United, We Can Win
Come to Reflect, Consider and Plan

Peoples of Color have necessarily led the fight for liberation in this country. Our struggle continues against the ravages of capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy and white supremacy.

Millions of people are unemployed and without health care while billions of dollars go to war and welfare for the rich. Vigilante groups hunt down immigrants and government agencies harass and detain immigrants without cause or charges. Prisons are built at a record rate while public schools crumble. Our communities are far more likely to be exposed to industrial pollution and poison than are white communities.

If you are a person of African, American Indian, Arab, Asian or Latino descent you should join us at the Sonya Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, November 18-20, 2005. Revolutionary people of color will gather in Chapel Hill to discuss strategies to end a prison system that places millions behind bars as a workforce for capitalist exploitation. We will gather to reflect on our participation in the movement to end US imperialist war. We will come together from around the country to move the struggle to another level, to analyze together and seek strategies to overcome the systems of oppression that plague us. We understand the economic and social oppressions we face are linked and that we can only overcome them by linking the struggles against them together.

Join those of us dedicated to an economy in the hands of the people, a society with quality health care for all, publicly funded education from cradle to grave. We are committed to the fight to end white supremacy, bigotry, patriarchy, sexism and homophobia. Our struggles are connected, so we need to be connected.

The Stone Center gathering will create a space for analysis and reflection. What is the role of revolutionaries in each of our communities? How should we relate to each other across community lines and across organizational lines? How do we build multinational revolutionary organizations?

And, on another level, what is the relationship between imperialism, class exploitation, white supremacy and patriarchy? What kind of revolutionaries must we become to effectively challenge all the systems of oppression including the corrupting manifestations of patriarchy, racism, and class privilege within the revolutionary left? What kind of revolutionary organizations do we have? What kind of revolutionary movement must we build to win? How do we use what we have to execute strategies to win? These are some of the questions we will explore.

If you are a person of color who believes in the struggle for a just world, then come to the Stone Center, November 18-20, 2005. Register at www.peopleofcolorworkshop.org.

“The revolution has not yet triumphed. In your hands still are the will and the power to save it. But, if unfortunately you do not … the heroes of all times will stir in their graves to ask, what have you done with the blood of your people?”--Emiliano Zapata