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DESCRIPTION:To All Anti-War Activists:\nStop the War that Began in 1492!\nTruth, 
 Reconciliation and Reparations West Coast Tribunal\n\n\n\nWhen:             
 Saturday, February 15, 2003, 11am to 5pm\n\nWhere:             Mandela Arts 
 Center, 1357 – 5th Street, Oakland\n\nWho:               African 
 People’s Solidarity Committee, \ncosponsored by the Alliance for West 
 Oakland Development\n\nContact:             Wendy Snyder, (510) 625-1106 
 voicemail, (510) 658-7619, uhurureparations@yahoo.com\n\nOn Saturday, 
 February 15th, from 11am to 5pm, the African People’s Solidarity 
 Committee presents the West Coast Tribunal for Truth, Reconciliation and 
 Reparations at the Mandela Arts Center at 1357 – 5th Street in West 
 Oakland. This tribunal will address the war that began in 1492 against 
 African and Indigenous peoples. The event is wheelchair accessible and is 
 cosponsored by the Alliance for West Oakland Development. Contact Wendy at 
 (510) 625-1106 for more information.\n\n\nThe event will feature Omali 
 Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party and the 
 Florida Alliance for Peace and Justice as the keynote speaker with special 
 guest Saikou Diallo, the father of Amadou Diallo who was killed in 1999 by 
 the New York City police officers.\n\n\nExpert testimony will be provided 
 by Robert Allen, author of The Port Chicago Mutiny, Willie Ratcliff, 
 publisher of the San Francisco BayView Newspaper, Jervis Muwaakill, whose 
 son was killed in 2001 by six Oakland police officers, Harry Simon of Union 
 del Barrio and Quetzaoceloacuia of the Barrio Defense Committee and Penny 
 Hess of the African People’s Solidarity Committee. Other invited guests 
 include Henry Clark of the West Contra Costa County Toxics Coalition.  
 \n\n\nThe event will also feature historical display panels depicting 
 slavery, colonialism, genocide in the Americas, police brutality and the 
 prison system.\n\n\n“We are inviting all community activists, educators, 
 artists, and progressive-thinking people to participate in this campaign 
 for Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations to address the war that began in 
 1492. The US war on Iraq draws its origins back to 1492 with the arrival of 
 Columbus in so-called North America, which marked the beginning of the 
 white world's assault on humanity,” states Wendy Snyder, one of the 
 program coordinators.\n\n\nContinues Snyder, “The basis for the United 
 State's ability to wage a war on Iraq is rooted in the 500 years of 
 genocide, colonialism, and the exploitation of African and indigenous 
 people which created the United States that we know as an world's primary 
 power today. If we truly want a world of peace, harmony and justice, we 
 must come to terms with the truth of the oppression of African people and 
 make steps towards reconciliation through uniting with the movement for 
 white people's reparations to the African community.”\n\n\nFor more info 
 about the event or about the African People’s Solidarity Committee, 
 contact (510) 625-1106 or email reparations_sfbay@yahoo.com\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/15123.php
SUMMARY:Stop the War that Began in 1492! Reparations Tribunal
LOCATION:Mandela Arts Center \n1357 – 5th Street, Oakland\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/15123.php
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