Reparations in Action

TyRon Lewis Lives! The Battle of St. Pete 25 years later: A discussion with APSP Dept of AgitProp Director Akile Anai about the historic rebellions of 1996,

Don't miss this special edition of Reparations in Action that features an interview with African People's Socialist Party Department of Agitation and Propaganda Director, Akile Anai about the significance of the 25 year anniversary of the police murder of TyRon Lewis and the heroic rebellions that emerged in response to this colonial murder of an 18 year old African in broad daylight.

The African community of St. Petersburg, FL had been politicized by 30 years of leadership from the Uhuru Movement and rose up in armed resistance to the police and colonial state after TyRon Lewis was shot to death by a white cop on October 24th just blocks away from the Uhuru House.  The black community of St Petersburg challenged the police with a fierce armed resistance again on November 13th, 1996 in what has been called the Battle of St. Pete. The November 13th uprising came in response to over 300 armed to the teeth police converging on the Uhuru House ( headquarters of the African People's Socialist Party) and attempting to set the building on fire with incendiary tear gas cannisters while over 100 men women and children were inside for a regular Wednesday night meeting of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement.

The heroic actions of the African working class put out the fire at the Uhuru House and forced an army of colonial police to retreat . Gunshots from the community forced a police helicopter and airplane out of the sky. The Battle of St Pete was an example of serious guerilla warfare on the part of a colonized population that ended in a decisive military and political victory for the African working class and the African Revolution. November 13th, 1996 was a serious defeat for the global system of colonial capitalism that must be upheld by revolutionaries and freedom loving people who support self determination for the African community.

In the era of mass protest and uprisings against police terror that have followed the murder of George Floyd it is critical that we internalize the lessons from this revolutionary victory that led to 8 years of not a single African person being murdered by the police in St Petersburg.

Tune in to this first episode of a two part series on the Battle of St Pete and learn why this city is known as the City of African Resistance

 

 

African People Are Their Own Liberators: The Civil War Through the Eyes of the African Working Class

Today's episode features an interview with African People's Socialist Party member and Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Sandiego, Dr. Matsemela Odom. Dr. Odom and APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess take a look at the US Civil War through the eyes of the African working class and come to the conclusion that African people are their own liberators in the struggle for freedom from colonial slavery in all of its forms. Tune in on Black Power 96.3 FM in St Petersburg, UhuruSolidarity.podbean.com or wherever you listen to podcasts!

 

 

 

HOW THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION CHANGED THE WORLD

ICYMI: Today we are revising part 2 of this special two-part episode of "White Lies Shattered" (listen to episode 1 here) we are honored to have on our show a very special guest: Elikya Ngoma, Haiti editor of the Burning Spear newspaper and member of the African People's Socialist Party. Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence also returns to the program for this powerful discussion of the heroic legacy of the world's first successful anti-colonial workers' revolution: the African Revolution of Haiti. 

 

 

 

 

 

Penny Hess Speaks - APSC Celebrates 45 Years of White Solidarity with Black Power

At the 45th anniversary of the African People’s Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess gave this profound presentation on the history and significance of the African People’s Socialist Party forming the African People’s Solidarity Committee in 1976.

Make Wall Street Pay Reparations: Penny Hess Speaks at USM National Convention 2021

Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, speaks at the Uhuru Solidarity Movement National Convention in April, 2021, on the theme, "Make Wall Street Pay Reparations." 

How the Haitian Revolution Changed the World: Part 2

On this episode of "White Lies Shattered," we continue our conversation with Elikya Ngoma, Haiti editor of the Burning Spear newspaper and member of the African People's Socialist Party, and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence. We discuss the heroic legacy of the world's first successful anti-colonial workers' revolution: the African Revolution of Haiti. 

Only the African Revolution can Defeat Fascism: Penny Hess Speaks

African People's Solidarity Committee Chair Penny Hess speaks at the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations forum titled "Fascism, Neoliberalism and the Way Forward" on March 6, 2021.

 

The African People's Solidarity Committee is the white organization founded and led by the African People's Socialist Party to organize white people in solidarity with the African Revolution and the struggle for reparations.  More info is available at apscuhuru.org. 

How the Haitian Revolution Changed the World

 

How the Haitian Revolution Changed the World: Featuring a discussion with Elikya Ngoma, the Haiti Editor of The Burning Spear newspaper and African People's Socialist Party member, and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity's Committee, on how the Haitian Revolution changed the world when African people in Haiti fought and won the first successful workers' and anti-colonial revolution in the world in 1804.

No Such Thing as "Green" Colonialism - Penny Hess Speaks

Penny Hess is the Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee and the author of Overturning the Culture of Violence.  

Chairwoman Penny Hess delivered this speech on May 30th, 2021 at a webinar hosted by the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project titled, " Environmental Crisis: Colonial Capitalism vs. the Planet."

The Second Slave Trade of African People in the U.S.

Episode 14 of White Lies Shattered features Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel exposing the horrors of the "second" slave trade of African people in the US. After 1808, the US officially banned the importation of African slaves from Africa but the the domestic slave trade, also known as the Second Middle Passage, saw an estimated 1 million African people marched, in death marches known as slave coffles, from the upper south to work in brutal conditions on plantations in the deep south