Ujima (Collective work and Responsibility) The third principle, Ujima
(collective work and responsibility) calls on us, the text says, "to
build and maintain our community together and to make our brothers'
and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together."

This principle teaches us that we are responsible to and for each other,
that we must build the world we want and deserve to live in and that
it is a work which requires a profound and persistent ethical
sensitivity to the needs and aspirations of others. Thus, the problems
of poverty, homelessness, unemployment, crime, early death and
racialized justice, the pandemic of HIV/AIDS and the support of its
survivors and the care for the families of its victims must not be
approached simply as isolated, personalized tragedies and unfortunate
problems for others. Rather, they must be understood and engaged as
problems which we are all affected by and responsible for solving.
Likewise, the sufferings and struggles of the peoples of the world
whether in Sudan, Haiti, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Australia,
Venezuela, Bolivia, and other parts of the world are our concerns
also. For we live in a world and web of interdependence and the issues
of freedom, justice, self-determination and peace are critical issues
for all of us, everywhere in the world. For as Malcolm taught us,
these liberation struggles are linked with our own and are the motive
force of human history. Moreover, these struggles raise critical
issues for us and the world which we must deal with—i.e., the right to
freedom and self-determination, and the wrongness of suppression and
oppression, the right and responsibility of resistance, and the
wrongness of invasion, occupation and unjust war, the right to the
resources of one's own land and the wrongness of international robbery
of these resources by corporations or conquering country. Thus, it is
important for us to accept that our concerns for the oppressed must be
expressed in a sustained practice to free them, that our anger at
injustice must be reflected in our active resistance to it and that
our preference for the poor must be linked to a practice which
alleviates their poverty and points towards an end of it. This
ultimately means that we must take up and continue the historical and
ongoing struggle for good in the world, the struggle for freedom,
justice, power of the masses of people over their destiny and daily
lives and peace in the world. Thus, we must enter the corporate
temples and political courtyards of the rich and powerful and
radically renounce and confront them, we must resist their
bloodthirsty gods of wealth and war, turn over the tables around which
they design the deaths, dispossession and imprisonment of whole
nations and place a new life-affirming, life-enhancing common ground
agenda before this country and the world.

HAPPY KWANZAA!!

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