Status
The World Afrikan Diaspora Union (WADU), under the leadership of the Honorable Ambassador Dudley Thompson, would like to make a public declaration that the
relationship that WADU had formed with the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC),
as manifested in a tentative partnership agreement called Pan African Diaspora
Union (PADU), has reached a level of irreconcilable differences, due to a better
understanding and re-evaluation of the criteria of the AU ECOSOCC and thus WADU
has decided that there it would no longer be necessary to work together within
the said instrument called PADU.
PADU was initiated at the WADU 2009 Summit as a temporary instrument to begin building a common front for Pan African Diaspora organizations to approach the
African Union regarding representation in AU ECOSOCC. WADU looks forward to
partnering with Pan African organizations to form a broad Pan African Diaspora
council to explore and develop an agenda to approach the AU on key issues
affecting African people in the world. This broad council of Pan Africanists and
Africanists of African descent will decide with or without a mandated agreement,
on the best instrument or instruments to work with the African Union.
Finally, any association of the name of WADU or its President, the Honorable Dudley Thompson, with being a part of, or affiliated with PADU, would not have any
validity as resolved on the day of our Ancestors on January 23, 2010 at the WADU
Executive Session in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as requested by a broad consensus
of the WADU General Council of leaders across the WADU Diaspora, for the repeal
of PADU.
For additional information or questions, please contact our office at 718-523-3312/404-527-7756 or WADUPAM.ORG.
Chief Secretariat, WADU
Baba John Watusi Branch
From: Amenelik@aol.comSent: 2/11/2010 4:44:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: WADU, SRDC & PADU STATUS
WADU PAM MEMORANDUM FOR ACTION 2010-1
DATE: 24/1/2010
FROM: Chief Secretariat, Baba John Watusi Branch
TO: WADU Executive, General Council, Members, Supporters & the Public
RE: Information Announcement
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SRDC/PADU. With all due respect to the writers of that announcement, the
mysterious "irreconcilable differences" comment made by them only confuses the
Pan African public and it cannot be left unexplained.
development of the United States of Africa/Union of African States, a logical
decision was made by some of those who got that news that organizing the
Diaspora was necessary in order to accept the AU's invitation. (For those who
still doubt the reality of that invitation, please google Protocols of the AU Constitutive Act,
2003). To achieve that
goal, establishing a working partnership between the largest current Pan African
coalition organization in North America, the Sixth Region Diasporan Caucus
(SRDC), and the second largest, the World African Diaspora Union (WADU), as a
model of operational unity for others was deemed the most appropriate way to go.
As such, SRDC approached the WADU leadership and started meeting about this
possible partnership as early as April, 2008, in NYC. Since then, SRDC has
pursued with WADU an agreement on common principles and a common AU agenda to
take into the AU. At WADU's July, 2009 conference in Atlanta, a small committee
of leaders from both groups agreed on a name for the international umbrella
organization that would reflect that partnership--PADU (Pan African Diaspora Union)--in honor of Dr. John Henrik Clarke. At SRDC's September
conference in Seattle, an MOU was publicly inked by both the president and
vice-president of WADU and the leaders of SRDC, promising the later signing of
the full partnership agreement. Also in Seattle, the SRDC plenary voted to
accept the PADU name and the revised Declaration of Principles and Agenda. Then,
surprisingly, in Fort Lauderdale in January, 2010, when the full partnership
agreement was scheduled to be signed, three of the four WADU executive board
members there changed course, stating that all the previous agreements and
negotiations were null and void, and that the only unity that could occur would
be for SRDC and all other Diasporan organizations to simply become members of
WADU. They took an intransigent position on the issue, ignoring all logical
reasoning to the contrary. The SRDC representative had no choice but to refuse
to accept that point of view, since it was anathema to every previous discussion
and agreement to which SRDC and WADU had come . After five hours
of interaction that night, it became clear that further negotiations and
discussion were futile, and in spite of the two years of trying to get this
partnership done, a new wall had been erected which blocked any further
progress. It was time to move on—unity intended to last cannot be forced.
Meanwhile, since its membership had approved the name and process,
SRDC became SRDC/PADU, and it has now partnered with the UNIA-ACL,
CABO, AAUD in Europe, MIR in the Caribbean, and with other Pan African groups
under the umbrella PADU international council. Operational unity is vital for
21st century Pan Africanism to be viable.
organization, and the equality of each partner on a joint leadership Diaspora
Council. We invite WADU to re-consider its unilateral position at some point in
its future development and to catch up to the moving train. Meanwhile, the
organization of the Diaspora will continue so that we can accept the AU's
invitation to become voting members of that body, and honor our commitment and
obligation to the Honorable Marcus M. Garvey, Harriet Tubman, Dr. Clarke,
Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Callie House, Queen Mother Moore, and
the thousands of other Pan African giants on whose shoulders we
stand.
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