OWS Sankofa Day 2011: Reparations Now!

The Occupation of Wall Street presents an opportunity to highlight the economic struggles of New Afrikans (people of African descent in the diaspora) and their position as part of the 99%, since corporate and national wealth continues to be built on the stolen land of indigenous peoples and on the backs of New Afrikans, immigrants and poor people of European descent.
In this video, Freddy's Brooklyn Roundhouse presents comprehensive coverage of Sankofa Day, 2011 at Occupy Wall Street in NYC. This 2 part series documents members of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (www.mxgm.org) organizing a day of recognition to "defend the Human Rights of African people in the United States and around the world," while paying homage to their ancestors at the nearby African burial ground (www.africanburialground.gov).
From the October 12th 2011 MXGM statement:
"Enslaved Africans literally built Wall Street, the very wall from which Wall Street gets its name, where Africans were bought and sold. The sale of our Black bodies enriched the early traders and bankers. Now, everyday Wall Street bankers desecrate our ancestor's graves and dishonor their work by trading this blood money on top of an African burial ground".
These two shows highlight this struggle and demands for reparations, along with the current community clashes around gentrification, along with music, chants, speakers and a procession to the African burial ground and a ceremony to honor the ancestors at the memorial and beyond.
Featuring members of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Occupy the Hood, Occupy Wall Street, NYC Council Member Charles Barron, and those people who came out to demonstrate as part of NYC's 99%...

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Sankofa Day
• October 15 2011
• Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
• Occupy the Hood
• Wall Street
• Black Panthers
• New Afrikans
• Africans
• Amercian
• Slavery
• Slaves
• African burial ground
• reparations
• debt owed
• ceremony
• cop watch
• Brooklyn
• Washington heights
• boogie down Bronx
• gentrification
• OWS
• MXGM
• chase bank
• police brutality
• oppression

[WiiJen]

Native Americans worked side by side on plantations as slaves. Life is rough. Time to pull yourself up by the bootstraps and move on. My grandmother was a Native American cotton picker and worked in a thrift store later in her life. She taught us to work hard and do right. Pay it forward.

[KwatakyeHonorSystems]

FREE THE LAND!!!

[KwatakyeHonorSystems]

Powerful!