One Africa Worldview

Guests on this week's program are both from St. Louis, MO:

• Jabreia Taylor, law student at the Saint Louis University School of Law and President of the Law School’s Street Law Chapter

We discuss:

• The police occupation of the black community and other colonial conditions facing African people such as COVID-19 pandemic, gentrification and poverty

This episode is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu. The weekly People’s War Radio Show features guests covering all aspects of the struggle against colonial violence, from COVID-19 to police occupation.

We talk with Yejide Orunmila, President of the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO) about:

• How to stop violence against African women - colonial (police) and horizontal (within the community)

The program concludes with the words of the late Afeni Shakur, co-defendant in the NYC trial against the Panther 21 in 1969 and mother of the rapper, Tupac.

This episode is hosted by Tiana Afrika and Muambi Tangu. The weekly People’s War Radio Show features guests covering all aspects of the struggle against colonial violence, from COVID-19 to police occupation.

The People's War Radio Show returns to New York City to talk with:

New York City Councilwoman Inez Barron representing the 42nd District in Brooklyn. Born and raised in Brooklyn, a graduate of Hunter College and the Bank Street College of Education, she worked in primary and secondary education for 36 years, serving as an elementary school teacher, a principal and a school board member.   

New York State Assemblyman Charles Barron. Born in Queens, he joined the Harlem branch of the Black Panther Party at age 18, distributing newspapers and protesting for the release of the Panther 21. He joined the National Black United Front in 1979, is today a member of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, advocates for Black Community Control and has effectively put a stop to gentrification in his District.

On this program, they discuss:

• Countering attempts to hijack the movement to ending police occupation of the African community

Hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, the weekly People’s War Radio Show features guests covering all aspects of the struggle against colonial violence, from COVID-19 to police occupation.

On Monday, May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old African man, was murdered by Minneapolis police who knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, suffocating him. In the days and weeks that followed, militant uprisings took place in thousands of cities around the world, including the torching and destruction of police vehicles and buildings as well other government buildings and businesses.

On Friday, May 29, 2020, 3 days into the protests that have rocked the foundation of the colonialist capitalist world, African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela broadcast this message, the original video version of which can be found on the Burning Spear TV channel on YouTube.

The full transcript of this message can also be found on The Burning Spear newspaper online.

Chairman Omali makes several key points:

1. "What we are looking at in Minneapolis is the existential crisis of a system that came into existence through the genocide of the indigenous people who were called "Indians," the indigenous people of this land, and the captivity and colonial enslavement of African people."

For more information on the African People’s Socialist Party, visit apspuhuru.org.

Protests opposing police violence against the black community continue unabated in hundreds of U.S. cities and across the globe, even as coronavirus cases spike in many areas.

More killings of African people by police and white vigilantes are exposed almost daily. Calls for defunding the police and promises of reform are discussed in today’s show. What is the role of the police in black communities, historically and today?

This week the People’s War radio show talks with:

• Ms. Stephanie Gasca, Minneapolis activist and former City Council candidate and Metropolitan State University political science student.

Hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, the weekly People’s War Radio Show features guests covering all aspects of the struggle against colonial violence, from COVID-19 to police occupation.

A month ago, Haiti’s number of COVID-19 infections barely registered on the global radar screen. But a leading medical group warns that that has now changed alarmingly. At the end of April, Haiti had reported only 81 new coronavirus cases and eight deaths. Those COVID-19 figures have since spiked to more than 3,000 cases and 50 deaths. 

The international medical nonprofit Doctors Without Borders says that due to a lack of testing, the count is likely much higher. Haiti’s growing crisis is reflected across so-called Latin America and the Caribbean – which scientists say is the global hotspot for COVID-19’s second wave.

Today’s guest Elikya Ngoma was born on August 11, 1991 to a family of Africans from Haiti. There, Elikya witnessed many of the contradictions that Africans face around the world, especially those who come from Haiti. Elikya Ngoma is the Haiti Editor of The Burning Spear newspaper.

“The death rate from COVID-19 in Tijuana is 7 times the death rate in neighboring San Diego. These 2 cities are about the same size in population, but San Diego has over 30 hospitals while Tijuana has 3. San Diego has 900 respirators. Tijuana has 10. Tijuana was created as San Diego’s Cuba - for tourism, gambling, sexual tourism,” - Dr. Matsemela Odom.

This week the People’s War radio show talks with:

• Dr. Matsemela Odom, Black Studies educator at the University of San Diego and other schools including UC San Diego, San Diego City College and San Diego Mesa College. Odom has published numerous articles on the history of black people throughout southern California, analyzing the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, police brutality, segregation, the crack cocaine epidemic, hip-hop music, white hate groups and black resistance rebellions.  

Hosted by Ticharwa Masimba and Matop Nyungu, the weekly People’s War Radio Show features guests covering all aspects of the current crisis - providing health and medical tips and resources, economic survival information, analysis of the political and international impact, how to prepare for the future and organize for community self-determination.

This week the People’s War radio show goes live to Chicago to talk with Kamm Howard, Co-Chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America and head of the Reparations Working Group for the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations.

We discuss:

• The Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd and the struggle for Black Community Control of the police.

Hosted by Ticharwa Masimba and Matop Nyungu, the weekly People’s War Radio Show features guests covering all aspects of the current crisis - providing health and medical tips and resources, economic survival information, analysis of the political and international impact, how to prepare for the future and organize for community self-determination.

New York City has been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. 

African communities in New York City - already hard hit by homelessness, gentrification, police brutality and murder, joblessness, hunger - are bearing the brunt of COVID-19 deaths.

On May 18, the New York Times wrote, “Neighborhoods with high concentrations of black and Latino people, as well as low-income residents, suffered the highest death rates, while some wealthier areas — primarily in Manhattan — saw almost no deaths.”

This week the People’s War radio show goes live to New York City to talk with two long term black community activists. Malik Shakur and Oronde Shakur are both organizers with the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement. 

They discuss “essential workers”, “masking while black” and the roots of the high rates of death among African people in the current pandemic. 

Hosted by Ticharwa Masimba and Matop Nyungu, the weekly People’s War Radio