I will scatter them, and then I will gather them: Deuteronomy 4:27; 28:64; 32:26; Isaiah 11:12;

Jeremiah 23:8 / Read about the African Slave Trade in Deuteronomy 28th Chapter.

 

REPARATIONS NOW IN OUR LIFETIME!

 

N E W S L E T T E R…….#24

 

FEBRUARY  2002

 

 

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WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, AND WE OWE IT TO OUR CHILDREN TO ESTABLISH AND DEMAND BETTER LIVES FOR THEM AND FOR OURSELVES! 

 

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GIVE POWER AND MEANING TO

THE REPARATIONS MASS MOVEMENT - GIVE OF YOURSELF!

 

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“Take direct action against the U.S. government!”  Dr. Robert Brock

 

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Note from the REPNOW Newsletter Editor:

 

I extend many thanks and much appreciation to all who E-mailed me with kind words regarding my work with the REPNOW Newsletter.   With so much happening in the Reparations Movement, I am glad to be back collecting information and marveling at the sensational input of Black Folks – my People.

 

The events taking place involving the Reparations Movement are indeed encouraging.  And I pray that all the preparations for the August NATIONAL REPARATIONS MARCH in Washington will cause the powers-that-be to realize that we mean business, and that we will not relent until the Debt for the TransAtlantic Slave Trade and for ruining our lives is paid and Justice is served for the hundreds of years of Slavery, Racism, a myriad of Inequities, double standards, and untold pain and suffering.

 

I was most encouraged by an article, herewith, containing the words of Harvard University law professor Charles Ogletree:

 

“Ogletree reminded delegates that there were ‘millions of Africans today languishing in unmarked graves at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and for whom reparations is a final vindication.’ Ogletree also predicted: ‘This is a movement that cannot be stopped. There are no plaintiffs that will not be considered. I promise that we will see reparations in our lifetime.’”

 

Professor Ogletree is 100% correct!  We “cannot be stopped!”  We can taste Deliverance from this bondage, and it is O’ so sweet!  We dream dreams greater than those of the Late Martin L. King, and, yes, we have to believe that they will be realized!  And we can see Black Folks with integrity and intelligence establishing educational systems for our children and preparing them to be our “future.”  And we can see an end to ghetto life and all the bad elements that accompany it.  Yes, this is a movement that cannot be stopped!

 

There are millions of Blacks all over the World alive but dead due to the lack of Freedom and Self Determination that has eluded us for so many hundreds of years.  Therefore, we have no choice but to continue in this fight for Reparations – WE MUST – if we are to rise above White dominance and control over our lives that sustains us second-class citizens, the impoverished, and the “lesser” Peoples.   My ultimate desire is for Blacks to be a significant factor in decision making involving World affairs, establishing stability in and causing the rebirth of Africa, and becoming a People respected and honored, as a result of rejecting and prohibiting the corruption, manipulation, and exploitation of any Peoples anywhere.  Unfortunately, this is now the very much accepted status quo, but we can certainly change it.   Some group has to take this initiative, so it may as well be Black Folks!

 

Read the Newsletters and share them with college students and everyone who can read.  And by all means encourage those who lack knowledge to be informed and to get involved in the Reparations Movement for the rebirth of Black Peoples everywhere.   

 

Tziona Yisrael, Editor

REPARATIONS NOW IN OUR LIFETIME Newsletter

www.thelawkeepers.org

(Click on “Repnow”)

 

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N’COBRA NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACKS 

TO SUE THE UNITED STATES

 

February 17, 2002

 

The Reparations Campaign, for Black people in the United States, emerged more than one hundred years ago as the U.S. Federal Government was trying to survive the ravages of warfare among it's citizens. In the wake of the bitter hostilities from the Civil War a decision was made to release from Bondage millions of then enslaved Africans.

 

As U.S. political, civil and business leaders grappled with the pressing question of "what to do with the Negroes?" the newly freed Afrikans cried out immediately for restitution - payback for centuries of stolen labor, cultural degradation and dehumanizations. Indeed, Africans held as slaves have been struggling for a restored sense of wholeness since being brought to this country as chattel.

 

Other organizations and individuals have carried the demand for reparations farther into the twentieth century. Many of them have become a part of today's Reparations Campaign, which is being spearheaded by N'COBRA.

 

Information Central

Your source for N'COBRA information

 

In this period, the Reconstruction Era, a new phrase was added to the lexicon of Black folk wisdom: " forty acres and a mule", which has symbolized – to this day - Black expectations of just recompense for long years of brutal enslavement. During this period, also reparations societies were

created and the idea/demand for reparations started to be incorporated in the organizational vision of several prominent Black groups. One such group, the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association (NEMRB and PA ), attracted hundreds of thousands dues-paying members from the late 1800's to about 1915.

