Elombe Brath's Homegoing Service begins with 8:00AM “Morning Walk Through Harlem Retracing Our Brother’s History.”

Posted by SendMeYourNews on May 30, 2014 at 1:11am
On May 19, our revered elder, walking world encyclopedia, and African scholar, Elombe Brath, made his transition. Much has been said and more will be said about the impact of Elombe's work on the struggle for the liberation of Africa and its people throughout the diaspora.
 
May 19, though not marked on WBAI as it used to be, was the 89th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X, whose grandson, Malcolm Shabazz, was murdered in Mexico last May.
 
Elombe’s homegoing services will be held on Saturday, May 31 - the last day of African Liberation Month - from 10 AM to 1PM, at Abyssinian Baptist Church, where the Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts is pastor. The address is 132 Odell Clark Place, AKA West 138 St., between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Malcolm X Blvds. (Take 2,3,B,C trains to 135th St. The 2/3 train station has an elevator.http://abyssinian.org/contact-us/directions/) We will accompany the family to Woodlawn Cemetery.
 
A repast will follow at the Harriet Tubman School – the site of so many of Elombe’s Friday seminars – 250 West 127 St., between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvds.
 
Before the service, join the “Morning Walk Through Harlem Retracing Our Brother’s History.” Assemble, at 8AM sharp, in front of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Bldg. (163 West 125 St. at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.) and together arrive at Abyssinian at 9 AM before the doors open. (Organized by December 12th Movement, Patrice Lumumba Coalition, Freedom Party, Black Mens Movement, Committee to Honor Black Heroes, WADU, CEMOTAP, Africans Helping Africans, AAPRP (Chaka Cousins). Info: 718-398-1766.)
 
During the course of the weekend, the online Community Progressive Radio (http://www.CPRmetro.org) will air the May 2013 Tribute to Elbome Brath (2-1/2 hours) several times each day. Exact times will be posted on their website by Saturday, May 31 at 9 AM.
 
If resources allow, they will broadcast the memorial live. If they are unable to do that, they will record and air it on Monday, June 2 at 9 AM.
 
 
Some articles detailing Elombe's remarkable life:
 
An Obituary by Herb Boyd: Beloved revolutionary, Elombe Brath, joins the ancestors
 
Harlem mourns death of Elombe Brath, lifelong warrior in battle for pan-African empowerment
 
Chairman Elombe Brath Passes
 
Tribute: Elombe Brath, Pan-African Who Championed Africa, Dies
 
Transcript of 2005 Interview with Elombe
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  • SendMeYourNews May 31, 2014 at 6:56am
     
    NEW PANTHER MIN OF CULTURE BABA ZAYID MUHAMMAD
    REMEMBERS THE LATE DEAN OF PAN-AFRIKANISM, ELOMBE BRATH!
     
    Elombe Brath
    Rescuer of Revolutionary Tradition in Harlem
     
                Tomorrow, we say goodbye to an enormous Black man who we loved because he so embodied an enormous love for our people!
                Tomorrow, 8am, before all of the formalities of farewell, we go to the streets…Elombe’s streets…The streets of his Harlem to cradle his memory on our eyes one more time!
                We all have many memories of this beloved son of Harlem, I will try hard here not to be redundant. So I will do this. I will simply call this brother one of my heroes and simply tell you a key reason why.
                Elombe, and the Patrice Lumumba Coalition that he passionately stewarded for so many years , resurrected in a profound way an important Harlem tradition that got dropped as commitment to struggle also got dropped by some primetime folk who are highly overrated in my book as a consequence!
                Since the heights of the Harlem Renaissance, the world came to Harlem to feed its soul! Artists, intellectuals, tourists, our folk from all other quarters, everybody came to Harlem.
                I can’t pinpoint the exact beginning, but as our struggle began to make great strides in the Era of Independence, it became important for Harlem to host and receive these new leaders of those nations breaking the shackles of colonialism for independence. With bold electeds like Adam Clayton Powell and insurgent legends like Malcolm, there was erected for this purpose, the Harlem Welcoming Committee of so-called important heads to receive these new leaders  in Harlem whenever they would come to New York,  for the UN especially. There is a great picture of Kwame Nkrumah with Powell and Malcolm in his visit being taken care of this regard.
                Many of these socalled leaders were anything but revolutionaries, however. That all crystallized itself before everybody’s eyes when Fidel and Che came to New York for this very same purpose in ’63. When they were refused hotels downtown and midtown, only Malcolm came forward and said that they should come uptown to Harlem, to the Hotel Theresa. Only Malcolm! One of my supreme Panther sheroes Rosemari Mealy documented that legendary moment of solidarity in her important book Memories of A Meeting: Fidel and Malcolm!
                It gets better, or shall we say worse, depending on your viewpoint.
                Within two years, we would lose Malcolm!
                Just a few years later , some overrated primetime leaders would cut a deal with the Dumbocratic Party, I said the Dumbocratic Party, and would orchestrate the electorial sacking of Adam Clayton Powell. Somewhere between Fidel and Che in ’63 and the comprador right turn of these primetimers , this tradition, because those coming from ripe battlegrounds of struggle  onto the world stage were indeed revolutionaries, far to the left of the village’s primetimers, the welcoming committee tradition got dropped!
                Enter Elombe Brath and the Patrice Lumumba Coalition!
                My own history with Elombe didn’t begin until the 1980s when I was just in my 20s, a young rockthrowin poet trying to make sure I had the ‘know it,’ wanting to connect the revolutionary dots artistically and otherwise. It was then during that time, the Harriet Tubman School on 127 was the place to be every Friday!...Every Friday!.. Elombe’s forums were always bringing those heads fresh off the battlefield of a given area of struggle, and it helped a lot of us on the grassroots connect the historical and theoretical stuff we had been studying to the real, and they were not just local! We have met some incredible freedom fighters and activist thinkers as a consequence of what Elombe did on those Friday nights.
                It would especially become important to appreciate when his circle were able to get Maurice Bishop of the New Jewel Movement success and the Thomas Sankara from Burkino Faso to Harlem. The fact that they would both face coups and assassinations shortly after their visits to us in Harlem was something we all took quite serious.
                Then in 1995, the UN was hosting a summit of world leaders and again Fidel was faced with hostility. In spite of that hostility, it was Elombe and his circle who saw to it that Fidel, not only came to Harlem. This time, he would came to Harlem and speak to us as only Fidel could, and he did so right out of one of Harlem’s most famous churches, Adam Clayton Powell’s Abyssinian Baptist Church!
                Its most dramatic turn was arguably in June 1990, when the late Nelson Mandela, fresh out of his historic 27 year bid under Apartheid, came to New York! The primetimers wanted to bring him to Yankee Stadium and downtown! We got behind Elombe and on this particular spineless primetimer behind and made it plain. Nelson Mandela  is coming to Harlem or ‘you’ are going to be embarrassed to the umpteenth! That’s what got Madiba to 125th street in that incredible historic moment! That's what got Dhoruba, fresh out of a 19 year bid, up there with him too! Revolutionary PanAfrikanists, behind our Dean of that walk, behind our Elombe, made that happen, inspite of the Dumbocratic primetimers vision, or lack of vision of another kind!
                Of course, before and after Madiba’s historic visit, there were many others! Sam Nujoma from Namibia! The children of Patrice Lumumba!...In the face of Dumbocratic Party led sanctions, the visit of Afrika’s great Lion of Land Reclamation Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe must also be appreciated.
                That was the revolutionary resurrection of the Welcoming Committee! What the comprador primetimers dropped, revolutionaries falling in on Elombe picked up! And we are all better, wiser and more conscious as a consequence!
                Thank you, sir, for constantly stirring that big black cauldron of consciousness and solidarity like you did! And we all live for the day when we will all reunite  again…riding the polyrhythmic revolutionary waves of eternity and infinity against all evil… in the whirlwind!...
                Long live Elombe Brath!
                PanAfrikanism or Perish!
                Black Power! All Power to the People!
                Free the Land!

