PLEASE SUPPORT Our WORK to BUILD & RESTORE the Community Education & Liberation CENTER !!!

CARRYING ON OUR LEGACY of SELF-DETERMINATION!

In 1970 revolutionary activist Robert “Bob” Joyner Sr., grandfather of politicized prisoner Kwame Beans Shakur, and other community organizers built the Hyte Center in Terre Haute, Indiana. This building was developed as a Community Liberation Center to meet the needs of the people during the height of the Black Liberation struggle. This building served its purpose for generations in the City of Terre Haute. In recent years, the property was gentrified and taken over by city officials and has since been leased out to an individual/organization from outside of the community and access to the building continues to be denied to the Black community.

Rather than continue to beg and petition for access, Kwame took on the concept of We Are Our Own Liberators, and with the help of one of the Prison Lives Matter (PLM) attorneys, purchased a building, previously a Black-owned grocery store. The building is being restored to serve as a community center to build decolonization programs, and a national hub for law students, comrades, and family members to build and train, to learn the proper educational tools it will take to sustain this movement and build the necessary infrastructure. The building is currently in the renovation stage.

Kwame believes the connection between prison abolition and decolonization cannot be overstated. “A lot of people have this romanticized fantasy of a bulldozer coming and knocking down prisons and them just letting us all out because we organize a protest or a demonstration, much like their romanticized fantasy of North American revolutionaries who study movements of the past in third world nations where these movements overthrew capitalism in a single uprising,” he described.

“What we are trying to do now is more realistic and tangible in that the way we abolish slavery or the way that we abolish capitalism is not to overthrow, but to build these centers and to have these hubs and these programs that directly eradicate capitalism and genocide and oppression in our communities when we are having “feed the people” programs or having political education programs or after-school programs, and affordable childcare programs that will be employing out of these facilities. That’s the way we abolish prison slavery is by eradicating that pipeline from the community to the prisons and from the schools to the prisons."

In the words of KWAME SHAKUR "...EDUCATION IS KEY!!!..."

When we can get these kids started out at three and four years old and we are able to, not only provide affordable health care and childcare, we will be educating them in the same way, to spare the next generation the struggles that I've faced and those before us. Specifically, having to wait until we were in prison or until we're 25 or 30 years old to become conscious and socially aware and to know what needs to change.”

The five programs that will be offered at The People’s Programs for Decolonization will be:

National Alliance of New Afrikan Students Association
New Afrikan Independence Academy
New Afrikan Children’s Center
New Afrikan Food Co-op Program
New Afrikan Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) Assistance Program

Decolonization is a fundamental process in the path toward liberation!! It allows

Us to take control of Our own destiny and implement educational, economic, political,

social & cultural development programs that meet the needs of the people.

WE ARE OUR OWN LIBERATORS!!

PLEASE SUPPORT Kwame Shakur's Vision by DONATING & SHARING with your COMMUNITY!!

Social and Cultural Development Fund

“Together We Build—Together We Decolonize”