World African Diaspora Union (WADU) 176-03 Jamaica Ave Jamaica, NY 11432-5503 NY-718-523-3312/WADUPAM.ORG Statement & Immediate Release Contact: Min. P.D. Menelik Harris 7/13/2013 WADU Statement Condemning the human rights abuses against Trayvon Martin & African People The World African Diaspora Union (WADU) condemns the train of judicial travesty and human rights abuses against African people and so encourage the global community to intensify coordinated actions for justice as a result of the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the murdering of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman killed the youthful Martin after profiling him as a “Black” criminal. President Barack Obama and other leaders have called Trayvon Martin’s death a “tragedy”. Civil Rights leaders are now pressuring the U.S. Justice department to look “into the shooting death of Trayvon Martin to determine whether federal prosecutors should file criminal civil rights charges now that George Zimmerman has been a cquitted in the state case.” The young Martin was enroute to his home when he was murdered by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. Zimmerman was released by police after admitting that he followed and killed Trayvon Martin in ‘self-defense’. By March 13, 2012 and only after almost half a million signatures, global protests, and pressure on the federal government to investigate the case, the State of Florida took actions charging Zimmerman with manslaughter. The murdering of Trayvon Martin is seen by most African people in the USA as a continuity of centuries of pervasive covert and overt terror against people of African descent, especially the targeting of Black men in a system of ‘apartheid’ and with modern ‘colonial slave codes’. Worse, the criminal tracking and killing of Trayvon Martin has occurred during a period of terrible economic depression of African people in the USA. Since 2008, African people have been forced to submit to a world of under/unemployment (near 25%), increased racial attacks, massive poverty (40%), spiraling of violence and police brutality, imprisonment (45%), destruction of public schools, governmental attacks on voting rights laws and, major cutback on anti-poverty programs. Finally, the U.S. is witnessing an explosive growth and resurgence of militant white racist grou ps, unprecedented in recent history. Therefore, the World African Diaspora Union (WADU) is urging those of African lineage and all people of goodwill to support the following actions for: 1. The U.S. government to provide better support for the protection and security of African people, after centuries of terrorism, enslavement, and the abusive ‘African’ codes, without Reparations; 2. The African Union (AU) to condemn the continued virulent racism and targeted violence against Africa’s children condemned to insecurity, hostility and oppression due to the indignity and dehumanization of Africans, as a result of slavery, colonialism and the imperialism of Africa; 3. The United Nations (UN) to hold special inquiries and investigations on issues of ongoing human rights abuse, racism and violence perpetrated against African people in the USA, in Europe and other former slave holding nations and states affecting Africans; 4. All Africans to mobilize and organize to participate in positive actions to eliminate all forms and vestiges of racism, criminalization, and racial persecution, including committing to boycotting all businesses engaged in supporting racism in Florida, in the USA and across the world; 5. Africans to rededicate themselves to restoring concrete measures for self-determination, collective security and the Pan African conscience to protect and advance Africans, everywhere. For more information on the work of WADU for the liberation and empowerment of African people as a global family, please contact Baba Joh
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:17:11 +0000
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