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As we continue to press issues raised during this past summer’s U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, Netfa Freeman of Washington, D.C.’s Social Action and Leadership School for Activists, offers the following: ‘Africa and Pan-Africanism in this Hemisphere: Fighting Neo-Colonialism, Racism, Class, and Gender Oppression.’ The panel looked at the role of revolutionary pan-Africanism in confronting imperialism and nation/class/gender oppression in this hemisphere, with emphasis on the Haitian Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and the attacks on African peoples in the Americas.

Sidney Francis is the President of CABO, The Central American Black Organization (In Spanish, Organización Negra Centroamericana o ONECA), an organization that works to organize Afrikans in the region on the basis of rediscovering African cultural heritage and inter-group solidarity tactics designed to create an environment where Afrikan people are empowering Afrikan people.  He sits down with Black Power Media to introduce CABO to our readers and to offers some insight into how we can build with each regionally.

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