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Saturday, May 25, 2019,
March on White House — Washington D.C.
African Liberation Ain’t Over!
Assemble and Rally at 12 pm
African American Civil War Museum
1925 Vermont Ave. NW @U St. NW (plaza across the street)
Sponsored by December 12th Movement and ALD Coordinating Committee
FOR BUS TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION – WHITE HOUSE MARCH ON WASHINGTON DC – CALL NOW 718-398-1766
SEE VIDEO OF PRESS CONFERENCE HELD ON MAY 15
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December 12th Movement International Secretariat
456 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn NY
PH 718-398-1766 * D12M.com
May 23, 2019
PRESS STATEMENT
For Immediate Release
Contact – Media Relations, Amadi Ajamu
Cell# 917-495-6979
March & Rally to White House
to Demand Trump Lift Sanctions on Zimbabwe
AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY
Saturday, May 25, 2019, at 12 PM
African-American Civil War Veterans Memorial Plaza
Vermont Avenue and U Street NW, Washington DC
“On Saturday, May 25th, African Liberation Day, the streets of Washington, D.C.. will echo to the thunder of voices of hundreds of people marching to the White House,” said December 12th Movement member Iman Essiet at a press conference last week in Washington, DC. She went on to state that, “a national coalition of organizations and individuals, led by the December 12th Movement and the Friends of Zimbabwe will demand that President Trump lift the racist economic sanctions daily killing scores of children and adults in Zimbabwe.”
December 12th spokesman, Omowale Clay elaborated, “Nearly two decades ago, the U.S. passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 [ZIDERA] to punish Zimbabwe for having had the audacity to return to its people the land stolen by white colonial settlers. The goals of the sanctions imposed by ZIDERA were to make the Zimbabwean economy ‘scream’ – to make conditions so bad for the masses of the people that they would overthrow the ZANU-PF -led government and stop the confiscation of land from white settlers. President Trump has just renewed the sanctions for another year.”
Salim Adofo, Chair of the D.C. Chapter of the National Black United Front, stated that “Black people in the U.S. must make it crystal clear to President Trump and to the Congressional Black Caucus, which has co-signed ZIDERA, that these killer sanctions have to end now.”
For those interested in traveling to D.C. by bus with the December 12th Movement, call (718) 398-1766. For those from or traveling on their own to D.C., we will gather at 12 noon at the African-American Civil War Veterans Memorial Plaza at Vermont Avenue and U Street, NW. [U Street/Cardozo Metro Station] and begin our march to the White House at 1 p.m. We will rally in front of the White House on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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DECEMBER 12th MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT
456 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA
(718) 398-1766 (tel) D12M@aol.com (email) web: D12M.com
PRESS STATEMENT
May 15, 2019
MARCH TO WHITE HOUSE TO PROTEST U.S. SANCTIONS ON ZIMBABWE CAUSING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
There is a humanitarian crisis in the Republic of Zimbabwe caused by U.S.-imposed sanctions. The December 12th Movement, the Friends of Zimbabwe and other organizations are here to announce a Rally and March on the White House on Saturday, May 25, 2019 – African Liberation Day, to demand that President Trump enter just and fair negotiations with the government of Zimbabwe to lift the economic sanctions. For nearly two decades the people of Zimbabwe have suffered under these very racist U.S. sanctions imposed solely to punish them for exercising their right to self-determination in returning land stolen by European colonizers to the indigenous citizens of their country.
Toward this end we are petitioning the Congressional Black Caucus to return to its roots and, in the tradition of the late Congressmen Ron Dellums and Charles Diggs, fight for the interests of Black people at home and abroad. Specifically, we urgently request the Congressional Black Caucus to:
1) Publicly support the urgent need for direct talks to occur between United States Government and the Republic of Zimbabwe toward negotiating a just and fair diplomatic solution to the current conflict that hinders the lifting of the economic sanctions against the people of Zimbabwe; and to
2) Conduct investigative hearings on the devastating health crisis and economic collapse caused by the U.S. sanctions on people of Zimbabwe;
3) Review objective reports on Zimbabwe’s 2018 national elections that international observer missions declared as being free and fair; and
4) Extend invitations to diplomats from the Republic of Zimbabwe to share testimony before the distinguished U.S. House of Representatives.
The Congressional Black Caucus cannot remain silent co-conspirators in Donald Trump’s racist and “shithole” foreign policy towards independent and sovereign African countries already historical victims of Western crimes against humanity. The allegedly “targeted” sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe have negatively affected every aspect of life of the ordinary people of Zimbabwe. Sanctions are not benign – they kill. They destroy lives. Since their imposition, government access has been blocked to international and bi-lateral commerce and loans. The U.S. sanctions have also caused:
- Shortages of medicines and medical supplies
- Inability to purchase water treatment chemicals and mechanical parts
- Increases in cholera and diabetes
- Significant deterioration of Zimbabwe’s balance of payments position
- Blockage to international access credit markets
- A significant buildup of external debt arrears
- Increased government debt arrears resulted in Zimbabwean private companies finding it
difficult to access offshore lending thus crippling their operations
- Lack of medical treatment of and/or screening for HIV/AIDS
- Declining external budgetary support, Zimbabwe’s deficit is largely been financed from domestic
borrowing which has triggered high inflation
- A radical decrease in life expectancy
- Historic increase in unemployment which ultimately hurts the overall quality of living
- Zimbabwe being falsely perceived as an unsafe and risky country to visit, thus drastically
reducing the number of tourist arrivals
Despite all of this Zimbabweans have persevered and continued their support for their elected government’s leadership and land reform policies. The Unite States’ Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 (ZIDERA) and its’ sanctions violate international law and the United Nations Charter in its blatant interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. A land-locked, developing African nation like Zimbabwe, of 16,000,000 people, poses no existential threat to the “National Security Interest” of the United States. It is being punished for the example it has set for other African countries in their fight for land reform – the only road forward for development.
We support the Zimbabwe government’s request for negotiations and their just resistance to intimidation.
On Saturday, May 25, 2019 – 12 noon EDT the streets of Washington, DC, will echo to the thunder of hundreds of voices marching to the White House to demand the lifting of the racist economic sanctions daily killing scores of children and people in Zimbabwe. Meet us and assemble at the African American Civil War Veterans Memorial Plaza located at Vermont Ave. and U St. (NW), in Washington, D.C.
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Saturday, May 25, 2019,
March on White House — Washington D.C.
African Liberation Ain’t Over!
Assemble and Rally at 12 pm
African American Civil War Museum
1925 Vermont Ave. NW @U St. NW (plaza across the street)
Sponsored by December 12th Movement and ALD Coordinating Committee
FOR BUS TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION – WHITE HOUSE MARCH ON WASHINGTON DC – CALL NOW 718-398-1766
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