International People's Democratic UHURU Movement
(InPDUM)
Working 12 Point Platform
1. We demand National Democratic Rights and Self Determination for African people in the U.S.
We demand that the U.S. government counterinsurgency war which it is waging to take away the basic democratic rights that African people fought and died for during the black revolution of the 60’s. We demand the end to these attacks which come in the form of U.S. imposed drugs and under the guise of fighting a “war on drugsâ€, a “war on gangs†or “war on crime.†We understand that the highest form of democracy for African people is self determination.2. We Demand Community Control of the Police in the African Community and the Immediate Withdrawal of the Terroristic Police and Military Forces from the African Community.
We demand that the FBI, which waged a COINTELPRO war on the black revolution of the 60’s and which killed scores of our leader be immediately withdrawn. We also demand that all forms of this militaristic “drug task forceâ€, “welfare task force,†public housing police and the numerous other police forces be removed from the African communities. We demand that the U.S. government overturn all specially devised laws, specifically the Crime Bill, designed to abrogate the rights of the African community or to criminalize African people.3. We Demand Community Control of the Schools and Mandatory African History in Public Schools.
We demand an end to the criminalization of African children and militarization and the schools in the African community. This demand includes an end to dress codes, and an end to the martial law on school grounds which includes strip searches, metal detectors, walls being built around campuses an the increase of special police forces.
We also call for an end to the white nationalist anti-African curriculum that is being used. We demand an end to a system which provides resources for the minority white schools while African schools are impoverished and without necessary resources.
In addition, we demand an end to “special education†which is a system of mind control, tracking African children into failure and prisons. We also demand an end to the isolation cells which are being instituted for African children in public schools throughout the U.S.4. We Demand African Community Control of Health Care.
We believe that the current state of health care in the African community is genocidal. We believe that the high infant mortality rate, the curable diseases which African people suffer and die from, AIDS, tuberculosis, asthma, lead poisoning, toxic waste dumps, environmental pollution, Norplant, and the fact that the life expectancy for African people in significantly lower than that of white people, are all evidence of the U.S. government’s genocide and chemical and biological warfare against African people colonized within its borders.
We demands reparations from the U.S. government for this genocide so that the African community can have control over its healthcare facilities, meeting their own particular needs and preventing disease. As it is, healthcare is only another big business benefiting white America, and preventative medicine is not in the interest of the medical industry of the U.S. Just reparations to develop African community control of healthcare puts the power of health into the hands of African workers themselves.5. We Demand Community Control of Housing.
We believe that a land reform law that provides for collective community control of housing is absolutely necessary for an end to homelessness, the artificially high cost of rent, the substandard housing, the hundreds of abandoned houses within the city and the forced relocation of the African population due to gentrification.
We demand an end to the U.S. government imposed martial law which turns public housing into prison camps for African people. We denounce the public housing authorities for their fraud and parasitic rip-off of African people as thousands of African people go homeless. We demand an end to the anti-democratic sweeps of the housing project, which violate constitutionally-protected laws against search and seizure. We demand an end to the abrogation of democratic rights in the housing projects, including leases that extort tenants into giving up their rights against search and seizure and that violate constitutionally protected rights to bear arms.6. We Demand the Removal of Parasitic Merchants and Slumlords from the African Community.
We demand an end to the rip off and terrorizing of our communities by foreign merchants who uphold white power. These agents of white power hold African workers hostage with the only stores available, charging high prices for bad food and shoddy goods, and harassing, threatening and killing African workers who are forced to deal with them. We denounce these foreign merchants in the African communities who function as an arm of the state and collaborate with the police and the military forces of the counterinsurgency. These same forces not only take billions of dollars out of the African community, they are also complicit in bringing drugs into the community.
We also demand an end to the vicious slumlords that drain the African community of millions of dollars for rundown, substandard housing at outrageously high rents.
We demand reparations for this theft and terror so that African workers can control their own communities economically to benefit and serve the needs of the African working class community.7. We Demand an End to the Colonial Court and Prison Systems which have the Majority of African Men Incarcerated, on Probation or Parole, and the Immediate Release of all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War.
We demand an end to the US colonial concentration camps which are used to criminalize and control the entire African population, keeping them oppressed and colonized. We recognize that as US colonial subjects all African workers in prison are political prisoners.
