Join the team to build the Oakland Bay Area Uhuru Pies 2013 holiday sale

WHEN: Tuesday, August 27, 7:00 pm
WHERE: Awaken Cafe, 1429 Broadway (downtown)

Every fall holiday season since 1981, Uhuru Pies has been a tradition in the Bay Area that raises funds for the programs of the Uhuru Movement. Uhuru Pies is part of Black Star Industries and supports the economic programs of BSI including One Africa! One Nation! Marketplace, Uhuru Planet, Uhuru Foods & Pies, Uhuru Media and more.

Bakers, organizers, sales people and anyone who is looking for a meaningful holiday volunteer opportunity is invited to join this campaign to sell over 2,000 pies in the Bay Area this Thanksgiving and December holiday season.
Sponsor a pie tasting and set up your own personal pie seller's web page on the uhurupies website. Win others to sponsor a pie tasting. Win donations of ingredients for the pies.

Help bake, deliver and sell Uhuru Pies! Attend this meeting to learn more about how you can be part of this very exciting fundraising campaign.

Also, we will be discussing our participation in the work to build the Day in Solidarity with African People on October 13, 2013.

Contact Uhuru Pies Oakland: (800) 578-5157 • oakland@uhurupies.org • uhurupies.org

The Food Divide

This article, The Food Divide, by Christopher D. Cook, published several weeks ago in the SF Bay Guardian shows the importance of Uhuru Jiko as an economic development project that aims to transform the black community by opening up a commercial kitchen that will facilitate the opening of small food businesses, nutrition, health, cooking classes and a community garden in East Oakland. The conditions in East Oakland are similar to those in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. This is why Uhuru Pies is such an important fundraiser, getting resources to fund these community-based programs.

Uhuru Pies at the San Francisco Rock Project Winter Holiday Rock Prom & Auction

This evening, Sunday, December 18th, Uhuru Pies will be selling pie slices and taking orders for the holidays at the San Francisco Rock Project Winter Holiday Rock Prom & Auction.

Come out to the event which starts at 5pm and come by the booth, which will be outside the Rickshaw Stop at 155 Fell Street in SF.

The event itself is a fundraiser for youth music programs run by this non-profit and features Adam Savage of the popular Discovery Channel program MythBusters will be our esteemed MC for the evening and there will be some seriously rocking performances by the SFRP Students, Victims Family with Jello Biafra, a solo performance by Ty Segall, Ricky Berger, and an awesome live auction!

Come help Uhuru Pies get the word out to the SF Rock Project community about Uhuru Jiko and ways they can support economic development in the black community.

San Franciscans can pick up their pies on Friday and Saturday, December 23rd and 24th at the pie pick up table at the Global Exchange Fair Trade Store at 4018 - 24th St. or at our pie table on the same dates at the Safeway at Webster St. in SF.

Order your pies now! Email oakland@uhurupies.org

Don, one of our baking coordinators, racks up the pumpkin pies!

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Skyline HS Key Club is Busy in the Kitchen Making YOUR Uhuru Pies!

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Uhuru Pies is out EVERY DAY at Grand Ave Safeway!

Uhuru Pies volunteers Annie and Cassandra prepare samples at the Uhuru Pies table at the Grand Ave Safeway in Oakland - across from Uhuru Furniture!
Come down to Grand Ave Mon, Tues or Wed between 9-5 or Thursday morning 8-12 to taste, buy, order or pickup your pies!
Order NOW online: http://UhuruPies.org
Schedule your pickup today, for pies baked fresh the night before!

Uhuru Pies Partners with SF Business and Non Profit for Holiday Fundraiser

On Tuesday and Wednesday, November 22nd and 23rd, 2011, Uhuru Pies will present its delicious holiday pies on the streets of San Francisco with Rocket Dog Rescue - a volunteer based organization serving the greater Bay Area, dedicated to saving homeless and abandoned dogs from over crowded animal shelters - in front of When Modern Was, the store with one-of-a-kind, high quality painted furniture in unexpected colors and distressed detail.

