“Stay Ready, so You Don’t Have to Get Ready” -Eddie Kabaka Ellis
As a working-class institution, The Kabaka, Alice and Luqmon (KAL) Institute is developed as a ‘Community Specific’ approach to establish an empirical practice of Non-Traditional Approaches and ‘Resurrection Strategies’ to push a grassroots analysis into mainstream institutions serving Black / Brown / Indigenous working-class communities.
The KAL Institute seeks to share Afrikan-centered worldviews, grassroots movement methodology & analysis to fill gaps within traditional institutional practice, community-based organizational development, and local community culture as strategic consultation & training – towards personal resurrection, community organizing and grassroots movement building.
We are a collective of organizers, formerly incarcerated leaders, scholars, researchers, facilitators, youth, elders, and visionaries. Our work is rooted in the wisdom of The Green Haven Think Tank, The Resurrection Study Group, The Bedford Hills Sisters, and How Our Lives Link Altogether! (H.O.L.L.A!). Together, we continue the tradition of grassroots movement building for Black Liberation and collective healing.
“It is important for us to understand that the struggle for our liberation is a complete process, which requires us to address the root causes of our oppression” - Dr. Mutual Shakur
Opening Ceremony/Libation
The theoretical framework of The Kabaka, Alice, and Luqmon Institute is rooted/grounded in over 60 years of NYC/local legacy, scholarship, analysis, learned lessons etc… cultivated through the analysis, reflections and further developments of the works of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power/Liberation Movement, Puerto Rican Independence Movement, 1970 Prison Rights Movement, and Black/Brown/Indigenous communities in NYC under siege by The WAR (Seven (7) Neighborhoods).The Kabaka, Alice and Luqmon Institute of Non Traditional Approaches of Human and Healing Pedagogy comprise generational knowledge from an array of Black/Afrikan Liberation/Pan Afrikanist grassroots organizations to aid and support in the struggle for individual resurrection, grassroots community organizing and dismantling systems of oppression that maintains THE WAR. THE WAR or Afrikan Maafa posits an Afrikan (her)historical analysis of systematic atrocities inflicted on Afrikan/Black people by a system of white supremacy global racism - such as colonization, enslavement, and there aftermath - producing a global cultural of anti blackness that consistently targets and attacks the Afrikan & Indigenous nation. There is a list of ancestors, people, spirits, relationships, life circumstances, doubts, fears, mentors, mothers, fathers, and dreams to thank and acknowledge along the journey to getting to this point. The Kabaka, Alice and Luqmon Institute of Non Traditional Approaches to Human and Healing Justice pull from genetic memory - the experiences, lessons, practices, relationships and epistemologies of our ancestors to sustain life and spirit. The Kabaka, Alice and Luqmon Institute of Non Traditional Approaches of Human and Healing must acknowledge ancestors as a guiding force of spirit. The Kabaka, Alice and Luqmon Institute is a product of our ancestors’ dreams, struggles, gifts, and mistakes. The Kabaka, Alice and Luqmon Institute of Non Traditional Approaches to Human and Healing Justice is our ancestors' best and worst parts. Particularly - Ella Baker, Larry “Luqmon” White , Eddie “Kibabka'' Ellis, Queen Mother Moore, Gabriel Posser, Baba Sekou Odinga; Denmark Vessey, Queen Nanny Mother of the Maroons, Jomo Kenyatta, Winnie Mandela,, Nat Turner, Queen Nzinga of the Congo, Thomas ``Blood” Mccary, Harriiet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, Yaa Asantewaa, Strokkely Carmichael or Kumane Toure, W.E.B Dubois, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Aunty Lynn, the children who left their parents too soon, the lost fathers, and mothers, the many dreams deferred, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Sojourner Truth, Black Native Americans and Black Seminoles, Fannie Lou Hammer; John Horse, Allan Smith, Deborah Steeley Smith, Momma & Daddy Gantt, Malcom X,, The Freedom Riders, Starr & Enya Greene, Chairman Fred Hampton, Bunchy Carter, The Black Panthers, The Black Liberation Army, Uncle Mike, Grandma and Granddaddy Gantt and Porter, El Yanga, Mary Jane General, Cousin Bea, The Betty Smith Sisters, and some many more of our ancestors (spirits) that come in good ways to guide and teach us..This work stands on Legacy!
Invocation: “This is For Our Ancestors”
This is for Our ancestors!
Particularly, the ones who stand with us
And plan with us
I’m talking about a pedagogy of patience
They still waiting
For your transformation
And for us to heal
From all the steel waving
And generations after generations of living out the plantations
This is for our ancestors!
Particularly the ones who kill or get killed for us
Sacrifice and build for us
I’m talking about indigeneity without no regulation
Culture is our education
Emotional communication
Vulnerable is what we embracing
This is for our ancestors!
Particularly, the ones who love you when they don’t got to
But love you, because, they got you
This is for my ancestors!
Particularly, the ones who stand with us
And plan with us
I’m talking about a pedagogy of patience
They still waiting
For your transformation
And us to heal
From all the steel waving
And generations after generations of living out your own plantation!
Ase’ Ase’ Ase’
Free The Land
Free Dem All
