To Complete Research for The War against Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and

To Help Build the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

From March 1965 to July 1969, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) traveled from Lowndes County, Alabama to every major city in the United States and key cities and countries on every continent to help organize and build support for the Black Panther Movement-Party (BPM-I) and its imprisoned leadership. He continued to support the Black Panther Party’s and Black Liberation Army’s prisoners of war, political prisoners and cadre in exile for the rest of his life.

Governments and organizations (for profit and not-for-profit) in every corner of the world (right, center and left) waged a ruthless war to prevent this independent, militant, Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist movement-party from being built. Having failed in this initial goal, they waged a decades-long war to co-opt and control, contain or crush it. Kwame’s contributions to the BPM-P’s birth and growth have been minimized, distorted and deformed, and “whited out” of history. This war continues and intensifies as we approach the 50th anniversary of its founding.

In 1967, Kwame also joined the Movement to Take Kwame Nkrumah Back to Ghana, the Democratic Party of Guinea under the leadership of Ahmed Sekou Toure, the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, and the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party which was founded by Kwame Nkrumah. For the next 31 years of his life, until his transition on November 15, 1998, he traveled to every continent, and many countries and cities in the world supporting and helping build these and other revolutionary movements and parties, especially the A-APRP. The A-APRP (GC) inherits and continues this revolutionary theory and practice. This history has not been told. Few people in academia or the movement are qualified to tell it.

“No participation, no right to observation!  No investigation, no right to speak!”

Bob Brown is retracing as many of Kwame’s organizational footsteps as possible, given the current world political and military climate, and scarcity of resources. He is coming to your campus and community, city and country in 2014 to help build new and re-establish old branches of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and to help re-establish old and build new relationships with revolutionary allies. He is also coming to your area to complete research for The War against Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) which he and Dr. Christian Davenport are co-authoring.

Bob’s 50-years of participation in the student and youth, civil and human rights, Black Power and Pan-African, socialist and peace movements; and his work with the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and with Kwame Ture have earned him the right to observe. His exhaustive and unparalleled investigation, and his encyclopedic knowledge of Kwame’s contributions and achievements have earned him the right to speak. He must observe and speak now, or forever hold his peace. He must also continue his life-long, revolutionary, Pan-African and Internationalist work, study and struggle.

Christian Davenport is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; a Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. His professional and personal interests include political conflict and violence – particularly that involving governments and those affiliated with them (e.g., genocide/politicide, mass killing, torture, bans, curfews, beatings, arrests for political purposes and domestic spying). He has looked at both global patterns and individual cases (the United States, Rwanda, India, Northern Ireland as well as more recently Darfur, Sudan and Mexico).

Chris is an expert in archiving massive collections of information relevant to conflict and analyzing the macro and micro determinants of contentious politics. His publications include: “Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party;” “When Democracies Kill: Reflections from the US, India and Northern Ireland;” “Protesting While Black? The Differential Policing of American Activism;” “The Puzzle of Iraqi Mortality: Surges, Civilian Deaths and Alternative Meanings;” “Velvet Glove, Iron Fist or Even Hand? Protest Policing in the United States;” “Licensing Repression: Dissent, Threats and State Repression in the United States;” and “Understanding Covert Repressive Action: The Case of the US Government Against the Republic of New Africa.”

The War against Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) is the authorized biography of Kwame Ture and it is the definitive history of the COINTELPRO and cointelpro-like operations waged against him, and against the movements, organizations, governments, activities and events and leading personalities with whom he collaborated, competed and conflicted. This book is explosive, and it will change the historical narrative and discourse; a much needed and refreshing change!

We need your help!

Tentative Schedule for The Black Panther is coming!

Spring 2014 Tour

Click here, to invite Bob Brown to your campus and community, city and country!

Click here, to RSVP, and to make a Contribution to ensure the success of this Tour!

Donors who contribute $25 or more will receive a copy of

The War against Kwame Ture, hot off the press!

For more information, contact: info@a-aprp-gc.org or (202) 259-1631

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The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party ^(GC)

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have joined forces to build a movement & nationally coordinated days of local action to

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TEAR DOWN THE WALLS!

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of Repression and the Prison-Industrial Complex on March 8, 2014 and

of Imperialism and the Military-Industrial Complex on April 14-15, 2014

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Bob Brown, an organizer for the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC),

will visit your campus and community to help build this movement and days of local action!

Bob’s tentative schedule is listed below!

Click here, to invite Bob to your Campus or Community!

Click here, to RSVP your attendance at an Event nearest you!

Click here, to make a secure online contribution, TODAY!

