Pan-African Conference in Paris, France

Panafricain Conference :

Lumumba, and the sabotage of the independence of African people

Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 january 2011

Théatre de Ménilmontant

15, rue de Retrait

Paris 20, France

At a time when some have chosen to celebrate the so called 50^th anniversary of African political independence, it is important to remember that even before the war against Fascism all the means (including criminal) had been used to sabotage the different attempts made for the liberation of African people.

Rather than some phantasmagorical independence, the contemporary political history of African people is characterized by the systematic removal of Pan-African nationalists for the benefit of African accomplices of western imperialism. Generations of elites (intellectuals, politicians, artists, etc ) really concerned about the collective fate of Pan-African nations haven been eliminated and removed and an anti-elite subservient to foreign interests have been installed in Africa as well as in the Diaspora. For their diligent service they have gained political power which today is on the wane.

The Circle of Marcus Garvey has chosen, to emphasize this general sabatoge of the sovereignty of African people, by focusing particularly on the case of the Congo which culminated in the assasination of Patrice Emery Lumumba by a coalition of imperialist countries.

Indeed, imbibed with this historic knowledge of the crimes carried out to prevent the Pan-African democratic process it is possible to envisage, a panafricanist political Renaissance as the only relevant way for the effective reconquest of the collective destiny of African people.

PROGRAMME :

Panafrican conference: Lumumba and the sabatoge of the independence of African people

1^st day (15 January) :

Congo, amputated hands

9.30 – 10.00 Conference begins: Welcoming the public

10.00- 10.10 :Welcome speech

10.10 – 11.00 Congo, amputated hands by Keynote speaker Rosa Amélia Plumelle-Uribé

11.00 – 11.30 : Personal Testimony

11.30 – 1.00 : Debate

1.00 to 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 2..30 : Human geography of the African Diaspora

2.30 – 3.00 : Personal Testimony

3..00 – 4.00 : Dessalines and the Haitian Révolution

4.00 – 5.00 : Debate

5.00 – 7.00 Film : Katanga Business (or a documentary from ANIBWE on the Congo)

7.00 – 7.45 : Debate

20.00 Conference Ends

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Colloque panafricain : Lumumba, ou l’assassinat des indépendances du peuple noir

2^nd day (16 January) :

Panafricanism, history and perspectives

9h30 – 10.00 : Conference begins

10.00 – 10.10 : Welcome speech

10.10-11.00 : Panafricanism and its pioneers

11.00-11.45 :Panafricain Renaissance, an alternative to development

11.45 – 12.45 :Debate

12.45 to 1.45 Lunch

1.45-2.30 : 50 years after « The economic and cultural foundation of a federal African state » by Cheikh Anta Diop

2.30-3.15 : Panafrican stratégies for the unity of African people

3.15-4.15 : Debate

4.15-5.30 Workshop: Panafricanist Projects

5.30-6.00 General report on conference by Guy Cetoute

6.00-7.30 : Performance of Amputated Hands (Artistic coordinator Carlos Benewende

Ouedragogo )

8.00 Conference Ends

Colloque panafricain :

Lumumba, ou l’assassinat

des indépendances du peuple noir

Samedi 15 & dimanche 16 janvier 2011

Au Théâtre de Ménilmontant

15, rue de Retrait à Paris XXè

Au moment où d’aucuns ont choisi de célébrer ce qu’ils prétendent être le cinquantenaire d’une indépendance politique de l’Afrique, il importe vivement de ne pas laisser obvier l’histoire de la mise en échec par tous les moyens, y compris les plus criminels, des différents processus de libération du peuple noir engagés bien avant la Guerre du Nazisme.

