Report prepared by Banbose Shango, Alicia Jrapko and Cheryl La

National Co-chairs of the National Network On Cuba

July 2013

The VII Continental Conference in Solidarity with Cuba was held in Caracas , Venezuela  July 24 to July 27, 2013. More than 300 delegates from 35 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East attended.

Inspired by the example and legacy of the great Liberator of Latin America and the Caribbean Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Fidel Castro, the eternal Comandante Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, of Raul Castro and Nicolas Maduro, the Conference marked the 230th anniversary of Bolivar’s birth, the 160th anniversary of the birth of Jose Marti, the 60th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks, the 55th year of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the 59th birthdate of the great Venezuelan leader who died in March, Comandante Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias.

The delegation from the United States included representatives of several NNOC member organizations. Among the NNOC member organizations represented were IFCO , Pastors for Peace, All Africa People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), ANSWER, Socialist Workers’ Party, International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, ANSWER, Plumbers Brigade, International Action Center, and three co-chairs of the National Network On Cuba, Banbose Shango, Alicia Jrapko and Cheryl LaBash. To offset the high cost of U.S.-Caracas air travel, the Conference organizers subsidized housing, meals and transportation to conference events. 
The Cuban delegation was headed by Ana Maria Mari Machado, Vice-President of the Cuban Parliament and Kenia Serrano, President of ICAP. The Cuban delegation also included Irma Sehwerert, mother of Rene Gonzalez; Aili Labanino, the daughter of Ramon Labanino; Camilo Rojo, son of a victim of terrorism; Leonela Relis, developer of Yo Si Puedo, the renown Cuban literacy method; Miguel Barnet, president of Cuba’s union of writers and artists (UNEAC); Aleida Guevara, daughter of "Che," Rosa Miriam Elizalde, editor of Cubadebate.cu;  and many others.

On July 24, the first event at Bolivar Plaza recognized the 230th birth of Simon Bolivar with flowers and program. Near the plaza, a Solidarity Exposition lined the street with displays and information of Cuba-Venezuela advances in culture, sports, literacy and medicine through Barrio Adentro, Misiones Ribas and Robinson, and Operation Milago.

The main events took place at the Principal Theater in the morning followed by lunch and plenary discussions at Colegio Universitario Francisco de Miranda where a statement from the NNOC was read. A panel discussion was also held at the National Assembly. Noteworthy both in the main metro transfer station and the conference room of the university venue was the prominent display of the historical contributions of Afro-Venezuelans and also African revolutionary leaders. Topics included the 2014-2015 Plan of Action, the struggle against the U.S. blockade of Cuba , solidarity and continental integration; actions to free the Cuban 5; the struggle against terrorism and the legacy of Comandante Hugo Chavez Frias. A panel commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Network in Defense of Humanity, featured noted Argentine author Stella Calloni who is known for her writing on the bloody U.S. "Operation Condor" intervention in Latin America.. She stressed the danger of U.S. bases to Latin American and Caribbean independence and spoke out against the imperialist-backed war against the government of Syria .

Calloni was one of the many internationally recognized authors present including Stephen Kimber whose new book "What lies across the water, the true story of the Cuban 5" uncovers the facts leading to their arrest and unjust conviction; Arnold August and Salim Lamrani.

On July 26, delegates watched the televised celebration in Santiago , Cuba that dramatized the achievements of continental unity. Representatives of the Boliviarian Alliance of the Americas – ALBA spoke — including Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Antigua and Barbuda ‘s Winston Baldwin Spencer; Saint Lucia ‘s Kenny Davis Anthony and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ‘ Ralph Gonsalves, and the Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patino and other leaders and international guests. This program aired on Cuban television was viewable in the U.S. over the internet, as well.

The Santiago program echoed the conference’s major theme of continental solidarity achieved with the vision of Comandante Hugo Chavez Frias and the Bolivarian Revolution of the Venezuelan people.

The youth string orchestra thrilled the packed Theater Teresa Carreno at the Inaugural Cultural Gala where Venezuelan Vice-President Jorge Alberto Arreaza Montserrat spoke following the concert.

