Thursday, October 27, 2011

Listen to The African History Network Show tonight on BlogTalk Radio


Listen to
The African History Network Show, 
   Thursday, Oct. 27th  
8:00pm-11pm EST


Educating, Empowering & Inspiring people of African Descent  
  
Call in and Listen LIVE/ask questions at (914) 338-1375.

or call
(313) 396-5396 for more info.   

Our guest will be
African Martial Arts Master
Ahati Kilindi Iyi
We’ll talk about The 5th
World African Martial Arts Conference.


Also, The Connection between
The Prison
Industrial Complex & The Voter ID Laws.


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Monday, October 24, 2011

The 10th Annual Caribbean Studies New College Conference on Racism and National Consciousness


            ANNOUNCING THE 10TH ANNUAL CARIBBEAN STUDIES
                     NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON
                 RACISM AND NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

            “CONTINUING WESTERN SLAUGHTER AND PLUNDER
                     CONTINUING WESTERN LIES”

                    SATURDAY OCTOBER 29th 2011
                          10 am to 5 pm

                    WILLIAM DOO AUDITORIUM
                    45 WILLCOCKS @ SPADINA
               NEW COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

      http://racismandnationalconsciousness.wordpress.com/
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This is a peoples’ conference. It is free and open to all. For each of the
last 9 years about 350 engaging scholars, students, activists, writers,
community and cultural workers, primarily concerned peoples of the global
south, resident in the imperial north, have found it informative,
stimulating, and important, and look forward to attending. To help us
arrange enough seating to accommodate everyone please register through
 well ahead of the date so we can also cater for
enough food for everyone. There is no registration fee. Lunch will be
provided at no cost.

Our speakers will address the terrifying racist murderous assault and
plunder being practiced by the capitalist supremacist aggressive West and
their allies against Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and the rest of Africa,
as well as the state deployment of terror in Colombia. Who are the global
terrorists? Who are the democracy-toting mass murderers? Who stands to
gain? And at what loss? What are the lies being circulated as truth?

This will be a full intense involving day with much more to learn than the
deceptions the mainstream capitalist press continues to present to the
world as truth.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

10:00 am – 10:30 am
MINGLE, COFFEE AND TEA

10:30 am – 10:10 am
WELCOME
Yves Roberge, Principal, New College

10:40 am – 10:55 am
OPENING REMARKS
Arnold Itwaru, Conference Co-ordinator
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10:55 am – 11:55 am
Speaker: Anas Karzai
Topic: The Euro-American Imperial Logic of Racial Hatred and
Authoritarianism,
and the Resistance to this: The Case of Afghanistan

11:55 am – 12:30 pm
DISCUSSION
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12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
LUNCH
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1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION:

Speaker: Enrique Castro, “The Legalization of Terror in Colombia”

Speaker: Kwanza Msingwana, “Uhuru wa Bendera: Flag Independence and the
Tightening Noose of Imperialism in Africa”

Speaker: Safia Gahayr, “From Tripoli to Mogadishu: The Empire’s Lies,
Propaganda, Greed and Terror”

2:30pm – 3:00pm
DISCUSSION
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3:00pm – 3:10pm
BREAK
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3:10pm – 4:10pm
Speaker: Arnold Itwaru
Topic: The US-NATO Capitalist Assault Against Gaddafi and Libya and the
Undermining of African, Caribbean and Latin American Progress

4:10pm – 4:40pm
DISCUSSION
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4:40pm – 5:00pm
CLOSING REMARKS
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       SPONSORED BY THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES PROGRAM, NEW COLLEGE
              SUPPORTED BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL,
                NEW COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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                   CONFERENCE CO-ORDINATORS:

           ARNOLD ITWARU | CARIBBEAN STUDIES, U OF T

               NATASHA KSONZEK | OTHER EYE BOOKS
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        http://racismandnationalconsciousness.wordpress.com/


