USM Earth Day Mission Statement (exerpts)

Earth Day is a chance to honor the planet.

The Uhuru Solidarity Movement recognizes that the struggle for the replenishing of Earth cannot be separated from the struggle for justice and self-determination for oppressed peoples.

We recognize that all over the world people are actively opposing the destruction of the environment, climate change and the fragility of what Indigenous people call Mother Earth in the context of the struggle against hunger, poverty, and repression at the hands of a parasitic system whose only motive is plunder and profit.

People around the world are pointing out that a parasitic system built on war and exploitation, in which less than 20 percent of the world's population consumes 80 percent of the world's resources, is unsustainable. Such a system destroys the earth as a byproduct of destroying much of humanity.

We come together under the leadership of the African Peoples Socialist Party to demand that the wealthy nations pay their "climate debt"—reparations—for hundreds of years of enslavement, genocide and colonialism that enriched the white world at the expense of the vast majority of humanity.

We stand in solidarity with African people and all oppressed peoples in their struggle for self-determination and control over their communities, their resources and their lives.

We believe that from Haiti to Harlem, from Iraq to Bolivia, African, Indigenous and all oppressed peoples have the right to control their resources to benefit the people themselves and in this fashion, naturally replenish the Earth.

This is the movement that can heal the environment – not capitalist governments and corporations.

USM has created the "Africa's Resources in African Hands" campaign to expose all the resources that are taken out of Africa and African communities to benefit others.

And we are holding events to raise money for the African Village Survival Initiative (AVSI). In this time of economic crisis which is hitting the African community especially hard, AVSI is building projects for self-sustaining economic development and empowerment in African communities throughout the U.S.

By supporting AVSI we take a stand of solidarity, not charity! Africa's Resources in African Hands!