I was introduced to the work of the African National Women's Organization (ANWO) through the #ArrestCPS campaign. My comrades Demetria Hester and Erika Clark were holding #ArrestCPS rallies in Portland, Oregon. I was drawn to the campaign because of my very own experience with child “protective” services and family separation.
81 years ago, Chairman Omali Yeshitela was born as Joseph Waller on October 9, 1941 in St. Petersburg, FL where he grew up in an African community on the city's south side.
On October 9, 1960, Ona Zené Yeshitela, formerly Cynthia Diane Clark, was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, in the city’s southside African community. Her family was of the stone-cold African working class, which came with a host of struggles stemming from colonial poverty and oppression.
The following presentation was made by Chairman Omali Yeshitela at the African People's Socialist Party's July 23, 2022 National Central Committee. In it, the Chairman assesses the current period and the strengths and contradictions confronted by our Party in this new period of escalated imperialist crisis.
