Step 1: Donate to Shaka Shakur here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “Intro to the New Afrikan Prisoners Movement” here

This 2-part workshop will explore the origins and foundations of the New Afrikan Prisoners Movement, highlighting the ways that New Afrikan political prisoners in particular became the theoretical architects and visionaries of The New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM), a national liberation struggle that had experienced severe repression by the end of the 1970's. Officially established in 1968, NAIM developed a Black nationalist political framework and praxis rooted in the establishment of The Republic of New Afrika (RNA), a Black nation-state in the U.S. South in the lands of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Part 1 of the workshop (April 9) will explore some of the founding ideas and figures of NAIM, including the Black Guerilla Family, the RNA-11, Queen Mother Audley Moore, and Robert F Williams. We will also discuss key concepts developed by incarcerated theoreticians of NAIM, including James Yaki Sayles, Sanyika Shakur, and Shaka Shakur, as well as the organizations and publications that helped circulate their ideas behind bars, including the New Afrikan POW Journal and Vita Wa Watu.

In Part 2 (April 23) we will read and discuss select texts from each of these theoreticians, including excerpts from James Yaki Sayles’ Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, Sanyika Shakur’s Stand Up Struggle Forward, and Shaka Shakur’s Meditations of Thought: When the Dragon Comes.

Community Liberation Programs is a Bay Area-based organization that organizes around “decolonization programs,” a concept developed by former New Afrikan political prisoner Jalil Muntaquim, which includes youth street medic programs, political education initiatives, grocery distribution, and more.