[cure-news] N'COBRA 20th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION - speakers

[Ida Hakim]

National Coalition Of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA)

N'COBRA 20th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION - October 26th - 27th,2007
Washington, DC

Commemorating 20 years of educating, mobilizing and organizing our people to
achieve complete reparations for the African Holocaust of Enslavement and
its' after effects. Fighting for JUSTICE for the victims (past and current),
OPPORTUNITY for Future Generations and REPAIR/HEALING for the Living.

See: NCOBRA.org

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Friday - October 26, 2007

WACHOVIA BANK DEMONSTRATION & PROTEST -"Divest for Reparations"

1901 7th St. NW, Washington, DC, 11am - 1:30pm. Wachovia's
predecessor (The Bank of North America) financed the American Revolution
using Black people as chattel property; reaped huge profits from its
slave-dealing predecessors, yet it refuses to dialogue about reparations
for the African American community; and three times more likely to deny
African Americans home purchase loans-- a chance for the American dream.

(We will assemble for the demonstration 10:00am at Sankofa Video and
Books,2714 Georgia Avenue, N.W. 20001 Washington, D.C - a few blocks from
the bank)

NATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE, immediately (1:35pm) following in front of the
bank: to assess the Regrets and Apologies statements from
corporations, universities & States; call for support for the Divestment
 From Wachovia Campaign and other corporations with documented history
of participation in and profiting from our enslavement; and statements
of solidarity from various Black leaders.

N'COBRA 4th NATIONAL REPARATIONS RALLY & FORUM

6-11pm Plymouth Church, 5301 N. Capitol NE, Washington, DC

Admission FREE * Plus Cultural & Spiritual Expressions * FREE

Keynote Speakers - N'COBRA First Key Leaders and Foundation Builders

DR. IMARI OBADELE, Foreign Minister, PGRNA;

N'COBRA Board Member Emeritus

Topic: "Future Strategies for the Black Reparations"

MS. ADJOA AIYETORO, Esq. N'COBRA First Female National Co Chair,

President, N'COBRA Legal Defense, Research and Education Fund

Topic: "N'COBRA: Working To Win"

BABA KALONJI OLUSEGUN, Vice President PGRNA; N'COBRA First Male

National Co Chair

Topic: "Progression"

Forum: "STATE OF THE REPARATIONS MOVEMENT"

REV. AMBROS LANE, Moderator

DC radio Talk Show, Pacifica Foundation's WPFW-FM, and Radio One XM

Panelist

AMBASSADOR DUDLEY THOMPSON, Interim President WADU & Attorney for

President Jomo Kenyatta

"Reparations: African Union and the World African Diaspora Union"

QUEEN MOTHER NANA YAA ASANTEWAA OHEMA, (Dorothy B. Lewis),

Past National Co-Chair of N'COBRA; Co Chair, N'COBRA International
Commission

"Building A Mass People's Movement for Reparations"

DR. MAULANA KARENGA, Chair, The Organization Us; Founder of Kwanzaa

"Black Reparations A Sacred Struggle and Demand for Justice
and Self-Repair"

MS. GILDA SHERROD-ALI, Esq., Past National Co Chair, National

Conference of Black Lawyers

"A Report on Reparations Litigation"

MR. JOHN CONYERS, US Congressman, Sponsor of HR40 Reparation Study
Bill

"A Report on HR 40 Reparations Study Bill Legislation"

MR. OMALI YESHITALI, Chairman, African People's Socialist Party

"Socialism and The International Movement for African
Reparations"

RALLY - Local, National and International Leaders, Scholars, & Activists

BABA AGYIE AKOTO, Founder of Nationhouse Watoto Shule/Sankofa and

the Ankobea Society

BABA HANNIBAL AFRIK, Past N'COBRA National Co Chair

MR. HODARI ALI, Convener, Muslim For Reparations

MR. REDMAN BATTLE, President General, Universal Negro Improvement

Association

QUEEN MOTHER DR. BLAKELY, Founder and President of New Future

Foundation

MR. BOB BROWN, Co-Director of Pan-African Roots

MR. B. KWAKU DUREN, Esq., Chair, New Panther Vanguard Movement

MR. UR AUA HEHIMETU RA ENKAMIT, Paramount King, Ausar Auset
Society, Washington DC; Founder, Kamit Institute for Magnificent
Achievers PCS