The Conference completed debate and adopted the Declaration of Caracas and Plan of Action on Saturday afternoon, then gathered at the statue of Marti where Cuban doctors and other Caracas residents joined the delegates to march to the Cuartel de la Montana 4F, the mausoleum and museum of Comandante Hugo Chavez life. This hilltop military fortress is the site of Chavez Feb. 4, 1992 rebellion launching the Bolivarian revolution. The spirited and winding march up the hillside was greeted by residents waving from the windows of high rise apartment buildings.

The final declaration included unwavering solidarity with Cuba, its independence, self-determination, sovereignty, dignity and achievements; support for the heroic process of the Venezuelan people and their Bolivarian Revolution ratified democratically in the recent elections recognizing its leadership and outstanding role in unity and integration of the people and government through the mechanisms like ALBA, CELAC, UNASUR and PETROCARIBE and others; rejected the genocidal, inhuman and anachronistic blockade imposed on Cuba by North American imperialism and denounce its permanent aggression policy; condemn the political interference by the U.S. against the Cuban people, internal political subversion financing counterrevolution and mercenaries; demanded the immediate and unconditional liberation of the Cuban 5 — Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez — heroes unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. and the violation of their rights; demanded the extradition of known terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, denouncing him and other terrorists who freely live with impunity in the streets of Miami with the approval of the U.S. authorities; condemned the aggressive political and interventionism of the U.S. and its allies in the various regions of the world like the installation of military bases; demanded the return of U.S. occupied Guantanamo; roundly rejected the U.S. aggression and servile actions of the governments of Austria, France, Spain and Portugal against the constitutional president of the Plurinational Republic of Bolivia, Evo Morales that constituted an affront to the people of Our America and that a return to colonial status is in force in various regions of the world; condemned colonialism and its manifestations and victims in Puerto Rico and other people of the Caribbean who are struggling for independence.

The document saluted the return of Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert to his family and Cuba; recognized the achievements of the Cuban Revolution acknowledged by United Nations agencies like UNECEF, UNESCO, FAO and others, despite the criminal U.S. blockade; saluted Cuba’s current presidency of CELAC that constitutes important space for unification and integration of our people, and greeted the first conference  of social movements from these participating countries.

And finally, thanked the government and people of Venezuela , the Movement of Venezuela-Cuba Mutual Solidarity, Bolivarian youth for the extraordinary work that made the Conference possible.

Some points in the action plan included: intensified use of social and alternative media to tell the truth about Cuba . ICAP will create a method for centralizing information to push this battle forward; expand the Movement in Solidarity with Cuba with other sectors like students, unionists, intellectuals, sports, religious and social and cooperative organizations, with priority to mobilize parliamentarians at every level to make statements of support for Cuba; redouble the campaign to free the Cuban 5 and the Puerto Rican prisoners; prioritize assistance to the next 5 Days for the Cuban 5 and other actions in the U.S.; strengthen the campaign for the 5 on the 5th of every month; mobilize delegates for the IX Colloquium for the freedom of the Cuban 5 and against terrorism in Holguin from November 13 – 17 along with the International Seminar for peace and the abolition of foreign military bases in Guantanamo November 17 – 20; and keep the agreement from the II World Solidarity Conference declaring Oct. 10 as a World Day of Struggle against the U.S. blockade of Cuba; summon the Diaspora living in the U.S. to promote the international campaign to free the Cuban 5.

 

WHAT IS THE A-APRP ^(GC)

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party ^(GC), the A-APRP ^(GC), is a Pan-Africanist Socialist party whose mission is to politically educate and organize the scattered, suffering, and struggling African Masses worldwide into the movement and organization for the total liberation and unification of the entire African continent under Scientific-Socialism.  We are clear that Pan-Africanism is the primary objective and condition for alleviating our suffering and better enabling our progress and development.