Uhuru Pies funds go to support black community economic development such as the Uhuru Jiko, Swahili for "Freedom Kitchen," coming to the Oakland Uhuru House community center to create a hub of economic and cultural life in the African community of East Oakland, which bears the brunt of unemployment and home foreclosures.

The project will empower the community by bringing in much-needed resources.

Uhuru Pies met Rocket Dog Rescue at the San Francisco Green Festival and felt that she has always felt aligned with the organization. "I've known about Uhuru for years and love what they do," says Pali Boucher, director and founder of the volunteer organization that is dedicated to saving homeless and abandoned dogs from over crowded animal shelters.

Boucher used her connections to secure the site for Uhuru Pies, which makes its delectable five flavors available for ordering for pick up in front of When Modern Was on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 22nd and 23rd between 11am and 6pm. To order ahead of time, go to:
http://apedf.org/programs/uhuru-pies/oakland/order.html

Metacafe Pie Party in San Francisco

The San Francisco office of online video entertainment website Metacafe held an Uhuru Pies tasting party today, thanks to Manager of Creative Services Benjamin Saluti, who also donned an official Uhuru Pies apron and helped dish out samples of our delicious Sweet Potato and Apple Crumb pies to his coworkers, who were all blown away by the #bestpiesever!

The folks at Metacafe are getting in their holiday pie orders, so make sure you get yours in today!
Want us to come do a tasting at your office? It's not too late!

Clif Bar Loves Uhuru Pies!

Clif Bar welcomed Uhuru Pies back to their Emeryville office for a tasting Wednesday, November 16th. The employees were excited to taste the delicious free samples, and put in their orders for holiday pies -- both for their families as well as donated pies for people in need.

Make sure you order your pies today!

Uhuru Pies at Old Navy / Gap!

Shirdelah Manipon and Cheryl Faison hosted a pie tasting in the cafeteria at the San Francisco headquarters of Old Navy / Gap on Tuesday, November 15th.

Both met Uhuru Pies when they volunteered in the pie kitchen.

Uhuru Pies will deliver to their offices on Friday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

Order your pies today!

APEDF and Uhuru Pies at the Green Fest this Weekend!

On this weekend, November 12th and 13th, the African People's Education and Defense Fund will present its mission of sustainable economic development in the black community while also offering an opportunity for individuals and businesses to participate in Uhuru Pies, an annual holiday fundraiser.

Uhuru Pies is a popular holiday fundraiser that features delicious, homestyle, organic and fresh ingredients. Uhuru Pies includes traditional pumpkin, sweet potato and pecan and also blackberry and apple crumb vegan options for the holidays. Come by the booth and support this fundraiser by buying holiday pies for your family, company, community gatherings. With a purchase of ten pies, we offer free delivery.

Meet some members of the Uhuru Pies 2011 Team!

from left to right:
One of our Production Coordinators - John Janosko, Operations and Donations - Coordinator Pete Yaroschuk -Operations & Donations, Kitty Reilly - Business & Community Relationships, Sales Team - Bakari Olatunji, Production Team - Linnet Peal, Overall Coordinator - Maureen Wagener, Sales Coordinator - Wendy Snyder

Photographer (not pictured) - Volunteer Staffing Coordinator - Bill Canada



Come to our weekly meetings at the kitchen at 1607 - 63rd St. in Emeryville 7 pm every Wednesday. Join the baking, operations, donations, community outreach, sales and volunteer coordinator teams.

Uhuru Pies is a fundraiser for the African People's Education and Defense Fund programs for economic development in the
African community! Find out more!

Uhuru Pies Celebrates 30 years! - Be a part of it now.

The African Peoples Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) announces Uhuru Pies 2010, the 30th annual Uhuru Pies™ holiday sale fundraiser. From November 19 – November 24, Uhuru Pies will offer five gourmet pie flavors on sale for $12 - $20 each in Northern California. All proceeds benefit projects of sustainable black community economic development. Uhuru Pies will also be sold in the St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Area, Florida.

