Split From the African Centered Movement ?

Living In Black 360 Degrees of the Black Experience A message to all members of Living In Black I'll be conducting an interview soon with Linda Stout, author of a new book: Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future.  I am particularly struck by the following quote from the book liner:   "Many progressive and liberal Americans have been mired in disabling hopelessness for the last decade, with only brief surges of hope, such as the youth mobilization during the Obama presidential campaign.  Many of us have developed bad habits of focusing only on what we're against, instead of what we're for.  But change won't come without a vision of the better society we want."   I think that this statement is very applicable to our African Centered movement, with only slight alteration.  I am increasingly turned off by endless rhetoric, "buckets and buckets of words", that are confusing many of our young people and have our movement terribly stagnant since the passing of Dr.'s John Henrick Clarke and Amos Wilson in the late '90s.  I think that we need to raise the possibility that we may actually be in need of a revolt within the culturally conscious movement.  I would be a leader of the "Action Faction", deliberately separating our group from those who spend most of their time in useless rhetoric and glory-boasting over the accomplishments of previous generations while our own generation is plummeting towards disaster.   I will address this topic this morning, Friday May 13th on www.LIBRadio.com and www.LivingInBlack.com at 11 AM EST / 8 AM PST and lay out my argument that we need to engage within our own collective a debate on the value of continued lectures, panel discussions, YouTube videos, prayer and study groups in contrast to building gardens, healing centers, rites of passage programs, buying land and restoring such crafts as: art, music, construction, handcrafts, food services, security and other areas where we have distinguished ourselves in past generations.  Please join this conversation or pick up the program later if you missed it.  There are some who definitely disagree with me over the value of these lectures and prayer groups.  I welcome opposing perspectives as a valuable part of seeking resolution.   In the end, we are in dire need of Reparations, and the best agents to accomplish this are within our own ethnicity.  How can we get to that destination in the shortest period of time is the ultimate question.   Please, if you have not already, invest a few dollars in our semi-annual May Fund Drive.  We are doing great things (like installing an orchard next week at the Black Oaks Center for Sustainable and Renewable Living) and are planning on even greater things in the next three months, all toward the aim of Kujichagulia Village construction on a vast scale.  Please join us by planting seeds today that we can harvest in the next season.  Here is a link to make a donation of any amount which you choose: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=K3G9QWRMNTDMW   If you would prefer that your donation go directly to the Black Oaks Center LIB Partnership to pay for the orchard and my trip to install it and build an amphitheater on the property, please use the following special donation link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=XH4HA852FWBVU   New LIBRadio Archives we would like you to consider: DEAL OF THE DAY - Building, Action and Movement Collection on MP3 - I gathered together a special set of audios from our collection of 3000 digital archives that focus on these three themes because I am concerned that we need to split our movement off, away from redundant rhetoric and "glory praising" and concentrate more on tangible actions, functional organizing and centrally-directed collective investment. This collection contains over 50 hours of MP3 files, all selected because they help us distinguish non-productive rhetoric from true Pan African and progressive action. $40.00 on MP3 (LIBCD2794) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZW7NPHEW5RETJ Baba Fred Carter: Investing in the Future NOW! / Tammy Hines: WAWA Development - These two programs center around sustainable living projects that are actually building up areas where our re-integration into shepherding Nature is taking place. In the first, we raise funds to install a fruit orchard at the Black Oaks Center for Sustainable and Renewable Living 40 acres in rural Illinois. Next up, one of our members shares conversation about the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, which is recovering 26 acres of land in the city, toward the aim of training our people to get into the dirt and make a change in the larger environment by rebuilding an urban park. (LIBCD2795) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=QJAMYBFLRUSP2 Mawiyah Duperval: Who Brought Cholera to Haiti? / Preparedness, Vigilant and Resilience Workshops - In the first hour we host the founder of Haitian American Ministries who is on the eve of another trip to Haiti where she has been involved in relief work for over a decade. She explains how the cholera outbreak was a deliberate act of sabotage of an important Haitian watershed, and much more. Next, on the eve of a conference in L.A., we discuss the need to systematically organize our people to be response-able in the event of a disruptive disaster. (LIBCD2796) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=WVTWUA4W2KYB8 Looking at Major Business Trends / Winds of War Blowing Towards Pakistan - In the first hour we can see that the big players among the corporate elite are making some dramatic moves will all of the surplus cash they have received from the Obama administration. What do these moves reveal that could be useful for our own development? Next, in the aftermath of the announcement of the killing of Bin Laden, the U.S. and Pakistan are increasingly sabre rattling against each other and U.S. bombing of Pakistan is escalating. Where will this end up? (LIBCD2797) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=UDCDTZQZVXRCU The New Wellness Revolution Vol 6 - Making Your Fortune in Medicine, continued. - Our examination continues this chapter of opportunities to redirect many health dollars into the preventative economy. We look at the rise of Mercola.com, well known cardiologists, excercise entrepreneurs, vitamin distributors and chiropractic, for the revolutionary way that leaders in these fields have created enterprises and networks worth billion$. At the end, there is a detailed checklist for your own action plan to get in on the next $400 billion of expected growth in the next two years. (LIBCD2763F) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_sxclick&hosted_button_id=6A2U5FXH6R32Q Keidi Awadu 323.902.2919 / keidi@libradio.net   Visit Living In Black at: http://livinginblack.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network