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| In Atlanta, Georgia, in June 2005, a national coalition of
organizations with a reparations component voted to support the work of
N’COBRA’s International Affairs Commission (NIAC) to facilitate a International
Reparations Conference in Ghana, West Africa, in late July early August
of 2006. A condition of support for the international conference was that
it must be co-convened with other national and international organizations.
To accomplish this task, NIAC partnered with SUCARDIF, an indigenous Pan-Afrikan
organization based in Ghana, and long time associate of NIAC. These
would serve as facilitators and enfold others in the project. The partnering of a Reparations organization with a Pan Afrikan organization is a natural fit. Those who understand reparations fully, see the ideals of the Global Pan Afrikan movement as part of the repair. Those who fully understand Pan Afrikanism see the ideals of reparations as fundamental to Pan Afrikanism. The Trans-Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Arab European Slave “Trade,” has made and sustained racial discrimination and its continuing vestiges for centuries. It has caused the dispersing of hundreds of millions of Africans to the far corners of the earth, leaving many of their Ascendants in refugee status today. The “trade,” a global Holocaust of African people has created the depopulation of the African continent that laid the foundation for continental colonization, and African impoverishment. The so-called debt relief initiatives by the west have gone to great lengths to portray the African continent and her people as helpless, pathetic, powerless people dependent on European philanthropy, while laying the foundation for re-colonization and re-enslavement. The conference will assess the Global Reparations and Pan African movement as preparations are being made for recognition of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans Atlantic Arab European Slave Trade. The year 2007 will mark 200 years since the British Empire officially ended the trafficking in captive Africans for enslavement throughout the British Empire. For the United States, the year is 2008. The U.S. Constitution protected the international trafficking of African captives until 1808. Domestic trafficking within the United States continued until 1865, almost a century after the U.S. declared itself free from British rule. And Arab trafficking continues today in some parts of Africa. The conference participants will shape the conversation and interpretation of those historical markers, determine and promote an appropriate worldwide response. The overarching goal of the conference is to develop a “world-wide programmatic framework,” or simply a “Plan,” which would allow the International Reparations Movement to develop and coordinate mutually supportive activities and tasks that promote Transformation, Reparations, Repatriation, and Reconciliation among continental Africans and Afro-descendants throughout the Diaspora. The conference seeks to achieve the following immediately identifiable but necessary objectives:
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| The conference targets reparations and
grassroots organizations and officials at all levels including, but not
limited to: · Legislative leaders, other government officials, · professionals and legal experts, community workers, · NGO’s, educators and educational institutions, and · Social and behavioral science community |
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| For more information contact: Queen Mother Aurevouche Nana Gyepi III (Ghana) Commissioner, Sababu Shabaka oravouche@aol.com sucardif@yahoo.com sshabaka@peoplepc.com 240-277-5140 011233243834032 410-979-9558 |
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| Esther Stanford (UK) Shelly Moorhead (VI) B. Kwaku Duren, Esq. (West Coast) estherstanford19@yahoo.co.uk shelley.moorhead@gmail.com kwaku@globalpanther.com +44 (0) 7751143043 +340.332.8892 323 290-6146
Carole Crawford (France) 33 146 635 569 |
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