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Report to African Union Summit
Accra, Ghana, Africa /
July 03, 2007
From Oakland, CA Town Hall Meeting
June 9, 2007
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To: African Union
Summit
Accra,
Ghana, Africa.
July 03, 2007
From: Town Hall
Meeting in Oakland, CA
June 9,
2007 from 6pm to 8pm
Subject:
Implementation of the United States of
Africa |
Idea #1
Representatives from various
existing countries- AU form a council to guide the
implementation of USA.
Idea #2
A United States of
Africa, Federation of African States or United African
States could better address Economic and Health Issues
in Africa.
Idea #3
If there were a
Federated African States government, it could develop
infrastructure for the whole continent more effectively.
Idea #4
Transportation
challenges and improvements could be improved more
effectively by a United African States government with
African continental approach.
Idea #5
Education, relevant
to Africans and Africa’s needs could be more effectively
presented to children on the African continent free by a
government of the United States of Africa.
Idea #6
Power and
organization are two needs we as Africans need wherever
we are. In order to establish a United States of Africa
Africans will need to be better organized .
Idea # 7
The African Union
or Heads of State Summit should organize an overall
Commission to form a plan to implement an African
Federated State Sub commissions should plan a single
Currency, Central Banking System, continental
communication System as well as several other major
commissions to guide implementation of the United
African States.
Idea #8
As many Africans and
African-Americans as possible should support the concept
of a Continental African State.
Idea # 9
Build an African Women’s and Youth
Movement to support empowerment and taking of power!
Idea # 10
Recognize we are
going to need to join and grow our organizations and
join these organizations and link up together to see the
United States of Africa emerge.
Idea # 11
A Unified Africa
State should provide African People with clean water and
food for all so that African people will be strong
enough to fight for our rights!
Idea # 12
We Africans need to know ourselves,
stay fit and be strong!
Idea #13
The key for Africans and
African-Americans preparing for the Unified African
State is for us all to embrace Cultural Reclamation!
Idea # 14
We should all dream for the United
States of Africa to become a reality!
Idea # 15
Every major city
with an African or African American majority and every
African country should have a march at the same time all
over the African World to promote a Continental African
State like the African Liberation Day to inspire us!
Idea #16
The Unified African
State must be inclusive of all religions including
African religions in order to unite all of Africa’s
people with Continental African Government.
This meeting of the
Conversations on Africa closed at 8pm and people stayed
a little longer shaking hands and networking.
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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