General Assembly — Saturday 29th June 2013

Towards a: National Afrikan People’s Parliament ‘People Empowered for Self-Determination!’ ‘Taking Responsibility, Effecting Solutions!’

Subject: Next General Assembly, Saturday, 29th June, 2013, 4:30pm-9:30pm at the Queen Mother Moore School, Clapham Methodist Church, Nelsons Row, Clapham SW4 7JR.

We greet you and your families in a spirit of love, unity, wellness. This communication is to inform you of the time and location of the next General Assembly of the interim National Afrikan People’s Parliament, iNAPP. This will be the first public gathering of iNAPP since the National Black People’s Day of Action, on March 2, 2013, and therefore the first opportunity to have a face-to-face community consultation.

Those of you who were present at the NBPDA would have witnessed a highly successful event, demonstrating even greater potentials. You may have been one of many present, with a number of questions and comments regarding the history, functions and vision of iNAPP, much of which we were unable to fully address due to time constraints. We are pleased to inform you therefore that at this Assembly, we intend to have an extended open forum, to allow you as much time as possible for your questions, comments, and to use the opportunity to address them as well as share with you our ideas and aspirations.

As usual, members of the various subcommittees will have updates as to the work we have been doing on your behalf, and as servants in this process. We encourage attendees to read through the first draft of the iNAPP Manifesto, as it will be on the agenda for discussion. Please REGISTER on this website by clicking the hyperlink for regular iNAPP updates.

In order to maximise the use of the time we have allocated for this event, we urge you to arrive early for a prompt 4.30pm start! That way we can quickly get into the serious discussion around Nation-building! The emphasis will be on the vital role that each one of us — including YOU — can, and need to play in the building of iNAPP, and how we can all register an active involvement in that process.

We know that some of you already fully appreciate why it is crucial that we need to build our parliament. Our people all over the world and also here in the UK, deserve that representative body and governing structure.

The recent Woolwich incident resulting in some ten young Afrikan men, arrested for various alleged acts of “terrorism” is of deep concern to all of us engaged in this process. Moreover, the pervasive image of a young black man brandishing meat cleavers, with bloody hands, accused of hacking someone to death, reinforces stereotypes which potentially demonises every young Afrikan, in general, and in particular, every Afrikan male in the UK! The question now needs to be asked: How did these young Afrikans become embroiled in this situation in the first place?

As the UK Government threatens more draconian measures to echoes of public consent reeking of crypto-fascist undercurrents, and as the far-right flexes its political muscles in concert, shouldn't we be concerned to ask: where is our representative voice? Who will interrogate, for example, the role of MI5 who had these young men under its surveillance for a number of years, and reportedly, had propositioned some for their employ? This is just the first of a long list of important national issues that need tackling… the impact of austerity measures, Benefit caps | Bedroom tax | Cuts in public services | Deaths in custody | Privatisation of the NHS, Trans-racial fostering and adoption, School exclusions, etc.…

Also, there are international matters that affect, and therefore should be of serious concern to us; Obama’s rapidly growing Africom (US military) agenda in 35 states across Afrika… the placing of Mama Assata Shakur on the US FBI most wanted terrorist list, with a $2m bounty on her head… the recent brutal murder of Malcolm Shabazz Jr (Malcolm X’s grandson), under the surveillance of the FBI and following months of FBI/police harassment…

Of course, building iNAPP is not only about how we will respond to negative issues that affect us, but, primarily, how we can proactively organise to procure the power to advance our own collective interests, through institution-building, political, economic, educational, spiritual, health, employment, etc. Most importantly, it is about how WE can — from an empowered position — secure a brighter and more productive future for our children.

We are very much looking forward to seeing, and working with you towards fulfilling this exciting vision.

UNITE, ORGANISE NOW or PERISH! "RISE, YOU MIGHTY PEOPLE!…"

Tendai Mwari

In Divine service, Co-Chairs Bro Ldr Mbandaka, and Sis Ekua ‘Esther’ Stanford-Xosei, on behalf of the members of interim National Organising Commitee iNOC and iNAPP.

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