Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Monday, 3 March 2014
5 Years Reflection and Memory of Oulu GPO and Kamau Kingara Assassinations.
5 years Reflections and Memory of
Oulu GPO and Kamau Kingara Assasination by kenya neo-colonial state,
March 5th 2014 this year will be five years since Oulu Gpo, and Kamau Kingrara were assasinated by Kenya neo-colonial state but for as long as the people of Africa continent continue to live in extream poverty,
another GPO oulu and Kamau kingara will continue to be born in the same extreme social conditions
that had produced the two human rights activist , Whether, the international
human rights community and established Human rights organization , the fascist
and imperialist media and kenya state ... continue to question them and the standard that the two used
in documenting human rights violations and extra judicial killings in Kenya and the source of their funding,
This question by corrupt media and neo-liberal civil society many time intended to obscure the neo-liberalism economic conditions that created the environment of the existence of Oscar foundation , Kamau Kigara and the Late Oulu GPO and many other student from university of Nairobi who worked as Human rights activist in Oscar foundation, But after every death and burial new radical social movement continue to emerge more powerful than that lead by Oulu GPO and Kamau Kingara, Outside,,, the bearer of Human rights standard.
This question by corrupt media and neo-liberal civil society many time intended to obscure the neo-liberalism economic conditions that created the environment of the existence of Oscar foundation , Kamau Kigara and the Late Oulu GPO and many other student from university of Nairobi who worked as Human rights activist in Oscar foundation, But after every death and burial new radical social movement continue to emerge more powerful than that lead by Oulu GPO and Kamau Kingara, Outside,,, the bearer of Human rights standard.
For Bunge La Mwananchi we must continue to improve the work among the people, we must continue to hold village bunge meetings with our people as much as possible, our cadres must be permanent in contact with the people, in the village holding community meetings, disscussion and dabates to create a consciousness of liberation within the peasants and workers, in process of helping our people to govern themselves and the proposed, Bunge La Wanainchi congress in the villages is in the right direction in rooting participatory democracy within the masses, on this Bunge la Mwananchi and community platform we work with is the leading Vanguard of our people the journey will be full of, betrayals, misunderstanding because of different level of consciousness and commitment in the struggle , there will be setbacks, and great sacrifices to be made but all in all we must create a new alternative political path from below in Kenya politics and Africa, as great revolutionary Amilcar Cabral said, in his Book Unity and Class struggle.
As
Bunge La Mwananchi social movement grow in social resistance against
neo-colonial state, it will bring more coalition of classes, from the middle class political parties, the point of unity
may be to bring a new democratic state in kenya,others may want to step in the
shoes of Jubilee Coalition to continued with the privileleges, while keeping the
system of exploitation, but our movement should remain focused on uprooting the
neo-colonial order created by imperialism, that continue to maintain the system to date..
We must not mourn the death of comrade today , no tears comrades the only action that should count is that of revolutionary action and organizing in our village, work places and our homes., Advance the course of our social movement, defend all our political social bases....and develop and build common revolutionary theory against the reactionary Ethnic political coalition in Kenya
Unga Revolution.
In Africa common conditions will be creating common consciousness and in number of our East Africa community there are formations that are emerging organized in the form Peoples Assemblies and H`uman rights Networks as East Africa Social Justice and Human rights Networks, Cheche Za Africa, a Blog for terrain of the struggle of ideas on the development and future of Africa. (http://www.checheafrika.org/) although this platform advanced in tapping the vibrant Fm stations they have not been involved in direct political action but am sure in future, as contradiction continue to sharpen in Uganda, with emerging political and economic fascism and Tanzania with neo-liberal constitution the masses will start re-awaken the revolutionary spirit of Cabral on revolutionary democracy and organic formation of people assemblies in grassroots emerge as wheel to build organic social movement from below for revolutionary change .
