The Articles of Ascension
The Ali Principle: We bare witness that there is no God but Allah, Our Heavenly Father.
The Panther Principle: We Want Freedom. We Want The Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Own Lives, Families, Communities and Sanctuaries with all of our divine and human rights respected and reserved.
The Earners Principle: We Want Liberating and Empowering Employment For The People.
The Moorish Principle: We Want Reparations for All of the Damage Caused by Colonialism on a Global Scale and An End To The Robbery of Hard Working People By Capitalists, Corporations and Central Banks.
The Equality Principle: We Want Quality Transitional, and Affordable Housing for The People. We Want a higher standard of Living with clean and healthy air, water and food for The People.
The Intelligence Principle: We Want Education that empowers, liberates and advances Humanity.
The Loved Ones Principle: We Want All Children to be protected and respected by The People and to be Treated with the Respect due a Breathing Blessing of God. We want the Riverside Collective to look after the needs of children who have lost one or both of their parents as well as those with special needs or who require special attention. Next to honoring God, the Loved Ones Principal is the primary purpose of the Riverside Revolution.
The Let My People Go Principle: We Want All Indigenous People To Be Exempt From Colonial Jurisdictions, Judgements, Jails, Taxes, Military Service or any other Obligations.
The Queens Principle: We Want Our Sisters to be protected and respected by The People. Our Sisters belong to God first, and therefore they are to be treated with the Respect due a Breathing Blessing of God with the Right and the Freedom to choose their own mate/s, and fate in all arenas of life. Her Mind, Her Body, & Her Choices Will Be Protected and Respected.
The Man of God Principle: We Want All Men to be responsible for protecting and defending the rights of The People, especially those of Our Women, Our Children and Our Family of True Believers. Together and with the guidance of God, we make up the Royal Priesthood of God and all Men who are a Man of God are Sacred and Will be Treated with the Respect due a Breathing Blessing of God.
(The El) The Justice Principle: We want all Child Abusers, Rapists, and Human Traffickers (including wannabe supremacists) to be held accountable for their offenses as capital crimes.
The People Principle: We Want all of humanity to have access to quality food, clothing, shelter, employment and reliable transportation. These are basic Human Rights that colonialism has systematically denied our people and as we garner the ability to provide for ourselves, we will black ball the same devil’s that tried to black ball us by including them and their organization in the Bitch Made Brigade.
The International Principle: We want global solidarity for The People that isn’t controlled by anyone but The People. This world belongs to God 1st and is the inheritance of all of Us. Before the Nubians discovered the Nile River and gave birth to human civilization as we know it, it belonged to God and in Truth it is still His property, therefore we put our commitment to God and to God’s People over any Nation that tries to violate Our Father’s Creations in any way. We will stand united for God and each other wherever and whenever duty calls.
The Wellness Principle: We want free and equal access to quality healthcare for all. We want women’s reproductive rights permanently protected and an end to all of the underhanded practices of eugenic practitioners that have led to the rising mortality rates among our people. We want our own doctors, clinics, hospitals, farms, and fitness centers designed solely for improving the health of The People. We want our people to be able to go to a doctor they can trust that isn’t beholden to any evil ideologies, prescription kickbacks or any other benefits not directly related to improving the health of The People.
The Independence Principle: We want financial institutions whose sole purpose is to produce honorable and enriching sources of income for The Riverside Collective as a whole and as individuals. We want to independently control our own currency, credit and transaction systems free of ALL colonial or oppressive involvement.
The Revolutionary Principle: We want to assist the people in finding places to belong where they feel welcomed, appreciated and loved. We want to make it easier for revolutionaries to find love and build relationships with like minded individuals in an effort to reestablish the foundation of the family, preserve its sacredness and push the state out of our homes, our families and our private lives completely. Before we can truly change our communities, we have to change the way our families operate within the community and until our families are the firm foundation for us to flourish in as God intended, the communities will remain broken and dependent on the state just like we’ve allowed many of our families to become. Within the Riverside Revolution we are the actualization of the long awaited, Us, Ours and We and we stand as The Family of True Believers/ The Riverside Collective.
The Riverside Alchemist Principle: We Want Our Youth, Our Children and Our Future Generations to have the ability to live free and fulfilling lives. Always and in all ways.
A-Wayz
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Love, Loyalty and Respect are the foundation of The Riverside Revolution. We are focused on uniting humanity with Our Heavenly Father and each other while turning poverty into a plateau for prosperity, solidarity and political action through creating mutually beneficial community outreach and investing initiatives.
