Greetings Signatories of the ‘Stop the Maangamizi!’ Petition and other Supporters of the ‘Stop the Maangamizi!: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign (SMWeCGEC)

We just wanted to update you on some of the work that we have been doing. We are in the process of preparing for the 1st August Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations Rebellion Groundings in partnership with the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee. We will be sharing further info about the Groundings in the coming days and weeks.

We are also working with selected elected officials to build support for our SMWeCGEC proposal for an All-Party Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Truth & Reparatory Justice (APPCITARJ).
https://stopthemaangamizi.com/2015/10/12/about-the-commission-of-inquiry-appcitarj/

We are pleased to report that at the Bristol Council meeting on Tuesday 7 July, Green Councillor Cleo Lake, activist and former Lord Mayor, will ask the city’s Labour Mayor Marvin Rees to lobby the UK Government to set up a commission to acknowledge, apologise and instigate reparations for the UK’s role in the Transatlantic Traffic in Enslaved Afrikans.

Cllr Lake was a founder member of the Countering Colston activist group spearheading calls in recent years to dismantle the public celebration of people trafficker and Maangamizi perpetrator, Edward Colston. Cllr Lake’s question asks the Mayor to write to the Prime Minister to request that the UK Government immediately establishes an All-Party Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Truth & Reparatory Justice to acknowledge, apologise and instigate reparations for the Transatlantic Traffic in Enslaved Afrikans. You can read a copy of the motion that will be moved by Cllr Lake here:
https://democracy.bristol.gov.uk/documents/g8367/Public%20reports%20pack%2007th-Jul-2020%2018.00%20Full%20Council.pdf?T=10
You can get further info by reading the link below.

We are also working with other elected officials in other boroughs to encourage them to do something similar to the initiative that Cllr Cleo Lake has taken in Bristol.

Until next time!
‘Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide! Campaign International Steering Committee Spearhead Team (ISC-SMWeCGEC)