We must not mourn the death of comrade today , no tears comrades the only action that should count is that of revolutionary action and organizing in our village, work places and our homes., Advance the course of our social movement, defend all our political social bases....and develop and build common revolutionary theory against the reactionary Ethnic political coalition in Kenya
In Africa common conditions will be creating common consciousness and in number of our East Africa community there are formations that are emerging organized in the form Peoples Assemblies and H`uman rights Networks as East Africa Social Justice and Human rights Networks, Cheche Za Africa, a Blog for terrain of the struggle of ideas on the development and future of Africa. (http://www.checheafrika.org/) although this platform advanced in tapping the vibrant Fm stations they have not been involved in direct political action but am sure in future, as contradiction continue to sharpen in Uganda, with emerging political and economic fascism and Tanzania with neo-liberal constitution the masses will start re-awaken the revolutionary spirit of Cabral on revolutionary democracy and organic formation of people assemblies in grassroots emerge as wheel to build organic social movement from below for revolutionary change .
We must intensifie our struggle
against reactionary political forces in power and ethnic chauvinist that have formed ethnic Coalitions as current Jubilee government and Cord
opposition coalition in Kenya ,
This phenomena we must be aware of and combat ,by organizing
the youth for social change within our movement as the political instrument for
Pan-Africanism liberation.
The 7th Pan-African Congress in Kampala in April 1994 remains again our fresh calling today, as grassroots political movement Kenya we must "Dare to dream the same dream that has always filled the villages, ghettos, townships and slave quarters with hope, that has always animated the spirit of resistance, that has united the oppressed, the dispossessed, and the exploited masses of our people for genuine democracy. We the African people are our own liberators and thinkers whose task is to make a mighty stride towards genuine freedom by any means necessary. Our salvation is in our own hands. Don't Agonise, Organise"
The 7th Pan-African Congress in Kampala in April 1994 remains again our fresh calling today, as grassroots political movement Kenya we must "Dare to dream the same dream that has always filled the villages, ghettos, townships and slave quarters with hope, that has always animated the spirit of resistance, that has united the oppressed, the dispossessed, and the exploited masses of our people for genuine democracy. We the African people are our own liberators and thinkers whose task is to make a mighty stride towards genuine freedom by any means necessary. Our salvation is in our own hands. Don't Agonise, Organise"
Comrades.
Aluta continua.
Gacheke Gachihi.
Reproduced from letters in 31/03/09
in Kampala.
Monday, 17 February 2014
DEDAN KIMATHI wa WACIURI: REMEMBERING KENYA’S MAU MAU REVOLUTIONARY.
October 31, 1931 - February 18, 1957
PRESS CONFERENCE AT KIMATHI MONUMENT
DEDAN KIMATHI wa WACIURI: REMEMBERING KENYA’S GREATS
Today, 60 years ago a great Kenyan and Statesman was assassinated in cold blood by the British
imperialists. His only offence? Fighting and defending his country and motherland. He was
charged with belonging to a proscribed movement, The Mau Mau movement, whose objective
was to push out British colonialists and their collaborators who had brutally evicted communities
from their lands, imposed taxation, forced them to labor, prevented them from growing cashcrops,
raped their wives and daughters, introduced segregation, imprisoned their fathers and
sons, and banned their association, expression, worship and philosophy. They also created
classism and schism to weaken and rule with ease and hence cultivating general despondency.
