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The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations
Contact:
Chioma Oruh 202.320.5542 info at (no spam) blackisbackcoalition.org
Rosa Clemente 646.721.7441 knowthyself at (no spam) mac.com
Jared Ball 202.997.0267 freemixradio at (no spam) voxunion.com
http://blackisbackcoalition.org/site/index.shtml
The Black Is Back Coalition March & Rally Nov. 7th Washington, DC /
Malcolm X Park!
Washington, D.C. – A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a
Rally and March on the White House to take place November 7, 2009
beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The Rally and
March are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy
initiatives that unfairly African and other oppressed people around
the world. Known as the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice,
Peace and Reparations, the coalition formed on September 12, 2009
during a meeting in Washington, D.C. of more than fifteen activists
from various Black organizations, institutions and communities.
The Black is Back Coalition aims to draw upon the support of many of
the leading anti-imperialist organizations, journalists, organizers,
artists and scholars of the African world. In this age of Obama, Rally
and March on November 7, 2009 aims to bring back the tradition of
resistance historically associated to with Black communities around
the world. Comprised of seasoned veterans of Black political struggle,
consisting of members of the African People’s Socialist Party, the
NAACP, MOVE, the Green Party, Black Agenda Report and many other
grassroots organizations and efforts, this coalition is perfectly
situated to do just that.
As the Call to Action states, “Many well-meaning people in this
country and around the world are afraid to take more progressive
political positions for fear of being seen as anti-Black…We need to
remind people of the absolute lack of ‘progress’ since new faces
assumed leadership of this nation. Many of the leading concerns of
Black people, Latinos and working people in this country remain
insufficiently addressed. Black and Brown people continue to suffer
the brunt of un/under-employment and predatory loan scandal crises.
Military spending under Obama has increased as have the warfare this
nation continues to export to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Venezuela
and Colombia. Mass incarceration, police brutality and political
imprisonment remain rampant and the most negatively impacted by the
levee breech in post-Katrina New Orleans continue to be without homes,
jobs or health care assistance. And to that point, these are precisely
the communities who nationally will be the most negatively effected by
yet another myth of health care ‘reform.’”
The political paralysis now being experienced by anti-war and other
progressive movements suffer from thelack of a Black-led anti-imperial
movement to off-set the traps set by Obama’s so-called “post-racial”
politics that perpetuates the same oppressive militarist agenda well
known during the Bush regime. Black Is Back is not simply a slogan for
the African Diaspora but for all progressive struggles which have
historically always benefited fromBlack-led movements. On November 7,
2009 beginning promptly at 10am, all are welcome to participate in
Rally and March which will include many speakers and performers of the
coalition to stand and demonstrate in political solidarity announcing
the return to leadership of the world’s most reliably anti-war and pro-
social justice communities. As the coalition says, “To free our
people’s hopes and dreams from oblivion, we need a coalition dedicated
to the proposition that Black is Back!”
Contact:
Chioma Oruh 202.320.5542 info at (no spam) blackisbackcoalition.org
Rosa Clemente 646.721.7441 knowthyself at (no spam) mac.com
Jared Ball 202.997.0267 freemixradio at (no spam) voxunion.com
http://blackisbackcoalition.org/site/index.shtml |
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