InPDUM Platform

Point 1: We demand international democratic rights and self-determination for African people throughout the world.

We demand an end to all colonial and neo-colonial governments and government agencies, including but not limited to the U.S., U.K., C.I.A., and F.B.I., that have waged counterinsurgency wars that take away the basic democratic rights that African people have fought and died for during the Black revolution of the 60's in the U.S. and African revolutions throughout the world. We demand an end to these attacks which come under the guise of fighting a "war on drugs", a "war on gangs" or "war on crime," a war against the African in Sierra Leone through the blood diamond trade leaving African people with only $2 a day and a cup of rice.

Point 2: We demand community control of the police and the immediate withdrawal of the terroristic police and military troops from the African Community.

We demand the withdrawal of the police and all special, paramilitary, armed forces who, under the guise of fighting against drugs, gangs, crime, and immigration, actually constitute an occupying army in the African community and maintains the exploitation of Africas resources and people by assisting companies like DeBeers and Firestone, who steals Africa's diamond and rubber resources.

We also demand that all forms of this militaristic "drug task force," "welfare task force," "immigration task force," public housing police, and troops at military checkpoints be removed from the African communities. We demand that the U.S. government overturn all specially devised laws, specifically the Crime Bill, and Three Strikes Laws designed to abrogate the rights of the African community or to criminalize African people.

We demand control of the police who function within the oppressed African community as a colonial occupying army, responsible for the daily police murders, attacks, harassment, drive by shootings, importation of drugs, and abuse of African women. As the colonial government's "frontline of defense" the colonial police departments also practice surveillance against African people with a goal of coding into their computers the unidentifiable features of every African, including fingerprints and names. The majority of this armed institution, especially the North American or white police, live outside of the African communities, functioning like contras which invade African communities in order to destabilize them. The demand for community control of the police is not a call for a police review board. We demand an end to the tactics, which the U.S. government calls "community policing" and what U.S. and other colonial governments calls "border control" that in fact intensifies police presence and counterinsurgency tactics in and against the oppressed African communities.

Point 3: We Demand community control of schools and Mandatory African history in schools.

We demand an end to the criminalization of African children and militarization and the schools in the African community. This demand includes an end to dress codes, and an end to the martial law on school grounds which includes strip searches, metal detectors walls being built around campuses an the increase of special police forces.

We also call for an end to the white nationalists anti-African curriculum that is being used. We demand an end to a system which provides resources for the minority white schools while African schools are impoverished and without necessary resources. “In addition, we demand an end to "special education" which is a system of mind control, tracking African children into failure and prisons.

We also demand an end to all mercenaries who travel to Africa under the guide of donating books, building schools, and helping to teach, but in actuality they support and uphold a European curriculum that protects the values and principles of the ruling regime.

We demand an end to the isolation cells, which are being instituted for African children in public schools throughout the U.S.

We demand an end to bussing, which is in fact the kidnapping of African children, sending them to hostile, foreign and alien schools where they are brutalized by white nationalist terror.

We condemn the Brown vs. The Board of Education decision bringing about "integrated" schools as a white nationalist solution to the question of inferior education for African children.

We demand reparations from the U.S. and all colonial governments for this long standing terrorization of African children, so that African workers can create their own schools with their own curriculum which reflects true science, and history, and benefits African children and the African world.

Point 4: We Demand African Community Control of Health Care.

We believe that the current state of health care in the African community is genocidal. We believe that the high infant mortality rate, famine, diseases from infested waters in many African countries, the curable diseases which African people suffer and die from, AIDS, tuberculosis, asthma, lead poisoning, toxic waste dumps, environmental pollution, Norplant, and the fact that the life expectancy for African people is significantly lower than that of white people, are all evidence of the U.S. and other colonial government's genocide and chemical and biological warfare against African people colonized within all its borders. We demand reparations from the U.S., Europe and all other colonial governments for this genocide so that the African community can have control over its healthcare facilities, meeting their own particular needs and preventing disease. As it is, healthcare is only another big business benefiting white power throughout the world, and preventative medicine is not in the interest of the medical industry. We demand Reparations to develop African community control of healthcare which puts the power of health into the hands of African workers themselves.

Point 5: We demand African community control of housing.

