, Hess will educate participants on why all minerals and commodities, from diamonds to computers and fitness shoes, have a brutal back story of conflict, suffering and oppression.

When the Uhuru House Kitchen is fully equipped and operating in June, the project will provide a robust, ongoing platform to take on the grave economic disparities in the African community. For example, in south St. Petersburg’s predominantly African neighborhood, where poverty levels exceed 70%, the project will allow existing and start-up local food vendors to have access to a certified and fully-equipped commercial kitchen at affordable rates, in an area where few opportunities existed before. Training in food service business skills will also be offered to the local community.

Most importantly, the Uhuru House Kitchen Project will stand as a model to be replicated in African communities around the U.S. and elsewhere.

The Kitchen project and similar campaigns recently arose out of the African Village Survival Initiative (AVSI), a joint effort of two organizations dedicated to building institutions, programs, and campaigns for self-sustained economic development of African people everywhere. The two organizations are the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) and the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF). AAPDEP and APEDF bring together the skills of many talented individuals and decades of institutional and historical experience gained in the movement for African self-determination.

Another AVSI development project is outfitting a recording studio as an institution of international African culture, which will further build on the success of the Kitchen Project and other economic institutions enabled by the Uhuru Movement.