We accept, as a historical fact and current reality that all persons of African descent, wherever we are scattered, in Africa (north and south of the Sahara) and the African Diaspora, are African, and belong to the African Nation.  We understand that the scattering of Africans all over the World and our continuing untold suffering is due, primarily; to the racist, capitalist, imperialist system and that nation, class and gender struggle is the motive force for qualitative, revolutionary, change and progress in Africa and the World.

The A-APRP ^(GC)  is the inheritor and continuator of the revolutionary ideas, teachings, struggles, and works of Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure, and Kwame Ture.  We are for the complete independence, unification and revolutionary development of the African nation under scientific-socialism.  The A-APRP ^(GC) is anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-neocolonialist, anti-racist and anti-Zionist.  We are opposed to all bourgeois philosophies and ideologies which seek to defend and perpetuate the racist, capitalist, imperialist system; and as a consequence, mis-educates, divides, disorganizes, exploits and oppresses the masses of the people.

Ideologically and philosophically speaking, the A-APRP ^(GC) is uncompromising in our understanding that, the struggle for Pan-Africanism, like the struggle for Socialism throughout the World, is scientific.  Its laws are scientifically discovered, not invented or created by ideologists.  These laws are discovered by observing and analyzing material reality in both its general and specific aspects; and they are mastered and understood when consciously embraced and successfully executed to change the undesirable and unacceptable reality.

• Our philosophy, Philosophical Consciencism, articulated in Kwame Nkrumah’s 1970 publication of Consciencism:  Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization, is deeply materialist.  It asserts the absolute, independent and primary existence of matter as a plenum of forces in tension, endowed with the capacity for spontaneous self-motion; asserts the secondary existence of non-material forms such as time, space, mind, spirit, ideas, etc.; and claims the reality of categorical conversion as the interaction and transformation of matter to non-matter and vice versa.
• Our scientific method of analysis is dialectical and historical materialism, correctly applied to African history, present day reality and the African Personality.
• Our ideology is Nkrumahism-Toureism, which takes its name from the consistent, revolutionary, scientific socialist and Pan-Africanist principles followed, implemented and taught by Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure and Kwame Ture; three of the foremost exponents and practitioners of the scientific strategy to liberate and unify Africa under Scientific Socialism.
• Our objective is Pan-Africanism, defined at the 5^th Pan-Africanist Congress in Manchester, England in 1945, and reaffirmed in Kwame Nkrumah’s 1970 publication of Class Struggle in Africa, as the total liberation and unification of Africa under Scientific Socialism.  We believe that African people must be politically educated and organized in a mass, revolutionary, all-African political party to achieve our Pan-African objective; and that ideological struggle and revolutionary work are the essential determining forces in our struggle to achieve Pan-Africanism.

INTENSFYING THE IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE

Neo-colonialism, which is the last stage of capitalism and imperialism, in all of its forms and manifestations, is the primary enemy of Africa and the African Diaspora today.  The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party ^(GC) reaffirms the 1961 – Cairo All-African Peoples’ Conference Resolution on Neo-Colonialism.  We also reaffirm:

• Kwame Nkrumah’s repudiation of African Socialism and the notion of the so-called Third World.
• Ahmed Sekou Toure’s analysis of the People’s Class and the Anti-People’s Class;  his denunciation of Negritude as an enemy of the African Revolution; his affirmation of Revolution as an act of Culture; and his assertion that the ideology of the African Revolution emerges from the Revolutionary culture and material conditions of the African people.
• Kwame Ture’s position which clarifies that Pan-Africanism is the highest political expression of Black Power and Black or African Nationalism.

In the limited time and space available to us tonight, the A-APRP (GC) will identify several key ideological struggles we seek to intensify.  We will clarify our position on these struggles over the coming weeks and months. Our positions will be posted on our web portal.

As Nkrumahist-Toureist who have consistently advocated for correct ideology as the guide for the African Revolution, we call for and welcome intense, informed and honest ideological struggle around the following points:

1. The necessity to expose fake Pan-Africanists, and to engage reactionary right-wing nationalists, micro-nationalists, fetishists, and tribalists regarding their failure to understand that they represent a fetter or brake in the advancement and progress of the African Revolution.

