Fwd: AFRICANS RISING MOVEMENT LAUNCH #25MAY2017: WHAT ARE YOUR COUNTRY PLANS, ZIMBABWE
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From: Kumi Naidoo <ku...@africans-rising.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Subject: AFRICANS RISING MOVEMENT LAUNCH #25MAY2017: WHAT ARE YOUR COUNTRY PLANS, ZIMBABWE
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Dear Zimbabwe Africans Rising Founding members,
Almost six months ago, representatives of 44 African countries including representatives from the African diaspora from civil society, trade unions, women, young people, men, people living with disabilities, parliamentarians, media organisations and faith-based groups, from across Africa and the African diaspora gathered in Arusha, Tanzania to give birth to a new pan-African movement.
On 25 May 2017 (Africa Liberation Day), this movement – Africans Rising for Peace, Dignity and Justice – will be launched.
Africans Rising (http://africans-rising.org/) seeks to be a de-centralised, citizen-led movement determined to foster Africa-wide solidarity and unity of purpose of the Peoples of Africa to build the future we want – a right to peace, social inclusion and shared prosperity.
It is being built by and belongs to people like you and your members, as well as by organisations like yours.
Our founding Charter, The Kilimanjaro Declaration, resolves that our work should build a local, national, continental and global campaign that is expanding space for civic and political action; fighting for women’s rights and freedoms; focusing our struggles on the right to equality and dignity; demanding good governance as we fight corruption and demanding climate and environmental justice.
It is with great excitement that we invite you and your members to join Africans Rising by signing the Kilimanjaro Declaration (http://africacsi.org/2016/08/24/the-kilimanjaro-declaration/) and in participating in the official launch of your movement on Africa Liberation Day, 25 May 2017.
With Africa and indeed Africans under assault on many fronts, there could not be a more critical time for us to join together in a pan-African movement – built from below and beyond borders – of people and organisations working for peace, justice, jobs and dignity.
The Africans Rising launch team has worked on a mobilization guide (find attached) for a peoples launch on 25 May 2017 (rather than a big conference where only a fraction of people could participate) which we are sharing with you in an attachment below. Please share any ideas you have on how we together with you can ensure a successful launch of what will become a historic movement that will help bring us the #FutureWeWant and deserve.
Please share the Kilimanjaro Declaration with organisations and people that you work with and encourage them to sign up and consider organizing an activity on 25 May. We recommend that the local activities can be linked to ongoing struggles that people and communities are engaged with locally. For example, if there is an ongoing anti-corruption campaign, then the launch and its messaging can promote the campaigns already underway.
For far too long the peoples of Africa have been divided by our tragic colonial history and the time has most certainly come where all Africans including our brothers and sisters in the African diaspora need to unite, recognizing that Africa is the richest continent in the world and there is no reason why our people have to endure the levels of suffering that they do on a daily basis.
Now is the time for us to unite beyond the boundaries that colonialism burdened us with. We must have an approach of One Africa, One People and One Destiny: Together we stand a better chance to succeed, divided we run the risk of the current challenges getting much worse in a climate challenged world.
We look forward to joining efforts with you to see Africans rising for peace, justice, jobs and dignity together.
P.S
In your communications, please use:
Africans Rising and online use #AfricansRising
Africans Rising for Justice, Peace & Dignity is used in formal communications or at the start of a document.
Online - please use hashtags as show in the text above - of course, in other communications, it may be a bit much with the hashtags - so drop them for more formal emails.
The public link to media images etc for #25May2017 is:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8CBxoSvckRMZ0dxZWJQZ0N6Tjg
The website is: http://africans-rising.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AfricansRising
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AfricansRising/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/africansrising/
WhatsApp group invite: (invite by this link only)
https://chat.whatsapp.com/2r3yQhsOtzXDE6aNENfYQn
In Solidarity,
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#AfricansRising #cooperation #solidarity #workingtogether to build the #AfricaWeWant
The Kilimanjaro Declaration: http://africacsi.org/2016/08/24/the-kilimanjaro-declaration/
The Call To Unite can be found here in Arabic – in French – in KiSwahili – in Portugese
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AfricansRising/ & https://www.facebook.com/NaidooKumi
Twitter @helloacsi & @kuminaidoo
Get in touch with us at me...@africans-rising.org for media requests, takeovers and other ways to collaborate
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