Tax exemption is available on request!

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Donors who contribute $25 or more will receive a copy of

The War against Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), hot off the press, when it is printed!

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Contact: info@a-aprp-gc.org or (202) 246-4896

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Tony Hall (left at the table), an award winning writer, director and producer living in Trinidad and Tobago, is producing a film titled Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Dances in the Fire! See the following links for three of his productions: “Miss Miles” the Woman of the World,  Monster March and Dish Ran Away with the Spoon.

Dion Boucard, an award winning and accomplished videographer also from Trinidad & Tobago, is assisting him in this production. See the following links for two of his video projects: Prepared to Fight and Justice for Children March.

On August 24-25, 2013, Nagib Malik, Umilta Lucre and Lynette Kelly (left to right), Kwame’s sisters, Austin Letren, his cousin and Ismael Lucre, his brother-in-law interviewed as part of the research process the film. Other interviews will be conducted later. The edited footage will be used in the trailer and 2-hour, full feature film.

Rocka and Sony Boy, Nagib’s daughter and son-in- law, hosted the video shoot, and a dinner and film party for several of Kwame’s friends in the Miami area. Members of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and several of Kwame’s co-workers and supporters donated monies to cover the travel expenses of Kwame’s Family. We thank them!

The Trinidad and Tobago Film Company awarded the Kwame Ture Film Project a modest grant. Its stamp of approval is priceless. It will finance the production of our 6-minute trailer.

You will enjoy and be very proud of this trailer and film!

We will keep you informed of our progress!

OUSU Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality

An Evening with Bob Brown

Black Rhodes Scholars Association

October 20, 2013

By Bob Brown and Christian P. Davenport

[Note: This quote is excerpted from the COINTELPRO Black Nationalist memo by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, August 25, 1967. Kwame Ture, Jamil al-Amin and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee were listed as the primary targets of this operation. Our book documents cointelpro-like operations worldwide, from 1933 to 2013.]

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Our Book

The historiography of Kwame Ture; of his generation, political time and cultural space; of his contributions and achievements; of the student, human and civil rights, nationalist, Black Power and Pan-African, socialist, anti-repression and peace Movements; and of the worldwide war against him and those Movement, to paraphrase Osagefyo Kwame Nkrumah, is “encumbered with a host of malicious myths:” omissions, errors, conscious-less exaggerations and minimizations, half-truths and shameless lies.

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Click here, to hear and see Kwame at the “Black Power Rally” in Greenwood on June 17, 1966

Click here, to hear and see Kwame and Adam Clayton Powell on “Black Power” in DC in July 1966

Click here, to hear and see Kwame’s Black Power speech at Berkeley, October 29, 1966

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This historiography,” to paraphrase Joe Street, who teaches at Northumbria University in England, has reached its “golden age,” but it “remains contested ground and a subject of continuing debate.” Our book, The War against Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), enters this contest, joins this debate, and debunks these myths, these “fallacious assumptions,” to paraphrase Kwame. Like Kwame at Berkeley in 1966, we will identify and condemn these myth makers, these exaggerators, these liars; and we will condemn them, and demand that they criticize and condemn, correct and perhaps punish themselves. More importantly, we will debunk and correct these myths in our book.

“We are struggling in the arena of ideas,” as Kwame said at the Malcolm X in the 90’s Symposium in Havana in May 1990. “The form of struggle which we have before us [today] is a serious struggle.”

Our ground-breaking book challenges and changes the established, Euro-centric and Afro-centric (right-wing, center-wing and left-wing) paradigm, narrative and discourse, a much needed, refreshing and revolutionary challenge and change. It is the first, exhaustive, revolutionary, and Pan-African:

• Study of this historical and continuing COINTELPRO and cointelpro-like war;
• Historical and socio-political analysis of Kwame’s and our political time and cultural space; and
• Biography of Kwame Ture, and his contributions to the Citizens Empire and Home Rule Party; the student left at Bronx High School of Science in New York; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; the Lowndes County Freedom Organization and the larger struggle to build Freedom Organizations in 21 other counties in Alabama and 631 other counties in the “Black Belt South; “the Black Panther Movement worldwide from 1965 to 1969; the Movement to Take Kwame Nkrumah Back to Ghana; the Democratic Party of Guinea; the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania; the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party; and hundreds of other revolutionary political movements and parties in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora and the World.

Kwame and we helped make and change history. We helped change Africa, the African Diaspora and the World, our families and ourselves, though not as we had hoped or planned, not enough—quantitatively or qualitatively—and certainly not permanently.

Click here, for more information about Bob Brown.