2. The necessity to expose and reject ethnic chauvinism, religious intolerance, sectarianism, class, gender and national exploitation and oppression in the balkanized states of Africa and the African Diaspora as forms of neo-colonialism and enemies of revolutionary African nationalism and unity.

3. The need to correct the dogmatic and mechanistic socialists, regarding their failure to understand the determining power of ideology and culture as instruments of the organized masses in changing the material conditions of their existence.

4. The necessity of scientific revolutionary ideology emerging from the social/cultural milieu of each people as the most correct means for organizing them.

5. The necessary destruction of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, settler-colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism and Zionism throughout Africa, the African Diaspora and the World and the reconstruction of society under Scientific-Socialism.

6. Revolutionary nationalism, which is still the requisite channel for waging anti-colonial struggle necessitates the continued demand for an anti-racist, non-chauvinistic defense of a Socialist Republic of Africa, in the era of colonialism, settler-colonialism and neo-colonialism, where foreign domination is still the primary form of exploitation and oppression of the African People and Nation.

7. The necessity to expose and reject the African Union and similar structures throughout the Africa and the African Diaspora who, without policies and actions demanding genuine revolutionary, anti-imperialist, political unification under Scientific Socialism, become agents of neo-colonialism. We further reject and seek to expose the efforts of Diaspora groups fighting for membership in the AU as conscious or unconscious co-conspirators in legitimizing and sustaining the corruption inside the AU.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, MILITARY AND HUMANITARIAN AID

8. We denounce the efforts of organizations such as AFRICOM, NEPAD, USAID, etc. seeking military, economic, political, and so-called humanitarian aid relations with reactionary, puppet African leaders and regimes as forms neo-colonialism which undermines and diminishes genuine independence.  Seeking membership in and expecting change through capitalist/imperialist parties and government formations in Africa and the African Diaspora (including the presidency, congress, parliament, etc.)  which maintain and further the exploitation of the African Masses is neo-colonialist.  Africa Day or African liberation Day activities funded or organized by AFRICOM, USAID, US Embassies, the US Congress etc. are efforts to co-opt, redirect, control and destroy institutions created by the masses of the people

9. Leaders and members of parties and movements in Africa and the African Diaspora who misuse their historical positions in the mass organizations or movements during the national liberation phase of our struggle; who are in positions of power in these parties, movements and in government today, and are unwilling to improve the condition of the people; and who misuse their positions of power to accumulate individual/family/tribal privilege and wealth are neo-colonial puppets and enemies of the people.

INTELLECTUAL AND MOVEMENT IDEOLOGUES

10. We contend that occupying academic and movement space, misusing intellectual and organizational resources, engaging in research that has no relationship to the material needs or aspirations of our People and promoting erroneous ideas and information as education, who’s intent or result is to maintain the status quo by mis-educating, distracting and dis-organizing the people is neo-colonialist.

11. We denounce all cultural nationalist philosophies including, but not limited to Negritude, African socialism, Ujamaa Socialism, third universal theories, Afro-centrism, Sankofaism, etc., which promote racist, tribal, ethnocentric, pro-capitalist interests, and organizational formations as neo-colonialist.

12. While we understand the African Revolution is part of the world socialist movement and as such has its own unique historical material reality and contributions, we maintain the necessity of its independence. We reject as chauvinistic and counter-revolutionary the imposition of foreign cultures, ideologies and forms of organizations and struggle which claim to be revolutionary, scientific and universally correct, but have not considered the specific culture, experiences and material conditions of African society.

CALL TO REVOLUTIONARY POSITIVE ACTION

The Masses of the People in Africa, the African Diaspora and the World are the true makers, artisans and motive force of their histories. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) has unconditional and uncompromising faith in African and other Oppressed Peoples, when properly educated and organized, to decide and execute their liberation. Our task, and yours, is to help politically educate and organize them, because revolutionary culture, ideology and political organization are the weapons of the oppressed.

The A-APRP ^(GC) will not make any compromises over our Nkrumahist-Toureist principles, ideology or Pan-African objective with capitalism, imperialism, or its neo-colonial agents. Though the struggle, political, economic and social, will be long, hard and fierce, victory is certain!  Africa will be free, united and socialist, even if not in our lifetime!

