Today in the U.S., after the latest national election, my phone has been buzzing with activity about Trump’s election.

People are reaching out, asking, “What are we going to do?” regarding MAGA Donald Trump’s second victory as president in the last eight years. The fact that people are reaching out is exciting. Unlike most of them, my political activism isn’t limited to just voting in these capitalist elections every two or four years. My activism is a daily commitment: planning and executing events, traveling, speaking, organizing, risking harm to build capacity, writing about our conditions, and mentoring countless young people to organize and build our revolutionary Pan-African movement.

The people reaching out to me know this. They know I’ve been doing this work for decades. These are working-class people with families—African, Indigenous to the Western Hemisphere, European, and more. What they have in common is that I’ve never felt they valued my politics. My engagements with them have overwhelmingly focused on their fears, concerns, and actions, with little to no engagement around the solutions we offer.

Yet, here they are this morning.

A lot of people would view this as insulting. You pour your soul into working for humanity, and most people around you couldn’t seem to care less. They never ask about your work or show any interest in it—not even the people closest to you. Despite this, any revolutionary organizer would relish these moments. The reason is that the question we always seek to answer in our work is the one I’ve been getting all day: “What do we do?”

We welcome the opportunity to offer our insights. By the end of this election, around 80 million people will have voted for the Trump ticket—roughly 22% of the 350 million people in this country. There are a few key takeaways here.

First, our revolutionary organizing and demographic work informs us that out of 350 million people, approximately 100 million are ineligible to vote (too young, convicted of felonies, immigrants, etc.). Of the 250 million eligible voters, about 150 million participate in national elections.

This tells us that among people with higher incomes, primarily European communities, and those aspiring to align with the European capitalist paradigm, the overwhelming majority have made their stance clear. They support a right-wing fascist agenda: anti-African, anti-Indigenous, anti-women, anti-LGBTQ, anti-humanity, and pro-capitalist. These people represent over 50% of voters. This sentiment isn’t confined to one man; it’s what this country fundamentally wants.

As African and other oppressed peoples, it’s our responsibility to accept this cold, hard reality. This means it’s far past time to stop pretending we have a place in this country. From our perspective, it’s incredible that anyone with dignity would even want a place here. But for those who do, you owe it to yourselves and your communities to engage with this reality from a position of dignity.

Stop begging to fit into a society that was never designed for you. Stop playing by rules that were never configured with your interests in mind. If you insist on participating in this electoral process, come into it with the intention to advance the masses, not just a few individuals. Build a mass movement that holds this corrupt system accountable to our interests, one committed to tearing this system to the ground when it violates us.

If we aren’t serious about our future, we’re only upset because what’s happening makes us personally uncomfortable. If that’s the case, we should remain uncomfortable—extremely so. Why should our enemies take us seriously if we lack the regard to fight for the legacy our ancestors sacrificed everything to provide?

The other significant factor is the 100 million people who don’t vote. They aren’t apathetic. This elitist analysis comes from the capitalist system itself. A large percentage of these people are refusing to choose between a violent r*pist and one who talks nicely while they harm you. Both are r*pists, both are terrorists—or, as Malcolm X said, “both are canines.”

For us, these 100 million are potential converts. Africans within this group could join the African revolution. Non-Africans could support revolutionary change as the only viable solution.

This country today is the same as it has been for 531 years: a terrorist settler colony protecting its interests at humanity’s expense. There are no more excuses, no more lame justifications. If you’re committed to reform, you must accept that a mass movement dedicated to disrupting this system on all levels is essential. If you’re ready for something beyond reform, there is plenty of work to build the revolutionary consciousness and capacity needed to bring the empire to its knees.

Anything less is voting for our continued demise. We are better than that. It’s time to stop moping and prove it.

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Thank you. With that aside, welcome to this week's featured EM POC thread.

How are all my comrades doing?

Organisers of the letter of this group of Black Muslims say it is the latest effort in what is a long and deep-rooted history of Black-Palestinian solidarity.

"Black communities have fought tirelessly against slavery, against segregation, against racial violence, so it recognises the Palestinian struggle is the same fight for freedom, for dignity and the right to self-determination," Abdullahi said.

