Omali Yeshitela, founder of the African
People’s Socialist Party and the African Socialist International, is the
featured speaker at Cuyamaca College’s Diversity Dialogues workshop, “Day in
Solidarity with African People: Reparations for Stolen Black Lives,” set for 11
a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the Performing Arts Center.
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Omali Yeshitela, leader of African Socialist International |
The African People’s Solidarity Day
events held throughout the country are part of APSC’s campaign to raise
awareness in the white community about conditions faced by African people in
the United States and elsewhere and to raise funds in support of the Uhuru, or
Black Liberation, Movement. The movement describes itself as an international
organization which advocates the economic and political liberation of black
Africans.
The solidarity day events feature
Yeshitela, a Uhuru Movement leader, and African People’s Solidarity Committee
Chairwoman Penny Hess. The pair will discuss how whites and other allies can
support the struggles of the black community.