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PADU Press Release
On Saturday, July 24, 2010 in Charleston, South Carolina at theCommunity Center of the International Longshoreman’s Union, amagnificent step forward for African descendants was taken within amemorable historical context: the Pan African Diaspora Union (PADU) wasborn. Standing on the shoulders of Pan African giants who have cutthrough the forest of false entanglements, confusion and lethargy toshow the way forward, this grouping of 21st century Pan Africanists met as
the PADU International Diaspora Council to help organize the African Diaspora,
educate the African descendant masses about the importance of Africanre-engagement and to do its part to help achieve the United States ofAfrica/Union of African States---out of 54, one.
This was a modern achievement of unity without uniformity, a phrase many of us have used often but not carried out. The AAPRP/AAWRU (All African Peoples Revolutionary Party/All African Women’s Revolutionary Union), Honorable Marcus Garvey’s UNIA-ACL (Universal Negro Improvement Association-African Communities League, the SRDC (Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus), PerAnkh University/PerAnkh em Smai Tawi (V.I.), AUH (Afrikan Unity of Harlem), CABO
(Central American Black Organization), CBPM (Collective Black People Movement) and the UNIA-LDF (Legal Defense Fund) met as partners who have agreed to a common set of Pan
African principles without losing any of their own sovereignty orstatus. Each group has one vote on all issues, there is a collective oftalents, resources and network associations, and the huge coalition isfounded on mutual respect and mutual civility for all memberorganizations and for African people. There are fourteen memberorganizations in all thus far, including NBLC, PANASTRAG, MIR (Marti nique, Paris), CIPN (Guadeloupe/Antilles)
and AUADS-Europe, among others.
PADU’s primary objective is to assist greatly in organizing the 300million-plus African descendants now living in the African Diaspora,spread over 90 countries and 70,000 miles. To do that, PADU members willfocus jointly and individually on nation building (Africanunification), capacity building (working to expand the AfricanDiaspora’s collaborative resources so together
we can help eachother as opposed to waiting for others to help us), sustainability(cooperative economics, trade, food production, healthcare, ethicaldecision-making, etc.), and the constant advocacy for increasedintegration of African women’s leadership and empowerment. On itswebsite, PADU will maintain an up-to-date calendar of Diasporan eventsrelevant to these aims.
This is 21st century Pan Africanism at a higher ground, and it is part of the Decade of the Diaspora (January, 2010—December, 2020) within which the African Diaspora as awhole has to step up and take its rightful place inside the AfricanUnion and as a valued decision-maker in Africa’s future. The African Diaspora has been invited to the table, and we must organize ourselves in order to accept it.
For those Pan African organizations quite serious about their missionforward to help Africa unify and who are interested in working inpartnership with others on the same path, we will see you in thewhirlwind.
Forward ever, backwards never.
A Luta Continua
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