 

Information about N'COBRA

 

Who are we?

 

N'COBRA is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to the economic, cultural, intellectual, political, social, and spiritual empowerment of black people in the USA. We are the descendants, and thus the heirs, of Africans kidnapped, transported, and enslaved in the Americas.

N'COBRA is governed by its membership through its annual National Convention, Board of Directors, Board of Elders, Commissions, and chapters.

 

Regional conferences continue the work of the National Convention and work specific to the Regions.

 

What do we want?

 

We want our just inheritance: the trillions of dollars due us for the labor of our ancestors who worked for hundreds of years without pay. We demand the resources required removing all badges and indicia of slavery.

 

Why do we want it?

 

We must prepare African people and communities for the demands of the new millennium. Reparations are needed to repair the wrongs, injury, and damage done to us by the US federal and State governments, their agents, and representatives. These have proved that their vision for African people in America is joblessness, more prisons (more killer kkkops), more black women and men in private prisons, AIDS and violence. The US Eurocentric educational system has failed to prepare African children for liberation, nation-building, and self-determination. This educational system produces people who are anti-black; including many blacks who are self-alienated and anti-black. We want our resources, our inheritance, to do for ourselves without US Federal and State involvement.

 

When do we want it?

 

We want it NOW! We know that preparatory steps must be taken before we can receive reparations even when the US Government agrees to pay us everything we demand. But NOW is the time to prepare for reparations. How do we prepare for reparations?

 

In order for reparations to make us whole, it must remove blacks from dependence on others (the government, and the descendants of slave owners and colonizers), to create our jobs, manufacture the goods we consume, feed, clothe, and shelter us, build our institutions, and oversee our money. There are many things we must do to prepare; only a few will be discussed here. We must determine what is required to enable us as a people, as a community, and as individuals to be self-determining. We need to learn the difference between wealth and money, and more about making money than spending it. And, have that we spend, we need to learn how to keep it in our communities. There are too many of our entertainers, recording artists, athletes, lottery winners, etc., who earn millions of dollars and have nothing to show for it after a few years, but a memory of good times past. We must study how reparations can be used for our liberation for seven generations to come, and not for a one time shopping spree. We must use this time to develop ways to keep the billions of dollars, which we now earn, in the black community.

 

How much is owed?

 

Once we know how much damage has been done to us, and what is required to repair the damage, we will know how much is owed. We cannot allow anyone to offer, or accept on our behalf; some arbitrary figure based on some other peoples' reparations settlement. For example, the four-year internment of Japanese in America, or the five-year holocaust of Jewish people in Europe may require a different set of remedies than the 400 years holocaust of Africans in America. The nature and extent of the damage and the number of people impacted will dictate the type, duration, and amount of reparations owed. Some estimate eight trillion dollars.

 

How would reparations be paid?

 

Payment may include all of the following: land, equipment, factories, licenses, banks, ships, airplanes, various forms of tax relief, education & training, to name a few. A good academic exercise would be to develop a plan for how reparations could be used collectively to enable the African community to become independent from racist institutions and economically self-sufficient for at least seven generations.

 

Who would pay reparations?

 

The US Government would pay reparations in the same manner as they voted for and paid billions to Europe through the Marshall Plan after WWII, or billions to Israel every year since WWII, or to Russia, or Eastern Europe, or to prop up some puppet African Government. Just as Americans did not, as individuals, pay for aid to those countries, they will not pay for the debt owed to Africans in America. Nor are we blaming individual Americans, we are simply holding the US Government accountable for its wrongs.

 

Who would receive reparations?

 

People identified as Negro, Colored, Black, African American, New Afrikan, Black American who are the descendants of persons enslaved in the United States. Of course, those who feel that they are not due reparations, or do not need reparations will not be forced to accept it.

 

What about Africans enslaved in other countries?

 

Black reparations is an international movement. The descendants of Africans in Canada, Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica, and Brazil, West Indies, Caribbean, etc., are due preparations, but from their particular European colonizer.  Colonized African countries too are due reparations. We recognize that although we were colonized and enslaved by different European colonizers and slavers, we are one people with many family members dispersed to different countries.

 

What can we do to help?

 

Make Black reparations a household word. Learn to spell, define, and defend it. If we learn how to spell reparations, we will easily say it. Once we learn how to defend it we will raise the issue every time someone talks about Affirmative Action, Welfare Reform, Jobs, Education, Housing, Health Care, Prison, Building, Police Brutality, and so on. N'COBRA members have developed books and other informational resources to enable each of us to become able defenders of blat reparations. When people talk about building more prisons to deal with the crimes of today, we need to talk about reparations to deal wit the effects of 400 years of crimes against the African community that led to the crimes today. We need reparations to keep or people out of prison.  When people talk abort how criminals must pay for their wrongdoing we must talk about how the US Government must pay reparations for its wrongs.