"Just as Jim Crow saw the South try to keep the Black community subjugated, we're seeing Palestinians undergoing that, Israel using their apartheid system to strip them of their land, of their rights. It goes beyond solidarity."

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Vibes are off. That's really all I can say about my energy right now.

How are all of the rest of the EM POC comrades?

She is doing a demographics survey, and your input would be greatly appreciated when it comes to making the survey more inclusive.

You can message her matrix ID for more information: @small-k:matrix.org

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I finally got my internet back. It took them fucking long enough. I guess this means that I'm finally away from all of the outages that Milton gave me.

I'm still overall pissed off about... everything else that made this hurricane suck, but I'll try to do positive vibes right now.

That aside, good day to all of my EM POC comrades!

African Stream breaking a metaphorical foot off in privileged ivory-tower honky ass. Had to ghost archive this one; since Hexbear doesn't seem to agree with .media domains.

I actually don't have much to add to this one; I'm a bit low on the incendiary energy that I usually come at this with. I just really like seeing more people talking about decentralized social media, especially when it's the one trying to get out from Boer thumbs.

Mandatory fuck Kerry for "the first amendment is in the way", and motherfuck Blinken for "we need to bring African Stream under control". Death to the empire, worse to the settlers.

Never surrender, never retreat.

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I still don't have power, so I spent a lot of time at this cafe that is open late just to ensure that I have a full battery. I stayed there until they closed.

As utterly fucking frustrating as this is, it seems as if Tuesday/tomorrow is the latest I can expect to have power. So many houses around me already seem to have it.

I might be able to actually sleep with ease again as my room won't be disgustingly hot anymore. I could complain about it for ages, and I could get a lot more vulgar too, especially considering the whole fucked up context of the American government being more invested in putting in billions to fund fascist operations in Isn'trael and UKKKraine instead of providing relief to their own citizens that just endured the wrath of a very rough, cheek-clapping hurricane.

Ay, ay, ay...

How are you all doing?

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One year of Palestinian resistance...

I want liberation for all of the marginalized who still remain chained up by their oppressors.

That aside, of course, I'm hoping for some happy EM POC vibes this week!

I'm trying this new approach to my issues called the "thug that shit out" approach. Let's see how it goes!

Rest in power to the martyrs, domestic and abroad. All I got to say.

For all those who perpetuate the Western big lie that Nasrallah was a 'terrorist', know this: long after you are gone and forgotten, Hassan Nasrallah will be remembered in the annals of history as someone who had the courage to stand up to the fourth largest military power on earth, and history will most definitely absolve him. -- Gerald A. Perreira

Jaunty little song

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Good morning, afternoon, or evening depending on where you are, comrades.

I finally reached my goal for c/mutual_aid. It was scary as hell, but we're here now. Thank you to everyone who gave support.

I'm looking forward to having some more chill EM POC vibes today!

There are very few true revolutionaries. Allowing ourselves to pretend that Angela Davis is among them is a grave mistake.

“When we engage in electoral politics, it can’t be just because a particular individual is running for office, it is to enlarge the terrain of mass struggle, to guarantee a space for the trade union movement to win victories, for the women’s movement to win victories, for people of color to win victories, for working and poor people to win victories.”

Angela Davis is certainly correct in speaking these words. They are an important reminder of how we must view and relate to the electoral process. But unfortunately, she followed those remarks with highly questionable assertions which put at risk all that she says she seeks to achieve.

Davis has a habit of engaging in some very grave contradictions, which we have analyzed over the years here at Black Agenda Report. In 2012 Angela Davis felt compelled to give fulsome praise to Barack Obama, including claiming that his rise to the presidency showed a connection with the Black radical tradition. The false statement was quite alarming, as Davis ignored the obvious, that the Obama campaign was a creation of the neo-liberal and imperialist elites who needed a more attractive face in a moment of crisis. Our late comrade Glen Ford observed that, “The ‘delusional effect’ that swept Black America with the advent of the First Black President has warped and weakened the mental powers of some of our most revered icons – and it has been painful to behold.”

