Description

In 2021, an International Peoples’ Tribunal found the u.s guilty of genocide on five counts - one of which being genocide by way of public health racism and disparities. From this tribunal the Peoples’ Senate Campaign was initiated to help build unity and cooperation among individuals, formations and efforts working to counter the genocide across Turtle Island. Our gathering and discussion on April 18th will lift up the lineage of revolutionary healers and organizers actively resisting genocide by tending to the needs of the People; connecting the health and wellbeing of each to the health and wellbeing of all. 

This gathering honors the memory and legacy of beloved teachers of resistance Cleo Silvers, Dr. Richard Taft, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Assata Shakur​, Sekou Odinga, Yuri Kochiyama, Safiya Bukhari, and other ancestors we carry with us. Together, we reflect on a pivotal moment that redefined health care as a community-controlled human right, while grounding ourselves in what is needed today to support our houseless and hungry relatives both locally and globally.​ What began as a grassroots public health response evolved into a powerful political and healing project, one that continues to inspire generations of practitioners, organizers, and caregivers to look after their communities. It invites us to return, again and again, to a vital question: What does it mean to truly tend to one another?

We invite you to join us for a shared meal and intergenerational conversation alongside Baba Dr. Kokayi Patterson, protégé of Dr. Mutulu Shakur and former Lincoln Detox patient, Walter Bosque del Rio, Young Lords elder and community acupuncturist, and Esperanza Martell aka Mama ESP, Young Lords elder, People’s Clinic volunteer, massage therapist, and friend of Dr. Mutulu Shakur, as well as Sadiki Ojore Olugbala aka Bro. Shep, original Black Panther Party veteran and food security advocate. Together, they will share stories, practices, and insights rooted in collective care, healing, and liberation. Please bring a friend, a dish to share, and questions for our beloved teachers. Attendees are encouraged to stream the film,Dope is Death(2021) before this event.

Date: Saturday April 198, 2026
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00PM EST
Cost: Free/ Sliding Scale

We will:

• Learn about histories of how Black and Indigenous people throughout the Americas have built relationships with horses

• Engage with archival material, literary excerpts, and contemporary media about horse-human relationships

• Write about our relationships to memory, land, and more-than-human kin

• Discuss the forms of collective action and communal life modeled for us by Black and Indigenous horsepeople

• Explore how we might reframe our relationships to themes of work, political activity, and individualism

Panelists

Baba Dr. Kokayi Patterson

• Walter Bosque 

• Mama esp

• brother shep 

Moderated by: Aubrey and Kaila (pending)

Cost

Sliding Scale Donation to support elders and food costs $5-100

Please bring a dish to share with community if you feel called

Schedule

Doors at 5 p.m

Welcome+ Intros at 5:30.p.m.

Panel at 6 p.m.

6:15: Roundtable Convo

6:30: Q+A

7:00: Wrap and Thank You

Dinner at 7:00 p.m.

In Person Event

Saturday April 18, 2026

Location: The Brotherhood Sister Sol

512 W 143rd St, New York, NY 10031

Hosted by

The Peoples’ Senate is a campaign of the Spirit of Mandela coalition ; a national cohesive network of people reflective of poor and working-class communities across the United States; joined together to protect, champion, and uphold the human rights of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, and by doing so, ensure the human rights of all people. The Peoples’ Senate campaign is an undertaking to unite formations across the country working in any, and every way, to counter the u.s genocide on oppressed peoples and help develop alternative forms of governance that center the wellbeing of people, the land and all creation.

Herban Cura offers knowledge shares, immersions, & herbal remedies we believe are fundamental to building & supporting our collective resilience. We are an open-source, radical movement towards societal regeneration. We know that by simply coming together to move, breathe, share, make medicine, and create, we are planting the alternatives to uproot the systems that oppress us all.

The Brotherhood Sister Sol (BroSis) For more than 30 years, The Brotherhood Sister Sol (BroSis) has been at the forefront of justice — racial, economic, educational, environmental, criminal and gender. Through unconditional love, around-the-clock support and wraparound programming, we make space for Black and Latinx young people to examine their roots, define their stories and awaken their agency.