Ajabu 4 Congress Fundraiser Honored Guest Living History Ms. Elaine Brown. Family values are a big part of this campaign. Below you see my contribution to the future. This picture is of PaPa with his grandchildren. The future looks very bright!!This campaign is going to need resources.
Rev. Mmoja Ajabu is running for the 7th Indiana Congressional District as an independent candidate. As you know the campaign has invited Andre Carson to a dialogue. We have been contacted by Andre's office and they have indicated that Andre is open for a dialogue. As negotiations go forward we will keep you informed.
This fundraiser will be part of the effort to keep Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy alive.
Click on the following link for ticket information and purchase http://www.ajabuspeaks.squarespace.com/ajabu4congress/ Our honored guest will be Ms. Elaine Brown. Who is Elaine Brown?
Elaine is a political activist. She joined the Black Panther Party in 1967; became the party’s Deputy Minister of Information in the early 1970s. She rose to become chairperson and minister of defense of the party from 1974-77. Using electoral politics as a tool of liberation she was a California Democratic convention delegate in 1976. She lobbied for job-creating projects in Oakland, CA. She is the author of A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story, Pantheon, 1992.
Elaine Brown rose from an obscure ghetto existence to run one of the most powerful and notorious black militant organizations in the United States--the Black Panther Party. So powerful was the influence of the Black Panthers among black communities that it prompted J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI to label it "the single greatest threat to the internal security of the United States" in 1968. It was on April 4, 1968 that an assassin’s bullet brought Martin’s life and personal liberation struggle to an end. In this season of Kwanzaa which connects us to our African roots and because Malcolm, Martin and countless others gave their lives for us we must keep their legacy and our struggle alive. We owe this to our ancestors and our future. We must not forget!!
Brown assumed power from Huey Newton, founder and minister of defense, in 1974, when Newton jumped bail on a murder charge and left the country, appointing Brown as his successor. Brown maintained control until 1977, when Newton returned from his self-imposed exile in Cuba to face the murder charges of which he was later acquitted. You can hear her in her own words as this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roGNxckardg&feature=player_embedded#!
Don’t miss this event! You will be sitting in the room with living history. There has never been an independent candidate for Congress on Indiana’s ballot. History will be made. Come mix and mingle with living history as history is made. Victory is at hand!! YOU READY??