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Omali Yeshitela (born Joseph Waller on October 9, 1941) is an American political activist and author. He is a co-founder and current chairman of the African People's Socialist Party (formed in 1972) which leads the Uhuru Movement .
In 2024, four leading APSP members, including APSP chairman Omali Yeshitela, were convicted of conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agents of the Russian government, but were found not guilty of acting as agents of Russia. [4] Notable APSP members include Omali Yeshitela, who has been APSP chairman since 1972. [3] [5]: 316 [6] [1]
Joseph Waller, Jr., also known as Omali Yeshitela, was a former member and organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). During the 1950s and 1960s, he actively participated in the American Civil Rights Movement. [2]
Yeshitela, Hess and fellow defendant Jesse Nevel face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the conspiracy and foreign agent registration charge. The fourth defendant, Augustus Romain, could get a maximum of five years if convicted of the registration count. The trial is expected to last up to four weeks. 09/03/2024 19:14 -0400
Among those charged is Omali Yeshitela, the 82-year-old chairman of the U.S.-based organization focused on Black empowerment and the effort to obtain reparations for slavery and what it considers the past genocide of Africans. The government also charged Penny Hess, 78, and Jesse Nevel, 34, two leaders of branches of the group’s white allies.
The Pan-African Women's Organization (PAWO, Organisation Panafricaine des Femmes, (OPF)) was founded as the African Women's Union in 1962. In 1974, the organization changed its name to the Pan-African Women's Organization.
The organisation also gave initial support to Omali Yeshitela's call for establishing an African Socialist International to coordinate black revolutionary activities across the world. The Black Unity and Freedom Party never stood candidates in official British state elections.
For example, the theorist and activist Omali Yeshitela argues that Africans have historically fought to protect their lands, cultures, and freedoms from European colonialists, and that any integration into the society which has stolen another people and their wealth is an act of treason.