60 years later, the British rulers are not gone, they have rebranded. They were white foreigners,
they are black elite, they were collaborators; they are neocolonialists and co-conspirators. The
gap between the rich and the poor is the second widest in the world. Peasant farmers and factory
laborers cannot educate their children, our land is still in the hands of the mighty few. Kenyans
are the most taxed citizens in the world. Besides direct murder, rape and imprisonment of
daughters and sons of this country, growing prostitution is a sign that rape has taken a
commercial form pushed by extreme poverty and want for basic needs on one hand and petty
criminals pushed out of school and unemployment leading to alcoholism and drug addiction on
the other hand. The economy is not only in the hands of a few rich but who also determine the
fate of every single Kenyan through unpopular policies that have made Kenyans take economic
refuge outside their country. Freedom of expression and movement is limited to cheap welfarism
that cannot go beyond burials and weddings. Kenyans are more divided than ever before and
instead of asking why they are the way they are, they turn their anger on each other to the benefit
of the elite who remain united in greed despite their race, gender, ethnic, political or religious
affiliations. Innocent Kenyans are hunted like antelopes within and outside the country; their
only offence was to be their brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, witnessing human rights violations,
questioning corruption, asking why the cost of living is high and why the rule of law is not
followed and impunity is the order of the day.
60 years today, we stand here at his monument to announce the commemoration of the first
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and Prime Minister of Kenya. The brave gallant son
of Africa, Pan-Africanist who confronted the mighty British forces, his bare hands against
sophisticated arsenal, his vision for self-rule overcame the callous propaganda of the white
minority and their collaborators. He could not stand a minute of British rule that had cheated him
and others that Kenya would be free after supporting it in the 2nd World War.
60 years today, generations later, very few Kenyans remember not only this son of Africa but
also what he stood and died for. So here we are, inviting all Kenyans to join us on 18th February
2014 at Freedom Corner to start the processions through Kenyatta Avenue, Kimathi Street to this
monument to pay our honour with a wreath of flowers since no one knows where his body is
laid. Then the procession will head to the Jeevanjee Garden that was founded by a great
industrialist and also freedom fighter Alibhai Mulla Jevanjee, for speeches and exhibition taking
the rest of the day. At 6.00 pm we will all move to the National Theatre where Prof. Maina wa
Kinyatti, another liberation intellectual will launch his latest book, MWAKENYA – The Unfinished
Revolution.(http://youtu.be/HBJyL-5g2WI)
This Kimathi monument did not come easy. It was fought for so that it could immortalize the
struggle, remind Kenyans that unlike in most other countries, independence did not come easy
and to remember what the struggle was about, use this and similar days as a yardstick to assess
whether there is progress or not, for, as the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga wrote in his book Not
Yet Uhuru, we are not there yet.
“A people cannot know where they are going without knowing where they are coming from,” so
said the late Bob Marley. A society that does not remember or honour the memory of its heroes
and heroines cannot grow to its potential. There are young and not so young Kenyans who know
little or have never heard of liberation heroes like Me Katilili wa Menza, Koitalel Samoei,
Waiyaki wa Hinga, Field Marshal Baimunge, Masinde Muliro, Muthoni Nyanjiru, Pio Gama
Pinto, Tom Mboya, JM Kariuki, Titus Adungosi, Karimi Nduthu, Oulu GPO and Oscar Kingara
to mention but just a few. There has been deliberate distortion of history with a view to
extinguishing the true contribution to the struggle by these past heroes and heroines, sometimes
reducing them to tribal icons. This and similar commemorations are aimed at correcting these
wrong notions and promoting the true memories by celebrating their lives and documenting the
same for posterity. This initiative is not unique, it is indeed the responsibility of the government,
but the official narrative accompanying these events have been exclusive and boycotted by many
because of the disconnect between what the heroes and heroines stood for and what the
government is practicing.
This event is organized by the Solidarity Committee of the Human Rights Fraternity that brings
together all human rights initiatives in the country - formal and non-formal - that speaks on
behalf of many silent and suppressed voices.
Signed :
Otieno Ombok …………………………………..
Muthoni Kamau …………………………………..
Alamin Kimathi …………………………………..
Humphrey Kimani …………………………………..
Suba Churchill …………………………………..
Mungai Mbuthi …………………………………..
Khamis Ramadhan …………………………………..
Vincent Kidaha …………………………………..
Cidi Otieno …………………………………..
Gacheke Gachihi …………………………………..
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