 

Second:

Support HR 40.

 

This bill has been reintroduced in Congress by Congressman John Conyers of Michigan. It is a first formal step toward reparations in studying the impact of slavery and proposals for remedies. Work with organizations, churches, local governments, and State legislatures to pass a resolution in support of HR 40. Send a copy of each resolution to Mr. Conyers' office and to N'COBRA's National Office.

 

Third:

Join a reparations organization. Have that organization or any organization to which you belong, become a member of N'COBRA. Or, you may join N'COBRA directly.

 

Fourth:

Attend the local, regional, and national meetings on reparations to learn more about chat you can do to help. How can I join? Attend an N'COBRA meeting and submit a membership application form, or request an application from the National office. Membership is open to organizations and individuals of good moral character who believe that black people in the USA, the descendants of enslaved Africans, are due reparations from the US Government and various State governments.

 

N’COBRA is reaching out to peoples (individuals and organizations) all across the United States and throughout the world with a plain but urgent message: it's time for the U.S. Government to pay its long-overdue debt to Black people for slavery and for more than one hundred years of oppression and brutalization following slavery.

 

N'COBRA also supports the just demands of indigenous peoples (the "Indians"). In sum, the reparations demand is a simple call for human justice. And, by taking very simple steps, you can help promote this campaign - it's the right thing to do!

 

N'COBRA - http://www.ncobra.com/index.html

 

NEWS RELEASE:

 

N'COBRA Prepares to Sue U.S. Government:  Your support is critical!

 

The Reparations Litigation Committee, assembled by N'COBRA is pulling together the final pieces of our class-action lawsuit for Reparations, on behalf of African (American) people 'in the United States.

 

Our impressive Litigation Team is led by Sister Attorney Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, Sister Attorney Nkechi Taifa and other expert legal and political minds.  According to Sister Aiyetoro: "Our team is convinced that a solidly-crafted lawsuit will help us achieve our Reparations... Much like our Ancestors who fought for 250 years to end chattel slavery, we cannot refuse to demand Reparations in every forum because it appears that the government is unlikely to give it to us or that we do not have agreement as to what form it will take."

 

After consultation with the N'COBRA Board of Directors and membership at the recent 9th Annual Convention, the Litigation Team is recommending four major areas for the lawsuit: wealth/poverty; education; criminal punishment; and, people/nationhood. The team is now concluding its evidence gathering and final documentation.

 

Therefore, your financial contributions to N'COBRA's Legal Fund are, now, more critical, more urgent than ever. Our dedicated Litigation Team has worked countless hours pro-bono (for free), for the most part.

 

Please support their historical effort, on behalf of our Ancestors and all people of African ancestry, by sending in your monetary gift today, to:

 

N'COBRA Legal Fund

P.O. Box 75437

Baton Rouge, LA 70874

 

Even better, organize a fundraising event for our Legal Fund in your area. Encourage local artists (writers, musicians, singers, choirs, poets, painters, cooks-chefs, etc.) to put on benefit shows for our just cause.

 

N'COBRA - http://www.ncobra.com/index.html

 

We thank you, in advance, for your generosity!

 

National Coalition of Blacks

For Reparations in America

Reparations Now !!!

N'COBRA - http://www.ncobra.com/index.html

 

Submitted by AlAman5375@aol.com

 

[Let the records show that there are many so-called African Americans who pray for FREEDOM from the lands of our captivity and REPARATIONS to relocate to friendly countries that demand tolerance of all Peoples regardless of the color of their skin and their religion.  With REPARATIONS, we wish to start new lives by means of “SELF DETERMINATION” (all that that entails) and pursue true happiness.  T.Y., Editor]

 

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WANTED:  A NATIONAL BLACK SOLIDARITY DAY

 

January 31, 2002

 

Please find herewith a link to The Black World Today. On it, you will find an article I wrote calling for A NATIONAL BLACK SOLIDARITY DAY.  Some of you may have read it before.  Nonetheless, I am sending to you in the "printed" format. If you agree with the concept and would like to get involved may I ask you to send it to your directory for the same purpose.

