In the language of the African liberation struggle, Niyabingi comes from several traditions. It is the synthesis of the different elements of African culture that give us strength. The rupture of this has led to our downfall. Niyabingi means "death to all downpressors". The word honors an African queen who led an uprising against colonial rule. It became popular in modern Jamaican Maroon culture, among the Rastafarians.We, today's Revolutionary Maroons, aim to build a Maroon Society, a Kilombo Republic. We seek to free humanity from the bondage of a plastic and paper world. We want to end systematic oppression made on the backs of workers who produce the real wealth and have it taken off of them in the form of paper money.
It sounds fantastic, beyond the imaginable, that anybody should challenge the very foundation upon which Imperialism rests. PAPER MONEY. What will people negotiate with, how will transactions be made? Yet, stop and think how much power and wealth is concentrated thru a system managed on paper. The mortgage to your home has been reduced to a ledger; your automobile must be registered and the NOTE paid. Now, multiply this system by 130 million times. Add in all the factories, businesses, mines, ships and tankers, and entire continents swindled from native peoples around the whole globe.
All this wealth has been reduced to paper in one form or another. Material wealth has been swiped out of your own hard-working hands and you receive paper money in return. This paper, the US dollar bill, has its devaluation built in so that every fifty years it is only worth A SIMPLE NICKLE. Meanwhile, the value of precious metals like platinum and gold appear to rise. Real estate rises. The cost of living rises. YOU ARE BEING SWINDLED!! But you fail to rise. How much down-pressure must you endure until you will stand?
The Niyabingi Drums are beating. They are drumming up hearts and souls to take on this bloodsucking system. The drums are stirring the pulse of all those who want freedom from exploitation and oppression. Those who want unity to build a new society hear the Niyabingi Drums. We are marching to a new drumbeat, led by the new drum majors of Liberation.
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I just wanted to add some clarification to this post. The only true currency is gold of which our inaccurately nomered "money" represents. What the general populace calls money is in fact a "bill", or IOU; it is a "promise to pay" or promissory note. Credit. This means, that on some level, we are all perpetually in debt and are beholden to our creditors for compensation.
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