African Liberation Day 2009

African Liberation Day (ALD) is about peace and justice loving people in the world coming together to commemorate the struggles for a righteous world. This means that although ALD is specifically the struggle of African people (Black people) to regain our self determination on a worldwide level. ALD acknowledges that African people are humanist and support all just people's struggles. That means the struggles of the peoples of Europe, and even poor white people in the U.S., and of course the struggles of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, the struggles of the Asian peoples, Arabs, and all other segments of the human family.

ALD is about acknowledging that woman are full human beings, not physical commodities, who should be supported in their efforts to regain their dignity and self respect. ALD is about acknowledging people are more important than profits. That socialist development really means, free education, free healthcare, free childcare, a guaranteed job, housing expenses being no more than 10% of your income by law, and making sexism, racism, and other ills illegal. ALD is about recognizing that any person with common sense would at least want to examine the benefits of having those things in society.

ALD is about acknowledging the primacy of Africa and that Africa must be redeemed after centuries of exploitation. The core of the problem of African self sufficiency is in the redemption of Africa, not the U.S.

Finally, ALD is about acknowledging that the despite relative difficulties on some levels in recent months, life for citizens in the U.S. and the other industrialized countries is built and maintained on the exploitation of the majority of the world's populations and this has got to stop! The only way to stop it is through organized revolution because the forces who set up this system will never relinquish power without the demand of the revolutionary force to take it from them.

ALD 09 is being organized by the All African People's Revolutionary Party throughout Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the U.S. Other organizations like the African People's Socialist Party are also organizing ALD commemorations. Unlike some of the pronouncements from people allegedly speaking for the APSP, the A-APRP will never set trip and denounce any organization's efforts to organize the people for liberation. We encourage people to support the APSP and all formations making an effort for positive social change. We encourage people to join the A-APRP, APSP, and all organizations working for change and we charge that anyone who doesn't understand the necessity of functional unity today is either the enemy or stupid because they are doing the work of the enemy for free.

On the West Coast of the U.S. the A-APRP invites you to attend ALD in Oakland, California on Saturday, May 30th from noon to 6pm at Bobby Hutton Park (Defermery Park) in West Oakland. For more info, call 510-669-9894