Picture of Jahahara Al Kebulan Ma'at in Geneva, Switzerland for the International Demonstration Against Racism for the Durban Review Conference Saturday, April 18, 2009

 NAPO/MXGM Statement in Support of N’COBRA

 MXGM Principle of Unity - We demand Reparations, or repayment for four hundred years of slavery colonialism and oppression of our people in the United States of America.

The New Afrikan Peoples Organization (NAPO) and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) solute the continued work of N’COBRA in demanding reparations from the US empire. The work of N’COBRA has never been more important as the U.S.continues to deny the historic and current conditions of Afrikans in the U.S. as an outcome of the exploitation and genocidal acts enacted against Afrikans by the government in collusion with its white citizenry. These crimes, too numerous to mention, have never been compensated in spite of the fact that the US has paid compensation to Native American Nations and Japanese Americans (however paltry and insufficient). Even now, with a President of Afrikan descent, the U.S. government is doing everything within its power to bury the issue of reparations and deny that the trans-Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery are crimes against humanity as declared in the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action. The U.S. refuses to engage in critical United Nations proceedings seeking to address restitution and reparations for colonialism, enslavement, and institutionalized racism like the Durban Review Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland in April 2009.

The vast majority of Afrikan people in the U.S. are still at the bottom of every major social indicator of wealth and progress in this country. No honest assessment of these conditions can come to any other conclusion except that these conditions are the direct result of discriminatory policies endorsed andenforced by the government.

N’COBRA has kept reparations alive and well in the consciousness of Afrikan people. It has led the fight and the demand that compensation is due when one nation entraps, enslaves and oppresses a people. And further, when those people fight back and resist those people are freedom fighters and when captured are Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War and should be treated as such under international law. Today the U.S. still holds many of our captured Freedom Fighters in prison as Political Prisoners, but refuses to recognize them assuch, in accordance with international law. Again N’COBRA has recognized and put at the forefront of the demand for reparations, the freedom of our political prisoners. N’COBRA recognizes that no people can be free or liberated unless they remember and continue to struggle to free its fighters behind enemy lines. We recognize N’COBRA's historic and current work in this struggle and wish it continued strength in this long and difficult work. We continue to pledge our full support for its efforts to repair and reunite our people.

Free the Land By Any Means Necessary!

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

New Afrikan People’s Organization

Friday, June 5, 2009

(See N'COBRA Announcement in the Read More section)  

The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America

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Media Alert

Contact: Njere Alghanee, NCC

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“ All Roads Lead to Juneteenth 2009 ”

Atlanta, GA. N'COBRA, the National Coalition of Black for Reparations in America willconvene its 20^th Annual Conference in commemoration of Juneteenth (June 19, 1865), which became a celebration of jubilee for the enslaved Africans when the public notice of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 was finally delivered two years after it was proclaimed as an ending to slavery by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. 

Just as this proclamation of emancipation was to end slavery 146 years ago, today the residual effects of the past still plague modern day Africans born in America, who are the Afro-descendants that continue to experience disparities ineducation, health care, wealth / poverty, criminal punishment and human rights.“ As history is doomed to repeat itself ”, the debt of human respect, residual profits, and constitutional justice is due to the populations Afro-descendants who continue to languish on the bottom rungs of society in what is recognizedas the ‘most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America’. 

Over 20 years ago,NCOBRA resurged a movement to revitalize the work of many Afro-descendants to demand reparations for the ’genocidal war against Africans that created the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, chattel slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, inhumanities, exploitation of racism, and economic discrimination imposed upon our peoplepast and present. Meanwhile, recognizing that the reparations movement has experienced ebbs and flows, NCOBRA nevertheless is gearing up to approach the United States government in these progressive political times with steadfast determination to win reparations through continuing to educate , mobilize, and empower our people at conferences, community based forums, media consortiums,and mass protests.

The theme of thisyear’s conference is “ “ Freedom! Reparations! Equality! Respect! , which echoes the battle cry of generations of Africans who were subjected to the longest crime against humanity in the history of mankind. Plans include: National Youth Leadership Summit; The Sankofa Experience; Inter-generational Empowerment Workshops for Action Planning; Plenaries; Panels; Rallies and  Cultural and Spiritual Tributes.  Invited presenters and Guests include: Baba Hannibal Afrik, Atty. Adjoa Aiyetoro;  Dr. Marimba Ani, Alvin Brown, Joyce Ann Brown, Rep.John Conyers, Atty. Mawuli Davis, Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary, Aty Kweku Duren, Bog Money Griff, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Maulana Karenga, Bro. Keidi of WLIB, Min Akbar Muhammad, Bro Ashahed Muhammad, Bro. Thomas Muhammad, Baba Kalonji Olusegun, Atty Deadria Farmer Paellman, Atty Rose Sanders, Atty Malik Zulu Shabazz, Baba  Atty Dudley Thompson, Councilwoman JoAnn Watson, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Dr. Conrad Worrill, Baba Obadele Williams, Brothas Keepa, FTP (Free the People), MXGM (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement), NBPP (New Black PantherParty) New Black Panther Vanguard, Youth Views and Youth Speak Truth of WRFG  Radio (Radio Free Georgia),  World African Diaspora Union ( WADU) + Elected Officials, and local Dallas, Texas activists.

This 20^thAnnual Conference will take place in Dallas, Texas  at the Mount Tabor Family Life Center- 3700 Simpson Stuart Road, 75241 (Across the street from Paul Quinn College).  The “ Sankofa Experience” will take place on Juneteenth (6/19/09) at a historically preserved site and will re-enact theTrans Atlantic Slave Trade, including the chattel era, auction blocks, and other horrific incidents experienced during the ‘Maafa’.

Media Check-in begins on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM.  Contact : Sis. Njere Alghanee, NCOBRA National Co-Chair for more alerts, details. and interviews with presenters.