Bob Brown (Original air date: 02-25-02

Bob Brown is an organizer, lecturer, research specialist and writer focusing on progressive and revolutionary movements and organizations fighting for global justice. His primary foci are the Pan-African, National Liberation, Black Power, Solidarity, Peace, Anti-Globalization, Anti-Repression, Reparations and Student Movements.
With 41-years of organizational experience and expertise, Bob is a former member of the Chicago Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, former Director of the Midwest Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, co-founder and former member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and a Midwest Organizer, and an organizer for the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. He has worked with and supported hundreds of progressive and revolutionary movements and organizations throughout Africa, the African Diaspora and the world. He was a Coordinator of Third World Outreach for the million-person Disarmament Demonstration at the United Nations in 1983 and the National Coordinator of Logistics and Operations and National Field Director of the 1995 Million Man March and Stay-at-Home Campaign. He is a member of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa) and served as the National Director of its 2000 Local Government and 2004 Presidential election campaigns. Bob currently serves as co-director of Pan-African Roots and the Kwame Ture Work-Study Institute and Library.
As a lecturer during the past 37 years, Bob has traveled to and delivered presentations at hundreds of colleges and universities and scores of public and private schools, bookstores, churches, community centers and radio stations, and at thousands of meetings, conferences and demonstrations in at least 40 states within the United States. He co-coordinated from 1970 to 1988, the All-African People's Revolutionary Party's recruitment and fund raising drives, world-wide, which featured Kwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael).
Bob has traveled and made presentations to, and participated in meetings and demonstrations in Austria, Azania (South Africa), Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Egypt, England, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Guinea, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Scotland, Senegal, St. Maarten, Switzerland, Trinidad and Zimbabwe.
As a research specialist and writer, Bob has authored and coordinated the publication and distribution of millions of movement leaflets, pamphlets, posters, and other educational materials. His current research projects include: a definitive political biography of and docudrama about Kwame Ture; comprehensive histories and analyses of the Black Power, Pan-African and Student Movements, the Black Panther Party and the All-African People's Revolutionary; and a major study of political repression, of the right and left, against the Black Power and Pan-African Movements, worldwide.

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[NkrumahTure]

 I met this brother in 1994.

[mamamaat]

Bob Brown is one of Africa's Greateat Warriors! He is a consistent PAN AFRICAN Revolutionary Scholar!! Listen and learn from him.

[williama13mcclam]

thats my uncle