THE BLACK SURVIVAL NETWORK The Black Survival Network was founded in 1977 by Baba Hannibal Afrik. Historically Afrikans were brought to this country as slave labor. That was during a time when the economy of this country was based on agriculture. Today the economy is based on technology and service. It has little use for unskilled or semi-skilled labor, a category that the majority of Afrikans in this country find ourselves in. So then comes the question of what do you do with a population that is neither needed or desired. We see that answer to be a policy and program of genocide. The systematic cultural, economic and even physical elimination of people of Afrikan descent in America. Furthermore, we understand the effects of capitalism and the ongoing destruction of the environment with one of the most serious outcome being global warming. We understand that with the severe limitations on resources that this country will be facing, that we as the underclass will be the most affected by the shortages and natural disasters to follow. Let Hurricane Katrina be an example. The Black Survival Network has for the past 30 years has offered a program of Awareness, Preparedness and Self Reliance. We have trained thousands of Black People all around the country in basic and advance survival skills. Through our community weekend survival training camps we have exposed our people to the life saving skills such as water purification, fire making , wild food foraging, land navigation and much more. Through our workshops, forums and website we have explored long term self reliance and sustainability issues such as alternative energy, food cooperatives, alternative health care, police brutality and more. For the past 7 years with have been working with the grammar and high schools in our rites of passage and youth leadership camps where we take our students out in a semi wilderness environment and share a experiential learning program. They learn not only life saving survival skills but life sustaining experience of leadership, conflict resolution, teamwork and more. We offer the community several levels of training-basic, advance and instructor. We currently operate 2 training camps. In Illinois we’re a part of the Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Living in Pembroke Illinois where we operate Camp Queen Nzinga. In Mississippi we operate Camp Alajo outside of Jackson. blacksurvivalnetwork/
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