The US colonial prison system, with a prison rate for African men five times higher than South Africa’s, is a key component of the counterinsurgency. This attack is intensifying through the Crime Bill and current wave of “three strikes you’re out†legislation being passed in almost every state, as well as laws that give the death penalty to African children and countless other laws designed solely to attack, suppress and imprison the entire African population.
We denounce the torture, killings and degradation that Africans face in prison, as well as the slave labor worth billions of dollars to the colonial US economy that our people are forced to produce. We recognize that this slave labor and genocide against African people benefits the parasitic white power system and the white population, and is an underlying reason for the high incidents of imprisonment of African men, up to 70% of whom have been incarcerated during their lives.
We also denounce the wide spread tactics of house arrest and electronic “bracelets,†as well as mandatory death sentences, behavior modification units and massive lockdowns used to break down and kill African men and to commit genocide against the entire African community.
In addition, we demand the release of African political prisoners, prisoners of war and prisoners of conscience such as Sundiata Acoli, Mumia Abdul-Jamal, H. Rap Brown and others. The US government has no right to hold captive the courageous sons and daughters of Africa who through their patriotic deeds and struggle of defense of the national democratic rights of the African community have become political prisoners and prisoners of war. We believe, along with the majority of the people’s of the world, that it is the duty of colonized and enslaved African people to fight for freedom and liberation, and that those who do so are heroes and heroines and should be held in the highest esteem.8. We Demand an End to the Theft, Kidnapping, Sale, Abuse and Removal of African Children from their Communities under the Genocidal Foster Care System.
We understand that one of the main goals of the US counterinsurgency against African people is to destroy the African family and the ability for African people to reproduce life, and that this constitutes genocide. We understand that the US government is massively stealing African babies and children from African mothers using the guise of “drugs†which the US government itself imposes in the African community as chemical warfare against the people. We understand that until this current US counterinsurgency, “foster care†has always been alien to the African community where the cultural practice has revolved around collective responsibility of all children.
We demand an end to the theft of African babies from their mothers and the forcible placement of African people outside their group into white homes, while other family members and African foster parents are being denied the right to raise the African children. We demand an end to the parasitic blood sucking multi-million dollar practice of modern day slavery which pays white people and US government State and local agencies enormous amounts of money to steal African babies.
We demand complete exposure of and immediate end to the abuse that African children are subjected to at the hand of the foster care system and white people. this includes murder, physical and sexual abuse, as well as psychological and political terror of being forcibly uprooted from their own people and sent to a hostile white nationalist environment.
We demand reparations for the genocidal theft of African children which has brought billions of dollars to the US white power economy. We demand the absolute undeniable right of African people to raise and have complete control over their own children.9. We Demand an End to the Political and Social Oppression and Economic Exploitation of African Women.
We demand an immediate end to the particular abuse of African women by this U.S. colonial system. We recognize that this abuse has always included rape and subjugation by the white slave master and an attempt by white power to separate African women from African men. The oppression of African women includes forcible subjugation to the degrading U.S. “welfare†system, which makes participation in the criminalization of African men a pre-requisite for receiving a tiny pittance. We demand an end to this degradation, as well as other forms of oppression, such as forcible sterilization through Norplant and other means, the theft of African babies from their mothers, the subjugation of African children to brutal, militarized school system, and the massive imprisonment of sons, husbands and fathers of African women.
We believe in the absolute equivocal, political, social and economical equality of African men and women. We demand an end to the special oppression of African women and the elevation of women to their rightful place as equal partners and leaders in forward motion of the development of African liberation as leaders, makers and shapers of human history.10. We Demand Reparations for African People.
We believe that reparations is the central economic demand which recognizes the economic role played by African people in the forced development of the political economy of the U.S. and the parasitic nature of that economy, resting as it does on 400 years of the enslavement of African people and the genocide of the native people. We believe that reparations, just compensation for labor and damages, will contribute towards the genuine self-determination of African people in the U.S. and the development of an economy and society that is controlled by and serves African workers themselves.
As part of the demand for reparations we call for an end to the forced U.S. drug economy in the oppressed African communities which is the forefront of the parasitic U.S. economy which sucks the blood of African people stealing our labor and resources for the benefit of white power and the white population in general.