 

http://www.tbwt.com/views/feat/feat9084.asp

 

Regards In Solidarity,

Carlos Russell

 

Submitted by TheBlackList@topica.com

 

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NATIONAL REPARATIONS SYMPOSIUM

February 8, 2002

In September of 2000 at Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta, Georgia, the Southern Region of the Black Law Students Association was among several organizations to co-sponsor a student conference on the Reparations Movement.  Reparations activists, scholars, and organizers participated in this three-day event.  In March of 2001, in Atlanta, Georgia, at the national convention of the Black Law Students Association (NBLSA), delegates from law schools across the country unanimously passed an amendment that established a Reparations Research and Advocacy Committee. 

On February 28th through March 2nd NBLSA will co-sponsor a National Reparations Symposium: Beyond Rhetoric, the Reality of Reparations, at GSU, in Atlanta.  This event is designed to increase the body of scholarly articles that discuss Black Reparations.  As one of the primary co-sponsors, the GSU Department of African American Studies has arranged for selected papers from the symposium to be published in a special reparations edition of the International Journal of Africana Studies.         

An additional component of the symposium will be series of workshops for community activists and students that will provide a foundational understanding of some of the Reparations Movements different aspects and approaches.  Proposed workshops will include Understanding the legislative process and Black Reparations, Understanding International Law and Black Reparations, Understanding the U.N., International politics, and Black Reparations, Understanding domestic litigation and Black reparations and Conducting Genealogical Research and Black Reparations.  Students from various disciplines will also be given an opportunity to present reparations papers, projects, and other works in progress and receive feedback and critiques. 

The event will be free to the public.  Other co-sponsors of this event include the GSU College of Law, Office of African American Student Services and Programs at GSU, BLSA at GSU, GSU Student Government, Atlanta NCOBRA chapter, and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (Atlanta Chapter).

Attached is a preliminary flyer for the symposium.  Please print the flyer and distribute.  For more information contact- reparationsgsu@yahoo.com

Peace,

Mawuli Davis

NBLSA Reparations Chair

 

Submitted by [BRC-REP]

 

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SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE

(Received on 12/13/01)

Part Twelve: The African Americans Forced Migration of Africans

Africans came to the Americas in chains. This shameful historical truth dominates all other questions relating to African Peoples and European-American Peoples. Until the significance of this fact is understood and appreciated, there is little hope that a meaningful presentation of the history of African Peoples in the Americas can be made. From the very beginning of the European relationship to the New World, slavery permeated every aspect of life in the colonies and eventually the new nations, particularly the United States, Brazil and the islands of the Caribbean. Ironically, the European enslavement of Africans began at about the same time as the initial dissolution of serfdom in parts of northern and southern Europe. The end of feudal serf status provided a foundation of later European overseas migration.

During the 1400s and the 1500s the politics and economics of racism against Africa peoples and the politics and economics of feudalism against the European serfs and masses were woven together into a grotesque fabric of European exploration, colonization and imperialism. The net result of these historical events was the genocide of Native Americans and the perpetuation of the triangular slave trade system which grew out of the trans-Atlantic slave trading that dominated European-American politics and economics for centuries. This slave trading system linked Europe, Africa and the Americas in the single most sustained and shameful injustice of man against man since the dawn of history.

There is no justification for the European and American initiated, controlled and dominated trans-Atlantic slave trade. Every type of excuse has been given to justify the enslavement of African Peoples. Some have even said slavery was good for Africans. Others have proclaimed that it was part of the European "civilizing mission" of savage, inferior peoples. Still others have claimed that Africans were "cursed" by God and were divinely ordained to serve whites. Many blame the Africans for their own condition. In spite of all of these rationalizations to justify African enslavement, the fundamental reason for it was greed and racism among the leaders of European and American nations.

Over the years scholars, political leaders and religious authorities have tried to justify slavery. They claimed that it was part of the Human Experience. One school of thought from America's prestigious universities concluded that Africans were "child-like" and needed to be under white domination and supervision. Even the Best American minds, such as Thomas Jefferson in his Notes To Virginia, attempted to find intellectual and moral justification for slavery. Like most of the Founding Fathers of the United States, George Washington and Jefferson obtained a great deal of profit and prestige from the slave system and they were not prepared to give up this shameful source of wealth for higher ideals of human freedom. As a result, the founding of the American nation was compromised from birth on the altar of slavery.

The consequences of the decisions to choose profit-making from slavery over the lofty ideals of freedom, justice and equality can be viewed as a serious birth defect for the United States of America. This defect has caused permanent damage to American society and has been constant and continual source of difficulty for the American People.

