By Joaquin Ramos

I think there were 3 main points to the presentation we had in class with the labor activist Ahjamu Umi’s guest Skype presentation. All three of the points are surrounding community. The first main argument being that we as people who have somewhat succeeded in the system have debt to those who have not. We owe our “success” to the people died who were imprisoned to be where we are right now and that is why we have to continue activist work because we must always try and payback that debt. Another point he made was that for movements to be successful, they have to be mass movements and have the support of a lot of people and what he argues is that people who are conscious need to go and lift their communities’ understanding so that we can all be on a level of understanding social awareness and can have a mass movement by making our communities understand the oppression that is occurring. He also spoke about reform versus revolution and that being a tool to recruit people because it is hard to find a lot of people who are revolutionaries but we must first recruit reformists and show them how that isn’t solving everything and switch their thinking to have more critical lens of systems of power.