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📣 Hands Off Uhuru! Fightback Coalition 📣 OPEN MEETING Tuesday, Sept 26th @ 1pm ET

📣 Mass Meeting 📣

Monday August 28 @ 7pm ET

“Build the Anti-Colonial Free Speech Sanctuary Movement!”

MOTION TO DISMISS UPDATE:
ORAL ARGUMENTS THURSDAY, SEP. 28TH IN TAMPA, FL

Events

From SNCC to Reparations: Lessons in Solidarity and Student Activism - Featuring Omali Yeshitela (San Francisco, CA)

Tue Oct 3rd 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PDT)
San Francisco State University, Knuth Hall, School of Creative Arts, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA
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Uhuru 3 Tours Southern California
San Diego / Los Angeles
October 4 - 6, 2023
Tour starts in San Diego & Los Angeles, CA

Black Is Back Coalition
15th Annual Black People’s March on the White House
Saturday, November 4, 2023

“NOT ONE STEP BACKWARDS!”

Co-Sponsored by the Hands Off Uhuru! Fightback Coalition

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#OmaliTaughtMe Sunday Study - 9/17/2023

Campaign News & Analysis

Motion to dismiss charges against Uhuru 3 exposes U.S. government’s assault on free speech rights

On July 17, 2023 attorney Leonard Goodman, on behalf of the Uhuru 3 who were indicted in April, filed a Motion to Dismiss the widely denounced, politically motivated charges that Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the Uhuru Movement, who have been fighting for 50 years for reparations to African people, are “Russian agents.” #DropTheCharges

NYC Councilman Charles Barron introduces resolution condemning government repression of the Uhuru Movement

On Sunday, September 24, 2023, just days before the Uhuru 3 legal team presented their oral arguments for the Motion to Dismiss at the federal courthouse in Tampa, Florida, Charles Barron, City Councilman for New York City’s 42nd district, introduced a resolution condemning government repression of the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement.]

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NYC Councilman Charles Barron introduces resolution condemning government repression of the Uhuru Movement

September 29, 2023 No Comments

El FBI Quiere Llevarme a Juicio Por Luchar Por La Libertad de los Negros. ¡Llevar a Juicio el Estado Colonial! ¡Venceremos!

September 25, 2023 No Comments

U.S. Judge to hear oral arguments on Uhuru 3’s Motion to Dismiss

September 24, 2023 No Comments

The Militant: Defend right to free speech! Protest attacks by Democrats

September 9, 2023 No Comments

Hands Off Uhuru! stands with Code Pink, the People’s Forum and the Tricontinental Institute against the false allegations in The New York Times hit piece and attacks on free speech

August 28, 2023 No Comments

Motion to dismiss charges against Uhuru 3 exposes U.S. government’s assault on free speech rights – Government responds and Uhuru 3 replies back

August 25, 2023 No Comments

Endorsements

U.S. Peace Council Statement

As the July 29 one-year anniversary of the FBI raids on properties belonging to the African People’s Socialist Party, its solidarity committee and the Uhuru Movement passes, the US Peace Council condemns the violent and illegal state attack on the rights and freedoms of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, known as the “Uhuru 3”, and those whom they serve. … Read the full statement

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Hands Off Uhuru! Merch

Interview with Chairman Omali Yeshitela from Beirut!

Media Coverage

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Dr. Cornel West calls for defense of the Uhuru 3 on Black Power Media - June 28, 2023

“We are not guilty! We will continue to exercise our right to free speech and build the movement for black liberation!”

On April 18, the U.S. government announced indictments against the Uhuru 3 – African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Solidarity Committee Chair Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel.

On May 10, the Uhuru 3 spoke to the press for the first time since their April 18 indictments on bogus federal charges. Watch the press conference.

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Mass Meeting

Hands Off Uhuru! Coalition Mass Meeting & Campaign Updates!
Emergency Mass Meeting

Monday, July 17th
7pm ET / 6pm CT / 4pm PT

Join the Mass Meeting of the Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! Defense Campaign!

We are building the Anti-Colonial Free Speech Movement and have exciting announcements about the Hands Off Uhuru! Fightback Coalition.

Hear updates from the Hands Off Legal Defense Support Committee as we prepare to Put the State on Trial!

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Talking Points

TALKING POINTS | Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! Defense Campaign (May 2023 Update)

May 20, 2023 No Comments

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African Martyrs Day Events

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Background

On Friday, July 29, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated a political assault against the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), the broader Uhuru Movement and its leader, Chairman Omali Yeshitela, in the form of pre-dawn raids.

This attack employed the use of dozens of tactical gear-sporting FBI agents, battering rams, flashbang grenades, assault rifles, drones and more.

The attacks occurred in two cities where our Party has prominent bases: St. Petersburg, Florida and St. Louis, Missouri, the latter our recently established Party headquarters.

They were simultaneous, beginning at 5:00 AM in the Midwest and 6:00 AM on the east coast. The attacks happened at a time when the FBI assumed our leaders would have been in a vulnerable state. It was also an attempt to make it impossible for our leaders to connect with one another, to prepare for whatever was to come next.

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