JUNE 2020 NEWSLETTER

Dear FOLWCC friends and supporters, This year we are asking all of you to join us in a special Black Freedom Day JUNETEENTH " reflection and discussion" on Friday June 5th at 6pm! It will be a reflection and discussion centered on the iconic pop culture Spike Lee film " Do the Right Thing" and our community's pain and anger in response to the U.S.'s systematic racism, white supremacist and white privilege roots and manifestations. Spike Lee responds If you are interested in joining us e-mail or call us! Thank you, Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center  Volunteer Staff

All African People’s Revolutionary Party Recap ‘Black Workers for Justice' would like to express our appreciation to the ‘All African People’s Revolutionary Party’ for facilitating this international "African Liberation Day" virtual conference and radio show May-23-25, 2020. Two of our young BWFJ leading members DeJuan Owens and Angaza Samora Mayo-Laughinghouse  presented and shared our work revitalizing this critical important AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY tradition and reflection in the Triangle Area, NC with films, study and group discussion among our youth and young adults. The pace and structure of the conference call was perfect. The range of locations from around the U.S. and world, the broad, perspectives, and contributions was indicative of our collective struggle and common unity in fighting against white supremacy and imperialism. To facilitate this during a global pandemic speaks to the resourcefulness of our African/Black people. Thank you for carrying on this tradition, and keeping the fire of liberation burning. May we continue to build on the revolutionary legacy of our ancestors and today's freedom fighters.

Check Out This POWERFUL Music Video for This Polictical Moment

Please use this FOL  STATE OF EMERGENCY video of our NC performance at the MEDICARE virtual event rally today. Do forward it to others and ask them to go to our  website to send us a donation to support our closed FRUIT OF LABOR WORLD CULTURAL CENTER due to COVID 19. If you are interested in buying the "STATE OF EMERGENCY" CD, please send us your mailing address and a donation of $20 that will include cost of CD and postage. Snippets of all the empowering songs, can be found on our website as well. The video below can be found on the Fruit of Labor website.

Powerful Photos of This Time of Global Outrage, Pain, and Grace

teenvogue.com The national uprising against police brutality has gone international, with protesters in cities including Sydney and Rome coming out to stand in solidarity with the movement for Black lives. The sheer scale of the protests is breathtaking.  Videos  circulating on social media show marchers flooding city streets all over the world, chanting “Black lives matter” and raising their fists.

A protester raises a fist in front of police officers at a May 31 demonstration in London. (Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

In response to the death of George Floyd, a woman holds a sign that says “the colour of my skin should not place a target on my back" during a May 31 protest outside Cardiff Castle in Cardiff, Wales. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

In Australia, on June 2, protesters raise their fists in Sydney's Martin Place during a Black Lives Matter rally, held in solidarity with U.S. protests over the death of George Floyd. (Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

Protesters in Auckland, New Zealand, on June 1. (Michael Bradley/Getty Images)

At a May 31 rally in Berlin, a Muslim woman wears a face mask that says "Black lives matter more than white feelings." (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Some 4,000 New Zealand protesters demonstrate against the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd in a Black Lives Matter protest on June 1 in Auckland. (Michael Bradley/Getty Images)

People in England hold placards as they join a spontaneous Black Lives Matter march through central London on May 31 to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and in support of the demonstrations in North America. (Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Girls of the "migrant women and daughters network" protest in front of the war memorial in Dogali, Italy, displaying signs and writings on their bodies to support the protests in Minneapolis after George Floyd's killing, and call for justice for all victims of social and institutional racism. (Simona Granati/Getty Images)

In London, on May 31, a woman holds a drawing of George Floyd with “I can't breathe” written underneath it. (Guy Smallman/Getty Images)