The River in the Riverside is the Nile River of Kemet, which is pretty much the birthplace of modern civilization as we know it. The Nubians, having been a nomadic tribe for a time discovered the River and began to cultivate the land around it and in doing so went from hunters and gathers to farmers and architects but in order for them to make such a transition they had to unite around the building a civilization in the first place. I feel like it’s time for us to start uniting and building our own civilizations, our own Cities of Light, free from hatred, ignorance, greed and exploitation.
The Revolutionary aspect of our organization is founded upon the uniting of all of the struggles for human rights (Civil Rights Women’s Rights, LBGTQ+, and Labor Rights are all human rights) and we will be fighting until ALL of US are FREE.
To accomplish such an objective we will be building The Riverside Symphony, which is basically our technique for uniting humanity and bringing us together for the common cause of empowering and uplifting each other. A symphony is one of the most complex yet creative inventions known to mankind. It brings a variety of different talents and abilities together in such a way that it creates something transcendant, universal, and magical. The typical symphony truly becomes amazing as it animates various instruments and turns them into valleys and peaks, twists and turns; an allegory of sounds that are so profound, they are now world renowned as nothing less than classical.
Most of us can only imagine all of the years of practice, study, discipline and comprehensive cohesion necessary to create something as significant as a symphony and the truth is it’s a lot of work. If you could measure all of the energy and effort spent throughout mankind’s existence in crafting such an art, I doubt few other activities would even come close to equating such a timeless dedication as what the symphony has come to be.
Now imagine being able to see humanities struggle for Freedom, Justice and Equality over the years, through that same lens? Can you see the rise and fall of empires? Can you hear the crescendo of the idea that we as humans have rights that are God given and are to be protected and respected by any and all forms of governments? Can you feel the vortex of our ancestors’ emotions as kingdoms became republics and ideas like Liberty and Justice for All completely changed the world’s political landscape? Can you hear the rise of revolutionary proverbs like “Eat the Rich” “I have a dream” or “By Any Means Necessary” as they began to echo around the world as a beacon of hope to a new world and a new form of human existence?
That symphony of the global fight for human rights is the foundation of what we are building and this Overture is an overview of everything that represents, why it matters and how you can get involved. Before we get into all of that, please take a moment to subscribe to our free newsletter Riverside Revelations so you can stay up to date on our progress towards establishing The Riverside Symphony. In addition to that, you can apply to join Riverside Revolutionary Investments Here and/or pitch in to The VAS and support the Cause Here There is a $27 application processing fee for membership.
#WeGoingUp
Though the Riverside actually represents the Nile Valley River and the birth of civilization in what would later become known as Kemet/ Egypt, it is also representative of the front lines of the struggle for human rights on a global scale because as humans, at one point in time or another, all of our ancestors had to go down by the River to find the substance needed for them revitalize, refresh, and rebuild themselves.
The day I came face to face with the front lines of our fight for freedom was during a protest we were conducting for Micheal Brown in Denver CO. We had marched and protested the killing of another unarmed teenager by police officers and then we were on the way to shut down I-25 (Colorado’s primary North / South Highway) when we ran into a line of police officers in full riot gear with two of those Box Truck swat vans and plenty of back up behind them. They had one of those blinding spotlights on and a megaphone telling us to disperse.
I remember trying to say “We Can’t March in America.” but because of the energy levels, the rage, the amounts of injustice we’ve faced, it ended up coming out like a battle cry, and I wasn’t the only one feeling that way. Though our group had started at about 150 people, it had dwindled down to about 30 by this time and it was easily a good 100 plus officers on that bridge but once they felt that energy rising they just started macing everybody.
As we faced off with them, I came face to face with the fact that where you stand in the fight for humanity isn’t about your sex, your complexion, your sexual orientation, your education, your social class etc. There were people from all walks of life on both sides and the defining factor was and is where they chose to stand in regards to the fight for humanity.
One of the lessons I learned in that day is that there are The Freedom Fighters/ Liberators / Revolutionaries and then there’s the Oppressors, / Sellouts/ Handlers and those being handled. As a servant of God I also view our war as one of God’s People vs the Godless, for none could support the historic and systematic treatment of our people and many others around the world while also claiming to serve a True, Just and Living God.
Amidst all of the ignorance, hatred and envy we have suffered over the years, primarily those perpetuated by the Catholic Church (such as the Crusades, the Medieval Inquisition, The Witch Hunts, the Spanish Inquisition, the Doctrine of Discovery, and the wars to protect the lies and perversion of their religion) and European Colonial practices (Slavery, Illegal Occupations, Raping, Pillaging, Dishonored Treaties and trash like what’s going on in Palestine right now #AbolishIsreal) The Riverside Revolution represents the establishment of a sanctuary for humanity in general but for those of African, Asian and pre-Christopher Columbus (10/12/1492) American ancestry specifically, being that were the ones primarily targeted by the status quo that started with the Spanish Inquisition, continued through the Doctrine of Discovery and is currently upheld through the color coded race system (full video) setup in order for European Colonialist to install systems of wannabe supremacy in so called “discovered” lands. Therefore, rather than continuing to diminish our historical, cultural and national ties to uphold the color coded system of our enemies, we will return the respectfully identifying humans by our nationality, tribal affiliations and / or community organizations.