It is important to understand the true nature of the slave system in the Americas, particularly in the United States. The African was not just a captive who was later enslaved; he or she was property to be treated like a thing or chattel. This concept of the enslaved individual being separated from their human spiritual essence is particularly European-American and has its roots in the feudal system in Europe where the individual was legally and socially tied to the manor and the lord like the cattle. Arab trans-Saharan and East African slavery of Africans, which existed centuries before its European counterpart, did not relegate African people to chattel property status. Similarly, traditional captivity of servitude in Africa itself, maintained by Africans, did not separate the individual from his or her human spiritual essence and reduce them to property in the form of chattel like the horses, the barn and the cotton. This peculiar form of European-American racism and hypocrisy was still being justified by the Supreme Court of the United States as late as 1857 in the Dred Scott Decision, affirming chattel slavery. This tragic relationship between African Peoples and Europeans existed for more than four hundred and fifty years. Individuals and trading companies from practically every European nation were involved in the slave trade system. Even the major religious authorities, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish were involved in sanctioning this traffic in human flesh.

Just recently on a visit to Africa, the Roman Catholic Pope, John Paul II, apologized for the Church's official involvement in the slave trade. Slavery affected everything.

By Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Jr.

Dr.Jeffries website link is below:

The African Americans: Search for Truth and Knowledge 

The Leonard Jeffries Virtual Museum | The Masters Museums Directory

 

Submitted by JELPO@AOL.COM

 

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UPDATE ON REPARATIONS MOBILIZATION

 

February 7, 2002

 

Sistas & Brothas,  

 

The Reparations Mobilization Coalition is looking forward to your participation in our next series of planning meetings. We have a lot to do after a very successful Mobilization Conference!

 

The upcoming work cannot be done by six or eight people coming together twice a month. We need ALL of us who were at the conference and those of us who could not make it to be active in this next most crucial stage of mobilization.

 

We will finalize our proposed organizational structure so that we can move forward in the process of INSTITUTIONALIZING the Reparations Mobilization Movement. You know... a pid staff, office, supplies, fones, computers, travel expenses.... We must move from a strictly volunteer organization to one that has a serious paid staff AND volunteers.

 

We'll hear a report back from Brotha Muntu Matsimela who will have just returned from the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. 

 

We also will have a discussion about our role in the Reparations discussions that will take place at the statewide Congressional Black + Puerto Rican Caucus in Albany on February 16, ... as well as a report back from roundtable meeting held earlier in January at CUNY with Assemblyman Roger Green. 

 

We will also have, in hand, a draft of our first Reparations Now! newsletter and figure out distribution plans. 

 

We will start planning for our first Town Hall Reparations meeting scheduled for May 25, 2002 (International African Liberation Day).

 

Please be on time (6pm sharp!!). And please come with ideas and the will to win!

 

Sincerely,

 

The Interim Coordinating Committee

 

Submitted by brc-reparations@yahoogroups.com

 

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RAISE “REPARATIONS” IN AN ALABAMA PRISON AND

GET LOCKED DOWN!

 

February 11, 2002

 

Folks,

 

I don't know how many of you have seen this critical case of prison political repression, but we should be spreading the word and find ways to help Brotha Mafundi Lake and (other prisoners in his predicament). The struggle for Reparations will be attacked 24/7 on all levels by the ruling class. This is just one example of things to come as we build the Reparations Movement. That's why the Reparations Movement must be a central component in the rebuilding of the Black Liberation Movement... and not be relegated just to the politicians, big time lawyers and academic stars.

 

The Reparations Movement must be rooted in the hearts and minds of and led by "everyday" Blackfolks... including the multitude of us behind bars.

In Struggle,

 

Sam Anderson

ebontek@earthlink.net

 

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February 3, 2002

 

Richard "Mafundi" Lake, a relentless political activist and organizer inside and outside of the Alabama prison system for 30 years, is in the midst of a valiant and vigorous battle within the Alabama penal system.

 

Since arriving at St. Clair County Correctional Facility in 1998, Mafundi has been constantly fighting against the rampant, wanton racism and guar-brutality that is so prevalent there.

 

Consequently, Mafundi has been removed from the general prison population several times on fabricated charges. At the present writing, Mafundi is in isolation in the segregation unit on a bogus charge of "writing anti-American propaganda" on the black board during a discussion he was leading regarding reparations.  He has been in the segregation unit since September 19, 2001 on this charge, 8 days after the events of 9/11. With his limited communication ability, Mafundi has since learned that other political activists across the country were also removed from their respective prison populations. Most of those prisoners have been released back into general population; but not Mafundi.

 

In response to this blatant attempt to silence him and remove his leadership from the prison population, Mafundi has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Birmingham (Lake v Henry, CV-01-PWG-2870-S) for conspiracy and retaliation against him by the prison custodians in violation of his rights.

 

Simultaneously Mafundi is initiating a vigorous political campaign in regards to the circumstances and conditions of being held in the segregation unit. St.

 

The Reparation Movement must respond to this. A brother in the hole for speaking on reparation inside the jail.

