Greetings Supporter of the 'Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide!' Campaign (SMWeCGEC) Thank you to all those who have recently signed the ‘Stop the Maangamizi! Petition! You are now counted in the annals of OURSTORY as openly standing up to say that we must compel the stopping of the Maangamizi, holistic reparatory justice is due and participatory processes must be established to ensure accountability for redressing the legacies of the Maangamizi on Afrikans and people of Afrikan heritage. As a result of you signing the online version of the petition, you have enabled us to reach the milestone of achieving 2500+ signatures. Please note, this number does not reflect the actual number of signatories. We handed in 9636 signatures on the 1st August last year when the petition was handed in to the office of the UK Prime Minister at No. 10 Downing Street and there are people collecting signatures across the UK. Nevertheless, this milestone of 2500+ online signatures clearly demonstrates that if we keep mobilising and organising, we shall eventually reach our goal. To assist this quest, the SMWeCGEC advocates carrying out a broad array of actions, including lobbying elected publicly elected officials and agitating for the shutting down of Maangamizi crimes scenes. Our last SMWeCGEC update pertaining to the revelation by HM treasury that our taxes have been going to pay of an immoral debt accrued as a result of compensating enslavers, (https://www.change.org/p/refund-our-taxes-paid-to-compensate-enslavers), should make us channel, into relevant petition-drives, our anger from the unduly of ‘Big Lies’ pedalled by even the likes of ex-Prime Minister David Cameron in his 2015 statement to the Jamaican Parliament that our people should “move on” from slavery. We are again reminded of the UK Government's continued deceitful stance at the time Cameron made such representations, whilst seeking to dupe us further, in the knowledge that our generations had still been paying to reward their establishment generations of criminal enslavers right up to 2015. It is important that we demonstrate that we will not forget nor stop fighting to redress the Maangamizi crimes of our enslavers and those who seek to live off and benefit from ill-gotten gains. At the same time, the intergenerational sustainability of reparations entail ensuring that such harms and wrongs never happen again to any of our generations, i.e. guarantees of non-repetition. So, some of us as reparationists are quite enthused by the reparatory justice teachable moments that a film of such epic proportions as the recently released ‘Black Panther’, offers us to help raise popular consciousness on the cause of stopping the Maangamizi in order to secure a brighter, post-Maangamizi future. Black Panther actually portrays some of the issues highlighted in the ‘Stop the Maangamiz!i’ Petition and strengthens our case for redress through measures of holistic Pan-Afrikan Reparations for Global Justice. This includes institutional mechanisms for redress such as the All-Party Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Truth & Reparatory Justice (APPCITARJ) and the Ubuntukgotla Peoples International Tribunal for Global Justice (U-PITGJ) which are key goals of the ‘Stop the Maangamizi!’ Petition. The marvel of Black Panther, as an example of cinematographic resistance to the legacies of the Maangamizi, has been inspiring many about the possibilities of a post-Maangamizi as well as post-holistic reparatory justice Afrika and her place in the world. In particular, with its Afrofuturistic depiction of what Pan-Afrikan Reparatory Justice can deliver; i.e. in terms of the restoration of decolonial nationhood represented in the fictional depiction of Wakanda; an example of what our communities can become if they ‘take back’ the land, resources and wealth and exercise our people’s right to self-determination outside of the dictates of Euro-American and other foreign hegemonies. Black Panther has much to teach those of us who are preoccupied with the how/methodology – strategies & tactics of taking, effecting and securing holistic reparatory justice and who also recognise that ‘Radical Imagination’ is a necessary sustaining force of Afrikan reparatory justice activism. To bring about a post-Afrikan Reparatory Justice Global Order, we must first imagine it! However, it is important to note that the SMWeCGEC is concretely organising with a number of communities of reparatory justice interest, both on the Continent of Afrika and across the Afrikan Diaspora, to actualise MAATUBUNTUMAN, a real Pan-Afrikan global superpower, in the making, being supported by Chiefs and traditional leaders in West Afrika, who are connecting with our campaigning efforts in the Diaspora. We must therefore accelerate our ‘Stop the Maangamizi!’ campaign drive to greater milestones’ in not only the numbers of signatures we collect for the petition, but also the transformation of these numbers into actual powerful lobbies for reparatory-justice change-making and fighting forces all over the world so that we can secure our short-term, medium term and long-term goals. We can all be reparatory justice agitators and advocates in different ways to ensure that visibility of the ‘Stop the Maangamiz!’ Petition goals and the wider aims of the SMWeCGEC, remain in public consciousness as part of the process of reparations social movement-building. For, reparatory justice, however one envisions it, can only be taken, effected and secured as a result of a powerful movement that we continue to build, from the ground-upwards, of individuals and organised groups of people who intentionally spark and sustain reparations social movement-building. This entails the creation of movement infrastructures required for sustained organising and mobilisation, including social relationships, organisational networks and capacity, affective solidarity, as well as reparations movement-related identities, strategies, skills, and leadership. Now that you have signed the ‘Stop the Maangamizi!’ Petition, can you also encourage others to sign, discuss, share and act on it? For further info visit www.stopthemaangamizi.com Until next time! ISC-SMWeCGEC Spearhead Team #StopTheMaangamizi! #MaangamiziCrimeSceneShutDown! #WakandaFictionMaatubuntumanReality! "Without new visions, we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever manoeuvres and tactics, but a process that can and must transform us." Robin, D. G. Kelley, 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'