Black Power Sunday Rally: KEEP 28 IS A FIGHT FOR BLACK POWER

Keep 28 Aldermanic Wards

The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movements(InPDUM) on efforts to eliminate 14 of the 28 aldermanic wards in St. Louis.

At one time the city of St. Louis had a population of almost a million people. White people fled the city by the hundreds of thousands when the hint of African people fighting for power was in the air.

Now after decades have past that saw the deterioration of neighborhoods and the city’s  economy, white investors are invading the African community buying up whole blocks in an effort to gentrify our community. We believe the 2012 initiative to reduce the number aldermanic wards from 28 to 14 to be implemented in 2020 was an attempt to dilute Black voting power, create a situation where the African community will never be in a position of power to demand real economic development. We are convinced that real economic development would require a massive infusion of capital and transparent process where Black people can create commerce for ourselves .

The Black community does not suffer from poverty, police shootings, and terrible schools because we lack diversity. We suffer from all these things because we have no political power and self-determination. We demand power over our lives and all the benefits that come to a self- determined people. We are supporting bill #25 which will if passed, allow for a vote to maintain 28 aldermanic wards. We  believe maintaining the 28 wards sets the stage for candidates that can make demands for economic development to the Black community to create commerce for and by us, reparations to Black people for the horrors associated with being dominated by white power, for Black community control of the police, stopping the onslaught of gentrification that drives Africans out of our communities to be replaced by white middle class invaders.

We need as many alderpersons who can make these kinds of demands as possible. So the fight for 28 alderperson wards is a fight for the future of the entire African colony.

We call on all Black communities to come to the Black Power Sunday Rally on May 27, 2018 at 4:00 pm, to learn more about our support for Bill #25 which would place keeping 28 Aldermanic wards on the ballot.

Economic Development to the African Community, Stop gentrification in the black community and

Keep 28  Aldermanic wards.