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A national member-based collective of Black people building sustainable, self-determining communities thru cooperative economics and community organizing

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The real work is on the block not on social media. Support @CommunityMvt community organizing, safety/cop-watch walks, community house/garden, cooperatives, mutual aid & rent fund 4 local residents. All w/ a Black radical politic or
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BREAKING: United States says there is 'no sign' of any deliberate Israeli war crimes in Gaza conflict
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Black Power does not mean Black faces in high places enforcing white supremacy.
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What gentrification looks like in Atlanta
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Atlanta has a Black mayor, Black police officers, and Black wealth. Yet Atlanta has some of the highest income inequality in the nation and is undergoing rapid gentrification.
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Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Free the world from the grip of imperialism and colonialism.
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There is no amount of "Buy Black" that can get us out of this. We need a redistribution of wealth and an end to capitalism.
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"We aren't outnumbered we are out-organized" - Malcolm X
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The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. Most Africans in this country were still enslaved for almost a hundred years afterward.
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Who is a Black thinker, theorist, or writer, that you wish Black folks read more?
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“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.” ― James Baldwin
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Atlanta has had Black leadership for decades and what's the result? Gentrification, wealth inequality, and police violence.
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We don’t need Cop City. We need access to housing. We don’t need Cop City. We need access to food. We don’t need Cop City. We need proper payment for our work. We don’t need Cop City. We need access to healthcare. We don’t need Cop City. We need a new economy, a new society.
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Want to do what the Black Panther Party did? Here's a free book on how to build programs. Read. Study. Start one in your area.
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They kill Black leaders and pretend they loved them the whole time.
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“We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.” -Assata Shakur
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Here, someone fixed it for you.
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In Mississippi a Black worker was being followed around by White men in trucks yelling slurs at him and threatening to kill him. His body was later found decapitated. Here is the story:
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The Black community is disabled. The Black community is trans. The Black community is lesbian. The Black community is gay. The Black community is intersex. The Black community is poor. The Black community is homeless. Black liberation is for all or is for none.
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The question isnt if something is Black-owned or a Black institution. The real question is if it serves the people.
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. @eventbrite just censored our upcoming event with @palyouthmvmt to discuss the connections between Palestinian liberation and Black liberation, and to plan ways to take action against our shared oppression.
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Black faces in high places means multi-cultural oppression, not liberation.
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Haiti has been a site of resistance against colonialism & white supremacist rule for centuries now.
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AmeriKKKa doesn’t want you to know that many major figures in the struggle for Black liberation were socialists or communists. From W.E.B. Du Bois to Fred Hampton, countless Black leaders have seen socialism as key to our complete liberation.
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We do not need the next MLK or Malcolm X. You are the ones you have been waiting for. No group or personality can liberate you. It is a collective process in which millions of people will have a part to play in.
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Good ole Uncle Joe
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Malcolm X says that "Afro-Americans" ie Afro-Cubans, Haitians, Brazilians etc need to unite against Imperialism & Colonialism.
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FREE MUMIA NOW!!!
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RIP to Tortuguita, who was murdered with their hands up. #StopCopCity
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Happy Pride Month from the City of Atlanta Police Department.🏳️‍🌈
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Imagine an end to landlords charging you exorbitant prices for substandard housing. Imagine healthy food being a basic human right. Imagine no longer having to live in fear of the cops. Imagine community-based community defense. Imagine a better future.
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“Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. - Assata Shakur
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No one will give you the education you need to overthrow them - Assata Shakur
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Spelman and Morehouse students, faculty and alumni continue to protest against the US sponsored genocide of Palestinians by Israel on the eve of the Morehouse administrations invite to give genocide Joe Biden an honorary degree.
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What good are Black mayors, presidents, and possibly governors if the rest of us never see any improvement in our lives?
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Today we honor and salute the revolutionary life and work of Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara, assassinated by imperialists and neo-colonialists on this day in 1987.
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Today in 1831 the Great Jamaican Revolt began. At least 60,000 enslaved Africans led by Samuel Sharpe organized a general strike that became a full scale rebellion that eventually led to the abolition of slavery (on paper) in the British Empire. The power of organized resistance.
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Today we honor the revolutionary life of Comrade Ernesto "Che" Guevara, assassinated in Bolivia on this day in 1967. Hasta la victoria siempre!
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"Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them" -Assata Shakur
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The United States has been charged on 5 counts with genocide against Black and Indigenous people.
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Today marks the birthday of Chinua Achebe, author the "Things Fall Apart", a seminal work of post-colonial socio-political African literature.
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Assata Shakur on Socialism - from "AfroMarxist" via youtube
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All over the world policing is about control over the masses and keeping power in the hands of the elite and the state
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Black Panther Party free food distribution.
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The Black Panther Party doing sickle cell anemia testing at the Black Community Survival Conference. Serve the people.
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Kwame Ture on Mobilization vs Organization
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Mutulu Shakur is dying in prison because of cancer! Demand the immediate release of Mutulu Shakur and all political prisoners!
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Atlanta as a city claims to honor the legacy of protest and dissent that was part of the Civil Rights movement, but when people act to continue that legacy, the city labels them as “terrorists”. This is the hypocrisy of the powers that be. #stopcopcity
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We want power, not fame, fortune, popularity, or money. And power comes from the organized Afrikan masses. - Kwame Ture.
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This is a great time to join an organization. Organization is important because we need to use collective action in order to overcome this capitalist system.
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What is one part of Black history that you wish people discussed more?