Monday, October 17, 2011

A Call for a National Dialog on Black Left Participation in the OWS Movement


The Black Left Unity Network and USHRN Labor Working Group

A Call for a National Dialog on Black Left Participation in the OWS Movement
on
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 3 pm EST

Over the last two years, the Black left unity network (BLUN) has engaged in a process that focused on reaching out to Black worker activists in the labor movement, and other core social movements that organize and mobilize the Black working class.  We have looked for opportunities such as building support for the Hurricane Katrina survivors and organizing and promoting a Reconstruction movement as a strategic flank of the U.S. anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggle, using Survivor Assemblies as popular democratic forums; promoting a Thank You Cuba campaign to  challenge attempts to isolate Cuba and socialism as a racist regime; and participating in the Human Rights movement to help ground it in mass bases of resistance to help shape and influence its demands and anti-imperialist political character.

While there is much more needed in developing the BLUN as a unity process; a major aspect of the process must be that of forging Black left unity within the context of trying to unify and give a working class and internationalist perspective based in concrete demands to the struggles and upsurges that originate from or may have an impact on the Black masses. Therefore, with the emergence of the OWS as an national phenomenon with developing organizational expressions in various cities across the country, members of BLUN have taken the position that it is important to develop a process for addressing the questions that have quickly surfaced related to the political character of this movement and the role and participation of Black, Latino and Native forces.

BLUN along with the Labor working group of US Human Rights Network, will host a call on Thursday, October 20, at 3pm EST. Some of the questions that will be discussed include:  

1.      While our  communities are weakly organized, disconnected from the occupation motion, how might the occupy wall street be used to organize our communities  for fundamental social change in the interests of  the Black masses?  Or can it? 

2.      How can the Black left help to build alliances between the Black and Latino working classes in particular and with workers of color in general to begin forging Black and Brown working class unity as key to driving a popular agenda and mandate for radical social transformation in this period?
3.      How can Black left forces direct this anti-capitalist sentiment and energy of the OWS to increase the existing fight backs in the labor movement and the Black communities?

4.       Since labor is an important social force in the capitalist system, how can Black workers influence and help to mobilize the character and content of labors involvement in the OWS?

5.      How can the Black left become a force in helping to promote U.S. accountability to the UN Human Rights Conventions as a transitional program toward internationalizing the OWS movement?

To register for the call: https://www.accuconference.com/customer/Registration/index.aspx?pkR...

For More Information Contact:
Saladin Muhammad at saladin62@aol.com.
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DEAR DADDY! Fatherless African American Daughters, This Evening Is For You.





THE THEATRICAL FILM PREMIERE OF

"DEAR DADDY"
LETTERS TO OUR FATHERS 
Thursday, October 27th at 8:00pm

THE HISTORIC AVALON THEATRE
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Listen AHN Show tonight: "Christopher Columbus & The African Holocaust"


 
TONIGHT:   Listen to
The African History Network Show
   Monday, Oct. 10th  
8:00pm-11pm EST
Educating, Empowering & Inspiring people of African Descent  

 Part 2: "Christopher Columbus & The African Holocaust"
with
Prof. Kaba Hiawatha   Kamene
(aka Booker T. Coleman) of the documentary
"Hidden Colors"  

Call in and Listen LIVE/ask questions at (914) 338-1375.

(313) 396-5396 for more info.  
  
 Did you miss our interview with
 Prof. Mathu Ater
about
"Imhotep & The African Origins Of
Math, Science and Architecture?"


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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Experience Egypt and Nubia with Dr. Runoko Rashidi, July 2012

EXPERIENCE EGYPT AND NUBIA TOUR AND CRUISE JULY 2012 WITH RUNOKO RASHIDI

Don’t Just Visit Egypt!

