Los Angeles, CA – In a room filled with Black and Chicano activists, highschool college students and different supporters, a discussion board on Might 23 was held in assist of the Fingers Off Uhuru 3 motion. The Uhuru motion is led by the African Individuals's Socialist Get together, which faces political assaults from the FBI.
On July 29, 2022, the FBI carried out a violent pre-dawn military-style raid on the house of Uhuru Motion chief Omali Yeshitela in North St. Louis, Missouri. Additionally they raided a number of different homes and workplaces.
In April 2023, the US authorities indicted President Omali Yeshitela, the president of the African Individuals's Solidarity Committee Penny Hess, and the president of the Uhuru Solidarity Motion Jesse Nevel on false prices and slanderous that they have been working for Russia.
The Los Angeles occasion was led by Ron Gochez, political secretary of Union del Barrio (UdB). He welcomed UdB's Desiree P. Gaytan, who gave a quick historical past of the black political wrestle in South Central Los Angeles, together with the Watts Rebel and the LAPD assault on the Black Panther Get together.
A number of statements of solidarity got, together with the African Metropolis Coalition, Ron Wilkins, the Lumumba Coalition, the Black Alliance for Peace and the Socialist Unity Get together.
An announcement from the Central Committee of the Socialist Group of the Highway to Freedom was learn by Carlos Montes, “The Socialist Group of the Highway to Freedom is dedicated to strengthening this repression and we stand in solidarity with those that are attacked. We all know from expertise how necessary resistance to repression is.”
Montes additionally confused the lengthy historical past of unity with the Chicano and Black liberation actions.
This system included a video of the FBI raid on seven of the APSP houses and workplaces. The FBI used flash and smoke grenades and smashed the doorways open and arrested President Omali and his spouse.
The primary speech was given by the president of the African Individuals's Socialist Get together Omali Yeshitela, who denounced the FBI raids and false accusations.
A name was made to attend the trial in Tampa, Florida, on September 3.
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