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Tour Announcement! 18 February 2005 Please Forward This Email! Pan-African Roots and the African Diaspora Publishing Corporation are pleased to announce that Bob Brown is currently on tour, delivering presentations on reparations, anti-globalization, repression and peace on campuses, in communities, at bookstores, and to organizations throughout North America and the world. Bob is also signing copies of his new book, Slavery And The Slave Trade Were and Are Crimes Against Humanity! The Reparations, Anti-Globalization, Anti-Repression and Peace Movements are the four biggest, most militant and most powerful movements in Africa, the African Diaspora and the world today, challenging historical and current violations of human rights, crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. United, and conjoined with the progressive and revolutionary sectors of the Student, Youth, Women's, Labor, Political Prisoner, Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, Indigenous and Socialist Movements, they will shake the political and economic foundations of the world as we know it today. You can purchase a copy of Bob's book online through PayPal.com. The cost is $29.95 plus $5.00 for shipping and handling. BUY NOW! via PayPal at http://postsnet.com/r.html?c=434538&r=433955&t=415803040&l=1&d=85857628&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2epaypal%2ecom%2fxclick%2fbusiness%3ddmentor%40usmr%2enet%26undefined%5fquantity%3d1%26item&g=0&f=-1 _name=Slavery+And+The+Slave-Trade+Were+And+Are+Crimes+Against+Humanity!&item_number=001& amp;amount=29.95&shipping=3.00&cn=Shipping+Information�cy_code=USD You can also purchase Bob's book by mail by sending your money order or check to African Diaspora Publishing Corporation, P.O. Box 091036, Columbus, OH 43209. About The Book Slavery And The Slave-Trade Were And Are Crimes Against Humanity! is A Model FOIA Guide: Who, Where, When, What & Why. It is a compilation of 34 Freedom of Information Act, State Open Records Act, and information requests that were sent to: � Mr. Ed Gillespie, Chairman of the Republican National Committee; President George W. Bush; Mr. Terry McAuliffe, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Senator John Kerry, Mr. Ralph Nader, Mr. Leonard Peltier and other Presidential candidates; Secretary of State Colin Powell; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Treasury Secretary John Snow; Attorney General John Ashcroft; Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Mr. John Carlin of the National Archives and Records Administration. � His Holiness John Paul II, the Spiritual Leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the Head of the Vatican; Brother Carlos Azpiroz Costa, OP of the Dominicans; Father General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus; Reverend Monsignor William P. Fay, General Secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Father Bradley M. Schaeffer, President of the U.S. Jesuit Conference. � King Juan Carlos V of the Kingdom of Spain; President Fidel Castro of Cuba; Governor Jeb Bush of Florida; President Vicente Fox of Mexico; Governor Rick Perry of Texas; President Jacques Chirac of the French Republic; Governor Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana; Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain; Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada; Governor Mark Warner of Virginia; Governor James H. Douglas of Vermont; and Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois. These comprehensive, historic and precedent setting requests demand historical and current information and records that will: � Bear witness to and prove, once and for all, that piracy, slavery and the slave-trade, including the Trans-Atlantic Slave-Trade, and slave-like conditions and practices, including colonialism, segregation and apartheid, were and are illegal and prohibited, and were and are recognized as crimes against humanity. � Help define the development and stages of the 569-year historical and continuing Maafa, and the unyielding and continuing struggle against it. � Document who the victims of the Maafa were and are, who committed and continues to commit these crimes and how this unjust and illegal wealth was converted and transferred across generations. These requested records will prove, once and for all, that more than: � 694,000 Africans were illegally held in slavery in the 13 original British colonies in the United States from 1619 to 1783, and that more than 3,208,393 Africans were still being illegally held in slavery in the 13 states created out of these Colonies in 1865. � 900 Africans, and there descendants, were illegally held in slavery in Illinois from 1787 to 1845. � 40,000 Africans were illegally held in slavery in the French Province of Louisiana on the eve of its "sale" in 1803, and that more than 557,772 Africans were still being illegally held in the 13 state that were created out of the Louisiana Province Territory in 1865. � 250,000 Africans were illegally trafficked into the United States through Cuba after the U.S. government