Click here, for more information about Christian P. Devanport.

How You Can Help!

You have a choice on which causes you invest your time, talent and treasures in. We need your help because the cost of completing, publishing and launching this book on May 24, 2014 at African Liberation Day in Washington, DC far exceeds our limited resources—human and financial.

We have run this race, with encouragement and support from a small circle of comrades, sisters and brothers, and friends like you, for 50 long, hard years. We see another victory line, a very small victory! We can not cross that victory line however, without your continued encouragement and support.  Please pre-order a paperback copy ($25.00 USD) of The War against Kwame Ture, TODAY! You can also:

• Invite Bob Brown and the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) to your campus, community, city and country to research, recruit, network, and raise funds. This will enable and empower us to complete our archival research and conduct interviews with people, like many of you, who worked, studied and struggled, sacrificed and suffered with Kwame, but have never been interviewed before.
• Volunteer to help us complete our archival research and conduct strategic interviews.
• Recommend The War against Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) as a resource for teachers and students, activists and organizers, especially those who never heard of him, and were not born or of political age during his political time and cultural space.

Thanks for joining our Campaign to support the publication and distribution of the 1^st edition of The War against Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael). It has been a long and hard 15-year struggle since Kwame’s transition on November 15, 1998 to produce this much needed and long awaited book. We have made it to this point in our crusade with your encouragement and support. We cannot fulfill our promise to Kwame and you, and cross the victory line without your continued encouragement and support!

Your contribution towards the funding of this effort by pre-ordering a copy ($25.00 USD) of our book TODAY, enables and empowers us to complete and publish this much needed and long demanded narrative-changing, discourse-changing and movement-changing study of political repression against Kwame and us, and the movements, organizations, governments, activities and events, and key personalities with whom he and we collaborated, competed and conflicted throughout Africa, the African Diaspora and the World. This war against him and us, his memory and legacy continues today. It will intensify as we approach the 50^th anniversary of his Black Power speech on June 17, 2016.

Your contribution by pre-ordering ($25.00 USD) a copy of our book will enable and empower Kwame to speak to and recruit progressive and revolutionary forces—especially youth and women—in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora and the World, once again; and it will hopefully inspire them to join the Revolution—the African and World Revolution—like he and we did.

We will keep you updated on our progress!

Click here, to RSVP your attendance at African Liberation Day in Washington, DC on May 17, 2014!

Bob Brown celebrated 50 years of work, study and struggle in the student and youth; human and civil rights; African liberation, Black Power and Pan-African; socialist; anti-war and anti-draft; anti-zionist and anti-repression movements in August 2013.

He was a member of the Chicago Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (1963-1968); director of the Midwest Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1967-1968) and co-founder of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (1968-1969). He has worked with and supported hundreds of progressive and revolutionary movements, organizations and governments in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora and the World. He is currently an organizer for the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) (1972-2013), a member of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, and co-director of the Kwame Ture Institute.

Bob authored Slavery and the Slave Trade Were and Are Crimes Against Humanity; edited the new edition of Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism; and contributed an interview to We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America.

He and Dr. Christian P. Davenport are in the process of completing research and writing of The War against Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael). It is a case-study of COINTELPRO and cointelpro-like operations to “prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups … [and] the rise of a messiah.” 1933 to 2013.

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Click here, to invite Bob to your campus or community.

For more information, contact:

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

http:a-aprp-gc.org – info@a-aprp-gc.org

(202) 000-0000

By the Revolutionary Students Union at Salt Lake Community College

We, the Salt Lake Community College Revolutionary Students Union, welcomed Bob Brown, co-founder of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and current member of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), to come and give two separate lectures on November 5th, 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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The first lecture, A Perspective on the Struggle to Build the Black Panther Party in Chicago 1964-1969, was held at the Salt Lake Community College South City Campus at midday, with about 20 students and faculty in attendance.

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The second lecture, A Perspective on Kwame Ture’s (Stokely Carmichael) Struggle to build the Black Panther Movement Worldwide 1964-1969, was held at Mestizo Coffeehouse the evening of November 5th, 2013. There were about 50 members of the public in attendance.

Mestizo Coffeehouse:

641 West North Temple

Salt Lake City, UT 84116

Overall the Salt Lake Community College Revolutionary Students Union thought both events were successful and educational, and is deeply grateful for Bob Brown sharing his and Kwame Ture’s experiences.

