Program
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Friday, March 25
Evening event
7-9:30 pm ET Movie and Discussion of Claudine (1974)
Diahann Carroll plays the main character Claudine, a single mother of six children, who works as a maid for white families to make ends meet. Claudine meets a Black garbage man named Roop and a relationship starts to bud. She is hesitant about falling in love and resists his initial attempts to woo her with bubble baths and fine dining. Claudine faces difficulties with her love life, the welfare office, intrusive social workers and keeping her children in line.
Saturday, March 26
Online Zoom Webinar
11:00 am - 11:05 am Welcome Day 1
11:20 am - 11:35 am African Nation Fight Song
11:35 am - 11:40 am ANWO Salute to Leadership
11:40am - 11:45 am Cultural Performance
On Stage: Rose Marie Bey11:45 am - 12:30 pm The New Auction Block: How Child Protection Services Police our Families and Kidnap our Children
You've heard of the New Jim Crow that describes black mass incarceration. You should also know about the New Auction Block the movement and families fighting back against it Join our comrades from ArrestCPS and OperationStopCPS as they discuss the building of a movement.
On Stage: Erika Clark, Amanda Wallace, Demetria Hester12:30 pm - 1:05 pm Breakout Session
1:05 pm - 1:35 pm Political Report to the ANWO Black Women's Convention
President Yejide Orunmila has been at the helm of ANWO since 2015. She has fought for ANWO to meet the needs of the African Revolution by upholding the interest of working-class African women everywhere. Join us on Saturday, day 1 of the convention, for her keynote Political Report to the Black Women's Convention.
On Stage: President Yejide Orunmila1:35 pm - 2:00 pm Membership and Sustainable Funding
On Stage: Erika Clark and Hada Dioula Longi2:00 pm - 2:20 pm African Doula Project
Ona Zene' Yeshitela, is the Deputy Chair of the African People's Socialist Party. She leads all of the Party's Economic projects including the transformative Black Power Blueprint Project which is reclaiming neighborhoods one property at a time. Comrade Ona will be presenting on the newest initiative, the African Doula Project, and the impact that we plan to have in the lives of black parents and birth workers.
On Stage: Deputy Chair Ona Zene Yeshitela2:20 pm - 2:35 pm BuyBlackPower Live Vending
2:35pm - 3:05pm Crossing the line: Black migration and colonial borders
It's a fact that black colonized people did not draw the borders. The Colonizers did this to define the territory they are exploiting. What happens to the people separated by these borders?
On Stage: Jheanelle Owens, Khwezi Radebe3:05 pm - 3:35 pm Colonialism's Impact on the Mental Health of the Colonized
One of the foremost thinkers on the effects of colonialism on the colonized, Frantz Fanon reasoned that "colonized peoples internalise the idea of their own inferiority and ultimately come to emulate their oppressors." His study of the psychology of colonialism has led to the development of a school of thought in academia. But what do working-class revolutionary mental health workers say about its impact today?
On Stage: Mwezi Odom, Kundai Bajikikayi, Erika Clark3:35 pm - 3:50 pm Cadre Development
On Stage: President Yejide Orunmila 3:50 pm - 4:22 pm Surviving Colonialism: For Black Girls Who Consider Revolution Because Colonialism is Just too Much
How should we prepare, when imperialism is in crisis and the most vulnerable of us feel the pressure. Join this anticipated discussion featuring President of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, Kalambayi Andenet, and ANWO's ArrestCPS Parent Coordinator, Demetria Hester as the talk about real-world expectations and tactics.
On Stage: Demetria Hester, Kalambayi Andenet4:22 pm - 4:37 pm Announcements and Close Day 1
Sunday, March 27
Online Zoom Webinar
11:00 am - 11:10 am Welcome Day 2
11:10 am - 11:15 am Cultural Performance
On Stage: Kendell Clay11:15 am - 11:40 am Build the Africa Front of ANWO
All the imperialist powers have an Africa plan. What is African's plan for Africa? Tune in to this presentation from comrade Khwezi Radebe as she speaks about the way forward for the African National Women's Organization in Occupied Azania. On Stage: Khwezi Radebe11:40 am - 11:55 am Buy Black Power Live Sales
11:55 pm - 12:55 pm Defining our Relationships, Gender and Sexuality as part of the African Liberation Struggle
Personal relationships are defined as the way individuals connect with one another. This panel will discuss the relationships that define our existence as African revolutionaries and how gender and sexuality guide our concerns and expectations for the African Liberation Struggle.
12:55 pm - 1:15 pm Uhuru Kijiji Childcare Collective - The African Community's Response to Child Welfare
The Uhuru Kijiji Childcare Collective is not just a way to collective care for the children in our community, but it is an active strategy to make the state irrelevant in the lives of our people. Comrade Hada Dioula Longi, Project Coordinator of the Uhuru Kijiji Childcare Collective will educate our attendees on the reality of this campaign and share ways to get involved.
On Stage: Hada Dioula Longi1:15 pm - 1:50 pm Breakout Session
1:50 pm - 2:25 pm The Importance of Black Women in the African Revolution
Chairman has over 50 years of leadership in the black liberations struggle, building practical representations of dual and contending power institutions and organizations under the banner of the Uhuru or Freedom Movement. Join us at the Black Women's Convention as he delivers his keynote address on the importance of African women in the African revolution.
On Stage: Chairman Omali Yeshitela