Part 1: Thursday, April 9
8:00 pm EST
Online
Part 2: Thursday, April 29
8:00 pm EST
Online
To Register:
Step 1: Donate to the Shaka Shakur Freedom Campaign (suggested amount: $40)
Step 2: Fill out the Registration Form
Join Workshops 4 Gaza for a 2-part workshop series on the New Afrikan Prisoners Movement with Community Liberation Programs and the Shaka Shakur Freedom Campaign on April 9 and 23, 8pm EST online!
We will cover the ways that New Afrikan political prisoners in particular became the theoretical architects and visionaries of The New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM), a national liberation struggle that had experienced severe repression by the end of the 1970’s. Officially established in 1968, NAIM developed a Black nationalist political framework and praxis rooted in the establishment of The Republic of New Afrika (RNA), a Black nation-state in the U.S. South in the lands of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.
In Part 1, we will explore some of the founding ideas and figures of NAIM, including the Black Guerilla Family, the RNA-11, Queen Mother Audley Moore, and Robert F Williams. We will also discuss key concepts developed by incarcerated theoreticians of NAIM.
In Part 2, we will read and discuss select texts from each of these theoreticians, including excerpts from James Yaki Sayles’ Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth,” Sanyika Shakur’s Stand Up Struggle Forward, and Shaka Shakur’s Manifestations of Thought: When the Dragon Comes.
All readings will be included in registration and all proceeds will go to support legal fees for New Afrikan political prisoner Shaka Shakur. Copies of Shaka’s book are available here, and all proceeds go toward Shaka’s legal defense.
Register and find more information here!
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