Where Is Our Land? OUR LAND IS IN TWO AREAS. First, scattered across America, our land is sections of the Northerri cities where our people now live and have lived, in some, for two hundred years. Second, lying in a great black belt across the South, our and is the counties of the South where we have lived and worked the land and clung to it for 300 years despite the most brutal oppression the world has known. ALL OF THIS LAND IS ILLEGALLY HELD IN CAPTIVITY, How Shall We Get Control Of Our Land? By Black Determination. The first step is to decide in our hearts and minds that the land in the South (the black counties) and the land in the North (the black ghettoes) are ours and that in these areas we will not be oppressed or controlled by anyone. By Adhereing To International Law. The next step in gaining conrol is to hold elections among ourselves in the black ghettoes and the black counies, before the eyes of the world, with United Nations world observers, to take our consent from the government of the United States and give that consent to the Republic of New Africa. Under international law government "derives from the We have t right to chose whether we want the old, oppressive government of the United States or our own new government. The Republic of New Africa, brimming with great hope and promise. consent of the governed." BY ARMS IF NECESSARY THE first President of the Republic of New Africa is Robert F. Williams, a peot and author and the most distinguished Afro-American Revolutionary now engaged in the freedom struggle. Born in Monroe, North Carolina, on February 26, 1925, Brother Robert served in the U.S. Marines during World War II. Afterwards, returning to Monroe, he entered the freedom struggle, finally becoming head of the NAACP. He armed the brethren at a time when self-defense was taking a back seat to non-violence and successfully outgunned the Klan. In September 1961, Brother Robert moved the headquarters of his war against oppression from Monroe, going into exile first in Havana, Cuba, and then (1966) in Peking, China. By this move he not only frustrated a conspiracy by Southern police and officials to take his life, and a subsequent federal attempt to jail him, unjustly, on trumped-up kidnapping and flight charges, but he went on to become the most effective representative of the Black Revolution in foreign forums that we have had since Frederick Douglass. At the same time, with Brother Malcolm, Brother Robert has consistently provided true recolutionary guidance and insight to the Brothers in Amenca, steeling us against the fatal contradictions and fallacies that often seem to overtake the struggle here. The Government BROTHER GAIDI The First Vice President of the Republic of New Africa is Attorney Milton R. Henry. Born August 27, 1919, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brother Milton's long and. often solitary assault on racism and oppression have made him in his own lifetime a most beloved and honored servant of the Revolution and a model of dedication for the Brothers. As a young fighter pilot in the U.S. Army during World War II, Brother Milton's war against oppression brought him near death at the hands of Southern white racists and a court martial, discharge, and lose of military benefits. Nevertheless, he went on to graduate from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Yale Law School and has never ceased of The Second Vice President the Republic of New Africa is Hajj Bahiyah Betty Shabbazz, wife of the father of our Revolution, Brother Malcolm. A Registered nurse by profession, Sister Betty was Brother Malcolm's most devoted supporter, confidant, and ally; this association, together with her travels in Africa, the the Middle East, and Africa, and the personal travail and suffering she endured almost alone after Brother Malcolm's assassination, have made of her a unique person, strong, sagacious, and superbly fitted to serve the Revolution in this vital position. using his skills in behalf THE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT of the Struggle. OBABOA ALOWO, Treasurer, Los Angeles industrialist, writer and activist. CHARLES P. HOWARD, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, international journalist, world traveler, and savant. *H. RAP BROWN, Minister of Defense, a monumental black patriot and toiler. RAYMOND E. WILLIS, Minister of Finance, practicing accountant, law student and acti vist. JOAN FRANKLIN, Minister of Justice, brilliant, concerned, young lawyer. BABA OSEIJEMAN ADEFUNMI, Minister of Culture and Education, cultural writer, Chief Priest of the Yoruba Temple and Paramount Chief of the Yoruba Tribes of North America QUEEN MOTHER MOORE, Minister of Health and Welfare, a "mother of my people." who has actively served the Struggle for 50 years. BROTHER IMARI, Minister of Information, writer and activist, author of War In America. The Malcolm X Doctrine. WILBUR GRATTAN, SR., Deputy Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, respected miliitant with vast knowledge and great experience in the struggle. MWESI CHUI, Deputy Minister of Defense, respected Commander of the Mwesi Nduqu of Dayton, Ohio. * Elected, but office not yet accepted. |