On the Riverside, Human is our race and We Fight for Humanity.
#IgnoranceIsObsolete
As someone who has participated in multiple community organizational actions, committees and what have you, I have come to the realization that all of the struggles and the fights for humanity are really all about different aspects of the fight for human rights. The civil rights movement for instance, is at its core a fight for human rights. The women’s suffrage movement is really a fight for human rights. The labor unions movement is about human rights. The LGBTQ movement is about human rights. All of the struggles of humanity lead back to the fight for human rights and it’s time we begin unifying in a real way, that looks past the labels of our superficial societal divisions, so we can come together with the understanding that we are all humans, and as humans we all deserve to have our God given rights respected and protected at all times.
#IgnoranceIsObsolete
More than just a business or a website with products and services, more than just a moment but an actual movement dedicated to building a world with fair and just treatment for everyone involved; that includes ownership opportunities, equal access to wealth and community initiatives focused on the particular needs of each community we operate in, Riverside Revolutionary Investments will finally return the power to the people in a permanent manner.
Everything from the Rights of Men that led to the French Revolution, to the United States Constitution of the Revolutionary War, The Haitian Revolution and its fight against colonialism, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights on a global scale, and so forth. There are a lot of high minded ideals we have yet to materialize into this realm of existence and the shortcomings of our current society are typically due to institutionalized versions of ignorance, greed and evil individuals in positions of power; all of which we have the power to dismantle and replace with honorable forms of governance, commerce, and cohesion, all of which is within the scope of Riverside Revolutionary Investments.
Understanding that there are many solutions to the problems we face, but that they’ve rarely gotten the attention or support they need to truly become the force to be reckoned within our society that we need them to be; we envision a community outreach initiative solely focused on that. What if instead of relying on the same people that keep disappointing us, we just decided to become our own solutions, started investing in ourselves and began building our own communities, and / or our own societies completely free from our enemies and oppressors with our own systems of justice and self defense in place to protect our people from those trying to eradicate, exploit or erase us? What if we really started becoming the change we wish to see in the world?
Initially the idea came to me at a meeting I was having with the National Leadership Team of OurWalmart (The Organization United for Respect at Walmart; which is a labor rights organization I was a regional leader of in 2013.) We had gone on a national Unfair Labor Practice strike from Walmart and protested at the annual shareholders meeting, due to managers retaliating against workers who spoke out against our poor working conditions and the starvation wages they paid us. What good is a job that treats you like less than a human being while paying you enough only to survive paycheck to paycheck until they’ve sucked all of the life out of you, at which point they just hire someone else and do it all over again? Sounds like a parasite to good hard working people to me.
While attending one of the meetings we were having with our leadership team, I was kinda taking it all in. Here I was in a room full of history making activist, surrounded with the solidarity of the UFCW, the Teamsters and Jobs With Justice, reviewing that days activities and discussing the upcoming days events, when it dawned on me that instead of just changing Walmart, we actually had the power in that room to completely replace Walmart with something better…
That idea of creating something better is what led me to researching the types of business structures and other options that are out there. This is what I mean by saying that many of the solutions we need are already here, we just need to start using them more effectively. People centered solutions like:
Employee Owned Cooperatives
(businesses owned and operated by the people who work there, that not only provide a greater share of the profits to it’s workers but also grants them the ability to vote and have a true say in the companies day to day operations)
Community Owned Banks
(owned and operated by the people in the community to create and manage community owned assets that produce values, goods and profits for the people of that community)
Intentional Communities
(Real Estate development projects designed to be self-sufficient while producing a surplus of goods and services to the surrounding areas which in turn creates a positive GDP and provides profits the entire community)
As well as other joint venture community structures that actually prioritizes the people over profits, Many of which we offer through our Riverside Velvet Lane Services.
Eventually all of this research, knowledge, wisdom and understanding led to a new and enlightening train of thought that I began to call the Riverside. Historically, when humans went from hunters and gatherers to farmers and builders, it was typically by a body of water because there they were able to find or create all of the tools needed to establish a successful and thriving civilization. The tribal mentality of all of those who went down by the Riverside, then built it up together is what we’re referring to when we say The Riverside Symphony #WeGoingUp and we’re focused on developing a civilization that is mutually beneficial for all of us.
Your Brother in Love and Truth
Rakeem G. Rivers
The Riverside Alchemist
The Riverside Revolution 