Plutôt qu’une fantasmatique indépendance, l’histoire politique contemporaine du peuple noir se caractérise par l’éviction systématique des nationalistes panafricains au profit des affidés nègres de l’impérialisme occidental : des générations d’élites (intellectuelles, politiques, artistiques, etc.) réellement soucieuses du destin collectif des nations panafricaines ont été combattues ou éliminées, en vue d’installer une anti-élite inféodée aux intérêts étrangers en Afrique comme dans la Diaspora ; au service zélé desquels elle a gagné toute sa fortune politique désormais en voie d’épuisement.

Le Cercle Marcus Garvey a choisi, quant à lui, de mettre un accent particulier sur les circonstances exactes de cette mise en échec généralisée de la souveraineté du peuple noir, notamment à travers le cas séculaire emblématique du Kongo, qui culmine avec l’assassinat de Patrice Emery Lumumba par une coalition de pays impérialistes. En effet, c’est imprégné profondément de cette conscience historique de crimes contre les processus démocratiques panafricains qu’il est possible d’envisager, en toute connaissance de cause, la Renaissance politique panafricaniste comme seule voie pertinente pour la reconquête efficace de notre destin collectif d’Africains.

PROGRAMME :

1ère journée (15 janvier)

Kongo, les mains coupées

09h30 - 10h : Accueil du public

10h - 10h10 : Allocution de bienvenue

Modérateur : Klah Popo

10h10 - 11h00 : Kongo, les mains coupées

Intervenante : Rosa Amélia Plumelle-Uribé

11h00 - 11h40 : Témoignage sur Lumumba

11h40 - 13h00 : Discussion

Déjeuner de 13h à 14h00

14h00 - 15h00 : La Diaspora africaine dans la Renaissance panafricaine

Intervenant : Ze Belinga Martial

15h00 - 16h00 : Témoignage du Dr Tallayrand

16h00 - 17h00 : Dessalines et la Révolution Ayitienne

Intervenant : Dr Antoine-Pierre FRITZ

17h – 18h00 : Discussion

18h00 – 19h30 : Spectacle Kongo, les mains coupées

Coordination artistique de

Max Laure & OUEDRAOGO Benewende Carlos

20h précises : Clôture de la journée

2ème journée (16 janvier)

Panafricanisme, histoire et perspectives

09h30 - 10h : Accueil du public

10h - 10h10 : Allocution de bienvenue

Modérateur : Ze Belinga Martial

10h10-11h00 : Le Panafricanisme et ses précurseurs

Intervenant : LASCONY

11h00-11h45 : La Renaissance panafricaine, une alternative au développement

Intervenant :

11h45 – 12h45 : Discussion

Déjeuner de 12h45 à 13h30

13h30-14h15 : L’alternative panafricaniste de Cheikh Anta Diop, ou « Les fondements économiques et culturels d’un Etat fédéral d’Afrique Noire ».

Intervenant : Diogène Senny

14h15-15h00 : Stratégies panafricanistes pour l’unité du peuple noir

Intervenant : KLAH Popo

15h00-16h00 : Discussion

16h00-17h45 : Networking panafricaniste

Idées, Projets, Activitiés visant à promouvoir les idéaux économiques et solidaires du panafricanisme. Opportunités de rencontres et contacts entre associations et acteurs panafricanistes.

17h45-18h00 : Rapport général du colloque par CETOUTE Guy

18h00-19h30 : Spectacle

Kongo, les mains coupées

Coordination artistique de

Max Laure & OUEDRAOGO Benewende Carlos

20h précises : Clôture de la manifestation

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Chokwe Lumumba Is Running For Jackson, MS City Council

Chokwe Lumumba For Jackson, MS City Council

Building a New Jackson, Building a New South, Building Self-Determination!

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) is taking a bold step to advance the cause of New Afrikan Self-determination. Building off the experiences of developing the Freedom Party in Selma, Alabama and the Reconstruction Party in New Orleans, Louisiana, MXGM co-founder, Chokwe Lumumba, is running for City Council in Jackson, Mississippi.

The aim of this run is to implement a program of progressive social and economic change that will not only improve the lives of New Afrikan people in Jackson, but also empower Black and other oppressed people throughout the Kush District (the Mississippi Black Belt) and the Deep South by advancing a new social and economic agenda and strengthening their self-organization.