Experience Egypt and Nubia with

Dr. Runoko Rashidi & Dreams Come True Travel

July 12 – 26th, 2012

14 Days of Adventure, Culture and Experiences

Includes: Meals, Transportation by Air/Train/Cruise/Car,

5 Star Hotel Stays, Lectures and Entrance to sites

Per Person Pricing Double Occupancy $3795

Single Occupancy $4400

Land Only: (Join us in Cairo) $2395

Price Subject to Change

DAY 1 - Thursday, July 12, 2012

Evening flight on Egypt Air from JFK for Cairo.

DAY 2 – Friday, July 13, 2012

Afternoon arrival at the Cairo International Airport with a shuttle transfer
to our five star to our 5 star hotel. Group orientation followed by dinner
and relaxation.

DAY 3 – Saturday, July 14, 2012

Dr. Rashidi's first lecture and then a full day on the Giza Plateau visiting
the exciting Giza Pyramids, Herumakhet (the Great Sphinx) and the Pyramid
Ship. Shop at the gold bazaar and a papyrus factory.  Dinner at a local
restaurant. Overnight in our hotel.

DAY 4 – Sunday, July 15, 2012

Dr. Rashidi’s second lecture.  After breakfast transfer to the pyramid fields
and tombs of Sakkara, Egypt. Visit the Step Pyramid designed by multi-genius
Imhotep,  Zoser's Pyramid Enclosure, King Teti's pyramid chamber, the Tomb of
Ptah Hotep or a comparable tomb. Transfer to the ancient city of Memphis and
see the enormous statues of Ramses the Great. Enjoy lunch in Sakkara and then
visit a carpet school.

DAY 5 – Monday. July 16, 2012

Morning lecture by Dr. Rashidi then transfer to the fabulous Egyptian Museum.
After leaving the Egyptian Museum, visit the Coptic Museum and the oldest
mosque in Africa, followed by a visit to the perfume bazaar and then lunch.
Take the overnight train to Luxor.

DAY 6 – Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Early morning arrival in Luxor, in Upper Egypt, then transfer to our five
star hotel. See the Valley the Queens, the tomb of Karakamun, Nobles' Tombs,
the Medinet Habu mortuary temple complex. Dinner and overnight at hotel in
Luxor.

Day 7 -  Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Full day drive through the Egyptian countryside to visit the exquisite
temples of Hathor at Denderah, and Seti I and Ramses II at Abydos. Dinner and
overnight in hotel in Luxor.

Day 8 – Thursday, July 19, 2012

Morning lecture by Dr. Rashidi then check into our cruise ship for three
exciting days and nights on the Nile! All meals served on board ship. 
Proceed to the east bank of the Nile for a never to be forgotten tour of the
Luxor and Karnak temples, and the Luxor Museum. Overnight aboard cruise ship.

Day 9 – Friday, July 20, 2012

Breakfast aboard cruise ship then visit the temple of Horus at Edfu and sail
to Kom Ombo. Lunch during cruise and then visit the Kom Ombo temple before
sailing to Aswan. Overnight and dinner aboard cruise ship.

Day 10 – Saturday, July 21, 2012

Breakfast, lecture by Dr. Rashidi.  After breakfast, check out of our cruise
ship, check into our five star hotel in Aswan. Enjoy a falucca ride, lunch at
a Nubian restaurant and visit a Nubian village.  Evening visit to the Nubian
Museum. Overnight at our hotel.

Day 11 – Sunday, July 22, 2012

Early morning bus ride south to the stupendous temples at Abu Simbel. 
Balance of the day at leisure. Overnight at our hotel.

Day 12 – Monday, July 23, 2012

Entire day at leisure in Aswan, Nubia. Overnight at hotel.

Day 13 - Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Visit the magnificent temples on Philae Island, the High Dam and Granite
Quarry. Train ride back to Cairo.

Day 14 – Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Early morning arrival at Cairo rail station. Return to Giza to our five star
hotel. Evening farewell dinner

Day 15 – Thursday, July 26, 2012

Early morning transfer to airport and departure to JFK. End of a joyous trip!

Dreams Come True Travel
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Maplewood, NJ 07040
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973 206-9338
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