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; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement March 2013 New Afrikan Self-Defense Network Handbook Table of Contents General Text 1. The Crisis We Face 2. A Massive Movement to Fight our way out of this Crisis 3. Real Organizing to meet Real Threats 4. Honoring our History and Building Unity in the Present 5. Self-Defense: Strategic Goals and How to Reach Them 6. 5 Short Lessons 7. Addressing Intra-Communal Violence 8. Closing Notes Addendum 9. General Principles and Protocols 10. Present Models of Organizing and Resistance 11. Strategic Thinking Primer 12. Know Your Rights Handouts from NYC People’s Self-Defense Campaign and Copwatch 13. Sample Police Control Board Referendum 14. A Short history of Self-Defense organizing in the New Afrikan Community a. Akinyele Umoja, “We Will Shoot Back: The Natchez Model and Paramilitary Organization in the Mississippi Freedom Movement”. b. Akinyele Umoja, “The Ballot and the Bullet: A Comparative Analysis of Armed Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement”. c. Russell Maroon Shoats, “Black Fighting Formations: Their Strengths and Weaknesses”. d. Russell Maroon Shoats, “Liberation or Gangsterism”. 15. Resources (recommended books, articles, and videos) 2
; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement March 2013 The Crisis We Face New Afrikan people 1 are in a heighted state of crisis. Since being brought to the shores of North America as captives from European wars of aggression we have constantly battled one crisis after another. However, there are times that are more critical and intense than others. We are presently living through one of these super-critical periods. Organizing Short Definition Organizing is the process of uniting people around a common set of interests and beliefs, and building the structures they need to carry out democratically agreed upon strategies and programs of action to exercise their power to solve social issues or address their material needs. Since the 1980’s and the start of the rollback of the social and material gains won by our people in the 1950’s and 60’s, New Afrikans have been confronted with the crisis of a slow, but calculated, genocide. After the urban rebellions of the 1960’s capital (mainly multi-national corporations) contributed to this genocidal assault by introducing more computers and robots into the productive process and moving more and more of their factories overseas to eliminate the need for New Afrikan workers 2 . These moves displaced large sectors of the New Afrkan working class and turned many of our people into a disposable surplus population. To survive, large sectors of the New Afrikan working class were forced to engage the underground economy (drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, gambling, fencing, bartering, etc.) in the 1980’s and 90’s 3 . The government’ strategy to deal with the problem of managing this growing population surplus was to criminalize more aspects of the underground economy, militarize domestic law enforcement, limit reproductive rights and warehouse increasing numbers of the disposable sectors of the working class in prisons 4 . Since the financial and economic collapse of 2008 and the reaction of sectors of the white settler population to the 2008 presidential election, the level of these genocidal assaults has intensified. We have been hunted and killed in cold blood by the US government in increasing numbers and herded into prisons like cattle in record numbers 5 . We are confronting the cold reality of a jobless future and permanent economic exclusion being imposed upon us by the forces of white supremacy, capitalism and imperialism and our youth are fighting among themselves and with the internalization of hopelessness with deadly consequence not seen since the late 1980’s and early 90’s during the height of the “crack wars”. 3
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