Ona zene yeshitela
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Hi there,
AMYGOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman.
We end today’s show looking at another potential political prisoner, this time here in the United States: Omali Yeshitela, the longtime chair of the African People’s Socialist Party, leader of the Uhuru Movement.
In September, a federal jury in Florida found him and three others guilty of conspiring with an agent of the Russian government to, quote, “sow discord” and “interfere” in U.S. elections. But the jury acquitted the four on the most serious charge of acting as agents of a foreign government. Prosecutors had accused them of working on behalf of Russia in a multiyear foreign malign influence campaign here.
Omali Yeshitela and his co-defendants Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel have become known as the Uhuru 3. They’ll be sentenced next Monday, face up to five years in prison. A fourth person, Gazi Kodzo of the Black Hammer Party, has already been sentenced to five years’ probation. Yeshitela’s lawyers had argued the government was targ
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From the day he ripped down the racist mural from the walls of City Hall in St Petersburg, Florida in 1966, Chairman Omali Yeshitela (then known as Joseph Waller) has never stopped fighting for freedom for African people everywhere. Mobilized in his youth by anti-colonial movements around the world and the struggle for black liberation inside the U.S., Yeshitela dedicated his life to uniting and liberating Africa and African people everywhere.In the heat of revolutionary struggle and during his early years as a political prisoner, Yeshitela was driven to discover the reasons why black people all over the world are impoverished and oppressed. Yeshitela developed the political theory of African Internationalism that understands the world through the eyes of the African working class.
Through African Internationalism the Chairman exposes the significance of Marx’s concept of the “primitive accumulation of capital,” the starting point of capitalist wealth accumulation, playing in “political economy about the same part as original sin in theology.”Breathing life into Marx’s analysis,
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Omali Yeshitela
American political activist (born 1941)
Omali Yeshitela (born Joseph Waller on October 9, 1941) is an American political activist and author. He is a co-founder and current chairman of the African People's Socialist Party (formed in 1972) which leads the Uhuru Movement. Yeshitela has advocated for reparations as a "People's Advocate" at the First International Tribunal on Reparations to Black People in the U.S., held in Brooklyn, New York, in 1982.[1]
In September 2024 Yeshitela was convicted in U.S. federal court of conspiring to act as an agent of the Russian government.[2] Yeshitela conspired with Aleksandr Ionov, a Russian agent taking directions from the FSB to spread pro-Russian propaganda in the United States.[3][4] In December 2024, Yeshitela was sentenced to three years' probation and 300 hours of community service.[5]
Early background
Omali Yeshitela was born Joseph Waller, Jr. in St. Petersburg, Florida, on October 9, 1941. Yeshitela was raised in a community formerly known as the Gas P
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