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Uhuru! We salute you for visiting the official wali 'werc' rahman 4 mayor website

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Uhuru! We salute you for visiting the official wali 'wa rek' rahman 4 mayor website. 

 

 

 

Our current platform is the following:

 

 

 

1. Black community control of the police and security:  this is both a question of economic policy, recognizing that poverty is the security question, as well as the political right for the black community to control and mobilize for its own security and be safe from profit motivated terrorists.

 

The police and all public safety officers must be required to volunteer and there will be no budget from the my office as mayor that promotes a budget that allocates zero dollars for the police salary.   

 

We understand that the FOP will be opposed to this mandate, and whether or not the city council chooses to unite with this budget remains to be seen. 

 

Again, we believe that the primary threat to the publics safety is lack of food clothes and shelter and the resources that would otherwise go towards alleviating that problem are dedicated to police containment of the black community.  The lack of food clothing and shelter is a problem that disproportionately effects the black community, and there was never a stage since slavery where we have had the Democratic space to accumulate the capital necessary to establish institutions that solve these problems. 

 

But the city has the money!

 

The city budget allocates 800 million dollars every year towards the cops salaries. 

 

We believe that If the people of this city had a choice we would put that money towards food clothes and shelter, not police. 

 

That is the basis of this whole campaign. 

 

The wa rek 4 mayor campaign represents a concrete strategy through which we achieve reparations, in this phase through establishing socialized ownership of food and production capacity. 

 

Simultaneously we are bringing the struggle against the military occupation of the black community, the mass Imprisonment of black people and colonial violence as a whole to the deepest conclusion possible. 

 

As this campaign progresses and as we win the election we will immediately use the 77 million dollars that is not going towards the police salary to open up the grocery stores.  

 

The reason why we are only using 77 million in the earliest stage is because the city is contractually obligated to pay the police salary 800 million, until the next contract negotiation period. The contract occur every 3-4 years. 

 

So the remaining 77 million is the only funds we would legally have access to. 

 

It only takes 1 million to open up a grocery store of the quality of a fresh grocers. 

 

Fresh grocers, save alot and shop rite each made $25 million net profit last year. 

 

There r 33 save alot, fresh grocers and shop rite total in the whole city of Philadelphia. 33 million will build 33 not for profit grocery stores that provide the same quality food/Groceries at the price that it cost to get the goods. 

 

Another 33 million can be used for other projects that advance our fundamental aim for economic development under the leadership of the black community.

 

I am a representative of the African workers council. The budget i propose will be a consequence of the will and a reflection of the platform and principles of the workers council to which i belong. And similar process will unfold through city council I would imagine. 

 

 

Black community control of the police is instrumental in defending all of the people from capitalist greed

 

We will discuss later our demands for reparations from the multi million dollar corporations, particularly suppliers of essential goods, to be paid to the African and indigenous community in the form of a reparations tax that will help to fund the community controlled not for profit grocery stores. 

 

The question also of what do the voluntary security force that will replace the colonial capitalist Police actually do?

 

We will go and get the tax money from the capitalists.  

 

We will defend the indigenous workers who are ensuring raids at their jobs by the federal immigration police. 

 

The police, and the state, in revolutionary society, becomes and instrument of violence and coercion to defend the economic interests of the exploited and oppressed workers who have now achieved power. 

 

The commitments jus listed above are concrete manifestations of such wielding of power. 

 

 

 

What is the future of the struggle with the FOP?

 

The police contract negotiation with the city is up every 3-4 years. There is a strong likelihood that the one after the next one will occur while I am the mayor. 

 

At this point the building of these grocery stores that are saving everyone a lot of money and providing the same level of "jobs" as fresh grocers and the other capitalists. 

 

We will hold rallies and various forms of political action to mobilize the community as the police budget struggle is ensuing. Again, our position is zero dollars for the police. The fop will obviously take it to court and ultimately it will be clear that they are imposing their presence on the black community. 

