Black Power: Land and Liberation

What	Colloquium
When	2007-01-19 from 06:36 to 06:36
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“Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.” El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) Resistance to oppression has been ongoing throughout the history of Africans in the Americas. This resistance has been articulated by MXGM as the struggle for self-determination, self-respect and self-defense. Based on the doctrine that “land is the basis of all independence”, espoused by revolutionaries in Africa and of Africans globally, from Malcolm X to Kwame Nkrumah, on March 31, 1968, a conference of over one hundred African leaders signed a Declaration of Independence outlining the official doctrine of the New Afrikan nation, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA), and elected a provisional government. The Declaration of Independence asserted the RNA's aims to free Afrikans in the US from oppression, to promote and protect their rights, and to build a black nation based on community self-determination and self-sufficiency. New Afrikans are people of Afrikan descent, particularly those historically enslaved and colonized in the Southeastern portion of the North American continent, that presently live under the colonial subjugation of the United States government. New Afrikan is the connotation of the national identity of this Afrikan people which recognizes their political aspirations for self-determination and independence.