We believe that a land reform law that provides for collective community control of housing is absolutely necessary for an end to the high cost of rent, and the substandard housing,, the hundreds of abandoned houses within the cities of the U.S. and the forced relocation of the African population due to gentrification, the shanty dilapidated living conditions throughout the African world. We demand an end to the U.S. government imposed martial law which turns public housing into prison camps for African people and Colonial governments strategies designed to steal Africa's resources by creating concentration camp living conditions for African people. We denounce the public housing authorities for their fraud and parasitic rip-off of African people as thousands of African people go homeless. We demand an end to the anti-democratic sweeps of the housing project, which violate constitutionally protected laws against search and seizure. We demand an end to the abrogation of democratic rights in the housing projects, including leases that extort tenants into giving up their rights against search and seizure and that violate constitutionally protected rights to bear arms. We demand housing as a basic human rights for African people in the U.S., the Caribbean, the Continent of Africa and anywhere African people live, that is guaranteed by international law.

Point 6: We demand the removal of parasitic merchants and slumlords from our communities.

We demand an end to the rip off and terrorizing of our communities by foreign merchants who uphold white power. These agents of white power hold African workers hostage with the only stores available, charging high prices for bad food and shoddy goods, and harassing, threatening and killing African workers who are forced to deal with them. We denounce these foreign merchants in the African community who function as an arm of the state and collaborate with the police and the military forces of the counterinsurgency. These same forces not only take billions of dollars out of the African community, they are also complicit in bringing drugs into the community. We demand an end to the invasion of Africa by foreign agents of white power who go into African countries for the purpose of stealing resources, including diamonds, gold, rubber, minerals, bauxite, fruits and vegetables and keeping the resources for the foreign nations they come from leaving Africans working without profit, impoverished, deformed, and with no economic development. These agents of white power keep resources out of the African community while making billions of dollars for their foreign colonial countries. We demand the immediate removal of these forces from African communities throughout the world.

Point 7: We demand an end to the colonial court and prison systems which have the majority of African men and increasingly African women and children, incarcerated, on probation or parole, and the immediate release of all political prisoners and prisoners of war.

We demand an end to the U.S., European and all other colonial concentration camps which are being used to criminalize and control the entire African population, keeping them oppressed and colonized. We recognize that as colonial subjects all African workers in prison are political prisoners. The US colonial prison system is a key component of the counterinsurgency. This attack is intensifying through the Crime Bill and current wave of "three strikes you're out" legislation being passed in almost every state, as well as laws that give the death penalty to African children and countless other laws designed solely to attack suppress and imprison the entire African population. We denounce the torture, killings and degradation that Africans face in prison, as well as the slave labor worth billions of dollars to the colonial US economy that our people are forced to produce. We recognize that this slave labor and genocide against African people benefits the parasitic white power system and the white population, and is an underlying reason for the high incidents of imprisonment of African men, up to 70% of whom have been incarcerated during their lives. We also denounce the wide spread tactics of house arrest and electronic "bracelets," as well as mandatory death sentences, behavior modification units and massive lockdowns used to break down and kill African men and to commit genocide against the entire African community. In addition, we demand the release of African political prisoners, prisoners of war and prisoners of conscience such as Sundiata Acoli, Mumia Abu Jamal, H.Rap Brown and others throughout the International African world. The U.S. , Europe, and other colonial governments have no right to hold captive the courageous sons and daughters of Africa who through their patriotic deeds and struggle of defense of the international democratic rights of the African community have become political prisoners of war. We believe, along with the majority of the peoples of the world, that it is the duty of colonized and enslaved African people to fight for freedom and liberation, and that those who do so are heroes and heroines and should be held in highest esteem.

Point 8: We demand an end to the theft, kidnapping, sale, abuse and removal of African children from their communities under the genocidal foster care system throughout the world.

We understand that one of the main goals of the US , European, and colonial counterinsurgencies against African people is to destroy the African family and the ability for African people to raise children they have brought into the nation, and that this constitutes genocide. We understand that the US government and colonial governments around the globe is massively stealing African babies from African mothers and fathers using the guise of "drugs" which the US government itself imposes in the African community as chemical warfare against the people. We understand that until this counterinsurgency, "foster care" has always been alien to African community where the cultural practice has revolved around collective responsibility of all children. We demand an end to the theft of African babies from their mothers, fathers, and the forcible placement of African people outside their group into white homes, while other family members and African foster parents are being denied the right to raise their African children. We demand an end to the parasitic blood sucking multi-million dollar practice of modern day slavery which pays white people, U.S. government, and local agencies enormous amounts of money to steal African babies. We demand complete exposure of and immediate end to the abuse that African children are subjected to at the hands of the foster care system and white people. This includes murder, physical and sexual abuse, as well as psychological and political terror of being forcibly uprooted from their own people and sent to a hostile white nationalist environment. We demand reparations for the genocidal theft of African children throughout the world which has brought billions of dollars to the white power economy. We demand the absolute undeniable right of African people to raise and have complete control over their own children.

