I post this item here, from H-Afro-Am, without any endorsement from me. I
just thought H-VA-Hist. should be aware of the opposition to the Jamestown
400th anniversary celebration.
Harold S. Forsythe
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From: "Alkalimat, Abdul" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: Official Opposition Events against Jamestown 2007, America's
400 Year Anniversary Celebration!
From: Pan-African Roots [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Official Opposition Events against Jamestown 2007, America's 400 Year
Anniversary Celebration
"Shame on Jamestown's 400th"
May 11, 2007: Norfolk/VA Beach Town Hall Meeting and Pre Demonstration
Rally
May 12, 2007: Jamestown Settlement Demonstration Features National
Indigenous /Indian and Black/African Leaders
For more information, or to confirm speakers/interviews, contact:
Black Lawyers for Justice, call: (202) 397-4577 or email:
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New Black Panther Party, call: (202) 726-0029 or email:
[log in to unmask]
Pan-African Roots, email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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OFFICIAL OPPOSITION EVENTS
Friday May 11th 5:00 PM-10:30 PM
Event #1: Town Hall Meeting and Pre Demonstration Rally
Location: African American Special Event Center
544 Newtown Road Suite 116 (at Newport Shopping Center/On the border of
Norfolk VA )
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Theme: "Shame on Jamestown: Advocates for the Victims expose the true
history, and the Community Speaks Out!"
Saturday May 12th 2:00 pm
Event #2: Opposition Rally and Demonstration
Location: In front of the Jamestown Settlement Museum at the Jamestown
Settlement Visitors Center!
Theme: "Shame on Jamestown: The Indigenous/Indian and Black/African
African Holocaust on Public Display"
Compelling evidence of the crimes of Jamestown will be on public display
during this powerful rally and demonstration.
Why we are opposing Jamestown 2007
On May 11th -13th 2007 the uglier side of the founding of Jamestown,
Virginia by English settlers will be debated and exposed. On this
weekend, millions of Americans, including Supreme Court Justice Sandra
Day O'Conner and the leading Presidential Candidates are expected in
Jamestown, Virginia to celebrate Americas Founding 400 years ago.
President George W. Bush will also speak on this weekend.
On May 11th-12th Black Lawyers For Justice (BLFJ), The American Indian
Movement (AIM Grand Governing Council), The New Black Panther Party For
Self Defense (NBPP), Pan-African Roots, and the All African People
Revolutionary Party (AAPRP-GC) are co-sponsoring the Official
Opposition Events to Jamestown 2007, America's 400 Year Anniversary.
To White America, Jamestown's 400th Year Anniversary will be a great
celebration of achievement and pride. However, to the Indigenous Red
peoples or Indians, May 11-13th, 2007 in Jamestown commemorates the
beginning of the European/ American Holocaust and tragic genocide
perpetrated against many millions of indigenous/ Indian Nations and
peoples.
To White America it will be a time of great joy and remembrance, but for
Blacks/Africans in America, this day is contradicted by the shameful
reality that Jamestown marks the commemoration of The European
Transatlantic Slave Trade which imposed upon many millions of innocent
Africans the tragedy of inhuman chattel slavery and the beginning of the
Maafa (Great Suffering), in the United States of America.
Organizers of the Jamestown 2007 project have whitewashed the project
and have attempted to rewrite history in a blatant attempt to sanitize
the crimes committed at Jamestown which resulted in America being
originated on the corrupt foundation of racism, population removal, mass
murder, slavery and a litany of crimes against divine law and humanity.
Make no mistake about it, our Friday May 11th Rally in Norfolk/VA Beach
and Saturday May 12th Demonstration in front of the Jamestown Visitors
Center is designed to crash this illegitimate party and pursue the
overdue case for Reparations and Justice for the victims of slavery,
mass murder and genocide. Furthermore the ill affects of what happened
at Jamestown still fester in the Community today. These Opposition
Events are designed to give the contemporary Indigenous and
"African-American" public an opportunity to have input on the
alternative view of the Jamestown 2007 Celebration.
A noted lineup of lawyers, scholars, activists, political figures and
artists will give First Amendment privileges new meaning as they fully
exercise their right to debate the significance of the May 11th-13th
Events at the doorstep of the Jamestown Visitors Center (Saturday May
12th) during the height of the Celebration. Organizers are determined
to affirm their well earned right to Free Assembly at this specific
location and are legally accepting nothing less.
Speakers at Both Events Include:
Wabun-inini Nindiz-nikaz (Vernon Bellecourt): Principal Spokesman for
the American Indian Movement (A.I.M) Grand Governing Counci, and a
leader in actions ranging from the 1972 occupation of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs in Washington to the 1992 Redskin Super bowl
demonstrations. He is Co-founder and first Executive Director of the
Denver AIM Chapter. His involvement at Wounded Knee in 1973 led to a
Federal indictment. He is a special representative of the International
Indian Treaty Council and helped organize the first Treaty Conference in
1974. He was jailed for throwing his blood on the Guatemalan Embassy to
protest the killing of 100,000 Indians. He was elected to a 4-year term
in his White Earth tribal government and developed a model program for
the spiritual education of Indian prisoners. Vernon is President of the
National Coalition on Racism in Sports & Media and recipient of the City
of Phoenix, Martin Luther King Human Rights Award.
