*The Black Nation Charges Genocide! Our survival is dependent on
Self-Defense! *
*http://mxgm.org/the-black-nation-charges-genocide-our-survival-is-dependent-on-self-defense/*
Mike Brown, Ezell Ford and Eric Garner are among the latest victims of
the ongoing genocide of Black People in the United States of America.
Every 28 hours in the United States law enforcement, vigilantes, or
security guards extra-judiciously murder a Black person. It is
imperative that we as a people act upon every tragedy and hardship
inflicted upon us by the government and the corporations to address the
systematic genocide of our people in a protracted, programmatic, and
strategic way.
The United States of America, as both a state and a criminal enterprise,
has proven time and time again throughout its entire 238-year history
that where Black people are concerned, genocide is the order of the day.
The mass extrajudicial killings of Blacks aren't just the result of
rogue police officers and crazed racist vigilantes; it is a state
sponsored program of containment designed to keep the Black nation in a
position of subservience and subjugation to the White settler colonial
nation.
The United States Government and the vast reactionary sector of the
settler colonial nation who's interests it was designed to represent,
has been engaged in a war on Afrikan people from the time of its
inception to the present day. The United States Government continues to
lose legitimacy through its actions against our people. Through its
refusal to address the ongoing human rights violations against the Black
Nation the United States has shown itself to be the perpetual
facilitator of the suffering of the Black Nation.
We cannot and should not count on our enemies -- like the courts, and
other forces of the US government or transnational corporations -- to
protect us. We have to protect ourselves. Justice for Mike Brown, Ezell
Ford, Eric Garner or any of the hundreds of other Black women, men and
children extra-judiciously executed by vigilantes, security guards and
police every year will never be found in the courtrooms of the United
States. Marissa Alexander is potentially facing decades in prison for
firing a warning shot to defend herself and her children against an
abusive partner while George Zimmerman is walking free after murdering
Trayvon Martin in cold blood. Even in cases where the verdict apparently
is in favor of our people, like in the conviction of Theodore Wafer for
the murder of Renisha McBride, these sorts of trials uphold the status
quo by not addressing the root issues behind the oppression of our
people in a systematic way. The United States Government does not even
have the right to try these cases because it is the primary architect of
the state of emergency and continuous crisis the Black Nation is forced
to endure. We cannot afford to be distracted from the work that must be
done to insure the survival of our people.
The rebellion our people are waging in Ferguson must be supported. But,
spontaneous rebellions are not enough. The only way we are going to
successfully defend ourselves from genocide is to build a massive social
movement with self-determination and self defense as its central
unifying principles. We need a coordinated movement that strategically
takes on the systemic oppression and exploitation that prevent Black
people from exercising self-determination and human rights. We have to
defend ourselves if we want to survive.
We call on people around the country to support The Organization For
Black Struggle based out of St. Louis, Missouri in their efforts to
secure the resources to hire a full time organizer. They have been
working since 1980 to fill the vacuum left by assaults on the Black
Power Movement and have been providing critical leadership in support of
the people's struggle. To connect with The Organization For Black
Struggle visit http://obs-onthemove.org/.
*The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) believes that an essential
part of our Movement for survival must be Self-Defense Networks. *
*We think there are two types of Networks that we have to build:*
*/New Afrikan or Black Self-Defense Networks/* are alliances,
coalitions, or united fronts of Black organizations whose purpose is to
defend the New Afrikan or Black community from external (the police,
FBI, white terrorist organizations, etc.) and internal (agent
infiltration, intra-communal violence, etc.) threats to its safety and
security.
*/People's Self-Defense Networks/* are multi-national (or multi-ethnic
and/or racial) alliances, coalitions, or united fronts whose purpose is
to defend their communities against mutual enemies and threats and
advance a common agenda based on shared interests, hopes, and aspirations.
*Oppressed peoples and communities can and will only be secure in this
country when they are organized to defend themselves against the
aggressions of the government and the forces of white supremacy and
capitalist exploitation*.
*The /Every 28 Hours/ Campaign proposes a model for organizing:*
* The formation of*Black Self-Defense Networks* to defend our people
and combat police terrorism. These Networks should seek to build
Copwatch programs, engage in mass rights based education trainings
for the community, serve as first responders to acts of Police
Terrorism, and help coordinate mass resistance to these acts via
mass mobilizations and direct action. These Networks should also be
encouraged to engage in offensive campaigns, such as referendums to
institute Police Control Boards.
* The formation of *People's Self-Defense Networks* to defend the
lives and interests of all oppressed peoples' and exploited classes
against various forms of state terrorism. These People's
Self-Defense Networks would work as multi-national alliances to
engage in a broad manner all of the tasks mentioned above to defend
oppressed peoples and targeted communities, such as LGBTQ2GNC
communities, against institutionalized racism, white supremacy,
institutionalized sexism, patriarchy and state repression be it
racial profiling, gender profiling, stop and frisk, mass
incarceration, or mass deportations.
* Waging campaigns for local referendums to institute *Police Control
mechanisms* -- i.e. community based structures that have the power
to hire, fire, subpoena, and discipline the police on the local
level. And waging massive, non-compliant campaigns of resistance
employing BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanction) strategies and
tactics on statewide, regional, and national levels.
* Forming *People's Assemblies*, on local, citywide, and regional
levels to engage in program and demand development initiatives that
will enable the people to engage in the broad implementation of
people's programs for self-defense and mutual aid.
The *Malcolm X Grassroots Movement* (*MXGM*) and the /Every 28 Hours/
/Campaign/ seeks to strengthen organizing initiatives within Black or
New Afrikan communities for self-defense, by presenting these
initiatives with a comprehensive analytical framework and practical
organizing tools to ground and unite them.
MXGM offers to Black and other oppressed communities three resources
1) *Operation Ghetto Storm*, a full report on the 2012 extra judicial
killings;
2) *Let Your Motto Be Resistance*, an organizing handbook for
self-defense; and 3) *We Charge Genocide Again!*, a curriculum for the
/Every 28 Hours Campaign/, to further this objective
*Links:*
*Operation Ghetto Storm: 2012 Annual Report on the Extrajudicial Killing
of Black People*
*http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Operation-Ghetto-Storm.pdf*
*Let Your Motto Be Resistance*
*http://mxgm.org/let-your-motto-be-resistance-a-handbook-on-organizing-new-afrikan-and-oppressed-communities-for-self-defense/*
*We Charge Genocide Again! *
*http://mxgm.org/we-charge-genocide-again-new-curriculum-on-every-28-hours-report/*
For more information on these resources or trainings please contact
Taliba Obuya at taliba at mxgm.org <mailto:taliba at mxgm.org>
For coalition building and Self-Defense Networks please contact Watani
Tyehimba at watani at mxgm.org <mailto:watani at mxgm.org>.
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