Grassroots Thinking (GT) will be dedicated primarily to Black radical politics. This platform will be a voice for Community Movement Builders and roots its mission in promoting dialogue that uplifts the Black community as well as making critical interventions in debates in the community.
Community Movement Builders (CMB) is a member-based collective of Black people dedicated to being a force for creating sustainable self-determining communities through cooperative economic advancement and collective community organizing. Our mission is rooted in Black love and equity. communitymovementbuilders.org
Our Values
Self-Determination – We reject our position as a colonized nation within a nation. We believe Black people have a right to self-determination and we will not truly be free until we govern our destiny, control our environment and create institutions that serve our community.
Sustainability – Black communities must create a cooperative economic system rooted in black love and that creates sufficient resources to sustain our community well-being and create educational, agricultural, cultural, political, cultural and judicial institutions that serve the community needs.
Leadership – The ability to lead is within all of us. As leaders we must study the world around us. We must understand that leadership comes from the community and we must work with the people and never abuse or impose our own will.
Humanity – All life has value. We staunchly oppose all practices and ideologies that devalue human life, including racism, capitalism, classism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia. The ability to exist in a world free of oppression is a human right.
Solidarity – We fully recognize that the forces that maintain our oppression are the same forces that oppress other marginalized groups. We stand in solidarity with all oppressed peoples.
Black Love – We believe that love is the cultural foundation for collective healing and that we as a people must learn to build trust, respect and appreciation for one another despite a history of oppression that has torn us apart.
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Special Shout Out To The Back 2 School Bud Billiken Parade:
My message to our youth please encourage your parents or guardians to read my book “The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, And Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America” Second Edition. If they agree with what I am trying to do in the city of Chicago African American Communities. In my book I provide a road map on how my organization will to end gun violence, poverty, and structural inequality within the communities and cities we will serve by forming our own independent political party at the local level. We would use the road map I laid out in my book on how to handle those who commit gun crimes in our community.
Another goal my organization would do be to unite the Westside and the Southside in order to begin bring in goods and services to the low income African American Community. We will create private employment within our organization and hire our future clients and members based on our budget. Those who are business minded we will teach them how to start their business and work with them until it materialize. Finally, I want to make Chicago a model for us to expand in 25 other cities in America. Once we’re established in the United States I plan on expanding my organization abroad to Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean Islands. This is my contribution back to my community and throughout the African Diaspora. Real Christian Socialist online
Show and Prove
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=9202116&pid=null
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mayor-emanuel-buys-land-for-hotel-arena/Content?oid=10552304
My Book on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Solution-Black-America-Reclaiming-Rebuiling/dp/1480074365/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353183068&sr=1-5&keywords=The+Solution+For+Black+America