african diaspora - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T14:01:17Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/african+diasporaAU Diaspora Task Team meets, Visioning African Diaspora as the 6th Region of the African Continenthttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/au-diaspora-task-team-meets-visioning-african-diaspora-as-the-6th2011-09-27T23:37:24.000Z2011-09-27T23:37:24.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><p> </p>
<div align="center"><b><u><span>AFRICAN UNION DIASPORA HIGH LEVEL MEETING</span></u></b><u><span> </span></u></div>
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<div><span>The biggest gathering of selected high caliber African Diasporan will take place on Thursday, October 6, 2011, during the African Union Diaspora High Level meeting organized by the African Union Diaspora Task Team to aggressively pursue the concrete realization of the dream and mission indicated when the African Union created and recognized the African Diaspora as the 6th Region of the African continent. </span></div>
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<div><span><b>The meeting will be held at the Conference Hall of the African Union Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations, 305 East 47th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10017, between 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.</b></span><span> </span></div>
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<div><span>The African Union Diaspora Task Team was created by the African Union during a two-day meeting on October 21st and 22nd, 2010, titled "Building Bridges Across the Atlantic: African Union Consultation with the African Diaspora in the United States." Some of the objectives of the meeting included, among others:</span><span> </span></div>
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<div><span>a) To establish the foundation for a solidarity platform that would facilitate a stream of continuous dialogue and discourse within the global African family that would promote and sustain African renaissance;</span><span> </span></div>
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<div><span>b) To use this platform to strengthen the framework of engagement between the African Union and the African family in the United States in particular with a view to consolidating appropriate legal and participatory frameworks for effective participation of the African Diaspora in the building of the African Union; and</span><span> </span></div>
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<div><span>c) To brief and sensitive the African Diaspora on needs and developments within the AU system and obtain their inputs for assisting its growth and developments.</span><span> </span></div>
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<div><span>According to the Chairman of the AU Diaspora Task Team, Dr. Chika Onyeani, the African Union Diaspora High Level meeting is aimed at bringing together a group of high caliber African Diasporan who have consistently empowered the aspirations and issues of the African Diaspora as well as the African continent in realizing the objectives African Diaspora as the 6th Region of the African continent.</span><span> </span></div>
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<div><span>Many African Diaspora personalities have already accepted to attend and speak at the conference, including Ambassador Tete Antonio, Prof. Molefi Asante, Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari, Ambassador Dudley Thompson, Mayor Wayne Smith, Prof. Bereket Selassie, General Ishola Williams, Dr. Julius Garvey, M.D., Dr. Ron Daniels, Chief Tunde Olatunji, just to name a few, plus a high-powered delegation from the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><strong>For more information, please contact:</strong></div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Chika Onyeani, 917-279-4038</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Georgina Falu, 646-246-8302</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Dorothy Davis, 646646-413-0058</div>
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<div align="center" class="yiv1340354183MsoNormal"><b><i><span>Dr. Chika A. Onyeani, Chair; Mr. Omowale Clay, 1<sup>st</sup> Vice Chair; Engr. Daniel Ochweri, 2<sup>nd</sup> Vice Chair; Dr. Georgina Falu, Secretary; Mr. Sidique Wai, Member; Ms. Dorothy Davis, Member; Ms. Miriam Omala Gauvin, AU Rep.</span></i></b></div>
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<div align="center" class="yiv1340354183MsoNormal"><b><span>African Union Diaspora Task Team</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="yiv1340354183MsoNormal">c/o The Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations</div>
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<div align="center" class="yiv1340354183MsoNormal">Tel. : 212-319-5490, Fax: 319-7135 </div>
