Statement from the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee regarding allegations aired on Galaxy Radio Sunday 7^th Mosiah 2022.

The Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee (AEDRMC) are aware of statements and allegations made against them by Empress Judah to Galaxy Radio during the shows of Prophet Kwaku and Nana Pa Kombrabia on Sunday 7^th Mosiah (Aug) 2022.

The AEDRMC were called sell outs and liberals after the said caller had attributed images displayed on the day, to the AEDRMC.

It is worth noting at this point that the purpose of the 1^st Mosiah is, amongst other things (as stated on our website for several years), an opportunity for different organisations and entities to showcase the reparatory justice work they have been carrying out throughout the year. This is done through images, banners and various speeches and interactions on the main stages at Max Roach Park and Windrush Square. It is also worth reminding ones that 1^st Mosiah 2022 had 3 organising entities, with the third party GARFOL (Glocal Afrikan Reparations Forum of London) coming on board this year to work with the AEDRMC and the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide! Campaign. It would have been prudent to check out the source of such images on the day and we understand that Prophet Kwaku suggested to the individual to do so. This did not happen despite the said person exchanging greetings with the co-chair sis Jendayi during the day and sis Jendayi’s obvious accessibility as co-compere and stage manager on the day on Windrush Square.

So we are very concerned that the said individual then decided to use Galaxy Radio as a platform the slander the AEDRMC, virtually unchallenged. We regret that just like on 1^st Mosiah, rather than assuming this work is the work of the committee, that basic questions were not asked such as: ‘Who put these images there?’ and ‘Did you approach any of the AEDRMC on the day to get any clarification?’.  This would have greatly impacted the course of the dialogue which occurred across two back-to-back shows. We have not been offered any right of reply and this is regrettable as we know GalaxyAfiWe remain great supporters of the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations (ISMAR) and actively promote 1^st Mosiah all year round.

To clarify, the AEDRMC had no idea what images Empress Judah was referring to as they did not put them there. Part of her comments were that she had written to various organisations to hold a reparations conference to address issues on 1^st Mosiah. Those who wish to hold a conference on this basis are free to do so but we must also make it clear that members of the AEDRMC would not attend on such a premise. It is disheartening to know that what is perceived as the negatives about the 1^st Mosiah would motivate ones to hold a conference when we are experiencing a global genocide and ecological crisis and we are experiencing pushback year on year on the Stop the Maangamizi Campaign’s calls for an All-Party Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Truth and Reparatory Justice (APPCITARJ) as an administrative mechanism which will make recommendations on the implementation of reparations policies, programmes and initiatives; a campaign goal which is contained within the text of the Stop the Maangamizi petition and which not enough of our people who are advocating for reparations are actually reading, let alone signing it!. We tend to find it more satisfying to berate each other than make a stand and contest the system of white domination. This we suggest, should be more of a concern to our people who should be frustrated and impatient with the lack of progress those who are calling for reparations are making in having their voices heard and acted upon by the British State and other imperial powers and be concerned more with power-building, nation building, research and policy development around our shared desire to secure holistic reparations. If indeed it is a shared desire!

We end with a call to those who wish to move from rhetoric, complaining, distracting, undermining and public attention seeking to constructively engage with those who are making tangible contributions to the ISMAR. We humbly advise those who wish to go ahead with planning a reparations conference to address their dissatisfaction with the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Rebellion Groundings which takes place on the1^st Mosiah, to consider in great detail the work of the Stop the Maangamizi Campaign, The Pan-Afrikan Reparation Coalition in Europe (PARCOE), The International Network of Scholar Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR), the Glocal Afrikan Reparations Forum of London (GARFOL), The Global Afrikan Congress (GAC), The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations (APPGAR) and the Maatubuntumitawo-GAFRIC and Afrikan ConneXions Consortium, both seeded by the Global Afrikan Peoples Parliament (GAPP), so you are not reinventing any wheels and learning from paths that has been carved out over decades in this movement. 

It is also important to fully overstand the specific role and contributions of structures like the Extinction Rebellion Internationalist Solidarity Network (XRISN), co-founded by long-established Afrikan Reparationists to building the Peoples Reparations International Movement (PRIM) which is an essential support base for harnessing the people power to effect and secure holistic reparations that the ISMAR is seeking to enforce by through our own Afrikan peoples’ power.

With the intentions of Ma’at,

The Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee

Get Ready for the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Rebellion Groundings (PARRG) 2022!

The main purpose of the PARRG is to showcase our Afrikan Heritage Communities Self-Repairs initiatives locally, nationally, and internationally and to demonstrate that the achievement of Maatubuntuman in Ubuntudunia (Our future Nation borne from a liberation fight resulting in global justice and a repaired planet for all), as an overarching strategic goal of our Pan-Afrikan Reparations for Global justice organising efforts, IS possible!!

Only When We Become Powerful Will We Become Again A Global Nation Worthy of Respect! Therefore our Community Self -repairs efforts are as important as holding Maangamizi perpetrating criminals to account! Self - Repair and Securing Reparatory Justice are equally important and must be done together and involve us all who identify as Afrikan and seek National Self -Determination. 

