Al is at it again

**love to travel** · 02-10-2011, 10:21 AM

Weekend of resistance Feb 19 at his place on Master .One suject , He is fighting gentification again .$25 for the weekend . Oh Boy sorry for the bewerytown square neighbors

**CityMaps** · 02-10-2011, 10:25 AM

Open to "all" neighborhood residents?

**fiveomar** · 02-10-2011, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by love to travel

Weekend of resistance Feb 19 at his place on Master .One suject , He is fighting gentification again .$25 for the weekend . Oh Boy sorry for the bewerytown square neighbors

Is the $25 only for people he suspects will have an opposing viewpoint on the subject? My guess is that the people who are against gentrification cannot afford $25, so he'll let them in for free.

**LatteLover** · 02-10-2011, 04:56 PM

I checked his Songhai City website and there is no mention of this Weekend of Resistance. However, a few weeks ago I saw a poster in Lunar Deli announcing a meeting in Songhai City about police brutality. They had an impressive list of speakers, including Darryl Clark, though I'm quite confident not one of them actually showed up.

I wonder what sort of tactics will be taught at this Weekend of Resistance.

P.S. The other day I noticed there was a Writ of Possession granted to Al against the people who were trying to open that restaurant near Rita's Water Ice. It was posted in the window. I guess his/their plans for another takeout spot didn't work out. No wonder he's so against gentrification. Nothing is working for him. Maybe it's time for him to pack up and move further north - maybe to Lehigh Avenue. He can then be immersed in a neighborhood that shows no signs of gentrifying in the near future.

**chudclay** · 02-10-2011, 07:19 PM

A few Japanese proverbs:
Due to the presence of fools wise people stand out.
It is foolish to deal with a fool.
One cannot quarrel without an opponent.

**Big Irish** · 02-10-2011, 07:40 PM

Below is what is going on there that weekend. I wonder what all the "international" visitors are going to think when they see the convention is in a glorified garage?

Come to the 2011 International Convention of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM)

Feb.19-21, 9am-7pm
Philadelphia, PA
Songhai City Cultural Center · 3117 W. Master Street

"Africans have a right to resist! We demand freedom and reparations now!"

Speakers and Workshops featuring

* Diop Olugbala, InPDUM President
* Chairman Omali Ye****ela, Uhuru Movement Leader
* Pam Africa, MOVE & Mumia activist
* Abdus Sabur, Justice for Askia activist
* Mutulu Olugbala (M1), Dead Prez

For more info and to register (just $25 for all 3 days) visit InPDUM

**mixiboi** · 02-10-2011, 07:51 PM

Oh boy, that sounds like one big racist/Segregationist party....

**LatteLover** · 02-10-2011, 09:29 PM

OMG! I visited the InPDUM link. Wow, we're in for a real treat this weekend. Sadly, it will probably be just a few angry, pathetic hangers-on from previous travesties (60s unrest, MOVE fire bombing, etc.), still trying to make a name for themselves and stay relevant, not realizing that the world has moved on and probably doesn't give a damn anymore. Oh Al, when will you hook up with winners, instead of losers?

**ArcticSplash** · 02-10-2011, 10:02 PM

So the Uhuru crazies have linked arms with the other tiny factions of 15 people or less into this one single calcified nugget of left over 70's "black angst".

I didn't find any links or dissertations that talk about Obama; but I'd love to hear their 'Watermelon Man' argument against the President. Since you know, it does really stand out in stark contrast with all the vitrol of "oppression" that's out there.

Another link that I found off Uhuru's site claims white people are racist for calling the "flash mobs", flash mobs. They're "African youth power congregations".

Right... got that.

**CHIOSSO** · 02-10-2011, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by Big Irish

"Africans have a right to resist! We demand freedom and reparations now!"

Speakers and Workshops featuring

* Diop Olugbala, InPDUM President
* Chairman Omali Ye****ela, Uhuru Movement Leader
* Pam Africa, MOVE & Mumia activist
* Abdus Sabur, Justice for Askia activist
* Mutulu Olugbala (M1), Dead Prez

For more info and to register (just $25 for all 3 days) visit InPDUM

Omali Ye****ela ? The censor cut it out cause he has sh!t in his name. lol

**cerberus413** · 02-11-2011, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by mixiboi

Oh boy, that sounds like one big racist/Segregationist party....

Oh damn can I go?

**love to travel** · 02-11-2011, 08:22 AM

I thought all his places are up for sheriff sale ? Does anyone know ?

**cerberus413** · 02-11-2011, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by LatteLover

OMG! I visited the InPDUM link. Wow, we're in for a real treat this weekend. Sadly, it will probably be just a few angry, pathetic hangers-on from previous travesties (60s unrest, MOVE fire bombing, etc.), still trying to make a name for themselves and stay relevant, not realizing that the world has moved on and probably doesn't give a damn anymore. Oh Al, when will you hook up with winners, instead of losers?

