Malcolm X Grassroots Movement - 6 Core Principles

I came across these principles listening to a broadcast of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement mix tape on http://freemixradio.voxunion.com/ (show FM10). Please visit and enjoy.

I'll be posting a series of things I've seen on the website that I can appreciate and that I hope you will appreciate too.

6 Core Principles
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The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is an organization of Afrikans in America/New Afrikans whose mission is to defend the human rights of our people and promote self-determination in our community. We understand that the collective institutions of white-supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism have been at the root of our people's oppression. We understand that without community control and without the power to determine our own lives, we will continue to fall victim to genocide. Therefore, we seek to heighten our consciousness about self-determination as a human right and a solution to our colonization. While organizing around our principles of unity, we are building a network of Black/New Afrikan activists and organizers committed to the protracted struggle for the liberation of the New Afrikan Nation - By Any Means Necessary!

OUR 6 CORE PRINCIPLES

1. We actively support and struggle to defend the Human Rights of Afrikan people in the United States and around the world.
   
   
2. We demand Reparations, or repayment for four hundred years of slavery, colonialism and oppression of our people in the United States of America.
   
   
3. We promote Self-Determination and must organize for the liberation of the Afrikan nation, held colonized in the United States.
   
   
4. We oppose Genocide or the acceptable and calculated killing of our people by individuals, institutions and organizations of the United States government, through lynching, disease, police terror and any other means.
   
   
5. We demand the release of activists who have been imprisoned because of their commitment in seeking human rights and liberation for our people. These brothers and sisters are Political Prisoners and should be recognized as such.
   
   
6. We actively struggle to End Sexist Oppression. We oppose any form of oppression that limits women from reaching their fullest potential, as manifested in our cultural, economic, political and social institutions, practices and beliefs. We actively oppose those beliefs, ideas, terms, etc. that limit the human worth of women and contribute to violations against women.

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement