Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - Some Aspects of the All

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Agenda
 Brief
Description of the
AAWRU
 Political Parties and African
Women
 What is the Social Revolution?
 Power Begins with Conception
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What is the A-AWRU
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The women’s wing of the All-African Peoples
Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)
Founded November 27, 1980 in Ohio, USA
Created as a mechanism to promote
organization and political education around
the problems African women face
Combats the triple oppression of African
women
Works in concert within the A-APRP
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What is the A-AWRU
The A-AWRU promotes and advocates the
total transformation of the African world.
 We encourage African people to
understand that our ideology and behavior
contributes to the liberation of African
people.
 By implementing the Social Revolution and
embracing the fact that power begins with
conception, we believe we can drastically
change the conditions of our people.
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Political Parties and Women
Historically political parties and
organizations have inherited capitalist
ideology from society
 Women have struggled to combat sexist
behavior within organizations as well as
in society
 Some organizations have regulated
African women to subservient roles
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Political Parties and Women
Sexist ideology continues to permeate
organizations and needs to be
combated by anti-capitalist (socialist)
ideology
 The AAWRU also serves as a structure
to train and organize women to take on
leadership positions in the A-APRP
 Serves as an advocate for promoting
political education internally and
externally about the women’s line
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UDEMU in Guinea Bissau at
African Liberation Day A-APRP
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Sisters attending a Party program in
Gambia, West Africa
and Chicago, Illinois, USA
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What is the Social Revolution?
The goal of the Social Revolution is to
eliminate corrupt and abusive human
relations and to rid society of selfish and
individualistic thinking and inhumane
behavior (capitalism)
 Replace these negative thoughts and
actions with positive human relations
and behavior grounded in humanism,
collectivism and egalitarianism
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What is the Social Revolution?
 The
Social Revolution will positively
change the relationships among
African people by establishing social
relations of respect, patience and
tolerance
 Developing revolutionary
consciousness is the start to
developing the Social Revolution
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Revolutionary Consciousness
“Without revolutionary consciousness,
there is no Revolution. All those who
have conducted revolution agree on
this. But where does this revolutionary
consciousness come from? It is certain
that it’s not cultivated in this current
society, nor does it come into being
and develop spontaneously. History
teaches us it is created and developed
through ideological education and
revolutionary practice.”
Sekou Toure (first
democratically
elected president of
Guinea in West
Africa)
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Students from the Puerto Rican
Strike attending ALD in St. John
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Power Begins with Conception
Transformation begins with the idea that
change can come
 Changing an individual’s ideology which is
“the set of ideas and principles we live our
life by” is the fuel for their behavioral
changes
 Power begins the minute a concept is
derived
 Ideological power drives political, economic,
social and cultural power
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Power beings with Conception
Changing the ideology of the individual leads
directly to the transformation of societies’
ideology
 The individual and society are intrinsically
linked, one cannot exist without the other
 Society will only transform when the
individual transforms and recognizes that
power begins with re-orientating the
individual and societal consciousness
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Dr. Chenzira Kahina,
ALD coordinator in St. Croix/St. John,
speaking at ALD
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How to Join the A-AWRU
Join the A-APRP
 Identify if there is an A-APRP chapter in
your area.
 If there is not an A-APRP chapter, you
can work to establish one.
 Contact the A-APRP at http://www.aarprintl.org
 Email: [email protected]
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