InPDUM 13-Point Platform

1.     We demand National Democratic Rights and Self Determination for African people in the U.S.

We demand that the U.S. government counterinsurgency war which it is waging to take away the basic democratic rights that African people fought and died for during the black revolution of the 60’s. We demand the end to these attacks which come in the form of U.S. imposed drugs and under the guise of fighting a “war on drugs”, a “war on gangs” or “war on crime.” We understand that the highest form of democracy for African people is self determination.

2.     We Demand Community Control of the Police in the African Community and the Immediate Withdrawal of the Terroristic Police and Military Forces from the African Community.

We demand that the FBI, which waged a COINTELPRO war on the black revolution of the 60’s and which killed scores of our leader be immediately withdrawn. We also demand that all forms of this militaristic “drug task force”, “welfare task force,” public housing police and the numerous other police forces be removed from the African communities. We demand that the U.S. government overturn all specially devised laws, specifically the Crime Bill, designed to abrogate the rights of the African community or to criminalize African people.

3.     We Demand Community Control of the Schools and Mandatory African History in Public Schools.

We demand an end to the criminalization of African children and militarization and the schools in the African community. This demand includes an end to dress codes, and an end to the martial law on school grounds which includes strip searches, metal detectors, walls being built around campuses an the increase of special police forces.

We also call for an end to the white nationalist anti-African curriculum that is being used. We demand an end to a system which provides resources for the minority white schools while African schools are impoverished and without necessary resources.

In addition, we demand an end to “special education” which is a system of mind control, tracking African children into failure and prisons. We also demand an end to the isolation cells which are being instituted for African children in public schools throughout the U.S.

We demand an end to bussing, which is in fact the kidnapping of African children, sending them to hostile, foreign and alien schools where they are brutalized by white nationalist terror.

We condemn the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision bringing about “integrated” schools as a white nationalist solution to the question of inferior education for African children.

We demand reparations from the U.S. government for this long standing terrorization of African children, so that African workers can created their own schools with their own curriculum which reflects true science and history, and benefits African children and the African community.

4.     We Demand African Community Control of Health Care.

We believe that the current state of health care in the African community is genocidal. We believe that the high infant mortality rate, the curable diseases which African people suffer and die from, AIDS, tuberculosis, asthma, lead poisoning, toxic waste dumps, environmental pollution, Norplant, and the fact that the life expectancy for African people in significantly lower than that of white people, are all evidence of the U.S. government’s genocide and chemical and biological warfare against African people colonized within its borders.

We demands reparations from the U.S. government for this genocide so that the African community can have control over its healthcare facilities, meeting their own particular needs and preventing disease. As it is, healthcare is only another big business benefiting white America, and preventative medicine is not in the interest of the medical industry of the U.S. Just reparations to develop African community control of healthcare puts the power of health into the hands of African workers themselves.

5.     We Demand Community Control of Housing

We believe that a land reform law that provides for collective community control of housing is absolutely necessary for an end to homelessness, the artificially high cost of rent, the substandard housing, the hundreds of abandoned houses within the city and the forced relocation of the African population due to gentrification.

We demand an end to the U.S. government imposed martial law which turns public housing into prison camps for African people. We denounce the public housing authorities for their fraud and parasitic rip-off of African people as thousands of African people go homeless. We demand an end to the anti-democratic sweeps of the housing project, which violate constitutionally-protected laws against search and seizure. We demand an end to the abrogation of democratic rights in the housing projects, including leases that extort tenants into giving up their rights against search and seizure and that violate constitutionally protected rights to bear arms.

6.     We Demand the Removal of Parasitic Merchants and Slumlords from the African Community.

We demand an end to the rip off and terrorizing of our communities by foreign merchants who uphold white power. These agents of white power hold African workers hostage with the only stores available, charging high prices for bad food and shoddy goods, and harassing, threatening and killing African workers who are forced to deal with them. We denounce these foreign merchants in the African communities who function as an arm of the state and collaborate with the police and the military forces of the counterinsurgency. These same forces not only take billions of dollars out of the African community, they are also complicit in bringing drugs into the community.