 

Clair Prison has been aptly dubbed "The House of Horrors."

 

What You Can Do To Help Mafundi In His Fight Against The Horrific Conditions At St. Clair Prison And The Injustice Of His Confinement In The Segregation Unit:

 

 1. Organize support for Mafundi in his legal and political fight

 

 2. Publicize Mafundi's plight

 

 3. Make financial contributions to Mafundi's Defense Committee, P.O. Box 12152, Birmingham, AL 35202-2152

 

 4. Write letters of solidarity to Mafundi and send him United States Postal Stamps:

 

 Richard "Mafundi " Lake

 #079972

 St. Clair County Correctional Facility

 1000 St. Clair Road / #H2G-13

 Springville, AL 35146-5582

 

 5. Write a letter protesting Mafundi's treatment to the following:

 

 Governor Don Siegelman

 State Capitol

 600 Dexter Avenue

 Montgomery, AL 36130

 

 Alabama State Judiciary Committee

 Alabama Senate

 Montgomery, AL 36130

 

 Alabama House Judiciary Committee

 Alabama House of Representatives

 Montgomery, AL 36130

 

 Warden Ralph Hooks

 St. Clair County Correctional Facility

 1000 St. Clair Road

 Springville, AL 35216

 

 Commissioner Make Haley

 Alabama Department of Corrections

 1400 Lloyd Street

 Montgomery, AL 36107

 

 6. Have your local newspaper and/or magazine print the contents of this urgent appeal.  

 

Mafundi GREATLY appreciates every effort in his behalf and gives thanks in advance for all of your help.

 

 For further information, you may contact:

 

 Mafundi's Defense Committee

 P.O. Box 12152

 Birmingham, AL 35202-2152

 

From: "WaterandThunder" <mamiwata1965@ yahoo.com

 

Submitted by BRC-REPARATIONS: Black Radical Congress - Reparations Caucus

 

 

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THE BLACK REPARATIONS FUND HAS BEEN GROSSLY EMBEZZLED

 

January 31, 2002

 

Reparations is a legal wealth in the holds of these United States, entitled to U.S. Black slave descendants. On the part of Black People, there has been a great deal of passivity, silence and indifference about this wealth - mostly due to many Blacks being unfamiliar with the legal terms and practice of Reparations, and some due to the learned Blacks being frightened that White folks will get mad at them if they ask for their money. Nevertheless, this silence enables non-Blacks to have a field day spending this money - this Black folks' money!

 

Billions of Black People's Reparations dollars are being donated annually to support a welfare state in the Middle East. Black folks have not consented to their wealth being spent like this - particularly in lieu of the fact that this donation does not benefit U.S. Blacks at all (But perhaps the embezzlers feel that Black folk's silence gives consent).

 

Billions of Black People's Reparations dollars are being spent to finance wars that are not Black folk's fights. Billions of Black People's Reparations dollars are being spent to expand companies and Corporations that Black folks don't own, and is producing big-time profits that Black folks aren't receiving or benefiting from.

 

It is preposterous for Black folks to remain in hardship, crisis and SILENCE, while non-Black embezzlers lavish themselves with Black folk's money. Poor Black People are SILENCING away the wealth that would make them not be poor any more. Middle class Black folks are SILENCING away an income that can get them off America's Black upper echelon welfare programs (i.e., minority business loans, grants-with strings attached, etc.) and away from the constant control, will, and manipulation of tricky funding resources. Rich Black folks are SILENCING away a process that would free them and their wealth from the jurisdiction, will and command of others.

 

It is ridiculous in this day and time for Black People to let their own wealth bypass themselves, and be used as donations for alien causes. Somebody has been embezzling the Black Reparations Fund, which is why it has taken Black People so long to receive their money. The wealth of America is YOUR legal property!

 

By Attorney Dr. Robert L. Brock

President, The Self-Determination Committee

 

Attorney Dr. Robert L. Brock

Website: http://www.directblackaction.com

 

Submitted by Wewinnin@juno.com

 

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WHAT U.S. TAXPAYERS SHOULD KNOW

 

January 17, 2002

 

THIS MORNING as I was walking down Shuhada Street in Hebron, I saw graffiti marking the newly painted storefronts and awnings.

 

Although three months past schedule and 100 per cent over budget, the renovation of Shuhada Street was finally completed last week.

 

The project manager said the reason for the delay and cost overruns was the sabotage of the project by the Israeli settlers of the Beit Hadassah settlement complex in Hebron.  They broke the street lights, stoned project workers, shot out the windows of bulldozers and other heavy equipment with pellet guns, broke paving stones before they were laid and now have defaced again the homes and shops of Palestinians with graffiti.

