2.20.2021

GDW EVENT ALERT - CEMOTAP - Saturday, February 20 is a Day of Action for All Black People - In Person or Virtually

By Gloria DULAN-Wilson
Hello All:

Well, we're now officially out of Aquarius and into Pisces - and things are starting off with a BANG!
 
First, 
Today is Sir Sidney Poitier's  94th Birthday!!  He's just as handsome and erudite as ever.  Please wish our trailblazing brother HAPPY BIRTHDAY and thank him for all he's done and tried to do using his talent, craft and love for Black people.  

Happy 94th Birthday Sir Sidney Poitier - Scene from Buck and the Preacher



Secondly
FEBRUARY 20 IS A DAY OF ACTION FOR BLACK PEOPLE - IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY - WE ALL HAVE A PART TO PLAY!!

CEMOTAP - One of my favorite organizations on the planet, under the leadership of the great Dr. James McIntosh, is always in the forefront of activities to keep Black people active, alert, aware, informed, empowered, educated, and free!  So whenever they send me info, I try to make sure I post it in its entirety - with just a few personal embellishments. 


1 A. Quotation Food For Thought
The overwhelming power of the white power structure and swift over-reactive tendency to punish Black aggression, its control over resources, its sustained degrading of Black self-confidence  has produced in a very large percentage of Blacks what is referred to as Learned Helplessness. The very strong and largely negative control that the white establishment has over Black lives has produced among many Blacks such a degree of lack of self-confidence that a large number of them do not believe that their personal and group status can be improved, save through the help of whites. The utter dependence of Blacks on whites for their social economic, political, educational, cognitive existence. This type of apathy has helped to maintain black subjugation, ignorance, lack of self knowledge, self love, self-confidence, self assertiveness, self education. The situation has been such that when barriers are down many blacks continue to respond as if the barriers still exist."  Amos Wilson, “The Developmental Psychology of The Black Child”

1.
UNIA BLACK HISTORY EVENT Zoom Meeting
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Sat Feb 20, 2021 7pm – 9pm (EST)

LINK TO UNIA BLACK HISTORY PROGRAM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84569437075?pwd=UGtpUS9CdFJldGxDNU1pWVY5Yk9RZz09


2. 
You are invited by Operation Power  to a conversation between The Honorable Charles Barron and Dr. Cornell West on Black Radical Politics, Malcolm X and the Impact of the Biden Administration on the Black Community on Saturday February 20, 2021 at 12 Noon

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On Wednesday February 24, 2021 at 2:00 PM, Brother Raymond Dugue, The Second Assistant President General and High Chancellor of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League under the leadership of The Honorable Michael Duncan will join James McIntosh, M.D and Richardeanea Theodore, RN, CNS, MA, MPA on The MIND FIELD  show on WBAI FM 99.5 NYC /wbai.org. The Topic is "The Psychology of Dr. Amos Wilson" whom Brother Dugue has termed "The Ultimate Garveyite."
The half hour goes fast so tune it at 2pm sharp. 


4. Black Panther Brother Shep Olugbala joins CEMOTAP Music Forum
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On Saturday February 27th CEMOTAP NY and CEMOTAP OHIO are sponsoring a forum asking the question, " Is the Music Murdering Our Minds" The other questions implied in this title are Is the Music Murdering Our Youth and Our Future. Activist Kwabena Sadiki Jijaga Rasouli of the Clear the Airways Project says that the issue of Black youth murdering each other is at an all time high. He feels that rap music which promotes murder, disrespect and misogyny are not helping the issue and maybe encouraging the values that exacerbate the issue. At this forum Scholars, Activists and Community leaders with speak about the issue as well as actions that can address the issue.
YOU MUST RSVP TO ATTEND
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS BY TEXTING 347-907-0629 OR Emailing Bashlefi@gmail.com


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Three Dynamic African Women Speak for CEMOTAP'S Black Women's Herstory Month Program on Zoom at 2:00 PM 3-27-21. Admission is Free but you must RSVP at call, text or message at347-907-0629, or by emailing Bashlefi@gmail.com 
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If you asked your doctor. Have you taken the COVID 19 Vaccination you will get a different answer depending on whom you asked. The same is true if you ask the members of our panel in Part 3 of our ongoing discussion on Optimal Black Health Care During The COVID 19 pandemic. Find out why at this free forum sponsored by CEMOTAP NY AND CEMOTAP OHIO on Zoom on Saturday MARCH 28, 2021 AT 2 pm. RSVP by Calling or Texting 347-907-0629 or emailing Bashlefi@gmail.com
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7.
50+ actions across the country


National Day of Action in Solidarity with Amazon Workers Unionizing in Alabama


Saturday, 1pm
Union Square
14th & Broadway
In front of Bezos-Owned Whole Foods

Saturday, 1pm 
Linden Blvd and Essex in East New York, Brooklyn 
by Amazon Facility

The Southern Workers Assembly has issued a call for a National Day of Solidarity with Alabama Amazon Workers on Saturday, February 20.

Actions are being planned across the South and the U.S. on that day.

Click Here to view the full list of 50+ actions around the country!


Find more information and sign the petition at supportamazonworkers.org

Between Feb 8, and March 29, approximately 6,000 Amazon workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will begin voting by mail on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Workers Union. The harsh working conditions at Amazon warehouses, along with Amazon’s refusal to adopt measures that protect workers from COVID 19, have pushed Amazon and Whole Foods workers every- where to step up organizing and fighting back.

These predominantly Black Amazon workers who have in recent months formed the BAmazon Workers Union, are on the cusp of launching a history-changing workers organization against one of the biggest and most powerful transnational corporations in the world, and its super rich union busting owner, Jeff Bezos. In addition, these workers are standing up to the racist, anti-union laws that suppress labor across the south. No matter what the outcome of the vote, this fight for a union in Alabama is already rocking Wall Street and energizing a much needed national explosion of worker organizing.

NATIONWIDE MASS SOLIDARITY WILL BE DECISIVE

Amazon and Jeff Bezos, are well known and hated for their anti-worker, anti-community, and racist drive to be the richest and most powerful corporation in the world. But Amazon’s bad reputation and high profile are also their greatest weakness. If we rise up everywhere, during the union vote, and let Bezos know that he will not be allowed to crush this union drive, it could have a huge impact. (GDW NOTE: Nice - but I would really rather have had that kind of unity and fervor when your only Democratic Senator was up for re-election and you did not get out those essential votes - instead of letting the repuglycons win - IJS/SMH - GDW)

You are invited to a virtual organizing meeting on Feb. 12. There we will discuss (and decide on) how a campaign of mass solidarity can be organized in every part of the country during the seven week long voting period for the union in Bessemer. Please register today and invite others who might be interested!
February 12 is the anniversary of the first day of the historic 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. It was during Dr. King’s 2nd visit to Memphis to support the strike that he was assassinated.

NOW THAT YOU KNOW

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Stay Blessed &

ECLECTICALLY BLACK

Gloria DULAN-Wilson


Agenda
Sat Feb 20, 2021
No earlier events
7pmUNIA BLACK HISTORY EVENT Zoom Meeting
No later events

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