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<p> </p></div>Emergency Actions Urged as 'White' Clouds Storm Africahttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/emergency-actions-urged-as2011-03-22T11:22:30.000Z2011-03-22T11:22:30.000ZSendMeYourNewshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/SendMeYourNews<div><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">“Our people need to know that the enforcing of a no-fly-zone in Libya is a declaration of war on Africa” stressed Baba Hekimah Kanyama, while shaping the 5-point-action plan in response to the invasion of Africa by the United States, European Union and members of the Arab League. The emergency meeting with Pan African and African centric leaders in Atlanta was chaired by Baba Mukasa ‘Willie Ricks’ Dada and called for an “immediate cessation of military assault” on Libya by air, land and sea as one of the highest priority responses to the grave situation affecting Africa.</font></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Baba Mukasa is a Civil Rights and Pan African leader who served as part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the All African People Revolutionary Party (AAPRP). He is currently an Executive member of the World African Diaspora Union (WADU). Both the Civil Rights and Pan African movements were catalysts for the freedom and rights of African people in the U.S., Africa and elsewhere in the world. However, these rights have been trampled on by government legislative bills and military boots across the world.</font></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">In addition to the call for immediate cessation of the invasion of Africa, African Diaspora leaders in Georgia are also calling for the African Union to immediately implement the United States of Africa and the African High Command as a Pan African government and military command and control structure for the full integration of Africa. This fifty plus year delayed decision due to poor leadership for a United States of Africa and an African High Command has since cost Africa of its security. This would make Africa the second largest military behind China.</font></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">After slavery, colonialism and imperialism have led to the destruction of Africa, Africa needs a strong military to protect its economic, political and social advancement, especially to defend itself against clear, constant another imminent foreign threats. The United States of Africa and the African High Command were envisioned by great leaders like the late great Marcus Garvey, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, President Patrice Lumumba Emperor Haile Selassie and WEB Dubois to protect Africa from neo-colonialism and imperialism.</font></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The third point-of-action is for Black communities to engage in continuous civil actions and mass demonstrations across the world against the military invasion of Africa by the same invaders who participated in the “Maafa” – the horrific enslavement of Black people over centuries and recently declared by the United Nations a crime against humanity. The first demonstration will be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 in Atlanta and will continue indefinitely. African Liberation Month in May was stated as a historic high priority for actions across the African world for mass mobilization to protect gains made by Black people since African enslavement.</font></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Additionally, the African Diaspora community leaders are urging African Union leaders to eliminate all foreign military bases, including Africom and other European bases in Africa. Clearly, these military outposts of Europe are threats to the advancement of Africa becoming a self-determined and free continent. Finally, the African Diaspora community leaders are urging the African Union to implement plans for the African Diaspora to gain dual-citizenship as a way to strengthen the resolve of the Pan African Diaspora to protect and invest in a sustainable and empowered 21<sup>st</sup> century Africa.</font></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The facilitator of the emergency meeting Mr. Kofi Adjei of Africa reminded others that Libya and other parts of Africa such as Ivory Coast are targeted by the Europeans and the United States as part of the ‘new scramble’ to continue robbing Africa’s oil and other natural resources. The industrial power, prosperity and wealth of Europe are only due to the European colonization and enslavement of Africans. According to most estimate, Africa’s wealth is now in urgent demand to stabilize Europe after its economic meltdown which started in the United States.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> Without Africa’s resources, Europe and the United States will continue to degenerate as powerful economic forces in the world. Since the 1960's, Africa's freedom struggles have sapped its former enslavers from the direct exploitation of Africa. The Anglo-American economy is also suffering from its inability to compete with emerging economic powers such as China, Russia, India and Brazil The emergency meeting called for Africans everywhere to rise up as the cloud of 'whiteness' gathers to storm Africa with the ravenous raping only known to Black people as white power struggle to maintain their failing white supremacy on the back of Black genocide.</font></p>
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<p align="center"><b><font size="3">Contact: Reverend P.D. Menelik Harris/404-527-7756</font></b></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><u>Emergency Actions Urged as 'White' Clouds Storm Africa<br /></u></i></b></font><b>March 21, 2011</b></p>
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