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![SWAPO: South West Africa People’s Organization](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
El Salvadoran and South African solidarity with SWAPO (Southwest African People’s Organization), support for national independence movement, opposing US imperialism’s intervention in Namibia.
Carlos Martinez representing the movement in El Salvador and Ahmed Obafemi representing the Republic of New Africa (RNA).
recorded off bullhorn at a demonstration in New York.
![New African Program](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
This tape features a panel held on October 20th, 1982, as part of a week wide program for building support for African Freedom Fighters. Ahmed Obafemi, member and one of the leaders of NAPO (New Afrikan People’s Organization), opens the panel discussion by introducing other panel members, many of whom have been political prisoners.
George Edward Tait presents two poems, “War in America” and “The Choice”, which focus on his life as an African American and how they are amidst a war, a war into which they were born. Ahmed Obafemi follows this with his demand that those imprisoned fighting for Black Liberation are acknowledged by international law as “prisoners of war/political prisoners.” Finally, Ben Chambers urges supporters of African Freedom Fighters to take up organizing at a local level.
![SF Teach in 1983 (Tape 1)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ahmed Obafemi is one of the main speakers at a San Francisco Teach- In which occurred in 1983. The KKK and the Republic of New Afrika/ The Black Liberation Movement are key topics in his and other’s speeches. Specifically mentioned are The Cowboys (a group of SFPD policemen from Richmond) who are connected with police brutality and violence against blacks and their homes. Richmond is proclaimed as the center of the Klan in the Bay Area. Obafemi also speaks about the importance of Malcolm X as a Black Nationalist Freedom Fighter, how his name changes represent the progression and changes within the Black Liberation Movement and current effort to distort the legacy of Malcolm X.
![SF Teach in 1983 (Tape 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ahmed Obafemi is one of the main speakers at a San Francisco Teach- In which occurred in 1983. The KKK and the Republic of New Afrika/ The Black Liberation Movement are key topics in his and other’s speeches. Obafemi speaks about going up against the Ku Klux Klan and that the only solution for Black liberation is through the struggle for land. An unknown female speaker provides greater detail about KKK resurgence in Texas and simultaneous Klan activity in California. The speaker proclaims the need for anti- Klan movement building and denounces the NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People).
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