Point 9: We demand an end to the political and social oppression and economic exploitation of African women.

We demand an immediate end to the particular abuse of African women colonial system. We recognize that this abuse has always included rape and subjugation by the white slave master and an attempt by white power to separate African women from African men. The oppression of African women includes forcible subjugation to the degrading U.S. "Welfare" system, which makes participation in the criminalization of African men a pre-requisite for receiving a tiny pittance. We demand an end to this degradation, as well as other forms of oppression, such as forcible sterilization through Norplant and other means, the theft of African babies from their mothers, the subjugation of African children to brutal, militarized school system, and the massive imprisonment of sons, husbands and fathers of African women. We believe in the absolute equivocal, political, social and economical equality of African women and men. We demand an end to the special oppression of African women and the elevation of women to their rightful place as equal partners and leaders in forward motion of the development of African liberation as leaders, makers and shapers of human history.

Point 10: We demand reparations for African people.

We believe that reparations is the central economic demand which recognizes the economic role played by African people in the forced development of the political economy of the U.S. and other colonial governments, and the parasitic nature of that economy, resting as it does on 400 years of the enslavement of African people and the genocide of the native people. We believe that reparations is a just compensation for labor and damages which will contribute toward the genuine self-determination of African people in the U.S., Africa, and other Africans who live throughout the world; and the development of an economy and society that is controlled by and serves African workers themselves. As part of the demand for reparations, we call for an end to the forced U.S. drug economy in the oppressed African communities which is the forefront of the parasitic U.S. economy that sucks the blood of African people stealing our labor and resources for the benefit of white power and the white population in general. We also demand an end to the degrading welfare system which is a part of the counterinsurgency and makes African people dependent on the pittance from the U.S. government, and other colonial governments which destroys African families and makes African children wards of the state. The U.S. government and other colonial governments can keep its "welfare" and hand over reparations which are owed to African people right now!.

Point 11: We demand a United Nations supervised plebiscite to determine the will of the African community in the U.S. and other colonial nations as to their national destiny.

Understanding that the highest expression of democracy is self-determination, we demand that an internationally supervised plebiscite, which is stated in Pt. 10 of the 10 point program of the Black Panther Party, will be "held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny."

Point 12: We demand an end to the political economy of the counterinsurgency: the parasitic relationship that benefits the white population with billions of dollars for jobs, resources, and a stabilized economy off of the U.S. counterinsurgency against African people in the U.S.

We recognize that white society in the U.S. and Europe exist parasitically on a pedestal of resources, land and labor stolen from African people for 500 years. The economy of the U.S. was built off of the stolen labor of enslaved African people and the stolen land of the native people. Today, the majority of jobs for white people are tied to the political economy of the counterinsurgency, creating an opportunist economic basis for white people's unity with the counterinsurgency and a parasitic job market that benefits white people at the expense of African and other colonized people. This parasitism has grown to the extent that whole communities of North Americans throughout the U.S. are sustained economically through the prison industry and the counterinsurgency. As real estate agents, stock brokers and money laundering bankers, white people off the resources stolen from colonized people all over the world and off the drug economy that fuels the U.S. economy while providing false justification for the counterinsurgency. As slumlords, white people are enriched by the profits made from keeping African men, women and children in miserable living conditions in cities across the U.S. As lawyers, foster care workers, social workers, police, national guards and beneficiaries of the prison system, including construction workers, guards and countless other suppliers, the white population directly benefits from the attacks on the African community. Billions of dollars in federal and state funds are flooded into the white communities of the U.S. yearly in grants ranging from aid for "disaster relief" to grants for job programs that create careers for the social workers that administer them and no change in the economic, political and social conditions for the African community. We demand an end to this parasitic political economy and the complicity and opportunism of white people in the counterinsurgency.

Point 13: We demand the removal of borders, including immigration laws, that hold the African community hostage and debilitate the movement of African people throughout the world.

We demand the removal of any borders which serve to separate Africans from each other and/or from our resources. These resources include the land and its products including minerals and agriculture, the seas along our coasts, the value produced by our labor and transported or kept in European and other centers of imperialism as well as cultural artifacts and other expressions which are often transformed into commodities at the expense of African cultural workers and our dispersed, unfree, nation. The removal of borders which separate us must include the immigration laws that deny or make difficult the ability to travel to Europe, the U.S. and other regions of the world that have profited from our enslavement, colonization and/or the theft of our resources. It must also include the colonially-imposed borders in Africa, which continue even today to facilitate the theft of African resources, the fracturing of African national consciousness and the achievement of a national economy that could lift the African world out of its imperialist-imposed emiseration.