We also demand an end to the degrading welfare system which is a part of the counterinsurgency and which makes African people dependent on the pittance from the U.S. government, which destroys African families and which makes African children wards of the state. The U.S. government can keep its “welfare†and hand over reparations which are owed to African people.11. We Demand a United nations Supervised Plebiscite to Determine the Will of the African Community in the U.S. as to their National Destiny.
Understanding that the highest expression of democracy is self determination, we demand that an internationally supervised plebiscite, which is stated in Pt 10 of the 10 point program of the Black Panther Party, will be “held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.â€12. We Demand an End to the Political Economy of the Counterinsurgency; the Parasitic Relationship that Benefits the White Population with Millions of Dollars for Jobs, Resources and a Stabilized Economy off of the U.S. Counterinsurgency (war) on African People in the U.S.
We recognize that white society in the U.S. and Europe exist parasitically on a pedestal of resources, land and labor stolen from African people for 400 years. The economy of the U.S. was built off of the stolen labor of enslaved African people and the stolen land of the native people. Today, the majority of jobs for white people are tied to the political economy of the counterinsurgency, creating an opportunist economic basis for white people’s unity with the counterinsurgency and a parasitic job market that benefits white people at the expense of African and other colonized people. This parasitism has grown to the extent that whole communities of North Americans throughout the U.S. are sustained economically through the prison industry and the counterinsurgency.
As real estate agents, stock brokers and money laundering bankers, white people off the resources stolen from colonized people all over the world and off the drug economy that fuels the U.S. economy while providing false justification for the counterinsurgency. As slumlords, white people are enriched by the profits made from keeping African men, women and children in miserable living conditions in cities across the U.S. As lawyers, foster care workers, social workers, police, national guards and beneficiaries of the prison system, including construction workers, guards and countless other suppliers, the white population directly benefits from the attacks on the African community.
Billions of dollars in federal and state funds are flooded into the white communities of the U.S. yearly in grants ranging from aid for “disaster relief†to grants for job programs that create careers for the social workers that administer them and no change in the economic, political and social conditions for the African community. We demand an end to this parasitic political economy and the complicity and opportunism of white people in the counterinsurgency.The Black Panther Party
Ten Point Plan
1. WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.We believe that Black and oppressed people will not be free until we are able to determine our destinies in our own communities ourselves, by fully controlling all the institutions which exist in our communities. 2. WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE.
We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every person employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the American businessmen will not give full employment, then the technology and means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.3. WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE CAPITALISTS OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.
We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of our fifty million Black people. Therefore, we feel this is a modest demand that we make.
4. WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS.
We believe that if the landlords will not give decent housing to our Black and oppressed communities, then housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that the people in our communities, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for the people.5. WE WANT DECENT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIETY. WE WANT EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY.
We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of the self. If you do not have knowledge of yourself and your position in the society and in the world, then you will have little chance to know anything else.6. WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR All BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE.
We believe that the government must provide, free of charge, for the people, health facilities which will not only treat our illnesses, most of which have come about as a result of our oppression, but which will also develop preventive medical programs to guarantee our future survival. We believe that mass health education and research programs must be developed to give all Black and oppressed people access to advanced scientific and medical information, so we may provide our selves with proper medical attention and care. 7. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, All OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
We believe that the racist and fascist government of the United States uses its domestic enforcement agencies to carry out its program of oppression against black people, other people of color and poor people inside the united States. We believe it is our right, therefore, to defend ourselves against such armed forces and that all Black and oppressed people should be armed for self defense of our homes and communities against these fascist police forces. 8. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION.
We believe that the various conflicts which exist around the world stem directly from the aggressive desire of the United States ruling circle and government to force its domination upon the oppressed people of the world. We believe that if the United States government or its lackeys do not cease these aggressive wars it is the right of the people to defend themselves by any means necessary against their aggressors.9. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U. S. FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, CITY AND MILITARY PRISONS AND JAILS. WE WANT TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR All PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO-CALLED CRIMES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY.
We believe that the many Black and poor oppressed people now held in United States prisons and jails have not received fair and impartial trials under a racist and fascist judicial system and should be free from incarceration. We believe in the ultimate elimination of all wretched, inhuman penal institutions, because the masses of men and women imprisoned inside the United States or by the United States military are the victims of oppressive conditions which are the real cause of their imprisonment. We believe that when persons are brought to trial they must be guaranteed, by the United States, juries of their peers, attorneys of their choice and freedom from imprisonment while awaiting trial.10. WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are most disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.