prohibited participation in the Trans-Atlantic Slave-Trade in 1808. � 15,000 Africans were illegally held in slavery in the Spanish Province of Florida on the eve of its "sale" in 1819, and that more than 61,000 Africans were still being illegally held in slavery in Florida in 1865. � 10,000 Africans were illegally "removed" from Florida by the U.S. Army during the "Trail of Tears," and that more than 14,000 Africans were still being illegally held in slavery in Oklahoma in 1866. � 3,000 Africans were illegally held in slavery in the Mexican Province of Texas on the eve of the "declaration' of its independence in 1835, and that more than 182,000 Africans were still being illegally held in Texas in 1865. About The Author Bob Brown is uniquely qualified to speak about and to these movements. He is an organizer, lecturer, research specialist and writer focusing on progressive and revolutionary movements and organizations for social change and global justice. With 41-years of organizational experience and expertise, Bob is a former member of the Chicago Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, former Director of the Midwest Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, co-founder and former member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and a Midwest Organizer, and an organizer for the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. He has also worked with and supported hundreds of progressive and revolutionary movements and organizations throughout Africa, the African Diaspora and the world. He had the honor to work with Kwame Ture, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, from 1967 to his transition in 1998. He was a Coordinator of Third World Outreach for the million-person demonstration for Disarmament at the United Nations in 1983 and the National Coordinator of Logistics and Operations and the National Field Director of the 1995 Million Man March and Stay-at-Home Campaign. He is a member of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa) and served as the National Director of its 2000 Local Government and 2004 Presidential election campaigns. Bob currently serves as co-director of Pan-African Roots and the Kwame Ture Work-Study Institute and Library. As a lecturer during the past 37 years, Bob has traveled to and delivered presentations at hundreds of colleges and universities and scores of public and private schools, bookstores, churches, community centers and radio stations, and at thousands of meetings, conferences and demonstrations in at least 40 states within the United States. Internationally, Bob has traveled and made presentations to, and participated in meetings and demonstrations in Austria, Azania (South Africa), Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Egypt, England, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Guinea, Iraq, Northern Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Scotland, Senegal, St. Marten, Switzerland, Trinidad and Zimbabwe. As a research specialist and writer, Bob has authored and coordinated the publication and distribution of millions of movement leaflets, pamphlets, posters, and other educational materials. His current research projects include: a definitive political biography of and docudrama about Kwame Ture; comprehensive histories of the Black Power, Pan-African, Anti-Repression, Reparations and Student Movements; and a major study of political repression and COINTELPRO, of the right and left, against Africa and African People, worldwide. For information on how you can bring Bob to your campus, community, bookstore or organization, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (202) 544-9355. You can purchase a copy of Bob's book, Slavery and the Slave Trade Were And Are Crimes Against Humanity, online through PayPal.com. The cost is $29.95 plus $5.00 for shipping and handling. BUY NOW! via PayPal at http://postsnet.com/r.html?c=434538&r=433955&t=415803040&l=1&d=85857628&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2epaypal%2ecom%2fxclick%2fbusiness%3ddmentor%40usmr%2enet%26undefined%5fquantity%3d1%26item&g=0&f=-1 _name=Slavery+And+The+Slave-Trade+Were+And+Are+Crimes+Against+Humanity!&item_number=001& amp;amount=29.95&shipping=3.00&cn=Shipping+Information�cy_code=USD You can also purchase Bob's book by mail by sending your money order or check to African Diaspora Publishing Corporation, P.O. Box 091036, Columbus, OH 43209. In the wake of the expanding Reparations activities in the United States and worldwide, Pan-African Roots invites the African community to attend the Reparations NDABA V which will be held on March 18-19, 2005 at Clark University in Atlanta, GA. For more information, contact Dr. Conrad Worrill, Chairperson of the National Black United Front, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (708)389-9929 (office). You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please click here: http://postsnet.com/r.html?c=434538&r=433955&t=415803040&l=6&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&la=1&o=-37. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. 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