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NDABA V
will advance the goal of expanding activists' ability
to organize at the grassroots level by inviting the
participation of civil rights organizations. "Probably
the foremost modern grassroots organizing effort is
that of the civil rights movement," said Attorney Mawuli
Davis. "And Atlanta has a storied history of civil rights
leadership, activism and success. Our culture teaches
us to honor our ancestors and a part of that homage
is to emulate their determination, purposefulness and
their sacrifice to heal and restore our people. By embracing
the organizing strategies and successes of the civil
rights movement, we envision a significant broadening
and strengthening of the grassroots base in the reparations
movement," Davis asserted.
The NDABA
Movement has crafted a two-pronged strategy to advance:
the first is the establishment of Working Groups in
critical areas of the Reparations Movement - Organizational
Collaboration, Legislation, Criminal In-Justice, Education,
Black Spiritual Faith Community, Ayare-Sa (Internal
Healing), Legal Strategies, Youth and Student, and Research
and Scholarship. "We want the working groups to prepare
a reparations platform and curricula...to organize at
the grassroots level," declared Dr. Worrill. The second
prong is the petition drive for one million signatures
to be presented to the United States Congress demanding
Congressional support of the payment of reparations
to descendants of The Black Holocaust of Enslavement.
Previous
ndabas have convened in Chicago, Jackson, MS, Houston
and Baltimore and not only have included representation
from the Nation of Islam, NCOBRA, and NBUF, but also
The New Black Panther Party, Republic of New Afrika,
Global African Congress, the Lost Found Nation of Islam,
the National Conference of Black Lawyers and other leaders
in the reparations movement.
Thursday,
March 17th @ 7:00PM
NDABA V: Reparations 101: Reparations-A Healing Process
Room 102 Carl Ware Building-Clark Atlanta University
223 James P. Brawley Drive, SW-Atlanta, Georgia
Friday,
March 18th @ 7:00PM
NDABA V Reception hosted by Georgia State Rep. Tyrone
Brooks
2nd Floor, Thomas Cole Science & Research Center
223 James P. Brawley Drive, SW-Atlanta, Georgia
Saturday,
March 19th @ 9:00AM
NDABA V Workshop Groups
University Gymnasium (Vivian Henderson Center)
605 Fair Street, SW-Atlanta, Georgia
Saturday,
March 19th @ 7:00PM (Doors open @ 5:30pm)
NDABA V Public Rally - The Honorable Minister Louis
Farrakhan
Reparations: Our Case and Our Demand
University Gymnasium (Vivian Henderson Center)
605 Fair Street, SW-Atlanta, Georgia
The National
Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America is a
mass-based coalition organized for the sole purpose
of obtaining reparations for African descendants in
the United States. It was organized in late 1987 and
early 1988, to broaden the base of support for the long-standing
reparations movement.
Organizational
founders of N'COBRA include the New Afrikan Peoples
Organization, the National Conference of Black Lawyers
and the Republic of New Afrika. It has individual members
and organizational affiliates, including the National
Association of Black Social Workers, Sigma Gamma Rho
Sorority, National Black United Front, Black Reparations
Commission, and the International Peoples' Democratic
Uhuru Movement. N'COBRA has chapters throughout the
U.S. and in Ghana and London. N'COBRA's mission is to
win full Reparations for Black African Descendants residing
in the United States and its territories for the genocidal
war against Africans that created the Transatlantic
Slave "Trade," Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow and Chattel
Slavery's continuing vestiges (the Maafa).
PRESS CONTACTS:
Vivianne Hardy Townes, FFC
RVT International, LLC
ms.vht@intelligencia.com
(404) 433-3253
Mawuli
Mel Davis, Esq.
Mawuli Davis & Associates, LLC
mdavis@mawulidavis.com
(404) 244-2004
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