The African Revolution is currently bogged down with ideological chaos and confusion, organizational corruption and treachery, enemies of the Revolution, and enemies of Oppressed Humanity. Thus, the A-APRP (GC) calls for Positive Action.

We ask progressive and revolutionary forces worldwide to join us in launching, waging and winning this ideological struggle.

We ask you to join and build an organization to combat capitalism, imperialism, neocolonialism, & corruption in order to construct Scientific-Socialism and end exploitation and oppression.  We ask you to join and build an organization which seeks to properly educate and organize the masses of the people; an organization willing to suffer, sacrifice, and serve the African masses and Oppressed Humanity.

We ask revolutionary Pan-Africanists throughout Africa and the African Diaspora and other revolutionary fighters for liberation and Scientific Socialism to join and/or align with the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC).  In closing, we ask that you:

Intensify the Ideological Struggle and the Work of the Revolution!

Join and Help Build the A-APRP (GC)!

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

invites you to attend

African Liberation Day

Saturday, May 19, 2012

The Emergence Community Arts Collective

733 Euclid Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

[Elevator and Limited Parking at Rear of Building]

Time: 5:00 pm –10:00 pm

Inheriting and Continuing the Revolutionary Theory and Practice of Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, and Kwame Ture

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party ^(GC) is organizing African Liberation Day (ALD) 2012, in honor of El Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh of the Republic of Viet Nam. It is our objective that this ALD intensify the nation, class, and gender struggles in the African and international world by centering this political struggle, the struggle to more clearly define the revolutionary African Personality and Culture and the morals, values, ethics, and principles, which engender them.

We believe that this ideological struggle will evolve into an understanding for all involved and for African People to clearly see that for the struggle for Pan-Africanism – the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism, to move to a higher stage, to take a qualitative leap forward, we must correctly analyze, inherit, and continue with a renewed commitment and dynamism the revolutionary theory and practice of Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, and Kwame Ture. We know the truth of Kwame Nkrumah‘s axiom “practice without thought is blind; thought without practice is empty”. History has documented that revolutionary ideology and organization are indispensable weapons of the oppressed, but struggling African Masses and of all Oppressed Humanity.

African Liberation Day convenes at The Emergence Community Arts Collective, 733 Euclid St. NW Washington, DC 2001. The Diplomatic Reception, please RSVP, starts at 5 pm and the Symposium at 7:00 pm. We honor Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X as May 19^th is their birthdays. They were uncompromising fighters for their People and all Oppressed Humanity.

Ho Chi Minh (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969) was a humble man, a servant of his People, a Vietnamese nationalist and socialist revolutionary who, while living in the US, attended meetings of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), led by Marcus Garvey and who would later direct Kwame Ture, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, to Africa, and revolutionary Pan-Africanism. Kwame travelled to Vietnam following his attendance at the First Conference of the Organization of Latin American Solidarity in Cuba. It was in Hanoi, August 1967, that Kwame had an audience with “Uncle Ho”. It was Uncle Ho, as he was fondly called, that led the Vietnamese Revolution defeating both French and U.S. Imperialism in Vietnam.

El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), ( May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), a Muslim minister, was an uncompromising revolutionary Pan-Africanist, the son of a UNIA organizer. Malcolm X held a principled position in opposition to capitalism, imperialism, and zionism and all forms of oppression and exploitation. He was targeted by the FBI’s Counter-intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and was assassinated February 21, 2965. He left the African world many revolutionary political lessons and modeled African People’s and Oppressed Humanity’s dignified, revolutionary and fearless hatred of our primary and common enemy, U.S. led capitalism, imperialism, neo-colonialism, and zionism.

Our ALD 2012 Program

African Liberation Day, originally called Africa Freedom Day, was founded by Osageyfo Kwame Nkrumah at the First Conference of Independent African States, held April 15, 1958 in Accra, Ghana to mark the onward progress of the African Revolution. The name was later changed to African Liberation Day at the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) May 25, 1963. This change reflected an intensification of the nation, class, and gender struggle in the African Revolution expressed in all forms of political struggle, but most significantly, in the armed struggle for National Liberation, Unification, and Socialism. ALD has been held in every corner of the world since it’s founding and is now fifty-four (54) years old.