 

The settlers did not want Shuhada St. opened to Palestinian traffic as was agreed to under Oslo II.

 

This renovation project is paid for by USAID funds and it makes me angry that my tax dollars have paid for improvements that have been destroyed by the settlers.

 

Most Americans are not aware how much of their tax revenue our government sends to Israel.

 

For the fiscal year ending in Sept. 30, 1997, the US gave Israel $6.72 billion:  $6,194 billion falls under Israel’s foreign aid allotment and $526 million comes from agencies such as the Department of Commerce, the US Information Agency and the Pentagon.

 

The $6.72 billion figure does not include loan guarantees and annual compound interest totaling $3,122 billion the US pays on money borrowed to give to Israel.  It does not include the cost to US taxpayers of IRS tax exemptions that donors can claim when they donate money to Israeli charities, (Donors claim approximately $1 billion in federal tax deductions annually.  This ultimately costs other US taxpayers $280 million to $390 million.)

 

When grant, loans, interest and tax deductions are added together for the fiscal year ending in Sept. 30, 1997, our special relationship with Israel cost US taxpayers over $10 billion.

 

Since 1949, the US has given Israel a total of $83,205 billion.

 

The interest costs borne by US taxpayers on behalf of Israel are $49,937 billion, thus making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949, $133,132 billion.

 

This may mean that the US government has given more federal aid to the average Israeli citizen in a given year than it has given to the average American citizen.

 

I am angry when I see Israeli settlers from Hebron destroy improvements made to Shuhada Street with my tax money.

 

Also, it angers me that my government is giving over $10 billion to a country that is more prosperous than most of the other countries in the world and uses much of its money for strengthening its military and the oppression of the Palestinian people.

 

By Tom Malthaner

The Frontier Post

 

[You think that’s somethin’?!  This is information that’s made available to the public.  I shudder to think about that which is not disclosed.  Israel, roughly the size of the “state” of New Jersey, gets billions from the United States on an annual basis even after bombing the USS Liberty – a US submarine.  And the continent of Africa is “promised” $180 million.  Go figure!  Heaven only knows what the US ghetto is promised and then receives.  The next time racist White oppressors start talking about Blacks on Welfare, educate them on the biggest Welfare cheat going – Israelis!  Money thrown at money and at the expense of US taxpayers!  What a scam!  And the US government refuses to discuss RACISM and Reparations for Descendants of Slaves whose forebears built this country and made it the wealthy nation that it is with their blood, sweat, and free labor.  T.Y., Editor]

 

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BLACK REPARATIONS: FROM THE DESK OF DR. BROCK PART III

 

January 30, 2002

 

Reparations: A Fundamental Solution to the Black Community's Problems

 

The United States enslavement of Black People some 12 decades ago and prior has powerful residual lingering effects some 12 decades later.  It has produced a whole damaged people. Many would be surprised to know the overwhelming patterns of behavior and activities in TODAY'S Blacks that stem directly from slavery.

 

The U.S. Black collective lost their ability to function and maneuver independently. Slavery took it. Today, the masses of Black People still work for White People via White-owned companies and corporations. This was the exact "Black-White relationship" during chattel slavery: Black folks working for White folks. This is not normal. And what is common must never be mistaken for what is normal.

 

Black People must arise from this fallen state, and this money called Reparations is the key. Reparations is a legal wealth paid to Black men, women and children because of the damages done to them by slavery. Reparations is the fundamental solution to many of the problems that afflict the Black community. Reparations will counter "lack".

 

Reparations will afford Black People the capital to implement their own ideas and start their own businesses. Reparations will allow Black People the means to produce jobs for their own children. Reparations will enable Black People to develop the type of educational curriculum, schools and universities that they deem necessary for their own children.  Reparations will afford Black People the opportunity to institute the type of religious standard and training that they want for themselves and their children. Reparations will free U.S. Blacks from the monthly worries of paying for this and paying for that just to exist on Planet Earth.

 

Reparations is not something that Black People should run from, but rather should run toward.

 

By Attorney Dr. Robert L. Brock

President, The Self-Determination Committee

 

Attorney Dr. Robert L. Brock

Website: http://www.directblackaction.com

Reply-to: Wewinnin@juno.com

 

Submitted by   [TheBlackList]

http://www.theblacklist.net/tbl-faqs.htm

 

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DR. CONRAD W. WORRILL: 

CALLING FOR A NATIONAL REPARATIONS MARCH

 

December 13, 2001

 

It is without question that millions of African people in America support the Reparations Movement's demand for reparations from the United States Government and a variety of private institutions and corporations who all benefited from the more than four hundred years of free slave labor from African people in this country.

