{"id":3193,"date":"1972-03-01T12:36:37","date_gmt":"1972-03-01T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2014-02-27T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T20:49:12","slug":"1972-republic-of-new-africa-rna-letter-to-larry-pinkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/1972-republic-of-new-africa-rna-letter-to-larry-pinkney\/","title":{"rendered":"1972 Republic of New Africa (RNA) letter to Larry Pinkney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among other political activities, Larry Pinkney served as western regional Minister of Interior for the Republic of New Africa (RNA). The RNA is described in the 2004 book &#8216;Front Line USA: Threats, Attacks, Arrests and Harassment of Human Rights Defenders&#8217; by John Rendler as\u00a0&#8220;an organization formed to coordinate the efforts of individual activists, Black nationalists, and grassroots groups of\u00a0diverse\u00a0philosophies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contents of letter to Larry Pinkney (Atana) from Chema Halisi (image below):<\/p>\n<p>Republic of New Africa<br \/>\nMinister of Interior<br \/>\nBox 4333<br \/>\nBerkeley, Calif. 94704<br \/>\n<em>Telephone: [number omitted]<\/em><br \/>\n<em> An African Nation In the Western Hemisphere<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Struggling for Complete Independence<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THE STRUGGLE IS FOR LAND!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Imari Abubakari Obadele I<br \/>\n<em>President<\/em><br \/>\nAgaja Olu Enaharo<br \/>\n<em>National Minister of Interior<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chema Halisi<br \/>\nNational Deputy<br \/>\nMinister of Interior<\/p>\n<p>Power &amp; Peace Brother Atana:<\/p>\n<p>My trip was very successful. We now have Regional Interior Minister for all four areas.<\/p>\n<p>Brother Ahmed Obapemi I. is our Southern Regional Interior Minister.<br \/>\nHis address is: [address omitted]<br \/>\nNew Orleans, La<br \/>\nphone [number omitted]<\/p>\n<p>His mailing address is:<br \/>\n[address omitted]<br \/>\nNew Orleans, La. 70150<\/p>\n<p>Brother Jeral Williams is the Regional Interior Minister of the East.<br \/>\nHis address is: [address omitted]<br \/>\nJamaica, New York 11434<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping that you write these Brothers and introduce yourself to each of these Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>It is important as Regional Minister that WE correspond with each other and exchange ideals. Next week I will be sending out information as to some of the things you should be trying to get together.<\/p>\n<p>Also I would like for you to try to recruit four other Brothers to help deal with the problems on the West Coast&#8211;contact Brother Agaja he will tell you more.<\/p>\n<p>YOURS IN THE STRUGGLE<\/p>\n<p>Chema Halisi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1972\/03\/1972.3.1_Republic_of_New_Africa_letter.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3195\" title=\"1972.3.1_Republic_of_New_Africa_letter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1972\/03\/1972.3.1_Republic_of_New_Africa_letter.jpeg\" alt=\"1972 Republic of New Africa letter to Larry Pinkney\" width=\"595\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1972\/03\/1972.3.1_Republic_of_New_Africa_letter.jpeg 595w, https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1972\/03\/1972.3.1_Republic_of_New_Africa_letter-231x300.jpeg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/Larry%20Pinkney\/bio.htm\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"400px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other political activities, Larry Pinkney served as western regional Minister of Interior for the Republic of New Africa (RNA). The RNA is described in the 2004 book &#8216;Front Line USA: Threats, Attacks, Arrests and Harassment of Human Rights Defenders&#8217; by John Rendler as\u00a0&#8220;an organization formed to coordinate the efforts of individual activists, Black nationalists, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}