Fwd: NCOBRA Press ConferenceMay 19, 2011 Please Distribute
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Subject: Fw: NCOBRA Press ConferenceMay 19, 2011 Please Distribute
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America ( NCOBRA)A Luta Continua - The Struggle ContinuesNational Board of Directors and General Membership
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 05/17/2011
Contact: Kamm Howard, khoward...@sbcglobal.net 773 520 0369
Barbara Baker, bbak...@aol.com 312 720 0648
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA)- Chicago Chapter Host the 22nd Annual National NCOBRA Conference June 24-25, 2011
NCOBRA-Chicago will hold a press conference on Thursday, May 19, 2011 , at 11: am. The location will be at 740 E 56th St. in front of the DuSable Museum of African American History to announce the NCOBRA National Conference to be held in Chicago , June 24-24, 2011 at the Sixth Grace Presbyterian Church, 600 E 35th St .
This year’s conference theme is theme is Bambalela – Jitayarishe “Never Give Up - Be Prepared” for Reparations Now! The primary purpose is that of solidifying N’COBRA’s infrastructure, maintaining our righteous struggle and hearing from new voices as we assemble to define a reparations package.
Those in attendance will gain valuable community-building skills needed to educate, mobilize, and organize teams of activists dedicated to hammering out the details of a reparations settlement that will help heal our people and diminish the festering vestiges of chattel enslavement, Jim Crow segregation, and modern-day racism and terror.
A full two days of programming include a keynote address by Haki Madhubti, author and founder of Third World Press. A town hall meeting that would include a human rights, sovereignty and self-determination panel discussion with Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford as moderator, and Atty. Adjoa Aiyetoro, co-founder of NCOBRA, Chairman Omali Yeshitela, of the Black-Is-Back Coalition and African Socialist Party, Baba Hannibal Afrik of Republic of New Afrika and NCOBRA, Dr Farid Muhammad of International Human Rights Association of American Minorities, Ahmed Saadiq of the Lost Found Nation of Islam and Diane Urban of International Year for People of African Descent Central as panelist. In addition, we have planned workshops dealing with healing the subjugations of enslavement, tracing our genealogy and preparing non-profits organizations to receive reparations.
Finally, we will continue to expand our knowledge of the 5 injury areas: economic development, education, health, people-hood and criminal justice (political prisoners). This information and knowledge not only helps in basing our reparation demand but also in identifying best methods to provide reparations resources for our repair.
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Kamm Howard
NCOBRA, Board Member At-Large
"Power concedes nothing without a demand." Fredrick Douglass
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