Preparatory Meeting of the North American Delegation to the 2nd Phase of the 8th Pan African Congress, October 30-31, 2015, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, New York
Date: October 30-31, 2015
Time: 10 AM
Venue: Medgar Evers College
Founders Auditorium
1650 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn,NY 11225
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The Pan African Movement is at a crossroads. The African Union signed a memorandum of understanding with the Pan African Movement because they recognized its capacity to carry along the grand Pan African project of Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want.
Unfortunately, the Pan African Movement at present is compromised by ideologies – it’s statist, anti-women, homophobic, and anti-workers.
We at the North American wing of the Movement fight for all Black lives, workers’ rights, women’s right, LGBT rights, environmental rights, and the rights of all African descendent people within and outside the continent – beyond the coopted notion of the Pan Africanism of remittances.
That’s why we’re calling on the Global African Family to support the progressive agenda for 2063.
The North American Delegation to the Pan African Congress will be holding a preparatory meeting to mobilize grassroots representation to the 2nd phase of the 8th Pan African Congress. The first phase of the 8th Pan African Congress was held in Ghana in March 2015, and the second phase will follow in 2016.
The focus of the preparatory meeting to be held on October 30-31, 2015 in New York is to explore ideas on how to provide a platform for a new progressive direction for the Pan African Movement in the 21st century. The outcomes of the deliberation at the preparatory meeting will inform the position that will be presented by the North American Delegation at the second phase of the Pan African Congress in 2016.
The preparatory meeting will deliberate on issues affecting the lives and welfare of the African descendent people, including: reparations, the rights of all African descendent peoples, economic exploitation, environmental degradation, access to proper healthcare, resource use for good quality of life (such as housing, education, and infrastructure).
All African descendants who subscribe to a progressive future for African peoples are welcome to take part in this important deliberation.
