For the past five
months we in the Ujima Peoples Progressive Party (UPP) have been struggling to
build a broader coalition of progressive and revolutionary organizations to
address the needs of the masses around the contradictions that exist here in
this country, contradictions which have left the masses of the African working
class suffering from massive unemployment and underemployment issues. These
contradictions have revealed a host of other promenaded issues that non-whites
in the United States of America of are suffering from under this current
capitalist regime.
In September of 2011,
Americas’ neo-colonialist President Barack H. Obama introduced a bill to the
joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. This bill was
entitled the “American Jobs Act”, he then introduced a proposal for $447
billion dollars to congress to create job amidst what is perceived to be the
worst economical crises since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. The
economical issues of this nation can never be solved without first solving the
political question first!
The question that
America must ask herself, particularly the African working class is if the
Obama administrations plan can put us back to work and relive the suffering of
untold millions in this nation?
We in Ujima believe
that the answer to this question is no! With the massive issue of unemployment
and underemployment growth being so rapid in this nation there is no way that
we can trust the Capitalist administration of this nation, which has historically
been an enemy of not only the African working class but also an enemy to all
non-white people who have also been historically oppressed and exploited by
this regime. For this regime has a Capitalist- Imperialist agenda for the
suppression of all people and organizations that are opposed to it.
The issues of
unemployment and underemployment for the members of the African working class
and other non-white people far exceed the numbers of whites in this country.
The overall unemployment rate in this nation has been officially reported to be
at 9.1 percent which means approximately 15 or 16 million people are struggling
to find some form of employment in the artificial created colonialist boarder
of this nation. In reality we believe that the numbers far exceed this amount
that has been reported, we believe that the number is in reality about 30
million after you take in to the equation the ethnic characteristics of this
nation.
The official
unemployment/underemployment rate of the Latino community is reported to be
around 11.3 percent. While the massive
unemployment/underemployment rate for the African working class is estimated to
be around 16.7 percent a drastic increase from 15.9 percent since July. This
figure does not take into account the amount of males who are members of the
African working class who have a rate around 18 percent according to a report
in August. For those among our youth, the African working class youth these
figures are estimated to be at an astounding rate of 46.5 percent.
We here in the city of
Baltimore, Maryland under the leadership of Chairman Nnamdi Lumumba of the
Ujima People’s Progressive Party have purposed a “Living Wage Campaign” to
address the need of not only the African working class but the entire
population of oppressed and exploited people who make the working class
movement of this city. This is something that the Occupy Baltimore Movement has
refused to do; the fact it is under the leadership of Red Emma, a white middle class
anarchistic organization explains why!
We also realize that
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and her neo-colonialist cronies in her
administration cannot solve the current political problems that plague this
city and its residents. Baltimore city is a city that has a population of
620,961 plus with unemployment/under employment figure of 107,575 people. The
African working class represents 418,951 or 64.34 percent of this city
population; white working class members represent 205,982 or 31.63 percent of
this city population and the fast growing members of this city population are
the Hispanic community which have a population of 651,154 people.
Ujima People’s
Progressive Party “Living Wage Campaign” addresses the following issue which
affects the masses, particularly the African working class:
1. The
immediate end of unemployment/underemployment as it relates to this nations domestic policy,
full employment for all or employment for non (each according to his needs);
2. The
immediate end to all discrimination of descent and fair housing for of this
nations population with an end to foreclosures and discrimination in housing
and also the immediate end to the brutality practice of Homelessness;
3. The
immediate end to mass incarceration which is directly reasonable for this
nations vast growth of its prison population with an immediate end to police
brutality on the streets and inside of this nations prison system;
4. The
immediate end to all of this nation’s colonialist educational policy as it
relates to the so-called citizens of this nation;
5. The
immediate end of gender and racial discrimination, we believe that these two
issues have been exploited to their maximum degree to keep the masses divided.
6. The
demand for decent and acquitted health care for all, our motto is “Health
before wealth”, this must be a reality in our life time;
7. The
immediate end of all imperialist war of aggression particular against Africa
and her people. We believe that the money being used to wage these wars of
aggression can be used to develop full employment for the citizens of this
nation, let’s put America back to work under the governments full employment
act;
8. The
immediate end to this parasitic relationship that exist between capitalism and
the African working class by granting the immediate approval of Reparations to
the African working class;
9. The
immediate end to suffering and abuse that our elderly population has to endure,
they deserve better treatment and our respect, don’t mess with their Social
Security or their retirement benefits or Medicare;
10. The
immediate end of high tuition fees that are currently being charged students
that are striving to receive a higher education that will allow them to be
better productive members of society.
We believe that by
addressing these issues and building the first independent black political
party in the state of Maryland that represents the African working class this
will give us a chance to fight back along with the issue of networking with
other progressive and revolutionary formations such as the Liberate Baltimore
Coalition; the All People Congress and Fannie Lou Hamer
Political Action Committee will be able to achieve our objectives of
securing the rights of the African working class and building and establish a
protracted movement under and around the development of the African working
class leadership.
We also believe that
the current capitalist political regime cannot address the issue of poverty
that has run amok due to the issue of wide spread unemployment and
underemployment here in this country. Currently the poverty rate in this
country is at one out of eleven people in America live in poverty which equates
to 22.3 million people who now trapped/reside in America’s lowest socially
economical areas (America’s domestically colonized community’s/ghettos).
Between 2000 and 2009, the number of people dwelling in these “high-poverty
areas”, (low social economic areas) grew by approximately 10 million that is an
estimated population up from 33 million to 43 million making it a poverty rate
of 14.3 percent.
For members of the
African working class that means one in four people live in poverty
approximately 7.6 million people and for the Hispanic community that means one in
six people live in poverty approximately 7.1 million people. According to the census tract 30 percent or
more of America’s citizens live in poverty. This is what capitalism means to
the average member of the working class community who share slavery and misery,
and who understands this better then the African working class. Capitalism was
after all build and founded on the back of African slaves who were brutality
treated as human beings by white America and native population, look at and
study the history of this country Indian population particularly the Cherokee
nation’s ownership of human beings, African slaves.
In 2003 the United
States government defined poverty as an annual income for a family of four, one
adult and three children to be less than $18,392.00 dollars a year about $8.89
an hour. Comrades you need to understand this important fact, the Census Bureau
has been using the same formula that was designed by the Social Security
Administration since 1964. This nutty formula was developed around the spending
patterns of 1955. They have been robbing and tricking people for the past 56
years using this formula.
We in Ujima realize
that the only formula that can alleviate the crippling conditions of
unemployment/underemployment and poverty is the total transformation of this
plague ridden capitalist economy to that of a socialist economy that will
render justice to the working class which can only be accomplished under the
leadership of the African working class, the most oppressed and exploited class
of people on the planet.
Comrades we are calling
on all Pan-African forces, progressive and revolutionary in this country to
adopt a “Living Wage Campaign” and to organize the African working class to
fight back against the oppressive and exploitive conditions that they may find
themselves within. We believe that this tactic will allow us to best expose the
contradictions that exist under this Capitalist-Imperialist Administration and
its relationship to the African working class.
As Pan-African Internationalist we realize the current global economy
and it parasitic relationship to the African working class movement is based on
the rape, looting, and murder of African people. It is our job to awaken the
masses and to organize the people to strike a blow against their former slave
master and put an end to the parasitic relationship that exist between us,
white supremacy and their neo-colonialist allies.
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