So will anyone be there counter protesting their meeting?

**6enny** · 02-11-2011, 11:26 AM

Saw that flyer. Some questions...

1) They want to stop gentrification and keep the neighborhood black. Does that mean the non-blacks living here already can stay, or do they get kicked out?
2) Are they at all concerned with wealthy blacks in the neighborhood, or is that ok? Phrased another way, do they just want Brewerytown to remain black, or black AND poor?

It's a pretty funny situation when you think about it. I live near Brewerytown because I'm tolerant of blacks and have no problems rubbing elbows with them. If I weren't I'd probably live in Fishtown. But just like Fishtown is anti-black, Al wants Brewerytown to be anti-white. It seems crazy, but some people are still hung up on that stuff.

I hope that someday Brewerytown is a nicer neighborhood. I can't imagine the demographic ever changing so drastically that it is not a predominantly black area, and I think that's great.

**schuylkillian** · 02-11-2011, 04:59 PM

What's strange is people like Al who are pissed to see the neighborhood change have such short-sighted historical perspectives. I am a newish resident to Brewerytown (been living in the neighborhood a couple years). My grandmother was born within a block of where I live now about 100 years ago. Many of my distant relatives lived in the neighborhood from the late 1800's thru the early 1900's, before moving to "rural" Delaware County where they were considered unwanted Irish Catholic trash.

I don't feel obligated to try and reclaim the nieghborhood since it is likely my ancestors were some of the earlier owners and residents of brewerytown's rowhomes.

I just want a nice neighborhood that is clean and populated by people with mutual respect for their neighbors neighbors and care about the community. Al and his legion of the short-sighted dimwits (and many other residents) don't share my view of what a community should be and harbor way to much racial and class-based hostility.

**Bob_Head** · 02-11-2011, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by cerberus413

Oh damn can I go?

For $55 you can set up a vendors table for the weekend. What would you sell?

**Jayfar** · 02-11-2011, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by Bob_Head

For $55 you can set up a vendors table for the weekend. What would you sell?

Within constaints, of course:

No items can be displayed or sold that are deemed offensive to the African or indigenous communities or to women. Any vendor not in compliance with the policies may be asked by the coordinator to leave. No refund will be given.

I guess lawn jockey ornaments are out.

Or maybe not:

A Guide to Freedom

Jockey statues marked Underground Railroad

Most people shudder at the sight of a black lawn jockey.
Though sightings are pretty infrequent today, the yard ornaments that portray blacks in subservient roles have the power to gnaw insatiably at the spirit of blacks and to disgust others who are unaware of the furtive and notable role these "Jockos" played in the first half of the 19th century.

But escaping slaves understood then that the jockey statue would guide them to the Underground Railroad and to freedom. (In Following the Drinking Gourd, the lyrics surreptitiously suggested slaves follow the "drinking gourd," a nickname for the Big Dipper, which pointed to the North Star and the way to freedom. Among other things, it advised that travel was safest in the spring – "when the sun comes back.")

The jockey, in a similarly secret way, pointed to safe houses along the Underground Railroad.

"These statues were used as markers on the Underground Railroad throughout the South into Canada," said historian/author Charles Blockson, curator of the Afro-American Collection at Temple University in Philadelphia. "Green ribbons were tied to the arms of the statue to indicate safety; red ribbons meant to keep going."

"People who don’t know the history of the jockey have feelings of humiliation and anger when they see the statue," he added. "But this figure which was sometimes used in a clandestine nature, and sometimes without the knowledge of the person who owned the statue, was a positive and supportive image to American-Americans on the road to freedom."

Sometime, added Blockson, a flag was put into the hand of the statue to indicate safety.

[snip]

FAQ Lawn Jockeys

**Bob_Head** · 02-11-2011, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by MayfairMeat

So the Uhuru crazies have linked arms with the other tiny factions of 15 people or less into this one single calcified nugget of left over 70's "black angst".

**Bob_Head** · 02-11-2011, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by Jayfar

I guess lawn jockey ornaments are out.

Perhaps Cerb and Al could agree on The Protocaols of the Elders of Zion.

**LatteLover** · 02-11-2011, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by cerberus413

So will anyone be there counter protesting their meeting?

I honestly don't believe there will be much attendance at this event. Outside of this forum, I don't think many know, or care about, Al Alston. And, if a few people do show up to learn tactics of resistance, who cares? A counter protest would just give credence to Al and his absurd freak show. Resistance to what? Resistance to people buying and selling property? Resistance to landlords (of which Al is one) renting out their spaces to residential and commercial tenants? Resistance to a coffee shop, a mani pedi shop, a pharmacy?