1st Mosiah is about showcasing both these dimensions of our quests for Justice - not just in the UK but internationally. 1st Mosiah is about you making a commitment to becoming more involved  in this work throughout the year, not just the one day. So reach out to us, let's get the work going in your city, region, borough and country. 

'Sankoffaagro: Edutainmanent in our Reparatory Jusitce Preparations for Planet Repairs'

This year's theme is centred on the many ways we will showcase our works, key messages and achievements. This has been formulated by an intergenerational planning team of young people and adults and will demonstrate the local and global (glocal) movement building work whilst expressing our need to do more! Sankofaagro is not a call to be entertained but is a way of making a call to action to our young people who we must nurture to continue this work.

The theme is a compound of 2 words in twi and ewe languages in West Afrikan: Sankofa - Go back and fetch it (Twi) and Agro Play/Entertain (Ewe)

To view the programme for  Max Roach Park and Windrush Square visit our Reparations March tab in the menu at the top of the page. The Programme also includes a march from Max Roach Park to Windrush Square.

Key Activities and Achievements of SMWeCGEC in building the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations (ISMAR) & the Peoples Reparations International Movement (PRIM)

The best way to keep abreast of the activities and achievements of the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations (ISMAR) is to be part of it!

We will not get a sense of the totality of the work just by turning up for one day and then lamenting the lack of numbers or vibes on the day. The UK has always had a Pan-Afrikan approach to this grassroots movement which means fighting for our power base Afrika and her Diaspora wherever we are. We cannot be concerned just with our people in the UK, a mere 3% of the UK population. Neither can we not connect our quest for reparatory, environmental and cognitive justice (referred to collectively as Planet Repairs) to our homeland and power base Afrika from which much or the resources that prop up the greedy inhumane global north, come from. So, it is necessary to have a glocal (local and global) approach which our campaign partner, the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide! Campaign (SMWeCGEC) and her affiliated structures has been concerned with.

Securing Planet Repairs requires us to use all methods at our disposal including, legal, political, parliamentary, social, economic and revolutionary means. It has meant taking our fight into hostile institutional spaces, educational institutions, community spaces, social media spaces and taking up space on the streets. It has meant numerous public speaking and media appearances, international travel (Europe, Abya Yala and Afrika), attending public meetings and making representations, creating and disseminating our own messages and challenging power structures on their own turf. This you will not see just by turning up on 1st Mosiah and cannot be achieved just by Afrikan Heritage People talking amongst themselves! There is a need to hold perpetrators to account (the external dimension of reparations) AND challenge ourselves to be the reparatory justice change-makers we are seeking (the internal dimension often referred to as community self-repairs).

Since the first Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March in 2014 the SMWeCGEC has:

• Collected over 20,000 signatures for the Stop the Maangamizi petition which calls for an All-Party Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Truth and Reparatory Justice into the LEGACIES of Afrikan enslavement, colonisation and neocolonialism. Have you read and signed it? Click here to read and sign it

• Co facilitated with the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee, several reparations awareness and orientation workshops and public meetings around the UK

• Through working as part of the Europe NGO Consultative Council for Afrikan Reparations (ENGOCCAR) has a version of the petition for lodging at the European Parliament and had it translated into Dutch, French and German.

• Contributed to establishing an Afrikan Reparations Transnational Community of Practice for Action-Learning about Reparations (ARTCoP).

• Through the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition of Europe (PARCOE) developed a critical analysis of the CARICOM Reparations Initiative.

• In association with PARCOE and the Global Afrikan Peoples Parliament developed a position on the CARICOM Reparations Initiative alternative approach to reparations.

• Convened a meeting with UK based reparations activists of International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations (ISMAR) to interface with the CARICOM Reparations initiatives of the Jamaican National Council on Reparations regarding how best to jointly work together recognising differences in our respective reparations strategies and tactics.

• Have raised awareness, popularised and increased public recognition of key concepts and knowledge produced by the ISMAR including: the Maangamizi, Maatubuntujamaas, Sankofahomes and Maatubuntudunia in Ubuntudunia.

• Are instrumental in the development of Maatubuntumitawo - Global Afrikan Family Reunion International Council (Maatubuntumitawo - GAFRIC) by promoting glocal relation-building in association with Vazoba Afrika & Friends Networking Open Forum and Maatubuntumitawo - GAFRIC with indigenous Afrikan communities of resistance on the continent of Afrika. In this way contributing to the concretisation of Maatubuntujamaas in the UK and internationally in link with emerging Sankofahomes in West Afrika with a view to the eventual building of Maatubuntudunia in Ubuntudunia.

• Through PARCOE established an Afrikan Reparations research partnership working between grassroots scholar-activists and establishment scholars at the University of Boston and the University of Edinburgh - who came together to form the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR) and its youth wing INOSAAR Rep-Afrika. We recommend you also download and read the INOSAAR Principles of Participation as a good model of how reparations activists should engage in co-production with power institutions.

