TRUTH, RECONCILIATION & REPARATIONS

TRUTH, RECONCILIATION AND REPARATIONS, a day-long conference presenting evidence supporting the verdict from the 1982 International Tribunal on Reparations for Black People held by the APSP in New York City. We are organizing to bring a California contingent to the World Tribunal on Reparations in November, 2003 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The February 16th event will include expert evidence on: * The use of African labor to build a ship a day for the Kaiser Corporation in the 1940's * The port Chicago Massacre * African and indigenous/Mexicano unity * "Gentrification" and the destruction of African neighborhoods * The attacks on the Black Panther Party * The brutal California prison industry * Police brutality in Oakland and Los Angeles. The event will feature as keynote speaker Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, an organization that has advanced the demand for reparations to African people for the last twenty years and more. Yeshitela just recently returned from South Africa, where he was the main speaker at the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and where he put forward the perspective that the wealth of Africa belongs to African people everywhere. Also participating will be Penny Hess, national chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee, formed by the APSP to build a movement of white people's reparations to the African community. Hess is the author of Overturning the Culture of Violence published by Burning Spear Uhuru Publications(www.burningspearuhuru.com).