By Any Means Necessary Volume 1: Issue 4

Land acquisition and development Land and control of material resources is essential to our strategy for self-determination and freedom. An important part of this fight is the acquisition of land, buildings and land-based resources from which we can launch community projects and institutions and reproduce the resources needed for our people’s struggle. Land needs to be an integral part of the demand for reparations, but the acquisition and control of these material resources cannot wait on reparations. Our organizations and institutions need land now from which we can build the people’s struggle for freedom. Consequently in 2020 this should be a central focus of our work.

We will focus on reestablishing Centers for Black Survival and Unity in local areas from which the People’s Assemblies, youth programs and economic democracy programs can be promoted and coordinated.

Building networks for collective self-defense If we have learned little else from the past twelve months, we at least see that we cannot depend on our oppressors to protect us. Our community continues to be threatened by white nationalist State violence, vigilante violence and white nationalist militia and terrorist violence.

Additionally, the rising threat of sex trafficking and kidnapping of Black women and children has become evident. We believe that these threats to our collective community survival require a collective response and organized self-defense. We have called for a long time for the building of New Afrikan People’s Militias. We also find it necessary to build alliances with community militias of our allies among other oppressed people, as well as revolutionary whites who support our freedom struggles. We will continue to build our New Afrikan Militias in the coming year.

These militias do not require loud rhetoric, grandstanding, flashy uniforms or meaningless threats as we have seen from some groups in the Black community. We are working to organize and work with any of our people and allies who are willing to work in a spirit of humility and firmness and who understand the importance of discipline, structure, training, and commitment to defend our people from both external and internal threats to our people’s security. Our strategy for self-determination will need to be protected and defended, as the history of the past sixty years has shown us where our movement has been built, not only on non-violent resistance to oppression, but on armed self-defense which has ensured the survival of the people.

Conclusion 2019 has been a difficult year for freedom struggles around the world including the struggle of New Afrikans here in the United States of America. But our people are used to difficult times, and we have overcome them in the past. We in the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the New Afrikan People’s Organization are confident in the people’s ability to overcome difficult times again. We are confident that a unified focus on self-determination, reparations, and human rights, while building political and economic democracy in our communities will set us on the right track for freedom. We will