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African People's Socialist Party Plenary - April 25-26, 2015 in St. Petersburg, FL

Program

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DAY ONE — SATURDAY, January 9, 2016
8:00am Registration and check-in / flag-raising (8:15)
8:30am Pledge & Welcome to APSP Plenary 2016!
Gaida Kambon
The task that the Office of the Chair has set for itself with this Plenary is to deepen the understanding and unity in the Party and throughout the Uhuru Movement, with the task of this period and to ensure that the necessary tactics, strategies and protocols are in place to enable us to take full advantage of what the period offers to advance the revolution.
8:40am Political Overview: Seize the time!
Chairman Omali Yeshitela
Ferguson created a new normal and greater responsibilities for the work. There have been many successes, the latest being the Women’s Organization Conference and the consolidation of the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO), but there are many more victories that must be won. The Party must prepare to govern. Seize the time!
9:30am Q & A
9:50am What is to be done? – 1. The Final Offensive Initiative
Chairman Omali Yeshitela
The Final Offensive Initiative (FOI) was organized to provide leadership for the Party-led movement on one united trajectory. The initiative will implement the mandates of the Party’s Fifth and Sixth Congresses, will routinely sum-up current actions and campaigns of the Party and will involve the following A, B, C, D below.
10:30am Appeal
Yejide Orunmila and Aisha Fields
10:50am Q & A
11:10am A.) Chairman’s Tour
Tammy Harris and Gaida Kambon
Promotion of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, his writings and African Internationalism (key factor of the Final Offensive), promotion of African Internationalism, Uhuru Tours and Speakers Bureau
11:45am Q & A
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm B.) Mini Intensives
Gaida Kambon (U.S.), Luwezi Kinshasa (EU and Africa), Omowale Kefing
Continue to develop the cadre training program with public studies, live broadcasts, regional mini intensives and a month-long cadre school in 2016.

1. Cadre Training Programs
  • Intensive 1
  • Intensive 2
  • Month long school 2016
  • Study on "How to be in mass organization"
  • Monthly political education for the movement throughout the world
2. Public Studies
  • Mass studies
  • Current issues with implications for our freedom
1:45pm Q & A
2:00pm C.) The Political and Economic are One: Forward the Party’s Strategy of the Office of the Deputy Chair
Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela and Aisha Fields
The development of the economic work of the Party while developing and promoting economic development for the entire colonially dispersed African nation.
  • Unite the political and economic fronts
  • Building African leadership in Party institutions
  • Building the Africans One Billion Strong Donor Campaign
  • Zenzele Consignment
3:00pm Q & A
3:15pm Ebola Campaign in West Africa
3:45pm Q & A
 
DAY TWO — SUNDAY, January 10, 2016
8:00am Registration, Flag, Welcome
8:30am D.) Consolidating Territory / Massive Recruitment Plan
Panel: Chimurenga Waller, Aaron O'Neal, Kobina Bantushango
  1. Focus on wave recruitment towards African:
    1. Prisoners
    2. Students
    3. Women
    4. Workers (Unions)
  2. Implement and enforce MASF, 10x10 as tactical way to build and consolidate territory.
  3. Provide leadership and oversight for:
    1. Departments
    2. Regions
    3. Local Areas
    4. Mass Organizations
      1. InPDUM Convention
  4. Provide Protocol for membership and recruitment
    1. Payment of Party Dues. (win politically)
    2. How to be in the Party
    3. Accountability for the data base for the entire movement.
11:30am Q & A
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Establishing Protocols for Agit-Prop Departments
Javon Gammon, Chairman Omali Yeshitela
  • The call for a leader of Agit-Prop and Burning Spear Agent in every Party organization
  • Protocols as to how both positions function in Agit-Prop on unit, district and regional level. How positions are given leadership by the national Agit-Prop Office.
  • Teach how to be in Agit-Prop.
  • The Party must assume responsibility for getting The Burning Spear newspaper in the hands of the masses. Selling The Spear:
    1. Creates self-reliance for The Burning Spear
    2. Realizes the political task of the period through selling the paper
    3. Takes African Internationalism out in the world
  • Cadre Development and Training – To help organizations and membership develop theoretical and practical skills to carry out the task of the period.
    1. How to do coalition work
  • Process for working with Membership and Recruitment to establish new member and cadre training.
  • Audio/Visual (A/V) capacity – Further developing skill of department and training Agit-Prop in local and regional organizations.
3:00pm Q & A
3:20pm Break
Departmental Reports
3:35pm The African National Women Organization (ANWO)
Yejide Orunmila
ANWO represents a great leap forward for the Party and the Revolution. Win the Party and Uhuru Movement to recognize the significance of the new organization, its goals and point the way forward for the organization.
4:00pm Q & A
4:15pm Black is Back Coalition Black Community Control Event
4:45pm Q & A
5:00pm Security
Bakari Olatunji
The intensity of the imperialist crisis has created a heightened degree of desperation for imperialism resulting in heightened danger for our revolutionaries, the Party and Uhuru Movement and the African community in general. The objective conditions require that we create a heightened level of security consciousness in the Party and throughout the revolutionary movement.
5:40pm Q & A
5:55pm Establishing
  1. Plenary 2016: Sat-Sun, March 26 and 27
    Plenary 2017: Sat-Sun, March 25 and 26
  2. Congress 2018: August 4-9
    Alternative: December 8-12
6:05pm Closing and Adjourn    
African People's Socialist Party Plenary - April 25-26, 2015 in St. Petersburg, FL

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