     

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  • SendMeYourNews May 30, 2014 at 1:40am
    World African Diaspora Union (WADU)      
    Center for Culture 176-03 Jamaica Ave Jamaica, NY 11432-5504
     Contact: http://www.wadupam.org/ NY-718-523-3312/GA-404-82-2049
    PRESS ADVISORY     Contact: Minister P.D. Menelik   5/27/2014   
        
    Africa’s Great Freedom Fighter Makes Passage into the Ancestral World
     
    Africa’s great son, Baba Elombe Brath who died on May 19, 2014 will be funeralised on May 31, 2014 at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York. Born in a Garveyite family, Elombe Brath was a brilliant Pan Africanist, journalist, international activist, artist, community organizer and global leader. He was a strong advocate of revolutionary leaders such as President Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, President Robert Mugabe and President Fidel Castro and played a pivotal role in supporting the liberation struggles in Africa, the U.S.A, the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
     
    Elombe Brath was raised from birth under the influence of the Honorable Marcus Garvey in the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement (ANPM) led by Carlos Cooke of the Dominican Republic. He then spent his full life fighting for the decolonization of Africa and other oppressed nations of the world. He stood firmly for Black empowerment in the USA and beyond, and was a champion for human rights and justice. His main role as a freedom fighter was coordinating, promoting and providing direct support and assistance to the leaders of the liberation struggles across Africa, especially in southern Africa. Also, from his Harlem headquarters of the Pan African movement, he worked directly with revolutionary leaders and ambassadors at the United Nations to mobilize support and assistance for Pan African resistance to imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and for the building of Garvey’s vision for a united states of Africa.
     
    In addition to organizing and spearheading African liberation support committees, the tireless Brath helped to co-found several key organizations including the Patrice Lumumba Coalition PLC), the December the 12th Movement (D-12) and the World African Diaspora Union (WADU). With the establishment of the African Union in 2003, Elombe intensified his work to unify the African Diaspora which led to the establishment of WADU in 2007 in Jamaica. During this final phase of his work, Brath in his push for a unified Diaspora, he consistently warned of the new scramble for the re-colonization of Africa. His final painful and poignant messages, he stressed that Africa was suffering from “Africa Imperialist Dependency Syndrome (AIDS) which required a much more organized and unified African Diaspora to help liberate Africa, again.
     
    At the July 107th Pan African Movement Summit, Baba Brath was appointed the Political Commissioner of WADU by His Excellency Baba Dudley Thompson, President of WADU. The Summit which called for a strong African Diaspora union prioritized WADU pushing for a Pan African Government and also resolved for all Africans to promote dual citizenship, reparations, repatriation, economic partnership, and for African culture, to be the basis for a united states of Africa. The 2007 Summit would be the last major event that he participated in. In August of 2007, Baba Brath had a stroke and remained ill until he transitioned on May 19, 2014. 
     
    WADU is urging all Africans to continue raising Baba Elombe Brath's name across the African world as a powerful Pan African model of steadfast duty in service to African people and Africa. WADU will continue his legacy as a tribute to his consistent and incorruptible work for Africa and the oppressed in the world. For more information, please contact 718-523-3313, 404-822-2049 or http://www.wadupam.org/
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