Black power advocate Willie Ricks, aka Mukasa Dada, has been under attack by the black establishment in Atlanta.
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By Mukasa Dada
(formerly known as Willie Ricks)
The Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee or SNICK as it commonly referred to, is alive and well through the fighting spirit of some of our fallen comrades like Kwame Ture, Sammy Young Jr, Ralph Featherstone, SNCC’s fighting spirit has also given life by the courageous example being demonstrated by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and the people of Zimbabwe. Because of the obligations that come with the territory, of embracing the fighting spirit of the living as well as the deceased, we as Africans worldwide have been moved by SNCC's fighting spirit to help Zimbabwe by doing the following.
1. SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls for Africans all over the continent and diaspora to stand up for President Mugabe and the people of Zimbabwe, with the same courage and tenacity we fought with Ho Chi Minh and the people of Vietnam in the 1960's.
2. SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls for the slogan "Zimbabwe Forever Sanctions Never" with even more energy that we pushed he slogans "Black Power" and "Hell No We Won't Go”, at the height of the Black Power and Anti War Movement in the 1960's.
3.SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls for US President Barack Hussein Obama and every member of the Congressional Black Caucus who have been in favor of ZDERA (Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001)to remove this sanctions immediately and in the White House and US Senate and Congress simultaneously. SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls on its former national chairman and US Congressman John Lewis, to lead this effort in the halls of the US Congress like he marched on the Edmund Petus Bridge during Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.
4.SNCC"S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls for the African Diaspora to follow the recommendations made by the Southern African Development Community and the African Union, and reject the unwelcomed intrusion on Zimbabwe's internal affairs. This interference has been spearheaded by the US and British Governments.
5. SNCC’S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls for Africans on the continent to respect the majority voice on the African continent the African Union, which recognizes the Global Political Agreement that has resulted in an inclusive government that merged Zimbabwe three main political parties (ZANU-PF, MDC-T, MDC-M).
6. SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls for Africans on the continent and diaspora not to work with western intelligence agencies active in Zimbabwe, or public policy organizations working in coalition with think tanks, whose work compliments the activity of western intelligence agencies working for regime change in Zimbabwe.
7.SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls on African and freedom loving students the world over, to hold demonstrations and petition
US and British Embassies all over the planet until they lift sanctions on the Government and People of Zimbabwe.
8.SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls on the Women's wings of our organizations and key historical sister figures in our community i.e. Dorothy Height, Maya Angelou and Marian Wright Edelman to help us bring attention to the impact US/British and EU driven sanctions have had on Women and Children in Zimbabwe.
9. SNCC’s FIGHTING SPIRIT calls on the National Medical Association, Black Nurses Association to investigate for our community the impact US/British and EU sanctions have had on Zimbabwe's health infrastructure.
10. SNCCS FIGHTING SPIRIT calls on the National Conference of Black Lawyers, National Bar Association and the Black Law Students Association to develop a legal campaign aimed at overturning the US/British and EU sanctions on Zimbabwe.
The fighting spirit of SNCC that lives on wants to elaborate further to the African community, how we are connected to President Mugabe ZANU-PF and the people of Zimbabwe.
1. SNCC’s FIGHTING SPIRIT must inform you that Black Power written by Kwame Ture (formerly known as Stokely Carmichael) and Charles Hamilton while they were in SNCC was officially banned by the Rhodesian Government during the 2nd Chimurenga (armed struggle from 1966 to 1980).
2. SNCC FIGHTING SPIRIT connects with President Mugabe and ZANU-PF through Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who in a working tribute, we celebrate Nkrumah's 100th birthday anniversary year by committing ourselves to ending US/British and EU sanctions on Zimbabwe.
3.SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT fed off the energy of many sister warriors who were in our presence i.e. Ella Baker, Ethel Minor, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson which links us to the sister warriors in Zimbabwe like Mbuya Nehanda and Sally Mugabe, their fighting spirit lives through Zimbabwe's Vice President Joyce Mujuru and the Zimbabwean women who resist US/British/EU Aggression
on their beloved nation.
4. SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT when promoting the slogan Black Power first coined by Frederick Douglass, envisioned the land reclamation program of President Mugabe and ZANU-PF, therefore we feel compelled to fight US/British and EU sanctions on Zimbabwe to the bitter end.
5. SNCC’S FIGHTING SPIRIT feels PAMBERI NE CHIMURENGA (which means forward with the revolution) is a practical expression of BLACK POWER and PAN AFRICANISM as we know it to be.
6. SNCC’S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls on the churches who because embrace the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that played a crucial role in the Civil Rights Movement from its inception, lend their voice to our call in every corner of the world to lift US /British and EU sanctions on Zimbabwe.
7. SNCC’S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls attention to our slogan "JAIL NO BAIL" which automatically links us to Zimbabwe's late icons and freedom fighters Joshua Nkomo, Maurice Nyagumbo, Simon Muzenda and the recently deceased Vice President Joseph Msika who served altogether 20 years in Rhodesian prisons at the heart of the liberation struggle.
8. SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT calls attention to the penname of Julius Lester "Junebug Jabo Jones" to lay a foundation that will result in the National Newspapers Publishers Association and the National Association of Black Journalists, working harder when defending Zimbabwe against C-SPAN, CNN, the Voice of America who are attempting to lynch President Mugabe and ZANU-PF with a smear camping aimed at a Western driven regime change.
9. SNCC’S FIGHTING SPIRIT aims to make the issue of Zimbabwe mean to Africans what Palestine means to Arabs and Cuba means to Latin Americans, a point of unity to rally around no matter where we are in the world today.
10.SNCC's FIGHTING SPIRIT took pride in uniting with SCLC,CORE, and the NAACP to eradicate segregation in the south, SNCC'S FIGHTING SPIRIT will unite these forces to fight for ending US/British and EU Sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.
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