One Africa One People One Destiny

Fellow sisters and brothers in the struggle,

We are a collective of black community activists seeking the liberation of all black, indigenous, and oppressed people. From Canada to Palestine, The Congo to South Africa, Latin America to Africa, people of colour continue to be murdered and forced to live in imposed poverty as our natural resources and land continues to be occupied by imperialist nations. These nations benefit from our stolen resources, taking the food out of our mouths starving the bellies of our young. As a global community it is our responsibility to unite our voices to resist these obscene overt forms of colonialism and global oppression. For too long we have organized in small divided groups within Toronto never achieving any local or global change. Through fear tactics, psychological warfare, oppression and violence many people have been forced physically and mentally, to not exercise their right to voice their opinions or their desires to fight against the oppression that they experience. Our people are forced to believe, and later come to identify with, the idea that the oppressor has supreme power and is working in the favour of the people. As a result a culture of quiet, non-resistant and passive people are born. This Culture of Silence is longstanding and continues because the people continue to allow destruction and the oppression to occur, not because they want to, but because fighting against the oppressor seems futile. Oppressed people must unite in one effort to overthrow our common imperial enemy. Our voice can be louder and stronger only if we speak together. We are not representing a new organization nor are we asking for you to join one. We are simply asking you to help us say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and collectively fight to gain justice and the reclamation of our resources and end discrimination for all oppressed and marginalized people in this country. Indigenous people and people of colour will no longer allow the noose to be tightened around our necks and racist arrogance to burden our backs. Unite with our coalition to demand freedom for us all.

On June 19th the One Africa One People One Destiny coalition is planning a rally to unify the struggles of black people in the city of Toronto and around the world. Canada has played a part in the oppression of our people in Haiti, the Congo and many other African nations. The June 19th rally would see the merging of all these struggles for one day of action that would allow our people to see that we are one people fighting the same battle on different fronts. This would also lead to the unification of not only the African community, but all oppressed communities to liberate our people once and for all.

We demand:

Canada:

The immediate dismissal of any officer who murdered or brutalized black people
Reparations to the families of all victims of police murder or brutality
An End to Toronto Anti Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS).
An end to all anti gang initiatives
An end to police containment of the black community
An end to illegal police raids in the black community
End to government imposed poverty that makes black on black crime possible
Economic development for the black community
End to government imposed poverty that made it possible or 29 Somali youth to be killed in Alberta since 2005
Justice in the form economic development or all black communities in Alberta
End to the safe schools act
Afrocentric education for all black students
End to immigration policies that discriminate against black people/ people of African descent.
True reparations for victims of Africville

Haiti:
End Canada’s military occupation of Haiti (2000 or more troop build up)
The Canadian government to expose its involvement in the ousting of Aristide
Return of Aristide to Haiti
An End to the Canadian military and police training of Haitian police
Haitians alone be the ones who determine what reconstruction looks like
Reparations to families of victims killed by Haitian police trained by Canadian forces

Somalia:
All Canadian warships (the real pirate ships) out of Somali waters and an end to criminalization of Somali people as pirates.

Congo:
End of Canadian mining in the Congo
Reparations for the Africans living in the Congo for Canada’s role in the Congo’s mineral fuelled war.

Africa:
End of all Canadian mining in Africa
End to Canada’s theft of African resources mining deals facilitated by neo-colonial puppet leaders.
Reparations to all these nations to return the $21 billion stolen which will be total value of Canadian mining assets in Africa by the end of 2010

On June 19th attend our rally in solidarity with our movement. Protest global oppression by offering solidarity statements attacking global imperialism. If you are interested, please reply by Friday, June 4, 2010 (with flexibility).