African Liberation Day 2012, which is organized by the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), convenes at The Emergence Community Arts Collective, 733 Euclid St. NW Washington, DC 2001. Elevator and limited parking at rear of building. Our ALD 2012 program includes:

ALD 2012 Diplomatic Reception (RSVP) – 5:00 pm –7:00 pm

Invited Speakers: Vietnam Press Agency; Embassy of Nicaragua; Cuban Interests Section; Embassy of Zimbabwe and Embassy of Venezuela

Other Invited Guests include: Embassy of Angola; Embassy of Antigua and Barbuda; Embassy of Bolivia; Embassy of Dominica; Embassy of Mozambique; Embassy of Namibia; Embassy of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Embassy of South Africa; Embassy of Suriname ; Embassy of St. Lucia; Embassy of Syria; Embassy of Tanzania; Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago

ALD 2012 Symposium – 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Panel I: Intensifying the Ideological Struggle in Africa, the African Diaspora, and the World.

Invited Panelists: Ismael Conde, Parti de la Revolution Populaire Africain de Guinee; Lang T.K.A. Nubuor, Centre of Consciencist Studies and Analyses; Representative of African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence in Mali (SADI) and a Representative of the National Council of Black Studies

Panel II: Anti-Repression and Resistance: From the Military Industrial Complex, Proxy Wars and Africom to the Industrial-Police-Intelligence Complex, the FBI, CIA and Mass Incarceration

Invited Panelists: Benjamin Woods, Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI); Abayomi Azikwe, Pan-African News Wire; Malik al-Farrakhan, Cease Fire Don’t Smoke the Brothers; Roach Brown, Inner Voices and Dr. Zoe Spencer, Professor of Sociology, Virginia State University

We encourage you to become a Member of the A-APRP (GC)!

Click here, to complete the A-APRP (GC)’s Pre-Registration for African Liberation Day Attendance Form!

Click here, to invite an A-APRP (GC) Organizer to your area!

For More Information, contact:

Email: info@a-aprp-gc.org – Website: www.a-aprp-gc.org

Voice Mail: (202) 719-0529

Click Here:  To View Coalition Against the Bombing of Africa (Libya) Press Conference

On Thursday, March 31, 2011, the Coalition against the Bombing of Africa (Libya) will hold an international, traditional and internet, press conference at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 2001.

At this traditional and international press conference, in response to President Barack Obama’s “Remarks on the Situation in Libya,” a broad cross section of leadership representing the Peace, African (also known as African-American), Indigenous-Hispanic, Arab and Middle-Eastern, Faith, Student and Youth Movements and Communities in the United States will condemn the United States and NATO led interference and intervention in, bombing and planned invasion of Africa (Libya).

We will join the growing number of voices who are calling for mass and militant protests throughout the United States and the World against this historical and continuing crime against African and World Humanity. This traditional and international press conference is available for viewing via webcast, worldwide!

WHEN: Thursday, March 31, 2001 – 11:00 AM (PROMPT) to 1:00 PM

WHERE: Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC.

WHO: A coalition of leaders, representing a broad cross section of the Peace, Indigenous-Hispanic, African (also known as African-American), Arab, Faith, Student and Youth communities and movements.  Confirmed speakers, in alphabetical order by organization, include, but are not limited to: All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) – Bob Brown; ANSWER Coalition – Brian Becker; December 12th Movement – Viola Plummer; Dignity – former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney; International Action Center & United National Antiwar Committee – Sarah Black; Nation of Islam – Akbar Muhammad; Universal African Peoples Organization – Zaki Baruti; and other peoples, movements and organizations.

Why: In response to the “Remarks on the Situation in Libya,” by President Barack Obama.

To attend the Press Conference, and support the coalition, click here.

To view the Press Conference,  click here!