On today’s show, host Esty Dinur is joined by Chairman Omali Yesitela, the leader of the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, and Penny Hess, the Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee. Uhuru means “freedom” in Swahili and is used as a greeting and a demand because of its historical significance in the struggle against colonialism. 

In 2022, Chairman Omali and Hess, along with Jesse Nevel, were targeted by the FBI. Their homes were occupied, equipment confiscated, and financial records taken with military force. They were later charged, without evidence, with being Russian agents. The Uhuru 3 recently won a legal victory in federal court and were found not guilty of the politically motivated charges. Hess says that the FBI’s attack on the movement was meant to suppress dissent. 

The Uhuru Movement is also working toward Palestinian liberation. Chairman Omali and Hess discuss the movement’s call for reparations, white solidarity with Black Power, and what Chairman Omali calls the “colonial mode of production.” 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela is the 83-year-old leader of the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement, political theorist and strategist who developed the theory of African Internationalism. He has traveled to over 19 countries building the Black Power struggle throughout Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and establishing solidarity relations with other colonized peoples’ movements. He has driven the establishment of over 50 Black community economic institutions designed to free African people from the colonial mode of production and welfare slavery.

Penny Hess is the Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, the solidarity component of the African People’s Socialist Party, leading the movement for white solidarity with Black Power and reparations, under the leadership of Chairman Omali. She is author of “Overturning the culture of violence” that chronicles the creation of white wealth by means of slavery, genocide and land theft of African and Indigenous people.

Featured image of the logo of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement.

The post The Uhuru 3 Legal Victory appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.