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A Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Solidarity Statement ...
To our Sisters and Brothers in Kenya,
Your sisters and brothers of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) are deeply disturbed and saddened by the post-election violence and displacement we have witnessed via television and the world-wide-web. While we are keen to distrust the distortions and lies of the capitalist dominated media based on our own experiences, it is painfully apparent that the peoples of Kenya have reached a critical crossroads in the development of the Kenyan state and its ability to advance fundamental social, political, cultural, and economic human rights.
Given the burdens of exploitation and oppression we collectively bear as Afrikan peoples as a result of colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy and patriarchy we wish to implore all the peoples and parties of Kenya, for the sake of national stability and Pan-Afrikan unity, to seek non-violent means of resolution when and wherever possible to resolve our internal antagonisms and contradictions. We believe the current crisis to be no exception. We strongly encourage all the parties and progressive
community forces in Kenya to collectively create a process and program of reconciliation that interrogates and structurally addresses the underlying causes of the violence currently eroding society, namely the growing impoverishment and resource scarcity created in large part by the debts of the state and the IMF and World Bank privatization stipulations to service it.
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement stands with all of the progressive forces in Kenya seeking a long-term solution to the crises of the Kenyan state and society. It is our position that the root cause of the crisis in Kenya and Afrika as a whole is imperialism, particularly US imperialism and its neo-liberal policies that aim to keep Afrika and Afrikan peoples in a subjugated and exploitable position. We applaud the expansion of all the political and civil society forces resisting neo-liberalism and imperialism and demanding full political democracy, economic democracy, debt relief, reparations, women's rights, food security, ecological justice, indigenous rights, and the end to US military expansion and Africom. We encourage these and other progressive forces to unite in the face of this crisis and put forth a genuine program for the transformation of the Kenyan state, economy, and civil society that will privilege human needs over the unending quest for profit.
Uhuru,
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
11 January, 08
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Solidarity
for
Survival:
A Call to Stop Ethnic Cleansing and the imminent assault on Gaza.
 Gaza photo courtesty of sarahasphotographer (flickr.com)
Are the revolutionary and progressive movements in the US going to sit idly by and wait for
the Zionists and imperialists to raze Gaza to the ground? Or are we
going to take preventative action to stop the genocidal assault being
so thoroughly planned (and executed) right in front of our eyes?
What is at Stake?
The
US Left, and all of its national and social sectors, must be clear
about what Palestine represents in the capitalist world-system today.
Palestine is the barometer of the extent to which imperialism is
willing to go to in the present era to liquidate the struggles for
national liberation. In Palestine, particularly since the elections of
January 2006, we see the overall political and financial commitment of
imperialism to crush any movement that threatens the political
integration and homogenization now required for
capital accumulation. Where white supremacy, colonial occupation,
capitalist patriarchy, mass incarceration, and economic strangulation
are not enough to either contain or destroy the national consciousness
and anti-colonial sentiments, ethnic cleansing and genocide are now
wholly justifiable and permissible options for
imperialism. This is what is happening to Palestine, specifically to
the people and political forces in Gaza being deprived of electricity,
water, medical aid and supplies, and food by the Zionist occupying
forces. The recent designation of Gaza as an "enemy entity", with the
full backing and encouragement of their US masters (see the statement
of the Israeli Security Cabinet on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
during a visit of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice), seeks to legitimize the cleansing of Gaza by military means and prepare the political justification for its imminent execution.
It should go without saying that given Palestine's preeminent
position amongst the anti-colonial struggles of the world that if
imperialism is able starve and cleanse Gaza in order to liquidate its
liberation movement, either in whole or in part, the prospects for
the remaining national liberation struggles, either less well-known or
developed (ex. the New Afrikan and Puerto Rican liberation movements
against US colonialism, the Basques, the Kurds, and countless 1st
Nation or Indigenous Peoples), to attain self-determination and
independence will be seriously compromised, if not practically
extinguished for the foreseeable future.
 Gaza photo courtesty of sarahasphotographer (flickr.com)
A Call to Action:
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(This article, written by MXGM member Lis Derias, originally appears at a-rab.net )
I am a daughter of two Coptic parents from Egypt. We moved to this
country when I was less than a year old. My family first lived in Los
Angeles, moved to Philadelphia, and finally settled in a town right
outside of Philadelphia. I've grown up around all sorts of Egyptian
people (immigrants and 1st generation residents) and Black people
(descendants of enslaved Africans, Caribbeans, and African immigrants).
I identify as both Coptic/Egyptian and African/Black.
Inside my home I had the Arab immigrant experience: hearing the back
and forth Arabic and English in the same sentence so much so that that
I only speak Arabic that way; perfecting my interpretation skills to my
parents who struggled to understand American slang; eating falafel and
baklaawa and kushari and fuul; dismissing the repeated warnings from
elders to not cause ‘too much trouble'; and listening to the never
ending stories that started with "In my country...."
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