We also demand an end to the vicious slumlords that drain the African community of millions of dollars for rundown, substandard housing at outrageously high rents.

We demand reparations for this theft and terror so that African workers can control their own communities economically to benefit and serve the needs of the African working class community.

7.     We Demand an End to the Colonial Court and Prison Systems which have the Majority of African Men Incarcerated, on Probation or Parole, and the Immediate Release of all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War.

We demand an end to the US colonial concentration camps which are used to criminalize and control the entire African population, keeping them oppressed and colonized. We recognize that as US colonial subjects all African workers in prison are political prisoners.

The US colonial prison system, with a prison rate for African men five times higher than South Africa’s, is a key component of the counterinsurgency. This attack is intensifying through the Crime Bill and current wave of “three strikes you’re out” legislation being passed in almost every state, as well as laws that give the death penalty to African children and countless other laws designed solely to attack, suppress and imprison the entire African population.

We denounce the torture, killings and degradation that Africans face in prison, as well as the slave labor worth billions of dollars to the colonial US economy that our people are forced to produce. We recognize that this slave labor and genocide against African people benefits the parasitic white power system and the white population, and is an underlying reason for the high incidents of imprisonment of African men, up to 70% of whom have been incarcerated during their lives.

We also denounce the wide spread tactics of house arrest and electronic “bracelets,” as well as mandatory death sentences, behavior modification units and massive lockdowns used to break down and kill African men and to commit genocide against the entire African community.

In addition, we demand the release of African political prisoners, prisoners of war and prisoners of conscience such as Sundiata Acoli, Mumia Abdul-Jamal, H. Rap Brown and others. The US government has no right to hold captive the courageous sons and daughters of Africa who through their patriotic deeds and struggle of defense of the national democratic rights of the African community have become political prisoners and prisoners of war. We believe, along with the majority of the people’s of the world, that it is the duty of colonized and enslaved African people to fight for freedom and liberation, and that those who do so are heroes and heroines and should be held in the highest esteem.

8.     We Demand an End to the Theft, Kidnapping, Sale, Abuse and Removal of African Children from their Communities under the Genocidal Foster Care System.

We understand that one of the main goals of the US counterinsurgency against African people is to destroy the African family and the ability for African people to reproduce life, and that this constitutes genocide. We understand that the US government is massively stealing African babies and children from African mothers using the guise of “drugs” which the US government itself imposes in the African community as chemical warfare against the people. We understand that until this current US counterinsurgency, “foster care” has always been alien to the African community where the cultural practice has revolved around collective responsibility of all children.

We demand an end to the theft of African babies from their mothers and the forcible placement of African people outside their group into white homes, while other family members and African foster parents are being denied the right to raise the African children. We demand an end to the parasitic blood sucking multi-million dollar practice of modern day slavery which pays white people and US government State and local agencies enormous amounts of money to steal African babies.

We demand complete exposure of and immediate end to the abuse that African children are subjected to at the hand of the foster care system and white people. this includes murder, physical and sexual abuse, as well as psychological and political terror of being forcibly uprooted from their own people and sent to a hostile white nationalist environment.

We demand reparations for the genocidal theft of African children which has brought billions of dollars to the US white power economy. We demand the absolute undeniable right of African people to raise and have complete control over their own children.

9.     We Demand an End to the Political and Social Oppression and Economic Exploitation of African Women.

We demand an immediate end to the particular abuse of African women by this U.S. colonial system. We recognize that this abuse has always included rape and subjugation by the white slave master and an attempt by white power to separate African women from African men. The oppression of African women includes forcible subjugation to the degrading U.S. “welfare” system, which makes participation in the criminalization of African men a pre-requisite for receiving a tiny pittance. We demand an end to this degradation, as well as other forms of oppression, such as forcible sterilization through Norplant and other means, the theft of African babies from their mothers, the subjugation of African children to brutal, militarized school system, and the massive imprisonment of sons, husbands and fathers of African women.