 

Our position is now as it will be at this stage, is that the police is a occupying military, a colonial capitalist military meaning they are only here for the paycheck, jus like their bosses put them here to secure their wealth. 

 

So we believe that the black community, and all those who are benefitting from these low prices and other material gains of our movement, should unite wit the resistance of the colonized black community in our demands for the FOP and the colonial capitalist Police they represent to leave and be replaced by a voluntary police or security force. Black fist 

 

 

 

 

2. End capitalist price gouging! Economic justice and Reparations to the African and indigenous community: as this entire city, it's government and all commercial enterprise that occurs on this territory, we demand that the city pay the indigenous people and African people reparations as there has never been one state of this city's history where white wealth and wealth for the banks and the politicians was not based on the oppression of Africans. 

 

Fresh grocers , shop rite, save alot, Sunoco and all the capitalists who do business on this stolen real estate and their landlords not only have to pay reparations for illegally using the land but also for using it to rip us off at the grocery store!

 

Through this strategy all of the capitalists will be replaced by their community controlled not for profit counterparts.  They have to pay taxes and all of their customers will have left them for the peoples institutions.  How much these taxes will be will be determined by the African workers council.

 

 

therefore we demand reparations to be paid to the black community in this phase, coming in the form of economic institutions that are controlled by the community. By community control we mean the community defines the prices and the inventory.  

 

The African workers council bears the responsibility of developing a real live plan to make these institutions succeed. Some say why not give the food away?  That may or may not be something that could work. The food cost money and the city will still have expenses that cannot easily be discarded, even if we wanted to. 

 

I do not know how much it would cost to run a shop rite that gives away all of the inventory plus pays it's workers.  There must be a mathematic basis to how the city money is used but the primary factor is not profit.  in fact profit is not a factor at all.  

 

They will definitely be not for profit grocery stores that provide food to the entire population at the same price that it cost to get the food (wholesale) 

 

 

Again, as mayor i will present a budget that utilizes the money formerly allocated towards the police salary (currently 877 million dollars) and equipment to be used to establish these grocery stores. 

 

 

Through this process we aim to save every household at least 500 a month. In this way we are freeing up income and wealth of the black community and working people as a whole, to be used as we want to use it. Not to line the pockets of the ceos of the previously mentioned corporations. 

 

 

 

The remaining 44 million dollars of available money from the police budget will go towards the following programs and commitment:

 

A. Free septa. No fares for routes inside city limits. We must do more math to determine how and if out of city travel can be free as well. 

 

B. End all taxes and fines: real estate, sugar drink, parking authority, 

 

C. Quality housing for all the homeless. 

 

D.  Black community control of the education budget and curriculum: work-study employment for all high school students, Free childcare provided by school district ages grades 0 and up, 

Mandatory completion of year long course that provides a criticism of colonialism that supports our platform and economic policies.  

 

 

 

 

All real estate upon which capitalist grocery stores like fresh grocers, shop rite and save alot is based in the theft of this land from its indigenous inhabitants.  Whoever owns the land upon which the fresh grocers on broad and Cecil b exists, how did they get ownership of it? And the owners before them? 

 

This is a critical question cuz it shows us how to solve the problem. A process to reverse the extraction of our wealth. 

 

 

 

 

Tax the multi million dollar corporations.

 

 

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4. No more PPA fines and impoundments, no more seizure of people's homes! The justification used by the current city government and ruling class for the existence of taxes is that the government will not have any money without it. 1.5billion currently 

 

 

5. Defend the democratic right for African people and our allies to protest the conditions that we criticize through my mayoral campaign. We want the RIGHT to participate in the struggle for total Liberation and Unification of our people Nation wide under All African Socialist government - mali, Burkina faso, niger, Cuba

 

6. Anti imperialist we stand opposed to imperialism.  self determination for the indigenous people of north america.  as mayor and representative of the movement for black community control of the police we stand opposed to federal immigration raids on indigenous communities in philadelphia. we stand for complete liberation of occupied palestine.  

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