 

The growing support of the Reparations Movement by millions of African people in America manifested itself through the hundreds of African people from this country, who joined forces with African people around the world, in demanding that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery be declared a Crime Against Humanity and that reparations were owed African people at the recently held United Nations World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa.

 

The Reparations Movement forces were victorious at the WCAR by impacting on parts of its outcome in the Durban Declaration. The WCAR government delegates passed that "We acknowledge that slavery and the slave trade, including the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, were appalling tragedies in the history of humanity not only because of their abhorrent barbarism but also in terms of their magnitude, organized nature and especially their negation of the essence of the victims and further acknowledge that slavery and the slave trade are a crime against humanity."

 

As Ambassador Amina Muhammad from Kenya pointed out in paragraph 119 of the Durban Declaration Plan of Action, "calls on these states to take appropriate and effective measures to halt and reverse the lasting consequences of those practices" was in fact, a call for reparations.

 

The spirit, energy and momentum galvanized by the participation of the Durban 400, through the leadership of the December 12th Movement International Secretariat and the National Black United Front (NBUF), has inspired a call by the Durban 400 for a Millions For Reparations Mass Demonstration, March, and Protest Rally demanding reparations from the United States Government in its Capital City, Washington, D.C. on August 17, 2002.

 

It is only fitting that this march and demonstration be held on the 115th anniversary of the birth of the Honorable Marcus Garvey, who through his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African Communities League, led one of the greatest mass movements for African redemption and liberation in this country during the 1920's.

 

We must build upon the momentum of our organizing work that led to our successful participation in the WCAR. Therefore, the Durban 400 is calling on African people in America to get prepared over the coming months to participate in the Millions For Reparations March, Protest, and Demonstration on August 17, 2002. Now more than ever African people must stand United in our demands for reparations in America.

 

In the Durban 400 Call for this Millions For Reparations March, Protest, and Demonstration we say, “The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Jim Crow set the stage for the 21st Century.” The policy of entrenched racism has emanated from all branches of the United States government; from the days of the auction block and the recent United States walk out of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa. The United States government has relentlessly held on to its white supremacist ideology.

 

The exploitation of African people in this country has taken many forms through the years. The centuries of chattel slavery laid the foundation of our relationship to America. From the sharecropping fields to the factories, African labor built the 'super power' that is the United States. In return, we have endured the terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan, systematic lynchings, chain gangs, plantation prisons, police torture and murder, poverty, miseducation, inadequate housing, unemployment, welfare WEP programs, ACS child kidnappings, voter discrimination, crack, heroin, Rockefeller drug laws, Political Prisoners, and the assassination of our leaders. However, we're still

here!

 

The demand for reparations for African people is just and simple. It is simply an attempt to 'repair,' to 'make whole' the descendants of the victims of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, which was a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY! Crimes against humanity have no statute of limitations. And our people still suffer from the vestiges of their enslavement and colonization.

 

We are going to the Capitol of the nation, built on slave labor, the rightful and only place to declare our human and legal right to Reparations...

 

THEY OWE US!!!"

 

It is time to invoke the spirit of our ancestors, many of who sacrificed so much for the liberation of African people. We must work harder to build the Reparations Movement in America. We must not let the events of September 11th take our agenda off the table.

 

We must begin to spread the word through every venue available that the Millions For Reparations March, Protest, and Demonstration is ON!

 

http://www.ayaed.com/hype/alamin.html

 

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill

TBWT Contributor

 

Dr. Worrill is the National Chairman of the National Black United Front / NBUF located at:

12817 S. Ashland Ave.

Fl. 1, Calumet Park, Ill. 60827

Telephone #708-389-9929

Fax 708-389-9819

E-Mail:  nbufchi @allways.net, Web site: nbufront.org

Submitted by  [thelawkeepers] Fw: [Reparations_For_Africans] Digest Number 112

 

[How can we dismiss this appeal that is for a CAUSE that will aid us and our progeny?  T.Y., Editor]

 

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A REPARATIONS – YES  ANNOUNCEMENT!

December 1, 2001

NOW IS THE TIME TO UNIFY

OUR MINDS..OUR HEARTS

&

OUR SOULS

COMMUNITY by COMMUNITY

CHURCH by CHURCH

BUSINESS by BUSINESS

ORGANIZATION by ORGANIZATION

CITY by CITY, STATE by STATE

AND YES

COMPUTER by COMPUTER!

TO PROMOTE GENDER UNIFICATION and TO PRODUCE AN UNWAVERING

MOBILIZED LINK OF HUMAN

CONCERN, ACTION, POWER and RECOURSE

To Disable the MANY Social, Economic, Moral and Political,

confrontational adversities effecting our entire earthly existence.

Therefore:

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