We believe in the absolute equivocal, political, social and economical equality of African men and women. We demand an end to the special oppression of African women and the elevation of women to their rightful place as equal partners and leaders in forward motion of the development of African liberation as leaders, makers and shapers of human history.

10. We Demand Reparations for African People.

We believe that reparations is the central economic demand which recognizes the economic role played by African people in the forced development of the political economy of the U.S. and the parasitic nature of that economy, resting as it does on 400 years of the enslavement of African people and the genocide of the native people. We believe that reparations, just compensation for labor and damages, will contribute towards the genuine self-determination of African people in the U.S. and the development of an economy and society that is controlled by and serves African workers themselves.

As part of the demand for reparations we call for an end to the forced U.S. drug economy in the oppressed African communities which is the forefront of the parasitic U.S. economy which sucks the blood of African people stealing our labor and resources for the benefit of white power and the white population in general.

We also demand an end to the degrading welfare system which is a part of the counterinsurgency and which makes African people dependent on the pittance from the U.S. government, which destroys African families and which makes African children wards of the state. The U.S. government can keep its “welfare” and hand over reparations which are owed to African people.

11. We Demand a United Nations Supervised Plebiscite to Determine the Will of the African Community in the U.S. as to their National Destiny.

Understanding that the highest expression of democracy is self determination, we demand that an internationally supervised plebiscite, which is stated in Pt 10 of the 10 point program of the Black Panther Party, will be “held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.”

12. We Demand an End to the Political Economy of the Counterinsurgency; the Parasitic Relationship that Benefits the White Population with Millions of Dollars for Jobs, Resources and a Stabilized Economy off of the U.S. Counterinsurgency (war) on African People in the U.S.

We recognize that white society in the U.S. and Europe exist parasitically on a pedestal of resources, land and labor stolen from African people for 400 years. The economy of the U.S. was built off of the stolen labor of enslaved African people and the stolen land of the native people. Today, the majority of jobs for white people are tied to the political economy of the counterinsurgency, creating an opportunist economic basis for white people’s unity with the counterinsurgency and a parasitic job market that benefits white people at the expense of African and other colonized people. This parasitism has grown to the extent that whole communities of North Americans throughout the U.S. are sustained economically through the prison industry and the counterinsurgency.

As real estate agents, stock brokers and money laundering bankers, white people off the resources stolen from colonized people all over the world and off the drug economy that fuels the U.S. economy while providing false justification for the counterinsurgency. As slumlords, white people are enriched by the profits made from keeping African men, women and children in miserable living conditions in cities across the U.S. As lawyers, foster care workers, social workers, police, national guards and beneficiaries of the prison system, including construction workers, guards and countless other suppliers, the white population directly benefits from the attacks on the African community.

Billions of dollars in federal and state funds are flooded into the white communities of the U.S. yearly in grants ranging from aid for “disaster relief” to grants for job programs that create careers for the social workers that administer them and no change in the economic, political and social conditions for the African community. We demand an end to this parasitic political economy and the complicity and opportunism of white people in the counterinsurgency.

13: We demand the removal of borders, including immigration laws, that hold the African community hostage and debilitate the movement of African people throughout the world.

We demand the removal of any borders which serve to separate Africans from each other and/or from our resources. These resources include the land and its products including minerals and agriculture, the seas along our coasts, the value produced by our labor and transported or kept in European and other centers of imperialism as well as cultural artifacts and other expressions which are often transformed into commodities at the expense of African cultural workers and our dispersed, unfree, nation. The removal of borders which separate us must include the immigration laws that deny or make difficult the ability to travel to Europe, the U.S. and other regions of the world that have profited from our enslavement, colonization and/or the theft of our resources. It must also include the colonially-imposed borders in Africa, which continue even today to facilitate the theft of African resources, the fracturing of African national consciousness and the achievement of a national economy that could lift the African world out of its imperialist-imposed emiseration.