WE CALL ON
ALL AFRICAN YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS
ALL YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS OF CHURCHES
ALL ORGANIZATIONS THAT PRIMARILY WORK WITH YOUTH
YOUTH WHO WANT TO MAKE A SERIOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNIFICATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE AND ALL YOUTH IN GENERAL
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
AFRICAN YOUTH CONFERENCE
BUILDING AN AFRICAN YOUTH MOVEMENT
This Movement is necessary in order to educate, mobilize, and organize the largest number of African youth as possible.
To collectively solve our problems of
Housing * Childcare * Education * Transportation * Healthcare * Food * Clothing * Youth & Elderly Needs * Clean Drinking Water * Employment (Skills/Job Training)
Saturday, March 12, 2005
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY
600 Forbes Ave. (downtown)
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
How To Build A Youth Movement * Identity * The Importance Of Culture/Hip Hop-Which Direction? * Education * The Science Of Organization * Solidarity with Youth of the World * Entertainment
NO FEE
Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.
-- Frantz Fanon
For participation or other information please contact:
African Women’s Charity Organization
PO Box 23074 Oakland, CA 94623-0074
Phone: 415 789-7360
Email: ForAfricanWomen@xxxxxxx
http://hometown.aol.com/forafricanwomen/myhomepage/index.html
WHY THIS AFRICAN YOUTH CONFERENCE
“All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or any other part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.” President Kwame Nkrumah
We call on all the African youth organizations, all the youth organizations of the churches, all the organizations who primarily work with youth, all youth in general, and all youth who want to make a serious contribution to the unification of African youth worldwide to attend this African Youth Conference on March 12, 2005 at Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave. (downtown), Pittsburgh, PA.
We are in the process of building powerful African Women’s and Youth Movements that will connect all African women and youth, inside and outside of Africa. This is a very important part of the African independence movement. African Women’s and Youth Movements are necessary in order to educate, mobilize, and organize the largest number of African women and youth as possible. Our vision includes obtaining our own collective childcare, housing, kitchens, transportation, educational institutions, employment, etc. We must build a strong infrastructure in Africa and we must be tightly organized outside of Africa. If we are going to be tightly organized outside of Africa, it is necessary for our youth to be tightly organized. Therefore as mothers, we challenge our youth to build an African Youth Movement in the Diaspora that will connect all African youth inside and outside of Africa. The African Youth movement must be connected to the worldwide struggle for justice and peace for all humanity.
We are determined to build these strong Movements because we the masses must liberate ourselves. No hero can save us; only by raising our consciousness, organizing, and uniting ourselves under our own leadership, will we liberate ourselves. The history of the world has proven that once the force of the masses is roused, organized, and determined to rise up, it can overcome every difficulty. These Women’s and Youth Movements must be connected to Africa’s independence movement. Independence and liberation are priceless. Nothing is more precious than independence and liberation.
As adults, we have a message for the youth. Adults often talk negative about our youth. Before we talk negative or positive about our youth, we are going to give our youth an assignment. The assignment that we give the youth is to build an African Youth Movement.
A movement is an act of moving. We want our youth to move from not being in an organization that is working for the benefit of the people to being in an organization that is working for the benefit of the people. A movement is a change in position. We want our youth to change their position from not having an important responsibility to the people to having a big responsibility to the people. A movement is the activities of a group of people to achieve a specific goal. We want our youth’s main concern to be the liberation of Africa and African people. In order to be liberated we must struggle for power. In order to have power we must be organized. The Youth Movement must be a movement of organized people. We are full of confidence that, the youth, have everything needed to build an African Youth Movement and if not, then it is the responsibility of all responsible Africans to make sure that the youth do have what is necessary to build this movement. The Movement must be connected to Africa. The movement must include the vision of uniting Africa into one country and the unification of over 900 million Africans, scattered in over 125 countries. While youth have problems that are particular to youth, we cannot separate those particular problems from the problems facing all of the people collectively.
The African Youth Movement must play an important part in the struggle of our people to improve our living conditions. In order for our youth to have a happy future we must insure that our youth are given a dynamic education which includes true African arts and culture, since the full rehabilitation of African culture is one of the dearest wishes of people of Africa and African descent. We should intensely promote artistic activities and withdraw from the harmful impact of commercialism, so that music, dance, sculpture, etc. should be revived as genuine expressions of our people’s thought.
“Today, there is only one road to effective action – the organization of the masses.” Kwame Nkrumah
Every person who wants to make a serious contribution to our people’s liberation must be in an organization that is working for the people’s interest. We must be organized with a clear plan of action every month, every week, every day. It is our goal to become so organized that we can do in one day what previously took us twenty years. The masses of nearly one billion Africans scattered in countries throughout the world, without distinction as to age and sex must rise as one person, ready to accept all hardships and sacrifices and devote our creativity and capacities to the cause of the total liberation and unification of Africa.
