Fighting state violence, fighting for Black freedom

Malcolm X was assassinated over 50 years ago, but organizations like the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) are carrying on the fight for Black liberation today, winning important victories and developing crucial organizing strategies that social justice movements everywhere can learn from. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway and cohost-in-training Charles Hopkins, better known as Mansa Musa, speak with Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele about the crucial lessons MXGM organizers have learned over the years through their efforts to liberate political prisoners, organize and empower Black communities, and combat the apparatuses of state violence. Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is a community organizer, educator, and member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He is also the National Strategies and Partnerships Director at Movement for Black Lives and cofounder of the world-renowned Black August Hip Hop Project.

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[BabaAsar]

Much respect to MXGRM, they have been putting in work for decades!

[Wamsuou]

The state will never serve the people thus the people must rise up and create revolutionary change for their communities where they live.

[adonamexem]

Marcus Garvey’s (#35) THE DON’T’S The following is a list of things, most of which have been discussed, that the Afrikan Master Student MUST AVOID AT ALL COST #1. DON’T allow SUPERFICIALITIES to keep You from Your People. (graduate vs. undergraduate, athlete vs. non-althete, professional vs. non-professional, middle class vs. lower class, north vs south, east vs west, Man vs. Woman, science vs. liberal arts, Democrat vs. Republican, Greek vs. non-Greek, Caribbean vs United States of Amerika). #2. DON’T allow Yourself to develop an ELITIST MENTALITY. #3 DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DIVIDE and CONQUER You. #4. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to PICK and CHOOSE Your Leaders. #5. DON’T become a SLAVE to Money or Position. #6. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) or Yourselves to USE, ABUSE, or MISTREAT You or Your People. #7. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to SET Your Standards goals or Objectives. #8. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DEFINE and SELECT Your Ideology(Highest Values). #9. DON’T become a SLAVE to Material Things. #10. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) or Yourselves to DRUG or LURE You to Sleep(cousin of death). #11. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) or Yourselves to DEMEAN or DEHUMANIZE Your Heritage. #12. DON’T ACCEPT Something simply because the Enemy(European Colonist) says You SHOULD. #13. DON”T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DEFINE and REPRESENT Your Interest. #14. DON’T work AGAINST Your People. #15. DON’T MISTREAT Your Brother’s and Sister’s(People). #16. DON’T promote VALUES and PRACTICES that are ANTI-Afrikan #17. DON’T choose INDIVIDUALISM over Peoplehood and Community. #18. DON’T DISCUSS Family Problems in Public or with the Enemy(European Colonist). #19. DON’T celebrate EUROPEAN COLONIST HOLIDAY’S. #20. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DICTATE Your Methods for Struggle. #21. DON’T support things that DISRUPT Unity, Organization, and Peoplehood. #22. DON’T allow Yourself to become APATHETIC, APOLITICAL, PASSIVE or PESSIMISTIC. #23. DON’T act on EMOTION. #24. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DISARM You. #25. DON’T do things that IMPEDE(Jeopardize) the struggle. #26. DON’T REJECT Values, Lifestyles, and Traditions that Make Your Culture Unique. #27. DON’T SUPPORT Artist, Businesses, Politicians, Organizations, or Institutions that EXPLOIT the Afrkan Community in this Country or Abroad. #28. DON’T BETRAY Your Brother’s and Sister’s(People). #29. DON’T practice INEQUALITY, SEXISM, or CLASSISM. #30. DON’T PATRONIZE Corporations, Institutions, or Organizations that VIOLATE Afrikan Intersest. #31. DON’T do the DIRTY WORK of the Enemy (European Colonist). #32. DON’T run from ADVERSITY. #33. DON’T be AFRAID to Fight Back. #34. DON’T DEFEAT Yourself or Your People before the Battle even begins. #35. DON’T EXPLOIT Your People.

[AhmedAli-ywru]

By all means necessary in this day and age time its a honour how to survive the African people black people Malcolm X legacy. You'll are a inspiration ✨️ light and resurrection and impediment of what our ancient African ancestoral spirits had already started off. It certainly doesn't die. This here is it the process have to empower empathic love respectfully revolutionalizing ourselves and decolonize our minds bodies and spiritual traditions ancestors voices calling us from this western world that seeks only to colonialising our African people black lives within American. Be it in government or otherwise 🤔

[Guitarpima]

I wish people would stop saying, “we are fighting for“ whatever. When you say the word fighting, you give the police a go ahead to beat the shit out of you. Why, intent. Use the words, “we are speaking out“. Stop using words that express intent. The police are happy to oblige and beat you up. Do not give them the opportunity. They are the ones committing the crime, not you. Other than that, good luck!

The second amendment gives you the right to form a “well regulated militia“. You can arrest police for bad behavior. You can arrest agent provocateur‘s trying to disrupt your gatherings. Sadly, it depends who you are whether you can carry a gun or not. Food for thought.

[beentheredonethat]

The truth is tge American government has worked overtime since before Jim crow, to keep the poor communities from becoming one. The black, Hispanic, and poor white population of America is by far the majority, together we can make real change, affect elections and every factor of this nation. The government has worked hard to posion the waters between these groups, make them feel different and separate from each other when in truth they face the same struggle, just in different lifestyles. This needs to change, grow together and become what they have always feared since Jim crow laws, which by far displaced black and white poor and illiterate populations ve ause together they were the majority, but also the largest groups of u schooled people who could pass elections tests at the time. Ots time to see things for what they are, and stand as one powerful people, many races but one people, the majority if they stand against elites and upper class together, enough hate, its time to come together

[johnnyshanksalot]

How about just fighting for freedom and self determination in general so as to actually unite people from diverse backgrounds who all find themselves regularly under the boot? No? You'd rather serve as a Cointelpro type presence dividing the masses who ALL oppose these abuses regardless of the race of the victim into various factions of supposed enemies? Guess I'll show myself out lol...

[JB-lfzc]

Where is your family from in Africa? Who’s Black in America? What happened to the original American Indigenous Negro??? Why not just go to Africa???