Efia Nwangaza is a South Carolina based attorney. She is Director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination and Founder and Coordinator of WMXP-LP Radio. She is also a member of the Black Belt Human Rights Coalition, Black Alliance for Peace, a veteran of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and a proud daughter of Garveyites. She is joining us to discuss her participation in the first session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, a mechanism that emerged from the 2001 Durban world conference against racism. She explains that the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) is being undermined.
Amid a reign of terror, the Sudanese Professionals Association called on the international community to recognize it as the sole representative of the people.
We would be better served by understanding black nationalism as both liberative and anti-racist.
The amount of money pilfered by corrupt government officials pales in comparison to the wealth extracted by transnational corporations.
We need to offer solidarity to fellow workers around the world and refuse to be suckered into the nationalist anti-free trade campaigns.
Whiteness is practiced, not as a privilege, but rather a deputization.