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Overarching objective of the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum

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By Omowale Rupert and Pan-African Society Community Forum

14 Gowlett Road, Peckham, London SE15 4HY,

Website: www.pascf.org.uk – Email: pascfevents1@gmail.com –

The Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF) is a Britain based Revolutionary Pan-Afrikanist organisation. We seek to make our contribution to the unification and liberation of Afrika and Afrikan people under a just social system. The achievement of this objective is Afrikan people’s contribution to the worldwide revolutionary movement.

It is within this context that we welcomed and facilitated the visit of senior comrade Bob Brown of the AAPRP-GC to our operational territory from 18th September to 30th October 2013. The PASCF operated with the following objects in focus:

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Objectives of the visit:

1. To deliver the 2013 Kwame Nkrumah Annual Memorial Lecture;
2. To facilitate educational forums broadcasting and advancing the aims and messages of Revolutionary Pan-Afrikanism to Afrikan people and others;
3. To support and enhance the PASCF/CPP consciencism study programme;
4. To build the membership and public image of the PASCF;
5. To lay the foundations for future strategic and tactical alliances with AAPRP (GC);
6. To strengthen operational working relations with CPP (UK & Ireland) with a view to building a future working alliance;
7. To develop and strengthen working relations with a widened range of Afrikan and non-Afrikan progressive groupings operating in Britain;
8. To support AAPRP (GC) in:

• Sharing its political massages in Britain;
• Building its public image in Britain;
• Carrying out research for general political education and the production of literature; and
• Visiting other locations in Afrika and Europe.

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Summary of outcomes of the visit:

1. The Kwame Nkrumah Annual Memorial Lecture 2013 was a great success. Attended by approximately 60 people, the audience was gripped by Bob’s presentation. The volume of questions and enquiries was of such magnitude that the meeting extended 2 hours beyond its planned finishing time. A follow-up meeting had to be arranged there and then to accommodate the level of interest. It was the quality of engagement that was the essence of the event’s success – a feature which characterised the whole tour.
2. Bob spoke at a range of events across Britain including in the cities of: London, Luton, Oxford, Birmingham, Leeds and Newcastle. Events in Liverpool and Leicester though provisionally discussed, did not materialise – nor did speaking engagements at a college and Trade union in London.
3. Given the limited planning time, the tour was very successful. Over 100 people attended the Tottenham event (North London) and over 200 the Leeds one. The South London event was broadcast live on PASCF’s newly launched internet TV station. The Revolutionary Pan-Afrikanist message was broadly spread across specific local communities.

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Summary of Program and Events:

1. Bob attended 2 consciencism study sessions. His inputs and insights were most welcome. The number of attendees increased as a direct result of his presence. More attention needs to be paid to retention of attendees.
2. No new members were directly recruited as a result of the tour. There is a heightened level of interest and there have been specific requests from people wishing to join which are being processed.
3. There has been an ongoing character assassination and undermining campaign against the PASCF and its founder by reactionary forces veiling themselves under the banner of ‘Pan-Afrikanism’. Bob’s visit has contributed positively to overcoming that destructive campaign and rebuilding the good name of the PASCF.
4. The PASCF and AAPRP-GC have informally agreed to develop a working alliance.
5. The CPP participated as chair in all the London meetings. The PASCF/CPP relationship has undoubtedly been strengthened by the visit. The next stage will be to encourage the participation of greater numbers of CPP members.
6. New relations have been established with a number of groups around the country. It is hoped that these will be strengthened over time. A number of organisations supported Bob’s delivery of the Kwame Nkrumah Annual Memorial Lecture as sponsors.
7. A number of idealist grouping claiming to be ‘Pan-Afrikanists’, including the group using the name ‘AAPRP Britain Chapter’ were not supportive and relations with them will have been further dampened as a result of the visit.
8. AAPRP (GC) successfully delivered elements of its political line during the visit and its public profile has been launched/raised. Bob was denied access to some national research institutions on the basis of bureaucratic technicalities. He did manage to access others and was given unrestricted access to a range of materials under the PASCF’s control. Some level of research was facilitated.
9. The PASCF is delighted to learn of the publication of Bob’s first book.
10. Financial and time constraints meant that a number of planned visits had to be deferred. Bob nonetheless visited Germany and participated in a conference.

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Additional brief comments:

The visit would have benefited from a greater degree of forward and budgetary planning. PASCF members and supports could have benefitted more from Bob’s vast wealth of geo-political knowledge and on future occasions this will need to be factored into the programme. A similar analysis could be made for the holding of joint organisational meetings with Bob. Although improvements are still possible, the visit was a resounding success. The PASCF was pleased to host Bob and looks forward to future co-operative ventures.

Approved by The Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF) Board

27th December 2013

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