MR. DAVID HORNE, Chair, Reparations United Front of Los Angeles

DR. LEONARD JEFFRIES, Phd. Professor of African and African

American history, CCNY

MR. CHOKWE LUMUMBA, Esq., Chairman, New Afrikan People

Organization; Founder, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

MR. MILTON MCGRIFF, Past N'COBRA National Co Chair

MR. CLEOPHUS MILLER, JR., President-General,

UNIA-ACL 1918-1929 of the World

MR. AJANI MUKARRAM, of the Lost-Found Nation Of Islam

MR. ASKIA MUHAMMAD, Past Member of N'COBRA Founding Organizing

Committee

MR. JAMES ROGERS III, N'COBRA National Co Chair

MR. MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ, Esq., Chairman, New Black Panther Party

MS. NKECHI TAIFA, Esq., Past Member of N'COBRA Founding Organizing

Committee

MR. CIKIAH THOMAS, Chair, Global Afrikan Congress

DR. JAMES TURNER, Professor of Africana Studies, Cornell University

MS. KIBIBI TYEHIMBA, N'COBRA National Co Chair

MS. EFIA NWANGAZA, Esq., Past National Co-Chair, The Jericho
Movement for U.S. Political Prisoners'

MS. JOANN WATSON, N'COBRA Board Member-at- Large; Detroit City

Councilwoman

BABA EL SENZENGAKULU ZULU, Founding Director, Ijilma Ya Ujamaa
Shule

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N'COBRA 20th ANNIVERSARY PARTY AND FUNDRAISER for a Purpose

7-11pm at Pier 7 Restaurant,

650 Water Street S.W., Washington, DC

* Dress to Impress, but bring dancing shoes

* Dinner & Dance

* a reggae explosion with Proverbs Reggae Band and Terrelle and CO.
Comedy Act-- all with a wonderful view of the water.

* It's going to be a PARTY - no speeches

* $60 per person - until Oct. 20th

* $80 per person - after Oct. 20th

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PAYMENT INFORMATION:

Please check form of payment. If paying by credit card, please supply the

following information.

____VISA _____MASTERCARD ____ U.S. CHECK ____ MONEY ORDER

Credit card information is accepted by fax, online at NCOBRA.org or on site

Credit Card No. _________________________________ Date of

Expiration:__________________

Signature as appears on card:____________________________________

Date:_________________


For information on accommodations and other questions please contact us

Phone: 202-291-8400 Fax 202-291-4600 Email: NationalNCOBRA at aol.com
>From hakimida at reparationsthecure.org  Sun Oct 28 14:55:30 2007
From: hakimida at reparationsthecure.org (Ida Hakim)
Date: Sun Oct 28 13:55:34 2007
Subject: [cure-news] CURE represented at N'COBRA anniversary celebration
Message-ID: <4724F742.4090006 at reparationsthecure.org>

Dear Members, Allies and Friends,

N'COBRA celebrated its 20th anniversary this weekend, and we're happy to 
say that CURE was represented at all of the events. Larry Yates, member 
of CURE's Executive Committee and long-time social justice activist, 
represented us at the Friday night rally and spoke on behalf of our 
organization.

We appreciate the dedication of Larry Yates very much. Below is his 
statement to those assembled at the rally: it is a great statement indeed.

Sincerely,
Ida

Good evening. I am here on behalf of CURE -- Caucasians United for 
Reparations and Emancipation. I bring greetings from our Chairperson, 
Ida Hakim, and our members around the nation -- not a large band, but a 
committed one.

I can best begin by quoting from our Statement of Belief

"We dedicate our time, energy, talent and resources to support and 
advocate, without reservation, the movement for full and complete 
reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans in the U.S. and 
throughout the Diaspora.

We support and advocate reparations proposals put forward by Black 
leaders, recognizing that white Americans have no part in deciding what 
is required to repair and restore the descendants of enslaved Africans 
individually and collectively, and that these decisions belong to Black 
people alone."

CURE, on the Internet, and by publishing a book written by our members, 
has established that support for reparations does exist on the spectrum 
of white opinion. We have also sought to provide support for efforts 
like this one in whatever ways our capacities allow.

I like to think that in a small way we are subverting the united front 
of whiteness. Those who hear about us can't help but wonder if that 
gentle-looking white haired woman in the grocery store, or that nice 
computer programmer, or maybe that guy getting out of his pickup truck 
out who looks like Santa, are among the white supporters of reparations. 
And we are. And we recruit.

We are not in the front lines, as you are. We are not the ones who must 
develop the strategies and the demands. But we are seeking to meet our 
responsibilities, in a land where all of us have "come over a way that 
with tears has been watered," where all of us, whether we choose to face 
it or not, are a nation whose path has been "through the blood of the 
slaughtered."

Thank you for what you are doing, and for the opportunity to share our 
support and commitment with you.