First sold in 1981 in Oakland, California, Uhuru Pies are a sweet and socially-conscious tradition during the holiday season. Families, groups, student organizations and individuals come together to produce and sell Uhuru Pies, taking a collective step forward in transforming the world.

Uhuru Pies has always supported African community development in African hands in cities in the U.S. and around the world. This year’s event is especially important for the future of African community development. The worldwide economic meltdown and rising unemployment continues to create an unprecedented loss of wealth and misery in countless working class communities, especially black communities.

Proceeds from Uhuru Pies will benefit the economic development projects that the APEDF is developing as a component of African Village Survival Initiative (AVSI). AVSI is a joint effort of two Uhuru institutions, both the APEDF and the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project. AVSI is countering the failure of current economic institutions by building community-based self-sustaining institutions of economic self-reliance and empowerment.

Thanksgiving in May??...

We are starting now! The 2010 Uhuru Pies Event promises to be the most exciting year ever. The goal is to sell 2500 pies. We are calling on every sector of our community to purchase and contribute.

Everyone can play a role with Uhuru Pies:

· Corporations and businesses can sponsor the fundraiser through direct donations and promotional support. Uhuru Pies make great appreciation gifts for your staff, vendors, and business partners.
· Farmers and growers and food distributors can donate quality, locally grown ingredients.
· Individuals can join us selling pies, - set your sales goals now. Schedule a pie tasting, have an Uhuru Pies outreach organizer present to your group. Join us coordinating a pie sales table in your part of the Bay Area.
· Trained and aspiring bakers: learn about the Uhuru Pie Baking Academy™. You can coordinate hundreds of baking volunteers to bake perfect pies every time, or volunteer your facility and team to make delicious pies.
· Individuals with graphics skills or marketing expertise, build your portfolio promoting Uhuru Pies.

Set up a lunch, meeting, conference room gathering, house event to learn more about Uhuru Pies. We have a 15-minute slideshow that sums up the programs of APEDF and how you can participate!

APEDF provides economic development in the African Community

APEDF recognizes the solution to a virtual economic quarantine is putting the resources back in the hands of the people; providing opportunities for African people to produce and benefit from their resourcefulness and creativity.

In 2009, the fundraising focus of the APEDF and Uhuru Pies was the construction and development of a commercial kitchen in the national Uhuru House of St. Petersburg, Florida. As the project nears its completion (June 2010), APEDF looks forward to this model of economic sustainability to flourish as an enhancement both to the meeting and hospitality capabilities of the Uhuru House, known as the “Embassy to the African World”, as well as providing an affordable, professional facility accessible to community-based caterers, new entry vendors and food nutritionists. Trainings and classes will be offered for a nominal fee.

In 2010, the second phase of institutions initiated by the APEDF will be the development of a professional recording studio also under the roof of the national Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida. The studio will cultivate the enormous cultural talent and musical creativity that has always existed in African communities. African artists will have an outlet to experiment, produce, and distribute their own works, raising and reinvesting resources back into the community and contributing to the sustained mission of the APEDF.

Remember – Uhuru Pies only available in November of 2010
In a measure to consolidate the many faceted efforts of Uhuru Pies and to enhance other aspects of the APEDF, including the December online auction and volunteer appreciation activities and events, Uhuru Pies will only be available in November, just prior to Thanksgiving.

To our wonderful December pie enthusiasts: we ask you to bring your appetite early this year! As we mobilize to get our pies everywhere, all-at-once, from Santa Cruz to Santa Rosa, we want everyone to know though the pies taste great – it is the cause that counts.

Join us this year as we roll up our sleeves, get busy, and give back to Africa! Anyone interested in being a part of Uhuru Pies is invited to join the team or become an individual contributor. Contact Uhuru Pies, can call 510-625-1106 or 510-851-4492 or send e-mail to oaklandpies@apedf.org. More information available at www.uhurupies.org.

Uhuru Pies are 9” deep dish, home style, baked fresh & made with organic, transfat-free vegan pie shells, and high-quality natural ingredients. The apple pies are made with locally-grown California, organic Granny Smith apples.