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September 02, 2010
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 By Donna Lamb |
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Global Pan-Afrikan Reparations and Repatriation
Conference To Be Held in Ghana
rom
July 22nd to August 3rd, an international
coalition of reparations, Pan-Afrikan, human rights, and social and
economic justice organizations will convene a Global Pan-African
Reparations and Repatriation Conference in Accra, Ghana, West
Africa.
With the theme "Create the Future: Transformation,
Reparations, Repatriation, and Reconciliation," the overarching
goal of the conference is to develop a world-wide programmatic
framework – or put more simply, a "Plan" – that will allow the
International Reparations Movement to develop and coordinate
mutually supportive activities that promote transformation,
reparations, repatriation, and reconciliation among continental
Africans and Afro-descendants throughout the Diaspora. The
conference will seek to:
Deepen African and other Indigenous Peoples’ understanding of
the global reparations movement and the mutual support for
Afro-descendants throughout the Diaspora who are seeking
reparations
Shape the conversation about the significance of the 200th
anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by
the British Empire
Promote a dialogue within the global reparations movement
about "international capital" and its origins, the demise of
capitalism as we know it, and the world-wide movement for a new
economic order
Share strategies and tactics related to the respective local,
regional, and national reparations issues, demands, and approaches
for mutual support
Identify the present opportunities, prospects, and means of
forging direct links with African grassroots organizations and
diplomatic bodies, and
Explore concrete ways to participate meaningfully in African
initiatives that invite African descendants to return to Africa –
specifically Ghana’s Joseph Project and SUCARDIF’s Tower of Return
Monument Project.
The conference workshops will be held from July 24th –
27th. Pre-and-post conference activities will include
cultural and ceremonial activities, visits to the enslavement forts
in Elmina and Cape Coast, and to Benin.
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA)
International Affairs Commission, Sankofa United Continent African
Roots Development International Family Association of Ghana, and a
number of other international reparations organizations request your
participation in this historic reparations conference. For further
information about how you can attend or how you can contribute to
it, please visit www.NCOBRA.org. Go to the Events/News section at
the left and click on the Global Reparations Conference in Ghana.
Read more of Donna's articles at
http://www.donnalamb.com/
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