It is inexplicable that Davis would claim that Obama emerged victorious in 2008 “despite the power of money.” Obama raised $750 million in his presidential campaign that year. His war chest was so full that he was able to reverse his pledge to seek public campaign financing, unlike his opponent John McCain, who raised a mere $238 million from donors and $38 million in public financing. Surely Dr. Davis was capable of researching the same easily accessible information. Yet she insisted on making claims that are plainly untrue.

Davis’ recent comments diminish her and show that she has become just another acolyte of Democratic Party policy. “It’s not just about electing Kamala Harris. … it’s about opening space for those of us who are more radical than Kamala Harris to put anti-capitalist and anti-racist programs forward and increase the pressure for change, especially in the first place when it comes to the genocide being inflicted on the people of Palestine.“

Her comments border on outright delusion. Kamala Harris brags about the republicans who support her and “welcomes” an endorsement from Dick Cheney. She pledges to include a republican in her cabinet while saying nothing about including more progressive democrats. How would anti-capitalist and anti-racist programs be put forward under such an administration?

This columnist advised ignoring Davis altogether when she declared support for Hillary Clinton in 2016: “I’m not so narcissistic to say that I wouldn’t vote for her.” The defensive and embarrassed tone of the comment was obvious, as if Davis couldn’t bring herself to be clear about her choice to vote for the war criminal who destroyed Libya and insisted that Haiti redo an election in order to get her desired result.

Again, in 2024, Davis talks out of both sides of her mouth, stating that she is still a communist and declaring, “We have to challenge capitalism; it is the enemy of all progressive movements and struggles in the world.” Indeed we must, but that certainly can’t happen while simultaneously supporting Kamala Harris, who pledges no opposition to capitalism and who is therefore, by Davis’ definition, unworthy of support.

As Black Agenda Report has pointed out many times, Kamala Harris is the latest mediocrity to grace the political sphere, put forward by rich donors hoping for a new Obama effect. She is neither intelligent nor talented in any way. Her milquetoast liberalism has given way to right wing policy making, giving slight nods to reproductive rights or other issues that are bright red lines for millions of people.

But Davis also showed herself in 2020 when she was strangely thrilled by the choice of Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate. She supported Biden and Harris despite calling them both “problematic” while concluding, “It’s really a question of who we will be able to pressure.”

There is no evidence of Angela Davis doing anything to pressure Biden or Harris on any issue. The failure of political imagination afflicts the casual voter and the erstwhile radical icon too, who pop up in election years to declare their surrender to the forces they otherwise claim to oppose.

No one is above reproach, regardless of their history. Those who remember the days of the “Free Angela” movement may be stunned by her ongoing slide into political irrelevancy. Yet that is the position that Angela Davis has chosen for herself. Now she offers empty nostalgia, political confusion, and cautionary tales about heroes with feet of clay. It seems that ignoring Angela Davis is still a sensible decision.

I remember, really recently, a quote from Ta-Nehisi Coates (and don't worry; I see the immense irony in my quoting a Marvel misleader like him) that even for all of my contempt for the Black Misleadership Complex in liberal politics, has still been sitting with me, chewing at me for a long minute; and it's not for a lack of framework.

I know there are Black outfits out here actually trying to get on one accord and properly form up for us; but I was looking for a decade; only spending up more and more time and patience tryna organize with "lemme-talk-over-you"-assed crackers. And we're only like ten percent of the population at best. So when I think about how long it took me to find folks I could unabashedly align myself with, then I look at the shit Coates was saying, my marrow runs cold.

“I have a deep-seated fear that the Black struggle will ultimately, at its root, really just be about narrow Black interest."

That's where my mind goes, every time I see a Black face trying to harangue a vote for Harris anymore. Whenever I see a Black body, shrieking that 'voot bloo no mater whoo' slogan like a true believer, that's the record spooling up in the mind palace. That we'll never see liberation as long as a fraction of us continue to aspire to the capitalist's brass ring. As long as they're trying to edge each other for the White man's chair; and trying to browbeat us back under the Big Tent™, I don't think we'll ever get around this bend in the river.