"The People's Platform"

So, what is this new social and economic agenda? As we are all too well aware, we are facing extremely trying economic and social times. With the economy in freefall and capitalism in deep crisis, MXGM believes that we have an agenda and an approach that can adequately address this crisis and transform the future of Jackson and the Southern region. Our agenda as expressed through the campaign's "People's Platform", is centered on the following four points:

1. An economic, social, and cultural human rights based approach to solve the economic crisis afflicting the city and state. We will use this approach to stop evictions, foreclosures, mass unemployment, and hunger.

2. Economic growth and job creation that brings Jackson into the forefront of the struggle to create a Green economy and increase employment opportunities.

3. Create job training programs and a better educational system that supports the real needs of our youth.

4. Public safety and an end to police misconduct. To explore the full Platform visit www.electlumumbaward2.com

Be a part of the change

Help us build this movement for genuine development and self-determination in Jackson. You can do this by:

1. Donating money to support your aspirations and interests as reflected in this campaign.You can make an electronic donation at www.electlumumbaward2.com or send a check payable to the "Committee to Elect Chokwe Lumumba". Mail the check to: 440 N. Mill Street, Jackson, MS 39202.

2. Throwing a fundraiser for the Campaign to Elect Chokwe Lumumba in your city or region. To conduct a fundraiser please email electlumumba@gmail.com or call 601-353-5566 to obtain the information and materials you need.

3. Spreading the word to your family, friends, co-workers, and congregants; ask them to make donations, promote the Peoples Agenda, and raise media attention for the campaign and its agenda for change in your local and regional media outlets.

We Are Nowhere We Have Not Been

We Are Nowhere We Have Not Been

By Kwasi Akyeampong

Up from Morant Bay Babylon came with their ego on their hips
Brothers held their breath as like venomous snakes they slithered among us
Sisters prostituted with unwilling ease willing adulterous coy for with to save a brother's lips

Up among the sheep Babylon came and grounded to dust another piece of us

"Whyyyyyyy?", the anguished mother cried as she held her fallen to her helpless breast.

'"How much more can we bear.."'

I will ever recall how with faces gird in funerary and debased with powerlessness came the chorus to her:
'"How much more can we bear.
Jah, we fight with determination..
And the seeds that we sow..
Jah Jah, we watch them grow..
In a pain of pure destruction..".

This was in the cool of a day, any day, 18.19..16.1980;
A stone throw from Stoney Gut, the never again laid dead

Though I will never forget that mother's desperation mocking rage.
Was it 1865, 1965, 1982 or was it 1973?
I can not now recall the time nor place I heard her anguished cry.

I search, I search, I search through wailing, weeping, moaning
Through pain, throught rivers of blood
Still I cannot name the place, the time I heard the mother's anguished cry.

Was it Kinshasa in 1959?
Was it Dar-Es Salaam 1969?
Was it South Africa 1983?
Miami 1983?

Was it Kingston, Jamaica?
Or Jamaica, New York?

It may have been Morant Bay
For I saw Paul Bogle with the "good book" in his heart
And the Rights of Man on his mind
And a musket in his right hand
As he led men cross pure Victoria's cleanest carpet
For to see once and for all if justice was blind or colour blind.

I remember it now as clearly as I am..
For the next time I saw Bogle he was dangling by his neck.

No. It was Nat Turner..
I am sure it was Patrice Lumumba...
Or was it George William Gordon..
It could have been the unnumbered preys of white sheets.

You know, It was Dada Sharpe..
For I remember his last words to me before that noose held him almost to the ground:
"I'd rather die free than live a slave."

But it could have been Malcolm X.
Was there not something at Avenue X?
Yes, I remember Turks' mother anguished cry.

That mother, that cry.
Did I not see her in Sharpeville?
Mom, where you ever in Louisville?