Hands off Uhuru! Hands off Africa!

📷 You’re invited — The Alabama Solution Film Showing and Panel Discussion 📷 Saturday, February 21 — 2pm CT 📷 Jubilee Community Church, 4231 North Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO RSVP: tinyurl.com/AlabamaSolution

"LIVE" Criminalizing Black Thought and Resistance: The Fight for Anti-Colonial Free Speech Chairman Omali Yeshitela and Momodou Taal, Cornell Univ. student whose visa was revoked by the U.S. govt YouTube.com/UhuruTV Facebook.com/Omali.Yeshitela #Momodou #MomoduTaal #Palestine

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Hands Off Uhuru presents: showing of "CONCERNING VIOLENCE" on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025 at 2pm Central, 3pm Eastern, 12pm Pacific. Cost for Entry is $10 (virtual / in-person) Purchase at HandsOffUhuru.org/fundraiser Uhuru Solidarity Center, 2654 Gravois Ave St. Louis, MO

On Saturday, Jan. 11, at 3pm ET, the Hands Off Uhuru Fightback Coalition will host a special online event about the powerful victory for the Uhuru 3. Join us as we salute you and the countless comrades and friends who made this victory possible. RSVP HandsOffUhuru.org/Register

Penny Hess, speaks after the December 16 sentencing hearing. "We are not allies...we are part of the strategy" of the African Revolution. #HandsOffUhuru #Uhuru3 #WhiteSolidarity #FreeSpeech #Reparations

After spending millions of dollars and military resources to prosecute the Uhuru Movement and its leaders, the U.S. government got their "asses handed to them," says Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair, Jesse Nevel. #HandsOffUhuru #Uhuru3 #FreeSpeech #WhiteSolidarity

Chairman Omali Yeshitela acknowledging the power of the people and the incredible Uhuru 3 lawyers. #HandsOffUhuru #Uhuru3 #Omali Yeshitela

“Uhuru 3” Avoid Prison in “Russian Influence” Legal Saga democracynow.org/2024/12/17/hea…

NO JAIL, NO FINE FOR UHURU 3 What started with FBI raids in 2022 that ransacked and destroyed the African People’s Socialist Party’s (APSP) properties in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and Saint Louis, Missouri, and proceeded with chants of ‘Not one day, not one dime,’ ended with federal judge William Jung ruling against prison time on 16 December for party founder and chairman Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) Chairperson Penny Hess and APSC mass organisation Uhuru Solidarity Movement National Chair Jesse Nevel. The ‘Uhuru 3,’ as they came to be known, each faced five years behind bars and a $250,000 fine following convictions in September for conspiring to act as foreign agents. They had been acquitted on the charge of acting as Russian agents. The judge deemed prison time unnecessary in a free-speech case, instead sentencing each person to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service. The court banned the Uhuru 3 from contacting Russian nationals during probation. They are appealing the conviction, saying it violates their freedom of speech. ‘When they indicted us, they expected us to fold. They expected us to run or to take a plea, which is mainly how they achieved their 99 per cent conviction rate in federal criminal cases,’ Yeshitela’s granddaughter told the WFTS TV station in Tampa Bay (@abcactionnews on X). ‘We didn't fold. We didn't run.’ The party’s anti-war and self-determining position has made them a prime target for the US state. The group has worked toward reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans, the unification of African states under a single socialist government and the release of political prisoners. In the United States, they have built institutions for Africans, including a prisoner-transition programme and a doula school.  Last week, the judge sentenced a fourth defendant, Augustus C Romain Jr, to five years’ probation. Romain, better known as 'Gazi Kodzo,' was the party's secretary-general until a 2018 expulsion. Romain was prosecuted on similar charges while running another organisation they founded, Black Hammer. The judge ordered them to participate in mental-health treatment and submit to random drug tests. You can follow the Uhuru 3 and their organisations on X: @apspusa, @omaliyeshitela, @PennyAPSC, @uhurusolidarity, @realJesseNevel

UHURU MOVEMENT FOUNDER SHOW’S WEST’S HYPOCRISY ON HAITI The Uhuru Movement will avoid jail time following trumped-up charges of them being Russian agents. The movement is characterized by its antiwar position, which has put it at odds with the US empire. The movement also agitates for reparations for Black people whose ancestors built the wealth of the United States, the unification of Africa under socialism and the release of Black political prisoners. In this video from August 2023, we had the honour to speak to the founder, Omali Yeshitela. Using Haiti, he points to the hypocrisy of the US attempting to put him behind bars for his activism when the real criminals, France and the U.S, still posture as vivacious actors. France forced Haiti to pay reparations for decades to enslavers for the loss of ‘their property’. The US, on the other hand, is responsible for multiple regime change operations and the theft of Haiti’s gold, all while painting Haitians as somehow unable to govern their affairs.

@AlexLikesCake1 Way too much. Millions.

How much tax payer money was wasted on the Kabuki theater? #pathetic

@DueDissidence It is strange. Admittedly. But a win is a win! Especially if it keeps revolutionaries out of jail. Not One more political prisoner.

Feels strange to celebrate probation for free speech, since this whole case was ludicrous from day one. But given the world we live in, no jail time - no fine - very happy for the Uhuru 3, and very proud to know these real deal revolutionaries. #handsoffuhuru

@substancepls Thank you for amplifying this victory ✊🏾.

Some very good news, for a change.

@RightsDissent Thank you for amplifying this victory ✊🏾.

The Uhuru prosecution singled out connections with Russia, striking McCarthyite chords from the Cold War era. The Uhuru 3 were prosecuted for constitutionally protected dissent, and we're relieved they'll never see a day in prison.

@PamelaTheZ Thank you for amplifying this victory ✊🏾.

Some good news!

@oriblum Next up. The Appeal! Overturn our conviction.

Never shoulda been investigated… Never shoulda been charged… Never shoulda been convicted… But this is wonderful news!