The revolution has failed. Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.

George Jackson, born on this day in 1941, was the revolutionary author of "Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson" and co-founder of the Marxist-Leninist Black Guerilla Family.

In 1970, Jackson was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of prison guard John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. The same year, he published "Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson", a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to a black American audience. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame.

Jackson was killed during an attempted prison escape on August 21st, 1971. Quoting communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, Jackson freed twenty-six prisoners and took hostages at gunpoint. Jackson and five other men were killed.

Fay Stender, George Jackson's former lawyer, was shot and paralyzed for her alleged betrayal of Jackson by Black Guerilla Family member Edward Glenn Brooks. Brooks entered her home, tied up her family, and forced Stender to say "I, Fay Stender, admit I betrayed George Jackson and the prison movement when they needed me most" before shooting her several times. Left paralyzed and in chronic pain, Stender testified against Brooks and committed suicide a year later.

"Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution."

George Jackson

• Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

• It's been 30 years since George Jackson died in a pool of blood at San Quentin. His death still reverberates in America SFGATE

• blood in my eye george jackson

• Day of the Gun (2002)

• George Jackson Archival Footage

• George Jackson Funeral Footage

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Sleepy as hell again, comrades, but I might as well get this posted up before I go ahead and rest.

That aside, let's get those weekly EM POC vibes going!

Due diligence edit: I do not agree with unc about voting for the Top Cop. In fairness, should've expected he'd couch this video; he'd always be the first to talk about how the majority of corn/breadtube creators have liberal politics first 🤷

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3478991

video was mirrored from youtube and hosted on tankietube! (@TankieTanuki@hexbear.net my bad for the 1 GB video upload )

still a relevant topic (even if the video's outdated), and the video's also very informative.

BAMAKO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will introduce new biometric passports as part of their withdrawal from a West African bloc in favour of a new Sahel alliance after military leaders seized power in all three countries, Mali's leader said on Sunday.

The three junta-led Sahel neighbours jointly announced in January they would leave the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which has sought to persuade them to reconsider their decision.

Burkina Faso announced earlier this month that it was rolling out new passports without the ECOWAS logo.

"In the coming days, a new biometric passport of the AES (Alliance of Sahel States) will be put into circulation with the aim of harmonising travel documents in our common area and facilitating the mobility of our citizens throughout the world", Malian junta leader Assimi Goita announced on Sunday evening.

He spoke ahead of a meeting Monday between the three countries' foreign ministers on the anniversary of the decision to form their own alliance. Goita also said they were planning to launch a shared information channel "in order to promote a harmonious dissemination of information in our three states."

ECOWAS has warned that the three countries' withdrawal would undermine the freedom of movement and common market of the 400 million people living in the 49-year-old bloc.

Their departure comes as their armies battle groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State, whose insurgencies have destabilised the region over the past decade and threaten to spill over into coastal West African states.

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Just brewed up the coffee, feeling like a doomer, but at least I'm about to be a caffeinated one.

How are all my fellow EM POC comrades doing?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5682981

I'd go as far as to call this judicial overreach on the part of the cracker's (illegitimate) 'legal' system as "liberal authoritarianism". They're now claiming, as their sycophants, water-bearers, and zealots have always done, that to protest Amerika's actions, that to detest the bloodshed Amerika aids, abets, provides comfort, and materiel for, that to stand against the genocidal butchers in Israel, in Ukraine, in every sovereign nation that AFRICOM has spidered its settler-colonial appendages through, is to be an "aGeNt Of FoReIgN pOwErS".

This conviction is a vindication of the most intellectually lazy and dishonest, most xenophobic white liberal response to pushback, the "buh, buh, ruzzian bot" response that has come to mark them no different from the crackers in the RNC. Can’t you just see the way that marquee looks over this action? In glowing, 288pt bold-italics Impact:

“If you don’t back our settler-neocolonial ambitions, we will make you into a carceral slave”.

So much for free speech, yanquis. Death to your past, death to your future; death to your Global Settlement.