OMALI YESHITELA You can bring Omali Yeshitela to community events, OMALI college campuses, rallies, forums and conferences. Yeshitela is a powerful speaker, presenting brilliant YESHITELA revolutionary analysis on issues important to Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party • Leader of the Uhuru Movement African people and critical thinkers everywhere. Omali Yeshitela speaks on such topics as: FIGHTER FOR AFRICAN LIBERATION REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN PEOPLE: “We’re coming for what is ours!” BLACK POWER IN THE ‘60S What really happened to our movement. AFRICA FOR AFRICANS White power and neo-colonialism must go! PUBLIC POLICY AT OUR EXPENSE Drugs, prisons and containment of the African community. You have the emergence in human society of this thing called the State. What is the State? The State is organized bureaucracy. “ WHO ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS? It is the police department. It is the army, the navy. It is the U.S. war and the struggle for national liberation. “prison system, the courts…The reality is the police and the State become necessary in human society only at that juncture where DEMOCRACY FOR WHOM? there is a split between those who have and those who ain’t got. White rights founded on slavery and genocide. --Omali Yeshitela as heard on “Police State” from Let’s Get Free by Dead Prez For more information on bringing Omali Yeshitela to your town, contact: Burning Spear Uhuru Tours PO Box 3757 SPEAKS St. Petersburg, FL 33731 • 727-894-6997 [email protected] • 727.894.6907 www.apspuhuru.org • [email protected] OMALI YESHITELA SPEAKS! Omali Yeshitela has dedicated his life to the struggle for liberation for Africa and African THE AFRICAN PEOPLE’S people everywhere. Yeshitela’s visionary leadership spans the generations from the Black SOCIALIST PARTY Power Movement of the 1960s to the movement for one united Africa in the 21st Century. He is Chairman of the In 1972, Omali Yeshitela formed African People’s Socialist Party and leads the International Uhuru Movement for African freedom. the African People’s Socialist Party FROM THE ‘60S BLACK POWER MOVEMENT TO TODAY! THE AFRICAN SOCIALIST which aims to liberate and unite Africa and African people under the In 1966, Omali Yeshitela, then known as Joseph INTERNATIONAL leadership of African workers. Waller, boldly ripped down a racist mural that had hung for years in the St. Petersburg, Florida, City Hall. For this he spent two years in prison. In 1968, Yeshitela formed the Junta of Militant Organizations (JOMO), which led the 1966, St. Petersburg, Fl: Yeshitela destroys struggle for Black Power throughout the South. racist Mural which had draped City Hall Yeshitela (right) and APSP comrades meet with Winnie Mandela (2nd from left) in South Africa The African People’s Socialist Party 1986, Oakland, Ca: Huey Newton and Omali Yeshitela THE BURNING SPEAR REPARATIONS TRIBUNALS holds its annual world conference on THE BATTLE OF In 1982 Omali the African Socialist International Yeshitela head- every July in London, England. With ST. PETERSBURG participants from many African coun- ed up the first In 1996, St. Petersburg, Florida, tries, as well as from the Caribbean, World Tribunal police murdered an 18 year-old on Reparations Europe and North and South America, 1982: First World Tribunal African youth two blocks from the on Reparations the ASI works to liberate Africa under for African Uhuru House world headquarters of one united government. The Burning Spear newspaper, people, held in Brooklyn, NY. After the African People’s Socialist Party. founded by Omali Yeshitela, has two days of testimony, the panel of ANTI WAR/PRO LIBERATION Rebellions followed. Omali Yeshitela continuously published since 1968. international judges found the U.S. In 2001, Omali Yeshitela called led the African community in Known as the “Voice of the guilty, owing $4.1 trillion in repara- together the Florida Alliance for demanding economic and social International African Revolution.” tions. In November, 2003, the 12th justice, not more police presence, session of the Peace and Social Justice, holding some of the largest rallies in the forcing the city to concede. In World Tribunal 2001, through popular support, on Reparations Southeast against the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq. The Florida Yeshitela ran for mayor, strategical- was held in ly putting African community needs Philadelphia, Alliance stands in solidarity with vic- tories of oppressed peoples strug- on the city’s political agenda. He 2003: 12th Session of the World PA. Tribunal on Reparations gling for national liberation. won every African precinct..