Attorney Malik Shabazz, Esq.: Event host, President of Black Lawyers
For Justice (BLFJ), which he founded in 1996 and National Chairman of
the New Black Panther Party. Shabazz is a seasoned veteran of the Black
movement since his days as a popular student activist at Howard
University and Howard University School of law. Shabazz is one of the
most consistent organizers, dynamic lecturers and debators in the
Nation. On the legal front, Attorney Shabazz has had extensive civil
litigation experience as a victim's rights lawyer and has been
successful in a number of high profile cases, including the historic
1998-1999 legal victories over the Guiliani Administration who tried to
prevent the Million Youth March from taking place in Harlem New York.
From the Million Man March, leadership over the New Black Panther Party,
co-convening Minister Louis Farrakhan's Millions More Movement and
fighting police brutality nationwide Attorney Malik Shabazz is clearly a
rising force on the legal and political scene. For more information, or
to confirm speakers/interviews, contact Black Lawyers for Justice at
(202) 397-4577 or [log in to unmask] and/or contact New Black
Panther Party at (202) 726-0029 or [log in to unmask]
Bob Brown: Co-Director of Pan-African Roots and Organizer for the All
African Peoples Revolutionary Party (GC). Bob is a veteran organizer
and his political contributions and achievements are known world wide.
He was the Director of the Midwest Office of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and co-founded the Illinois Chapter of the
Black Panther Party. Bob is an organizer in the Black Power and
Pan-African Movements. He worked with Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
for 31 years, from 1967 to 1998, and was the national coordinator for
logistics and operations and national field director for the 1995
Million Man March and Stay-at-Home Campaign. Bob is currently
co-plaintiff, with the City of Chicago, in a historic and
precedent-setting $10 billion slavery era disclosure and false claims
lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County. This lawsuit will rock the
foundations of the political-economy of Chicago, the united snakes, and
the world, and force the disclosure of records documenting more than 500
years of Crimes against Humanity that were committed by European Nations
and Royal Families, including the British Royal Family, against
Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere, and Peoples of African
descent in every corner of Africa and the African Diaspora. For more
information, or to confirm speakers/interviews, contact Pan-African
Roots at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Dr. Leonard Jeffries: Professor, African Studies City University New
York (CUNY). Professor Jeffries is the leading living historian on
African and African American history. He is a founding director of the
Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) and
is a former president of the African Heritage Association (AHSA). His
scholastic exploits have taken him to the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Brazil,
Switzerland and throughout the Caribbean. Dr. Jeffries lectures around
the nation and the world and can provide factual historical ammunition
to any debate.
Honorable Charles Barron: City Council (D) Brooklyn, New York.
Councilman Charles Barron is the leading elected advocate for Blacks and
oppressed peoples in New York and is gaining nationwide respect for his
progressive stance on the issues of police brutality, poverty, education
and reparations. The outspoken and active leader is a former member of
the New York Chapter of the Black Panther Party and was overwhelmingly
re elected to his council seat in the last election. Eying a run at
Brooklyn Borough president in 2009, Barron is sure to be an
uncompromising and consistent advocate for Blacks and the poor in the
centers of power as well as in the streets.
Attorney Chowke Lumumba: Chairman, New African Peoples Organization
Attorney Lumumba has had a long and distinguished career as an
accomplished defense attorney and a powerful political activist. Chokwe
served as acting President Provisional Government of the Republic of New
Africa. He has established a stellar legal career as a legal advocate
for the poor and powerless in the courtroom and established himself as
an uncompromising and formidable force for social justice in the
streets. Attorney Lumumba has been instrumental in the formation and
maintenance of a number of organizations dedicated to the liberation of
New Afrikan people. In 1978-79, he was a co-founder of the National
Black Human Rights Coalition and the Detroit Black Human Rights
Coalition. He actively participated in the effort to build a National
Human Rights Campaign. On November 5, 1979, Lumumba and two other
national leaders presented a statement charging the U.S. with human
rights violations to the president of the U.N. General Assembly, Salim
Ahmed Salim.
Other speakers include: Minister Hashim Nzinga, National Chief Of Staff
New Black Panther Party. Minister Nzinga has a national voice and
experience and also a leading anti police brutality activist in the
Atlanta Area. Minister Bryan Muhammad, Millions More Movement-Nation Of
Islam. Minister Muhammad is a true disciple of the Millions More
Movement and recently gained national attention for his efforts that
freed 14 year old Shaquanda Cotton from an unjust 7 year Paris, Texas
juvenile prison sentence. Minister Yusef Muhammad, National
Spokesman-New Black Panther Party. Yusef Shabazz is currently a city
council candidate in Savannah Georgia. Ashaeed Muhammad, Activist-
Author. Muhammad is the founder of Truth Establishment Institute (TEI)
and the author of the revealing book "Synagogue of Satan". Imam Akbar
Abdul Karim Bilal , Minister of Justice for the New Black Panther Party
and Minister Najee Muhammad,
ENTERTAINMENT BY: UNO THE PROPHET AND NY OIL. These two hot, hot
revolutionary rappers/poets are guaranteed to light Jamestown on fire
with cultural artistic presentations. Other rappers and poets are
expected to be added to the in the coming days.
THESE ARE HISTORIC EVENTS THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS!
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