BLACK SELF-DETERMINATION NOT MASS INCARCERATION!

I'm asking friends, family and everyone to help reach my goal of $300 as a stance of reparations to African people. As a white person, I do not want to live at the expense of African people. This is a call for unity through reparations!

This year for Give STL Day, I’m raising funds to support the African People’s Education & Defense Fund (APEDF), who is building the Black Power Blueprint in north St. Louis, Missouri. As part of this project, the African Independence Workforce Program (AIWP) is being constructed to provide training, meaningful employment and entrepreneurship skills for people returning from the colonial prison system and others who have been excluded from economic life. 

AIWP is different from other workforce programs because it is led by and for the African working class community and is centered on developing the skills talents and interests of each person and building their ability to contribute to commerce that benefits the entire black community and all oppressed and colonized peoples, not just to work for someone else. This is not just another re-entry program, it’s part of the African liberation strategy.

The main project that we are fundraising for currently is the Buy Black Power Retail Space, which will host three economic development institutions: NZO: African Styles at Home and Abroad, UZI: Thread of Freedom, and Uhuru Planet: Reparations Apparel.

The programs that APEDF is leading provide an example, in the real world, of the way forward, to end the poverty, homelessness, mass imprisonment, poor health and shortened life expectancy that plague African communities throughout this country and world and set in motion the creation of a positive future led by African people that benefits everyone!