The December 12th Movement’s 35th Anniversary Celebration shall be held on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, Skylight Gallery, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn.
The December 12th Movement is a Black human rights group based mostly in New York City that has organized political actions resulting in native and nationwide mass mobilizations about racism, self-determination, reparations, high quality well being care, housing, felony justice and schooling. Their signature dynamic avenue rallies, marches and boards have included the NYC “Days of Outrage,” annual Malcolm X “Shut ’Em Down” marches in Harlem on May 19, the Million Youth March in partnership with the late Dr. Khalid Muhammad, and the primary U.S. National Reparations Rally/“Millions for Reparations” rally in Washington, D.C.
The Movement’s decades-long battle within the native, nationwide and worldwide area has set an extraordinary instance of the persistent and relentless struggle for human rights for African individuals, grounded within the imaginative and prescient and laborious work of its founders—Sonny Abubadika Carson, Elombe Brath, Viola Plummer, Coltrane Chimurenga and Father Lawrence Lucas; its members; and the individuals. The December 12th Movement International Secretariat is established as a non-governmental group with consultative standing on the United Nations. The group has participated within the Human Rights Council since 1989, representing 40 million Africans within the United States on points and by hearings on racism, human rights, political prisoners, police terror and reparations. The Secretariat has established agency ties and alliances with nations and worldwide organizations around the globe. Their Pan-African struggle to “support the right of the Zimbabwean people to recapture their stolen land has broadened the understanding of the African revolution that you cannot sustain political independence without economic self-determination.”
The Secretariat was additionally instrumental within the name for the third United Nations World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) 2001 in Durban, South Africa, and led the most important U.S. delegation in historical past, dubbed the “Durban 400.” The WCAR’s ultimate declaration acknowledged that “the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity” and referred to as for reparations.
For extra information in regards to the 35th Anniversary Celebration, name 718-398-1766 or go to D12M.com. Admission is free.