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“We want power. We don’t want money, we don’t want fame, we don’t want fortune, we don’t want popularity. We want power. Power. And power comes only from the organized masses.”-Kwame Ture
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“Nowhere in the annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage by patience alone.” — Robert F. Williams
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It's important to recognize that when the state starts calling protestors and activists outside agitators or terrorists, that this is a continuation of a worldwide fascistic trend aimed at suppressing dissent.
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Some people ask if Cop City is only a local to Atlanta thing. The answer is no. A large percentage of pigs that will be trained there will be coming from outside of Atlanta. If the project is completed, it will be repeated elsewhere.
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Don’t stop talking about Palestine. Don’t stop taking to the streets for Palestine. We must continue to do everything we can in order to oppose the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the genocide that is being waged against the Palestinian people.
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Is Killer Mike really saying that it’s impossible to stop Cop City because the state and capitalists paid money for it or is it that 5 million dollar net worth getting to his head? (Spoiler alert: It's the latter.) #StopCopCity
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Prison food here in GA - From the Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia.
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“Theory’s cool, but theory with no practice ain’t shit.”
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Destruction of property is not violence. The pigs killing a protester is violent. The pigs pointing guns in bouncy houses is violent. The pigs mass arresting people is violent. The pigs threatening to shoot people is violent.
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Capitalism has no heart or soul. Only profits.
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Solidarity to Haiti. The Haitian revolution was an inspiration to Enslaved Africans all throughout the Americas. Haiti is now under the thumb of American imperialism and its neocolonial leaders. They deserve our solidarity.
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The water shortage in Jackson, Mississippi, an 81.16% Black city in one of the Blackest parts of the Blackbelt, is part of an epidemic of water shortages in the region and a consequence of settler-colonial environmental racism.
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Atlanta is a segregated city that presents itself as a city that's "too busy to hate". Cop City will make Atlanta an example of police militarization and oppression.
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The Black Panther Party wasn't all about guns, leather jackets, and berets. They engaged in various forms of organizing and protest. They fed children, organized in communities, on campuses, and established international connections.
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Stop Cop City because militarized police will kill oppressed people. Stop Cop City because it will destroy Atlanta’s forest. Stop Cop City because it's being built on stolen land. Stop Cop City because it wastes the people’s money.
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“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them" -Frantz Fanon
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Capitalism is incompatible with Black liberation
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The opening rally for the Week of Action to #StopCopCity is happening now! Here are some clips from it!
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Defund police/military & refund health and community.
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They said this event was going to incite violence?? How?? This is violent! Silencing opposition to genocide, settler colonialism and imperialism is violent!
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“I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin." - Assata Shakur
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Side by Side. A map of racial demographics in Atlanta (Black in green) & a map of income inequality (low income in red). See the correlation?
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There are no good presidents. The role of the president of the United States is to carry out the management of capitalism and imperialism.
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Black people in the United States are a colonized people.
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Black communities are heat islands & are 20 degrees hotter than white communities due to redlining. Thus our people die at a higher rate during climate change heat waves. We must continue to organize to protect the environment & fight environmental racism
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Combatting individualism is an essential aspect of revolutionary organizing. At some point you have to choose whether you will do for self, or for your community.
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There is no way to address the problem of White supremacy without confronting capitalism.
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We don't need revolutionary posturing or artificial wokeness. What we need is consistent concrete material work in our communities based in mass action and solidarity.
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Join a radical organization and walk the block. Talk to yo people, love yo people, live for yo people, fight for yo people, organize w/ yo people
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People will try to say that voting for this or that candidate will bring change. These claims are categorically false. Here are some ways that you can be politically engaged without voting:
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"And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat, or a Republican, or an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy." - Malcolm X
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"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." - Assata Shakur
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Atlanta is increasingly becoming a police state. Right now, dissent is being viciously criminalized and people are facing serious legal action for standing in opposition to a military training facility for the police. At the same time, the jails are killing people.
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Angela Davis Says "Stop Cop City" Davis says if Cop City is built it 'Will represent a major setback for the movement of radical democratic futures" #StopCopCity
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Black poor & working-class people have to lead our own movements. The Black misleadership class doesn't have our best interests at heart.
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Ferguson was the beginning of a new generation of resistance, but this also meant new tactics in quelling Black rebellion.
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Start organizing small. Find your folks. Build slowly. Do the things that aren't sexy or get you attention. Do them consistently and grow. You will see results.
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And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat, or a Republican, or an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy." - Malcolm X
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Some clips and photos from last night's march and rally against police terror. Black people don't want Cop City! Nobody wants Cop City! Cop City will never be built! #StopCopCity
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Malcolm X was ready to defend Black lives in the south.
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The oppressed always have a right to rebel. The oppressed always have the right to fight back. From Palestine to Ferguson to Sudan.
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Rally to support Palestine. Free Free Palestine
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Community Movement Builders Detroit has just purchased our 3rd community house. As part of a larger strategy, we need to control property to keep our communities from gentrifying. Please support us so we can do the repairs needed on this property. $cmborg or at our website.
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We cannot bootstrap ourselves out of oppression. We must fight to end it.
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Get organized. Join an organization. If there’s no organization that you like form one. If you can't form an organization, form a network, collective, affinity group, or group of well-trusted people to do work with and start off small. All power to the people!
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Only an organized, well defended, well fed, politically educated, and politically active community can truly be a safe community.
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Childcare is also a part of the organizing work! Many people have trouble participating in organizations and in mass movements because they have to care for their children.
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If we're gonna talk about gangs we need to talk about the White supremacist deputy gangs within the police. 12 is the biggest gang.
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