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<p><b><big>The Black Nation Charges Genocide! Our survival is
dependent on Self-Defense!
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<p><b><small><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mxgm.org/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/</a></small></small></small></b><br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a
href="http://obs-onthemove.org/">http://obs-onthemove.org/</a>.</p>
<p><strong>The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) believes that an
essential part of our Movement for survival must be Self-Defense
Networks. </strong></p>
<p><strong>We think there are two types of Networks that we have to
build:</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>New Afrikan or Black Self-Defense Networks</em></strong>
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.</p>
<p><strong><em>People’s Self-Defense Networks</em></strong> 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.</p>
<p><strong>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</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>The <em>Every 28 Hours</em> Campaign proposes a model
for organizing:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
The formation of<strong> Black Self-Defense Networks</strong> 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.</li>
<li>The formation of <strong>People’s Self-Defense Networks</strong>
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.</li>
<li>Waging campaigns for local referendums to institute <strong>Police
Control mechanisms</strong> – 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.</li>
<li>Forming <strong>People’s Assemblies</strong>, 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.
</li>
</ul>
<p>The <strong>Malcolm X Grassroots Movement</strong> (<strong>MXGM</strong>)
and the <em>Every 28 Hours</em> <em>Campaign</em> 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.</p>
<p>MXGM offers to Black and other oppressed communities three
resources</p>
<p>1) <strong>Operation Ghetto Storm</strong>, a full report on the
2012 extra judicial killings;</p>
<p>2) <strong>Let Your Motto Be Resistance</strong>, an organizing
handbook for self-defense; and 3) <strong>We Charge Genocide
Again!</strong>, a curriculum for the <em>Every 28 Hours
Campaign</em>, to further this objective</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Links:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Operation Ghetto Storm: 2012 Annual Report on the
Extrajudicial Killing of Black People</strong></p>
<p><a
href="http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Operation-Ghetto-Storm.pdf"><strong>http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Operation-Ghetto-Storm.pdf</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>Let Your Motto Be Resistance</strong></p>
<p><strong><a
href="http://mxgm.org/let-your-motto-be-resistance-a-handbook-on-organizing-new-afrikan-and-oppressed-communities-for-self-defense/">http://mxgm.org/let-your-motto-be-resistance-a-handbook-on-organizing-new-afrikan-and-oppressed-communities-for-self-defense/</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>We Charge Genocide Again! </strong></p>
<p><a
href="http://mxgm.org/we-charge-genocide-again-new-curriculum-on-every-28-hours-report/"><strong>http://mxgm.org/we-charge-genocide-again-new-curriculum-on-every-28-hours-report/</strong></a></p>
<p>For more information on these resources or trainings please
contact Taliba Obuya at <a href="mailto:taliba@mxgm.org">taliba@mxgm.org</a>
</p>
<p>For coalition building and Self-Defense Networks please contact
Watani Tyehimba at <a href="mailto:watani@mxgm.org">watani@mxgm.org</a>.</p>
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