• Supported the candidature of SMWeCGEC Kofi Mawuli Klu who championed programmatic aspects of the SMWeCGEC in his campaign as independent candidate in the 2019 European Parliamentary elections as part of the ‘CEE the Truth’ Campaign, (#CEEtheTruth). One of the 3 aims of #CEEtheTruth was to “develop National Citizens Assemblies on Climate & Ecological Justice to oversee policy making, including those of Planet Repairs embracing Reparations, and have a leading role in shaping a zero carbon Europe”.

• Worked with Green Party members to co-produce the ‘Atonement and Reparations for the United Kingdom’s Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans’ motions now passed by Lambeth, Islington and Bristol City Council  and continues to work with Green Party members through the Green Action for Afrikan Reparations Dialogue (GAARD).

• Supported the development of the Glocal Reparations Plans of Alternative Progression known as Pempamsiempango’s in the UK, now emerging in London and Bristol (also being driven by the Afrikan ConneXions Consortium, ACC).

• Through PARCOE has established organisational links with the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation (Namibia), N’COBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (USA) and the UBAD Educational Foundation (Belize).

• Co-initiated the Glocal Afrikan Reparations Forum of London (GARFOL) to glocally promote Afrikan Heritage Community engagement with the British public and local and central government structures in London from the standpoint of enhancing efforts towards building Maatubuntujamaas in link with Sankofahomes as part of the building process of Maatubuntuman in Ubuntudunia.

• Established the Maangamizi Educational Trust (M.E.T) as the educational, training and other charitable activities conducive to fundraising arm of the SMWeCGEC.

• Through the M.E.T worked with Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP to establish the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations (APPGAR) as promoted in SMWeCGEC postcard campaign. Since the establishment of the APPGAR, the M.E.T shared the running of the secretariat with GARFOL and the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD).

• In order to develop autonomous Afrikan Heritage Community participation in the work of the APPGAR, the SMWeCGEC co-founded together with GARFOL, the APPGAR community link known as the APPGARL action-learning circles where Afrikan Heritage Communities learn to critically engage with state bodies and the UK Parliament as communities of resistance, e.g., the Education and Reparations Circle and the Mbuya Nehanda Afrikan Women & Reparations Circle.

• Supported the formation of the Global Majority Vs Campaign and leant to their legal case knowledge and expertise in advocacy and critical legal praxis, particularly in developing the extra-legal dimension of the case from a law as resistance perspective.

• Contributed to the development of the University of Repair co-initiated by Decolonising the Archive in partnership with Esther Stanford-Xosei (SMWeCGEC), Professor Gus John (Gus John Associates) and Professor Patricia Rodney (Walter Rodney Foundation).

• Co-initiated, the Extinction Rebellion Internationalist Solidarity Network (XRISN) and the Extinction Rebellion Being the Change Affinity Network (XR-BACN) as an organised way to work with non-Afrikan allies in championing Planet Repairs and PRIM-building. In addition, the XR-Ubuntunovisi (bridge network of Afrikan Heritage Community activists developing critical resistance engagement with Extinction Rebellion).

• Has been instrumental in co-founding and developing the Majority World Internationalist Solidarity Coordinating Council of Communities Of Resistance (MWISCCCOR) which currently embraces Afrikan and Abya Yalan Heritage (so-called Americas) community activist circles working within and around XR-Ubuntunovisi and XR-Aylhcan (Abya Yalan & Latinx Heritage Communities Affinity Network). 

We hope you gain a fuller ovastanding about the purpose of the march, what we seek for our people and how you can get involved in the process.  Please share with your friends and get them to sign the petition on https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-maangamizi-we-charge-genocide-ecocide

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THANK YOU!!

The Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of you who took part in the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations Rebellion Groundings on 1st Moziah (August) 2020, THE flagship event of the Afrikan heritage community supported by the Stop the Maangamizi Campaign. We would like to thank:

• All those who marched
• All those who volunteered on the day
• The artists, the speakers, the stewards and the practitioners operating in the healing zone on Windrush Sq 
• The UK regions who mobilised and attended
• Our allies (local and International) with whom we have been working with throughout the year
• All who donated money or items in kind
• Our grassroots media who continue to profile our cause
• The silent activists, workers and supporters 
• And the Divine force of the Universe and the spirits of our Indomitable Ancestors whose shoulders we attempt to stand on.

STOP THE MAANGAMIZI CAMPAIGN  Call To Action

An International Call to Participate in the 1st Mosiah (August) Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March in Conjunction with the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign (SMWeCGEC)

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THEME OF THIS YEAR'S PEOPLES OPEN PARLIAMENTARY SESSION ON AFRIKAN REPARATIONS (POPSAR) DEBATE 

(at Parliament Sq)

#ReparationsMarch2021
Debate Topic at Parliament Square:

'BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE REPARATIONS MARCH, AS A FORM OF REPARATORY JUSTICE STREET PROTEST, IS BEING MADE IINADEQUATE DUE TO INACTIVITY BY THE MAJORITY OF ITS PARTICIPANTS IN TAKING STEPS TO ADVANCE THE CAMPAIGN FOR REPARATIONS BETWEEN THE ANNUAL MARCHES'